Steve MacKley design » Silverback

Silverback wins at PunchCutters Exhibition

Steve MacKley — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:37:07 +0000

A little late…My (still incomplete) sans serif face Silverback won first place at the Punchcutters Exhibition held in late November. Co-sponsored by the Society of Typographic Arts and the Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago, the exhibition pulled in around a dozen submissions. Rick Valicenti and Linda Blackwell judged.

Needless to say I am quite pleased. Who doesn’t love external validation.

New Font: Now with More Glyphs!

Steve MacKley — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:30:38 +0000

I’ve completed more on the font. Most glyphs are now complete. The biggest addition is accented characters and old-style figures. Small Caps are coming, and then I commence to kerning.

New Font: More Complete Character Set

Steve MacKley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:28 +0000

For my font the uppercase, lowercase, numbers and punctuation are nearly complete. Working on international characters and ordinals. I’ve also started kerning and some of the Type 1 hinting.

New Font: Lower Case Nearly Complete

Steve MacKley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:33:25 +0000

Here is the first draft of the lower case for the new font. Kerning, and hinting to follow soon.

Merike Lower Case

New Font Sketches

Steve MacKley — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:47:56 +0000

Here are some of the various sketches for the new font. The idea is for a humanist that isn’t as neutral as Univers or Frutiger; but not as expressive/quirky as Meta and Syntax.

Numbers & Puncuation

lowercase g and s