Typetanic Fonts

05/12/2026

03/05/2026

Meet FLEXOPLEX, a condensed sans serif inspired by early 20th-century narrow gothics and other industrial lettering. Originally developed to meet the spatial constraints of liquor labeling — where government warnings had to remain legible and registration numbers had to meet strict height requirements — Flexoplex balances vintage utility with contemporary precision. Used for display or text, its compact forms and mechanical tone lend vernacular flair to packaging, editorial design, websites, and film posters. Try it on your next project! https://typetanic.com/fonts/flexoplex/

02/27/2026

New site, who dis? The wonderful team at The Type Founders have just launched the beautiful new Typetanic website, on which you can now finally buy my fonts directly for your next project. It also includes my newest type family, “Flexoplex,” a variable-width industrial sans that can go VERY narrow, first used on bottles and cases for Cohasset Punch liqueur. More here: https://typetanic.com/

06/15/2022

I’m thrilled to share that Typetanic Fonts is one of twelve foundries (so far!) joining The Type Founders, a new company devoted to creating unique and distinctive type. This means now I’ll be releasing new fonts more than once every five years! More here: https://thetypefounders.com

03/21/2022

Thrilled to share that LaFarge has been included on Fontspring’s “Best of 2021” list! Get it now for a special 30% off: https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/typetanic-fonts/lafarge?refby=typetanic

The 50 best fonts released on Fontspring in 2021, including bestselling families and some of our personal favorites.

03/09/2022

I’m thrilled to announce that Typetanic is now a foundry partner at Type Network! Check out this interview that I did with TN’s Lucas Czarnecki about how I got started in type, where I find sources of inspiration, and my future plans.

Founded in 2013 by Gregory Shutters, Typetanic has produced some of the past-decade’s most intriguing historical typefaces. Now, the Chicago-based foundry is joining Type Network. We sat down with Shutters to discuss how he started in type, where he finds inspiration, and what’s next for Typetan...

02/16/2022

Thrilled and honored to see LaFarge highlighted in The Futur’s “Fonts You Need To Know” video series! Check out the video, and be sure to also watch the others in the series about Le Jeune, Neue Haas Grotesk, and more!

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01/06/2022

Happy birthday to the namesake of the LaFarge typeface, Christopher Grant LaFarge — born today in 1862! Along with his business partner George Lewis Heins, LaFarge was the architect behind the first stations of the Interborough Rapid Transit subway. The LaFarge typeface is primarily inspired by station lettering done by LaFarge’s protégé and successor, Squire J. Vickers.

12/30/2021

YEAR IN REVIEW: In 2021 I published just one typeface—but that’s more than zero! Enjoy this short promotional video for my typeface LaFarge, available now: https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/typetanic-fonts/lafarge?refby=typetanic

12/21/2021

On January 9, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA will be officially retiring the “R32” train cars, ending a series of farewell runs organized by the New York Transit Museum that started last week. This caps over a half a century of service on the subways since they were delivered in 1964. Advertised as “Brightliners” for their then-novel use of stainless steel, and sometimes known colloquially as “ridgies” for their corrugated bodies, if you've spent any time in New York in the past sixty years you've probably encountered one. I only lived in New York for about four years, but I quickly fell in love with these old dinosaurs—stubborn relics of the old city that continued to endure while I watched 57th Street’s stately old storefronts come down to make way for pencil-thin towers filled with hundred-million-dollar condos. Now at the end of their 58-year run, the R32s have become unreliable with age, frequently causing delays or running with broken air conditioning (a feature only having been added during the cars’ 1989-90 overhaul). However, I'll still remember them fondly as a rare link to a bygone era of an ever-changing city.

Fonts used: LaFarge by Typetanic Fonts, Name Sans by Arrow Type, and Söhne by Klim Type Foundry.