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Trust

New Release! Trust is a collection of display typefaces comprising 144 styles across 9 families. The fonts are organized along a continuum of sans to serif, low to high contrast, and light to black weights, in roman and italic styles. 

Available to license now.

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Owners Design Process

Owners is an expressive family of fonts that takes inspiration from the dynamic energy of handmade signage as seen around Los Angeles. These signs were made in the International Style, but warmed up through the quirk and charm of vernacular signmakers’ unique approaches to letterform construction. As signs come in all shapes and sizes, the letters are often stretched to fill necessary spaces, thus Owners has a diverse range of weights and widths. The fonts are set tightly for maximum headline impact and logo-like presence, and there are also Text versions for use at small sizes.

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Logic Monospace

Logic is a warmly technical monospace typeface in five weights of roman and italic styles, with a special connecting script version. 

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Red Hat

In collaboration with Paula Scher’s team at Pentagram, MCKL created a new word mark and custom typeface for Red Hat, the North Carolina-based Linux distributor and provider of open-source software. 

Read more about the new brand at Red Hat, and download the fonts at GitHub.

Redaction

Redaction is a custom typeface commissioned for Titus Kaphar and Reginald Dwayne Betts’ The Redaction exhibition at MoMA PS1. As part of a timely conversation at the intersection of history, the legal system and social justice, the fonts will be free for personal use. Designed in collaboration with creative director Forest Young.

Download the fonts for personal use at redaction.us.

PLINC Trillium

PLINC Trillium is a Photolettering restoration font that I worked on with Ken Barber at House Industries. Trillium is inspired by inscriptional stonecarving, lettering like on the famous Trajan Column. But with a healthy dosage of 1970s photostat technology just for fun. The original font was just black and white, but we've stripped it into left, right, and outline layers for multi-color applications. Just released as a full font, you can license Trillium for desktop, web, and app usage.

Read more at House Industries.

Kernit

We were happy to help our friends at Collins prepare Kernit for release. Inspired by the Jim Henson studios, Kernit is an expressive and exuberant typeface. Collins has generously made Kernit available for free download.

Free download at Just Kernit.

Specter

Specter is the latest addition to the MCKL library of typefaces: a constructed sans with sheared terminals, a friendly lowercase, true italics, and special inline styles.

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