Industry: Design

Austin

Revival of the first British modern typeface

Austin is a typeface family designed by Paul Barnes with Hrvoje Živčić and Berton Hasebe, originally made for British style magazine Harper's & Queen. It is a loose revival of the types cut by Richard Austin for publisher John Bell in the late eighteenth century—work that produced the first British modern and the later Scotch Roman. The family is narrow without being overtly condensed, with the styling and sheen of 1970s New York.

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Richard Austin worked as a trade engraver and cut both the first British modern and the iconoclastic Scotch Roman for John Bell in the late 1700s.
The design is narrow without being overtly condensed, described by its makers as carrying the styling and sheen of 1970s New York.