Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Community Gothic

Nineteenth-century jobbing type, systematized

Community Gothic is a font family by Tobias Frere-Jones, Fred Shallcrass, and Nina Stössinger, with contributions from Julia Ma. It draws on nineteenth-century jobbing typefaces, bringing together independently designed styles across a range of weights and widths. A custom tool was used to introduce irregularity, asymmetric curves, and buckled lines into the design.

Set in Community Gothic

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Styles were designed independently before being integrated into a coherent weight-and-width system.
A custom-built tool was used to introduce irregularity, asymmetric curves, and buckled lines.