Herzberg Design Co
@herzberg.bsky.social
The Type Foundry & Design Studio of Matthijs Herzberg.
I'll be honest: a major reason for me being active on social media is to get eyes on my work. It's how I have a career doing what I love. While I want to support alternatives to big corps, bluesky is unfortunately failing to be worth my energy. I will stick to mastodon for the community aspect. Bye!
Day 8 of Drawing a Font Every Couple Days. Today: reverse contrast Art Nouveau, based on a hand-painted sign I passed by chance in Amsterdam Oud Zuid.
Day 7 of Drawing a Font Every Couple Days. It’s been a week since the last font, and I spent 3 days on this one. Forgive me. Today: 1900’s Arts & Crafts/Jugendstil/Whateverist take on Fraktur, with organic curves, Lombardic capitals and lots of ornament, that does well in a Brothers Grimm setting.
Day 6 of Drawing a Font every Couple o' Days: Art Nouveau Script Revival
Day 5 of Drawing a Font Every Day. Took a few days off, but am back with this little connecting script font. Not based on anything specific, just a marker script that looks like something you’d see on a 1930’s movie poster or aperitif ad. Handwriting-ish but also crisp, bordering geometric.
Drawing a font every other day, day 4. Monospaced Blackletter.
Day 3 of drawing a font every day: a boring Neo grotesque optimized for text sizes.
New release: MD UI. The International Typographic Style projected one step into the future. UI is a neo-grotesque tuned for maximum performance across all scales; a typeface that augments the function of a timeless form. Available today in 48 styles. mass-driver.com/typefaces/md...
Day 2 of Drawing a Font Every Day. Today: an expressive Uncial/half-uncial/blackletter mashup, based on a piece of lettering by the late great Helmut Salden. #typedesign #helmutsalden
Drawing a font a day for 30 day. Day 1: Tuscan slab woodtype meets Art Nouveau.
Concepts for Port St Lici SC, a new soccer club out of Florida’s treasure coast. Art direction by Matthew Wolff
From the archive: a brand identity for Idle Hour, a bookstore in a small Kansas town. Unfortunately, I don’t think they ever did open up, but still pretty pleased with the work. Blackletter wordmark based on some Helmut Salden lettering, ornament inspired by the building that was to house the shop.
Our final batch of 100 Tens features contributions from this brilliant bundle of designers: Lucas Sharp Matthijs Herzberg @herzberg.bsky.social Nolan Pelletier @nolanpelletier.bsky.social Craig Frazier Oded Ezer Christoph Niemann @christophniemann.bsky.social Petra Dočekalová Susan Kare…
Here’s every typeface that I’m currently working on (to some degree or another). Hopeful that they’ll all see the finish line before I start drawing 2 dozen new ones. Which one are you most excited about?
The most minimalist “1” I could manage drawing, in honor of @letterformarchive.org’s 10th anniversary. I think that everyone in the typosphere has, at some point or another, benefitted from the Archive and its tireless efforts to preserve, showcase, and honor the mighty letterform.
In use: Ubique, the new & custom house typeface for Foreign Affairs magazine. Here it is seeing the light of day for the first time in the July/August issue. #typedesign #caslon
Font WIP: Better Böcklin (better name yet to be workshopped).
“When in doubt, use Caslon” Ubique is the new house typeface for Foreign Affairs Magazine, used in print and on their website for everything from headlines to paragraphs to footnotes.
I drew this handy guide for folks who, like me, keep forgetting the order of the alphabet
“Drew an uppercase to this psychedelic blackletter” hmmm that’s not gonna take off. “It’s the way I drew an uppercase to this psychedelic blackletter for me”
Southern Gothic, WIP blackletter with Width and Weight axes.
Obviously the most pressing and urgent part of the website redesign I’m grinding on: drawing a 404 page.
