A tweet from Paul Mayor brought me to Just—My—Type™ where one can download various typeface designs in Illustrator format. The site brought back memories of college and how I would constantly draw letters in my sketchbooks & notebooks. Classmates would look over my shoulder and remark, “that’s cool!” I wanted to intern with a typeface designer during my senior year but, alas, my department chair wasn’t able to make it happen. For two years I bought graph paper, sketched as many letterforms as possible, and then recreated the sketches in Adobe Illustrator. I used a lot of ruler guides.

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