The Kairos typeface is equal parts traditional and digital. Inspired by 19th Century wood typefaces called Grecians, it’s an octagonal slab serif at it’s core. The serif detailing makes it radiate in headlines, with the square serifs driving it’s performance in text. The available weights and widths—all with small caps—offer a flexible and usable contemporary palette of styles perfect for branding, advertising and packaging. It often looks athletic, industrial, and stern. But, when treated right, the subtle rounded features make it look more gentlemanly and gracious. Kairos is stout, but has energy. 

Kairos is available in 48 styles; 8 weights in three widths, all with matching italics. Condensed, Regular and Extended ranging from Thin to Black. The Kairos Display Solid and Highlight weights are chromatic, being able to be layered and colored individually. It comes with some extras and OpenType features: Small capitals, proportional and tabular figures, superscript and subscript figures, support for fractions, ornaments, arrows and Stylistic Alternates.

You can try out the fonts in the interactive web specimen, at monotype.com/kairos.

Kairos is availble for licensing at your favorite retail sites: MyFonts, Fonts.com, and Linotype.

Working under the Monotype Studio flag, and with art direction from ad agency CP+B, I created a series of custom fonts for the Domino’s Pizza brand. These are modeled after 19th Century condensed American gothic sans serif typefaces, designed to fit with Trade Gothic®, which is also used in the campaign. The fonts can be layered for striking visual effects. The striped shadow style even comes in optical sizes; Antique for smaller setting, and Antique Display for larger setting.

Awarded a Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design from TDC, 2014

As seen on 8 Faces, Brand New, Print and Novum magazines.

A small group of local designers got together to create a series of posters inspired by the American flag, in the inaugural Citizen Project. Find out more about the collaboration, at thecitizenproject.com. [The logo is set in a modified Joanna Sans.]

In the poster, I'm using the blue square part of the flag, called the canton, and interpreting the stars into state abbreviations. They are listed in the order in which they joined the Union.

To further this concept, I decided to design a custom typeface just for the poster. I was inspired by the typography in American currency, in the vein of 19th Century Transitional serif typefaces. This particular typeface, which I'm calling Canton, is extra bold, in order to make room for the inline detail. The red stripe depicted in the inline detail, represents the colonies, like the 13 red and white stripes on the flag. In that way, each state has a piece of the original colonies in them.

Our Kickstarter project was successfully funded, but you can still buy a copy of the poster if you like, while supplies last. It's screen printed in a signed, limited edition of 250.

Currently available in my shop!

Being one of only six font choices in the Nook GlowLight, having my Joanna Sans chosen is my greatest professional accolade to date. More information, including specimens and licensing, will be available upon Joanna Sans' full release.