In the winter of 2015 I was contacted by Parc Masterson at the celebrated Kansas City ad agency Sullivan Higdon & Sink (SHS) about designing new custom fonts for SONIC® Drive-in. A beloved burger…

Danelle Cheney, one of Lost Type’s most regular contributors, is hosting some of the Lost Type team in her home city of Salt Lake City, Utah!

Escafina is an upright script typeface that I drew from 2014-2016. It threw me a considerable number of challenges, and made me a better type designer. You can’t ask for much more than that from a…

This September, we’ll be packing our bags for another Lost Type Field Trip—this time in Philadelphia!

I recently had the honor of working with The 59 Parks project (a new poster series celebrating the National Parks of the USA) on a custom typeface for the park names on all 59 posters. JP Boneyard…

Mika Melvas is a lettering artist in Vantaa, Finland. He recently lettered our latest T-shirt in the store, and I drafted up some interview questions for him.

Frances is a fantastically talented letterer, designer and illustrator based in Chicago. Since releasing her typeface Abraham Lincoln with Lost Type, she has since gone on to work at Leo Burnett…

After the clown suit debacle, we made our way to the back of the museum, where for a small fee we were given free-range to print with a large variety of wood typefaces. Although we were only given a…

On Friday morning, most everyone had left Chicago (Riley and Kenneth needed to be in Denver for TypeCon), but Kelly and I had decided to make the trip up to Two Rivers, Wisconsin to see the Hamilton…

Marisol is a jovial person. She radiates a friendly interest in what you’re doing, a passion in what she is doing and an appreciation for the hard work those things will involve. This was Marisol’s…