Making Faces

I'm excited to have just made a donation to Richard Kegler's documentary Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century. Kegler's foundry, P22, remains one of America's most engaging type makers and distributors. The documentary features Jim Rimmer, who passed away this year. Rimmer's exquisite font families can be found at P22. My favorite is the chiseled Lapis. Regardless of the tools used, fonts are still human-made; and I love how Rimmer's fonts feel cultivated by hand.

Kegler used persuasive incentive to donate: a copy of the film on DVD, a specimen book from Rimmer's poetic typeface Stern, and a yet-to-be-released Robin Hood font called Loxley. I look forward to the eventual release of Making Faces.