Happy end-of-the-year email season from Ben & Jesse

We’ve worked corporate enough to know that if you don’t spend down that design expense account by the end of the year, it will be smaller in the next year.

Make accounting happy by zeroing out that account by buying fonts. As an incentive, we’re running a 30% discount until December 31st. Just use BLOWMYBUDGET when you check out. And if you’re looking for other foundries to spend money with, you’ll find a great list at Matthew Smith’s typefoundry.directory.

Looking back at 2022

We opened up our backlog

While no official ‘final’ releases happened this year, we did publish four in progress type families: Grep, Polymode, Elevator, and Escalator. Licensing them now gets you all the updates going forward and the final version at no additional cost.

We updated our library as variable fonts

Aglet and Study are now available as variable fonts, included for no extra charge when you license all of the Romans or Italics in a family. This is an especially big deal for web fonts, you can read more in our article on variable fonts.

We showcased our client work

With the help of Doug Wilson, we revamped how we show our custom work. If you’ve ever been curious about the range of custom services we offer, or how the process goes, you can read all about it on our Custom page.

For example, our work with Northeastern University included revamping their seal —which dealt with the age-old problem of type on a curve— and a custom typeface. See the case study to learn more about how we worked with Upstament to help create a extensive identity system.

We updated our licensing

We want it to be easy and clear for you to license our fonts, so we re-worked our licensing to be simpler and easier to select what you may need. We explain the new model in an article illustrated by long-time collaborator Cydney Cherepak.

We relaunched our website

With the design and development lifting of Graybits, we relaunched our site in August that enabled all of the above. If you’ve not taken a look around, be sure to play with variable fonts in the new type tester (and find the joy of our new 404 page).

Cheers to you!

We couldn’t do what we do without your support. Thank you for sharing our work, buying our fonts, hiring us for custom work, and being interested in what we’re up to. It means the world to us.

—Ben & Jesse