Creative Explorations in Variable Fonts, with Arrow Type
with
Stephen Nixon
Stephen Nixon (Arrow Type) will share the design & development process behind Recursive Mono & Sans. Started as a thesis project for TypeMedia 2018, Recursive takes its initial inspiration from "single-stroke casual," a warmly-energetic genre of sign painting, but evolves this idea into an extensive, screen-first variable font that is at home in code editors, technical blogs, and apps.
Recursive was commissioned by Google Fonts to explore the creative & technical possibilities in variable fonts, and is available on GitHub as open-source fonts & educational resources.
The Herb Lubalin Lectures are recorded and made available here and on Vimeo with the generous support of Hoefler&Co.
About Stephen Nixon
Stephen Nixon is a type designer & developer based in NYC, working as Arrow Type. He is currently creating fonts for modern typography, upgrading Google Fonts projects into variable fonts, and helping other foundries with type production & mastering. He is a graduate of the TypeMedia masters program at the Royal Academy (KABK) in The Hague, class of 2018. Before that, he worked as a brand experience & software product designer at IBM and studied Graphic Design at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He has previously given talks at TypeCon Education Forum & Typographics TypeLab, and he volunteers with Code Nation to introduce NYC high school students to web development (sneaking in small doses of design & typography education whenever possible).