Riley Cran

@rileycran.bsky.social

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Designer / Developer | I make fonts at Lettermatic | 🔠 He/Him 🔤 Lettermatic.com

A small computer on a desk scrolls through the Lettermatic case study for GitHub monaspace, featuring colorful collages and diagrams.
Alex Toth illustration of a flying saucer with a door, opening to reveal a smaller craft.
A Polaroid of the macintosh screen showing rounded rectangles.
Batman the animated series advertisement.
A specimen showing words in both type families.
The word 'Glossy' is typed, as the font magically picks the right swash alternates on the fly.
Examples of the weight range in the serif and sans fonts for Fetch.
A collage of specimens showing the new fonts for Fetch.
A collage of music theory imagery.
A collage of chess imagery.
A paragraph in Really Sans.
A blur test revealing how well counterforms remain legible.
An animation reveals the counterforms of 'c' and 'o'.
A diagram showing aligning terminations in the word 'case'.
'case' made from pixelated letters.
The counterforms of the word 'case'
4 blobs are transformed into the word 'cone'.
Bolder lowercase letters get taller.
A comparison of the blobs turned into two 'a's, one lighter, one bolder.
A lighter 'a'.
A bolder 'a'.
The same blob is modified into an 'a' via erasing chunks.
Chunks of a blob are erased to form an 's'.
An editorial illustration featuring the keys of a piano.
A diagram outlines the two counterforms of the letter 'a'.
An animation reveals the space between letterforms.
An improved responsive website, in illustrated form.
A rendering of a naive responsive website.
Color overlays reveal parts of letters.
Overlaying 'a' and 'g' to show if they relate.
Overlaying the 'p' and 'q' to show their relative symmetry.
Comparing the relative similarity of 'o' and 'c'.
A diagram of the word 'case' in helvetica.
Overlaying the 'o' and 'c' to show their similarity or dissimilarity.
A field of 'o's with one 'c' hidden amongst them.
A field of 'o's with one 'c' hidden amongst them.
Color overlays reveal parts of letters.
An animated metronome.
An animation shows an 'F' being made crudely from an 'E'.
An animation shows a 'C' being made crudely from an 'O'.
An animation shows the word 'simple' in two different typefaces, for comparison.
An extruded metal sign.
In 4 examples from vintage advertisements, the Burroughs Sensimatic logotype has been meticulously re-drawn, clearly meant to look the same but each drawn carefully by hand.
The word 'friday' lettered in an exaggerated spencerian script to fit a square.
A mid-century inspired logo for a motel.
A specimen of the typeface ITC Serif Gothic, which reads 'ITC SERIF GOTHIC LIGHT REGULAR BOLD X-BOLD HEAVY BLACK' (the list of style names).
A beautiful hand lettered book jacket design.
Lettering for the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co.
Each image shows a cover of one of Stephen King's books, featuring tight-but-not-touching style 1970s typography.
A giant wall displaying the colorful logo 50 feet tall above players.
A stylized pink elephant.
The NOMA Christmas lights box features an illustration of an Elf, and a diecut window through which the wires and bulbs are exposed.
A green cloth-covered book with gold script lettering embossed on the cover.
An animation showing bits and pieces from the case study, scraps of paper with typography.
An animation showing how Bézier curves work.