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The Ampersand Forest [D.C. Scarpelli]

Scarpelli's design and production clients have included the California Attorney General's Office, Napa/Sonoma Magazine, the American Cancer Society, Catholic Healthcare West, UC Hastings School of Law, Chevron, Frito Lay, the Oakland A's and the San Francisco Giants. He regularly designs theater graphics for companies throughout the Bay Area, and is resident Graphic Designer for 42nd Street Moon, Bay Area Musicals, and Silicon Valley Shakespeare. Additionally, he has created and edited several art books in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His original training is in the theater. With his husband Peter Budinger, he has written and directed several plays, and appeared in numerous productions. They were theater majors, playwrighting students, and improv disciples together at Yale University. Scarpelli is currently Associate Director of the School of Web Design + New Media at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. He designed these typefaces:

• Donovan Display (2021). A modern tall display serif in twelve styles.
• Pawl (2020). A 48-style elliptical sans family. He writes: Pawl lives in the same visual landscape as fantastic modular superfamilies like Eurostile, Agency, Geogrotesque, Barlow, and even the great American Gothics.
• Worriment (2019: a vampire typeface).
• The extroverted display typeface family The Fudge (2019), which comis in Skinny, Sleek, Thicc and Chonk styles.
• Pamplemousse (2019), originally called Chelsea Morning: A family of casual-but-chic Sunday-morning display faces. Pamplemousse started out as a typeface based on the lettering of Gustav Klimt in his poster for the first exhibition of the Vienna Secession movement (Art Nouveau). This drifted into an homage to Rea Irvin's iconic masthead typeface for the New Yorker magazine. Finally, with the addition of a lowercase (absent from Irvin's typeface), a significant revision away from both Klimt and Irvin into a more casual space, Pamplemousse was born.
• Ampir. A casual Modern typeface, suggestive of gilt sign-maker letterforms, influenced by the modular type forms of Yakov Chernikov. Roman and Cyrillic character sets.
• Disquiet: Disquiet is a weird little display typeface designed to convey the free-floating anxiety of the mid-20th century. It is based on a single nongeometric form: the temple piece of a pair of horn-rimmed glasses---the kind worn by sweaty little men in offices who always seem to run the world in Atomic Age thrillers.The form is hexagonal, to give each letter a sense of being locked in---trapped. The double stroke gives it a nasty little bit of queasiness. And the negative spaces within the letters form mini-glyphs of their own---perfectly geometrical inside the fractured outer strokes.
• Swonderful (2019). An art deco typeface family with many different styles of interlocking.
• Haggis (released in 2020, but designed earlier): Haggis was intended to be a pseudo-sans-serif version of a traditional Insular Uncial. A bastard child of pub signage and rubber duckies, Haggis is not without its charms, and it certainly doesn't take itself too seriously.
• Mrs Keppel: Inspired by Stephenson Blake's 1884 typeface Windsor Light Condensed (made famous by Woody Allen's title sequences), Mrs Keppel finally appends an italic to this iconic face. Gentle in its design but firmly anchored in the fin-de-siècle, Mrs Keppel moves us forward to the 1910s, redolent of Ragtime and spiked tea. Named for the mistress of King Edward VII, who was likewise illegitimately linked to a Windsor.
• Donovan Display (2021). A modern tall display serif in twelve styles.
• Wiblz Serif (2021). A 12-style didone.
• Carollo Playscript (2021). A ten-style slab serif that is inspired by typewriter type.
• Nerone (2021). A slightly despotic display typeface.
• Budinger Oldstyle (2021). A ten-style semi-Venetian renaissance text typeface.
• Tremendo (2021). A 48-style gothic sans with many hipster elements such as the coathanger lower case f.
• Wodehouse (2021). A vintage display trio with a hint of deco.

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