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Typetanic Fonts [Gregory Shutters]

Typetanic is the personal foundry of graphic and type designer Greg Shutters (New York City). Founded in 2013, Typetanic aims to create original designs as well as adapt historic lettering and type styles for the needs of an ever-changing design market. In addition to being the principal of Typetanic Fonts, Shutters also currently works as Communications Associate for the SS United States Conservancy, a non-profit organization interested in the preservation and redevelopment of the historic ocean liner SS United States. In 2022, Typetanic joined Type Network. His typefaces:

• In 2013, he designed Columbia Titling, a titling-caps display family based on wide Clarendon-style wood type and industrial signage design from the late-19th and early-20th Century. It won an award at TDC 2014.
• Transat (2013) is an art deco sans family based on signage found in the Gare Maritime ocean liner terminals in Le Havre and Cherbourg, France, in the early 1930s. Transat Text (2013) is a more subdued, but still geometric, sibling of Transat.
• Gibbs (2014) is a tough, sophisticated sans, named for prolific maritime architect William Francis Gibbs and inspired by his greatest design, the record-breaking mid-century luxury liner SS United States. Gibbs won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition.
• Conglomerate (2016): a blend of many styles in one to immunize the beast.
• LaFarge (2021). He writes: LaFarge is a typeface primarily inspired by the historic mosaic titling capitals found in the New York City Subway, designed by architect Squire J. Vickers and his staff between 1915-1927. These elegant but industrial signs are characteristic of early-20th century American architectural lettering, and show an evolution of the classical Roman capitals to lower contrast, bolder serifs, and more regular character widths. The majority of this lettering still remains in subway stations today, and though elements of the style vary from sign to sign, many carry the unique features that are reflected in LaFarge: high-waisted crossbars with angled serifs, elegantly curved leg on the R, and distinctive trapezoidal serifs. LaFarge expands this style into a lower case, taking cues from contemporary typefaces like Bookman, Cheltenham, and Della Robbia.

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