Tim Ripper

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Tim Ripper Tim Ripper (b. 1986) is a type designer at Commercial Type in New York. He has an MFA in graphic design from the Yale School of Art (2015) and an AB in physics from Amherst College (2009). At Yale, he discovered a passion for type design through a class with Tobias Frere-Jones and Matthew Carter, and was a designer at Frere-Jones Type before joining Commercial Type in 2016. His typefaces: Corridor Hand and Corridor Oldstyle (2013). GH Guardian Headline (2017). A newspaper headline typeface family at Commercial Type done for The Guardian. The other type designer involved in this project is Paul Barnes. Caslon Italian (2019, Paul Barnes, Tim Ripper, Christian Schwartz): Perhaps the strangest and ultimate example of experimentation in letterforms during the early nineteenth century was the Italian. Introduced by Caslon in 1821, it reverses the fat face stress---thins becomes thicks and thicks become thins---turning typographic norms on their heads. This new version extends the forms into new territory: a lowercase, an italic, and another one of the more unusual ideas of the time, the reverse italic or Contra. Caslon Antique (2019, Paul Barnes and Tim Ripper): The slab serif or Egyptian form is one of the best letters for adding a drop shadow to. Its robust nature and heaviness support the additional weight of a prominent shading. First appearing in the 1820s, the style was pioneered and almost exclusively shown by the Caslon foundry, who introduced a wide range of sizes and, eventually, a lowercase. Commercial Type link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Tim Ripper MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Caslon ⦿