Category Archives: News
Museo Sans Condensed released
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Codex, the journal of typography
I can’t imagine that anyone that is visiting my blog isn’t waiting for something so exiting as the upcoming first edition of Codex. Codex is a new quarterly print magazine with feature articles, type reviews, interviews, tips, type history, new and notable faces, essays, type design, from top typography experts.
From what I heard preordering will start any day now.
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Geotica released!
Geotica comes in four different grades or line thicknesses (One, Two, Three and Four) so it’s suitable for a broad use. Each grade has four styles and is loaded with swashes, final forms, lots of ligatures and ornaments.
Geotica Three regular is free!
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Utrecht Grotesk
Custom job for Koeweiden Postma Amsterdam based on the UTRECHT logo. Not available for licensing.
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33pt. Lecture at the University of Dortmund
The lecture I gave at the 33pt. symposium at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts is now online.
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exljbris Font Foundry now on Typekit
exljbris Font Foundry now on Typekit with Museo, Museo Sans and Calluna. You can expect the rest of the typefaces next week.
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Calluna featured on iLT’s favourites of 2009
iLoveTypography’s favourite typefaces of 2009 has just been published. I am very happy to see Calluna on such a great list.
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Museo Slab is a Rising Star!
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Calluna in MyFonts Top 10 fonts of 2009
I’m very pleased that Calluna is featured in MyFonts’ Top 10 fonts of 2009!
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Wild Type Gear

I’ve set up “Wild Type Gear”: a little T-shirt shop with some typographic designs I liked to see on shirts. Prices are as low as possible, because it’s just a fun project (I don’t make any profit out of this).

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RBtL interview

“…This week on the show we interviewed type designer Jos Buivenga, designer of Museo and Calluna. We talked to him about his background, his journey from designing free fonts to selling them through Exljbris, and his recent work with Martin Majoor…”
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MyFonts Creative Characters interview

Being interviewed by Jan Middendorp was a great and Nick Sherman designed it beautifully. I Hope you like it.
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Letterpress business cards
Today my gorgeous letterpress business cards from Swayspace have arrived! I’ve designed them as small Calluna type specimens.



Here’s a little action video of my cards in the making. (©Swayspace)
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Working on Questa

Martin Majoor and I had a great day today working on Questa. We’re still in the middle of determining and testing lowercase italic shapes for the text version. Questa will come in three variations: text, display and sans (each in regular, italic, bold and bold italic).
See also > theQuestaProject.com
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[updated] Fertigo Pro now with italic

Fertigo —one of my most popular free fonts— now has a new italic.
You can find it here.
Calluna released!

After 1.5 years Calluna is finally ready! Hope you enjoy it. BTW the regular is free.
Be sure to have a look at the PDF specimen (272 KB).
You can download Calluna at MyFonts.
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