Okay Type

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Okay Type [Jackson Cavanaugh] Jackson Showalter-Cavanaugh (b. Waterloo, IA, 1981) is a freelance graphic designer and independent type designer based in Brooklyn, NY, and/or Chicago. He founded Okay Type in 2009. Jackson designed Alright Sans (2009, clean sans) and Alright Display (voguish hairline sans). In 2012, he created The Harriet Series (with Harriet Text and Harriet Display subfamilies), a full Sotch Roman / Baskerville / didone family that won an award at TDC 2012. In 2016, he was asked by Mac Lewis, artistic director at Playboy, to design a new headline typeface for the magazine. Cavanaugh designed a heavy slab serif for the occasion. In 2019, he released the ultra-black typeface family Okay.	EXTERNAL LINKS Okay Type [Buy fonts] [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Type scene in Iowa ⦿ Very thin (hairline sans) typefaces ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Type scene in Illinois ⦿ Corporate typefaces ⦿