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Simon Egli

Swiss art director who has done substantive typographic work for some clients. For Tess model agency in London, he custom-designed a typeface and logo in collaboration with Mind Design. Sea Ark Sheep (2010) is a contextual typeface that was started as a project at Central Saint Martins, and ended up being released by Die Gestalten in collaboration with Stian W. Bugten in Norway.

In 2012, he was based in New York City.

In 2016, Simon published the free superfamilies Sean Slab and Sean Sans. The typeface is about to be renamed Canola. Github link for Metapolator: Canola is the first typeface created using Metapolator. It includes Sean Devanagari.

As part of his Biblia Libre project, he addded Bold and Italic to Apostrophic Lab's free Day Roman font family (2020), which is based on François Guyot's 16th century types.

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file name: Simon Egli Day Roman Bold 2020 after Apostrophic Labs Day Roman 2002


file name: Simon Egli Sean Devanagari 2015


file name: Simon Egli Sean Sans Compressed Light 2015


file name: Simon Egli Sean Sans Wide Medium 2015


file name: Simon Egli Sean Slab Compressed Semibold 2015


file name: Simon Egli Sean Slab Narrow Thin 2015


file name: Simon Egli Sea Ark Sheep 2010a


file name: Simon Egli Sea Ark Sheep 2010b


file name: Simon Egli Tess Logo 2010


file name: Simon Egli Tess Logo 2010b


file name: Simon Egli Tess Logo 2010c







Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html