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Ursa Minor [Alex Tomlinson]

Alex Tomlinson is an illustrator and graphic designer in Portsmouth, UK, b. 1992, who studied at Kingston University, and set up the Ursa Minor type foundry. In 2010 he designed the experimental fonts Drugs, Obesity and Prodigium OS. In 2020, he published Whirly Birdie (a variable font a display typeface inspired by American advertising of the 50s). In 2021, he designed the postage stamp style Bird Lore Capitals. It is accompanied by Grinnell (2021), a display typeface that was inspired by the nameplate lettering of the "Bird Lore" (now Audubon) magazine of the 1940s.

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