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Darden Studio [Joshua Darden]

Joshua Darden is an exceptionally gifted typeface designer with a studio in Brooklyn, NY. Joshua Darden (b. 1979, Northridge, CA) founded the ScanJam Design Company in 1993, together with Tim Glaser. At ScanJam, he designed numerous retail and custom typefaces. In 2000, Josh Darden left Scanjam to work for the Hoefler Type Foundry. In 2004, he founded Darden Studio. In 2005, he joined the type coop Village. He has lectured at the University of California Santa Barbara and at Parsons School of Design and School of Visual Arts. Interview with Josh Darden. Old URL. FontShop link.

Typefaces designed by Darden:

• Index (Garage, with Tim Glaser), review by Fred Showker).
• Birra Stout (2008): a free chunky beer label font. Followed by Birra Bruin (2019, by Elena Schneider at darden Studio): a German expressionist typeface.
• Jubilat (2008). Darden writes: Commissioned by Michael Picon for First; further development underwritten by Tatler Asia&La Semaine. Recipient of a Type Directors Club award as Untitled. Jubilat explores the history of the slab serif in six weights, with generous curves and efficient spacing in both dimensions. Its large lowercase and high contrast make it suitable for headlines, decks, and sidebars.
• Bergamot (under development).
• Profundis (1999, with Timothy Glaser; Profundis andd Profundis Sans in three styles each, all accompanied by Ornaments).
• Vittoria.
• OUT (Garage, with Tim Glaser).
• Grosvenor.
• Firth.
• di Valzer.
• Hauteur.
• Cassandra.
• GarageFont.
• HolyCalliope (1999, with Timothy Glaser).
• Omnes (2005, Village). This has a hairline weight.
• Diva (Garage, with Tim Glaser, 1996). See also Omnes Cyrillic (designed by Eben Sorkin, John Hudson, Joshua Darden, Maxim Zhukov, and Viktoriya Grabowska) and Omnes Arabic (designed by Joshua Darden and Titus Nemeth).
• Locus.
• Interact (Garage).
• Freight (2004-2009, Garage): an extensive, all-round family of typefaces including Freight Sans Pro, Freight Display Pro, Freight Micro Pro, Freight Text Pro, and Freight Big Pro (2005; its heavier weights are high-contrast didones). The slab serif, sans and serif versions are related and derived from each other, in some cases, by snap-on technology (in the spirit of Thesis or Scala or Nexus). Freight Sans Condensed Pro followed in 2012 and Freight Sans Compressed Pro in 2015. Freight Micro Pro (2009) was specifically created for use in phone books and small size applications. Freight Macro Pro is more suited for corporate branding. Review by John Berry. Freight Neo Pro (a humanist sans) was published in 2013. In 2015, he offered the free font Freight Big Bold (2005) via Open Font Library. Freight Round Pro was added in 2016. Finally, in 2017, Freight moved to Type Network.
• Josh Darden collaborated with Chrstian Schwartz on Erik Spiekermann's FF Meta Headline (2005).
• Virtuoso Life (2005): a proprietary custom display typeface for the Virtuoso Limited magazine.
• Corundum Text (2006): a fantastic and full family based on Fournier's pre-modern alphabet from 1742. It covers all European languages and comes with almanac symbols, ligatures, zodiac symbols, the works. Corundum Text won an award at TDC2 2007.
• Untitled (2006, Joshua Darden Studio). It won an award at TDC2 2007.
• Dapifer (2011) and Dapifer Stencil (2015). Commissioned by Mucca Design for One Atlantic. By Joshua Darden, with design and production assistance by Thomas Jockin, Scott Kellum, Noam Berg, and Lucas Sharp.
• Halyard (2017). An information design sans typeface family by Joshua Darden, Lucas Sharp and Eben Sorkin.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Darden Studio
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Klingspor Museum page
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Fontspring search
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INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Astrological (or Zodiac) fonts ⦿ Type scene in California ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Fournier ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Typefaces related to German expressionism ⦿