Andy Clymer

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Andy Clymer Andy Clymer grew up in Irvine, CA and studied at San Diego State University in 1998. At that time, he was working on Stencil Fraktur (2002). In 2004-2005, he studied type design in the Masters program of the KABK in Den Haag. He joined the typeface development department of Hoefler&Frere-Jones in New York in 2005. He has been an instructor in the Type@Cooper program in New York since 2011. From 2005 until 2018, Andy worked at the Hoefler&Co. type foundry, where he contributed to the typefaces Vitesse, Forza, Ideal Sans, Archer, Surveyor, and spearheaded the design of Operator and Obsidian (2015: a decorative copperplate engraved emulation typeface---various kinds of 3d illumination in Obsidian were obtained by an algorithmic process. In 2019, he co-developed Mingei Mono for the Mingei International Museum along with Yomar Augusto. In 2020, he released Tilt. Tilt is a family of (variable) typefaces inspired by three dimensional lettering found in storefront signage. Subfamilies: Tilt Neon (mimics the construction of neon tube lettering), Tilt Prism (based on prismatic lettering, cast or cut in a material), Tilt Warp (resembles peeling vinyl stickers). The variable fonts have two axes, horizontal rotation and vertical rotation. Github link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Andy Clymer MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Copperplate ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿ Typewriter fonts ⦿ Type scene in California ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿ Neon tube or faux neon typefaces ⦿ Prismatic typefaces ⦿ 3D fonts ⦿