Rea Irvin

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Rea Irvin Rea Irvin (b. San Francisco, 1881, d. US Virgin Islands, 1972) was an art director for the New Yorker magazine. In 1925, he designed Irvin, the typeface that became the alphabet used by New Yorker Magazine. Mats were made by Monotype for private use by the magazine's printers. He created the famous New Yorker logo, a portrait of dandy Eustace Tilley. About the genesis of this typeface, the wiki says: The New Yorker signature display typeface, used for its nameplate and headlines and the masthead above The Talk of the Town section, is called "Irvin" or "Irvin type," after him. An alphabet drawn by the American etcher Allen Lewis, who had received training in woodcutting in Paris, was used as the typographical basis for the "Irvin type." Irvin may have spotted Lewis' lettering, which was drawn to imitate a woodcut, in a pamphlet entitled "Journeys To Bagdad", and liked it so much that Irvin asked Lewis to create the entire alphabet. Uninterested in this project, Lewis suggested that Irvin create the alphabet himself---this became the Irvin type. Digital versions of this: New Yorker Type (Gert Wiescher, 1985). UpperEastSide, UpperWestSide: free fonts by David Rakowski from the 1980s. NewYorkerType (1985, Gert Wiescher). This was extended in 2011 to NewYorker Plus. Karl A. Petersen (Picacho Peak, AZ) created his own version of Lewis's font in 2021, simply called Allen Lewis.	EXTERNAL LINKS Rea Irvin MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Type scene in California ⦿