Matthew Coffin Butterick (born November 15, 1970)[1][4] is an American
typographer, lawyer, writer, and computer programmer. He received the 2012 Golden Pen Award from the
Legal Writing Institute for his book Typography for Lawyers,[5] which started as a website in 2008[6] based on his experience as a practicing attorney.[7] He has worked for
The Font Bureau and founded his own website design company, Atomic Vision (purchased by
Red Hat in 1999).[8] Expanding Typography for Lawyers, Butterick published Practical Typography as a "web-based book" in July 2013.[9]
Wessex (1993), transitional text serif inspired by
Bulmer and
Caledonia
Herald Gothic (1993), a bevelled sans-serif
Berlin Sans (1994, part), a flared sans-serif
Hermes (1995), a blocky sans-serif loosely inspired by
Berthold Block
Alix, a typewriter font
Self-released
Butterick's serif font Equity
Equity, an updating of the 1930s body text serif design
Ehrhardt.[12] Features
weights designed to suit different types of paper and printers and correctly letter-spaced
small caps characters.[13]
Concourse, loosely inspired by
Dwiggins’ geometric sans-serif design
Metro. Features stylistic alternates and small caps.[14]
Triplicate, a monospaced slab serif design inspired by typewriter fonts such as the default face used in the
IBM Selectric. Essentially a further development of Alix, with more variants including a proportional version and a style designed specifically for displaying code.
Advocate, a caps-only slab and sans serif design. Reminiscent of mid-century American college sports team lettering, corporate logos and
Bank Gothic. Somewhat resembles an expansion of Herald Gothic.
Heliotrope, an attempt to merge the characteristics of serif and sans serif fonts into a single typeface. It draws loose inspiration from typefaces such as
Optima and
Albertus.
References
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abcButrick, Richard Porter (December 1979). Butrick, Butterick, Buttrick In The U.S.A., 1635-1978. Butrick.
ISBN9780960254804.