Boston, May 3, 2002 — When color appeared on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, it was also newly dressed in Wall Street Journal Scotch from The Font Bureau, Inc. Sharpening appearance within Journal tradition is the work of Design Director Joe Dizney, design consultant Mario Garcia, and Font Bureau’s Cyrus Highsmith. Monotype’s 1908 Scotch No. 36 provides the basis of Highsmith’s new Scotch series. “It is the spectacular singular element that holds the whole thing together,” says Dizney.

The Journal is one of a handful of newspapers distinguished by a dominant typographic style. Scant use ...

February 18, 2002 Boston — The Font Bureau, Inc., an independent digital type foundry, introduces Stainless™, a 12-font family for textand display applications. All are high quality and fully compatible PostScript® Type One fonts for Macintosh™ and Windows™.

Serif and sanserif pairs are rare, but Dispatch™ has a new sanserifed alternative — Stainless™ by Font Bureau’s Cyrus Highsmith. In both, taut curves signal action as they build compact word shapes. Their letter forms originate in typescript, on engineering blueprints and on shipping labels. They bring surprise, power and an energetic excitement, foursquare typefaces with a syncopated beat. Both offer a full ...

September 1, 2001 Boston — The Font Bureau, Inc., an independent digital type foundry, introduces its twenty-sixth retail font issue. All are high quality and fully compatible PostScript® Type One fonts for Macintosh™ and Windows™.

Making his London Underground-inspired sans serif family infinitely moreflexible for publication and corporate design use, Greg Thompson increasesthe range of Agenda® with several new weights, extremely narrow styles, anda full set of italics. Designer Jill Pichotta adds new weights for displayand corresponding text styles to the classically beautiful FB Garamond™, anunusually delicate take on this popular oldstyle. Setting out to create acompatible humanist sans for his ...

January 2, 2000 Boston — The Font Bureau, Inc., an independent digital type foundry, introduces its twenty-fifth retail font issue containing six typefacefamilies: Dispatch™, Eggwhite™, Grand Central™, Griffith Gothic™, Pennsylvania, and Pouty™. All are high quality and fully compatible PostScript® Type One fonts for Macintosh™ and Windows™.

In a quest for a comprehensive, contemporary and novel sans, Tobias Frere-Jones increases the range of Griffith Gothic™ with the new italic and condensed styles in this expansion. Designer Cyrus Highsmith scrambles typographic conventions with Eggwhite™, two playful styles exploring curves and horizontal weight distribution in this original display face. During his term in ...

January 2, 2000 Boston — The Font Bureau, Inc., an independent digital type foundry now celebrating its eleventh year, introduces its twenty-fourth retail font issue. This issue contains two new typeface families, Dispatch™ and Spira™ and the expansion of the previously issued Interstate™, FB Californian™, and Miller™. All are high quality and fully compatible PostScript® Type One fonts for Macintosh™ and Windows™.

Cyrus Highsmith’s Dispatch™ is a four style geometric slab-serif with the feel of industrial strength for both text and display. English designer Andy Stockley captures the vivacity of fifteenth century calligraphy, with Spira™, a masterful revival of the ...