Leksen Design

A font jam packed with love ❤️

buy Fontspring
https://www.fontspring.com/fonts/leksen-design/mr-gabe?srsltid=AfmBOoqLAD6vdAFfCqh5QX2cJvPoq4x9XGC68-bkuNqZnNDkzD9v6Kj6

I am pleased to be accepted as a new type foundry with Type Network—a reputable type foundry with a boutique offering of high quality fonts. I have a soft spot for TN, as they mentored me early in my career in the creation of Mr Gabe, so it is fitting that it is showcased on their website.

https://typenetwork.com/type-foundries/leksen-design

I’m happy to have my font Mr Gabe included in Typodarium 2025!

https://www.slanted.de/product/typodarium-2025/

I loved dusting off my Capitol Hill Lettering Tour and being with Cornish College of the Arts students again! Previous colleague and sign painter Jake added his invaluable sign painting knowledge which made it even more interesting.

Possibly a bit biased, but I am enjoying the new "About this font" feature in the font dropdown menu in Microsoft Word online. It might become my new evening reading! 🤓

Remembering Jan Middendorp
https://atypi.org/2024/04/09/remembering-jan-middendorp/

A great question to ask:

is it kind? ICoD announces the international design day 2024 theme What if designers first asked, is it kind? What if the measure of design was how well it cared for people and their relationships rather than how profitable it was? This year's International Design Day theme: 'is it kind?' is about reshaping design as kindness practice.

Jan Middendorp (4/9/56-12/8/23) contributed an incredible wealth of knowledge to the field of typography and was an integral part of our typographic family. I met Jan at my first TypeCon conference in Milwaukee in 2012. He was one of my first type design mentors, who offered business advice, type critiques, and introduced me to invaluable new contacts in the field. Jan was at almost every one of the larger type conferences, and I can vividly see him sitting in the lobby with his backpack slouched next to him, giving critiques to students or discussing the latest type controversies with colleagues. He published a great number of typography books that were not only jam packed with knowledge, but also beautifully designed, and written with a fresh, approachable style. I used his textbook “Shaping Text” in my Intro to Typography courses over the years, not only because it was thorough, but also because he knew how to draw students in with inviting content, with subheads like “Seducing with Type”.

The conference talks are often enlightening, but the great networking and real fun happens after the talks, with dinner, drinks, and dancing. I found out that Jan was not only the center of many professional talks at the conferences, but also the life of the party, in his own quiet way. One night in Milwaukee, several of us went to a bar called the SafeHouse, where we had to do the chicken dance to get inside. Jan didn’t miss a beat! I so wish I had a photo of that moment. Over the years there were countless type conferences…with paella on the beach in Barcelona, a dance floor packed with type designers at a German bar in Amsterdam, and beautiful rooftop happy hours in many cities across the globe. The photo, above, is from the 2018 Kerning Conference in Faenza, Italy, when Jan and I went for a coffee and walk around the farmer’s market, and he told me about his illness. Due to the pandemic, it ended up being our final goodbye.

Our international type community is small, and a bright light has been lost this last year. I am immeasurably grateful for the ways that Jan Middendorp changed not only our type community, but also for the countless ways in which he impacted both my career and personal life. May your memory live on, dear Jan!

I feel so honored to be a new font foundry on I Love Typography. Nadine's vision to empower small foundries is a bright light in our type community. In celebration, my fonts are currently 50% off. 😊 Cheers!

https://fonts.ilovetypography.com/fonts/leksen-design

Big news!! Today we welcome 21 new foundries onto our platform and we could not be more excited 🎉🎉

Great people, gorgeous typefaces, and a whole lots of amazing intro offers till Oct 31st! Please joining us in welcoming them!

https://mailchi.mp/ilovetypography/cohort-4?e=532331a414