the mehallo blog. beta.

My font named for Northern California, warzone and great place to buy a damn good burrito.

Get the font here. Burrito here.

Tags: fonts, mehallo merchandise by steve
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Alta California office, San Francisco 1851; found via Flickr

At one point in my life, I was going to be a journalist. So folly along  . . . .

I love history, so every one of my fonts falls into some historical category (or categories, if you look at Jeanne Moderno).

Alta California is my artist’s response to Susan Kare’s early Macintosh font, San Francisco. And it was a tricky build, as I was literally going thru book after book after book of old types – then messing them up, then messing them up more; and redrawing the edges until I had what I wanted.

(Please note, when it comes to ‘grunge typography’ – I don’t trust anything automatic; I’ve always gone in and tweaked the edges until I have something that looks – printed. Printed poorly, but printed.) [Read more →]

Tags: design history, education, fonts, publication design, thoughts, typography by steve
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Typography on the web is about to change dramatically. Several entities are involved. I have a bunch of my fonts about to launch with Typekit.

And here’s a really good rundown by Elliot Jay Stocks, posted on the i love typography blog.

Tags: design, fonts, typography by steve
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What was going through your mind during your last kiss?
Oh baby yeah baby that’s it yeah oh baby yeah you know yeah you know baby yeah drink Coca-Cola yeah baby that’s it yeah baby oh yeah a Big Mac would be good right now oh baby yeah you know it baby yeah baby yeah yeah yeah

How did you do on the last test you took?
Completely bombed it, and it was important. and now I’m sort of screwed. ended up with a drinking problem, drug use, joined the army, get to see the world and they’ve promised me I get to be in the marching band. [Read more →]

Tags: flom, originally posted on my myspace blog by steve
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