Fonts from Mark Simonson Studio.
Mark Simonson Studio is a one-person digital type foundry based in Saint Paul, Minnesota founded in 2000. It has 25 typeface families on the market comprising nearly 300 individual fonts, including the very popular Proxima Nova family.
Popular Mark Simonson fonts.
Proxima Nova is a hybrid of geometric sans and grotesk typeface genres with a wide range of weights and styles, and many advanced typographic features. With support for most latin-based languages plus Cyrillic and Greek, it’s one of the most popular sans serifs in the world.
Acme Gothic is based on the thick-and-thin gothic lettering style popular in the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century. It features five widths in five weights for a total of 25 styles and includes both normal and raised small caps.
Bookmania is an homage to the classic Bookman Swash faces of the sixties and seventies. It has a wide range of weights, advanced typographic features, such as small caps and old style figures, and hundreds of swash characters.
Fonts in use.
Mark Simonson Studio has so far released 25 typeface families for both text and display ranging from versitile sans serif and serif styles to an eclectic range of retro scripts, vernacular, and art deco styles.
Type Designer
Mark Simonson
Mark Simonson is an independent type designer working out of his home in Saint Paul, Minnesota. While spending the first few decades of his professional life as a graphic designer and magazine art director, he dreamed up ideas for typefaces and got a few fonts published in the mid-nineties. By 2005, he had released over a dozen font families and was doing type design full time. He is best known for creating the popular typeface Proxima Nova.
Monotype Fonts
Mark Simonson fonts are included with Monotype Fonts