Studio
2014MCKL
Los Angeles. Jeremy Mickel. Mickel was at Process before going independent. MCKL releases tend to be personal projects with deep historical research — Aglet, Shift, Macklin (the family that became unavoidable in cosmetics and food packaging 2020-onward).
The MCKL specimen pages and project posts are themselves exemplary editorial work. Anyone studying contemporary American type design starts here.
Closest kin

Studio
Typotheque

Object
A Specimen by William Caslon

Identity
Univers

Print
Champion International Corp., Industrial Design

Type in Use
Peter, Paul & Mary –
Rigorous and original, Category is a brand new font from VJ Type foundry
Publication
Rigorous and original, Category is a brand new font from VJ Type foundry

Typeface
Typelab’s latest release prepares typefaces to be sent into space to represent humankind