Typographic Office of Connor Davenport
This is not a type foundry but a studio practice focusing on custom letter design and tools for font production.
We do offer licensing for some of the typefaces shown here, please reach out if you’d like to use our fonts.
If you’re interested in a custom typeface, lettering, or tool, send an email
to info@connordavenport.com.
To see more work check out GitHub, Mastodon, Instagram, or the Process Blog.
Clients: ABC Dinamo, Actual Source, Alexander Harrison, Base Design, Carvalho Bernau, High Tide, MCM,
Milk Bar, Park–Langer, Pentagram, Poster House, Verso Books, XYZ Type
Beaujon
2016–
Beaujon is an homage to the great French printing types, interpreting the
work of Renaissance punchcutter Jean Jannon, with additional references to
Henri Parmentier’s Garamond from 1926 and Vendome by Francois Ganeau for
Fonderie Olive.
Typeface, In-Progress
Ward & Kweskin’s Website, designed by Justin Sloane
MCM
2019
We were approached by the creative team at MCM to redesign their iconic logo. The
new logotype redesign is based on Genzsh & Heyse’s 1888 Römische Antiqua, a
predecessor to the American DeVinne types. Römische is one of the archetypal
19th’s century German printing types. It exudes the seriousness of a Scotch Roman while concurrently balancing the quirks of the grotesques of the period. The
final logo was reworked into 4 versions, 2 optical sizes each with a lighter “grade”
to work on dark backgrounds.
Lettering, Logo
Logo in-use
©2023 MCM Worldwide
Misc. Lettering
2022—A selection of miscellaneous lettering projects.
Album Covers
, Lettering
High Tide Sound System #57 Playlist cover.
Based on the work of W.A. Dwiggins and Helmut Salden.
Greenstone
2020Greenstone is a display-oriented serif that hones in the expressive vernacular of Ogg’s mid-century book jacket lettering and the engravings found on epitaphs throughout New England. The typeface combines the precise, controlled construction of these ink and stone letterforms with an unexpected dramatic flair. The result is a digital homage to sacred traditions of hand lettering, erudite and exploratory in equal measure.
Available for licensing at Sharp Type
Typeface
Posters
2022—A series of posters for Spectacle, a collectively-run screening space in Brooklyn, NY.
Posters, Lettering
Final Marks (1979)
by Frank Muhly Jr & Peter O'Neill Das Netz (2003)
“The Net”
by Lutz Dammbeck
The Eccentrics (1973)
შერეკილები
by Eldar Shengelaia
Garnett
2016–2018
Garnett’s forms are derived from the early grotesques of 19th-century Britain, with particular influence drawn from the work of
the Stephenson Blake, Caslon, Miller & Richard, and Vincent Figgins’ foundries.
Garnett’s forms lend themselves to the ideas of a utilitarian design aesthetic while
concurrently keeping the flavor and quirkiness of the exemplars.
*No longer available for licensing*
Typeface
Garnett Feature in Shoplifters 8 (2019)
Sundown Town
2019
The logo was drawn for the painter Alexander Harrison’s first solo art exhibition.
Harrison’s body of work surrounds the ideas and themes of growing up a Black
man in the South. We decided to base the lettering for the show, on the cover of
Booker T. Washington’s A New Negro for a New Century.
Lettering
Vinyl Install at Fisher Parish