

Example of casual sign writing in NYC (Painter unknown Brooklyn, NY, near Myrtle & Wyckoff Aves 2019). It also includes single-stroke casual, which is typically painted in uppercase, forward-slanted letters. It includes casual script, in which letters are handwritten with a brush and connected together.

One of my favorite styles of signwriting is a genre broadly referred to as casual. Recursive is now the first release of my new type foundry, ArrowType. In 2019, Google Fonts commissioned me to complete the project for open-source distribution. For my thesis project, I created Recursive, a typeface exploring the intersection of sign painting, code, and the emerging technology of variable fonts. Designing Recursive By Stephen Nixon, 2018, I graduated with an MA in Type Design from TypeMedia, a 10-month immersion in type at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, Netherlands. Visit the Google Fonts API Docs to learn more about custom font requests.
