Type Notes: 3
“No alphabet comes along full-grown. A period of development is required for the individual letters to bloom and then another period for them to adjust to their place in the entire set, and sometimes this period can be a few weeks or it can be a lifetime. No quality font maker ever sat down and wrote out A to Z just like that. Getting Ray Bold right required five months, these last five months, an intense creative period for me that has included my ten-week escape from the state facilities at Windchime, Nevada, and my return here one week ago. Though I have always continued sharpening my letters while incarcerated, most of the real development of Ray Bold occured while I was on the outside, actively eluding the authorities.”
Ron Carlson, from “A Note on the Type”
Harper’s, 10/93 (archive link)
