Tyler Finck has been crafting type designs for about 14 years now, and during that time, his work has seen a great deal of success. He’s had fonts licensed by companies like NBC Universal, Zappos, Target, The Discovery Channel, Whole Foods, and even NASA. (Yes, that NASA.) Even Barack Obama got in on that action, along with the Atlanta Braves, Buzzed, Harper Collins, and E! Entertainment.
You would think by carrying such a heavy amount of notoriety around wherever he goes, all Tyler would have the time to do is create fonts. He’s a multitalented man with a plethora of other artistic avenues, though; a Renaissance man in every sense of the term. At his core, Tyler is a maker, someone who lives for the joy of creating things. He’s worked on a varied range of projects, including iPhone apps, website development and programming, photography, a party game, laser cut products, and brand identities.
He’s also a pretty accomplished musician in his own right, and some of his work can be heard on his website if you’re interested in checking it out. Tyler’s composed music that’s been featured in shows on MTV, Lifetime, and USA networks.
Creativity is a way of life for Tyler and it’s a characteristic that bleeds into every project he takes on. He truly enjoys his work and it’s a gift that he takes full advantage of, every single day.
One of his more recent releases on YouWorkForThem is Furrow, a strong sans serif that’s been weathered by motion. Furrow has been roughed up to perfection, with a grungy friction that doesn’t hinder its legibility. In spite of its feathered edging, this font doesn’t lose any of its readability. Tyler carefully chose the areas of erosion so that they would add to the font’s dramatic architecture instead of taking away from it.
Furrow is a truly unique-looking headline font, and it’s also excellent for any other project that needs a robust type design with a heavy amount of visual intensity. This interesting type design is brilliant in displays, signage, logos, book covers, advertising, album covers, posters, and any project that wants to leave a sense of motion behind in print.
Furrow is an exceedingly dynamic type design, available in Regular and Oblique and offering four stylistic alternates for every letter and number via OpenType. Furrow is designed to automatically cycle through all four alphabets when contextual alternates are enabled in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, which makes easy to create text with unique letter variations. (It also breaks up any visual monotony when you’ve got words with double letters next to one another.)
Furrow extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, Pan African Latin, and Pinyin for global accessibility.
Tyler Finck currently offers 16 products on YouWorkForThem, offering a range of serif styles, sans serifs, display fonts, and handwritten designs that will suit a variety of project types. Visit his portfolio to check out the rest of his work and bookmark it so you won’t miss out on any of his future releases!
