Connary Fagen is a Salt Lake City typographer and multidisciplinary designer who has been involved in just about every aspect of visual design at some point during his career, including illustration, art direction, web and graphic design, motion graphics, and branding and identity projects. Although he’s crafted dozens of retail type designs since he released his first one in 2014, he continues to work on projects relating to communicative visual design for private clientele.
Connary first discovered an interest in the field of typography while he was working as a graphic designer full time. Most of those who work in the industry can certainly relate to the struggle of finding the absolute “perfect” font for a project; in many instances, Connary’s solution was to simply make one himself.
In those early days, such type designs lived his personal font library only, until he took a chance and released one to the public. After receiving positive responses to that first retail design, he continued his work as a typographer, amassing an incredibly well-rounded and versatile portfolio of type designs.
While Connary’s type designs do follow contemporary trends to a degree, they are designed to remain relevant as those trends ebb and flow over the years to come. His work carries a timeless quality that never quite goes out of style no matter what’s trending or “hot” this month.
As a graphic designer, Connary designs type families that are exactly what he would use in his own projects and every type design he releases undergoes rigorous testing before its ever released into the world. In pursuit of perfection, Connary is known to go back and revisit his past work to make it even better, providing every update for free to those who have purchased previous versions of his designs.
One of his most recent releases through YouWorkForThem is Hexaframe CF, a futuristic sans serif that “evokes the awe and potential of heavy machinery and robotics.”
This mecha-inspired type family is clad in tough polygons with rounded edges that soften the presentation just enough to dampen any coldness in its voice. Hexaframe CF’s architecture is industrial and clean, speaking with a neutral tone that conveys every message with strength and clarity.
Available in Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Bold, Extra Bold, and Heavy, Hexaframe CF provides a set of right-leaning obliques for each weight that add a sense of motion and forward movement to each character.
The entire Hexaframe CF family is well suited to design projects in the industries of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, space, robotics, and STEM. Its range of weights makes it perfect for everything from displays and signage to headlines, subheadings, advertising, logo designs, product packaging, merchandise, apparel, marketing materials, website designs, UI/UX designs, and mobile applications. It’s an equally great choice for branding and identity projects that need a strong yet approachable mechanical sans serif at the helm.
Hexaframe CF provides additional versatility through OpenType, including fractions, standard ligatures, ordinals superscript, and stylistic alternates. It extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, Pan African Latin, Dutch, and Basic Greek for design projects intended for an international audience.
Right now through October 31, 2020, Hexaframe CF is on sale for 65% off of its regular price so it’s a great time to add this type family to your font collection!
Connary Fagen currently offers 27 products through YouWorkForThem, an incredible range of serifs, sans serifs, slab serifs, and stencil designs to suit design projects of all kinds. Visit his portfolio to take a look at the rest of his work and bookmark it so you won’t miss out on his future releases or new updates. Don’t forget — if you’ve purchased Connary’s type designs in the past, you’ll receive free updates on those fonts!
