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That’s Stephen Farrell’s Missive, one of the original hybrid faces that made everyone notice Carlos Segura’s T-26 when it emerged on the type market in the early nineties, the heydays of grunge typography.

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It’s funny how Stephen made Missive — a mash-up of what looks like Sabon and News Gothic — evolve into Entropy by welding the Missive caps with Stymie, and then eventually end up with Osprey by smashing it all into Park Avenue.

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I passed this on to the unbeige and they send their thanks!

Cheers, Si

Captured from web.archive.org on 18 Sep 2006. view this capture