Cyrus Highsmith (born 1973)[1] is an American typeface designer, illustrator, and author.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997, he worked at Font Bureau in Boston as Senior Type Designer[8][9] until founding his own type foundry, Occupant Fonts, in 2016, distributing alongside his former employers via the Type Network service.[10][11]
Some of Highsmith’s most well-known typefaces are Zócalo, used by the Mexican daily El Universal, and the Antenna series, which was used in several magazine designs[12] as well as by Ford and the official Star Wars website. Other clients for custom fonts include or have included The Wall Street Journal, Martha Stewart Living, La Prensa Gráfica of El Salvador, ESPN, and Men’s Health. His typefaces Prensa and Relay won the 2001 Bukvaːraz! award,[13][14] organized by ATypI (the International Typographic Association) in 2001. In 2015, Cyrus Highsmith received the Gerrit Noordzij Prize by the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.[15][16]
In addition to typeface design, Highsmith has been teaching at his alma mater, the Rhode Island School of Design, since 2000,[17] while also lecturing and taking part in juries in North America, Japan and across Europe.[18] He is the author of Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals published by Font Bureau in 2012.[19] With his own imprint, Occupant Press, he publishes children’s books and other prints. In 2016, Highsmith founded Occupant Fonts in Providence, Rhode Island, which continues to publish his typefaces designed while at Font Bureau as well as new releases.
In September 2017, it was announced that Occupant Fonts had been acquired by the Japanese type foundry Morisawa [ja][20][21] and thenceforth functioned as their Providence drawing office, with Highsmith as its creative director, overseeing RISD graduates June Shin, Marie Otsuka and Cem Eskinazi.[22] The first two releases in cooperation with Morisawa are Citrine and the Latin-character range of A1 Gothic (both derived from his typeface Allium), published that same year.[23]
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^"Type Directors Club : News : bukva:raz! Results". 18 September 2013. Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
^"ATypI Bukva:raz! 2001 Award Winners". FontShop. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
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^Witman, Bob. "Amerikaan krijgt Noordzijprijs". de Volkskrant. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
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^"Judges - Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016". competition.morisawa.co.jp. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
^"Inside Cyrus Highsmith's New Book, a Typographic Classic in the Making - Print Magazine". 5 June 2012. Archived from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
^Inc., Morisawa. "Morisawa Acquires U.S.-based Occupant LLC's All Licensed Fonts, Brand". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 23 December 2017. {{cite press release}}: |last= has generic name (help)
^"Morisawa Acquires U.S.-based Occupant LLC's All Licensed Fonts, Brand". 15 September 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
^"Morisawa Opens Latin Type Designing Office in U.S." Morisawa USA Inc. 9 September 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
^"モリサワ 2017年の新書体を発表 (Morisawa Announces New Typefaces for 2017)". Morisawa Inc. 28 July 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
CyrusHighsmith (born 1973) is an American typeface designer, illustrator, and author. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997...
typeface family begun by Tobias Frere-Jones in 1995, and expanded by CyrusHighsmith of Font Bureau. It is based on the sans-serif typefaces designed for...
Frere-Jones, later of Hoefler & Frere-Jones and Frere-Jones Type, and CyrusHighsmith, later of Occupant Fonts and Morisawa. Matthew Carter has been a frequent...
Caslon's Egyptian have been made, for commercial use by Miko McGinty, CyrusHighsmith and Christian Schwartz of Font Bureau (adding a lower case invented...
been used by other serif font designers such as Martin Majoor and CyrusHighsmith. Jonathan Hoefler comments on Hingham that it contains “many unusual...
the War of 1812. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781137310088. Highsmith, Carol M. (2010). ""Cyrus Tiffany in the Battle of Lake Erie, September 13, 1813,"...
source material from well known writers including Eudora Welty, Patricia Highsmith and Cornell Woolrich as well as original scripts by freelance writers...
They have previously hosted type workshops by typeface designers CyrusHighsmith and Sumner Stone, calligraphy workshops with Lynne Yun, and sign painting...
countless others. Her typeface, Loupot, designed in collaboration with CyrusHighsmith, is published by Occupant Fonts. Her illustrations have appeared in...
Wim Crouwel (Netherlands) 2012: Karel Martens (Netherlands) 2015: CyrusHighsmith (United States) Different books have been published about, in honor...
and students. The contributing typographers included Matthew Carter, CyrusHighsmith, Nicholas Benson, Ahrens and Mugikura, Catherine Griffiths, Esen Karol...
named Cyrus Rutherford (Helton), who takes him to a local bar. The bartender, Jimmy (Remsen), isn't very friendly, as Cyrus has no money, but Cyrus tries...
Carol Highsmith, an American photographer notable for donating her 100,000+ image collection, royalty-free, to the Library of Congress, when Highsmith found...
play in Super Bowl at home stadium". NFL.com. Retrieved March 7, 2024. Highsmith, Jordan (February 13, 2022). "1st Tampa Bay Buccaneers, now LA Rams win...
Thomas Burrell Siberian Education Ink Autumn Blood The Mayor Bad Milo! Highsmith Trial of Arms Karkov Sleight of Hand Terrible Terry The Pendant White...
from the original on 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2009-01-18. Berlow, Sam; Highsmith, Cyrus (2008-01-27). "What font says 'Change'?". The Boston Globe. Retrieved...
fees of up to $5,000 for a six-month term. When photographer Carol M. Highsmith sued Getty Images for asserting they owned copyrights to photos she donated...
Walter Stevens Head of vigilante cop task force Robert Fields Richard Highsmith Metro-Dade police captain Kevin Corrigan Jamison - 16 "Victims of Circumstance"...
Zuehlsdorff, Morgan Freeman, Austin Stowell, Juliana Harkavy, Austin Highsmith, Charles Martin Smith, Denis Arndt, Carlos Gómez, Bethany Hamilton, Julia...
Retrieved 2019-02-20. Jiménez, Mary Frances; Cassells, Cyrus (2009). "Living Witness: An Interview with Cyrus Cassells". African American Review. 43 (1): 69–77...
writer Harville Hendrix (born 1935), writer, speaker, therapist Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995), novelist, author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented...