Simon Walker

My new font, Saveloy, is now available ✌🏻🖤
https://beastsofengland.co/products/saveloy

Lettering for my wife’s ( https://instagram.com/blackcoffeewithwhitefriends?igshid=Y2I2MzMwZWM3ZA== ) new Instagram account ( https://instagram.com/blackeyedstories?igshid=Y2I2MzMwZWM3ZA== ) in support of her Substack page https://blackeyedstories.substack.com

I don’t design fonts for the money. I do it so I can say things like “oh my god, you don’t know what a stress axis is?”

When I finish a new font, I celebrate like most people do: by ignoring client emails for the rest of the day and taking a nap and then blaming the inevitable guilt I feel on childhood trauma.

I don’t always listen to jazz when I make fonts, but when I do, my kid usually walks in and says “umm, can we not?”

I’ve heard it said that type designers can be eccentric and old fashioned, to which I say poppycock!

A big part of success in this industry is maintaining good routines. For example, whenever a client call gets canceled, my wife and I immediately Vogue to “What Is Love” by Haddaway.

A student asked me recently if they could be my intern, and I was like “well I can’t pay you anything, but the work will be practically nonexistent.”

Looking forward to the day I get to hear my grandkids say “tell us the story about the time you almost released a font with an inverted cedilla, Grandad!”

Actual client email: “It’s so great how you’ve spent years honing your craft and learning all the rules of design and whatnot. Anyway, go ahead and ignore all that stuff and do another version just like the last one but worse.”

One of the genuinely cool things about my job is getting an email from a fan who’s loved and admired my work for years and who finally has a project to work on with me and then getting ghosted by them when I tell them how much it costs.

To most, working from home means professional autonomy and making your own schedule. To me, it means being able to run out of the bathroom in my underwear to sketch an idea at my desk and not be told I’m being “inappropriate”.

@asibahi Haha no, thank goodness.