When I got out of school at Pratt in 1967, I fell in love with Herb Lubalin’s posters of his new typefaces, especially Pistilli Roman. (See page 34 of the Herb Lubalin book by Alan Peckolick.) I vowed that someday I would do one even better and heavier in weight. So, in 1969, I designed DiSpigna Roman in pencil on tracing paper, and executed it on heavy stock bond paper with the traditional ink and white clean up paint-the way we did all executions of letterform and typefaces back then. It became one of the first faces we digitized when we created Thinstroke. This typeface harkens directly back to 1969. I still love Pistilli, but I do think my DiSpigna Ultra is heavier with more luscious curves.
For additional license options like app, enterprise, multi-user, and self-hosted web, visit DiSpigna Ultra on Type Network.
After independently illustrious careers, Tony Di Spigna and Bill Hilson founded Thinstroke in 2009. Tony was a partner in the legendary studio Lubalin Associates, where he worked on all aspects of visual communication and graphic design. Bill, former creative director for the HiFi Color Project–one of the first to print with stochastic screening and extra-trinary printing techniques, has spent most of his career exposing the creativity within technological innovation. Thinstroke publishes Di Spigna’s typefaces, each of which is hand-drawn with ink and white-paint before being meticulously digitized.
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