Skin & Bones was originally designed by Douglas F. Jones for the Visual Graphics Corporation, which made the Photo Typositor, a headline-setting machine. Jones was inspired by Herbert Bayer’s geometric alphabets as part of the Bauhaus movement and thought that an inline treatment would be visually appealing. In 2017, Doug gave Mark Simonson permission to create an official version of Skin & Bones, resulting in a faithful digitization of Doug’s 1972 design but with a larger character set.
Skin & Bones Fonts
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Skin & Bones Font Styles
A wisecracking jackalope on a freight vexed by Moz’s bequest.
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| Skin & Bones Regular Family 1 style $24.99 |
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About the Skin & Bones Font
Skin & Bones Features
- Faithful recreation of Doug Jones’ 1972 design in a fully modern format.
- Original and newly-designed alternate characters.*
- Language support for Latin-based Western, Central, and Eastern European languages.*
- Automatic arbitrary fractions.*
- Small figures (superscript, subscript).*
- Requires an application or operating system with support for OpenType advanced typography, such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher, or QuarkXPress. Check your application’s user guide. OpenType advanced typography is also supported by most modern web browsers through the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Additional Information
Skin & Bones on “Fonts In Use” “Fonts In Use” is a collaborative website where interesting or notable examples of fonts in use are shared.