Neuzon

I released Neuzon on May 11, 2007, as a response to finding Tempo in an old catalog. Tempo, designed by Robert Hunter Middleton in 1930, was sometimes described as an American cousin to Futura. Its Bold Extended style wasn’t available digitally, yet it showed up on signs across North America, including the Shopper’s Drug Mart logo in Canada. I didn’t have enough reliable material to attempt a faithful revival, so I went in a different direction. I made Neuzon look like it had been worn down over time, a kind of digital version of what old signage fonts might look like if they had survived into the present.

Neuzon received an update in June 2021, when I removed obsolete characters such as L with dot and E with breve, replaced the reversed quotation marks with proper ones, and refined some outlines. Another update followed on November 17, 2024, which fixed minor graphical issues and added the section symbol (§). Neuzon has always been sold as a commercial typeface rather than released freely. I don’t know of any notable uses in the wild, but for me the design stands as a reinterpretation of a once-common type style that had slipped into obscurity.