Programme

The studio practice of Connor Davenport — focusing on custom letter design and tools for font production.
Licenses are available for some the typefaces shown here. Please reach out if you’d like to use these fonts.
If you’re interested in a custom typeface, lettering, or tool, send an email to info@connordavenport.com.

Other links: GitHub ↗, Mastodon ↗, pixelfed ↗, are.na ↗, or the blog ↗.
Archived social media: Instagram, Twitter
Office Hours
Monday–Friday: 9:00–18:00 
Timezone: EST (GMT -5)

Available for Work

Clients: ABC Dinamo, Actual Source, Alexander Harrison, Base Design, Carvalho Bernau, DJR, Droga5, Frere-Jones Type, High Tide, MCM, Milk Bar, Park–Langer, Pentagram, Verso Books, XYZ Type

Beaujon
2016–2025 Beaujon is an homage to the great French printing types, interpreting the work of Renaissance punchcutter Jean Jannon, with additional references to Henri Parmentier’s Garamond from 1926 and Vendome by Francois Ganeau for Fonderie Olive.
To be published with Heavyweight Type

Typeface, In-Progress

MCM
2019 We were approached by the creative team at MCM to redesign their iconic logo. The new logotype redesign is based on Genzsh & Heyse’s 1888 Römische Antiqua, a predecessor to the American DeVinne types. Römische is one of the archetypal 19th’s century German printing types. It exudes the seriousness of a Scotch Roman while concurrently balancing the quirks of the grotesques of the period. The final logo was reworked into 4 versions, 2 optical sizes each with a lighter “grade” to work on dark backgrounds.




Lettering, Logo

StrokeScribbler
2025 In late 2024, Kai Bernau brought me on to the project, in the hopes that I could develop a RoboFont tool to visualize a Noordzij-ian method of drawing inside the glyph editor.
Download ↓

The tool is based around StrokeFlattener, a custom implimentation of both the FlattenPen and SamplingPen functionailties. Supplying the pen with a dictionary of indexes and point counts as `approximateSegmentLength`, it will sample the contour but if you give it an integer it will calculate the distance to subdivide the contour. 

Research for Beyond Bézier was carried out by Matthieu Cortat-Roller, Alice Savoie, Kai Bernau, Radim Peško, Micha Wasem and Florence Yerly. The project started in September 2023 and was completed in May 2025.

Python,  Tooling

Misc. Lettering
2022—A selection of miscellaneous lettering projects.

Album Covers , Lettering

Greenstone
2020Greenstone is a display-oriented serif that hones in the expressive vernacular of Ogg’s mid-century book jacket lettering and the engravings found on epitaphs throughout New England. The typeface combines the precise, controlled construction of these ink and stone letterforms with an unexpected dramatic flair. The result is a digital homage to sacred traditions of hand lettering, erudite and exploratory in equal measure.
Available for licensing at Sharp Type


Typeface

Posters
2022—A series of posters for Spectacle, a collectively-run screening space in Brooklyn, NY.

Posters, Lettering

Garnett
2016–2018 Garnett’s forms are derived from the early grotesques of 19th-century Britain, with particular influence drawn from the work of the Stephenson Blake, Caslon, Miller & Richard, and Vincent Figgins’ foundries. Garnett’s forms lend themselves to the ideas of a utilitarian design aesthetic while concurrently keeping the flavor and quirkiness of the exemplars.
Please inquire for licensingTypeface

Sundown Town
2019 The logo was drawn for the painter Alexander Harrison’s first solo art exhibition. Harrison’s body of work surrounds the ideas and themes of growing up a Black man in the South. We decided to base the lettering for the show, on the cover of Booker T. Washington’s A New Negro for a New Century.



Lettering

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