Welcome to Between the Lines: a typographic time capsule from Typodermic Fonts. This is not a catalogue. It’s a storybook, a confession booth, and a design journal rolled into one. Inside, you’ll find the background stories for nearly every font I’ve ever released: the inspiration, the weird detours, the updates, and sometimes, the reasons a font quietly disappeared. It’s a candid look at the creative process behind hundreds of typefaces…some well-known, some forgotten, and a few that never should’ve seen the light of day.
The book is primarily written for fellow designers, typographers, licensing sleuths, and anyone curious about how fonts actually come to life. No marketing fluff. Just stories.
The latest edition from 2025-09-23 has a more objective writing style, plenty of new facts, lots of corrections, and font preview images.
Since this recent book update, Hemi Head has been extensively rebuilt rather than lightly revised. The weights are more consistent, the lighter styles are cleaner at large sizes, and the italics have been refined for smoother diagonals and better screen performance. A new Semi-Bold weight fills a long-standing gap in the family. Language support has expanded well beyond the original Latin set, with additional languages plus Greek and Cyrillic, along with updated punctuation, accents, and modern currency symbols. I’ll add that to the book in the next revision.
Written by Raymond Larabie: Published from Nagoya, Japan. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives (CC BY-ND) license. You’re welcome to redistribute the book, commercially or non-commercially, as long as you don’t modify it and you always credit Raymond Larabie.
