Welcome to Talbot Type. I am Adrian Talbot and this is where I publish my typeface designs, play around with words and letterforms and sell my fonts and font related stuff.

I'm a Creative Partner at London design studio Intro, where I’ve worked since 1990 and helped to establish the company as a leading creative force, with a diverse and enviable list of clients.

Throughout my time at Intro, and going right back to my college days, I’ve had a passion for letterforms and typefaces. Several years ago I embarked on my first proper font designs, and the results to date are available here for the first time.

I will continue to add new designs in the future, as well as any further evolved versions of these faces.

My fonts are influenced by the classic movements of the twentieth century — Modernism, the Bauhaus, Constructivism and Art Deco — yet I aspire to create timeless designs, valid now and in the future. These are not showy faces, but practical, hard-working text and display fonts.

Designing fonts requires discipline and can make your head hurt, and when my head hurts I have a bit of a play around with the letters I've created; take a look in the Love Letters section for a bit of light relief.

I've also got a blog, again accessible from the main menu, where I post news of all of my creative pursuits, and it features an archive of my design work going back over the last twenty years.

If you want to get in touch with me for any reason, you can send an email to adrian@talbottype.co.uk

Pursuing a successful career in graphic design, requires mastery of several disciplines. I think the reason I opted for graphic design, all those years ago, was because it meant I didn’t have to make a difficult decision between creative ideas, fonts and photography — I could pursue it all, wrapped up in one.

The world at large tends to get a little confused when you do more than one thing. It can give the impression you’re a jack-of-all-trades, where once you were a maverick; Raymond Loewy used to design a Shell logo in the morning and a locomotive in the afternoon, and no-one got confused.

So I hesitate to mention it, but as well as designing fonts and being a Creative Partner at Intro, I’m also a photographer; Talbot Gallery features my landscape photography — take a look.