About ITC Musclehead
When you need a robust, heavy, densely packed handwriting type for a headline printed over a photograph or screened-back art, you might find ITC Musclehead just the thing. With a liveliness that almost looks like brushwork, it holds the space it’s in without dissolving against a busy background. In fact the face was made not with a brush but with a ruling pen, which Timothy Donaldson had recently bought from a company in Salem, Massachusetts. “The world’s gone ruling-pen mad at the moment,” says Donaldson, “and I was beginning to tire of all the skinny splashiness of the letters that most people were making with them. I wanted to do something heavy and robust with the tool, so that’s what I did.“ |
