Christian Schwartz designed the monospaced Pennsylvania in 1999
and released it with Font
Bureau in 2000, before moving it to Orange
Italic in 2023. Inga Plönnigs expanded the family in 2024 with
Pennsylvania Sans (in two widths) and
Pennsylvania Slab.
“I used a lot of monospaced type in school, because it was the
late ’90s and that’s what was cool. I wanted to fill a hole I saw
in the realm of monospaced type and draw a face that was neither
computer- nor typewriter-based. The Pennsyvania state license plate
ended up being my inspiration. I filled it out into a complete text
and display family, using the erratic serifs of the source to even
out the texture of the lowercase. Anuthin More…
Christian Schwartz designed the monospaced Pennsylvania in 1999 and released it with Font Bureau in 2000, before moving it to Orange Italic in 2023. Inga Plönnigs expanded the family in 2024 with Pennsylvania Sans (in two widths) and Pennsylvania Slab.
“I used a lot of monospaced type in school, because it was the late ’90s and that’s what was cool. I wanted to fill a hole I saw in the realm of monospaced type and draw a face that was neither computer- nor typewriter-based. The Pennsyvania state license plate ended up being my inspiration. I filled it out into a complete text and display family, using the erratic serifs of the source to even out the texture of the lowercase. Anuthin Wongsunkakon’s Keystone State is based on the same source, but leaves more of the quirks intact.” —Christian Schwartz
