Photos: Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social delivers his 100 Days Address, with special guest, Senator Bernie Sanders, at Knockdown Center in Queens. Sunday, April 12, 2026. Credits: Ed Reed/Michael Appleton, Mayoral Photography Office
The design marks the transition from the campaign to the new administration, adding gravitas while building upon Aneesh’s vibrant campaign identity and maintaining its familiar voice.
Empirica and this modification designed by Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stössinger @ninastoessinger.bsky.social
Photograph of Mayor Zohran Mamdani addressing a crowd of supporters on April 12, 2026.
Diagram of custom typeface for the mayor’s office, showing text “MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI”
Woman holding a rally sign saying “Put a Lid on It”
A woman holds a rally sign saying “Childcare for All” and a man hold a sign saying “NYC Groceries”
We were honored to collaborate with Aneesh Bhoopathy at the NYC Mayor’s Office @mayorsoffice.nyc.gov on some custom type! At the Mayor’s 100 Day Address this past weekend, materials used an unreleased style of our Empirica typeface, modified to resonate with the campaign identity.
New release! Cassis is a generous, soulful sansserif with more interest in personality than perfection. Designed to project affable confidence and offer compelling density at larger sizes, it’s a powerful voice for branding, identity, and titling work: frerejones.com/families/cas...
DMs very active last night —! Still hoping to be a NYT crossword clue some day.
Tonight! Tobias is presenting "Of Subways & Offsides" at Cooper Union, documenting the typefaces that he and Nina Stössinger designed for the New York City Football Club, in partnership with Gretel. Registration is free, hope to see you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/of-subways...
Photo from the Fontstand conference 2025, from left to right: Indra Kupferschmid, Andrej Krátky, Peter Biľak, Christine Bateup, and Christopher Slye.
Fontstand is becoming a co-op! At the Fontstand Conference in The Hague, we announced that we’re becoming a cooperatively owned and managed font distributor — with expanded licensing and services. Stay tuned as we create a more equitable, transparent and democratic model for font designers.
CA Winner: Frere-Jones Type. "Supermassive"
Bold and distinctive, Supermassive channels 1960s lettering with expansive curves and a strong vertical-horizontal weight balance. ow.ly/nerp50UBSf3
At the beginning of 2025, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of Frere-Jones Type, and also a kind of homecoming. Thirteen font families from my days in Boston are formally joining the Frere-Jones Type retail library.
frerejones.com/blog/homecom...