Pennsylvania

Living in Pittsburgh in the 1990s, Christian Schwartz registered the industrial grit in the forms of capitals and numbers on license plates in Pennsylvania—the rhythms of vertical and horizontal alignment without implications of typewriter or lineprinter. His monospaced interpretation appeared in 2000. Using Schwartz’s early 2000s sketches for a planned expansion as a jumping off point, Inga Plönnigs revisited the family in 2024, devising both a soft-edged sans and slab from the eccentric approach to serifs found in the stamped-metal inspiration. [vault.commercialtype.com]