#The Everyday Magic of Walter Lee Higgins

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Typography Tuesday

DOLLHOUSE

We thought we would begin the year whimsically on this first #Typography Tuesday of 2023. So today we present a display font called Dollhouse designed by Kristen Faulkner in 1995 for House Industries. Soon after the font’s release, the Minnesota Center for Books Arts (MCBA) selected Dollhouse as the display face for their 1998 Winter Book The Everyday Magic of Walter Lee Higgins by David Haynes, printed by MCBA artistic director at the time Mary Jo Pauly in an edition of 125 copies. The text font is Kennerly from M&H Foundry in San Francisco, and the digital Dollhouse initials are rendered here as linocuts.

Other fonts Faulkner has designed for House Industries all have the word “house” in them, including Housecut (1994), Housemaid (1994), Outhouse (1994), Springhouse (1995), and Itchyhouse (1995).

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