London Modern, designed by Paul Harpin, was influenced by the fantastic magazines of London in the 1960s. “I just wanted to make a beautiful headline font with an extremely fine line for brackets, arrows, mathematical symbols and with an indulgent ampersand, figures, marks etc”, says Harpin.

“It was working well, but when Paul Hickson added what I call the twiddly bits — incidentals such as daggers, dots, dashes & details — it started, as they would say in the ’60s, to look fab. I’m really pleased with it.”

A lower contrast version of the face, LDN Modern No2, was released in 2020 together with a matching italic.