Amira 2 Variable Roman

A large fawn jumped quickly over white zinc boxes. A large fawn jumped quickly over white zinc boxes.

Occupant Fonts

Amira 2

Dispatch 2 Variable

Dispatch 2

Mantar Regular

Mantar

Quiosco Display Regular

Quiosco Display

Stainless 2 Variable

Stainless 2

Cem is a Turkish graphic designer, type designer and educator. He holds a BS in Marketing Communications from Emerson College and an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. He teaches at both undergraduate and graduate levels at RISD. Outside of Occupant Fonts, he continues his own studio practice as a member of the Design Office. His favorite color is yellow.

The cross between calligraphy and sans serif is rare, inhabiting territory between Hermann Zapf’s Optima, classical sans structure with a calligraphic spirit, and Warren Chappell’s Lydian, classical calligraphy without serifs. Cyrus Highsmith claims adventurous new ground with Amira, a letterform that pops from the page with an angled vitality. Amira both welcomes and surprises readers with bright new rhythms and texture. In 2023, Cem Eskinazi extended the character set and made Amira into a variable font.

Cyrus Highsmith created Dispatch in his search for an industrial-grade slab serif to serve as text and display. It’s a taut amalgam of letterforms found in typescript, on engineering blueprints, and shipping labels. Use it for heavy commercial lifting.