An ideal headline for today’s headlines

Slimes New Roman

When I think of a modern news cycle, I am in awe of its effect on life. Being cooped up inside and under a nationwide bit of confusion, one constant is that the stories that shape today are all too familiar, extremely quick-lived, and mostly painful to process. The concept is to make a headline typeface as ugly as right now feels.

Uncertain Times


Slimes New Roman is a two-parts project that I have been working on and off of over a couple of years. It is made up of a hand-drawn serif display typeface based on Times, and javascript that utilizes New York Times API.

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The Wasteshed

The typesetting was done in Branding with Type’s Bw Nista Grotesk. The layout and other elements were made possible with the use of Bulma and Font Awesome