David Siegel started thinking about Graphite in 1982, looking for a designer's handwriting with a "chiselled pencil" look, just like Tekton exhibits the architect's "pen and ink" metaphor. The handwriting of San Francisco designer Anthony Celis LaRosa became Siegel's option. With the assistance of David Berlow and Tom Rickner, Graphite was developed and released with weight and width axes that enable its usage in a dynamic range from light condensed to black extended. Like Tekton, Graphite is an upright script with easy lines, and is functional in a large range of informal copysetting situations.
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