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Emilia Flores, Lee Hardisty, Emily Hao, Stephanie Chou, and Cleo Williams, June 2024

Stewart Waldman’s original 1966 taxicab driver’s license.
Our control letters that every letterform in our typeface was based on.
One of the first iterations of our full alphabet. Clearly, there were a lot of refinements we needed to make!
Our working Figma board provided us a place to organize which letters were finished and make comments on what edits we needed to make, which streamlined the process for everyone.
Some of our first poster iterations. I designed the one on the bottom right, which ended up becoming the first poster in a series of nearly 30 ticket poster iterations.
A very low fidelity sketch that suggested a combination of tickets and typesetting, which was the idea my group ended pursuing.
Our final Stewart Mono poster!
My group pictured here with our instructor and mentor on this project, Karen Cheng! A big thanks also to our student TA’s, Burke Smithers and Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Stewart Mono tag 1.
Stewart Mono tag 2.
Stewart Mono tag 3.





STEWART MONO

A “fauxnospaced” typeface inspired by NYC Taxicab Driver’s licenses from the late 1960s and early 1970s created during DES 214: Marks and Symbols at the University of Washington on Glyphs Mini.

The inspiration behind Stewart Mono was a small series of Taxicab driver’s licenses from the late 1960’s to the early 1970s, most notably a license belonging to Mr. Stewart Waldman, who is pictured above. Stewart Mono seeks to revive the very condensed monospaced font once used on these licenses for modern display purposes. Working off of our limited bank of letters for this 10 week project, my group and I developed the full alphabet first with pencil on vellum paper, and then on the software application “Glyphs Mini.” I was personally responsible for the design of the letters D, B, P, d, q, l, v, x, y, 2, 3, 5, 8,  /, \, #, *, [, and ], and also refined the R. Once my group and I had refined the majority of our letterforms and the personality of our typeface began to become apparent, we decided to present on our poster a series of tickets that reflected the NYC that our taxicab drivers had once lived in. We’re super proud to present Stewart Mono to the world and are excited to continue to refine this typeface in the future!


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