About
Shantell Sans, from Shantell Martin, is a marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation.
It includes Latin and Cyrillic characters to support a wide array of languages throughout the Americas, Europe, Central Asia, and Vietnam.
To learn more about Shantell Sans and read about the design process behind it, check out its website at:
Project conception & creative direction by Shantell Martin, based on her artwork, handwriting, and creative philosophy.
Type design & font development by Arrow Type.
Cyrillic design by Anya Danilova.
To contribute, see github.com/arrowtype/shantell-sans
Designers
3Shantell Martin is a public speaker, curator, philosopher, cultural facilitator, teacher, choreographer, performer, and more. From fashion and celebrity collaborations to positions at MIT Media Lab, NYU Tisch ITP, Columbia University’s Brown Institute, and choreographing a ballet at the Boston Ballet, Shantell’s drawn LINE constantly evolves. Creating new connections between fine art, education, design, philosophy, and technology, Shantell explores themes such as intersectionality, identity, and play.
Arrow Type is a type foundry and studio practice based in Brooklyn, NY which specializes in custom type, type design, and font development, run by Stephen Nixon. Previously, Stephen worked in digital product design and brand experience design at IBM. In 2018, Stephen graduated with a Master’s degree in Type and Media from The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, Netherlands. In 2019, Google Fonts commissioned and published Arrow Type’s first release, Recursive. Today, Arrow Type has a focus on creating fonts that are beautiful, uniquely useful, and tell a story.
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Anya Danilova is a type designer based in The Hague, Netherlands. She studied at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, attending Alexander Tarbeev’s type design workshop. In 2019, she obtained her Master’s degree in Type and Media at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. In 2020, she won a Gerard Unger scholarship with her MA graduation typeface Rezak. Apart from working with typefaces, she loves writing and talking about them. She has written articles about various sides of typography and type design.