Making something for National Geographic is always special. Many of the millions of National Geographic subscribers proudly collect and display all of their copies of the magazine. Many families pass these collections down through generations. Some issues in these collections are repeatedly viewed because they document the world at an especially historic moment. 2020 was a dramatic year and National Geographic, once again, rose to the occasion and published a photographic chronicle of those turbulent 12 months. The result is a profoundly moving piece of journalism that will undoubtedly be one viewed many times in the times that follow ours. I was incredibly fortunate to be asked by the team there to make a typeface for the issue that would carry the words that joined the photographs. I can’t thank Editor in Chief Susan Goldberg, Emmet Smith, Marianne Seregi and everyone at National Geographic enough for letting me be a part of their special team.
