Black Slabbath is inspired by the virtuoso typography of Herb Lubalin. When designing it, I was focused on the craft — how the shapes arrange themselves on a white page.

A geometric slab serif, Black Slabbath is extremely dense and fills its bounding box to the extreme. Released through YouWorkForThem in 2008, the font hit the zeitgeist perfectly and became an instant best seller.

Black Slabbath has appeared in most major design publications and beyond: The Typographic Desk Reference, GQ Magazine, and the Pentagram-designed Justin Timberlake Hindsight book.

See the behind the scenes on Behance.