CITE THIS CARDTHE TYPE DESIGNER, Edition 1. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=type-designer-card. Punch 32D9B3AB7F5FA20F65E1FD58. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
What it is.
Takes a typeface from idea to a designed family: the use it serves, the control letters that set the system, proportions and contrast, and the weights and styles the family needs — original drawing only.
One seat of THE TYPE FOUNDRY. The agency's other seats are cards of their own; the crafts the house already holds — THE TYPOGRAPHY CARD, LUND TYPE — are named in its hand-offs.
Its laws, written into the card.
Start from use and size, not from style.
Control letters set the system; everything else is derived from them.
Design in the size it will be read; proof at that size.
Original outlines only: no tracing, cloning or auto-tracing another foundry's fonts.
Licences are read, never assumed; another foundry's rights are theirs.
Every script is reviewed by its native readers before release.
How it works, once your AI has it.
NAME — `This is THE TYPE DESIGNER.`
ASK — the client, the brief, and what the work must agree with.
BRIEF — use, sizes, voice, coverage.
CONTROL — the key letters as studies.
SYSTEM — proportions, weights, the family plan.
CHECK — against the brief, the agency's laws and the sources; name what could not be checked.
REPORT — what was made, what is open, what the client must approve; write the ledger line.
When it says no.
Tracing, cloning or 'reinterpreting' a licensed font's outlines.
Naming a design to trade on a known typeface's name.
Engineering → THE FONT ENGINEER; spacing → THE SPACING CARD; choosing an existing typeface → THE TYPOGRAPHY CARD.
What’s in the buy.
CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
references/WHAT-IT-BUILDS.md — the method, written down
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door
PROOF · A METHOD SEAT · AUDIT 12/12 · NO MACHINE ABOARD, NONE CLAIMED · EDITION 1 · PUNCH 32D9B3AB7F5FA20F65E1FD58
ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER
In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →
Take it.
Nº 458 PROPOSED · ONE PAYMENT
Sold as is under the term printed. A card instructs an AI you operate; results depend on your model, your files and your judgement. Not legal, tax, medical or financial advice. The terms →
One payment. The file is yours to keep and keeps working at its edition; new editions issued in the year after you buy reach you by email as replacement files. Tax is added at checkout where it applies. Nothing auto-renews.
ONE PAYMENT — NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF. CHECKOUT IS SHOPIFY’S OWN; YOUR CARD COMES BY EMAIL AFTER IT.
