I’m a fan of Vernon Adams, the font designer. I’ve been a freelance graphic designer for the past ten years, so it wasn’t too much of a stretch for me to be intrigued with his craft. And because his wife Allison has been one of my dearest friends, it just worked out that I was able to share a small creative office with Vernon here in San Clemente before his accident. It is such a good memory having that time and space, where friends, colleagues and family would drop to connect and collaborate, and we’d get some of our work done too.
I’ve always felt honored to know Vernon as a friend, but also as this incredibly talented person, who contributed some of the best work to the Google Fonts project. If you search for Vernon Adams over at the Google Fonts page (https://www.google.com/fonts) — you’ll see his credits for over 50 of the 708 fonts in the directory. One of his most popular, is the script font named Pacifico. I recall Vernon often being amused and happy to see all the different ways people would make use of it, just check out his Pinterest board to see!
When Allison began planning this years Craft Market, I had the idea to display Vernon’s work in a screen printed T-shirt to share with everyone. Chris mentioned the idea with Vernon at his Thanksgiving visit, and to then have Vernon encourage me in the idea left me with no option but to make it happen. So, here it is, the first Vernon Adams font T-shirt featuring some of his great work. I hope he likes it and you do too!
Click here to purchase yours!
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hi, jen- i’m so proud of Vernon’s work and when I re-did my book cover, my designer was able to use Pacifico for the title – so pretty (you can peek at it over at welcomeheart.com) Thanks for doing this great T-shirt. aunt sue
Hi Sue — Pacifico looks great on your book cover! You are welcome for making the shirt, my pleasure! It is fun to wear and see how people who may not know the fonts try to figure out what it means simply by reading it. 🙂
I`m a big fan of VERNON ADAMS too!! always have been since the day he was born and i shouted down the phone to my mum (still in hospital from giving birth) ..”when you bringing that baby home ??”..back then mums stayed in hospital for at least 10 days …. ofcause we had our ups and downs as children.. but from our teenage years onwards .. we never had a cross word , Vern is always in my heart , and i`m so pleased he had/has a friend in you Jen, and one amazing “office share”.
Thank you so much for making this t-shirt , of cause i will be buying some and wear it with pride.. because not only is he my brother .. but i`m proud of him and a ” BIG FAN ” too xx
xx next time you see Vern , give him a big hug from me xx
I know you are, no doubt, the big Sister! 🙂 I do hope to see Vernon soon, it has been more challenging to get up to see him of late. Ali said that she took him his shirt this week and he wanted to wear it right away.
jen ..any idea how much p&p will be to England???
thankyou xx
No extra charge!
Bought 4 this morning. Sharing with other creators so they can share his work and their love story.