Port magazine, 2023â
Starting with issue 33 (A/W 2023), Uncommon redesigned Port magazine. The ambitious redesign includes the photographed cover stars hand-writing their own version of the Port logo on their respective covers to add individuality to each of their split run cover. Uncommon say they “wanted to ensure each cover design felt unique and reflective of the person’s character.”
The typography changes throughout the issue and features two typeface families, Triptych Roman with Italick and Grotesque from The Pyte Foundry which, in the words of Uncommon, “is unsentimental, stubborn, robust and hard-working.” The second one, Affairs in Regular, Italic, and Mono from SM Foundry, is “slightly more aesthetically pleasing. Bringing two reduced typefaces together creates an awkward and interesting tension throughout the redesign.”
The typographic palette for issue 33 additionally includes Serial D from Dum Dum Studio and “an extended wide type to contrast with the serifs – creating a type where a single number sits across a spread – called UNCle.”
