For the headlines and author bios in WONK 3 we went with Puritan 2.0 — a slick san-serif by Ben Weiner. All I can say is that it was a stinking pleasure to work with.
Here’s a bit about the font from Ben along with an awesome quote at the end:
Puritan was my response to these influences; it was also a way (I thought) that I could get hold of an interesting typeface without unofficially borrowing from the Typography department. It might be flawed, but it was mine! Well, I learned a lot from the experience.
I wrote a short essay about Puritan as a project in my final year as an undergraduate. Rather than repeat it all here, I have converted the essay (presented as a booklet) into a PDF file of around 1200K which you can download.
In October 1999, I submitted Puritan to the 3rd International Type Design Contest, where it made absolutely no impact.