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MERRITT CHASE

2024
Wordmark design

Merritt Chase is a Pittsburgh-based landscape architecture firm that creates meaningful and memorable public spaces. Their work addresses complex social, cultural, and ecological challenges through a design process rooted in humility, research, and community engagement. To reflect these values, I developed a custom wordmark that is clean, direct, and quietly confident—striking a balance between strength and warmth. The design process involved careful typeface selection and iterative refinement, resulting in subtle but impactful modifications. These included adjusting the tittle of the “i,” expanding open counters to improve legibility and openness, and crafting custom ligatures to enhance visual cohesion and character. The final wordmark is a distilled expression of Merritt Chase’s ethos: thoughtful, approachable, and enduring.

Photos courtesy Merritt Chase

An image of people outside in a gathering. There is White text and the Merritt Chase logo on top of the image. Logo made in Illustrator
An image with a white background and a Black wordmark in the center. Wordmark says Merritt Chase. Made in Adobe Illustrator
An image with a white background and three different versions of a wordmark. Wordmark says Merritt Chase. Made in Adobe Illustrator
An image with a white background and a number of letters in the middle of the image. the letters have red highlights showing what changes to the letterforms were made. Made in Adobe Illustrator
An image with a white background and black ligatures in the center. Made in Adobe Illustrator
An image with a white background and a large number different versions of a wordmark. Process of selecting a typeface. Wordmark says Merritt Chase. Made in Adobe Illustrator

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