Dathan Boardman and Molly Jacques Erickson founded Great Lakes Lettering with a mutual appreciation for artful calligraphy. “In 2012 I had been working on lots of calligraphic fonts and came across Molly’s work and was immediately struck by how visceral it was and how it didn’t really look like any other kind of calligraphy that I’ve come across,†Dathan says. “I reached out to her wondering if she had any interest in turning her lettering into fonts.†The duo’s first typeface, Frosted, was released later that year.