He is also notable for the design of Keedy Sans, a typeface acquired in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 2011.
[citation needed] His typeface Keedy Sans, designed in 1989, is distributed through Emigre Fonts.
[3] “Jeffery Keedy described his design of Hard Times as an “ironic commentary” on classic typefaces.
Whether the font was truly ironic—its name conjures up not only a typeface but also Charles Dickens and the Great Depression—or just the result of someone goofing around with Fontographer is immaterial.
Either way, Keedy’s alteration of Times New Roman—hacking off and reassembling serifs and other parts—encouraged a whole slew of typographic mutilations in the 1990s (including fonts “designed” for advertising campaigns for Putnam Investments and Air France).” Juan Pablo Mejía (2011).