“Originally designed [by Paul Barnes] for British style magazine Harper’s & Queen, Austin is a loose revival of the typefaces of Richard Austin of the late 18th century for the publisher John Bell. […] The Light and Ultra weights were added by Berton Hasebe.” — Commercial Type
Extended with Austin Cyrillic (Paul Barnes and Ilya Ruderman, 2009), Austin Hairline (2011, “drawn by Berton Hasebe for Alex Grossman at WSJ, the weekend fashion and lifestyle magazine of the Wall Street Journal, then later expanded by Hrvoje Živčić”), Austin Text (Paul Barnes, 2014).