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Mahalia draws inspiration from vintage hand-lettering, but adds a modern, European twist. Strongly slanted at a 25 degree angle, Mahalia draws immediate interest, but is still graceful. Mahalia includes many useful OpenType features, including...
This set of decorated initial letters was inspired by those used in 1510 in Nancy (France, Lorraine) for printing of “Recueil ou croniques des hystoires des royaulmes d’Austrasie ou France orientale[…]” Author Symphorien Champion,...
This set of initial decorated letters is an entirely original creation, drawn inspired by Italian renaissance patterns. It contains two roman alphabets : one drawn in white on black background and the other in...
Pasquinade is a blackletter/roman hybrid. The general look, feel and graphical styling of Pasquinade is that of a blackletter font, however, the underlying letter construction is of a traditional serifed roman. This produces a...
I designed Ayres Royal to honour London’s famous calligrapher John Ayres (about 1700). He designed calligraphy examples called The Accomplished Clerk, that were meant to be for the office clerk. I doubt if there...
This classically elegant typeface is based on a 1912 design by Johann Vincenz Cissarz for the Ludwig & Mayer Foundry. To add a little more visual interest, alternate letterforms can be found in various...
A neue rave typeface; Pacman-style chunky, sharp, creative.
This script font was inspired by the type used in Leyden by Jan Seversz to print Breviores elegantioresque epistolae […], author Francesco Filfelo, circa 1509. The original font contains all lower case characters, except...
Greenbriar AEF bears resemblance to blackletter, crisply drawn and creating a hypnotic rhythm through the interplay of stroke and counter, wieght and width. The Greenbriar numbering scheme is based on the weight and width...
This set of initial decorated letters is an entirely original creation, drawn inspired by Italian renaissance engraver Vespasiano Amphiareo’s paterns published in Venice circa 1568. It contains two roman alphabets : the first of...