Gerry Powell, typographer, industrial designer, and director of typographic design for American Type Founders, designed Onyx for ATF in 1937. A very popular advertising type in the 1940s, Onyx resembles an extremely condensed, bold...
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The powerful original script designed by Adrian Frutiger for Haas in 1954. Although having nothing to do with the subcontinent (the capitals are based on informal Roman inscriptions, the lowercase Frutiger’s own calligraphy), the...
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The idea behind Geotica was to build a font out of -more or less- simple geometrical line elements. The open wire frame could then be left open or (partially) filled. Geotica comes in four...
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Released by the Monotype Corporation in 1931, Script Bold is based on German script-lettering styles of the early twentieth century. Although its bold weight is unusual for this style, Script Bold conveys a strong...
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Monoline Script was designed for the Monotype Corporation in 1933. A medium-weight script, it has lowercase letters that are very close together and a profusion of loops in the ascenders. The capitals are very...