Classical has the look and feel of a simplified old English Swash font, but it’s much more legible. It was created for use as drop caps and has a limited character set.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This roly-poly, rollicking display font is based on a design from the 1946 book Blue print text book of sign and show card lettering by Charles Louis Henry Wagner, who seems to have had...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Boller is based on handwriting found on the blueprints for the Jayhawk Theater in Kansas. Thomas Williams & Boller Bros. Architects are the only names found on the blueprints. The character set is extremely...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This charming font, with its hints of the exotic, originally carried the rather prosaic name of Show Card Roman. It appeared in the book “Art Alphabets and Lettering: an encyclopedia of lettering including the...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This delightfully playful font is based on a single-stroke pen font from the 1922 tome Heberling’s Basic Lettering, and elements of composition, color harmony, gilding, embossing-processes, etc. by Walter A. Heberling. Swoopy, loopy, but...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This unusual headline font is based on lettering found on a travel poster, advertising passage to Morocco on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée line, designer unknown, circa 1930. Both versions of this font include the complete Unicode...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This ultrabold headline font is basically patterned after the font Nubian Black, designed by Willard T. Sniffin for American Type Founders in the 1920s, but includes an unusual inline treatment of the caps. Named...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 17, 2024
The Theo Ballmer font family is based on Theo’s design ideas which were completed by his son Theo Ballmer (Thierry’s father), and digitized by Thierry, with the help of URW++ and their Ikarus technology....
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified February 27, 2020
ReneFont is strong, heavy design which looks quite technical. Originally planned as a caps-only, Breil changed his mind and also drew the lower case alphabet.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified February 27, 2020
RenéLemon is a design where the basic design idea is part of its name – Lemon. Every glyph is derived from the form of a lemon, splashing and dashing – a typographic vitamin pill!