Brok appeared in 1925 as powerful characters in a magnificent portrait poster cut in wood by Chris Lebeau for the Willem Brok Gallery in Hilversum, Holland. Brok works its figure-ground magic when negative leading...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified November 16, 2024
Inspired by Font Bureau’s rapid success with the 1990 Bodega Sans, Greg Thompson designed Bodega Serif two years later. It duplicates the same weights and styles as the original in an alternative seriffed design,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 16, 2015
Working at American Type Founders from a Bruce Foundry recutting, Morris Fuller Benton worked out the dramatics of the English Fat Face, and in 1928 produced Ultra Bodoni, a headline spectacular. Using Benton’s 1933...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 18, 2015
Designed by Will Bradley as “Bradley Ultra Modern Initials,” these spectacular Art Deco capitals appear for the first time in the nineteen thirty-four ATF specimen. The original design was limited to the twenty-six capitals...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
The Exhaust Typeface is a modern, clean design with some influence coming from exhaust systems. Aimed at the youth market, it would suit all areas of modern design.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 5, 2015
The Belucian series offers a distinguished text design supported by dynamic headline structure. In need of a distinctive display style, Smart magazine asked Font Bureau in 1990 to revise the work of Lucian Bernhard...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 11, 2015
The five-part Barcode series offers an ultra condensed design where successive styles are all the same weight, an experiment for the type designer and user in character interaction as the form of the typeface...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 11, 2015
Clotilde Olyff challenges and surprises us. Legibility fonts are above all familiar designs, seldom shocking us visually. Alpha Bloc and Geometrique explore alphabetic form, stretching recognition, teasing, surprising, thrilling us with unfamiliar…
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 15, 2015
Tobias Frere-Jones began Armada in 1987. An experiment in algorithmic design, Armada follows the verticals and flat arches so often to be found in the architectural geometry of cast iron and brickwork in nineteenth-century...