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Years ago, by happenstance, designers Nancy Mazzei and Brian Kelly found an old decrepit typewriter in an abandoned lot with tall grass in Brooklyn. They kept it around their apartment for two years. Then...
Brok
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...
Bodega Serif
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,...
Bodoni FB
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...
Bradley Initials
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...
Exhaust
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.
Belucian
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...