font_category: decorative

Negro

Negro font

Dark, spicy & distinctive display typefaces from the nineteenth century I had in mind when creating this font family. Extreme contrasts and sharp endings may remotely remind some blackletters, especially in narrowed styles. The...

Kompressor

Kompressor font

Another brutal techno-style type face; it matches with Modell. Both of them can be stretched and inclined electronically and they do not mind a bit. Their use, it must be admitted, is limited to...

Farao

Farao font

Originally designed in 1998 as a 3-font family, updated in 2016 by new italics, small caps and many OpenType functions, resulting in a set of highly visible poster typefaces. If a  text is set...

Art Nouveaux MF

Art Nouveaux MF font

Compur

Compur font

Compur is the name of the most famous photographic shutter of all time. This is a reconstruction of a type face which served for describing various devices, using the technique of monolinear engraving. With...

Tractor

Tractor font

Aichel

Aichel font

Every type face which was originally designed for use in architecture (in this particular case for a UNESCO memorial plaque for a church built by Jan Santini-Aichel on Zelená Hora) is surprisingly well usable...

Bahnhof

Bahnhof font

Poster type faces from the twenties and thirties are enjoying a new wave of popularity. The summary, even rather hard principle of the sign is required for a view from a distance. The information appearing...

Blakely

Blakely font

Blakely is an all-caps Art Deco design. It is based on the logotype of the Signals mail order gift catalog designed by Mark Simonson in 1993.

Nuevo Litho

Nuevo Litho font

NuevoLitho is my first successful font design. It was designed for use in the heads and subheads of my first book, “Printing in a Digital World” back in 1994. It’s a very loosened play...