Ambient
“When you push the stage props of the life aside, there will remain the truth …” Ambient is a deconstructed sans-serif font, which captures the essence of basic Roman letterforms … with a few...
font_category: decorative
Ambule
Huxley Vertical meets Peignot in this stylized cap/lowercase hybrid design called Ambule. French designer Julien Janiszewski has created a clean, straightforward design that is strikingly effective in both text and display settings. Ambule Oblique…
Big Limbo
This freeform exercise in typographic design echoes the looseness of early 1960’s advertising. Brian breaks almost every typographic rule we can think of — but so what? The bold letterforms of Big Limbo are...
Presidio
Presidio is a stylized version of the hand-lettered calligraphy typical of the Mission era of early California. This lettering was often unique to an individual hand, but the characters shared a common style, and...
Cigar Label
This font was inspired by the embossed lettering on cigar boxes. The letters, or entire words, are often surrounded by raised dots, and that was our idea here. We drew this about 1997, and...
Estienne
Many fonts have carried this name. Ours goes back to just before 1900 in France. This general style had considerable popularity among job printers all over Europe. We have even seen it used for...
Craftsman
The Craftsman font is a faithful reproduction of the logo, or Title typeface used for Gustav Stickley’s “Craftsman” Magazine, the foremost journal of the American Arts & Crafts Movement during its publication years of...
Batchelder Ruff
Batchelder Ruff is a “battered” version of the typeface used for titling in the catalogs and advertising of the Batchelder Tile Company in Pasadena, California in the 1920s. The original source characters were smoother,...
Alaska
This interesting type was introduced by the Chicago firm of Marder, Luse & Company in 1890, about the time designers were beginning to lose some of the excessive ruffles and flourishes that characterized the...
Arcade
A neat face with pronounced spur serifs which several foundries have already digitized. We like ours better though, because we have drawn a lowercase which was lacking in the original. Barnhart Bros. & Spindler...