Adams is a revival and major expansion of Dolf Overbeek’s Studio typeface and Flambard, its bold counterpart, originally published by the Amsterdam Type Foundry in 1946 and 1954. This digital version adds small caps...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
A late nineteenth-century type specimen catalog from Farmer, Little & Co. yielded this droll little typeface, originally called “Arbor”. The distinctive decorations of the face suggested a fool’s cap, and thus the font got...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified April 8, 2020
Jonah is a digitization of the early 1970s Urban film face from Franklin Photolettering. Though there seemingly is no record left of who the original designer of the font was, it strongly exhibits the...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Rough Riders, along with our Rough Riders Redux font, got its start from a small sample of letters used in the logo for the Beach Creek Railroad Co. dating back to the early 1860’s....
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
In his book Victorian Display Alphabets, Dan X. Solo called this specimen “Marquette”. This unicase version features a complete character set, and is named after a favorite watering hole in Texas on the Guadeloupe...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
The 1907 Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type specimen catalog called this unique typeface simply “Umbra”. Since that name is already taken, it now has another. Due to the highly ornate nature of this face,...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This new and improved version of this chunky classic by Paul Carlyle and Gus Oring includes the lowercase letters not found in earlier versions. Use it to add a little—or a lot of—panoramic panache...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
This script font was inspired by a few manuscripts and letters written by French representatives or ministers after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. It is an attempt to offer a typical handwritten script...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
The book Modern Alphabets, published in 1930, called this diamond in the rough from Continental Typefounders Nova Bold. Well, it’s neither new nor modern anymore, but it’s a warm, friendly face that’s sure to...