FHA Eccentric French
The curves are vintage and the serifs are big. They’re so big that for years I never had the courage to tackle this intimidating font. But when fellow signmaker Frank Smith laid the groundwork...
font_category: decorative
Figgins Tuscan
Early in the 19th century, foundries began releasing a variety of decorated ornamental letters based on the Tuscan letterform. Fancy Tuscan letters quickly became so popular, they eventually came to represent the cluttered extremes...
Cori
You wrote on your school notebooks, didn’t you. Of course, just about everyone did. And those that didn’t are probably in therapy trying to overcome the repression and guilt. Balloon letters are fun, easy...
Equate
An elegant Large and Smallcap design great for magazine and all sophisticated designs.
Extreme
A wild extreme-looking font that can also be used as chalk writing.
Designers Gothic
Occasionally a designer needs the combination of caps and lower case glyphs for a particular purpose, visually or otherwise. Designer’s Gothic was designed with the Caps equal to the x height.
Streetbrush
When I was in high school, I would wreck my notebooks with multiple layers of graffiti tags, which would start in the margins, and then creep in to cover the entire page. I developed...