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...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Oxamu is a contemporary geometric font that sacrifices a degree of readability in order to create interesting and provocative letter forms. Suggestions for use: – headlines – greeting cards – clothing tags – trend-setting...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 17, 2024
Silken is a stylish and contemporary handwriting font that combines the elegance of fonts such as Zapfino with the immediacy of handwriting fonts such as Affable. There are many handwriting fonts out there, but...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
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...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
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...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
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.