By the time that the 13th edition of the Speedball Text Book appeared in 1938, silent movies were a thing of the past; nonetheless, intrepid author Ross F. George included this typeface, originally intended...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
Handlettering on a 1934 WPA poster promoting skating in Central Park provided the pattern for the uppercase letters of this typeface, while the lowercase letters take their inspiration from Paul Renner’s Steile Futura. The...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
A snappy single-stroke alphabet from The New Lone Pine ABC of Showcard and Ticketwriting, which Aussie author C. Milnes suggested should be executed with a well-loaded brush, provided the inspiration for this loose, lilting...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A collection of fonts by the type foundry Intellecta Design. Distressed and antique, use these fonts in display purposes for a stylized type design. Contains a limited amount of letter designs.
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
KubaApplique is a bold and exciting African font that makes use of the interplay of black and white shapes — reminiscent of the Kuba cloths that are made and used by the Bakuba tribe....
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Mafuta is a round, happy font, named for the Zulu word for “fat”. In tribal societies in Africa, where food was often scarce and almost never easily come by, it was considered desirable to...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
I have named the font “Makonde” after an tribal group in southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique that is well known for their intricate and semi-realistic wood carvings. The patterns that decorate the Makonde font...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
I named the font “Sangoma” after the traditional healers of the Southern African tribes. Sangomas often work by “throwing bones”. The shapes of the bones have suggested the shapes of the characters in the...