Tasse can be seen as a straight-sided Futura, a design useful wherever Futura and its derivatives might apply. Developed from Topic, also known as Steile Futura, it is a letterform that Paul Renner himself...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 17, 2024
AndrewAndyCollege is an outlined font derived from the Ingrimayne font AndrewAndreas, a san-serif face. In 2018 the inside and the middle ring were separated out and made independent fonts. They can be used alone,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 1, 2015
This sharp-edged, industrial design from the hand of Richard Lipton was initially inspired by the logotype of the Shimano bicycle company. Shimano Square and Shimano Round are each drawn in four styles, light &...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Desiring to create a scrapbooking font, I based Sweet Pea loosely on my own handwriting. The characters don’t sit on the baseline but tend to rise above or below it, giving a casual, handwritten...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 14, 2015
Impressed with the strength and the clarity of John Downer’s personal “thick/thin” signwriting style, a fitness magazine commissioned a single weight of Roxy in 1990 to stress its headlines. Mildly compact widths and moderate...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 17, 2015
The vivacity that you find in this light-hearted design began with paper cut-outs designed for use in all sorts of presentations, from animated movie titles, sometimes in flashing, reversing color, to little notes and...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 14, 2015
Generous curves above and below the straight-sided Railroad Gothic parallel those of Figgins’ elephantine Grotesques, lending both British and American series their monumental qualities. Shrinking center strokes and counters to emphasize a massive…
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 16, 2015
Sitting in a Paris cafe with a bottle of beer, Tobias Frere-Jones gave his attention to the label. It was set in a roman design wearing blackletter-like clothes, probably to suggest an origin in...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 6, 2015
Poster Black revives the vivacity and freedom of the lettering artists of the thirties and forties. Their cheerful irreverence survives in photos from the period, the occasional surviving poster, and in manuals like the...