Numskill
The oriental principles of this distinctive display face were originated by David Berlow in a simple western sanserif designed to harmonize with Kanji letterforms in Japan and the Far East. Berlow stressed the more...
font_category: Sans Serif
Nobel
Nobel offers personal variations on strict Bauhaus geometry. In 1929, three years after the Futura release, Sjoerd Henrik de Roos at Amsterdam explored alternative character sets to enliven basic Futura forms. The Nobel series...
Impact Wide
Impact wide was developed from the designer’s original drawings for the production of ‘Impact’ metal type, with many detail changes because of the density of the letters. These include the restoration of the bevelled...
Hermes FB
Schriftguss and Woellmer called it Hermes; Berthold called it Block. Heinz Hoffmann’s 1908 design inspired FB Hermes, which evokes the German grotesks that were workhorses of factory printing 100 years ago. Blunt corners suggest...
Hoffmann
Richard Lipton designed the Hoffmann family from letters drawn and then cut out of paper as free-standing forms by contemporary Michigan lettering artist Lothar Hoffmann. Lipton follows creative development of contemporary lettering forms closely…
Griffith Gothic
Of all his work, C.H. Griffith claimed one type, Bell Gothic, as his own design. Griffith Gothic is a revival of the 1937 Mergenthaler original, redrawn as the house sans for Fast Company. Tobias...
Herald Gothic
The incisive appearance of the economical Herald Gothic headline is given by the bevelled corners to the characters, a practice common in the eighteen-seventies for news heads. This font family is based upon a...
Fritz
Inspired by a characteristic handlettered ad from 1909, as well as the single word “Robusto” drawn for Oz Cooper’s own amusement and a perusal of his better-known work, Christian Schwartz designed Fritz as the...
Garage Gothic
For gritty reality and rust-belt appearance, Garage Gothic Regular was derived from numbered tickets given at city parking garages. “Irregular contours and rough alignments found on the lettering were retained in the font, albeit...
Eagle
The Eagle series realizes the ideas behind Morris Fuller Benton’s famous titling, Eagle Bold, the symbol of American recovery, drawn in 1933 for the National Recovery Association. Font Bureau Eagle was started in 1989...