The Algerian designer Taouffik Semmad created the fonts in 1997. Taouffik Semmad grew up speaking Algerian-Arabic dialect and French, studied Russian, and is now living in Montreal. This could perhaps explain his current passion,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 18, 2015
Sloop offers the adventurous typographer wide choices of variant forms in three weights of a classically elegant script. Richard Lipton suggests setting text lowercase in Sloop One or Two, capitals in One or Three,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 17, 2015
Leslie Cabarga loves mid-century letterforms. Streamline carries us back to the joining typographic scripts of the forties. They recall the American industrial scene as designers celebrated growing recovery from the great depression with the…
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Silver Script is a free-flowing and refined script typeface. Elegant and informal is a combination not easy to capture, but Silver Script fits that description nicely. Use the regular lowercase characters in combination with...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 2, 2015
At last, an ultra-atomic connected script for the new millennium, brought to us from the fifties by Leslie Cabarga. He based this cool font on logos from the second wave of the all-American diner,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 2, 2015
Loose and angular, this typeface was originally designed by Imre Reiner for the Amsterdam Typefoundry in 1951. Attracted by its free-form structure and unique texture, Tobias Frere-Jones revived the original design from handset proofs...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 18, 2015
Spare and lighthearted, Rats was inspired by the personal hand of the illustrator Scott Nash. Its small body height and tall ascenders support an oldstyle spirit drawn from early second-century Roman cursive scripts. Rats...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 13, 2015
Warm & casual, Mesa exudes a youthful energy through the varied and informal rhythms found only among the best of informal scripts. While visiting Font Bureau as an intern from Yale University during the...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 17, 2015
In 1948, French designer Charles Loupot drew a revolutionary logotype to promote St. Raphael mineral water. Half a century later, the qualities of this logo inspired New York designer and illustrator Laurie Rosenwald to...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This quirky little gem was patterned after single-stroke handlettering originally crafted by John M. Bergling, whose peregrinations through pulchritudinous penmanship also provided the inspiration for Erehwon Roman NF. Both versions of this font…