font_category: Script

Elli

Elli font

The typeface Elli was named to honor Eleanor Garvey, Houghton Library’s famed and much-loved Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at Harvard University. For Elli’s 1990 retirement, Bill Bentinck-Smith commissioned Jean Evans to design...

Dizzy

Dizzy font

Dizzy pays homage to that great legend of bebop, John Birks ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie. Jean Evans, long-term family and personal friend of Gillespie, was inspired to design this font after seeing a sample of his...

Elektrix

Elektrix font

East Side NDP

East Side NDP font

Based on a combination of 1950’s advertising and Nate Piekos’ own cursive handwriting, EAST SIDE is named after the historical district of Providence. Regular and Italic included.

Prov Draftsman NDP

Prov Draftsman NDP font

Inspired by the hand lettered architectural drawings of Allan Piekos.

Tiamaria

Tiamaria font

In the 70’s I went out with a girl whose father was a card-carrying member of 3 of the biggest unions in the printing arts. He gave me 2 things, a pre-war Linotype specimen...

Modern 880

Modern 880 font

Century 751

Century 751 font

Cataneo BT

Cataneo BT font

Cataneo was designed at Bitstream by Richard Lipton and Jacqueline Sakwa and was initially released in 1993. Cataneo is an elegant chancery cursive typeface, inspired by the work of Bernardino Cataneo, a 16th-century Italian...