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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 15, 2015
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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified November 16, 2024
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.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified November 6, 2024
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...