Elli
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...
font_category: Script
Dizzy
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...
East Side NDP
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
Inspired by the hand lettered architectural drawings of Allan Piekos.
Tiamaria
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...