font_designer: Jason Castle

Esencia

Esencia font

Esencia, a CastleType original, was inspired by a Spanish stock certificate from 1941 with 11 beautiful art deco style letters for the words “PERFUMES y ESENCIAS”. Slender, elegant, with a Spanish flare. Uppercase only...

Samira

Samira font

I must admit that I am not a big fan of the Art Nouveau style. However, I found this particularly beautiful alphabet and decided to use it as the basis for this new font....

Minotaur

Minotaur font

Minotaur is an original monoline design based on an Oscan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscan_language ) votive inscription from the second century B.C.E. The letterforms immediately caught my eye in the wonderful book, Lettering by Hermann…

Shàngó Sans

Shàngó Sans font

Taking the concept of a monoline version of Shàngó — as exemplified in Shàngó Gothic — to its extreme, resulted in the latest addition to the popular Shàngó family of typefaces: Shango Sans. This...

Warrior

Warrior font

Warrior is a chunky typeface design inspired by a Russian Egyptian-style block alphabet (original designer unknown). Now available in seven weights (Hairline, Extra Light, Light, Medium, Regular, Bold, Black) in addition to three decorative...

Zuboni Stencil

Zuboni Stencil font

Zuboni Stencil is a bold, uppercase typeface based on a Russian design from around 1920 (original designer unknown). Its extensive character set supports most European languages that use the Latin or Cyrillic alphabets as...

Shàngó Gothic

Shàngó Gothic font

Shàngó is CastleType’s beautifully-rendered interpretation of Professor F.H.E. Schneidler’s elegant titling typeface released in 1936 with the name ‘Schneidler-Mediaeval mit Initialen’. This latter design is usually referred to as Schneidler…

Progreso

Progreso font

Progreso is a condensed, unicase, serif gothic type design inspired by the hand-lettering on Russian posters from the 1920s. Supports most European languages, including modern Greek and most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet.

Sonrisa

Sonrisa font

Sonrisa is a design that evolved from my sketches of the skeletal structure of Jakob Erbar’s Koloss, trying to discover its underlying essence without all the contrast and bulkiness of the original design. Sonrisa...

Cradley

Cradley font

Cradley™, a CastleType original, was inspired by the work of William Caslon, considered by some to be the finest type designer of the Baroque era. With its classic proportions, beautifully bracketed serifs, and high...