font_designer: Jim Ford

Moire

Moire font

Moire is a block-style sans serif font designed by Jim Ford in the spirit of typefaces popular during the 1950s. The Moire font is slightly more efficient for a more modern voice than its...

Captain Quill

Captain Quill font

Captain Quill is a lively calligraphic style script font designed by Jim Ford, based on the handwriting of a fictional pirate figure named Paul Pierce, aka Captain Quill. The Captain Quill font is an...

Pokerface

Pokerface font

Pokerface is an industrious mixed-case display font devised on the theme of playing cards, designed by Jim Ford. Most letterforms in the font have ‘four of a kind’ while some are only available in...

Ford’s Folly

Ford’s Folly font

Ford’s Folly is a lively yet sophisticated handwriting font designed by Ascender’s Jim Ford. It captures the look and spirit of the designer’s handwriting using a using a Sharpie™ Extra Fine felt pen. This...

Ayita Pro

Ayita Pro font

Wolfsblood

Wolfsblood font

Wolfsblood is a new display face by Jim Ford, adapted from hand-lettered logos spawned by punk rock bands like The Misfits and Bad Brains. The style can be traced back further to Hollywood and...

Quire Sans

Quire Sans font

“My goal was to make a design that might fit in anywhere,” says Jim Ford about his Quire Sans™ typeface. “I wanted it to be highly functional and sexy at the same time.” With...

Esca

Esca font

Esca is a display typeface designed by Jim Ford with highly compressed proportions yet with a subtle calligraphic touch. This Lite version of the typeface was designed as part of a font marathon over...