font_designer: Jim Lyles

Toastie

Toastie font

Toastie began as a digitization of a film typeface from LetterGraphics known simply as “Flair 312”. The original specimen included standard Capitals and Lowercase and Numerals, a bare bones character set. We’ve fleshed out...

Tradesman

Tradesman font

Rough-hewn industrial geometric typefaces have been used and admired from early wood types through the digital age of Machine and beyond, but they have lacked an expansive enough family to become a true workhorse....

Hart

Hart font

Say hello to Hart! Hart is a modern connecting script typeface based off of Virginia Lucas Hart’s signature calligraphy style. This fun script is packed with ligatures and alternate letterforms and cute glyphs so...

Boronia

Boronia font

Meet Boronia, Studioways’ latest typeface release! This six weight family was developed with the single idea of redefining the simple sans serif to pair with any style of font family. It is meant to...

Petunia Monogram

Petunia Monogram font

Petunia Monogram is a beautiful extension to Eliza Gwendalyn’s Petunia font family, originally published by Great Lakes Lettering! The letter forms in this uppercase-only font are angelic and more refined, with sweeping, elegantly thin...

Madison Street

Madison Street font

Madison Street is a font family with 8 fabulously fun typefaces! Eliza Gwendalyn & Jim Lyles of Studioways have teamed up with Spencerian calligrapher Elaina DeBoard to create a classic pointed pen calligraphy font....

Shojumaru Pro

Shojumaru Pro font

Shojumaru draws inspiration from a movie poster for a 1957 film titled Sayonara, starring Marlon Brando. It breaks the formula of a chop suey style by mixing chop suey and traditional letterforms to create...

Ribeye Pro

Ribeye Pro font

The Ribeye Pro Family is reminiscent of a cartoon tattoo style of lettering, but exhibits a playfulness that breaks traditional weight distribution across its letterforms. An edgy attitude, friendly syncopation, and highly legible letterforms...

Freckle Face Pro

Freckle Face Pro font

Freckle Face Pro draws its inspiration from Pillbury’s “Funny Face” drink mix packages. I loved these drink mixes when I was a kid, not only because of the great flavors, but also the fun...

MFC Petworth Monogram

MFC Petworth Monogram font

The source of inspiration for MFC Petworth Monogram is a specimen from the 1917 “Strong’s Book of Designs”. This popular lettering style has been incorporated into numerous film type foundries of the past, but...