font_designer: Jim Parkinson

Sutro Initials

Sutro Initials font

A two-font chromatic (or layered) set. The Primary font, which is the old Sutro Inlined Initials. Salvaged from the wreckage of my Type1 font library, the inlined initials have been in the shop for...

FF Golden Gate Gothic

FF Golden Gate Gothic font

American type designer Jim Parkinson created this display and sans FontFont in 1996. The font is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, festive occasions, film and tv as well as poster and billboards. FF...

Balboa Plus

Balboa Plus font

Balboa Plus is a condensed sans serif display family. It was originally conceived as a simple black and white typeface. But it seemed unfinished, begging for something more. I decided to try adding a...

FF Motel Gothic

FF Motel Gothic font

American type designer Jim Parkinson created this display FontFont in 1996. The font is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, festive occasions, film and tv as well as poster and billboards. FF Motel Gothic...

FF Matinee Gothic

FF Matinee Gothic font

American type designer Jim Parkinson created this display FontFont in 1996. The font is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, festive occasions, film and tv as well as poster and billboards. FF Matinee Gothic...

FF GoldenGate Gothic

FF GoldenGate Gothic font

American type designer Jim Parkinson created this display and sans FontFont in 1996. The font is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, festive occasions, film and tv as well as poster and billboards. FF...

ITC Roswell

ITC Roswell font

Showcard Moderne

Showcard Moderne font

Early in the 20th century, American commercial lettering took on a new vitality, paralleling the formalities of typography while embellishing and sometimes mocking them. The bible of this trade is probably William Hugh Gordon’s...

Showcard Gothic

Showcard Gothic font

Showcard Gothic leans from the page to forcefully present any idea you might have – except possibly classical subtlety – with a certain leering emphasis. Derived from the showcard models prepared for lettering artists...

Poster Black

Poster Black font

Poster Black revives the vivacity and freedom of the lettering artists of the thirties and forties. Their cheerful irreverence survives in photos from the period, the occasional surviving poster, and in manuals like the...