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...
by Staff · Published April 9, 2019
· Last modified December 10, 2024
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...
by Staff · Published October 10, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 10, 2024
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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 10, 2024
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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 14, 2015
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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 15, 2024
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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 12, 2015
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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 6, 2015
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...