Sutro Initials
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...
font_designer: Jim Parkinson
Balboa Plus
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 GoldenGate Gothic
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...
Showcard Gothic
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...
Showcard Moderne
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...
Poster Black
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...
Parkinson
A display family originally designed during the mid-seventies by Jim Parkinson for Roger Black at a growing Rock & Roll magazine. Jim sees it as ‘a combination between the original logo by San Francisco...
El Grande
You have seen El Grande in mid-century comic books, used wherever simple, black-and-white ideas had to be driven hard, all the way home. The design was adopted by American grocery stores, by supermarkets, by...
Comrade
Comrade is based on a postcard handlettered in 1923 by Antwerp artist Josef Peeters. Jim Parkinson liked the design and expanded it into a family offering one weight in three widths. Simulating irregularities of...