font_designer: John Benson

Aardvark

Aardvark font

Aardvark: Africaans, “earthpork” or “groundpig,” anteater. In 1991, John Benson designed Aardvark “as an eye-catching letter to evoke the look of African tribal designwork, Franklin Gothic Condensed, perhaps, seen through the eyes of a...

Alexa

Alexa font

America’s most famous carver of inscriptions, including those at the John F. Kennedy Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, John Benson modeled this friendly, casual script after his own handwriting and gave it the name...