font_designer: Leslie Cabarga

Streamline

Streamline font

Leslie Cabarga loves mid-century letterforms. Streamline carries us back to the joining typographic scripts of the forties. They recall the American industrial scene as designers celebrated growing recovery from the great depression with the…

Rocket

Rocket font

At last, an ultra-atomic connected script for the new millennium, brought to us from the fifties by Leslie Cabarga. He based this cool font on logos from the second wave of the all-American diner,...

Raceway

Raceway font

Leslie Cabarga’s Raceway descends from three-dimensional jig-sawn plywood letters, automatically spaced and aligned on a slotted board by the connecting stroke. Even strokes and curves combine with everpresent horizontal strokes to create a…

NeonStream

NeonStream font

Blandly glowing strings of letters in chemical colors call forth endless memories of bars and restaurants, of beer and hot dogs, of casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, the acme of neon. Gas-filled, bent-glass...

Magneto

Magneto font

Leslie Cabarga has returned to the streamlined scripts prepared by industrial designers at mid-century for the inspiration of this Font Bureau display series. The Magneto trio recall the chrome-strip lettering laid over the rounded...

BadTyp

BadTyp font

Lettering artist and graphic designer Leslie Cabarga has been charmed all his life with the eccentricities in amateur lettering, especially those found in logos and sign painting. The single font of BadTyp combines all...

Cabarga Cursiva

Cabarga Cursiva font

Saber

Saber font

Saber began with a “lowercase,” a series of blackletter, uncial and celtic forms that appeared to Leslie Cabarga in a designer’s dream. From these illusory nocturnal images, a wide awake Cabarga dreamed up extravagant...

Central Station

Central Station font

Kobalt

Kobalt font