font_designer: Leslie Usherwood

Kingsrow

Kingsrow font

Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Unofficially named ‘No Frills’ in the early stages of development, his widow Elsie decided that it would be called Kingsrow.

Extension

Extension font

Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Many of the weights and the italics were created after Les’ death.

Equestrienne

Equestrienne font

Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Paul Hickson. Les never released this completed typeface before his untimely death in 1983.

Elston

Elston font

This family has been replaced by the newer Elston Pro. Elston Pro features expanded language support, a refined glyph set, and was produced in 2010 by Steve Jackaman (ITF) and Ashley Muir. Elston was...

Chelsea

Chelsea font

Designed by Les Usherwood. Chelsea is a ‘modern’ Old Style serif font family designed by Les Usherwood (Typsettra) in the early 1980’s. Steve Jackaman (ITF) digitally engineered the family exclusively for ITF’s Red Rooster...

Claremont

Claremont font

Claremont is a serif font family designed by Les Usherwood (Typsettra). Usherwood originally created four weights – a light, extra bold, light italic, and extra bold italic. Paul Hickson (P&P Hickson) and Steve Jackaman...

Beckenham

Beckenham font

Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. The x-heights are radically different; the x-height on the light version is small, and gets larger as the weights progress.

Argus

Argus font

Designed by Les Usherwood. Argus is a flared serif font family. Its analog form was designed by Les Usherwood (Typsettra) in the 1980’s, and Paul Hickson (P&P Hickson) and Steve Jackaman (ITF) designed the...

Alexon

Alexon font

Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Originally in one weight, Steve designed and produced three additional weights.

Caslon Graphique SH

Caslon Graphique SH font

Since the release of these fonts most typefaces in the Scangraphic Type Collection appear in two versions. One is designed specifically for headline typesetting (SH: Scangraphic Headline Types) and one specifically for text typesetting...