font_designer: Patrick Griffin

Colville

Colville font

The Colville fonts began their existence in 2015 as a project-specific typeface, made to be used on a custom-made headstone commemorating Canadian artist Alex Colville (1920-2013) and his wife Rhoda Wright. For that purpose,...

Filmotype Arthur

Filmotype Arthur font

Likely inspired by the wildly popular Dom Casual typeface by Peter Dombrezian in 1951, Filmotype Arthur was introduced in the early 1950s as a condensed upright sho-card brush script for narrow applications where economy...

Filmotype Ace

Filmotype Ace font

At it’s customers request, Filmotype developed a narrower version of its Filmotype Arthur font in the early 1950s as an extra-condensed upright bold sho-card brush script for very narrow setting applications where economy and...

Filmotype Jupiter

Filmotype Jupiter font

Filmotype Jupiter is among the most expressive bold upright scripts in the Filmotype library with a smooth flowing handwritten style and charming personality, it was originally released by Filmotype in the late 1950s to...

Filmotype Liberty

Filmotype Liberty font

Filmotype Liberty was released by Filmotype in 1955 in response to its customers requests for an italic version of its popular Filmotype Honey typeface to expand its handlettered pen script styles. This stylish italic...

Bluebeard

Bluebeard font

Named after the famous French fairy tale, Bluebeard is a surprisingly legible, slightly worn-out mix of majestic blackletter majuscules and roman minuscules. Perfect for designs of old settings, like books of fairy tales, old...

Dancebats

Dancebats font

According to the two most popular statistics companies in England and North America, eight out of every ten people like to dance. Talk about useless information! But with such a market statistic, we thought...

Gallery

Gallery font

Browsing through film archives at an independent film and audio production company in Winnipeg, Patrick Griffin spotted some unique set letters on a sign and a lawn chair in a 1980s B-movie entitled “Canada:...

Gala

Gala font

Gala is a digitization, correction, and major expansion of a typeface called Neon, designed by Giulio da Milano and published by the Nebiolo foundry in 1935. Neon came in two weights, along with a...

Runway

Runway font

Runway is the font that will satisfy the need for speed in your design. Simple lines and curves, a commanding slant, and big sturdy shapes made to cruise at any speed or altitude, through...