font_designer: Patrick Griffin

Fantini

Fantini font

Fantini is the revival and elaborate update of a typeface called Fantan, made in-house and released in 1970 by a minor Chicago film type supplier called Custom Headings International. In the most excellent tradition...

Screener

Screener font

Game over. Insert coin to continue. 1 coin, 1 play. Credits 00. Screener is the latest child of arcade alphabets. Not too trendy, not too retro, not too stand-out, yet clear and fresh. Although...

Valet

Valet font

Valet is deco moderne the way it was meant to be: Big, bold, classy, flashy, and clean at the seams. Its message is rich, strong, confident and reliable. Valet tells you that it’s used...

Dominion

Dominion font

Dominion was based on an early 1970s film type called Lampoon, and named after an edgy 1980s goth-rock song by the Sisters of Mercy. Dominion’s severely geometric shapes are a strange cross between early...

Militia

Militia font

Militia is the face of well-orchestrated military coups, tanks and gun barrels, maps and covert plans, camouflage and war paint. It has no irony, patience, or give-and-take politic. It is strong, successful, swift and...

Hydrogen

Hydrogen font

Hydrogen is a clean geometric unicase family that expresses the mechanics, expansive technologies and conflicted ethics of the rapidly changing 21st century. By popular demand, it is the round and streamlined counterpart of Oxygen....

Player

Player font

The Player family started as a straight-forward revival of a film face called Ivy League, an early 1970s VGC classic that was very popular with designers of sports paraphernalia. A few hundred liters of...

Tuba

Tuba font

Initially commissioned in the summer of 2009 for a popular North American ice cream parlor chain we cannot name, Tuba started with a reconceptualization of a somewhat flawed ’72 alphabet idea by Swiss graphic...

Plywood

Plywood font

Plywood is based on a long lost American film classic: Franklin Typefounders’s Barker Flare from the early 1970s. Plywood is a surprisingly effective mix between the rigid confidence of nineteenth century wood types and...

Classic Comic

Classic Comic font

Classic Comic is the fourth family of Canada Type’s long-running series of comic book fonts. It feels right at home alongside Collector Comic, Captain Comic and Caper Comic. Rather than following a particular model,...