font_designer: Paul Lloyd

Sabinard

Sabinard font

Sabinard offers a distinctive form of ‘Swash’ lettering. It is excellent for poster work, or for headings and titles. Its distinguishing feature is the combination of long ascenders and descenders with a small cap...

Chapter Initials

Chapter Initials font

Chapter Initials provide a true demonstration of how elegant simplicity can be modern yet retain traditional character without the blandness which seems so common these days. It’s ideal for exactly what the name implies,...

Coronard

Coronard font

Coronard is another of Greater Albion’s explorations of ‘Evolutionary’ type. In this case we imagine a transition from Blackletter to Roman forms. Coronard shows that posited transition in all its simple calligraphic splendor, providing...

Absinette

Absinette font

Absinette takes us straight back to 19th century France. Its a decorative family of Roman faces in three widths as well as a more elaborate inline style, ideal for posters with an Edwardian or...

Daub

Daub font

Daub captures the look of old-style graffiti—it’s graffiti from the days when vandals used a brush and a pot of white paint. Not an airbrush or aerosol in sight. Use Daub to give headings...

Bonning

Bonning font

Bonning is a Roman face full of the spirit of the 1920s. It was inspired by a (real)estate agent’s For Sale board seen in an old sepia photograph from that era and combines visual...

Mellin

Mellin font

Mellin takes us to the simple designs of the Streamline era. It is based on heavy vertical strokes with a slight taper. Mellin is offered in a solid form as well as an open...

Svengali Roman

Svengali Roman font

Svengali Roman is loosely inspired by a scrap of 1920s newspaper posted in the Typophile font identification forum. The consensus view there favored the view that the specimen showed hand-drawn lettering. As that lettering...

Chiara Script

Chiara Script font

Chiara Script has a very simple origin. It’s a highly stylized interpretation of Greater Albion’s chief designer’s handwriting! It combines legibility and cursive characters in a distinctive blend and includes a range of OpenType...

Great Bromwich

Great Bromwich font

Great Bromwich takes the ideas in Greater Albion’s Bromwich family that little bit further. It can be used on its own, or as a compliment to Bromwich. Great Bromwich uses specially re-designed large and...