Hortensia
Hortensia, designed around 1900 by Emil Gursch for his own Berlin foundry, is a typeface most expressive of the post-Victorian aesthetic that was all the rage in both Europe and America during the second...
font_designer: Rebecca Alaccari
Martie
From the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, by way of Toronto, comes Martie’s handwriting. Martie Byrd is a school teacher in Roanoke, Virginia, and a friend of Canada Type’s Rebecca Alaccari. After years...
Steiner Special
Steiner Special is a revival and expansion of an art nouveau face called Swing, originally designed by Peter Steiner in 1974. Some of the original film type letters were slightly normalized and toned down...
Siren Script
Siren Script takes its cue from BB&S’s Stationers Semiscript (metal, 1899) and its countless imitations/inspirations from throughout the 20th century, particularly a variety of uncredited film faces from the 1960s. What makes this kind...
Guillotine
Guillotine is inspired by an uncredited early 1970s film face called Rhythm Bold. While the original film type had plenty of round forms that were uneven and somewhat badly drawn to fit within the...
Jezebel
Jezebel is all dressed up for you. And if she can’t make your mouth water and eyes light up with love, nobody else can. She’s got bigger hair than Dolly and Elvira together, more...
VIP
VIP is a humanist sans serif uppercase and figures combined with a freshly redrawn revival of the classic Constanze initials originally designed by Joachim Romann for Stempel in 1956. As well as a vehicle...
Vox
The original brief for Vox was a extensive monoline typeface that can be both precise and friendly, yet contain enough choice of seamlessly interchangeable variants for the user to be able to completely transform...
Filmotype Quiet
Initially designed in the early-to-mid 1950s, Filmotype Quiet was among the first of its Novelty font designs. Remastered and expanded from the original source, Filmotype Quiet includes a full international character compliment, automatic…
Filmotype Jessy
Filmotype Jessy with its flowing handwritten style was released by Filmotype in late 1950s to expand its Scripts category. Filmotype Jessy was developed from the original font filmstrips and includes a full international character...