In 1972, VGC released two typefaces by designer friends Dick Jensen and Harry Villhardt. Jensen’s was called Serpentine, and Villhardt’s was called Venture. Even though both faces had the same elements and a somewhat...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
This quasi-Chancery classic is a revival of Walter MacKay’s Heritage typeface, made for ATF in 1952. Walter is clean and legible free-flowing calligraphy with a subdued, conservative and traditional letterform base that can be...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
Celebrity is a new execution of a film type concept put forth by Willy Wirtz in 1971. The original idea, called Latus, had many irregularities and unfit characters that are now fixed and expanded...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
Salome is a revival, normalization and elaborate expansion of a 1972 film face called Cantini. The original film type, released by a tiny independent outfit called Letter Graphics, looked like it was hand drawn...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified April 8, 2020
On April 29, 2006, Simone Chisena uploaded to the WhatTheFont forum a scanned two-page spread from a 1970s Italian gardening book, asking for the identity of the face used on those pages. Rebecca Alaccari...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Initially offered in the late 1960s, Filmotype Escort was released nearly 15 years after the introduction of Filmotype Giant at the request of Filmotype customers unable to oblique the Filmotype Giant font on their...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Initially designed in the early-to-mid 1950s, Filmotype Giant is part of a larger group of condensed sans serifs offered by Filmotype at the demand of its customers based on their versatility, legibility, and timeless...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Initially offered in 1955, Filmotype Prima was one of Filmotype’s earliest Free Style typefaces based on popular informal hand-painted lettering styles of sho-card lettering artists of the era. Remastered and expanded with exacting precision...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
Vox Round is the softer version of the Vox family. The original brief for Vox was a extensive monoline typeface that can be both precise and friendly, yet contain enough choice of seamlessly interchangeable...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
This is the redrawn and expanded version of an alphabet Rebecca Alaccari made back in 2009 as a bespoke font for a tourism agency looking to recapture the appeal of New Orleans after the...