font_designer: Rian Hughes

Gentry

Gentry font

With its strong diagonal emphasis, Gentry is a humanised techno face that manages to also incorporate some strong calligraphic touches. Powerful in short and single-word settings.

Custard

Custard font

Playful and funky. The ideal choice for candy wrapping, teen magazines, toy packaging and the like. The reweighted condensed is useful where space is at a premium, and mixing the two weights freely leads...

Box Office

Box Office font

Designed originally for the BBC’s listings magazine “Radio Times”, this dingbat font has been extended to include the US rating as well as the UK ones and a selection of symbols for use on...

Catseye

Catseye font

A casual sans that harks back to the very English style of book jacket and poster art of the late 50’s and early 60’s. The turned-in terminals are reminicent of Stephenson Blake’s Grotesque 9,...

Platinum

Platinum font

Autospec

Autospec font

Designed as a companion to Autofont, this dingbat set was originally developed for What Car? magazine, the UK’s leading automotive consumer title. Use in charts and reviews to indicate metallic paint, shatterproof glass, number...

Battery Park

Battery Park font

This stencil font, inspired by a fleeting glimpse of a Bronx plumber’s van seen through the rain-spattered window of a New York taxi, is evocative of urban grit, knock-down warehouse bargains and military supplies...

Chase

Chase font

Type that preserves the over- and under-inked textures of true old-fashioned wood faces, now available without ink on your fingers straight from your keyboard. Based on samples taken from early and mid Nineteenth century...

Cheapside

Cheapside font

A condensed serif that’s been through the ravages of reproduction but has now been digitized for modern use. Elegantly wasted.

Coldharbour Gothic

Coldharbour Gothic font

Reminicent of mid-19th century antique type and Victorian cast-iron signage, Coldharbour Gothic lovingly preserves all the eroded and rusted textures in digital form. Characters have been selected to have cleaner and rougher counterparts –...