Sloop
Sloop offers the adventurous typographer wide choices of variant forms in three weights of a classically elegant script. Richard Lipton suggests setting text lowercase in Sloop One or Two, capitals in One or Three,...
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Shogun
Richard Lipton designed Shogun as a six-part headline series, three weights in regular and extended widths. He began with a few almost oriental characters from a striking contemporary logotype designed by Los Angeles graphic...
Shimano
This sharp-edged, industrial design from the hand of Richard Lipton was initially inspired by the logotype of the Shimano bicycle company. Shimano Square and Shimano Round are each drawn in four styles, light &...
Nutcracker
A typeface for ornate and festive display, Nutcracker, Font Bureau’s Christmas typeface, is based on a fanciful calligraphic titling designed by lettering artist Richard Lipton for the adventurous Boston publisher David Godine, who used...
Meno
Richard Lipton designed this spirited oldstyle for Font Bureau; the romans gain their energy from French baroque forms cut late in the sixteenth century by Robert Granjon, the italics from Dirk Voskens’ work in...
Hoffmann
Richard Lipton designed the Hoffmann family from letters drawn and then cut out of paper as free-standing forms by contemporary Michigan lettering artist Lothar Hoffmann. Lipton follows creative development of contemporary lettering forms closely…
Ecru
Ecru is based on four unique capitals designed by Los Angeles graphic artist Margo Chase for a single use. Richard Lipton examined these four letters: E, C, R, and U. To his designer’s eye...
Bodoni FB
Working at American Type Founders from a Bruce Foundry recutting, Morris Fuller Benton worked out the dramatics of the English Fat Face, and in 1928 produced Ultra Bodoni, a headline spectacular. Using Benton’s 1933...
Avalon
Friedrich Neugebauer is known for the cutting power of his calligraphic invention. As a prisoner of war in Egypt, he wrote with toothpaste when all else failed. The irrepressible style of this Austrian artist...
Moderno FB
In 1995, David Berlow cut FB Moderno for Esquire Gentleman and Reforma from a TrueType pole of Giza. In 1996 he cut new styles with Richard Lipton for El Norte. In 1997 Roger Black...