Ross George in his numerous Speedball chapbooks called the pattern for this typeface Stunt Roman. A studious observer may discern that many of the wackier letterforms were tamed to produce the popular font University...
by · Published May 26, 2015
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Cactus majestically blooming in the desert is truly a wondrous event! As the landscape cools, nature blossoms into a beautiful rainbow of colors. These same harmonies and contours, plus a dash of ruggedness and...
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By the time that the 13th edition of the Speedball Text Book appeared in 1938, silent movies were a thing of the past; nonetheless, intrepid author Ross F. George included this typeface, originally intended...
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Beware The Neighbors is based on “Personality Script”, a rough alphabet originally drawn by Ross F. George, and published in one of the Speedball series of lettering catalogs that ran from 1935 to 1948....
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing, and it’s easy to get into the swing of things with this bouncy little number, based on another offering by the irrepressible Ross...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
“Modern Caps”—and lowercase, too—was how Ross George described the pattern for this typeface in his Speedball Text Book. Not surprisingly, the design was used on the Beatles’ original Magical Mystery Tour album, which suggested...