Postino
Tim Donaldson, creator of Banshee and Coriander, brings us Postino – a quirky display type modeled roughly on the typewriter face, Courier. Sturdy yet playful, Postino is aptly named by the Italian word for...
font_foundry: Adobe
Quake
After the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, Adobe’s Fryda Berd designed Quake to show that something constructive can come from something destructive.
Prestige Elite
Prestige Elite is a slab serif monospaced typeface originally intended for use on a typewriter. It was designed in 1953 by Howard Kettler for IBM. Prestige Elite is a good choice for price lists,...
Pepperwood
Pepperwood font is a joint work of the typeface designers K.B. Chansler, C. Crossgrove and C. Twombly. These artists also created the typefaces Rosewood, Zebrawood and Ponderosa together and as the names suggest, all...
Penumbra Sans
Penumbra is a capitals only design. Based on inscriptional capitals, the style progresses from a sans serif to a serifed design. The Penumbra font family is useful for posters, book jackets and labels.
Ouch!
It was a sprained ankle that inspired Joachim Müller-Lancé to design Ouch. During the 1995 ATypI convention, he spent the entire time on crutches, and during his hands-on time in the TypeLab, he says,...
Orator
Orator is a monospaced typeface made up of capitals and small capitals only; it can be used for tabular material or technical documentation. The name Orator comes from the notion that capitals and small...
Nyx
Nyx is a stencil typeface designed by lettering artist Rick Cusick and named after the designer’s muse: the Greek goddess of night. Classic roman capital forms underlie its sharp, energetic surface. Nyx first began...
News Gothic
In 1908, Morris Fuller Benton designed News Gothic for American Type Founders. The original design, with two condensed faces, is essentially a light version of Franklin Gothic. In the late 1940s, after a decline...
Nueva
A display face with strong contrast between thick and thin strokes and a distinct calligraphic influence, the Nueva font family is useful for display work in magazines, on packaging and for flyers and leaflets.