font_foundry: Adobe

Adobe Wood Type Ornaments

Adobe Wood Type Ornaments font

Barbara Lind and Joy Redick designed Adobe Wood Type Ornaments 1 and 2 in 1990 and 1991 for use with the Adobe Originals wood types. These sets of typographical ornaments are based on the...

Waters Titling

Waters Titling font

Waters Titling is the work of lettering artist Julian Waters, a multiple master typeface of classical calligraphic roman capitals. This broad-tipped pen design is related to other historically-based titling alphabets but offers a wider...

Viva

Viva font

Designed for Adobe in 1993, Viva is an inline display face. The Viva font family is useful for advertising, packaging and brochures.

Voluta Script

Voluta Script font

Voluta Script is the work of Austrian designer Viktor Solt, created for use in a guide to the Austrian Gallery at Castle Belvedere. A volute (Latin voluta”) is a spiral or scroll-shaped ornament used...

Trajan Pro

Trajan Pro font

The inscription on the base of the Trajan column in Rome is an example of classic Roman letterforms, which reached their peak of refinement in the first century A.D. It is believed that the...

Studz

Studz font

Studz was inspired by ornamental lettering from an 8th-century manuscript, to which Michael Harvey, British type designer, has given a “riveting” contemporary flair. The name suggests studded leather.

Stencil

Stencil font

Two typefaces called Stencil were released in 1937 within a month of each other; this one was designed by Gerry Powell for American Type Founders. The characters are designed to emulate the look of...

Shuriken Boy

Shuriken Boy font

A few years ago when Joachim Müller-Lancé was doodling shapes on paper, he made the following observation: “My sketches revealed how letterforms can be perceived not only as black strokes on a white background,...

Sanvito Pro

Sanvito Pro font

Sanvito is an upright script typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1993. Named after one of the principal scribes of the Italian Renaissance, Sanvito is based on the highly practical book hands of the...

Rosewood

Rosewood font

Rosewood font, like its relatives Zebrawood, Pepperwood and Ponderosa, was created by the designer trio K.B. Chansler, C. Crossgrove and C. Twombly, and has its roots in the slab serif style. The first weight...