font_foundry: Alex Jacque

Coop Blackletter

Coop Blackletter font

Coop Blackletter’s core concept was to create a more friendly blackletter typeface by pulling together two very different sources of inspiration. The design is a synthesis of the rounded, affable features and heavier weight...

Dequindre

Dequindre font

Dequindre is a monolinear blackletter typeface, and was drawn as if grade school handwriting practice sheets came in a blackletter variety. Dropping the thin/thick calligraphic contrast of traditional blackletter glyph construction and instead…

Saugatuck

Saugatuck font

Saugatuck is a cap-height only display typeface inspired by nature. With it’s roots based on a few hand-drawn characters from nearly a century ago by the pen artist W.E. Dennis, Saugatuck now exists as...

Sello

Sello font

Sello is a hand-drawn, geometric sans-serif with a touch of retro style. It’s a unicase typeface inspired by hand-engraved, mid-1960s Spanish postage stamps, hence the name “Sello” – Spanish for “stamp”. This font comes...

Atrium

Atrium font

Atrium, designed by Alex Jacque, is a strong, linear, geometric sans-serif display typeface based off century-old pen art by W.E. Dennis. Atrium’s stubbornly geometric letterforms are set off with a few softening flourishes on...

Handu

Handu font

Handu, designed by Alex Jacque in 2012, is an affable hand-drawn sans-serif inspired by the hand-painted type and signage on the streets of Kolkata, India. Fitting then that it come to life with brush...

Teip

Teip font

Teip, designed by Alex Jacque in 2014, is a layerable geometric typeface system. Teip developed as a typographic exploration of overlapping tape where a over/under, foreground/background interplay would be a stylistic motif throughout. For...

Pila

Pila font

Pila, designed by Alex Jacque in 2014, is a modular, sans-serif stencil typeface that comes in regular and condensed formats. Crafted to be a bold, punchy, no-nonsense stencil typeface, Pila owes its unique look...