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Frank Ruehl

Frank Ruehl font

Frank-Rühl (or Ruehl) is the ubiquitous Hebrew text font style. There are many fonts that belong to this style, and all are based on an early 20th-century design by Raphael Frank. Some of the...

Persia

Persia font

Masoud Nejabati has drawn upon his capable calligraphic skills to create this typeface. Persia represents his first latin-based design. This gentle and finely rendered script reveals Nejabati’s extensive background in Islamic calligraphic art. The…

Sketchley

Sketchley font

Ronna Penner’s Sketchley is a 2001 winner of ATypI’s bukva:raz! design competition, held recently in Moscow. Inspired by handwriting samples and unable to find a typeface to satisfy her needs, Ms. Penner decided to...

Islander

Islander font

The hand-hewn Islander looks like it could have been liberated from granite blocks.These demonstrative letter forms leave no doubt when it comes to conveying your message, yet they remain playful.

Ambule

Ambule font

Huxley Vertical meets Peignot in this stylized cap/lowercase hybrid design called Ambule. French designer Julien Janiszewski has created a clean, straightforward design that is strikingly effective in both text and display settings. Ambule Oblique…

Big Limbo

Big Limbo font

This freeform exercise in typographic design echoes the looseness of early 1960’s advertising. Brian breaks almost every typographic rule we can think of — but so what? The bold letterforms of Big Limbo are...

Charter BT Pro

Charter BT Pro font

Originally released in 1987, Charter incorporates three important features: compact set width to give economical copyfit; generous x-height to give readability at small point sizes; and sturdy open letterforms to give reliable reproduction at...

Stymie

Stymie font

Morris Fuller Benton’s 1931 design, reworking the model of Memphis for ATF.

Playbill

Playbill font

Robert Harling’s 1938 revival of this nineteenth century form, designed for Stephenson Blake.

Drescher Grotesk

Drescher Grotesk font

Mr. Gogoll’s successful revival of Arno Drescher’s Super Grotesk was awarded the 1999 Kurt Christians Award. The Drescher Grotesk family consists of seven roman weights, including a version designed for use at small point...