font_foundry: Canada Type

Hydrogen

Hydrogen font

Hydrogen is a clean geometric unicase family that expresses the mechanics, expansive technologies and conflicted ethics of the rapidly changing 21st century. By popular demand, it is the round and streamlined counterpart of Oxygen....

Dutch Mediaeval

Dutch Mediaeval font

This is the elaborately expanded version of what is arguably the most classic and popular of all historic Dutch faces: Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos’s Hollandse Mediaeval from 1912. Over the decades, many pressmen and...

Player

Player font

The Player family started as a straight-forward revival of a film face called Ivy League, an early 1970s VGC classic that was very popular with designers of sports paraphernalia. A few hundred liters of...

Jezebel

Jezebel font

Jezebel is all dressed up for you. And if she can’t make your mouth water and eyes light up with love, nobody else can. She’s got bigger hair than Dolly and Elvira together, more...

Tuba

Tuba font

Initially commissioned in the summer of 2009 for a popular North American ice cream parlor chain we cannot name, Tuba started with a reconceptualization of a somewhat flawed ’72 alphabet idea by Swiss graphic...

Archie

Archie font

Archie is a wide attention-grabber based on a simple geometric alphabet drawn in the early 1930s by Dutch calligrapher and lettering artist Martin Meijer. This digital family expands considerably on the original letters, adding...

Minuet

Minuet font

Minuet, an informal script with crossover deco elements giving it an unmistakable 1940s flavor, is a revival and expansion of the Rondo family, the last typeface drawn by Stefan Schlesinger before his death. This...

Plywood

Plywood font

Plywood is based on a long lost American film classic: Franklin Typefounders’s Barker Flare from the early 1970s. Plywood is a surprisingly effective mix between the rigid confidence of nineteenth century wood types and...

Classic Comic

Classic Comic font

Classic Comic is the fourth family of Canada Type’s long-running series of comic book fonts. It feels right at home alongside Collector Comic, Captain Comic and Caper Comic. Rather than following a particular model,...

Agent

Agent font

Agent was inspired by the classic fun lettering of 1930s Dutch alphabetician Martin Meijer. Casual and playful, Agent is a carefully considered amalgam of the art brush’s organic forms and the easily read, ironic...