It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that these letter shapes are familiar. They have the unmistakable color and weight of Cooper Black, Oswald Cooper’s most famous typeface from 1921. What should be a...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
This is the elaborate digital version of Edel Grotesque Bold Condensed (also known as Lessing, Reichgrotesk, and Wotan Bold Condensed) a 1914 typeface by Johannes Wagner, which was later adopted by pretty much every...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
One of the earliest fonts published by Canada Type was Almanac, Phil Rutter’s digitization of Imre Reiner’s 1957 calligraphic typeface, London Script. In 2007, when the font was revisited for an update, it was...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
It’s 1984 and everything has sideburns. Shoulder-padded “dress for success” is in, with power suits for women, black and white layers for men, neon brights for the youngsters. Maggie’s “enemy within” and “no society”...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
This quasi-Chancery classic is a revival of Walter MacKay’s Heritage typeface, made for ATF in 1952. Walter is clean and legible free-flowing calligraphy with a subdued, conservative and traditional letterform base that can be...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
Helvetica’s 50-year anniversary celebrations in 2007 were overwhelming and contagious. We saw the movie. Twice. We bought the shirts and the buttons. We dug out the homage books and re-read the hate articles. We...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
Celebrity is a new execution of a film type concept put forth by Willy Wirtz in 1971. The original idea, called Latus, had many irregularities and unfit characters that are now fixed and expanded...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
The objective of this font was to try and find out how far back in the designer’s life this obsession with letters began. The challenge was to draw, from memory only, two sets of...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
This is the one and only Neil Bold, designed by Wayne Stettler in 1966 and originally published as a Typositor typeface. An award-winner and instant celebrity upon its release, Neil Bold became synonymous with...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
Slinger is a tribute to eighteenth century and nineteenth century wood type, inspired by the following passage from a Dime Western: Rosalinda gave a low scream of horror as she saw the Rio Kid...