font_foundry: Canada Type

Bluebeard

Bluebeard font

Named after the famous French fairy tale, Bluebeard is a surprisingly legible, slightly worn-out mix of majestic blackletter majuscules and roman minuscules. Perfect for designs of old settings, like books of fairy tales, old...

Janice

Janice font

Janice is a revival and expansion of a 1960s Mecanorma film type called Putty Bold. It’s thick, flowing, happy and oozes psychedelia. Unlike many art nouveau/hippy faces of the era, this font comes with...

Moxie

Moxie font

Moxie is geometry gone dark and funny. Comes with 4 different styles, including a charming stencil and a very outspoken unicase. Ideal for posters, postcards, and display lettering-only designs.

Stock

Stock font

Stock is fat stencil on steroids, or perhaps laughing pills. Many a design will benefit from Stock’s loud message. Comes in a regular style and a very unique unicase, as well as more than...

Gamer

Gamer font

Canada Type released the first version of Gamer in August of 2004. It was modeled after a few 1972 magazine advertisement letters, the origin of which was later identified as a common film type...

Boyscout

Boyscout font

Digitized from the handwriting of Simone Wilkie’s son, Boyscout is a font that demonstrates a mix between the power of learning and individual creative development of a seven year old child. The struggle to...

Bolero

Bolero font

Named after Maurice Ravel’s masterpiece, Bolero likes to find itself in places of classical elegance. Slightly inspired by the soft italics put forth by Giambattista Bodoni and the Didot family, Bolero adds a feminine...

Scroll

Scroll font

Earlier this year, my eyes fell upon a discarded wedding invitation on the sidewalk. A closer look at it revealed that it had at one point been victimized by rain. Some of the fancy...

Odette

Odette font

The Morris Benton 1918 American classic, Announcement Roman, comes to digital life with more pizzazz than it ever had. Named after the Swan Lake princess, Odette is the ideal choice for titling, poetry, advertising,...

Big Brush

Big Brush font

Big Brush is the result of me seeing Brush Script everywhere around me. Toronto signage is full of Brush Script. My last two trips to the West Coast showed me mostly Brush Script. Brush...