From the time and place of true Divas, the late Italian nineteenth century, comes a handwriting that is soft, cultured, elegant, down to earth, and capable of surpassing the aesthetic limitations of any era....
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Based on Herbert Thannhaeuser’s 1954 Kurier design, Puma is the digital version of what is possibly the friendliest yet least used heavy brush design. Aside from its utilitarian functionality as a poster and sign...
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According to the two most popular statistics companies in England and North America, eight out of every ten people like to dance. Talk about useless information! But with such a market statistic, we thought...
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It is still a mystery to us why Martin Wilke’s 1968 Konzept design was ignored by the digital age. It certainly has the elements of attractive yet realistic handwriting, as well as a few...
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The problem with scripts in general, and brush scripts in particular, is that the majority of them cannot be set in all-caps words or sentences. So as a rule of thumb most designers try...
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Browsing through film archives at an independent film and audio production company in Winnipeg, Patrick Griffin spotted some unique set letters on a sign and a lawn chair in a 1980s B-movie entitled “Canada:...
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Gala is a digitization, correction, and major expansion of a typeface called Neon, designed by Giulio da Milano and published by the Nebiolo foundry in 1935. Neon came in two weights, along with a...
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Runway is the font that will satisfy the need for speed in your design. Simple lines and curves, a commanding slant, and big sturdy shapes made to cruise at any speed or altitude, through...
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Stretto (Italian for narrow) is a revival, correction and expansive update of an Aldo Novarese reverse-stress font called Sintex, which he did for VGC in 1973.Openly idiosyncratic and playfully rebellious in its design, this...
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One can never be too tall or too thin, the old adage goes. Sympathique is quite fashionably both. Rooted in two separate film face ideas called Hairstreak (English) and Mossman (American), Sympathique takes art...