Pouty
Commercial lettering artist Michael Clark found that italics and light classical scripts, in their many forms, were more popular for his purposes than more formal styles. A light chancery, the fifteenth-century writing hand of...
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Spira
Calligraphers of the Italian Renaissance adapted ancient models to create “italic” and “roman”, a consciously dramatic departure from standard Church Gothic. Punchcutters followed calligraphy until the French court adopted the formality of Aldus…
Dispatch
Cyrus Highsmith created Dispatch in his search for an industrial grade slab-serif to serve as text and display. A taut amalgam of letterforms found in typescript, on engineering blueprints and on shipping labels brings...
Wessex
Initially conceived by Matthew Butterick as a Bulmer revival, Wessex took on characteristics of Baskerville and Caledonia as design proceeded. In 1938, W.A. Dwiggins had taken the hard necessities of the non-kerning line-caster italic...
Tasse
Tasse can be seen as a straight-sided Futura, a design useful wherever Futura and its derivatives might apply. Developed from Topic, also known as Steile Futura, it is a letterform that Paul Renner himself...
Talon
Talon is a display design from the hand of Richard Lipton. The seed of the idea was a handful of characters drawn by the Los Angeles graphic designer Margo Chase. From this scattering of...
Streamline
Leslie Cabarga loves mid-century letterforms. Streamline carries us back to the joining typographic scripts of the forties. They recall the American industrial scene as designers celebrated growing recovery from the great depression with the…
Sloop
Sloop offers the adventurous typographer wide choices of variant forms in three weights of a classically elegant script. Richard Lipton suggests setting text lowercase in Sloop One or Two, capitals in One or Three,...
Stereo
Stereo was designed by Karlgeorg Hoefer and built with an unusual understanding of the play of casual form in building a fictional third dimension. A powerful exercise by a master of figure-ground relations, Stereo...
Skyline
Skyline was commissioned from Font Bureau by Condé Nast specifically as headletter for Traveler magazine. This strongly personal work of Imre Reiner from 1929 and 1934 was known in Europe as Corvinus. Skyline Black...