Interstate Mono
Familiarity lies at the heart of legibility. Interstate is based on the signage alphabets of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, letterforms absorbed at a glance everywhere we drive. Interstate Mono is a set of...
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Farnham
German-born punchcutter Johann Fleischman, contemporary of Baskerville and Fournier, worked at the Enschede Foundry in Haarlem. Expert in advanced tools and the qualities of fine steel, he pushed beyond the frontiers of his time,...
Zócalo Display
Eduardo Danilo’s dramatic redesign of El Universal, a leading Mexico City daily, introduced Cyrus Highsmith’s Zócalo. The original text, and display series was tuned for distinct character frequency and repetition when set in Spanish....
Zócalo Text
Eduardo Danilo’s dramatic redesign of El Universal, a leading Mexico City daily, introduced Cyrus Highsmith’s Zócalo. The original text, and display series was tuned for distinct character frequency and repetition when set in Spanish....
Zócalo Banner
Eduardo Danilo’s dramatic redesign of El Universal, a leading Mexico City daily, introduced Cyrus Highsmith’s Zócalo. The original text, and display series was tuned for distinct character frequency and repetition when set in Spanish....
Escrow
The Wall Street Journal commissioned Escrow. Cyrus Highsmith designed 44 styles in this new Scotch series. Escrow sets the tone of the front page of The Wall Street Journal, envy of the newspaper industry....
Benton Modern Display
Benton Modern Text was first prepared by Font Bureau for the Boston Globe and the Detroit Free Press. Design and proportions were taken from Morris Fuller Benton’s turn-of-the-century Century Expanded, drawn for ATF, faithfully...
Starling
In 1904 William Starling Burgess, Boston racing sailor, designed his second type. Six years later, now the Wright Brothers’ partner, Starling quit type, returning the drawings to Monotype. Frank Pierpont collected the nameless roman...
Trilby
The 19th-century French Clarendon, with its unorthodox reversed stress, never achieved the versatility of its Victorian siblings: the slab-serif Antique and the sans-serif Grotesque. In Trilby, David Jonathan Ross reined in this topsy-turvy style…
Titling Gothic FB
FB Titling Gothic is an immense series of nearly fifty styles inspired by that century-old favorite ATF Railroad Gothic. Led by the Los Angeles Times and Gentleman’s Quarterly, US publications are using David Berlow’s...