Showcard Moderne
Early in the 20th century, American commercial lettering took on a new vitality, paralleling the formalities of typography while embellishing and sometimes mocking them. The bible of this trade is probably William Hugh Gordon’s...
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Shimano
This sharp-edged, industrial design from the hand of Richard Lipton was initially inspired by the logotype of the Shimano bicycle company. Shimano Square and Shimano Round are each drawn in four styles, light &...
Shogun
Richard Lipton designed Shogun as a six-part headline series, three weights in regular and extended widths. He began with a few almost oriental characters from a striking contemporary logotype designed by Los Angeles graphic...
Showcard Gothic
Showcard Gothic leans from the page to forcefully present any idea you might have – except possibly classical subtlety – with a certain leering emphasis. Derived from the showcard models prepared for lettering artists...
Rocket
At last, an ultra-atomic connected script for the new millennium, brought to us from the fifties by Leslie Cabarga. He based this cool font on logos from the second wave of the all-American diner,...
Roxy
Impressed with the strength and the clarity of John Downer’s personal “thick/thin” signwriting style, a fitness magazine commissioned a single weight of Roxy in 1990 to stress its headlines. Mildly compact widths and moderate...
SamSans
John Downer designed SamSans in 1993 in reaction to Sam Berlow’s request for a casual, condensed sans. The series, replete with alternate characters in every style, is executed in informal Downer style, vivid with...
Scamp
The vivacity that you find in this light-hearted design began with paper cut-outs designed for use in all sorts of presentations, from animated movie titles, sometimes in flashing, reversing color, to little notes and...
Reactor FB
First drawn in 1993 by Tobias Frere-Jones for Neville Brody’s Fuse magazine, FB Reactor combines abraded forms with Tesla’s theory of destruction through accumulating rhythmic points of noise. The ‘Derelict’ style offers choices of...
Reiner Script
Loose and angular, this typeface was originally designed by Imre Reiner for the Amsterdam Typefoundry in 1951. Attracted by its free-form structure and unique texture, Tobias Frere-Jones revived the original design from handset proofs...