The oriental principles of this distinctive display face were originated by David Berlow in a simple western sanserif designed to harmonize with Kanji letterforms in Japan and the Far East. Berlow stressed the more...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 13, 2015
A typeface for ornate and festive display, Nutcracker, Font Bureau’s Christmas typeface, is based on a fanciful calligraphic titling designed by lettering artist Richard Lipton for the adventurous Boston publisher David Godine, who used...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 6, 2015
Village, Town and City Ornaments provide experienced users with modular sets of designs intended for use in building type flowers, ornaments, and connecting borders. Each set has been assembled based on the complexity and...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 19, 2015
Nobel offers personal variations on strict Bauhaus geometry. In 1929, three years after the Futura release, Sjoerd Henrik de Roos at Amsterdam explored alternative character sets to enliven basic Futura forms. The Nobel series...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 12, 2015
Blandly glowing strings of letters in chemical colors call forth endless memories of bars and restaurants, of beer and hot dogs, of casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, the acme of neon. Gas-filled, bent-glass...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 19, 2015
Leslie Cabarga has returned to the streamlined scripts prepared by industrial designers at mid-century for the inspiration of this Font Bureau display series. The Magneto trio recall the chrome-strip lettering laid over the rounded...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 17, 2015
Richard Lipton designed this spirited oldstyle for Font Bureau; the romans gain their energy from French baroque forms cut late in the sixteenth century by Robert Granjon, the italics from Dirk Voskens’ work in...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 13, 2015
Warm & casual, Mesa exudes a youthful energy through the varied and informal rhythms found only among the best of informal scripts. While visiting Font Bureau as an intern from Yale University during the...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 7, 2015
Meyer Two captures the early Hollywood flavor and nostalgia of silent film intertitles. From 1922 through 1928, Linotype cut five fonts to Louis B. Meyer’s personal specifications. Meyer Two, drawn in 1926, curiously combines...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 15, 2015
These four pi fonts contain the basic set of highway signs, with their symbols, to properly support literal use of the Interstate family. Auxiliary solid forms allow for rendering in color, as well as...