Numskill
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...
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Nutcracker
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...
Ornaments
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...
Nobel
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...
NeonStream
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...
Magneto
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...
Meno
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...
Mesa
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...
Meyer Two
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...
Loupot
In 1948, French designer Charles Loupot drew a revolutionary logotype to promote St. Raphael mineral water. Half a century later, the qualities of this logo inspired New York designer and illustrator Laurie Rosenwald to...