Ironmonger
Ironmonger was inspired by lettering painted on masonry walls and fascia signs of warehouses and factories in older American cities. The slab serif capitals and figures are made up of precisely plotted and carefully...
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Kniff
Kniff was designed and digitized by Emo Risaliti, distinguished Italian graphic designer, as a Font Bureau commission. He drew on extreme geometric styles of the nineteen-thirties to produce an Art Deco triumph, an ultimate...
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...
Interstate
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 provides a real edge in...
Hermes FB
Schriftguss and Woellmer called it Hermes; Berthold called it Block. Heinz Hoffmann’s 1908 design inspired FB Hermes, which evokes the German grotesks that were workhorses of factory printing 100 years ago. Blunt corners suggest...
Hightower
In 1994, Tobias Frere-Jones completed Hightower for the Journal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. For as long as he had drawn letters, he had wrestled with the problems posed by any modern...
Hip Hop
Jill Pichotta captures the driving rhythms of hip hop music in the gesticulating forms of this dancing pair of typefaces, HipHop Demi and its syncopated twin, HipHop Inline. The repeated hesitations in the music...
Hoffmann
Richard Lipton designed the Hoffmann family from letters drawn and then cut out of paper as free-standing forms by contemporary Michigan lettering artist Lothar Hoffmann. Lipton follows creative development of contemporary lettering forms closely…
Giza
The sixteen styles of Giza bring back the colorful power and variety of the original Egyptian letterforms, a glory of the Victorian era. Designer David Berlow based the family on showings in Vincent Figgins’...
Griffith Gothic
Of all his work, C.H. Griffith claimed one type, Bell Gothic, as his own design. Griffith Gothic is a revival of the 1937 Mergenthaler original, redrawn as the house sans for Fast Company. Tobias...