Herald Gothic
The incisive appearance of the economical Herald Gothic headline is given by the bevelled corners to the characters, a practice common in the eighteen-seventies for news heads. This font family is based upon a...
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Fobia
Fonts that ‘break all the rules’ can be used for all manner of lively display. Daryl Roske drew this single style, his first typeface, for Font Bureau by hand and, with the complexity of...
Fritz
Inspired by a characteristic handlettered ad from 1909, as well as the single word “Robusto” drawn for Oz Cooper’s own amusement and a perusal of his better-known work, Christian Schwartz designed Fritz as the...
Gangly
Gangly originated from the wall of a department store parking garage in San Diego, California in the early 1990s. Developed into a full-grown typeface by the unconventional mind of Joe Polevy, the lanky letterforms...
Garage Gothic
For gritty reality and rust-belt appearance, Garage Gothic Regular was derived from numbered tickets given at city parking garages. “Irregular contours and rough alignments found on the lettering were retained in the font, albeit...
Epitaph
Drawn at the close of the nineteenth century at the Boston branch of American Type Founders, Epitaph was modeled on a graceful Art Nouveau letterform that was bringing a new vitality to gravestone inscriptions...
Eldorado
Of W. A. Dwiggins’ wartime experiments, the most successful was Eldorado, released by Mergenthaler in 1953. With unusual fidelity, he followed an early roman lowercase, cut in the 16th century by Jacques de Sanlecque...
El Grande
You have seen El Grande in mid-century comic books, used wherever simple, black-and-white ideas had to be driven hard, all the way home. The design was adopted by American grocery stores, by supermarkets, by...
Elli
The typeface Elli was named to honor Eleanor Garvey, Houghton Library’s famed and much-loved Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at Harvard University. For Elli’s 1990 retirement, Bill Bentinck-Smith commissioned Jean Evans to design...
Elmhurst
In 1994, Christopher Slye decided to design Elmhurst as the best way to learn something about type.“I thought that a typeface intended for continuous text would be the most challenging to design,” he recalls,...