Constructa
The straight-sided form of condensed Geometric slab-serif, Font Bureau Constructa provides a stronger and more geometric form than the customary design. This crisp series is based on Morris Fuller Benton’s lone font Tower, released...
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Daleys Gothic
Cyrus Highsmith began work on Daley’s Gothic in 1997, experimenting with a steel brush and ink on paper. After sketching a few characters, he headed to the nearest computer and played out the rest...
Dizzy
Dizzy pays homage to that great legend of bebop, John Birks ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie. Jean Evans, long-term family and personal friend of Gillespie, was inspired to design this font after seeing a sample of his...
Eagle
The Eagle series realizes the ideas behind Morris Fuller Benton’s famous titling, Eagle Bold, the symbol of American recovery, drawn in 1933 for the National Recovery Association. Font Bureau Eagle was started in 1989...
Ecru
Ecru is based on four unique capitals designed by Los Angeles graphic artist Margo Chase for a single use. Richard Lipton examined these four letters: E, C, R, and U. To his designer’s eye...
Clicker
A popular television guide commissioned Clicker from Greg Thompson and Font Bureau, a design with roots in machine readable type and the abbreviated characters of video menus. Drawing forms to look right–rather than to...
Commerce
‘Fifties style meets Cooper Black on the way to the Mac’ says Rick Valicenti as he describes the process of designing Commerce Fat and Commerce Lean. In 1992, the design team of Greg Thompson...
Comrade
Comrade is based on a postcard handlettered in 1923 by Antwerp artist Josef Peeters. Jim Parkinson liked the design and expanded it into a family offering one weight in three widths. Simulating irregularities of...
Cheltenham FB
The design of Cheltenham, believed to be the first original type contracted to Linotype, began in Boston in 1900. Ingalls Kimball sketched the basic weight while architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue completed drawings in 1901....
Citadel
Weak ovals replace powerful circular forms in the condensed form of most geometric slab serifs. In Citadel, Tobias Frere-Jones follows a stronger alternative, substituting straight strokes for the curved sides of round characters. Flat...