Californian FB
In 1938, Goudy designed California Oldstyle, his most distinguished type, for University of Calif. Press. In 1958, Lanston issued it as Californian. Carol Twombly digitized the roman 30 years later for California; David Berlow...
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Caslon FB
Our familiar Caslon Bold headletters were invented around the turn of the twentieth century in the United States and were only loosely based on William Caslon’s romans. The best of the Caslon Bolds originated...
Century FB
Designed by the young Morris Fuller Benton for ATF in 1906, Century Bold Condensed packs plenty of text into every line. It rapidly became one of the most popular headline typefaces for American newspapers...
Cafeteria
The irregularities normally found in script can enliven sanserif letterforms. In Cafeteria, Tobias Frere-Jones took special care to balance activity with legibility on the paper napkin that served as his sketchpad, drawing a freeform...
Brok
Brok appeared in 1925 as powerful characters in a magnificent portrait poster cut in wood by Chris Lebeau for the Willem Brok Gallery in Hilversum, Holland. Brok works its figure-ground magic when negative leading...
Bodega Serif
Inspired by Font Bureau’s rapid success with the 1990 Bodega Sans, Greg Thompson designed Bodega Serif two years later. It duplicates the same weights and styles as the original in an alternative seriffed design,...
Bodoni FB
Working at American Type Founders from a Bruce Foundry recutting, Morris Fuller Benton worked out the dramatics of the English Fat Face, and in 1928 produced Ultra Bodoni, a headline spectacular. Using Benton’s 1933...
Bradley Initials
Designed by Will Bradley as “Bradley Ultra Modern Initials,” these spectacular Art Deco capitals appear for the first time in the nineteen thirty-four ATF specimen. The original design was limited to the twenty-six capitals...
Bodega Sans
Released in 1990, Bodega Sans adopts numerous ideas from the high period of Art Deco, providing designs that are as fresh as they are nostalgic. This geometric series, with its later seriffed companion, Bodega...
Belizio
The eight-part Belizio series updates the first Font Bureau typeface. David Berlow’s family is based on Aldo Novarese’s Egizio, designed in 1955 for Nebiolo. It was first prompted by the popularity of Haas Clarendon...