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ToxIcons

ToxIcons font

You want to say TOXIC, POISON, DANGER, YOU GONNA DIE SUCKA? Use a ToxIcon. ToxIcons come in a variety of delightfully deathly classic poison flavors: realistic, mechanical, futuristic, comical, and demonic. Just about anybody...

JLS OverKill

JLS OverKill font

OverKill Bloque was created in 1991 as a banner logo for a gamers fan newsletter, The OVERKILL Casualty Report. As letterforms were built for various headlines, a font took shape. Just for grins I...

JLS Smiles

JLS Smiles font

“Have a nice day!” I can remember that motto and the smiley face from childhood. It was a friendly, optimistic little image that became an icon. These days it has been updated and is...

FHA Modernized Ideal Classic

FHA Modernized Ideal Classic font

Frank H. Atkinson’s book Atkinson Sign Painting was published in 1909. For decades, this book served as the manual for sign painters – a handbook for hand lettering. Atkinson’s book described techniques, layouts and...

JLS Data Gothic

JLS Data Gothic font

Everyone remembers their first. JLS Space was my first. It was the first computer format font that I created. The font was inspired by the sci-fi movie posters, book covers and comic books of...

FHA Condensed French

FHA Condensed French font

FHA Condensed French One could speculate that FHA Condensed French probably started life as wood type for displays, headlines and posters. The exaggerated sharp serifs and condensed forms were not uncommon for that period....

FHA Broken Gothic

FHA Broken Gothic font

More than a century ago, Frank H. Atkinson presented this hand lettered style as Broken Poster. It was one of a hundred styles he demonstrated in his manual on sign painting. Even before his...

FHA Tuscan Roman

FHA Tuscan Roman font

The first Tuscan lettering was penned in the mid-fourth century by the calligrapher Furius Dionysius Filocalus. The style was still in common usage as calligraphy when Vincent Figgins designed the first Antique Tuscan for...