font_foundry: Greater Albion Typefounders

Birmingham New Street

Birmingham New Street font

Birmingham New Street is the latest updated development of a typeface family inspired by the hand lettered title on a 19th century railway map. The map, prepared by the London and North Western Railway...

Stout

Stout font

Stout is a deliberately aggressively solid family of four faces, offered in two weights and in serif (deliberately large serifs) and sans forms. It’s ideal for signage that needs to be read over long...

Beckinslade

Beckinslade font

Beckinslade is a lovely elaborate blackletter face, released just in time for Christmas, but useable at any time of the year. It is in the best traditions of Victorian Gothic revival, drawing inspiration from...

Coliseo

Coliseo font

Coliseo is a lively and fun Art Nouveau inspired typeface, inspired by stone lettering seen on facade of the Coliseum Theatre in London. It’s beautifully characterful let legible making it ideal for poster work...

Future Runes

Future Runes font

Future Runes is another in our occasional series of ‘retro-science-fiction’ based fonts, along with Albia Nova and Cullion. There are design niches for which this piece of fun will be just ideal…Enjoy!

Merrivale

Merrivale font

Merrivale is an ideal example of the benefits of keeping ones eyes open- it was inspired by the gilt-finished raised lettering on a late Victorian shopsign in Melbourne, Australia. The family of seven faces...

Alfrere Sans

Alfrere Sans font

Alfrere Sans is a clean Sans Serif display family inspired by a well-known 1950s television caption. The family of seven faces have been designed for independent use, but they also have an extra feature....

London Court

London Court font

London Court is a family of three ‘Tudor Revival’ display faces, inspired by an inscription seen underneath a clock in a splendid Tudor revival arcade in Perth, Western Australia. The resulting typeface designs are...

Secombe

Secombe font

Secombe is a lively fun family of typefaces in the spirit of the turn of the last century. It’s a boisterous fun design, named in honor of the late Harry Secombe (or if you...

Tectura II

Tectura II font

Tectura II is Greater Albion’s answer to the infamous Comic Sans. It’s a family of four ‘hand printed’ typefaces that provides our very own answer to the infamous ‘Comic Sans’, and follows on from...