font_foundry: Greater Albion Typefounders

Shervington

Shervington font

Shervington is a geometric, All capitals and Small capitals typeface with a range of opentype features ideal for banners, headlines, logo design and good clear signage. The letterforms are all geometrically inspired, and are...

Rotham Industria

Rotham Industria font

Rotham Industrial. Stylised lettering for industrial flavoured projects. Imagine, if you will letters shaped from metal tube, or perhaps from a solid rod, or perhaps made from brass handrails? You get the idea. A...

Halliwell Casual

Halliwell Casual font

Halliwell Casual is a hand lettered all capitals script, combining charm and character with legibility. Ideal for poster work and eye-catching banners. Try a little casual and timeless elegance.

Portculliard

Portculliard font

Greater Albion always releases a Black letter each year, hopefully well before the Christmas seas (which we seem to have managed this year – September). There is something about this year’s project which suggests...

Garstang Engraved

Garstang Engraved font

Garstang Engraved is the latest in Greater Albion’s series of ‘wood type’ inspired fonts. Garstang Engraved is a hand-cut Roman, suggesting the late Victorian era, but the type of thing that continued in use...

Civic Triline

Civic Triline font

Civic Triline was inspired by a beautifully lucid (and hand lettered) example of municipal signage. It is a clear and easy to read sans serif display face, constructed of one thick and two thin...

Dewhirst Display

Dewhirst Display font

There is a particular charm about traditional, hand executed sign writing. There is also something magical about watching an experienced sign writer at work with his sign writer’s dagger (don’t worry, it’s a specially...

Draughtsman Label Hand

Draughtsman Label Hand font

“Draughtsman Label Hand” was inspired by the beautifully executed hand-lettering one set of 19th century engineering drawings. The result is a typeface that combines great legibility with a wealth of decorative flourishes and lively...

Draughtsman Engraved

Draughtsman Engraved font

Draughtsman Engraved, inspired by hand drawn 19th century lettering, is an open shadowed display face, with an extensive range of OpenType features, including ligatures, stylistic alternates, petite and small capitals and old style…

Portculliard Engraved

Portculliard Engraved font

Portculliard is in the finest traditions of 19th century blackletter revival. It’s a lively mock medieval face, engraved in the manner of many a 19th century printer’s plate ideal for recreating traditional certificates and...