font_foundry: Greater Albion Typefounders

Henry VII

Henry VII font

Henry VII draws it’s inspiration from an inscription in Westminster Abbey dedicated to the memory of His Late Majesty of the same appellation. However, it is also in large part in the best tradition...

Friendly Shaded Sans

Friendly Shaded Sans font

‘FRIENDLY SHADED SANS’ is just what the name says. It’s a chubby and cheerful Sans Serif typeface that is ideal for poster work, headings and informal design generally.

Wellmere Sans

Wellmere Sans font

Wellmere Sans is humanist a ‘sans serif’ typeface combining distinctive character with easy legibility. The emphasis here is on elegant simplicity and clarity. No alternate forms, no ligatures, just good simple design and elegance...

Trivette

Trivette font

Trivette is an ‘All Capitals’ calligraphic display face, where all upright strokes are rendered as curves and where everything approaching the vertical are rendered in threes. That’s probably as clear as mud, but the...

Landsdowne Commercial

Landsdowne Commercial font

‘Landsdowne Commercial’ is a development of one of our designer’s earlier public domain releases, ‘Landsdowne’. All glyphs have been completely redrawn and refined. An extensive range of stylistic alternates and ligatures have been added,...

Zanderley

Zanderley font

Zanderley was inspired by a small, almost random sample from a turn-of-the-last- century calligrapher’s instructional manual. It’s a bit Roman, mixed with a little blackletter and a lot of random decorative fun.The family consists...

Albion’s Very Old Masthead

Albion’s Very Old Masthead font

Albion’s Very Old Masthead is inspired by traditional newspaper mastheads. A heavy Black Letter which brooks no argument, and can be emphatic and refined (emphatically refined?) at the same time. Very Old Masthead has...

Albion’s Engraved Black

Albion’s Engraved Black font

Albion’s Engraved Black is a tribute to the Banknote Engraver’s art – it is a heavily constructed black letter face assembled of diagonal shading. Another splendid Black letter display face, ideal for formal or...

Albion’s Old Masthead

Albion’s Old Masthead font

Albion’s old Masthead is inspired by traditional newspaper mastheads. A heavy Black Letter which brooks no argument, and can be emphatic and refined (emphatically refined?) at the same time. Ideal for signage with a...

Albion’s Incised Masthead

Albion’s Incised Masthead font

Albion’s Incised Masthead combines the heavy Black Letter forms of Greater Albion’s “Albion’s Old Masthead” with the ‘Hand-Tooled’ incised look demonstrated so readily by Mr Goudy. Another tribute to the engraver’s art…