font_foundry: Greater Albion Typefounders

Old Millerstown

Old Millerstown font

Millerstown is full of that solid, 19th Century, transatlantic spirit of enterprise. It is an all capitals face, decorative but clear and legible, ideal for signage, posters and banners. “Old Millerstown” has been treated...

Sasparillo

Sasparillo font

Sasparillo is an “extreme” Tuscan face, with reversed emphasis, by which we mean the horizontals are far heavier than the verticals. Recreate the spirit of the “Wild West” with a sense of fun!

Shervington Engraved

Shervington Engraved font

Shervington Engraved is a re-drawing of our previous Shervington typeface, showing it as it appears hand engraved on copper-plate with a stylus, with the letter forms shaded in diagonally. It combines excellent clarity with...

Sasparillo Fizz

Sasparillo Fizz font

Sasparillo is an “extreme” Tuscan face, with reversed emphasis, by which we mean the horizontals are far heavier than the verticals. Saspirillo Fizz has been put through our (not quite) patented “fizzing” process, in...

Stridere

Stridere font

Think of a slender Black Letter screeching to a halt on the page and you have the essential idea of Stridere. Want ornate formality and fast movement all in one? Here it is!

SpeedSwash

SpeedSwash font

SpeedSwash is a stylised oblique script-fraktur hybrid. That description could should bizarre – lets face it, it does – but the result is actually rather splendid we think. Lovely for poster work where a...

SpeedSketch

SpeedSketch font

It’s surprising – it can take more time and effort to make something deliberately and artfully imperfect than it does to make a more conventional design. We certainly found this to be the case...

Ledbury

Ledbury font

Ledbury is a calligraphic display face, inspired by hand lettered specimens and combining Roman and Blackletter elements. It is designed with an extensive range of ligatures and stylistic alternate forms to preserve that hand...

Netherland Perpendicular

Netherland Perpendicular font

Netherland Perpendicular, a family of five typefaces, is Greater Albion’s end of year Blackletter release for 2015. It is designed in the fine traditions of Victorian Revival Blackletter, where historical veracity is ever sacrificed...

Empyrean

Empyrean font

Empyrean is a display Roman typeface which sets out to be deliberately different. Its letterforms explore white space and the art of leaving things out. Empyrean is a futuristic Roman design which builds in...