Ghiberti is a contemporary interpretation of the bold Florentine lettering style used with marble inlaid and bronze cast inscriptions of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The font, consisting of caps and small caps, was...
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DeStijl is a “Constructivist” inspired type design, reminiscent of European industrial art movements of the early 20th century. Its highly rationalized forms serve both the retro look and modern design to good effect. The...
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Didot LP is a very elegant rendition of the 18th-century French typeface — Didot. This design took the earlier Italian neo-classical model (Bodoni) to a new level of refinement, with fully rationalized shapes and...
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Donatello is a classically proportioned design with subtly tapered strokes, inspired by the lettering on the fifteenth century cantoria by Luca della Robbia in the Museum of the Duomo, in Florence. The design, consisting...
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Cresci is a carefully digitized reproduction of an alphabet of Giovan Francesco Cresci, the pre-eminent Renaissance writing master whose lettering virtuosity presaged the exuberance of the Baroque. His published writing book, “Il Perfetto Scrittore…
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Chevalier LP is a revived decorative face with a European lineage. Its patterned and shaded ‘fatface’ letterforms exhibit the continent’s 19th century fascination with elaborate engraving techniques, often used on currency as a deterrent...
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Beata is a delicate, attenuated design with elegant proportions, modeled on the fifteenth-century inscription by Bernardo Rossellino for the Tomb of Beata Villana in Santa Maria Novella, in Florence. The font, consisting of caps...
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The Bermuda Family was designed by Garrett Boge and Paul Shaw, in the vein of freely-drawn showcard lettering — jaunty, fun and friendly. In fact the drawings were made with a Speedball™ B-series pen...
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Spumoni plays freely off of the typeface Bodoni. Though commercial lettering is becoming a disappearing craft, Spumoni provides this hand-drawn quality in a digital medium. Its bouncy, playful letters infuse a sense of humor...
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Spring is a lively contemporary script that designer Garrett Boge modeled after his own brush lettering. It was released in 1988 at the launch of LetterPerfect’s font collection, and has seen increasing use in...