font_foundry: Monotype

Plantin

Plantin font

Plantin is a Renaissance Roman as seen through a late–industrial-revolution paradigm. Its forms aim to celebrate fine sixteenth century book typography with the requirements of mechanized typesetting and mass production in mind. How did...

Pepita MT

Pepita MT font

Drawn for Monotype by the Hungarian designer Imre Reiner in 1959, Pepita interprets the flair of the artist’s brush into a dazzling cursive typeface. Irregular alignment coupled with a moderate variation in stress endows...

Perpetua

Perpetua font

Eric Gill’s personal version of the Lapidary letterform.

Pelican

Pelican font

Origami

Origami font

Onyx MT

Onyx MT font

Gerry Powell, typographer, industrial designer, and director of typographic design for American Type Founders, designed Onyx for ATF in 1937. A very popular advertising type in the 1940s, Onyx resembles an extremely condensed, bold...

Monotype Old Style

Monotype Old Style font

Octavian

Octavian font

Ocean Sans

Ocean Sans font

Script MT

Script MT font

Released by the Monotype Corporation in 1931, Script Bold is based on German script-lettering styles of the early twentieth century. Although its bold weight is unusual for this style, Script Bold conveys a strong...