The 1885 specimen book of the Palmer and Rey Type Foundry of San Francisco featured the inspiration for this typeface under the name Courier. This version has been thoughtfully designed to use Contextual Alternates...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
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A signpainter’s chapbook called this style Show Card Casual, although “casual” might be understating the case a bit. Guaranteed to put some fun, and a wee bit of mischief, into your headlines. Both versions...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This typeface is a faithful reproduction of an elegant and somewhat quaint design by Morris Fuller Benton, which first appeared in the American Type Founders 1913 specimen book. It’s equally at home as a...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This bouncy beauty was inspired by Walnetto Casual, designed by Dave West for Photo-Lettering, Inc. in the 1970s, and takes its name from a mythical West Texas beastie. This version has been thoughtfully designed...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
Discovered within the pages of a turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century specimen book of the Società Nebiolo of Turin, Italy, was this little gem, which shows both antique and Art Nouveau influences. Both versions of this font include...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
A typeface named, simply, Geometric, from the 1885 Cleveland Type Foundry specimen book, has been beefed up a bit and softened with round serifs to create this everything-old-is-new-again gem. Both versions of this font...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
Originally called Bohemian in the 1918 specimen book of the Miller and Richard Type Foundry of London and Edinburgh, this Jugendstil typeface still retains its freshness and quaint charm. Both versions of this font...
by · Published May 26, 2015
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This sometimes-top-heavy, sometime-bottom-heavy, sometimes-centered typecase is based on an old Photolettering face designed by the irrepressible Dave West, originally called “Nickelodeon”. That name was already taken, so I chose another with a nod…
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This double-wide wonder is based on Oswald Cooper’s original drawings for the typeface Cooper Fullface. ATF rejected this offering because they felt that several of the letterforms, and particularly the numbers, were a little...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
Here’s another gem pulled from the pages of one of the many editions of Pen and Brush Lettering by the Blandford Press. Cascading bubbles add a somewhat 70s feel to a distinctly Deco font,...