font_foundry: steve mehallo

Alta California

Alta California font

Alta California became designer steve mehallo’s “vector-based artist’s response” to the early Apple Macintosh bitmapped font San Francisco. Alta California was developed using “sampled” wood type and letters from numerous historical sources. The…

Martini at Joe’s

Martini at Joe’s font

Googie Architecture, also known as “Midcentury Coffee Shop Modern,” was born in California during the Atomic Age. Martini at Joe’s is based on lettering from several historic Googie sources – many of which no...

Escoffier Capitaux

Escoffier Capitaux font

Escoffier Capitaux is named for culinary legend Auguste Escoffier (1846-35) and inspired by lettering used in vintage French advertising – including the work of commercial illustrator/fashion designer Ernst Dryden (1887-1938) WITH a hearty serving…

TwentyFourNinetyOne

TwentyFourNinetyOne font

TwentyFourNinetyOne [2491] is a reinterpretation of the alphabet of 1919 by Theo van Doesburg; the original a true rendering of the thinking of the Dutch-based art movement “de Stijl.” Jump forward to 1980 and...

Jeanne Moderno

Jeanne Moderno font

Jeanne Moderno is a revisionary type family. A synthesis of Bodoni Italic and 19th Century Ultra-Bold “Fat Faces”—distilled with personality taken from early 20th Century Modernists; the Futurists, Dadaists, Suprematists, Constructivists…

Niedermann Grotesk

Niedermann Grotesk font

With the printing of the Futurist poem “Zang Tumb Tuuum” in 1914, modern art had taken a typographic twist: “words in freedom” (parole in libertà) were now a major part of the art world....