Anyone can base their font strategy on comic book letterers of old. In fact, the most commonly aped styles tend to be those from the 60s and early 70s. But what about comic book...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
It’s extended. Somewhat. It’s got all the characters. There’s a plus. It’s fully kerned. That’s awesome! And it is rubbed down to the nub. Whuh??? That means it’s highly distressed, manually eroded on my...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Let’s hear a cheer for good, old fashioned cartoon casual fonts, two of them in fact. Team Spirit and Toon Casual are definitely not short on attitude. They’re full of pep and spirit and...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Toxia is a creepy—yes, eerie face, like something wet and poisonous clambering out of the swamp. It’s spooky too—yes, but it’s also frighteningly easy to read. Just don’t let it drip on you! Toxia...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Larra is a hard-edged face that doesn’t seem to know where it’s going … it jags this way and that way and back again. It works best in short combinations with radical alterations, so...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Nobody has a digital cragginess most peculiar to it like this face. The screen isn’t breaking up. The chunks you see are real, stair-stepping their way down and around those blocky letterforms at whatever...
by · Published May 26, 2015
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Ruts looks like it was found in a rut, and if you can eek past all that splatter, it may just pull you out of one. Talk about having to be brave to use...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Beginning in January, 1932, Becker, at the request of then-editor E. Thomas Kelly, supplied SIGNS of the Times magazine’s new Art and Design section with an alphabet a month, a project predicted to last...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Beginning in January, 1932, Becker, at the request of then-editor E. Thomas Kelly, supplied SIGNS of the Times magazine’s new Art and Design section with an alphabet a month, a project predicted to last...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Garishing Worse is a multi-language font supporting the complete Latin/Latin-1 character range, as well as Latin-A (Central European), Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew. In other words, this is more than just the usual line-up of...