Patterned after the unique comic book lettering of the Golden Age of comics. This type of lettering appeared in the ground-breaking superhero and detective serials of yesteryear. Ironically, it’s the same precise easy-to-read style...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Based on a combination of 1950’s advertising and Nate Piekos’ own cursive handwriting, EAST SIDE is named after the historical district of Providence. Regular and Italic included.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 8, 2015
The eight-part Belizio series updates the first Font Bureau typeface. David Berlow’s family is based on Aldo Novarese’s Egizio, designed in 1955 for Nebiolo. It was first prompted by the popularity of Haas Clarendon...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 5, 2015
The Belucian series offers a distinguished text design supported by dynamic headline structure. In need of a distinctive display style, Smart magazine asked Font Bureau in 1990 to revise the work of Lucian Bernhard...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 5, 2015
Berlin Sans is based on a brilliant alphabet from the late twenties, originally released by Bauer with the name Negro, the very first sans that Lucian Bernhard ever designed. Assisted by Matthew Butterick, David...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 17, 2024
The five-part Barcode series offers an ultra condensed design where successive styles are all the same weight, an experiment for the type designer and user in character interaction as the form of the typeface...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 11, 2015
Clotilde Olyff challenges and surprises us. Legibility fonts are above all familiar designs, seldom shocking us visually. Alpha Bloc and Geometrique explore alphabetic form, stretching recognition, teasing, surprising, thrilling us with unfamiliar…
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 15, 2015
Tobias Frere-Jones began Armada in 1987. An experiment in algorithmic design, Armada follows the verticals and flat arches so often to be found in the architectural geometry of cast iron and brickwork in nineteenth-century...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 13, 2023
Friedrich Neugebauer is known for the cutting power of his calligraphic invention. As a prisoner of war in Egypt, he wrote with toothpaste when all else failed. The irrepressible style of this Austrian artist...