Intrigued by typefaces of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the designer was surprised to find no digital renderings of the popular Old Roman typeface. This font is the designer’s interpretation of this...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 2, 2015
In the mid-‘80s, Petr van Blokland designed Proforma for Purup, a leading supplier of forms systems. Oldstyle structure provides essential copyfit and legibility, leading ATypI to award Petr the Charles Peignot prize for distinguished...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 2, 2015
Leslie Cabarga’s Raceway descends from three-dimensional jig-sawn plywood letters, automatically spaced and aligned on a slotted board by the connecting stroke. Even strokes and curves combine with everpresent horizontal strokes to create a…
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Phaistos was inspired by the vibrant life in Rudolf Koch’s 1922 Locarno, sometimes called “Eve” in the United States. David Berlow explored the design through 1989 and 1990, proofing and revising the structure of...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 16, 2015
Sitting in a Paris cafe with a bottle of beer, Tobias Frere-Jones gave his attention to the label. It was set in a roman design wearing blackletter-like clothes, probably to suggest an origin in...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 6, 2015
Poster Black revives the vivacity and freedom of the lettering artists of the thirties and forties. Their cheerful irreverence survives in photos from the period, the occasional surviving poster, and in manuals like the...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
SchwarzKopf is an 18th Century European “Schwabacher” blackletter which features a distressed edge for creating authentic “antique” documents. Old features the long “s” and other archaic forms. Both Old and New variations feature many...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 12, 2015
A display family originally designed during the mid-seventies by Jim Parkinson for Roger Black at a growing Rock & Roll magazine. Jim sees it as ‘a combination between the original logo by San Francisco...