Jonah is a digitization of the early 1970s Urban film face from Franklin Photolettering. Though there seemingly is no record left of who the original designer of the font was, it strongly exhibits the...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
Follow us to the future. It is in your face. It is fashionable. It is friendly. It is fly, far-out, funkadelic, fun. But first of all, the future is fast and full. Named after...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Rough Riders, along with our Rough Riders Redux font, got its start from a small sample of letters used in the logo for the Beach Creek Railroad Co. dating back to the early 1860’s....
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
A late nineteenth-century type specimen catalog from Farmer, Little & Co. yielded this droll little typeface, originally called “Arbor”. The distinctive decorations of the face suggested a fool’s cap, and thus the font got...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
In his book Victorian Display Alphabets, Dan X. Solo called this specimen “Marquette”. This unicase version features a complete character set, and is named after a favorite watering hole in Texas on the Guadeloupe...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
The 1907 Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type specimen catalog called this unique typeface simply “Umbra”. Since that name is already taken, it now has another. Due to the highly ornate nature of this face,...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This older, somewhat funkier relative of the classic face, Engravers Roman, made its last appearance in the 1912 ATF Specimen Book. Here, it has been revived to do yeoman-like duty in a new century....
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
Not your garden-variety utility typeface but, if you need a faux Thai font, this is the one for you. The upper and lowercase positions feature variant letterforms, so you can mix and match to...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This new and improved version of this chunky classic by Paul Carlyle and Gus Oring includes the lowercase letters not found in earlier versions. Use it to add a little—or a lot of—panoramic panache...