Inspired by the hand-lettered sound effects found in comic books, Dave West takes a three-dimensional deep dive into the genre with his extensive onomatopoeic alphabet originally designed for Photo-Lettering, Inc. The sonorous voice of...
by · Published March 21, 2022
· Last modified May 15, 2024
Swiss Interlock represents the extraordinary meeting of two disparate cultural phenomena of the mid-twentieth century. Its compact frame combines the International Style of the late 50s, which championed the clarity of sans serif, with...
by · Published March 21, 2022
· Last modified May 15, 2024
Worthe Numerals come out of a time-tested development cycle where House Industries employees ask “What if this could be just a little more…”. After pushing traditional didot forms to the limit, these digits were...
by · Published March 21, 2022
· Last modified May 15, 2024
Zombie™ is a cute and playful whimsical font unlike a real Zombie. This monoline display face does not take itself too seriously and is at home in children’s books, invitations, headlines or other decorative design projects.
by · Published March 21, 2022
· Last modified February 9, 2025
The name Corpid derives from “Corporate Identity” — which is what this family of low-contrast sans-serifs was made for. Corpid was originally commissioned by Studio Dumbar in the Netherlands as a corporate typeface for...
by · Published March 21, 2022
· Last modified February 9, 2025
Type designer Luc(as) de Groot has a large archive of lettering he drew by hand, often to accompany the quirky cartoons which he made in his visual diaries. Only a few of these alpahabets...
by · Published March 21, 2022
· Last modified February 9, 2025
Almost every type designer feels the need, from time to time, to interrupt his or her serious work on complex text type systems for something more playful. In Luc(as)’s case this has often meant...
by · Published March 21, 2022
· Last modified February 9, 2025
Almost every type designer feels the need, from time to time, to interrupt his or her serious work on complex text type systems for something more playful. In Luc(as)’s case this has often meant...
by · Published March 21, 2022
· Last modified February 9, 2025
“TheMix” is a semi-serif typeface with low-contrast – i.e., the differences between thin and thick strokes are not very pronounced. Yet the reference to writing with the broad-nibbed pen is still present, giving the...
by · Published March 21, 2022
· Last modified February 9, 2025
Although the members of the Thesis family have proven to work well as text faces, nothing beats a medium-contrast oldstyle for comfortable immersive reading. Hence TheAntiqua, an all-purpose text face whose name refers to...