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Wessex
Initially conceived by Matthew Butterick as a Bulmer revival, Wessex took on characteristics of Baskerville and Caledonia as design proceeded. In 1938, W.A. Dwiggins had taken the hard necessities of the non-kerning line-caster italic...
Village
Frederic Goudy’s Village typeface was originally used exclusively for his Village Press publications. Designed in 1903, Village is a Venetian book face with sturdy, open forms. Steve Matteson digitized this typeface from books printed...
Tasse
Tasse can be seen as a straight-sided Futura, a design useful wherever Futura and its derivatives might apply. Developed from Topic, also known as Steile Futura, it is a letterform that Paul Renner himself...
BetterIngriana
In the 1990s Adobe’s MultipleMaster technology introduced interpolation into font editing programs. Though the obvious use of interpolation was to create an unlimited number of weights for a font, interpolation could also be used...
BetterEuroika
In the 1990s Adobe’s MultipleMaster technology introduced interpolation into font editing programs. Although the obvious use of interpolation was to create an unlimited number of weights for a font, interpolation could also be used...
Barefoot
Suppose you were at a sandy beach and you wanted to write a message by making footprints in the sand. You might end up with letters much like those in Barefoot, a typeface made...
ArgentaBobbed
ArgentaBobbed is an informal, “hand-printing” font with little balls that some people, often children, like to add to the ends of strokes. Maybe it could be called a ball-serif or dot-serif font. The family...
Talon
Talon is a display design from the hand of Richard Lipton. The seed of the idea was a handful of characters drawn by the Los Angeles graphic designer Margo Chase. From this scattering of...
Streamline
Leslie Cabarga loves mid-century letterforms. Streamline carries us back to the joining typographic scripts of the forties. They recall the American industrial scene as designers celebrated growing recovery from the great depression with the…