Niagara
While not a revival in the strictest sense of the word, Niagara recalls the crisp, elegant geometry found in some of the best American styles from the nineteen-thirties and -forties. The four condensed weights...
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FIG Sans
Named after the collaboration of Frank Sheeran, Ian Chai and Glenn Chappell that produced the FIGlet application, FIG is set of three postscript typefaces in the spirit of early email and ASCII art explorations....
Super Grid
Being constructed from basic elements on a simple orthogonal grid, SuperGrid initially was an experiment in the field of constructed, elemental typefaces, another attempt to get the most out of very little. The outcome...
Twiddlybitz
Twiddlybitz is a bitmap style font which is great for small type on the web and in Flash. Twiddlybitz-Dotz is similar but is made up of dots.
TX Switch
TX Switch and Switch Box are number 3 of 7 in the series asking how can personality described through handwriting be translated into typefaces? Each element of the analysis was matched by a moment...
Nobel
Nobel offers personal variations on strict Bauhaus geometry. In 1929, three years after the Futura release, Sjoerd Henrik de Roos at Amsterdam explored alternative character sets to enliven basic Futura forms. The Nobel series...
NeonStream
Blandly glowing strings of letters in chemical colors call forth endless memories of bars and restaurants, of beer and hot dogs, of casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, the acme of neon. Gas-filled, bent-glass...
Miller
Miller, designed by Matthew Carter, is a “Scotch Roman”, a class of sturdy, general purpose types of Scottish origin, widely used in the US in the 19th century, but neglected since and overdue for...
TX Signal Signifier
Eight designers present a set of icons that indicate the fun and fantastic world of signage. Each collaborator’s solution represents a completely different interpretations on signage vernacular. Akira Kobayashi’s “Subsumption”, obscured by foliage…