Raceway
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…
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Proforma
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...
Poster Black
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...
Pilsner
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...
Phaistos
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...
Schwarzkopf
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...
Bryant
Long since replaced by computers, the mechanical lettering kits used by draftsmen and amateur sign makers served as the inspiration for the Bryant family of typefaces.
Kettler
Courier, designed in 1955 by Howard G. Kettler for the IBM bar typewriter and later adapted for the Selectric typewriter, has truly stood the test of time. Installed on nearly every computer in the...
FIG Serif
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....
FIG Script
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....