The sixteen styles of Giza bring back the colorful power and variety of the original Egyptian letterforms, a glory of the Victorian era. Designer David Berlow based the family on showings in Vincent Figgins’...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This in-yer-face kinda face is based on a broad brush font from “The New ABC of Showcard & Ticketwriting” by C. Milne, published in Australia in the late 1930s. Brought to my attention by...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This quirky little gem was patterned after single-stroke handlettering originally crafted by John M. Bergling, whose peregrinations through pulchritudinous penmanship also provided the inspiration for Erehwon Roman NF. Both versions of this font…
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified April 15, 2025
For gritty reality and rust-belt appearance, Garage Gothic Regular was derived from numbered tickets given at city parking garages. “Irregular contours and rough alignments found on the lettering were retained in the font, albeit...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 11, 2015
Gangly originated from the wall of a department store parking garage in San Diego, California in the early 1990s. Developed into a full-grown typeface by the unconventional mind of Joe Polevy, the lanky letterforms...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 17, 2015
Inspired by a characteristic handlettered ad from 1909, as well as the single word “Robusto” drawn for Oz Cooper’s own amusement and a perusal of his better-known work, Christian Schwartz designed Fritz as the...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 18, 2015
Fonts that ‘break all the rules’ can be used for all manner of lively display. Daryl Roske drew this single style, his first typeface, for Font Bureau by hand and, with the complexity of...