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Parkinson

Parkinson font

A display family originally designed during the mid-seventies by Jim Parkinson for Roger Black at a growing Rock & Roll magazine. Jim sees it as ‘a combination between the original logo by San Francisco...

Ornaments

Ornaments font

Village, Town and City Ornaments provide experienced users with modular sets of designs intended for use in building type flowers, ornaments, and connecting borders. Each set has been assembled based on the complexity and...

Nutcracker

Nutcracker font

A typeface for ornate and festive display, Nutcracker, Font Bureau’s Christmas typeface, is based on a fanciful calligraphic titling designed by lettering artist Richard Lipton for the adventurous Boston publisher David Godine, who used...

Numskill

Numskill font

The oriental principles of this distinctive display face were originated by David Berlow in a simple western sanserif designed to harmonize with Kanji letterforms in Japan and the Far East. Berlow stressed the more...

Niagara

Niagara font

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...

FIG Sans

FIG Sans font

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

Super Grid font

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 font

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 font

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 font

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...