Beauvoir is based on a sample of Art Nouveau period hand-drawn poster lettering designed by Chicago designer Frank Atkinson. The original sample was limited, so we extrapolated from it and added new characters and...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 15, 2024
Baraquiel is based on an interesting style of calligraphic script we found in a turn-of-the-century magazine ad. It is much more acutely slanted than most scripts, and has pretty dramatic variations in weight. Nonetheless...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
The Morris Benton 1918 American classic, Announcement Roman, comes to digital life with more pizzazz than it ever had. Named after the Swan Lake princess, Odette is the ideal choice for titling, poetry, advertising,...
by · Published May 26, 2015
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Azariel is a decorative calligraphic script font designed to have linking characters in the lower case and elaborate swashed capital letters which overlap and nestle with adjoining characters. It’s very elegant – excellent for...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
Asrafel is an original font by Dave Nalle. It is a strong, stylish titling font based on hand lettering influenced by Celtic uncial styles and Art Nouveau titling fonts. It includes a variety of...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
A 1905 poster for the Austrian National Highway by artist Gustav Jahn inspired the letterforms for this typeface. In the spirit of comity, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler’s Publicity Gothic Initial Caps inspired the uppercase...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
A poster for Buster Keaton’s 1925 classic film “The General” provided the inspiration for this bit of typographic falderal. Essentially a monocase font, the lowercase letters are alternates, so double-clutch the shift key to...