Rimshot NF
A rather droll unicase typeface, discovered in a 1970s chapbook of suggested lettering for Soviet propaganda posters, inspired this bouncy beauty. Way more fun than a barrel of Volga Boatmen. The PC Postscript, Truetype...
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Jaunty Gent NF
In 1936, Erich Mollowitz designed a typeface named »Rheingold Kräftig« for the German type foundry J. D. Trennert & Sohn (Hamburg-Altona). The original letterforms have been extended and beefed up a bit, and the...
Cerulean NF
An offering from Barnhart Brothers & Spindler’s Catalog No. 9 from 1907, with the rather prosaic name of “Lining Gothic No. 71”, inspired this non-nonsense and surprisingly ageless face. As versatile as it is...
Baby Cakes NF
This robust, roly-poly typeface is patterned after a 1974 release from the Ludwig & Mayer foundry of Frankfurt am Main named Big Band, and designed by Karlgeorg Hoefer. The type color is even darker...
Stockmar
Long-time work of a revival of a baroque font of 1720, after Johann Rudolf Genath II, Stockmar was primarily designed with three italics (more or less geometrical, cursive, dynamic). This work and details can...
Goupil
Goupil is based on baroque proportions letters. But, it can only be read through its thin shadows. So, Goupil is a light face, for refined and aerial titles. Titling face does not necessary mean...
Glovis
Glovis is a ‘typewriter’ font — meaning monospaced (all characters use the same width) — and is also italic. But the italic style was originally created to take less space than roman: its letters...
Ecstrat
Ecstrat is not a ‘serious’ typeface, but a contemporary version of ornamented ‘flowered’ letters of the eighteenth century, like those of Pierre-Simon Fournier le Jeune and Jacques-François Rosart. Only in capitals: its use is...
Brett
Brett is a rounded bitmapped typeface, with strange serifs. With its elegant — even quite useless — small caps and its ‘old style’ ligatures (like ‘ct’ or ‘st’), it found itself half-way between ‘techno’...
Amper Sans NF
In 1956, Schriftgeißerei Genzsch & Heyse released the pattern for this typeface, designed by Werner Rebhuhn, under the name “Hobby”. Despite its Eisenhower-era origins, the face retains its casual charm, spontaneity and freshness even...