I set out to design a contemporary font that is condensed with thick and thin strokes. The highly structured forms of this condensed font was made more interesting and softer by giving it a...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 6, 2015
FB Titling Gothic is an immense series of nearly fifty styles inspired by that century-old favorite ATF Railroad Gothic. Led by the Los Angeles Times and Gentleman’s Quarterly, US publications are using David Berlow’s...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 17, 2024
Slab Serif version of the Bulldog family. Hunter family lends itself to on-screen use for web design – the letterforms being legible and robust at small sizes.
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 13, 2023
GHS is an original font from HouseOfBurvo, designed and made by Matthew Burvill. GHS stands for Geometric Hairline Serif, it is a serif typeface that is geometric in structure, it has strong vertical stress...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
This family is a compilation created from a Garamond set in use in Paris circa 1651, but similar to those, eroded and tired, that were in use during centuries to print cheap publications, as...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
No mystery here: this typeface is based on the not-often-seen Cooper Black Swash Italic, designed by Oswald Bruce Cooper. Swash variants are the norm with this font, but enabling Contextual Alternates will prevent collisions...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This elegant offering is based on a typeface originally called “Design”, from Barnhart Brothers & Spindler’s Specimen Catalog Number 9, published in the first decade of the twentieth century. This version has been fine-tuned...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
Here’s the follow-up to my Route 66 series, patterned after the typeface used on signage on the U.S. interstate highway system for fifty years. The numbers and uppercase letters are true to the original,...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
Break out the love beads and fire up the lava lamp! Here’s a fresh take on the Artone alphabet, designed by Seymour Chwast in the 1960s. Beefy, bodacious and bottom-heavy, this typeface keeps on...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This swoopy, loopy script was inspired by an “American roundhand” presented by John M. Bergling in his Art Alphabets and Lettering, first published in 1914. Bergling’s unique talent crafted uppercase letters which manage, at...