This typeface is Mergenthaler Linotype’s unlicensed version of Futura, copied weight by weight from Bauer. It was produced in 1939 when Metro failed to gain a significant share of the market, and was later...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 15, 2024
Designed for Adobe Systems in 1985 by Cleo Huggins, Sonata consists of 170 music-notation symbols for use in music publishing, with appropriate music setting software applications, to produce printed music.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
Take a trip to a tropical paradise. This brush style font has an exotic appeal with alternate uppercase characters borrowed from the font, Babylonica. The OpenType Pro version offers extra alternate characters.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
A signpainter’s chapbook called this style Show Card Casual, although “casual” might be understating the case a bit. Guaranteed to put some fun, and a wee bit of mischief, into your headlines. Both versions...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
The 1885 specimen book of the Palmer and Rey Type Foundry of San Francisco featured the inspiration for this typeface under the name Courier. This version has been thoughtfully designed to use Contextual Alternates...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This snappy little number was inspired by a PLINC typeface by Murray Fuchs called Erwin, which has been redrawn and improved for the digital age. Use Contextual Alternates to “bounce” the text, and Discretionary...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
The 1918 specimen book of the Miller and Richard Type Foundry of London and Edinburgh featured this endearing typeface. Both versions of this font include the complete Latin 1252 and Central European 1250 character...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 15, 2024
Late in the seventeenth century, the English writing master, Charles Snell, decried all flourishes in the Puritan tradition and stood for a plain and efficient form of roundhand. The large x-height of these unadorned...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 15, 2024
Smaragd is a light and gracious font especially appropriate for titles and cards. It is Gudrun Zapf von Hesse’s interpretation of Baroque adornment engravings. Smaragd is clear and festive, well-suited to titles and headings,...