The name of this typeface, David Aubert, comes from the calligrapher of Philippe Le Bon and Charles Le téméraire, both Dukes of Burgundy who worked and lived in Brussels in the 1500s. This revival...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Phinney Jenson ML is a font with deep historical roots firmly planted in the fertile soil of the Italian Renaissance. Twenty years after Lorenzo Ghiberti finished his famous East Doors, the Gates of Paradise,...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified September 22, 2015
Minuscule was inspired by Émile Javal’s research into the physiology of reading. He was a 19th-century opthalmologist, the first to analyze how we read. Minuscule characteristics are large x-height, robust slab serifs, vertical stress,...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 16, 2024
The lettering style of Lancashire’s finest comic book artist, graphic novelist and NEMESIS deviant Bryan Talbot is finally at your beck and call thanks to the good graces of those awfully nice chaps at...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
Salome is a revival, normalization and elaborate expansion of a 1972 film face called Cantini. The original film type, released by a tiny independent outfit called Letter Graphics, looked like it was hand drawn...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
Cooper Black’s second coming to American design in the mid-sixties, after almost four decades of slumber, can arguably be credited with (or, depending on design ideology, blamed for) the domino effect that triggered the...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Sweet Titling No. 22 is part of the Sweet Collection of engraved lettering styles from the 20th Century, published by MVB Fonts. This obscure, art deco design would have been used for engraved letterhead,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Knul is an elegant modern typeface with a subtle mono-line appearance. Balanced engineered geometry with delicate hand touches allows for practical typesetting without complications. Knuls’ mechanical simplicity is best suited to identity…
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
MVB Embarcadero lies in a space between grotesque sans serifs and the vernacular signage lettering drawn by engineers. It’s a style that happens to convey credibility and forthrightness without pretense—it’s anti-style, actually. All of...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 15, 2024
PT Sans Pro is a comprehensive type family intended for a wide range of applications. It consists of 32 styles: 6 weights (from light to black) with corresponding italics of normal proportions; 6 narrow...