Among the many display faces Milton Glaser designed during the heyday of Push Pins Studios was the pattern for this dramatically shadowed face, whose original name—for reasons unexplained—was “Kitchen.” Well, whatever the reason, it’s...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
“Modern Caps”—and lowercase, too—was how Ross George described the pattern for this typeface in his Speedball Text Book. Not surprisingly, the design was used on the Beatles’ original Magical Mystery Tour album, which suggested...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
Here’s another gem by Ross F. George from the Speedball Text Book. It was originally entitled simply Bold Display (Modern Alphabets on Parade) and had a graduated spatter pattern. This version omits the pattern,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 15, 2024
Circe™ is a geometric sans-serif with some humanist qualities. It consists of six weights from Thin to Extra Bold in both Normal and Italic styles. Circe, like the Greek goddess it is named after,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
London is always hip. With William and Kate and the 2012 Summer Olympics it made sense that London Doodles would be second in the City Series following Paris Doodles. 29 illustrations and a script...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Peepz AF features 100 different faces and has been designed to raise much needed money for Keech Hospice Care, a UK charity that runs two hospice services – one for adults and one for...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Populaire is a hand-drawn font that mimics true handcrafted lettering. Counting 4 glyphs for each letter, the laborious kerning table ensures that the glyphs are really exchangeable. Yet, there’s a cool set of ornaments...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 13, 2023
From the lab of Open Window comes Farm Girl. Farm Girl was inspired by old Art Nouveau posters from Toulouse Lautrec and others. Farm Girl utilizes the same ‘loosey-goosey’ quality as those posters. Farm...