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Pani Deco  Font

Pani Deco is a typeface based on a poster designed in 1928 by Polish artist Anna Harland-Zajczkowska. It is part of a series inspired by the aesthetics of Poland, circa 1908 to 1939. Published by Brendan CieckoDownload Pani  Deco

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Filmotype Athens  Font

Introduced by Filmotype in 1955, Filmotype Athens was among Filmotype’s first condensed handlettered sho-card brush script faces for narrow applications where economy and style were paramount to the design while retaining legibility and easy readability. Filmotype Athens developed from  the

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Graphique Pro  Font

Graphique was originally created by Swiss designer Hermann Edenbenz in 1945, and issued as hot metal font by Haas’sche Schriftgieberei, Switzerland. German type designer Ralph M. Unger digitally remastered and expanded the typeface for profonts, and the digital OTF  Pro

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Tzigane  Font

Tzigane is a font design released for the Mecanorma Type Collection. Copyright 2004 Trip Productions BV. Published by MecanormaDownload Tzigane

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The Steinweiss Script Family  Font

Based on the calligraphic work of Alex Steinweiss, the pioneering graphic designer who is credited with being The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover, Steinweiss Script is a family of fonts in three weights: Light, Medium, and Bold. Additionally,  within

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Filmotype Hudson  Font

Released by Filmotype in 1955, Filmotype Hudson was among Filmotype’s most popular upright informal style brush scripts inspired by sign painter classic brush script styles popular in the 1950s in periodical advertisements for automotive dealerships, grocery stores and spectaculars  to

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DeLuxe Gothic  Font

Michael Doret was always very aware of the fact that Morris Fuller Benton’s classic Bank Gothic, a longtime favorite of his, didn’t contain any lowercase characters. So he set out to remedy that by designing his all new DeLuxe Gothic,

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Iron Maiden  Font

Designed by Steve Jackaman, Iron Maiden is a retro display face released by Red Rooster. Published by Red RoosterDownload Iron  Maiden

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Transat Text  Font

Transat Text is a geometric sans serif typeface, and is the more rational sibling to the unabashedly Art Deco “Transat”. Transat Text has a slightly taller x-height than its counterpart, making it easier to read at small sizes, but  also

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Arius  Font

Designed by Karl Nayeri, Arius is a font released for the Prime Graphics Type Collection. Copyright Prime Graphics. Published by Prime GraphicsDownload  Arius

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Megaphone  Font

Designed by Steve Jackaman and Ashley Muir. It was our initial intention to develop a suitable lowercase for Les Usherwood’s ‘Elston’ typeface, based on a few characters from an old German typeface called Hermes Grotesque (Woellmer, Berlin). The new  design

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Hipster Script  Font

Hipster Script is another of my habitual attempts at trying to reduce the divide between manual and digital. In this case, I try to articulate brush lettering, try to get the computer to emulate continuous painting. The process wasn’t  that

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Eucaliptus  Font

Eucaliptus™ is the recreation of a decorative typestyle that was used in package design during the 1940s. The Bold version of this family is the basis of the design. The light version is a secondary face only to be  used

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Concurso Italian  Font

Concurso Italian was inspried by travel posters of the 1920s – Use it for travel posters, passports, luggage stickers or an elegant vintage look. Published by Breaking The NormDownload Concurso Italian