Tag: 1950s

BIG Stencil Font

BIG is an elegant condensed display font created for strong and impactful headlines. It comes from a series of hand printed specimens taken from wood type found in Porto (Portugal) that reassembles the industrial victorian style. With a family of

Frost Font

Firing Imaginations and lively connected script family of three weights, ornament and banner sets and separate caps and small caps designed to support the script. Frost is influenced by the hand lettering and sign painting of the 1950s and 1960s

Skipper Font

Skipper is a bold and flowing connected script. Skipper is equipped with three alternate characters for every basic letter: click on Swash, Stylistic or Titling Alternates on any OpenType savvy programs to create custom looking designs. Inside Skipper there’s a

Vanilla Shot Font

Vanilla Shot is a smooth script family with two weights and an ornament set. Vanilla Shot has its roots in commercial American sign painting of the 1950s and 1960s. Vanilla Shot has more than 1000 glyphs per cut to help

Banana Yeti Font

Banana Yeti is a brush script typeface with a condensed vertical slant, inspired by a handmade sample drawn by the calligrapher Ross Frederic George and depicted in Speedball 1947 Textbook Manual. Banana Yeti has a vintage brush script look, perfect

Oilvare Font

Oilvare is a hand-drawn, layered typeface family inspired by vintage painted signs and oil cans. While sturdy, it also has a softer side—wide proportions, oval-inspired forms, curled angle strokes (see characters like the K and V), and a medium contrast

Bonsai Font

The name “Bonsai” seems appropriate for this font for two reasons: its source of inspiration—some top-heavy text type I found in an old handbook on bonsai from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden—and its glyphs’ resemblance, however vague, to the ancient miniature

Advertising Script Font

Advertising Script is a brush script typeface inspired by a handmade sample drawn by the calligrapher Ross Frederic George and depicted in Speedball 1947 Textbook Manual. Advertising Script has a vintage brush script look, perfect for food packaging, display and

Alys Font

Designed by A. Pat Hickson. An original design. A memorial typeface by Pat for her mother, Alys, who was tragically killed. Published by Red RoosterDownload Alys

Byron Font

Designed by A. Pat Hickson, Byron is a script font based on a turn of the century design. Published by Red RoosterDownload Byron

Maxim Font

Maxim was originally designed by Peter Schneidler in 1956 for the Bauer foundry. Ralph M. Unger redrew and digitized this font exclusively for profonts in 2003. His work is based on artwork taken from old font catalogues. Published by URW

Daiquiri Font

“Daiquiri” is a revival of a handlettered font in two weights, from an ad for Puerto Rico Rum dating back to the forties or fifties. I found the ad on a French antique market on my last visit for Mardi

Fat Times Font

“FatTimes” is an extension to my HardTimes family. Times are too hard for boring typefaces, so try the fat one one for a change. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Fat Times