Tag: 1950s
Kontora Font
Kontora is a basic and universal geometric grotesque design, that can be applied to various styles of layouts. It has minimum details, mostly modern proportions and letter forms, along with a touch of retro. Published by NaumTypeDownload Kontora
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
Hand Stamp Slab Serif Rough Font
The typeface “Hand Stamp Slab Serif Rough” is designed for the Typo Graphic Design font foundry in 2017 by Manuel Viergutz. The display font with a classic slab serif type for headlines, based on real rubber stamp letters for a
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
Monday Font
Monday is a bold and strong script family of two weights and a matching ornament set. Monday has a polished 1950s hand lettering feeling to it and it is ideal for logo, packaging and brand design purposes. Monday is equipped
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
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
Sonora Pro Font
Sonora is a new profonts script typeface family supplied in the new OpenType Pro font format. Sonora contains six styles as light, medium, bold and the corresponding italics. The character set covers about 1.500 glyphs for the complete Latin character
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
Steak Font
Here I am, once again digging up 60-year sign lettering and trying to reconcile it with the typography of my own time. The truth is I’ve had this particular Alf Becker alphabet in my sights for a few years now.
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
CA Spy Royal Font
Spy Royal is a junctionless script typeface and comes in 6 styles. It’s a hybrid between script and so called streamline fonts. The origins are based on an advertising by Japan Airlines, dated around 1954, offering flights to San Francisco,