Tag: 1950s
The Carpenter Font
The Carpenter is an elegant and versatile connected script family of three weights. The Carpenter also has a set of ornaments, patterns and pictograms designed to support the script font. The Carpenter has plenty of OpenType features: To activate the
Palette Font
Designed by Martin Wilke in 1951, Palette is a script font release by URW. Contains language support for West, East, Turkish, Baltic, and Romanian. Published by URW Type Foundry GmbHDownload Palette
Normalise Din Font
Normalise Din is a font design released for the Mecanorma Type Collection. Copyright 2004 Trip Productions BV. Published by MecanormaDownload Normalise Din
Sayer Spiritual Font
Sayer Spiritual is a font design released for the Mecanorma Type Collection. Copyright 2004 Trip Productions BV. Published by MecanormaDownload Sayer Spiritual
Diane Script Premiere Font
Designed by the legendary French designer Roger Excoffon in 1956, this remarkable script has never been faithfully recreated until now. In close collaboration with Mark Simonson, FontHaus and Mr. Simonson painstakingly researched rare type books, publications, European metal type services,
URW Egyptienne Font
URW Studio’s powerful slab-serif family, Egyptienne is a great choice for website designs. It contains over 50 styles with language support in both Western and Eastern European languages like Turkish or Baltic ones that can be found on some keyboards
Recta Font
Recta was one of Aldo Novarese’s earliest contributions to the massive surge of the European sans serif genre that was booming in the middle of the 20th century. Initially published just one year after Neue Haas Grotesk came out of
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
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
Filmotype Homer Font
Introduced by Filmotype in the early to mid-1950s, Filmotype Homer was created in response to customer demand for a wider brush script expanding on Filmotype’s popular sign painter sho-card lettering styles used in the late 1940s through the 1950s. With
Buffet Font
Buffet Script is based on fantastic calligraphy by Alf Becker, arguably the greatest American sign lettering artist of all time. The Alf Becker series of nameless alphabets published by Sign of the Times magazine in 1941 have attracted letter digitizers
Brush Font
Brush is a font design released for the Mecanorma Type Collection. Copyright 2004 Trip Productions BV. Published by MecanormaDownload Brush
Microgramma Font
Microgramma was designed to Swiss principles by Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese for Nebiolo in 1952 as an improvement on the squared-off Bank Gothic capitals. The design was revisited by the same designers ten years later; Eurostile was the result.
Globe Font
A retro and clean typeface designed by Phil Martin, works great in body and headline usage. Published by URW Type Foundry GmbHDownload Globe
Monolith Sans Font
Designed by Tony Mayers in 2004, Monolith Sans is a unique and modern sans-serif type design. Published by ABCTypesDownload Monolith Sans
Filmotype Melody Family Font
Originally released in the late 1950s, Filmotype expanded it’s Free Style typeface category with the introduction of Melody, an offbeat Googie era doo-wop typeface which was most frequently associated with music and entertainment lettering styles throughout the last 1950s and
Monolith Roman Font
Designed by Tony Mayers in 2004, Monolith Roman is a unique and modern serif type design. Published by ABCTypesDownload Monolith Roman
Ronsard Crystal Font
Designed by Steve Jackaman and Ashley Muir. The original Ronsard Crystal began its life as a single-weight photolettering font in the 1950s. We lliked it so much, that we decided to design four traditional weights to go with the original