Tag: 1970s  

Rodger Font - Image 1

Rodger  Font

The Rodger typeface family’s main source of inspiration came from rounded display faces of the 1960s and 70s, but it also references sans serif, rounded typefaces found in wood type collections of the 19th century. Despite its vintage roots,  Rodger

Javelin Font - Image 2

Javelin  Font

Designed by A. Pat Hickson, Javelin is a sport-like and retro font design. Published by Red RoosterDownload Javelin

Nexstar Font - Image 3

Nexstar  Font

A display font in the best american tradition, made for sports, leisure, outdoors and any other occasion of elegant leisure. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Nexstar

Tati Font - Image 4

Tati  Font

I only had this bouncy curve and a photograph of a daily menue (Truite Meunière) I took outside an obscure Paris restaurant when starting the design of this font. But while working on it I suddenly started thinking about “Jaques

Nex Star Font - Image 5

Nex Star  Font

A display font in the best american tradition, made for sports, leisure, outdoors and any other occasion of elegant leisure. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Nex  Star

Allioideae Font - Image 6

Allioideae  Font

This fine lined display type face was named Allioideae because of the ascenders of the lower cases. They are rising upright with a single stroke and are ending – depending on the font style – into a spherical blossom.  The

Moonsafari Font - Image 7

Moonsafari  Font

Moonsafari is a 1970’s dotted geometric typeface. Designed for use in branding, signage and editorial. Published by Alley KurganDownload Moonsafari

Sitcom Outline Font - Image 9

Sitcom Outline  Font

Created by Ann Pomery in the early 90s, Sitcom has the look and feel of titling fonts used for popular TV comedy sitcoms of that time. The font is lively and playful. Best used as a display face. Published  by

Chopper Font - Image 10

Chopper  Font

In 1972, VGC released two typefaces by designer friends Dick Jensen and Harry Villhardt. Jensen’s was called Serpentine, and Villhardt’s was called Venture. Even though both faces had the same elements and a somewhat similar construct, one of them  became

Seagull Font - Image 11

Seagull  Font

Designed by Adrian Williams & Bob McGrath in 1978, Seagull is a simple, smooth and elegant slab-seerif style font design. Published by URW Type Foundry GmbHDownload Seagull

Cabrito Inverto Font - Image 12

Cabrito Inverto  Font

And so now, here it is. Cabrito Inverto, which features the reversed stress of the strokes from a font’s “normal” traits. Inverted stress fonts are most often associated with cowboys and the Old West. The inverted stress gives it  a

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Stripes  Font

Stripes is a caps only font and does not contain additional ligatures, because there is an easy way to create as many of them as you like. To form a ligature, convert your word or word string into vectors. Activate

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Fat Face  Font

This sophisticated and stylish font is ideal for titles, posters or any other design project that requires an edgy look with sharp lettering. Fat Face was designed by Phil Martin in 1971; it contains West European languages such as English

Leipziger Antiqua Font - Image 16

Leipziger Antiqua  Font

The original typeface was designed by Albert Kapr between 1971 and 1973 for Typoart in Dresden. Kapr was the font designer and teacher as well as book author on type design of former East Germany. He also was an  expert

Springfield Font - Image 17

Springfield  Font

Designed by Bob McGrath in 1978, Springfield is a decorative serif release by URW. Contains language support for West, East, Turkish, Baltic, and Romanian. Published by URW Type Foundry GmbHDownload Springfield

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Funkydori  Font

Like most children of the ‘70s, I rocked the rainbow-striped bellbottoms, decorated her room with black-light posters of unicorns, and watched The Electric Company on TV. Funkydori is my typographic homage to that groovy decade, updated for 21-st century designs.