Tag: American
Navigator Font
The Navigator family is inspired by the early explorers, the early sailors with their old-style tattoos and the cowboys in the old west. I mashed up these to styles to create the Navigator display family. It has a vintage feel
Archaic Penpoint Font
This is a stylized blackletter font with many OpenType features and 403 characters — many of which are presently unknown for blackletter fonts: Caps, lowercase, small caps, old style figures, numerators, denominators, accents characters and so on. The idea is
Alphabet Soup Font
Designed by Steve Jackaman. In the early 1980’s, Steve worked at Typographic House in Boston, Massachusetts. At the time, ‘Typo’ House, as it was affectionately known, was the largest type house in New England. This font was designed and produced
Heartland Font
Heartland is handcrafted font that comprised of 4 variations: Regular, Rough, Spurs and Spurs-Rough. This is sufficiently contrast typeface, which creating the vintage atmosphere and in some way saturated American typography style. Heartland can be used like typesetting (lowercase letters)
Henderson Slab Font
A few bold caps drawn by Albert Du Bois for the 1906 Henderson Sign Painter book started me in the direction of looking at how sign painters approached slabs after the industrial revolution. The usual happened from there. My exercise
Merlo Neue Font
Merlo Neue is the younger brother of Merlo. New family received refreshed, more square proportions and a new shape of many glyphs. However, what is the most important in new Merlo, is the wide range of instances – nine new weights,
Herchey Font
Herchey is a high quality script font that contains swashes inspired by baseball team logos. Herchey conatins OpenType features such as Stylistic Alternates, Swashes, Ligatures, Stylistic set, Terminal Form and Ornaments. Published by IlhamherryDownload Herchey
Sphinx Font
Designed by Steve Jackaman, Sphinx is a serif font based on the Deberny & Peignot, circa 1925. Originally, the inline was a capitals only font. Published by Red RoosterDownload Sphinx
Mariage Font
Designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1901, Mariage is a blackletter/gothic font release by URW. Contains language support for West, East, Turkish, Baltic, and Romanian. Published by URW Type Foundry GmbHDownload Mariage
Cozza Font
The inspiration for the design of the font Cozza was Unitra Letraset from the 80s. Dry transfer lettering was used by architects from Poland and Czech Republic. Font Cozza, for each character has three alternative characters with their automatic replacement.
Kolibri Isolated Font
Designed by Kris Holmes in 1993, Kolibri Isolated is a simple script font release by URW. Contains language support for West, East, Turkish, Baltic, and Romanian. Published by URW Type Foundry GmbHDownload Kolibri Isolated
Goudy 38 Font
Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Originally designed by Frederick Goudy for the original Life magazine, circa 1908. The typeface was used almost exclusively for their advertising and was often known as Goudy Gimbel; but the typeface
Roller Font
Designed by A. Pat Hickson, Roller is a retro font design based on Iberica by Carlos Winkow for the Spanish foundry, Nacional, circa 1942. Published by Red RoosterDownload Roller
Garamond Font
Garamond was originally designed by R.H. Middleton for Ludlow, circa 1929-30. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Published by Red RoosterDownload Garamond
Waverly Font
Waverly is a round and soft serif designed by Les Usherwood, digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Published by Red RoosterDownload Waverly
Javelin Font
Designed by A. Pat Hickson, Javelin is a sport-like and retro font design. Published by Red RoosterDownload Javelin
Packard Font
Designed by Steve Jackaman & Ashley Muir. Packard Old Style is based on lettering drawn by Oswald Cooper for the Packard Motor Company (ATF 1913). The bold weight is credited to Morris Fuller Benton (ATF 1916), but it is highly
Hess Old Style Font
Designed by Steve Jackaman, Hess Old Style was originally designed by Sol Hess as just a roman and italic for Lanston Monotype, circa 1920-23. Published by Red RoosterDownload Hess Old Style