Tag: American
Kingsrow Font
Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Unofficially named No Frills in the early stages of development, his widow Elsie decided that it would be called Kingsrow. Published by Red RoosterDownload Kingsrow
Bellini Font
Designed by A. Pat Hickson, Bellini is an original design based on the typeface Progreso from the Gans foundry circa 1923. Published by Red RoosterDownload Bellini
Ultra Modern Font
Designed by Douglas C. McMurtrie and digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman, Ultra Modern is based on the original Ludlow drawings, circa 1928. Published by Red RoosterDownload Ultra Modern
Kingsley Font
Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. This beautiful recreation by Les of the Frederick Goudy typeface, Kennerley Old Style, circa 1911-24, may be superior to any other. Published by Red RoosterDownload Kingsley
Sinclair Font
Designed by A. Pat Hickson, Sinclair is an original script design released by Red Rooster. Published by Red RoosterDownload Sinclair
Willard Sniffin Font
Designed by Willard T. Sniffin. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Based on the original Willard T. Sniffin design of 1933 for ATF, this informal brush script was known as Keynote. Published by Red RoosterDownload Willard Sniffin
Gilmore Fahrenheit Font
Gilmore Fahrenheit is an original font design by A. Pat Hickson and Steve Jackaman for the Red Rooster Collection. Published by Red RoosterDownload Gilmore Fahrenheit
Felicita Font
Felicità is based on the design of my “Ellida” font family. It was designed with “happiness” in mind. Therefore I used extremely high contrast between the down- and upstrokes, this gives the fonts a lively, happy appearance. I designed two
Exprima Font
Exprima is a very expressive script with lots of contrast. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Exprima
Frank Woods Font
“Frank Woods” is a wooden typeface based on the form of Franklin Gothic Heavy. The three cuts fit together and enable the user to create a lot of impressive variations. The amount of points in the font make it impossible
Ela Swashes Font
“Ela Swashes” are not meant to and can not be used as a standalone typeface. Swashes are a set of many different embellished letters to be used together with Ela Demiserif fonts of corresponding weights. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Ela
Franklin Gothic Raw Font
When drawing a new font, there is a time when the final form is found – almost – but the curves are not slick and clean yet, that’s what I call the “raw” form. Raw – no sweeteners added! In
CA Oskar Compressed Font
CA Oskar came into being as a custom typeface for the international Traumzeit music festival. As a substantial part of the new corporate identity, it had to be characteristic, but also flexible in use. Starting with the design of compressed
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.
Morning News Font
“Morning News” is the sister font of “Evening News” which I designed some years ago for use with my local newspaper “Abendzeitung”. “Morning News” is an adaption, a little bit rounder, which gives the font a much softer touch. The
Dylan Condensed Font
Dylan is a Sans typeface in the best American tradition. In order to keep corners open and to make the font more readable in small sizes it has deep cuts where curves join straights. I designed 8 finely tuned weights
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
Metra Serif Font
“Metra” has the clarity of a classical Sans font and the charm and elegance of a Gothic Copperplate. I designed it because for some purposes one needs a Serif with that cool “Sans” look. I sell the font in 5