Tag: baroque

Bellini Font - Image 1

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

Kingsley Font - Image 2

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

Gargoyle Font - Image 3

Gargoyle Font

Designed by Steve Jackaman, Gargoyle is based on the original Adrian Williams typeface design, circa 1976 and Brook Type in 1903 designed by Lucien Pissaro. Published by Red RoosterDownload Gargoyle

Chelsea Font - Image 4

Chelsea Font

Designed by Les Usherwood, Chelsea is a serif design digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Published by Red RoosterDownload Chelsea

Raffish Font - Image 5

Raffish Font

Raffish is a display typeface with its formal base in Dutch type designer Henk Krijger’s seminal typeface Raffia – the most decorative and handsome of script typefaces. It is ornamental, baroque and relies on a triple-stroke structure that infers weight

Madrid Font - Image 8

Madrid Font

Designed by Steve Jackaman, Madrid is based on the typeface Nacional by Carlos Winkow from the Spanish foundry, Nacional (1941). Published by Red RoosterDownload Madrid

Copacabana Font - Image 9

Copacabana Font

Copacabana is heavily based on one of my favourite typefaces Goudy Old Style Italic. It is sharper and more clearly defined than Goudy yet still retains it old style characteristics. The face is slightly angled so is basically upright whilst

Monarcha Font - Image 10

Monarcha Font

Monarcha is a type family with strong influence of the baroque style, for extended texts. Its roman versions are slightly skewed, in the sense of reading, and its italics have unusual calligraphic features. Moreover, the contrast between thick and thin

Coliseum Font - Image 11

Coliseum Font

Coliseum was designed by A. Pat Hickson/Julie Hopwood. An original design and release by Red Rooster. Published by Red RoosterDownload Coliseum

Braga Font - Image 12

Braga Font

DSType proudly introduces BRAGA, an exuberant baroque typeface, named after a portuguese city, also known as the baroque capital of Portugal. Our latest typographic extravaganza comes with a multitude of fonts designed to work like layers, allowing to insert color,

Brigade Font - Image 13

Brigade Font

In searching for a Roman to use there were bits of Bembo,Times,Garamond etc., that I liked and bits that I did not. So I set out to take the best bits of all my favourite Romans and tried to create

Poor Richard Font - Image 14

Poor Richard Font

Designed by Paul Hickson. Based on the Keystone Type Foundry design, circa 1919. The l/c ‘g’ appears as an alternate character in our font. Published by Red RoosterDownload Poor Richard

Beckenham Font - Image 15

Beckenham Font

Designed by Les Usherwood, Beckenham was digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. The x-heights are radically different; the x-height on the light version is small, and gets larger as the weights progress. Published by Red RoosterDownload Beckenham

YWFT Herzog Font - Image 16

YWFT Herzog Font

Originally drawn in 2008 by YouWorkForThem, we revisited the Herzog drawings in 2011 and developed them into a fully functional opentype font release. YWFT Herzog comes with two style options (regular and alternate), with each style containing opentype stylistic alternates

Argus Font - Image 17

Argus Font

Designed by Steve Jackaman, Argus is a serif design based on the popular 1968 VGC typeface. Published by Red RoosterDownload Argus

Testament Font - Image 18

Testament Font

From the standpoint of calligraphy, a font family of capitals and uncials makes perfect sense. The Roman square capitals, the quadrata, are matched by round capitals of older Greek origin; the word “uncus” means hook-shaped like a beak or talon.