Tag: distressed

Alpha Beta Font

Steady in its place, ambitious in its outlook: Enter the journeyman of pack leaders. The Alpha Beta comes from behind to run ahead, before falling back; fighting and losing, fighting again, always to win. Published by BLKBKDownload Alpha Beta

Cosmic Rays Font

Floating on photons, waving wings of pure energy, tail cocked to spear spacemen. The most alluring of all celestial fauna, Cosmic Rays navigate space by swimming through pure ether–familiar in their motion and form to their water-bound cousins. Published by

1540 Mercator Script Font

This font was created inspired from the so called “Litterarum latinarum, quas italicas, cursoriasque vocant, scribendum Ratio” (Louvain 1540), a manual intended to calligraphers by the well known scientist Gerhard Mercator. It was a magnificent “Cancellaresca corsiva” pattern, enriched with

Mass Appeal Font

Down but standing tall under the weight of having it all. Above the clouds, or holding it down on the ground, the solution to and absolution of all problems with gravity: a pillar of planetary Mass Appeal. Published by BLKBKDownload

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

Bad Habits Font

Brother Radolf the Penitent enjoyed a peaceful life of prayer and penance… Until marauding heathens sacked his abbey and burned it to the ground. Now, there’s no more Mr. Nice Monk–he’s out to lash the unfaithful, wearing his Bad Habits.

1805 Jaeck Map Font

This “Pro” font is mainly inspired from the engraved characters of a German Map depicting Germany’s roads and parts of surrounding lands, edited in Berlin probably in the end of 1700’s. The engraver was Carl Jaeck or Jaek (1763-1808). The

Ohio Font

“Ohio” is a rough headline type in the tradition of Louis Oppenheimer. It is closely related to Lo-Type from Berthold, redesigned in the 1980s by Erik Spiekermann. Matter of fact, I discovered Ohio while visiting Erik in Berlin, searching his

750 Latin Uncial Font

This font was inspired from the Latin script used in european monasteries from circa 5th to 8th, before the Carolingian “Caroline”. It was a regular script, rounded, written slowly, used mainly for specially meticulous books, with a little few of

Drive Thru Font

Duncan loves the Drive Thru. He’d drive thru, and thru, and thru, whipping his insatiable appetite into a frenzy. But the glory days came to an end when cheeseburger grease slicked his steering wheel so smooth he couldn’t turn in

1968 Garaffiti Font

This font was created inspired by the paint brush letters pattern in use in the 60 – 70’s for the protest slogans tagged on the cities walls. By this distant period, we didn’t commonly used aerosols like today, and often

1543 Humane Jenson Font

In 1543 the well-known “De humani corporis fabrica” treatise on anatomy by André Vesale, was printed by Johann Oporinus in Basel (Switzerland). Various typefaces were used for this work, mostly in Latin but including Greek characters. Its Jenson-type font was

CA Postal Font

CA Postal is a cute and clever little stamp-font. It was originally intended for a record-cover only, but when the artist wanted all lyrics printed in the booklet, it was time for a font. The initial inspiration was a moveable-stamp

2011 Slimtype Font

This light manual font, with two styles, is a looking like slab serif or typewriter pattern. It is containing Western and Northern European, Icelandic, Baltic, Eastern, Central European and Turkish specific characters, plus old style numerals, ct, st and f

1776 Independence Font

1776 Independence was designed inspired mainly from the font used by John Dunlap in the night of 1776 July 4th in Philadelphia to print the first 200 sheets of the Congress’ Declaration of Independence establishing the United States of America.

1785 GLC Baskerville Pro Font

This family was created inspired from the well-known Baskerville Roman and Italic typefaces created by John Baskerville, the English font designer. We were inspired from the original family sent by Baskerville’s wife after he was death. The Baskerville’s full collection