Tag: hand lettering
Cedar Street Font
Cedar Street simulates the look of a ballpoint pen on a porous notepad. I find it interesting especially for the little bulbous ends of the strokes where the pen soaked into the paper. Cedar Street has a single, medium weight
Terra Ignota Font
The idea for Terra Ignota came years before I actually designed it, as I was admiring a reproduction of “Amerique Septentrionale,” a 1650 map by French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, given me by my parents. The hand-lettering has a sort of
Bonnycastle Font
Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1791–1847) was an English officer and military engineer who served in the War of 1812 and ultimately settled in Canada. I stumbled upon copies of some of his charts and maps and became so infatuated with
Marydale Font
As a casual handwriting face, Marydale works well in diagram legends, cutlines or other display type, product packaging, movie credits—in fact, in any situation when the idea is to simulate the kind of informal hand-lettering you might find on a
Frost Font
Firing Imaginations and lively connected script family of three weights, ornament and banner sets and separate caps and small caps designed to support the script. Frost is influenced by the hand lettering and sign painting of the 1950s and 1960s
Professor Font
Professor is modeled after the handwriting of an actual professor emeritus whose cursive script displays just the plain-yet-handsome, casual-yet-legible feeling I’d been looking for in a contemporary hand—one that might prove as useful in a personal letter as, say, on
Pumpkinseed Font
With its eight type styles and chockablock character set, Pumpkinseed ranks among the few truly casual handwritten typefaces with an industrial-strength, multi-purpose feel. Its name, by the way, comes from the distinctively oblong shapes of certain counters as well as
Antiquarian Font
Antiquarian was inspired by the hand-lettered headlines and captions that appear on an original page of “Atlas Historique, ou Nouvelle Introduction a L’Histoire’—a world atlas published by Henri Abraham Chatelain between 1705 and 1732 in Amsterdam—that I picked up at
Red Velvet Font
A vermilion confection, favored by Salisbury House, with lineage to the Eaton’s Original. Red Velvet: Flour, sugar, eggs, Crisco and cochineal. Remarkable not only for its insect coloring, but for its fuzzy tongue-feel. Published by BLKBKDownload Red Velvet
Sun Valley Font
The citrus spray when you crack the peel. The juice dribbling down your chin. The dry grass sticking to your fingers. An indelible part of summer and a bright ray in every day. Published by BLKBKDownload Sun Valley
Ginusto Font
Ginusto is a retro styled script font designed and released by Maghrib. Published by MaghribDownload Ginusto
Zooja Font
Both Zooja and Zooja Light have alternates for every capital and lowercase letter (that automatically swap in for consecutive characters courtesy of the OpenType ligature feature). Zooja Elements & Borders has 90+ fun decorative doodads, borders and corners that play
Fernweh Font
Fernweh – wanderlust, a desire to travel, a longing for far-off places Fernweh is a hand drawn font with beautifully crafted edges. Each character was created with pencil and pen, giving it a truly intentional hand made feel. Its a
Mighty River Font
Always resisting its constraints, we grip it in one place only to watch it exceed its limits in another, in exact proportion to the force we exert. The Mighty River will carry us forward, or push us back, and it
Baurbon Font
Baurbon is a handwritten style script design published by Maghrib. This download also includes a bonus of 40 watercolor image files, saved in pNG format. Published by MaghribDownload Baurbon
Ciclista Font
Ciclista is an extended sans-serif font crafted by hand. Using inspiration from vintage packaging and sign painting, it’s perfect for your next project. Ciclista is an all caps font with 18 different alternates you can use by holding shift, or
Stooges Races Font
Stooges Races is a retro, fast and fun display type design, released by Maghrib. This download also includes a bonus of vector silhouette files, saved in Adobe Illustrator CS3 format. Published by MaghribDownload Stooges Races