Tag: Ian Lynam

June 28, 2015 Sans Serif

Onick Font

While researching the history of Onitsuka Tiger’s branding and graphic design, I came across an odd, yet highly appealing piece of custom lettering on the company’s ONICK ski boots from the 1970s. Reminiscent of aspects of the typeface Black-Out by

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June 11, 2015 Decorative

Cruller Font

Cruller is a display typeface that is based on a rare bit of lettering from a 1910 German lettering book. What was the inspiration for designing the font? I found the base lettering years ago in a specimen and scanned

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April 22, 2015 Sans Serif

Clobber Grotesk Font

Clobber Grotesk Bold is a grotesk typeface family designed for high readability. It includes a range of weights and stencil variants. The terminals of the letterforms are slightly flared in order to increase legibility. Published by WordshapeDownload Clobber Grotesk

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November 12, 2014 Retro

Maat Font

Maat is a modular geometric stencil display font that includes a number of modular pattern characters, and can be used to create designs that echo early Modernism by merely applying letters, patterns and color. Maat is a loose interpretation of

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June 1, 2014 Decorative

Neuerland Font

Neuerland is an attempt to update Rudolf Koch’s traditional hand-cut display typeface, adding ligatures and alternate characters inspired by the forms of Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase’s Avant Garde. Published by WordshapeDownload Neuerland

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