Tag: italic

Cabrito Didone Font

A graceful kid if ever you’ve seen one, Cabrito Didone joins the Cabrito family of fonts–a family designed to provide young infants with clear recognition of letter forms. The original letters were released as part of the children’s book about

Condell Bio Poster Font

Condell Bio Poster is part of the bigger Condell family: a project who involves series of typographies who started to be conceived and developed since 2006. It also includes a bigger legibility version and a sans serif. Condell Bio is

Broadsheet Font

Broadsheet simulates old newspaper text from the 1700s, chiefly from two specimens: an original copy of The New-England Weekly Journal, published in Boston on April 8, 1728, and a commemorative reprint of the Massachusetts Sun, published in Worcester, Mass., on

Blithe Font

Bouncy, effortless-looking handwriting can put us at ease or make us smile. Blithe captures the casual flair of a felt-tip pen with clean monoline strokes. Laura Worthington has retained the distinctive quirks of real handwriting – such as characters that

Condell Bio Font

Condell Bio is part of the bigger Condell family: a project who involves series of typographies and whose early conception and development began in 2006. Unlike its Poster version, with its excessive and eccentric forms, Condell Bio tries to adapt

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

Origins Smooth Font

Based on letters hand-drawn with a crow quill on parchment paper, Origins combines calligraphic grace and antique ambiance. Its tight, energetic angularity can be complemented with swooping swash capitals, alternate ascending and descending letterforms, and graceful ending characters. Origins sings

Geographica Font

Geographica is a four-style serif text-type family modeled after the neat hand-lettered place names and peripheral text on the maps of Thomas Jefferys (ca. 1710–1771), the best-known map engraver in 18th-century England. Although he won (and hyped) the title “Geographer

Castine Font

Castine gets its name from a small coastal Maine town with a seagoing heritage and long history. The town has an old cemetery with a few 200-plus-year-old headstones whose distinctive carved lettering inspired the typeface that shares its name. Castine’s

eacologica Font

Eacológica round slab is a chunky slab serif typeface with thick rounded, ideal for very readable sturdy-looking titles. You can use this font for headlines in editorial design, advertising and also for designing posters, signs or posters in all cases

Attic Antique Font

Attic Antique replicates the warn, weathered text in a friend’s old copy of John Burroughs nature essays. It shares the wide spacing and ample serifs of the Century faces. Use it to represent age, to suggest photocopied archives, or to

Bonsai Font

The name “Bonsai” seems appropriate for this font for two reasons: its source of inspiration—some top-heavy text type I found in an old handbook on bonsai from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden—and its glyphs’ resemblance, however vague, to the ancient miniature

Beatrix Antiqua Font

Beatrix Antiqua is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro. Beatrix Antiqua is part of the Beatrix Family that takes its inspiration from the classic Roman monumental capital model: its capitals are directly derived from the stone carvings in