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Alexon Font
Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Originally in one weight, Steve designed and produced three additional weights. Published by Red RoosterDownload Alexon
Administer Font
Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. A few weights were originally released by another foundry; but this complete version of the family is a better match to Les original drawings! Published by Red RoosterDownload Administer
Goudy 38 Font
Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Originally designed by Frederick Goudy for the original Life magazine, circa 1908. The typeface was used almost exclusively for their advertising and was often known as Goudy Gimbel; but the typeface
Garamond Font
Garamond was originally designed by R.H. Middleton for Ludlow, circa 1929-30. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Published by Red RoosterDownload Garamond
Waverly Font
Waverly is a round and soft serif designed by Les Usherwood, digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Published by Red RoosterDownload Waverly
Norquay Font
Norquay is a vintage handcrafted sans serif font. It’s perfect for your hand drawn logos and branding. Published by Dmitry MashkinDownload Norquay
Hess Old Style Font
Designed by Steve Jackaman, Hess Old Style was originally designed by Sol Hess as just a roman and italic for Lanston Monotype, circa 1920-23. Published by Red RoosterDownload Hess Old Style
Kingsrow Font
Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Unofficially named No Frills in the early stages of development, his widow Elsie decided that it would be called Kingsrow. Published by Red RoosterDownload Kingsrow
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
Modernista Font
“Art Nouveau” happened over Europe under different names. They called it “Jugenstil” in Germany, “Le style moderne” in France, »Sezessionsstil« in Austria and Eastern Europe, “Stile Liberty” in Italy and “Modernista” in Spain. “Jugendstil” in Germany is what started modern
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
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
Haboro Slab Font
Haboro Slab. It’s a nose-to-the-grindstone kind of font like the first of its family. This slab serif pushes through the clutter powerfully in editorial and corporate work such as business websites and software. The Haboro hyperfamily as a whole is
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
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
Imperium Font
“Imperium” is the official font of the Imperium Romanum, the roman empire. Only since my youngest son decided to learn Latin do I know that the Romans had another “font” for everyday use, “Scriptura Vulgaris” an italic script. Among typomaniacs
Principe Font
“Principe” is the Bodonian idea driven to the limit by abolishing most of the hairlines! The shape is completed only by the eye of the reader. This gives room for elegant embellishments and makes for a surprisingly new look to
Breathless Font
“Breathless” was inspired by movie posters of the “Nouvelle Vague” era. When Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo were young and films in black and white. So I named this very spiky affair after that phantastic movie of my youth “A