Tag: legible

Harry Pro Font

This revival of Harry is based on the original design by Marty Goldstein (and C.B. Smith). Goldstein, born in Chicago in 1939, was the co-founder of the groundbreaking Creative Black Book. He graduated from the Pratt Institute in 1960. Harry,

Carlton Font

Designed during the early 1900s for the Stephenson Blake Typefoundry, Carlton has recently become a popular roman alphabet again. It is used extensively in display sizes when a discreet, elegant appearance is needed. Carlton’s qualities are maximised by generous letter

Baskerville Old Face Font

Baskerville Old Face is a classic and elegant serif font, originally designed by John Baskerville in 1768. Baskerville Old Face contains West, East, Turkish, Baltic, Romanian language support. Published by URW Type Foundry GmbHDownload Baskerville Old Face

Bodoni Campanile Font

Bodoni Campanile was originally designed by R.H. Middleton for Ludlow, circa 1930. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Published by Red RoosterDownload Bodoni Campanile

Classic XtraRound Font

Classic XtraRound is a companion typeface to Classic Round, designed by Ben Blom. Although Classic Round has a lot of roundness, Classic XtraRound has more. Classic XtraRound has maximum roundness — no sharp corners, anywhere. Classic XtraRound has maximum roundness

Magneta Condensed Font

To describe what inspired Magneta would be to add a little Dwiggins, throw in some Benton with a hint of Austin, wrap it up in a crisp, contemporary package and serve. The skeleton of the family is a Garalde (like

URW Bodoni Font

URW Bodoni is a family of 50 serif typefaces first designed by Giambattista Bodoni in 1798. The typeface is classified as didone modern. Bodoni followed the ideas of John Baskerville, as found in the printing type Baskerville, that of increased

Futura No 2 Font

Futura No. 2 is Letraset’s version of Futura from the 1980s, digitized by and at URW in opentype format. Futura. The very name brings to mind jet-age splendor of the highest order, and indeed the text on the commemorative plaque

Astoria Font

Based heavily on Gill Sans especially in the mid weights, Astoria has a subtle top left serif which makes it not quite a Roman and not quite a Sans. Designed specifically as a text face it still works very well

Karmina Font

Karmina is a text typeface developed mainly for pocket books and budget editions. It was built to withstand the worst printing conditions: low quality papers, high printing speed with web presses and variations in the ink level of the printing

Citation Font

Eminent British lettering artist Trevor Loane created this distinguished, all capital, Roman typeface. The elegant, stately letters evoke the effect of type incised in stone or slate. Excellent for work where an expensive, upscale appearance is desired. Published by LetrasetDownload

Gilman Font

The idea for Gilman started simple enough, a serif typeface that works well for large amounts of text. However, after many struggles creating a quality typeface digitally, I decided to first draw the complete alphabet by hand on paper, and