Tag: revival

Filmotype Wand Font

Filmotype Wand was introduced in 1955 as part of the Flat Serif category. Inspired by smart slab serifs including Hellenic Wide popular in American television westerns and in heavy use in corporate letterhead and store packaging, Filmotype Wand takes a

Sperling FY Font

Sperling FY is a geometric and condensed high contrast font, characterized by its long vertical serifs. Its big i-dot as well as some other deliberately naive disproportions like the W are wonderful signs to identify Sperling FY. The accompanying italic

Unger Script Font

Unger Script is a font which is obviously based on Aldo Novarese’s Slogan designed for Nebiolo in 1957. This very expressive script design is defined by its widely swinging upper case and its quite narrowly designed lower case characters. Ralph

Rowton FY Font

Rowton FY digs its roots in Eric Gill’s views on typography in his book “An essay on Typography”. This typeface has the very British feel of the 20th century. Taking as inspiration the calligraphic illustrations of the book, Julien Priez,

Diane Script Premiere Font

Designed by the legendary French designer Roger Excoffon in 1956, this remarkable script has never been faithfully recreated until now. In close collaboration with Mark Simonson, FontHaus and Mr. Simonson painstakingly researched rare type books, publications, European metal type services,

Cloister Initials Font

Cloister Initials™ have become FontHaus’s most popular decorative initials font since we began selling it in 1993. First released in 1919 for ATF, Goudy’s “Cloister Initials”, sometimes called Goudy Initials is recognized as “one of the most beautifully designed set

Sergio FY Font

Sergio FY is an antique latin font family inspired by a 19th century wooden type font, found in an italian print – Gazetta Musicale di Milano, 10 Guigno 1897. This typeface is characterized by its large, sharp, and triangular serifs,

Plathorn Font

That’s right, folks. When the West called, Jeremy Dooley reached up like Pecos Bill, grabbed it by the reins and pulled it in, then using its wide, roaming elements to design this functional font that still has an unbroken spirit

YWFT Belle Font

YWFT Belle is an elegant script font, that is developed in opentype format. Initially inspired by the classic serif, Didot, with its graceful thick to thin forms, YWFT Belle takes on a similar sophistication, but also exudes a subtle playfulness.

New Bayreuth Font

New Bayreuth is a new and improved version of the original Bayreuth font (Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler, 1932). New Bayreuth was reworked, redesigned, completed and digitally remastered by Ralph M. Unger for URW++, based on specimen taken from old font

Diploma Font

Diploma is a revival of Diplomat, a metal type made by the in-house team of Ludwig & Mayer and first published in 1964. Strong elegant caps with confident serifs make Diploma a great addition to the toolbox of poster and

Dora Sans Font

Dora is a new face designed by TOMO. Dora is style driven, condensed sans serif typeface made by hand to add unique and sweet touch. Published by TomoDownload Dora Sans

Ronsard Crystal Font

Designed by Steve Jackaman and Ashley Muir. The original Ronsard Crystal began its life as a single-weight photolettering font in the 1950s. We lliked it so much, that we decided to design four traditional weights to go with the original