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Formosa Font
Formosa is the old, colonial name for Taiwan. Formosa means beautiful in Portuguese and I think this handwritten typeface has a certain beauty itself. It comes in three styles, all of which make extensive use of ligatures, to give the
Bw Darius Font
Bw Darius is an elegant wedge serif typeface, halfway between the transitional and didone genres, with a sharper approach to terminals without falling on the stiffness of the didones. The wide skeleton, modern proportions and high contrast, all contribute to
Stanhope Font
Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Paul Hickson. Les based the design on a turn-of-the-century typeface of the same name. The foundry is believed to be Soldans & Payvers, circa 1904. Published by Red RoosterDownload Stanhope
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
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
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
Pointino Font
“Pointino” is a very pointed script. It comes in three versions: Pointino-A has good looking curves, Pointino-B has more of those good looking curves and Pointino-C has fewer, but still sensational curves. Pointino is very sexy, as sexy as typefaces
Fleurons Initials Font
“Fleurons Initials” are a set of elegantly decorated blocked initials, reminding of old Jazz and Circus Posters. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Fleurons Initials
Artegio Font
“Artegio” is an elegant, joining, classical script with impressive horizontal swirls. I designed an comlementary set with simpler capitals, lower-case ending letters and medieval ciphers. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Artegio
Movie Script Font
“Movie Script” is the script that was used in German movie-brochures. Those were small four page leaflets with a lot of sepia-colored pictures about the movie one was about to see. Today those things are collectors items. The script was
