Tag: sturdy
Ironstrike Font
Ironstrike pays homage to industrial and constructivist lettering. Rigid shapes and tall lowercase letters evoke strength and technology. Seven weights with matching italic fonts step up to your tough design challenges. Fine light weights emphasize white space and powerful heavy
Basset Font
Designed by A. Pat Hickson. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Originally in five weights, Steve produced three additional weights. Published by Red RoosterDownload Basset
Gigalypse Font
Gigalypse is a one-weight workhorse. As a square sans Gigalypse can look smart, serious, and even futuristic. Round corners and curved sides add warmth and humor tempered by sophisticated geometry. This soft sophistication makes Gigalypse work whenever heavy display type
Alternate Gothic Font
Alternate Gothic was designed in 1903 by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders (ATF). The idea was to provide several alternate widths of one design, namely Alternate Gothic No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, to be more flexible
Neology Font
Variety is favored in many areas, particularly for activities which extend over time. Humanity balks at the prospect of the straight road, the assembly line, the prison cell – we are designed to respond to stimuli which vary; inertia generates
Elston Font
Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. This typeface is used by a famous European car company in all their marketing! Published by Red RoosterDownload Elston
Copacabana Font
Copacabana is heavily based on one of my favourite typefaces Goudy Old Style Italic. It is sharper and more clearly defined than Goudy yet still retains it old style characteristics. The face is slightly angled so is basically upright whilst
Armitaged Font
Sturdy and humane, Armitage renders type with vintage American warmth. Even with a subtle sparkle, Armitage stays humble to let words work. Rather than build on recent trends, Armitage starts over, derived from designs of the late nineteenth century. Designer
Contest Font
Contest is a font design released for the Mecanorma Type Collection. Copyright 2004 Trip Productions BV. Published by MecanormaDownload Contest
Organda Font
Organda is a font design released for the Mecanorma Type Collection. Copyright 2004 Trip Productions BV. Published by MecanormaDownload Organda
Becker Gothics Font
The Becker Gothics pay homage to the nineteenth century American lettering master George Becker. Designer James Puckett has given new life to the ingenious gothic alphabets found in Becker’s 1854 lettering manual Ornamental Penmanship. Use this quintet of typographic voices
Lorimer No 2 Font
Lorimer No 2 is a sans family designed for display settings. Narrow letters, tight spacing, and a low x-height make Lorimer No. 2 better suited to display settings than fonts adjusted to work in text settings. Packaging, identities, and headlines
Basilia Font
Basilia was originally designed in 1978 by Andre Gurtler of Swiss typographic team, Team 77, and released as Basilia Haas in 1982. Basilia is a clean text face with good contrast, similar to Walbaum. The contrast in thick and thin
DeLuxe Gothic Font
Michael Doret was always very aware of the fact that Morris Fuller Benton’s classic Bank Gothic, a longtime favorite of his, didn’t contain any lowercase characters. So he set out to remedy that by designing his all new DeLuxe Gothic,
Alphabet Soup Pro Font
Designed by Steve Jackaman. In the early 1980’s, Steve worked at Typographic House in Boston, Massachusetts. At the time, ‘Typo’ House, as it was affectionately known, was the largest type house in New England. This font was designed and produced
URW Grotesk Font
URW Grotesk was designed exclusively for URW by Prof. Hermann Zapf in 1985. At the same time, Zapf designed URW Antiqua to go with URW Grotesk. At that time, we were working with a large German publishing house (Axel Springer)
Bank Gothic Pro Font
If there was an American Typeface Hall of Fame, Bank Gothic, designed by the great Morris Fuller Benton would hold a place of special distinction considering this design has survived so many trends in typographic fashion since being introduced in