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July 7, 2015 Serif

Garibaldi Font

Garibaldi is a text typeface based on humanist calligraphy. It has an organic look and feel, while preserves the traditional construction of roman typography. It all started with a desire to learn more about the origin of the strokes on

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May 24, 2015 Script

Gaulois Font

A couple of years before the second World War, Marcel Jacno, the popular French graphic designer who in the 1930s designed iconic posters for Gaumont and Paramount and famously illustrated the Gaulish helmet that first adorned the Gauloises cigarette packs

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April 25, 2015 Serif

Steinburg Modern Font

Steinburg Modern™ is largely a variation on a Garamond-styled typeface with differences in some character designs and in the overall character proportions. In addition, the curved brackets that were a distinctive part of Garamond’s 16th century design are perhaps the

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March 18, 2015 Serif

ATC Rosemary Font

ATC Rosemary is a didone print-font comprised of over 315 characters, producing extreme contrast between abrupt and thin serifs at large sizes. The luxurious feel of Rosemary utilizes not only hairlines and ball serifs, but expresses similarities to Romantic fonts

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February 12, 2015 Sans Serif

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,

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January 23, 2015 Serif

Bodoni Egyptian Pro Font

Beneath the dominant signifier of identity, a surprising dimension of Bodoni is revealed its core architecture, stripped of the famous high contrast cloak. Further subverting typographic norms, a monoline of even width (in all but the heaviest weights) here describes

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December 27, 2014 Serif

Journal Font

Journal type family is a low-contrast text face of the Ionic-Legibility group. It was designed at the Polygraphmash Type Design Bureau in 3 styles in 1951–53 by Lev Malanov and Elena Tsaregorodtseva.The fonts were based on Cyrillic version of Excelsior

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December 14, 2014 Serif

Peleguer Font

Peleguer typeface is the reinterpretation of the characters that the valencias goldsmiths Peleguer Manuel, father and son had opened and merged between 1779 and 1783 on behalf of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Land of Valencia “in

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November 30, 2014 Script

Alexander Quill Font

Alexander Quill was originally designed in the early 1980s to be cut in 14 point for casting into foundry type for the setting and printing of limited edition books at Pie Tree Press, Jim Rimmer’s private sanctum. This alphabet exhibits

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September 7, 2014 Sans Serif

Salzburg Font

Designed by Steve Jackaman, Salzburg is a unique and retro-like sans-serif re-tooled from the QBF Collection. Published by Red RoosterDownload Salzburg

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September 2, 2014 Script

Fellowship Font

Named in tribute to the members of the American Typecasting Fellowship, this font is an original expression of Jim Rimmer's left-handed calligraphy. It was designed and cut in 24 p in the early 1980s, then cast as foundry type on

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July 15, 2014 Sans Serif

Saint Louis Font

Designed by Steve Jackaman. Based on Players, a typeface from English designer Adrian Williams, circa 1976. Published by Red RoosterDownload Saint Louis

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April 28, 2014 Serif

P22 Matador Font

Matador is a calligraphic styling from prolific author and calligrapher Arthur Baker. It is a contemporary Roman based on the manuscript tradition. The stoic capitals add just the right touch to the slightly fanciful and unmistakable “Baker” lower case. Digitization

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March 12, 2014 Serif

Magneta 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

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