Tag: transitional

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

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

Veronese Font

Designed by Steve Jackaman, Veronese is based on the early original Monotype design, you can definitely see the influence of Italian Old Style, Jenson and Morris Golden Type. Published by Red RoosterDownload Veronese

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

Waverly Font

Waverly is a round and soft serif designed by Les Usherwood, digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Published by Red RoosterDownload Waverly

Leighton Font

Designed by Paul Hickson, Leighton is a clean serif based on Lectura, a design by Dick Dooijes of the Amsterdam Foundry (1966). Published by Red RoosterDownload Leighton

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

Wurlitzer Pro Font

Designed by Steve Jackaman & Ashley Muir. This design was inspired by an early 20th century woodtype. Wurlitzer contains all the high-end features expected in a quality OpenType Pro font. Published by Red RoosterDownload Wurlitzer Pro

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

1805 Jaeck Map Font

This “Pro” font is mainly inspired from the engraved characters of a German Map depicting Germany’s roads and parts of surrounding lands, edited in Berlin probably in the end of 1700’s. The engraver was Carl Jaeck or Jaek (1763-1808). The

Edito Font

“Edito” is a completely new body copy-font. The special thing about this font is, that all serifs have the same height. So no matter if you take the thinnest cut (A) or the fattest (F), you will always have aligning

1776 Independence Font

1776 Independence was designed inspired mainly from the font used by John Dunlap in the night of 1776 July 4th in Philadelphia to print the first 200 sheets of the Congress’ Declaration of Independence establishing the United States of America.

Fat Times Font

“FatTimes” is an extension to my HardTimes family. Times are too hard for boring typefaces, so try the fat one one for a change. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Fat Times

1785 GLC Baskerville Pro Font

This family was created inspired from the well-known Baskerville Roman and Italic typefaces created by John Baskerville, the English font designer. We were inspired from the original family sent by Baskerville’s wife after he was death. The Baskerville’s full collection