Stock

Stock is fat stencil on steroids, or perhaps laughing pills. Many a design will benefit from Stock's loud message. Comes in a regular style and a very unique unicase, as…

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Storyville font

Storyville

This is the redrawn and expanded version of an alphabet Rebecca Alaccari made back in 2009 as a bespoke font for a tourism agency looking to recapture the appeal of…

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Stretto font

Stretto

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Stretto (Italian for narrow) is a revival and expansion of an Aldo Novarese font called Sintex, done for VGC in 1973. Openly idiosyncratic and rebellious in its design idea, Stretto…

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Styx font

Styx

Philip Bouwsma makes use of his extensive calligraphy and type design experience by reaching into his vault and completing one of his unfinished projects from the mid-1990s. The result is…

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Sultan font

Sultan

Sultan is a revival and expansion of a 1954 Matrin Kausche typeface called Mosaik. This design highlights the unmistakable Arabic/Moorish calligraphy influence on Celtic lettering, by way of the highly…

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Swan Song font

Swan Song

Swan Song is a digitization of gorgeous free form calligraphy by British artist Rachel Yallop. It first appeared in The Calligraphy Source Book edited by Miriam Stribley (Running Press, 1986).…

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Sympathique font Symposium Pro font Tabarnak font

Tabarnak

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Tabarnak started out as an assessment and correction of an old concept by George Wilkens. The original idea was for a bold upright alphabet reminiscent of Oz Cooper’s work, but…

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Taboo font

Taboo

Taboo is a versatile font family inspired by the magnificent geometric experiments made by Armenian lettering artist Fred Africkian during the late 1970s. Virtually unknown in the west, Africkian was…

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