Coriander

Coriander is the work of British designer Timothy Donaldson. It started out as a doodle one afternoon Donaldson was bored and uninspired. He wrote the word Coriander" and was then…

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Copal font

Copal

Inspired by the carvings on meso-American monuments, David Lemon of Adobe's type staff created Copal. It is named after a resin that was burned as incense by ancient cultures and…

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Conga Brava

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Conga Brava is the work of type designer Michael Harvey, a combination of the high-minded, purist letterforms of revivalist, modern calligraphers with the mundane, even crude, lettering of warehouse stenciling.…

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Rosewood font

Rosewood

Rosewood font, like its relatives Zebrawood, Pepperwood and Ponderosa, was created by the designer trio K.B. Chansler, C. Crossgrove and C. Twombly, and has its roots in the slab serif…

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Romic font

Romic

Designed by Colin Brignall in 1979 for Letraset, Romic is based on pen-formed letters and was created to offer a new approach to serif design that would allow for close…

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Revue font

Revue

Inspired by posters of the early 1900s, Revue was designed for Letraset in 1968 by Colin Brignall. Revue is a sans serif design characterized by heavy bow-shaped letterforms, strokes that…

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Reporter font

Reporter

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C. Winkow designed Reporter for the Wagner foundry in 1938. The strokes of this interesting script have the texture of dry brushwritten letters, and the alignment is slightly irregular, giving…

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Reliq font

Reliq

Carl Crossgrove designed Reliq, a unique typeface reminiscent of early Greek and Roman graffiti. The Calm letters are positioned more or less normally along the baseline, while the Active letters,…

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