Cloister font

Cloister

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First made for the Ludlow Typesetting machine, Cloister Open Face was designed in 1929 as part of the typeface series called Nicolas Jenson. These types were modeled from the 1470…

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Rad font

Rad

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John Ritter, Adobe graphic designer, adapted Rad from a skateboard alphabet that he created for a college design assignment. In Rad, he captures the “no rules” spirit of the skateboard…

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Clearface Gothic font ITC Quorum font

ITC Quorum

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ITC Quorum was designed by Ray Baker in 1977. The character shapes are essentially oval, with the design falling somewhere between serif and sans; the basic character structure is sans…

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Arial Arabic font Quake font

Quake

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After the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, Adobe’s Fryda Berd designed Quake to show that something constructive can come from something destructive.

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Prestige Elite font

Prestige Elite

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Prestige Elite is a slab serif monospaced typeface originally intended for use on a typewriter. It was designed in 1953 by Howard Kettler for IBM. Prestige Elite is a good…

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Postino font

Postino

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Tim Donaldson, creator of Banshee and Coriander, brings us Postino - a quirky display type modeled roughly on the typewriter face, Courier. Sturdy yet playful, Postino is aptly named by…

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Cheq font

Cheq

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A set of chessmen and related symbols. Another version from Linotype can be found at

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