Serpentine

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Designed by Dick Jensen for the Visual Graphics Corporation, Serpentine is a contemporary sans serif display typeface. The light weight has some of the feel of a computer screen, while…

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Graphite

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Graphite was designed by David Siegel, who began thinking about the typeface in 1982, looking for an architect's handwriting with a chiselled pencil" look. The handwriting of San Francisco architect…

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Zipty Do font

Zipty Do

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Zipty Do is based on the handwriting of lettering artist and type designer Robert Alonso. Its letterforms were originally created as rough marker drawings, which were then digitally scanned and…

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Zebrawood font

Zebrawood

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Zebrawood font is a joint work of the typeface designers K.B. Chansler, C. Crossgrove and C. Twombly, who also designed Rosewood, Ponderose and Pepperwood together. Like its relatives, Zebrawood also…

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ITC Zapf Dingbats font

ITC Zapf Dingbats

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These symbols were designed by Hermann Zapf in 1978 to complement contemporary typefaces and visually enhance communication. They can be applied to a wide range of documents, from invitations to…

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Goudy Modern MT font

Goudy Modern MT

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The English scholar of typography, Stanley Morison, wrote of Monotype Corporation’s Goudy Modern: “It is strikingly handsome in mass (and) reads easily, in spite of the fact that it is,…

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ITC Goudy Sans font

ITC Goudy Sans

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Goudy’s fondness for oldstyle Roman types shows through even in this sans-serif design, making the family more readable than its geometric competitors. And while Frederic Goudy actually only designed three…

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Adobe Wood Type Ornaments font