Wolpe Tempest

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“It looks like it could have been designed last year,” says Toshi Omagari, the lead designer for The Wolpe Collection, about the original Tempest typeface. For Wolpe Tempest™, Omagari drew…

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Zeitgeist font

Zeitgeist

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With Zeitgeist, designer Michael Johnson explored the limitations of early digital technology: the letters are built up in the style of low resolution bitmaps. The design was completely carried out…

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Zemestro font

Zemestro

Zemestro from 2003 was one of the first of the new “squarish sans-serifs”. Its designer David Farey says: “There’s nothing calligraphic about it, and there are no defining or identifiable…

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Adrianna font

Adrianna

  • Post author:Chankstaff
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Adrianna is a fashionable yet restrained sans-serif font family for sophisticated designs. It’s a smart and versatile family of fonts, comprised of 30 styles across a range of three widths.…

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Aguas Frescas font

Aguas Frescas

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The Aguas Frescas font family is an outline, hand-drawn display typestyle that reflects script handwriting with a lively, whimsical twist. It is a flowery little font that dances across headlines…

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Ammonia font

Ammonia

Ammonia is a simple sans serif made fumey and gloopy. Strange little dendrites poke out from some of the characters, causing some linkage between letters.

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B Complex font

B Complex

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The best things in life begin with a B. Bikes, Burgers, Beers, Babes. The B Complex font is a picture font by illustrator Adam Turman that shows his drawings of…

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Badoni font

Badoni

"Grunge Typography? I invented it!" claims Chank Diesel. Badoni was created in 1993 for use in CAKE, a fanzine that reveled in grunge music. As creative director of CAKE, Chank…

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Bell Martellus font

Bell Martellus

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Full of texture and regal personality, Bell Martellus was derived from a book published in 1475 by Henricus Martellus entitled “Liber Insularum.” The writing style is based on the Carolingian…

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Billsville font

Billsville

  • Post author:Chankstaff
  • Post category:serif

Billsville is a fun font that mixes the casual sassy flair of an old Flintstone cartoon with the upright legible nature of a classic serif font to create something entirely…

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