Critter

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Originally created by Craig Frazier, San Francisco designer and illustrator, for The Alphabet Critter Playbook, the clever creatures of Critter tell you their names by the letter they represent. A…

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Cottonwood font

Cottonwood

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Cottonwood is a group effort of the typeface artists K.B. Chansler, B. Lind and J. Redick and displays the unmistakable look of the Wild West. It is stylistically modelled on…

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Coriander font

Coriander

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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

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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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Rosewood font

Rosewood

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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

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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

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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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Reliq font

Reliq

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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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Raphael font 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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