ITC Ozwald

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ITC Ozwald joins its close relative Cooper Black in the family of heavy display faces. ITC Ozwald comes from the lineage known as “Fat Face” types, but informal, curvaceous, and…

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Ouch! font

Ouch!

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It was a sprained ankle that inspired Joachim Müller-Lancé to design Ouch. During the 1995 ATypI convention, he spent the entire time on crutches, and during his hands-on time in…

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Caliban font

Caliban

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In 1994, John Benson designed the typefaces Caliban, Alexa and Balzano, all with similar characteristics. The typefaces are distinguished by their calligraphic style and their closeness to handwritten script. Caliban…

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Onyx MT font

Onyx MT

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Gerry Powell, typographer, industrial designer, and director of typographic design for American Type Founders, designed Onyx for ATF in 1937. A very popular advertising type in the 1940s, Onyx resembles…

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Caflisch Script Pro font Bundesbahn Pi font

Bundesbahn Pi

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“Bundesbahn” translates roughly to “national railway.” The characters in this pi font are used by the German national rail system. An assortment of travel and train symbols, Bundesbahn Pi could…

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Nyx font

Nyx

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Nyx is a stencil typeface designed by lettering artist Rick Cusick and named after the designer's muse: the Greek goddess of night. Classic roman capital forms underlie its sharp, energetic…

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Nueva font

Nueva

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A display face with strong contrast between thick and thin strokes and a distinct calligraphic influence, the Nueva font family is useful for display work in magazines, on packaging and…

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Blue Island font

Blue Island

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British designer Jeremy Tankard began Blue Island in 1996 with the idea of creating a completely ligature-based roman typeface, an original but complex task that took years to realize. Individually,…

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Blackoak font

Blackoak

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Joy Redick designed Blackoak, a big and heavy Egyptienne-sytle titling slab serif face, in 1990. The extremely robust style of the characters in this typeface was consciously distorted; creating letterforms…

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