Mythos
Min Wang, Adobe graphic designer, and Jim Wasco, Adobe type staff member, have always been fascinated by mythology from around the world. They carefully studied illustrations of legendary beasts from…
Min Wang, Adobe graphic designer, and Jim Wasco, Adobe type staff member, have always been fascinated by mythology from around the world. They carefully studied illustrations of legendary beasts from…
ITC Motter Corpus was designed in 1994 by Austrian Othmar Motter, who is an award-winning designer of logos, posters, trademarks and many corporate identity programs. Motter Corpus is an extra…
Released by the Monotype Corporation in 1931, Script Bold is based on German script-lettering styles of the early twentieth century. Although its bold weight is unusual for this style, Script…
ITC Mona Lisa, designed in 1991, is an interpretation of Albert Auspurg’s 1930 design for the German Ludwig & Mayer foundry. ITC Mona Lisa is in the family tree of…
Jim Parkinson’s Mojo is an adaptation of a lettering style that was popularized by 1960s artists Wes Wilson, Victor Moscoso, and Rick Griffin. During the heyday of rock concert impresario…
Designed by Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt for the Schriftguss foundry in 1929, Minister is a contemporary design based on Garalde types. The letters have an oblique stress, capitals are wide, serifs…
Clarinetist Milton ?Mezz? Mezzrow (1899-1972) was a remarkable jazz musician, as becomes evident upon reading his autobiography Really the Blues. His sharp tone and serpentine lines inspired English lettering artist…
The wind howled, the night grew long, and British type designer and lettering artist Tim Donaldson created the typeface Banshee. This dramatic display face is modeled after one of Donaldson�s…
In 1994, John Benson designed Balzano, Alexa and Caliban, three typefaces with a similar calligraphic character. Balzano differs from the other in its vertical figures, adding a static element to…
Released in 1967 by Linotype, Maximus is a newspaper type designed specifically for classified advertising. It is intended to be legible at very small point sizes, so the character widths…