Marydale

While helping produce a trade magazine years ago, I admired the hand-lettering of the art director -- a woman named Marydale -- and suggested she let me model a font…

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Midnight font Oak Street font TWT Prospero font Viktorie font

Viktorie

Viktorie might easily be mistaken for the handwriting of a note-taker in a hurry: it looks swiftly jotted down. These energetic characters pay little heed to such arbitrary contraints as…

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Homage Condensed font 112 Hours font

112 Hours

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  • Post category:modern

Rian Hughes’ 15th collection of fonts, “112 Hours”, is entirely dedicated to numbers. Culled from a myriad of sources – clock faces, tickets, watches house numbers – it is an…

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Armstrong font

Armstrong

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  • Post category:modern

An elegant geometric linking script that uses OpenType programming to intelligently substitute "beginning" and "ending" characters with uniquely designed variants. The family also includes swash alternates that can be toggled…

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Capitol Capitals font

Capitol Capitals

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  • Post category:modern

DF Capitol features two faces, DF Capitol Skyline and DF Capitol Capitals (a multi-weight all-caps compliment) that epitomise Streamline Moderne. Strong geometry and large, open counters with heavily condensed verticals…

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Charterhouse font

Charterhouse

  • Post author:Devicestaff
  • Post category:modern

A heavy obround sans with a high x-height and unusual lower-case spurs that flow up and into the bowl. This curve is mirrored in the ascenders. The alternates provide for…

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