Else NPL

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At first glance, Else may seem to be similar to many of the Century typefaces, with its prominent figures and sturdy alphabet. But when Robert Norton, of Norton Photosetting Ltd.,…

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Stempel Schneidler font

Stempel Schneidler

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F.H.Ernst Schneidler, type designer and teacher, originally designed Schneidler Old Style in 1936 for the Bauer foundry. Stempel Schneidler is based on the typefaces of Venetian printers from the Renaissance…

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Conga Brava font

Conga Brava

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Conga Brava is the work of type designer Michael Harvey, a combination of the high-minded, purist letterforms of revivalist, modern calligraphers with the mundane, even crude, lettering of warehouse stenciling.…

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Chaparral Pro font

Chaparral Pro

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Created by Adobe type designer Carol Twombly, Chaparral combines the legibility of slab serif designs popularized in the 19th century with the grace of 16th-century roman book lettering. The result…

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Halesworth font Photina MT font

Photina MT

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As its name implies, Photina was created specifically for phototypesetting, the technology that preceded digital and laser typesetting. Photina was designed by Jose Mendoza y Almeida in 1971 and was…

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Penumbra Serif font

Penumbra Serif

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Penumbra is a capitals only design. Based on inscriptional capitals, the style progresses from a sans serif to a serifed design. The Penumbra font family is useful for posters, book…

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ITC Mendoza Roman font

ITC Mendoza Roman

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José Mendoza began working with type in the early 1950s when he was an assistant to the innovative French graphic and type designer Roger Excoffon. ITC Mendoza Roman, designed in…

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Kinesis font

Kinesis

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Kinesis was designed by Mark Jamra. The truly kinetic nature of this typeface makes it as suitable for display settings as for longer blocks of text. Balancing unconventional forms and…

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Warnock font

Warnock

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Designed by Robert Slimbach, Warnock Pro is an Adobe Originals type composition family named after John Warnock, the co-founder of Adobe Systems, whose visionary spirit has led to major advances…

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