Duffy Script

An interpretation of the lettering of contemporary illustrator Amanda Duffy. Each font contains four glyphs for each character (including all numbers, punctuation, and symbols), which OpenType coding sets in “random”…

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Eunoia font

Eunoia

Eunoia is an eye-popping, high-contrast, condensed, geometric, sans serif typeface. The family is not, as is usual, built around variance in weight or skew, but alternate letterforms. Eunoia is a…

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Figgins Sans font Figgins Standard font

Figgins Standard

To meet the burgeoning demands of commerce, type founders in 1830s London introduced a plethora of new fonts which abandoned the traditional nib-informed model. Most radical were bold, capital-only designs…

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Gambado font

Gambado

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‘Bounced’ is the technical (!) term for a higgledy-piggledy style of lettering in which characters are shaken up by a combination of rotation and vertical displacement from the presumed norm…

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Goodchild Pro font

Goodchild Pro

Goodchild Pro is a pragmatic text face, equipped for sophisticated academic typography. The face has a large x-height, as there is little point in adding to the stock of rangy…

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Morphica font

Morphica

This critique of the utilitarian is a perverse and disjunctive mash-up of thematic devices: sans mixed with serif, stroke contrast applied to techno armature, body parts displaced and elided. We…

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Naiad font Neology font

Neology

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To see the “auto-mix” effect, go to the Webfont page. This typeface has been designed to demonstrate a hypothesis: consistency in letter form and style is not essential to fluent…

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Nicholas font

Nicholas

Nicholas is a headline version of Goodchild, Shinntype’s version of Jenson. It has been specially modified with very fine details and an ultra-tight fit for headlines that really get noticed.

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