Sailor

Sailor is the digital rendition of a film type that was popular in the early- to late-1970s. The type was called West Futura Casual at Photo-Lettering by David West. Some…

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Santini font

Santini

Santini began as an experiment in mixing historical art deco, art nouveau, arts and crafts, and to a lesser extent Bauhaus sources. Surprised at the pleasant outcome of the experiment,…

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Screener font

Screener

Game over. Insert coin to continue. 1 coin, 1 play. Credits 00. Screener is the latest child of arcade alphabets. Not too trendy, not too retro, not too stand-out, yet…

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Shred font

Shred

Shred is the result of staring at so-called three-dimensional shapes for days on end, then capping the meditation by eating the white light at the end of the tunnel and…

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Skullbats font

Skullbats

Patrick Griffin's sister is a really annoying individual sometimes. Not only is she into theater, but she thinks everyone else in the universe is into it as well. So once…

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Slinger font

Slinger

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Slinger is a tribute to eighteenth century and nineteenth century wood type, inspired by the following passage from a Dime Western: Rosalinda gave a low scream of horror as she…

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Social Gothic font Soft Press font

Soft Press

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This is the rounded, softer version of Canada Type's popular Press Gothic. Originally done in 2011 for a global publisher, this font has already seen plenty of magazine and book…

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Sol Pro font

Sol Pro

Based on the classic Sol design by Marty Goldstein and C.B. Smith, published by VGC in 1973, Sol Pro goes above and beyond the call of revival/retooling to include plenty…

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Spade font

Spade

A digitization of Quadra 57 by Karl-Heinz Domning in 1974. It’s big. It’s very big. Spade is a double whammy of pure slab footprint, sharp and soft, cowboy and cowgirl,…

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