Filmotype Alice

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Filmotype Alice marks the beginnings of the casual handwritten script aesthetic. Introduced by Filmotype in the late 1950s, it perfectly captures the mid-century playfulness of hand lettering while providing comfortable…

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Filmotype Brooklyn font

Filmotype Brooklyn

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Filmotype Brooklyn picks off where her younger sister Filmotype Alice left off. Without the ability to embolden type photographically using its machine, Filmotype Introduced a customer requested bold weight of…

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Filmotype Jessy

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Filmotype Jessy with its flowing handwritten style was released by Filmotype in late 1950s to expand its Scripts category. Filmotype Jessy was developed from the original font filmstrips and includes…

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Filmotype Prima font

Filmotype Prima

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Initially offered in 1955, Filmotype Prima was one of Filmotype's earliest Free Style typefaces based on popular informal hand-painted lettering styles of sho-card lettering artists of the era. Remastered and…

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Filmotype Quiet font

Filmotype Quiet

Initially designed in the early-to-mid 1950s, Filmotype Quiet was among the first of its Novelty font designs. Remastered and expanded from the original source, Filmotype Quiet includes a full international…

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Adore font

Adore

In 1939 the Stephenson Blake Company bought a very popular script called Undine Ronde and began marketing under the name Amanda Ronde. Although Undine/Amanda was quite popular and can be…

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Apricot font

Apricot

A. R. Bosco made Romany for ATF in 1934, when there was much demand for script types in advertising and publishing. It was the high times of Speedball lettering, and…

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Big Brush font

Big Brush

Big Brush is the result of me seeing Brush Script everywhere around me. Toronto signage is full of Brush Script. My last two trips to the West Coast showed me…

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