Salome

Salome is a revival, normalization and elaborate expansion of a 1972 film face called Cantini. The original film type, released by a tiny independent outfit called Letter Graphics, looked like…

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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 Scroll font

Scroll

Earlier this year, my eyes fell upon a discarded wedding invitation on the sidewalk. A closer look at it revealed that it had at one point been victimized by rain.…

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Semplicita Pro

Semplicita Pro is a new sans serif design that effortlessly straddles the tri-cornered divide among the geometric, humanist, and gothic sans serifs. We started by reappraising Semplicità, Alessandro Butti’s important…

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Serena font

Serena

The story of Serena is a unique one among revivals. Serena was neither a metal face nor a film one. In fact it never went anywhere beyond Stefan Schlesinger’s 1940-41…

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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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Silk Script font