Samira

I must admit that I am not a big fan of the Art Nouveau style. However, I found this particularly beautiful alphabet and decided to use it as the basis…

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Ransahoff CT font Radiant CT Extra Cond font Progreso font

Progreso

Progreso is a condensed, unicase, serif gothic type design inspired by the hand-lettering on Russian posters from the 1920s. Supports most European languages, including modern Greek and most languages that…

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Plantain font

Plantain

  • Post author:CastleTypestaff
  • Post category:serif

Plantain was commissioned by Smarter Image for their catalog design of several years ago. Very bold and tightly spaced; ideal for large headlines and ad work. This font also contains…

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Norberto font

Norberto

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Norberto, a CastleType original, is based on a Russian design from the late 19th century that in turn appears to be based on Bodoni. However, Norberto is a much warmer…

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Minotaur font

Minotaur

Minotaur is an original monoline design based on an Oscan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscan_language ) votive inscription from the second century B.C.E. The letterforms immediately caught my eye in the wonderful book, Lettering…

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Metropolis CT font

Metropolis CT

Metropolis Bold was commissioned by Publish magazine for their 1990 redesign. Although other digital versions exist, I think this was the first one and is characterized by extremely pointy serifs.…

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Maximilian CT font Latin CT font

Latin CT

The Latin family of typefaces, first popular in the last half of the nineteenth century, is characterized by its large, sharp, triangular serifs. With six widths (from Extra Condensed to…

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