Sho

Karl Georg Hoefer’s Sho first appeared in 1992 with Linotype-Hell. The font is a part of the package “Calligraphy for Print”, which also contains Ruling Script and Wiesbaden Swing. “Calligraphy…

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Sierra font

Sierra

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Sierra is an antiqua with a high x-height and generous, open counters. Many curves of the letters are almost right angles, which was particularly suited to the Digiset machines from…

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Sinah font

Sinah

Linotype Sinah is part of the Take Type Library, selected from the contestants of Linotype’s International Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. Designed by the German artist Peter Huschka,…

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Sinah Sans font

Sinah Sans

Linotype Sinah is part of the Take Type Library, selected from the contestants of Linotype’s International Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. Designed by the German artist Peter Huschka,…

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Smaragd font

Smaragd

Gudrun Zapf von Hesse designed Smaragd for D. Stempel AG, who released it in 1952. Smaragd is a hand-tooled, all-caps titling face with hairline serifs. Smaragd works well for book…

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Snell Roundhand font

Snell Roundhand

Snell Roundhand was created by Matthew Carter for Linotype in 1966. The design is based on the handwriting of Charles Snell, an English writing master who wrote The Pen-man’s Treasury…

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Spartan font

Spartan

The Spartan family was released by American Type Founders around 1936 as an American copy of Futura. This popular design was used in a variety of ways, from short blocks…

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Staehle Graphia font Stempel Garamond font Stencil Moonlight font

Stencil Moonlight

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Latvian designer and educator Gustav Grinbergs created Stencil Moonlight as an attempt to slightly lighten up the stencil type scene. Intended as a lively, semi-formal face, its shapes are smooth…

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