Blackoak

Joy Redick designed Blackoak, a big and heavy Egyptienne-sytle titling slab serif face, in 1990. The extremely robust style of the characters in this typeface was consciously distorted; creating letterforms…

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National Codes Pi font Minister font

Minister

Designed by Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt for the Schriftguss foundry in 1929, Minister is a contemporary design based on Garalde types. The letters have an oblique stress, capitals are wide, serifs…

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Mesquite font

Mesquite

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Mesquite is a narrow Tuscan-style typeface designed at Adobe in 1990. Like older Tuscans from the 19th Century, Mesquite has elaborate, creative serif treatments-although the serifs are so unique that…

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Medici Script font

Medici Script

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Named for the Renaissance Medici family of Florence and designed by Hermann Zapf for Linotype in 1974, Medici is a calligraphic typeface that simulates the look of a broad-edged pen…

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Maximus font

Maximus

Released in 1967 by Linotype, Maximus is a newspaper type designed specifically for classified advertising. It is intended to be legible at very small point sizes, so the character widths…

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Mathematical Pi font

Mathematical Pi

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The Mathematical Pi font includes a large variety of characters needed for mathematical typesetting, such as symbols and graphic marks, and Greek, fraktur, blackboard, and script fonts.

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Madrone font

Madrone

Madrone is an Adobe Originals typeface designed by Barbara Lind in 1991. Madrone was digitized from proofs of the woodtype collection in the National Museum of American History of the…

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Lithos font

Lithos

Old Greek inscriptions were Carol Twombly's inspiration when she created Lithos, which appeared with Adobe in 1990. The alphabet is composed exclusively of capital letters, which can also be used…

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Juniper font