Pannartz font

Pannartz

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I happened to come across a facsimile of a sample of text with typeface made by Sweynheim & Pannartz in 1476. I scanned the sample, and redraw all the available…

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Kaapeli font

Kaapeli

I've had mixed feelings about Kabel; It is a brilliant headline font with a lot of character, but it's the characters I have problems with. The versions of all big…

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Grumpy font

Grumpy

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An extreme headline font with six optical variants. Black 24 is loosely based on ITC Grouch (1970) by Tom Carnase. It has some 2000 hand-adjusted kerning pairs for TNT (that’s…

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Giro font

Giro

I saw an old logo for Giro d'Italia on telly, and was just smitten by the truly ugly type: just ruler and compass work, no intakes or optical corrections whatsoever.…

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Explosion font

Explosion

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This font is an experiment in building dynamics into a typeface. Explosion has two variants to be put on top of each other for more dimension.

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Cider font Abiding font

Abiding

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A Slab Serif font family of five weights for headline and text use, with old style numerals and small caps.

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Abandon font

Abandon

  • Post author:Suomistaff
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A Sans font family of five weight for headline and text use, with old style numerals and small caps, and extensive kerning.

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