Egyptienne F

Designed in 1956 by Adrian Frutiger, this slab serif, or Egyptian, typeface was the first text typeface created expressly for photocomposition and printing by offset lithography. Egyptienne F has a…

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Electra font Elementis font

Elementis

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German designer Hans-Jürgen Ellenberger originally developed the concept behind Elementis in 1975. Wanting to create an alternative typewriter script that was more round and natural, Elementis' design was born. True…

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Engravers font

Engravers

Engravers is a typeface based on styles of engraved lettering that were popular at the end of the nineteenth century in America and abroad. American Type Founders, Inc. (ATF) released…

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Escript font

Escript

Linotype Escript is a part of the Take Type Library, which features winners of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contest. Hans-Jürgen Ellenberger designed this handwriting font with fresh, lively forms.…

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Eurostile font Excelsior font

Excelsior

Excelsior was produced in 1931 under the supervision of Chauncey H. Griffith of Linotype. Like Corona, Excelsior was one of the five typefaces in Griffith’s Legibility Group, types that were…

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Expectation font

Expectation

Making a Christmas card takes a lot of work! Finding the right typeface can be tough, too. Have you ever spent hours searching for the right one? Well, in 2003,…

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F2F Al Retto font

F2F Al Retto

The Techno sound of the 1990s, a personal computer, a font creation software and some inspiration had been the sources to the F2F (Face2Face) font series. Alessio Leonardi and his…

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F2F Allineato font

F2F Allineato

Allineato was part of the Face2Face project, a fontlabel created with a couple of friend in order to stimulate new ideas and forms in the typographical landscape. Most of the…

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