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  1. Durham Latin by Mayfield Type Foundry, $25.00
    Durham Latin brings the Latin style from the Industrial Revolution to the modern era. These letterforms could be seen painted on a road sign in France, engraved in a sign over a tavern door in London, or seen on a playbill in America. The rich and varied history of these forms inspired me to capture that personality, and interpret it in a way that fits the wide range of needs of modern designers. Condensed forms and strong serifs imbue Durham Latin with a presence that can’t be ignored yet doesn’t overwhelm. It shines as a powerful display font, and becomes affable when used at smaller sizes for subheadings. Durham thrives in spartan and ornate environments alike. Durham Latin features Outline and Fill variants that allow for more creative display elements. The lowercase are 80% height small caps. Each font contains 448 characters and has full Western European support. Advanced typographic features are built in, including tabular numbers, fractions, arrows, and more.
  2. Ressonant by Octopi, $9.00
    With reference to the Type Heritage Project, this font (designer unknown) was cut by Henry Brehmer of New York for the Dickinson Type Foundary of Boston in c1879 and had the original trade name of Renaissant. John F. Cumming later cut a light-face derivative called “Artistic.” A history of the un-patented face can be found at the Type Heritage Project website. Ressonant has a full character set as well as ligatures, superiors, inferiors, numerators, denominators, old style figures, and auto-fractions. There are also alternate caps for N and M as in the original, and, unlike the original, comes in four weights. This font is a documented revival of a 19th-century typeface. The year, country, designer and/or foundry of origin will be published in a series of textbooks entitled “The Type Heritage Project.” Volume I explores quintessential Victorian faces, a spectacular trove of innovative gems; you can see samples by clicking the Type Heritage Project link above.
  3. Stiepa by Dora Typefoundry, $19.00
    Introducing our new collection of fonts Stiepa is designed for fun combining sans and serif so you can combine them to create the perfect typographic design. Stiepa is a classy and bold upper and lower case typeface that looks amazing in both large and small settings. It's perfect for your upcoming projects. Such as luxury logo and branding, classy editorial design, women's magazine, cosmetic brand, fashion promotion, art gallery branding, museum, architectural history, boutique branding, stationery design, blog design, modern advertising design, invitation card, art quote, home decoration , book/cover titles, special events, and more. Here's what's included: Numbers & punctuation Characters with accents Supports Multiple Languages PUA Encoded This type of family has become a work of true love, making it as easy and enjoyable as possible. I really hope you enjoy it! I can't wait to see what you do with Stiepa Display Serif! Feel free to use the #Dora Typefoundry tag and # Stiepa Display Serif font to show what you've done Thank You!
  4. Jabberwub by Sentinel Type, $30.00
    A fresh new decorative display face bubbling with life & spontaneity, Jabberwub belongs to a rare genus of creature fonts that time forgotócasual animated. A fun & bouncy eye-catcher that crosses into the land of the zany, dancing a whacky line between discord & rhyme, Jabberwub packs tons of fun into a state-of-the-art OpenType font loaded with 270 extra glyphs, including stylistic alternates, discretionary ligatures, word ligatures and capitalized ligatures, allowing creative typographers to achieve a custom hand-lettered look without all the mess & spilt glue of a manual paste-up job. Just like using rub-down type but it never cracks or splits, and it never runs out. The moment you start using Jabberwub you'll be laffing! Jabberwub is ideal for whatever zany stuff springs to mind. It takes an outline with no problem-o, and you can squish & squoosh it as the occasion takes your fancy. Optimal results are achieved by hand setting each individual glyph. Available in OpenType only.
  5. Faber Gotic by Ingo, $21.00
    A ”modern“ Gothic – designed according to principles of modern form in three variations Faber Gotik is a reminiscence of Gutenberg’s first script from around 1450. The heavily broken forms allow further development in the direction of a modern, strongly geometric and less formal type. It should be possible to push the principle of design so far to the limit that a type is created which, from the very start, extinguishes reminders of a dark past. The characters are composed of squares which are lined up straight or in a more or less slanted manner. The resulting corners similar to serifs were removed so that a sans serif type in the true sense without up and down strokes was created. The principle of ”breaking“ was applied according to the historical model. Even the form of the characters is based on the model from the Middle Ages. Only the characters which cannot be created with the principle described were modeled on today's forms. Faber Gotik includes three variations: - Faber Gotik Text — most similar to the historical model - Faber Gotik Gothic — pushes the applied principle of form the furthest - Faber Gotik Capitals —; a Gothic upper case font, contrary to tradition. 555 years after Gutenberg, interest in black-letter typefaces is nearly extinct. They are especially looked down upon in German-speaking countries because they are still associated with ”Nazi“ scripts. But yet, the very forms of blackletter, Gothic, Schwabacher and especially cursive have enormous potential with regard to the development of new advanced font forms.
  6. Colophon by Roy Cole, $34.00
    During development of Colophon 30, the base font of the typeface family, two requirements emerged; namely that it should demonstrate good legibility and robustness when used for text composition, and where individual characters become more apparent, as in much larger sizes, these should appear well formed. Colophon 60 and 90 progressively increase in x-height to allow the counters to retain openness. The italics lean towards informality, this being apparent in the descender tails. On account of its neutrality there are few instances where the use of Colophon would be inappropriate; a quality that can also be attributed to Roy Cole's other typeface families: Lina, Zeta and Coleface.
  7. Essylla by Tegaki, $16.00
    Essylla was created with stylish and modern handwritten characters. This font is PUA encoded. Essylla is a modern handwritten style that comes with Extended Latin Characters. Essylla works perfectly for logos, display, product branding, wedding invitation card, stationary, packaging, clothing, flyer, apparel, magazines, brochures, labels, posters, badges, etc. Essylla comes with 281 glyphs and 52 alternate characters contain with OpenType features (supported with contextual alternates mode). Essylla also comes with 11 extended ligatures that allowing you to make stuff looks more exclusive and pro standard. If you need help or advice, please contact me by e-mail "tegakiscript@gmail.com" Thank you for your purchase!
  8. Amnestia by Arterfak Project, $14.00
    Amnestia is a vintage serif typeface with a modern-classic feel. Inspired by vintage signage and minimalist serif style, this All-Caps font comes with 100+ alternates that gives you more options to get many variations in your designs. Amnestia has a medium height that looks perfect for display or sub-text. Amnestia available in 2 styles, distressed and normal, and is a great choice to be used in logos, insignia, apparel, labels, packaging, posters and more. Amnestia has a stylistic set 01 - 10 as the alternates of the letterforms. Some alternates have swashes and tails that you can explore to get more possibilities to create different typographic looks.
  9. Old Labels JNL by Jeff Levine, $29.00
    Old Labels JNL was inspired by the red and white gummed labels that were used for shipping parcels long before self-adhesive materials and desktop publishing rendered the older labels obsolete. The fifty-two glyphs include a generous supply of phrases such as ‘Air Mail’, ‘Do Not Bend’, ‘Rush’, etc. along with a number of blank label backgrounds and decorative frames. NOTE: Commercial replication of the images within this font for any resale purposes (including, but not limited to labels, t-shirts, stock designs, et al) requires a separate license which may be obtained by contacting the designer via the email address found within the End User License Agreement.
  10. Seabright Monument by Device, $39.00
    During a ‘type walk’ at the 2007 AtypI conference in Brighton, typographer Phil Baines pointed out what he considered to be a particularly egregious example of over-decorative art nouveau lettering on a war memorial. This made me determined to use it as the basis for a font. Released in Opentype, it now features ligatures, swashes and alternates. It’s not certain if the curved top bars on the E and F are a feature of the original design or due to climbers using them as footholds, but I incorporated them anyway. It has recently been used for invitations and supporting print material for formal charity dinners at the House of Lords.
  11. Artios Pro by DBSV, $70.00
    There are a lot of narrow passages... like the Straits of Gibraltar, Hormuz, of Malacca, of Thermopylae, the Dardanelles, the Dervenakion, Magellan, Rentina of Naruto, Kerch etc. I tried to pass into mine closely with the name «Artios Pro". Walking on the same considerations as the previous series (Khamai/Aeolus/Corset) I tried to give some sense of diversity for narrow passages of the letters. These twelve style are the result. And here, the "Rail" engage with "Semi Bold" in the same way as the previous series. This series is composed and includes 12 fonts with 625 glyphs each, with true italics and supports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
  12. Berta by Eurotypo, $60.00
    This font is versatile and expressive, it can create appealing atmosphere and attract attention, conveying a gamut of message and emotions. It is well suited in the jobbing areas like packaging, logotypes, magazines, web pages and advertising, etc. Berta has all the advantages of OpenType features that allow a variety of combinations: You may choose to set types in connected or unconnected ways, being used as body text or headlines for its good legibility, visual impact and accurate kerning. It has swashes, standard and discretional ligatures, contextual alternates, word ending and tails. It has also an extended character set to support Central and Eastern European as well as Western European languages.
  13. Fernolester by Maculinc, $10.00
    Fernolester is a classic themed font with a unique edge and above all; packed with different styles and ligatures - making it easy to create unique characteristics for your project. This typeface has a classic taste, very suitable as a design choice for books, magazines, packaging, branding, signage and many other creative projects. To activate the OpenType Stylistic alternative, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. and much more This package includes 4 files; Fernolester Regular, Fernolester Italic, Fernolester Regular In Style & Fernolester Italic Instyle as OTF & TTF. Mail support : maculinc@gmail.com Thank you! Maculinc
  14. Arastin by Graptail, $17.00
    Arastin come with the lowercase and uppercase of the display romantic style like a script, italic, and caps. Its outer curve flows without interruption. In one swift move, from nose to tail. This characteristic is mirrored throughout the typeface and defines both its details as well as its overall type colour. Its wide range of stylistic alternates allows versatile design options and works perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirts, postcards and much more. Also supported PUA encoded. Simply copy and paste the alternate characters using the Character Map (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac).
  15. Sequal by Mans Greback, $29.00
    Sequal is a handwritten graffiti tag script. It was drawn and created by Måns Grebäck between 2018 and 2020. Its round and soft letters are youthful and active, and cool while being cute. Sequal is a typeface family of five weights: Thin, Light, Regular, Bold and Black. The different weights ensures usability in any context, while also giving the ability to emphasize phrases or words. The font supports hundreds of languages, including European and Asian Latin scripts. Composed of over 1250 glyphs, it is guaranteed to contain all characters you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers. It also contains OpenType features such as alternates and ligatures.
  16. Knoedel by PabType, $12.00
    Knoedel is a display typeface with three front-weights: light, regular and bold. Although a conjunction of different styles were a reference during the design process; the art deco style left a more noticeable influence in the final design. Knoedel, also has clear references to geometric and slab serif fonts. The design is intended to be applied on headlines or short text fragments. Knoedel offers full coverage for all languages using Latin alphabet: whole Europe, America, Oceania and on a big number of African and Asian countries. Besides the standard ligatures, Knoedel, additionally, has more than 200 discretionary ligatures and a generous number of borders and ornaments. Knödel (Knoedel) is a traditional dish from Austria and the southeast of Germany; made of dumplings of different ingredients usually boiled in salted water. It is not high-end cuisine but still, it accomplishes its aim of soothing hunger.
  17. Retroxoid by PizzaDude.dk, $20.00
    You may recognize the looks of Retroxoid - if not, then let me help you out: Retroxoid is actually a font I made back in 2007. I ran prints of the font, through a very bad copymachine, used a wet cloth to make the print look worn, scanned the prints and voila! Retrozoid, my very first Open Type font, was born! Now in 2010, Retroxoid has risen from the past, and is ready to burst your designs with clean, round and futuristic shapes!
  18. Cover Sans by Latinotype, $26.00
    Cover Sans is a humanist geometric typeface with an orthogonal structure, which provides stability when composing a text. Open shapes and low x-height give this font balance and makes it an air-breathing typeface. Cover Sans is a stable and strong condensed font that works well for magazines and publishing. The strong personality of its alternative characters gives the font a modern and elegant style, which makes it ideal for use on annual reports as well as on business logotypes.
  19. Centola by Supfonts, $12.00
    Centola - a perfect clean modern serif Font is an open type with clean shapes and precise kerning. Centola Font Features: - Full Set of standard alphabet and punctuation - Ligatures - PUA Encoded - no special software needed to access extra characters - Language support: All European languages - Multilingual Characters AÁĂÂÄÀĀĄÅÃÆBCĆČÇĊDÐĎĐEÉĚÊËĖÈĒĘẼFGĞĢĠḠHĦIIJÍÎÏİÌĪĮĨJKĶLĹĽĻŁMNŃŇŅÑ OÓÔÖÒŐŌØÕŒPÞQRŔŘŖSŚŠŞȘẞTŤŢȚUÚÛÜÙŰŪŲŮŨVWẂŴẄẀXYÝŶŸỲỸZŹŽŻ aáăâäàāąåãæbcćčçċdðďđeéěêëėèēęẽfgğģġḡhħiıíîïìijīįĩjȷkķlĺľļłmnńňņñoóôöòőōøõœpþ qrŕřŗsśšşșßtťţțuúûüùűūųůũvwẃŵẅẁxyýŷÿỳỹzźžż Thanks so much for checking out my shop, and please get in touch if you have any questions! Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss out on the new awesome fonts Dima
  20. Fabejan by Supfonts, $12.00
    Fabejan a perfect mixed calligraphy and modern serif Font is an open type with clean shapes and precise kerning. Fabejan Font Features: - Full Set of standard alphabet and punctuation - PUA Encoded - no special software needed to access extra characters - **Language support**: All European languages - Multilingual Characters AÁĂÂÄÀĀĄÅÃÆBCĆČÇĊDÐĎĐEÉĚÊËĖÈĒĘẼFGĞĢĠḠHĦIIJÍÎÏİÌĪĮĨJKĶLĹĽĻŁMNŃŇŅÑ OÓÔÖÒŐŌØÕŒPÞQRŔŘŖSŚŠŞȘẞTŤŢȚUÚÛÜÙŰŪŲŮŨVWẂŴẄẀXYÝŶŸỲỸZŹŽŻ aáăâäàāąåãæbcćčçċdðďđeéěêëėèēęẽfgğģġḡhħiıíîïìijīįĩjȷkķlĺľļłmnńňņñoóôöòőōøõœpþ qrŕřŗsśšşșßtťţțuúûüùűūųůũvwẃŵẅẁxyýŷÿỳỹzźžż Thanks so much for checking out my shop, and please get in touch if you have any questions! Don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss out on the new awesome fonts Dima
  21. Quan Pro by Typesketchbook, $60.00
    Quan Pro is new redesigned version of Quan(2013) – one of the most popular font families of Typesketchbook foundry. This new family has refreshed structure, corners, and a new shape of glyphs. It is developed in 8 separate weights ranging from Thin to Black, each coming with Rounded and Slim version, which is well suited for a variety of typographic applications such as headlines and small texts. Quan Pro font family supports multiple languages and is available as both webfont and desktop font.
  22. Crassula by ParaType, $30.00
    Crassula is a versatile display font. Like the plant of the same name (Crassula, jade tree, money plant), which has thick juicy leaves, the font is distinguished by rounded contours and smoothed out forms of elements. Stylistic Alternates offer more traditional letter shapes and make Crassula more readable in long texts. Six weights allow a broad range of applications - from informal book and magazine headlines to emotional marketing ads. The font was designed by Natalia Vasilyeva and released by ParaType in 2018.
  23. The Bolder Shadow by Sipanji21, $15.00
    The Bolder Shadows is an urban graffiti font characterized by sharp edges and a bold look. Ideal for music posters, apparel designs, shirts, and streetwear, this font brings a touch of edginess to your projects. The unique style of "The Bolder Shadows" makes it the perfect choice for street style or urban graffiti themes. Whether you want to create a strong and powerful statement or simply add a touch of attitude to your designs, "The Bolder Shadows" is the font for you.
  24. Abocat by Grontype, $14.00
    Abocat is an authentic vintage san serif font. It comes with unique shapes bold to thin and rounded edges that will give remarkable touch. The font equipped with more ligature and alternates which is perfect use for Branding, Logo Design, Lettering, Logotype, Clothing, Poster, magazine, packaging, posters, shopping bags, t-shirts, book covers, photography, special events and other design project. Abocat Features: Uppercase glyphs Numeral and Punctuations Currencies Standard Ligatures Stylistic Alternates Thankyou for choosing this font, Enjoy Regard, Grontype
  25. Black Memory by Dumadi, $25.00
    Black Memory is a Brush-style font created with the App. The natural stroke texture makes this font look more perfect to use. Black Memory consists of capital letters and lowercase letters with different shapes so that you have a choice that fits the design you make. This font is perfect for Movie Titles, horror movie titles, action, murder, spooky, ghost, and other movie titles. You can see the sample preview above for comparison, stay the center of attention and classy!
  26. Circonia by 8AV, $10.00
    Circonia is a simple font, with a soft touch on serifs. It has clean lines and friendly shape, making it perfect for informal communication such as childrens' books, funny flyers and leaflets or food menus. It is suited both for headlines and a (larger) body copy. It has more than 300 glyphs with full western and eastern support and also basic math support. Check out the gallery page for the font info PDF with detailed info https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/8av/circonia/gallery.html
  27. Water Splash by Putracetol, $21.00
    Water Splash is a unique display font. This font is inspired by the water splash shape. There are 3 directions for the splash water (direction to the left, up and down and to the right), and they are alternate from this lowercase font. With these variations, it will make it easier for you to create creativity for your project. Water Splash would be perfect for branding, logo, product, title, quotes, doodle, comic, books, greeting cards, toys, posters, baby clothing, picture books, etc.
  28. Jacbos by Twinletter, $14.00
    Jacbos is a playful font with an abstract shape like paper folds, which is unique but elegant and attractive in its use All Capital sans is charming and brave, a font with a bold style and strong character makes your design look bold to convey a message to the audience in every design. This font is perfect for a variety of school design projects, essays, vintage, retro, and various outdoor events, storytelling, branding, banners, posters, movie titles, food and beverages, clothing, and more.
  29. Handil Pro by Alifinart Studio, $-
    Handil Pro is a geometric sans-serif font that serves as the perfect complement to the Mustica Pro font family. This font boasts geometric shapes with optical adjustments and enhanced gestures. The name "Handil" is derived from a place where two rare and nearly extinct species reside, the Proboscis Monkey and the Muller's Bornean Gibbon. Hearing the word "Handil" reminds us that amidst the bustling world, there are endangered creatures in the remote forests that we must preserve. Get it now.
  30. Filler by CarnokyType, $32.00
    Filler is a display typeface that allows you to change the width of font characters from extra narrow to extremely wide shapes. The typeface includes complete Latin language support with contrasting drawing of accents and punctuation. The character set includes special symbols, such as a set of emoticons or arrows that support OpenType features. In addition to the five styles – Compressed, Condensed, Medium, Extended, Expanded, Filler also offers Filler Variable font. The font is intended primarily for strong display use in large proportions.
  31. Lush Blooms by Supfonts, $17.00
    I keep experimenting with handwritten fonts, shapes and lines. I want the font to set the tone, the atmosphere, and look like an inscription made in a hurry, but still readable. Try my new font, I think it combines all these qualities. Simple and clear, looks at ease. It is perfect for signatures or design when you do not need a strict style. Includes: Uppercase and lowercase Numbers and punctuation Foreign language support Ligatures Check out my blog: https://www.instagram.com/zloillev pinterest.com/dmitriychirkov7
  32. SosaBravo by Alejandro Yñigo, $12.00
    “SosaBravo” is a font with a unique design... Its shapes are defined only by straight lines and the compositions that can be made communicate a casual and aggressive style that cannot be ignored. The structure of its glyphs and its anatomical details will transmit dynamism and freedom in each design where it appears. It is a font inspired by the work of the Cuban artist Manuel Alfredo Sosabravo, with his own very personal, pictorial and aggressive style, as this font is.
  33. Luminum JNL by Jeff Levine, $29.00
    In hardware stores across the country are display racks with letters and numbers silk-screened onto self-adhesive aluminum "parallelograms". These handy and durable items have graced countless mailboxes, office doors, hallway signs and automobiles for years. My fellow font designing buddy [Harold Lohner] suggested that I make a font based on this form of lettering as a counterpart to my Mailbox Letters JNL (also based on self-adhesive signage product)... and now his suggestion takes shape as a digital font... Luminum JNL.
  34. Blank Lemon by PizzaDude.dk, $18.00
    Blank Lemon is my heavy stroke handmade serif font. Yes, it is heavy and it's loud and is very noisy when it comes to making your headlines visible and the reason for this is that the shapes of the font is based on classic serif fonts. Blank Lemon comes with 7 different versions of each letter, and these automatically cycle as you type. Also there are fancy swashes of a, k, n, q and r - and of course multilingual support! Enjoy!
  35. Lovina Script by Alit Design, $14.00
    Lovina Script is our first font in 2019 and has a handwritten script style with a touch of natural rough from the shape of the brush. For Scripts, Lovina fonts have 2 choices namely "Lovina 1" and "Lovina 2" and in this font script there are many alternative choices of characters from Swash Lowercase, SS01 to SS06. Lovina Script is very worthy of being the newest collection in 2019 as a project design creation, social media quote, badges, logotype, fashion design etc.
  36. Oxford Street by K-Type, $20.00
    Oxford Street is a signage font that began as a redrawing of the capital letters used for street nameplates in the borough of Westminster in Central London. The nameplates were designed in 1967 by the Design Research Unit using custom lettering based on Adrian Frutiger’s Univers typeface, a curious combination of Univers 69 Bold Ultra Condensed, a weight that doesn’t seem to exist but which would flatten the long curves of glyphs such as O, C and D, and Universe 67 Bold Condensed with its more rounded lobes on glyphs like B, P and R. Letters were then remodelled to improve their use on street signs. Thin strokes like the inner diagonals of M and N were thickened to create a more monolinear alphabet; the high interior apexes were lowered and the wide joins thinned. The crossbar of the A was lowered, the K was made double junction, and the tail of the Q was given a baseline curve. K-Type Oxford Street continues the process of impertinent improvement and includes myriad minor adjustments and several more conspicuous amendments. The stroke junctions of M and N are further narrowed and their interior apexes modified. The middle apex of the W is narrowed and the glyph is a little more condensed. The C and S are drawn more open, terminals slightly shortened. The K-Type font adds a new lowercase which is also made more monolinear so better suited to signage, loosely based on Univers but also taking inspiration from the Transport typeface both in a taller x-height and character formation. The lowercase L has a curled foot, the k is double junctioned to match the uppercase, and terminals of a, c, e, g and s are drawn shorter for openness and clarity. A full repertoire of Latin Extended-A characters features low-rise diacritics that keep congestion to a minimum in multiple lines of text. The font tips the hat to signage history by including stylistic alternates for M, W and w that have the pointed middles of the earlier MOT street sign typeface. Incidentally, Alistair Hall (‘London Street Signs’, Batsford, 2020) notes that when the manufacturer of signs was changed in 2007, Helvetica Bold Condensed was substituted in place of the custom design, “an unfortunate case of an off-the-peg suit replacing a tailored one” and a blunder that has happily since been rectified, though offending nameplates can still be spotted by discerning font fans.
  37. 112 Hours by Device, $9.00
    Rian Hughes’ 15th collection of fonts, “112 Hours”, is entirely dedicated to numbers. Culled from a myriad of sources – clock faces, tickets, watches house numbers – it is an eclectic and wide-ranging set. Each font contains only numerals and related punctuation – no letters. A new book has been designed by Hughes to show the collection, and includes sample settings, complete character sets, source material and an introduction. This is available print-to-order on Blurb in paperback and hardback: http://www.blurb.com/b/5539073-112-hours-hardback http://www.blurb.com/b/5539045-112-hours-paperback From the introduction: The idea for this, the fifteenth Device Fonts collection, began when I came across an online auction site dedicated to antique clocks. I was mesmerized by the inventive and bizarre numerals on their faces. Shorn of the need to extend the internal logic of a typeface through the entire alphabet, the designers of these treasures were free to explore interesting forms and shapes that would otherwise be denied them. Given this horological starting point, I decided to produce 12 fonts, each featuring just the numbers from 1 to 12 and, where appropriate, a small set of supporting characters — in most cases, the international currency symbols, a colon, full stop, hyphen, slash and the number sign. 10, 11 and 12 I opted to place in the capital A, B and C slots. Each font is shown in its entirety here. I soon passed 12, so the next logical finish line was 24. Like a typographic Jack Bauer, I soon passed that too -— the more I researched, the more I came across interesting and unique examples that insisted on digitization, or that inspired me to explore some new design direction. The sources broadened to include tickets, numbering machines, ecclesiastical brass plates and more. Though not derived from clock faces, I opted to keep the 1-12 conceit for consistency, which allowed me to design what are effectively numerical ligatures. I finally concluded one hundred fonts over my original estimate at 112. Even though it’s not strictly divisible by 12, the number has a certain symmetry, I reasoned, and was as good a place as any to round off the project. An overview reveals a broad range that nonetheless fall into several loose categories. There are fairly faithful revivals, only diverging from their source material to even out inconsistencies and regularize weighting or shape to make them more functional in a modern context; designs taken directly from the source material, preserving all the inky grit and character of the original; designs that are loosely based on a couple of numbers from the source material but diverge dramatically for reasons of improved aesthetics or mere whim; and entirely new designs with no historical precedent. As projects like this evolve (and, to be frank, get out of hand), they can take you in directions and to places you didn’t envisage when you first set out. Along the way, I corresponded with experts in railway livery, and now know about the history of cab side and smokebox plates; I travelled to the Musée de l’imprimerie in Nantes, France, to examine their numbering machines; I photographed house numbers in Paris, Florence, Venice, Amsterdam and here in the UK; I delved into my collection of tickets, passes and printed ephemera; I visited the Science Museum in London, the Royal Signals Museum in Dorset, and the Museum of London to source early adding machines, war-time telegraphs and post-war ration books. I photographed watches at Worthing Museum, weighing scales large enough to stand on in a Brick Lane pub, and digital station clocks at Baker Street tube station. I went to the London Under-ground archive at Acton Depot, where you can see all manner of vintage enamel signs and woodblock type; I photographed grocer’s stalls in East End street markets; I dug out old clocks I recalled from childhood at my parents’ place, examined old manual typewriters and cash tills, and crouched down with a torch to look at my electricity meter. I found out that Jane Fonda kicked a policeman, and unusually for someone with a lifelong aversion to sport, picked up some horse-racing jargon. I share some of that research here. In many cases I have not been slavish about staying close to the source material if I didn’t think it warranted it, so a close comparison will reveal differences. These changes could be made for aesthetic reasons, functional reasons (the originals didn’t need to be set in any combination, for example), or just reasons of personal taste. Where reference for the additional characters were not available — which was always the case with fonts derived from clock faces — I have endeavored to design them in a sympathetic style. I may even extend some of these to the full alphabet in the future. If I do, these number-only fonts could be considered as experimental design exercises: forays into form to probe interesting new graphic possibilities.
  38. Shaun the Sheep - Personal use only
  39. Tokyotrail by Dharma Type, $9.99
    Tokyotrail is inspired by the capital of Japan. Over 2,000 square kilometers to explore. Lines run vertically horizontal and aslant. Square and geometric form attracts notice in various scenes.
  40. Impossible - 1000 - Unknown license
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