While browsing through a sourcebook on historic calligraphy and antique type I came on an interesting sample of a gothic style attributed to the legendary artist Albrecht Durer. I had previously seen fonts based on the peculiar style of lettering Durer used on prints for his signature and some captions, but this style was radically different and much more characteristic of the lettering and early printed types of the 'Northern Renaissance' which Durer was a big part of. Whether it's authentically Durer's work or not is up in the air, but it's a very nice example of early gothic type. We've called the resulting font Albrecht Durer Gothic and it's a very striking face well suited to titles and other contemporary uses where you need something heavy and eye catching.
Anyone old enough to remember either the radio or television version of “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” pictures Ozzie Nelson as the easygoing father figure who never seemed to have a real job – he was always hanging around the house. In truth, the handsome young Ozzie was a bandleader in the 1930s and 1940s and ended up marrying his ‘girl singer’, Harriet Hilliard. A piece of sheet music from 1933 for “You Have Taken My Heart” was one of the songs Nelson featured with his Columbia Broadcasting System Orchestra. The title was hand lettered in what can only be described as a slightly eccentric Art Deco Sans serif. Redrawn and cleaned up to reflect more uniform stroke weights, Bandshell JNL is now available in both regular and oblique versions.
Architype Crouwel is a collection of typefaces created in collaboration with Wim Crouwel, following his agreement with The Foundry, to recreate his experimental alphabets as digital fonts. Crouwel's most recognized work was for the Van Abbe and Stedelijk museums (1954 –72) where he established his reputation for radical, grid-based design. Architype Catalogue’s soft ‘padded’ letterforms were originally created by Wim Crouwel for the Stedelijk museum’s 1970 exhibition of sculptor Claes Oldenburg.. Crouwel said, ‘When you look at Oldenburg’s work, with all those soft objects, it gets into your system, so you try to integrate that feeling in the design. Claes was very taken with the catalogue's typeface, and asked me if I would do the whole alphabet for him, so I did. I cut it all out in pink paper and pasted it together’.
Architype Crouwel is a collection of typefaces created in collaboration with Wim Crouwel, following his agreement with The Foundry, to recreate his experimental alphabets as digital fonts. Crouwel's most recognized work was for the Van Abbe and Stedelijk museums (1954 –72) where he established his reputation for radical, grid-based design. The Fodor letterforms were created for the magazine published by Museum Fodor, Amsterdam. To save cost it was designed to be ‘typeset’ on their own electric typewriter. The resulting monospaced effect was combined with a background of orange overlaid with pink dots that provided a page grid to align the text to. The title set on the dot matrix formed the 'system' for construction of the ‘digital effect’ letterforms. Now Architype Fodor recreates these letterforms as a truly digital font.
PT Unovis™ was designed for ParaType in 2001 by Tagir Safayev. Inspired by the shapes of lettering of the Russian Avant Garde artists of Kazimir Malevich’s circle at the beginning of the 20th century. Based on simple geometric forms. Caps only. For use in advertising and display typography.
Yellow Peas is a geometric sans serif typeface that comes in 5 different weights. Contains Western and Eastern European languages, Vietnamese accented characters, Russian Cyrillic and Thai character set. Yellow Peas is a clean and modern font with stylistic alternates, standard and discretionary ligatures. Also includes Small Caps feature.
Chewatext is a sans serif typeface that minimalism, geometric, and technological look. This versatile font family offers a staggering 18 styles, support Latin-1 and Thai Unicode for character. Making it the ultimate choice for contemporary design projects. Whether it is various printed works, both online and offline.
Tufuli means "childish" in Arabic. In this font design I wanted to represent the characters as funny and flexible, just like childish characters can be. Tufuli has sloping terminal geometric shapes, giving it a playful feeling. Please also check out Tufuli's sibling Tufuli Arabic for more international fun.
Noka is a powerful display geometric sanserif with a lot of personality. Its clean structure refers to a more digital and technological atmosphere. Letters P F T L are narrower than usual to create a distinct feeling. Diagonal strokes of letters V v W w A are parallel.
Rapazola is a new geometrical typeface, it was inspired by the moments of childhood and it's play. This typeface contains five different weights, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Bold and Extra Bold, all with the completed alphabet A to Z, upper and lower case, all numbers and some symbols.
Churchward Legible is an extensive typeface family designed by New Zealand type designer Joseph Churchward. A geometric sans serif, it is, as its name boasts, highly legible and readable on screen as well as in print. The family includes five weights from Light to Extra Bold, with companion italics.
Beuys is a sans serif typeface based on geometrical shapes. The horizontal sroke contrast gives Beuys its distinct look. This unique appearance makes it an interesting display typeface. The six weights of Beuys come with OpenType-Features and a character set of 323 glyphs including symbols, ligatures and alternates.
Hanniel - a modern geometric sans serif font. This font has an elegant and smooth rounded edge style. Specifically developed to be suitable for logos, headlines, titles, branding, visual identity, business cards, and posters. Round out your fonts collection with this gorgeous typeface and make your design look exceptional.
Johann is an elegant, geometric, san serif typeface who's clean, simple structure and form create a versatile typeface that works effortlessly across print & digital applications. Created in 2012 by NiceType, the Johann family consists of 5 weights, plus corresponding italic sets that all have their own individual strengths.
Almarose is a geometric sans serif OpenType font designed by Fanny Coulez and published by S&C Type. Functional with a little distinctive touch, Almarose comes with 9 weights with italics, from Thin to ExtraBlack, and was designed for all uses like texts, web or headlines. Merci beaucoup.
Bold geometric shapes, softened with graceful finishes, characterize this jazz-age offering first proposed by lettering artist Eric Matthews. Best used as upper- and lowercase. Both versions of this font contain the Unicode 1252 Latin and Unicode 1250 Central European character sets, with localization for Romanian and Moldovan.
Apura stands for a clear geometric language based on two main shapes: a circle and a square, complemented by organic elements. It‘s perfect for headlines, posters, experimental designs as well as branding. The font includes uppercase and lowercase characters, both latin and cyrillic, alternates, numbers, punctuation marks and symbols.
Two sets of signs and pictures designed by Natalia Vasilyeva. The first one includes figures, arrows, geometric shapes and other signs of abstract nature. The second set — pictures of flora and fauna (animals, fishes, birds, insects, plants,...) and pictures of common staff (houseware, instruments,…). Released by ParaType in 2009.
Mosco™ is a new decorative geometric display typeface. Cleanliness and solid. A complete set of cohesive characters (A-Z) and multilanguage characters (latin based). Develop a visual presentation that complements the style and personality of the new typeface. Perfect for any purposes such as posters, logotypes and headlines.
A typeface named, simply, Geometric, from the 1885 Cleveland Type Foundry specimen book, has been beefed up a bit and softened with round serifs to create this everything-old-is-new-again gem. Both versions of this font include the complete Latin 1252 and Central European 1250 character sets.
A cute, fun, soft bubblegum font in one fatty flavor. Perfect for club posters, flyers and packaging, Big Softie is sure to tingle your clients' taste buds. The font was built on a geometric skeleton, and then rounded and softened, carefully adding character without kitsch. Designed in 2011.
Chewatext Rounded, developed from Chewatext, is a rounded sans-serif typeface that exudes minimalism and a geometric look. This versatile font family offers 18 styles, supporting Latin-1 and Thai Unicode characters. It is suitable for contemporary design projects, whether for various printed works or online and offline
Dimension drive is a modern wide and quirky sans serif display font. Wavy lines paired with geometric and sharp edge to emphasize dynamic in the design. This typeface design is a perfect for a modern theme. Best usage on logo, poster, display, headline, t-shirt design and many more.
Pontiac is a sans serif OpenType font designed by Fanny Coulez and Julien Saurin in Paris. Pontiac is a functional font with something more, something warm, geometric but human, something distinctive, something French finally. We also designed an inline Art Deco version of this font, Pontiac Inline. Merci beaucoup!
OTC Underground is a geometric condensed display font, presenting a compressed letterform structure with an even stroke contrast. Available with Latin, Cyrillic and Greek characters. The font is inspired by Gustav F. Schroeder's Othello from 1886 and the lettering on the 1967 album cover from The Velvet Underground & Nico.
Rosyidun is an authentic and geometric Arabic display font. Its capital letters and forms are rotated, creating a visually stunning display for captions, posters, or headlines. You’ll fall in love with the beautiful and ornate patterns of the Arabic Display font. The perfect addition to any design project.
Debelly is catchy fat typeface, with lovely geometric shapes. Inspired with contrast strokes, with square joins, Debelly gives an impression of retro style combined with contemporary trends. It is designed specially for packaging, posters, logotypes or headlines, even it can be pretty handfull in smaller sizes. Contains 375 glyphs.
TWA Assembly Sans is not your standard workhorse sans. Although it sports the same geometric shapes, grotesk characteristics, and comes in many weights, its unique qualities and slight diagonal curves give Assembly Sans a friendlier appearance. As the weight increase, the contrast becomes more extreme, adding to its approachability.
Latherrich is a unique, geometric, sans-serif font family inspired by iconic typefaces such as Avant Garde and museo slab. Latherrich fonts are versatile and can be used successfully in magazines, posters, branding, wedding invitations, cards, interiors, product design, websites, etc. Feature: Open Type Feature Web fonts Standard Ligatures
Blob, designed by Superfried, is available in two formats Round and Square. It is an experimental, sans-serif display typeface based on simple geometric shapes. Although unorthodox, care has been taken to ensure that it is completely legible. Blob has been featured on the Behance curated typographic gallery TypographyServed.com.
Violenta Slab font family has been designed for Graviton Font Foundry by Pablo Balcells in 2015. It is a display, geometric typeface, with a condensed design and sharp angles that provides an aggresive and strong appearence. Violenta Slab consists of 8 styles. Each containing glyph coverage for several languages.
Mechania is a geometric sans serif display font. Bold and wide design gives this typeface a strong presence. Balance in the round and sharp edge to keep the clarity. Best use for a modern minimalist theme, other usage includes logo, poster, display, headline, t-shirt design and many more.
Gianmani Fillet is a sans serif type contemporary designed by Gianmani Yuttapum in 2022. Inspired by the simplicity of the geometric, it is sharp and easy to read, suited to branding and corporate identity, wayfinding, editorial, delicate headlines, digital environments, signage, print, advertising, packaging, text application, and logos.