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.

Greenhorn is a hand-traced comic type for headlines. Funky, irregular and smiling. The first inspiration comes from the unique lettering of a classic czech cartoonist.

The eText fonts from the Monotype Baskerville have been specially tuned by our type design experts for a better on screen readability for instance in PDFs.

Kvant is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc. and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

Sudoku is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

2 font faces that combine together with attached lower case glyphs. A combo type-face that can be used with or without joining its lower case.

Colo is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

The charm of wood type -- especially in reproductions from worn specimens -- is the combination of hand-crafted letters and numbers and a connection with the past.

Duplex is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

A modified remake of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century. This is an extra bold, shadowed, sans serif suitable for display.

Backpage Article JNL and its oblique counterpart are a variant to the popular sanserif wood types used in newspaper headlines and on broadsheets in years past.

Wigan is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

Pelago is a semi-formal sans-serif type family by Adobe Principal Designer Robert Slimbach. The family has a crisp contemporary appearance and an understated elegance.

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, extremely condensed, bold, flat thick serifs, a very useful design for display.

Rolka is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

A product of the Inland Type Foundry, some say stolen from a hand lettering job done by Goudy. (Goudy was one of those who said it!)

A revival of one of the popular English Antique styles of the 19th century. The slab serif style was also used by American wood type manufacturers.

Rancher JNL was inspired by classic wood type. This wide, slab serif typeface is reminiscent of wanted posters, broadsides and other printed matter from the 1800s.

Mosca means 'fly' in Spanish - the flying type, not the one in your jeans…). The font is quite lively, loose and elegant at the same time.

Texarkana JNL is based on classic condensed wood type from the 1800s, and is embellished with stars on the top and bottom for a decorative look.

A heavy one. For major impact use it only in caps, however typing randomly upper and lower case has interesting results too. Play with it please.

Pastel is a handmade font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc. and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

Tamarac JNL offers the look of wood type with added serifs. Use Tamarac JNL when you need a change of pace from the "regular" serif fonts.

Noveu is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

Mud Creek JNL is based on Tuscan Egyptian – a classic wood type with a decidedly Western feel, and is available in both regular and oblique versions

Avatar is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

Serif Nouveau JNL is a condensed type face based on the hand lettered title of a 1920s-era piece of sheet music for the song "Naturally".

Dovde is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

Dox is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

Ashemore developed as a result of my visits to Barcelona, Spain and to Germany, followed soon after by a visit to Asheville, North Carolina. Blending the styles of art and architecture from these three areas may seem initially to result in an unusual formula, but the distinct and flamboyant style of Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts style combined with the more strict rules of a sans serif transfer well into a beautiful and very usable blend of these individually eccentric forms. The resulting font retains the Art Nouveau and Craftsman style flavors, which shine through the typeface despite its geometric base. One of the font’s defining characteristics is the unique terminators of its C, G and S. This face’s texture and rhythm also moves well in longer texts. These and other features give Ashemore a restrained bohemian vibe that seems particularly appropriate for a coffee house or an art gallery. The Ashemore family has a full range of six weights from thin to black and includes condensed and extended options for a total of 36 fonts. The typeface also includes some unique OpenType alternates that make the superfamily even more versatile. Ashemore is equipped for complex professional typography, including alternates, small caps and many alternate characters. The face also has a number of numeral sets, including tabular figures, fractions, old-style, lining figures and superiors and inferiors. OpenType-capable applications such as Quark or the Adobe Suite can take full advantage of automatic ligatures and alternates. You can find these features demonstrated in the .pdf brochure. Ashemore also includes the glyphs to support a wide range of languages, including Central, Eastern and Western European languages. In all, Ashemore supports over 40 languages that use the extended Latin script, making the new addition a great choice for multi-lingual publications and packaging. Ashemore was designed by Jeremy Dooley with production assistance from Lucas Azevedo and Marcelo Magalhaes. Kerning assistance from iKern.