font_category: engraving

Biondi

Biondi font

Biondi is a Copperplate Gothic-inspired small caps slab-serif typeface. Biondi preserves the characteristic wide, squarish shape that made Copperplate Gothic so popular. To make Biondi stand out in today’s display environment, beefed-up wedge serifs…

Kelvingrove

Kelvingrove font

Kelvingrove is a charming Copperplate-inspired small-cap typeface. It features alternate K, Q, R, and a small ampersand that can be accessed via OpenType stylistic alternates in applications that support them. The numerals are properly...

Biondi Sans

Biondi Sans font

Biondi Sans is an evocative sans-serif typeface inspired by engraved nameplates of the early twentieth century. The character proportions and letterforms are similar to Morris Fuller Benton’s Copperplate. Biondi Sans is a small caps...

Electric

Electric font

The Electric typeface was sparked by the Gibson custom electric guitar nameplates of the 1960s. Way back in olden times, when Gibson dealers swapped a standard stoptail for a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece, two bolt...

Smackeroo NF

Smackeroo NF font

The model for this monocase typeface was issued in the early 1900s by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler with the rather prosaic name of Steelplate. A hundred years later, it still retains its currency (ouch!),...

Haut Relief NF

Haut Relief NF font

Based on the typeface Sculpture, designed by Charles Allen in the 1960s for Photolettering, this font is an intriguing exercise in implicit letterforms, using cast shadows to suggest, rather than delineate. Both sublime and...

MVB Sirenne

MVB Sirenne font

A rare natural history book from the early 18th century served as inspiration for the MVB Sirenne typefaces. The artisan who engraved the book—likely a map engraver—had a distinctive style of lettering that was...

Pitshanger

Pitshanger font

Pitshanger is loosely derived from a shop sign in Limogues, France.

Hauser Script

Hauser Script font

Hauser Script is a freely drawn brush script typeface, which was designed in 1936 by George Hauser for Ludlow. Hauser took advantage of the slanting matrices of the Ludlow machine to create what is...