font_designer: Dave Rowland

Gelica

Gelica font

When work started on the design of Gelica, there wasn’t the same glut of retro-ish soft serifs there is today, and if I’d managed to complete it quicker, it might have been more trendsetter...

Capsule

Capsule font

Capsule is a reverse-stress, high-contrast, rounded sans-serif font with two distinct personalities. An all-caps face, there are however variations of some letters in the lowercase slots. The lowercase variants are more playful, with more...

Sausage

Sausage font

Sausage is unapologetically bold and bulbous. Influenced by magnetic fridge letters, hot dogs and 70s phototype fonts, it is retro, but not cloyingly so.It was a deliberate plan to make Sausage only a single...

Megumi

Megumi font

Megumi was originally commissioned as a headline face for a fashion and lifestyle magazine with a heavy Japanese influence. The uppercase letters are narrow and have an almost monospaced aesthetic, being influenced by Romaji...

Yink

Yink font

Yink takes big, bulbous, ball terminals up a notch, by repeating the shapes not only in the black but in the white space too. This interplay between black and white shapes is reminiscent of...

Revla Round

Revla Round font

Squeezing yet more life out of the Revla skeleton!This is Revla Round, a child-friendly version of Revla Sans, completely overhauled so there’s no chance of cutting yourself on any corners. Every rounded terminal and...