font_designer: Jim Rimmer

Cadmus

Cadmus font

Cadmus is Jim Rimmer’s re-working of a design done by Robert Foster, a hand letterer. His type, named Pericles is a style that he used for a time in lettering magazine and advertising headings....

RTF Canadian Syllabics

RTF Canadian Syllabics font

RTF Canadian Syllabics is a more calligraphic version of the syllabary developed by Reverend James Evans for the languages of the native tribes of the Canadian provinces in the early 1800s. Jim Rimmer originally...

RTF Stern

RTF Stern font

Stern is a typographic first: it marks the first time a font is simultaneously released both digitally and in metal. Stern, named for the late printer Christopher Stern, is an upright Italic intended for...

RTF Stern Pro

RTF Stern Pro font

Stern is a typographic first: it marks the first time a font is simultaneously released both digitally and in metal. Stern, named for the late printer Christopher Stern, is an upright Italic intended for...

Poster Paint

Poster Paint font

Poster Paint is a fun shocard alphabet which came about from Jim Rimmer’s admiration of Goudy Stout, a design he liked in spite of the fact that Goudy himself claimed to detest it. Extremely...

Zigarre

Zigarre font

Though Zigarre can easily be categorized a brush script, Jim Rimmer actually drew it using a big marker. Jim’s original face, inspired by inter-war German poster lettering, was a rough one, with the marker’s...