font_designer: Jim Spiece

ITC Blair

ITC Blair font

The ITC Blair™ typeface is a revival and reimaging of an early 20th century metal typeface of the same name. Even though only available as single weights of extended and condensed proportions, metal fonts...

Headline Helpers Two SG

Headline Helpers Two SG font

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an assortment of little hand-lettered words? Words like “The” or “A”; “With” or “At”; “To” or “From”? Headline Helpers Two are word accents that can go just about...

Stratosphere SG

Stratosphere SG font

Every element in this typeface shouts tall and narrow, slender and provocative. With wispy delicate serifs attached to elevator-style vertical stems, Stratosphere’s only goal seems to be getting to the top in style. And...

Tweed SG

Tweed SG font

Tweed is a journey into the 1930s world of hand-lettering. The design looks very much like the personal scribblings of an old-fashioned cartoon animator. It’s the sort of sketch-style you might find describing a...

Valentina SG

Valentina SG font

Here’s what happens when your trusty felt tip marker takes a trip to cartoonland. Each of Valentina’s plump characters has a rough and splotchy texture. Some letters even bounce up and down like a...

Veranda Poster SG

Veranda Poster SG font

Veranda Poster was derived from a European art supply manufacturer’s logotype done in the Vienna (Wien) Austria style. This distinctive classic style was used by artists such as Julius Klinger and Willy Willrab in...

Panorama SG

Panorama SG font

Here is a profoundly delicate and graceful design that has its roots in art deco fashion. This elegant typeface is based on an old 1930s lettering style popularized by Carl Holmes in his wonderful...

Speedway SG

Speedway SG font

Motoring at top speed calls for your own high-performance machine and a special racetrack font to run it on. Speedway was built with blacktop smooth caps to ease you through those short and dangerous...

Pacific Clipper SG

Pacific Clipper SG font

Pacific Clipper has its roots in an old 1930s showcard lettering style. An extra bold version of this sign painter’s relic is shown in Carl Holmes’ wonderful book on lettering. It may be described...