font_designer: Leslie Usherwood

Chelsea

Chelsea font

Designed by Les Usherwood. Chelsea is a ‘modern’ Old Style serif font family designed by Les Usherwood (Typsettra) in the early 1980’s. Steve Jackaman (ITF) digitally engineered the family exclusively for ITF’s Red Rooster...

Maximo

Maximo font

Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman.

Lesmore

Lesmore font

Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Paul Hickson. Another typeface from Les Usherwood that was released after his 1983 death.

Beckenham

Beckenham font

Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. The x-heights are radically different; the x-height on the light version is small, and gets larger as the weights progress.

Kingsrow

Kingsrow font

Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Unofficially named ‘No Frills’ in the early stages of development, his widow Elsie decided that it would be called Kingsrow.

Argus

Argus font

Designed by Les Usherwood. Argus is a flared serif font family. Its analog form was designed by Les Usherwood (Typsettra) in the 1980’s, and Paul Hickson (P&P Hickson) and Steve Jackaman (ITF) designed the...

Alexon

Alexon font

Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Originally in one weight, Steve designed and produced three additional weights.

Elston Pro

Elston Pro font

Originally designed by Les Usherwood for a famous European car company, Elston Pro has been completely redrawn and remastered by Steve Jackaman and Ashley Muir. The new Elston Pro family has been fleshed out...

Marbrook

Marbrook font

Marbrook was designed by Les Usherwood for Berthold in 1983.

Flange

Flange font

Flange was designed by Les Usherwood for Berthold in 1981.