JLS OverKill
OverKill Bloque was created in 1991 as a banner logo for a gamers fan newsletter, The OVERKILL Casualty Report. As letterforms were built for various headlines, a font took shape. Just for grins I...
font_designer: Michael Adkins
WILD2 Ghixm
Accidents happen. Things go where they don’t belong, get changed – remade. Something new crawls out of the murky depths. Ghixm is a retrospective of the horror comics and movie posters of the 1960s...
FHA Broken Gothic
More than a century ago, Frank H. Atkinson presented this hand lettered style as Broken Poster. It was one of a hundred styles he demonstrated in his manual on sign painting. Even before his...
FHA Condensed French
FHA Condensed French One could speculate that FHA Condensed French probably started life as wood type for displays, headlines and posters. The exaggerated sharp serifs and condensed forms were not uncommon for that period....
FHA Modernized Ideal Classic
Frank H. Atkinson’s book Atkinson Sign Painting was published in 1909. For decades, this book served as the manual for sign painters – a handbook for hand lettering. Atkinson’s book described techniques, layouts and...
JLS Smiles
“Have a nice day!” I can remember that motto and the smiley face from childhood. It was a friendly, optimistic little image that became an icon. These days it has been updated and is...
FHA Sign DeVinne
Around the end of the 19th century, the print typeface De Vinne was released and became popular. But, this is not that story…. Once, long ago, there were no large format digital printers or...
FHA Tuscan Roman
The first Tuscan lettering was penned in the mid-fourth century by the calligrapher Furius Dionysius Filocalus. The style was still in common usage as calligraphy when Vincent Figgins designed the first Antique Tuscan for...
WILD1 Toxia
Toxia is a creepy—yes, eerie face, like something wet and poisonous clambering out of the swamp. It’s spooky too—yes, but it’s also frighteningly easy to read. Just don’t let it drip on you! Toxia...
WILD1 Ruts
Ruts looks like it was found in a rut, and if you can eek past all that splatter, it may just pull you out of one. Talk about having to be brave to use...