font_designer: Patrick Griffin

Chapter 11

Chapter 11 font

Chapter 11 is a pseudo-random typewriter font with the ribbon on the fritz. The single font contains four different character sets of varying ranges. If your program supports advanced OpenType features, activate the contextual...

Classic Comic

Classic Comic font

Classic Comic is the fourth family of Canada Type’s long-running series of comic book fonts. It feels right at home alongside Collector Comic, Captain Comic and Caper Comic. Rather than following a particular model,...

Tuba

Tuba font

Initially commissioned in the summer of 2009 for a popular North American ice cream parlor chain we cannot name, Tuba started with a reconceptualization of a somewhat flawed ’72 alphabet idea by Swiss graphic...

Book Jacket

Book Jacket font

Book Jacket is arguably the most famous of all typefaces done in the Typositor era. Designed by Ursula Suess over an entire year, and published in 1972, Book Jacket became an instant success story...

Messenger

Messenger font

Messenger is a redux of two mid-1970s Markus Low designs: Markus Roman, an upright calligraphic face, and Ingrid, a popular typositor-era script. Through the original film faces were a couple of years apart and...

Slinger

Slinger font

Slinger is a tribute to eighteenth century and nineteenth century wood type, inspired by the following passage from a Dime Western: Rosalinda gave a low scream of horror as she saw the Rio Kid...

Sol Pro

Sol Pro font

Based on the classic Sol design by Marty Goldstein and C.B. Smith, published by VGC in 1973, Sol Pro goes above and beyond the call of revival/retooling to include plenty of optical improvements to...

Clarendon Wide

Clarendon Wide font

By overwhelming popular demand, this is the wide display companion to Canada Type’s Clarendon Text family. It comes in ten styles: regular, medium, bold, with small caps and oldstyle Figures counterparts, as well as...

Outcast

Outcast font

Outcast puts the whole grunge font problem to rest by eliminating repetition. Here we have eight variations on each character (4 all cap fonts), so there is no more need to use the same...

Aragon

Aragon font

Re-introducing the classic mid-1500s Garamond forms for the twenty-first century is never an easy task. But Hans van Maanen makes a fine attempt at just that by remodeling the traditional shapes through a modern...