Cutout
Matisse’s paper cutouts inspired Gail Blumberg, Adobe art director, to create a typeface of figures. Her biggest challenge: keeping each Cutout design in scale. It’s not easy to make a standing figure, like ‘Y,’...
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Conga Brava
Conga Brava is the work of type designer Michael Harvey, a combination of the high-minded, purist letterforms of revivalist, modern calligraphers with the mundane, even crude, lettering of warehouse stenciling. The resulting lyrical yet...
Cooper
Cooper Black is a very heavy version of Cooper Oldstyle (also known simply as Cooper), an innovative typeface with rounded serifs and long ascenders designed in 1919. The Cooper family was the work of...
Critter
Originally created by Craig Frazier, San Francisco designer and illustrator, for The Alphabet Critter Playbook, the clever creatures of Critter tell you their names by the letter they represent. A helpful hint: x” is...
Cronos
Cronos is the work of Robert Slimbach, a sans serif typeface family that embodies the warmth and readability of Oldstyle Roman typefaces. It derives much of its appearance from the calligraphically inspired type of...
Sanvito
Designed for Adobe in 1993, Sanvito is an informal script face based on the designer’s handwriting. An almost upright, non-joining script, the Sanvito font family is useful where an informal feel is required in...
Shuriken Boy
A few years ago when Joachim Müller-Lancé was doodling shapes on paper, he made the following observation: “My sketches revealed how letterforms can be perceived not only as black strokes on a white background,...
Silentium
Based on 10th century Carolingian scripts, Silentium Pro sparkles with a quiet but ebullient sense of the human hand. As a multi-featured Adobe Originals OpenType family, Silentium includes myriad alternate forms, ligatures, and titling...
Studz
Studz was inspired by ornamental lettering from an 8th-century manuscript, to which Michael Harvey, British type designer, has given a “riveting” contemporary flair. The name suggests studded leather.
Ex Ponto
Ex Ponto, designed by acclaimed calligrapher, type designer and artist Jovica Veljovic, is a spirited script typeface. Based on the rhythm of Veljovic’s handwriting, Ex Ponto combines the vigor of handwritten letters with the...