Roos
The Roos family is a digitization and expansion of the last typeface designed by Sjoerd Hendrik De Roos, called De Roos Romein (and Cursief). It was designed and produced during the years of the...
font_foundry: Canada Type
Siren Script
Siren Script takes its cue from BB&S’s Stationers Semiscript (metal, 1899) and its countless imitations/inspirations from throughout the 20th century, particularly a variety of uncredited film faces from the 1960s. What makes this kind...
Agent
Agent was inspired by the classic fun lettering of 1930s Dutch alphabetician Martin Meijer. Casual and playful, Agent is a carefully considered amalgam of the art brush’s organic forms and the easily read, ironic...
Classic Comic
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,...
Archie
Archie is a wide attention-grabber based on a simple geometric alphabet drawn in the early 1930s by Dutch calligrapher and lettering artist Martin Meijer. This digital family expands considerably on the original letters, adding...
Tuba
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 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...
Firefly
Firefly was designed by Miranda Hopper during her time in Patrick Griffin’s type design class of 2010 at Humber. It is a light, narrow alphabet that works well in casual, leisurely design.
Messenger
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...
Testament
From the standpoint of calligraphy, a font family of capitals and uncials makes perfect sense. The Roman square capitals, the quadrata, are matched by round capitals of older Greek origin; the word “uncus” means...