Robur
It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that these letter shapes are familiar. They have the unmistakable color and weight of Cooper Black, Oswald Cooper’s most famous typeface from 1921. What should be a...
font_foundry: Canada Type
Wagner Grotesk
This is the elaborate digital version of Edel Grotesque Bold Condensed (also known as Lessing, Reichgrotesk, and Wotan Bold Condensed) a 1914 typeface by Johannes Wagner, which was later adopted by pretty much every...
Middleton Brush
One of the earliest fonts published by Canada Type was Coffee Script, Phil Rutter’s digitization of Robert Hunter Middleton’s 1962 brush script, Wave. In 2010, when the font was revisited for an update, it...
Trump Script
One of the earliest fonts published by Canada Type was Tiger Script, Phil Rutter’s digitization of Jaguar, Georg Trump’s 1967 wild calligraphic brush face. In 2010, when the font was revisited for an update,...
Slinger
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
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
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 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
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...
Marvin
The objective of this font was to try and find out how far back in the designer’s life this obsession with letters began. The challenge was to draw, from memory only, two sets of...