Poster Paint
Poster Paint is a fun shocard alphabet which came about from Jim Rimmer’s admiration of Goudy Stout, a design he liked in spite of the fact that Goudy himself claimed to detest it. Extremely...
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Tabarnak
Tabarnak started out as an assessment and correction of an old concept by George Wilkens. The original idea was for a bold upright alphabet reminiscent of Oz Cooper’s work, but ornamented with some shocard/signage...
Monte Cristo
Monte Cristo picks up where Libertine left off, then makes a great leap forward to attain its luxuriously seductive personality. With a minimum of 4 variations on the uppercase letters, and up to 38...
Aragon Condensed
The condensed version of Hans van Maanen’s Aragon is a headline star. The elements that made Aragon a popular “Dutch Garamond” text repeat here, with the slight stress shifts and tapering stems optimized for...
Zigarre
Though Zigarre can easily be categorized a brush script, Jim Rimmer actually drew it using a big marker. Jim’s original face, inspired by inter-war German poster lettering, was a rough one, with the marker’s...
Pipa
Originally made for a health food store chain we cannot name, Pipa is the embodiment of organic display typography. Although it draws inspiration from some cold type ideas, like the uncredited Atlantis from VGC...
Alexander Quill
Alexander Quill was originally designed in the early 1980s to be cut in 14 point for casting into foundry type for the setting and printing of limited edition books at Pie Tree Press, Jim...
Grippo
The first Grippo sketches were done in the 1980s, but only now does it see the light of day as a complete series of interchangeable, layerable fonts. The original single-font concept was simple enough:...
Wilke Kursiv
Martin Wilke’s underrated yet influential deco classic from 1932 has both feet firmly planted in the high traditions of Western European calligraphy while carefully and subtly introducing some traits from the sweeping geometric/minimalist vision...
Cotillion Pro
Cotillion is an original design Jim Rimmer finished just before the turn of the century. Alongside its evidence of Jim’s nostalgia at the deco type designs he was exposed to as a child, it...