Doobie
One would think the whole hippy thing would have died out after the knighting of Mick Jagger and the selling out of the The Who. Not at Canada Type. We still occasionally read Burroughs...
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Martie
From the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, by way of Toronto, comes Martie’s handwriting. Martie Byrd is a school teacher in Roanoke, Virginia, and a friend of Canada Type’s Rebecca Alaccari. After years...
Bouwsma Script
Bouwsma Script, based on Philip Bouwsma’s own handwriting, was originally released in 1994 and settled for nothing less than being an instant classic. One of Bouwsma’s widely used works in the 1990s, Bouwsma Script...
Chalice
Chalice is a new original Canada Type family inspired by two different engraving eras and locations: Medieval England and 19th century Russia. Chalice’s construct is geometric at heart, though the wedge serifs and their...
Hamlet
Based on a specimen of an obscure and uncredited old face called Kitterland, Hamlet is one of those curiosities hardly ever noticed in the world of modern fonts, the kind that infuses a variety...
Lexington
A revival and major expansion of a 1926 Ludwig Wagner Schriftgiesserei typeface called Titanic, Lexington is the ultimate art deco expression of the high times of signage and theater during the first half of...
Huckleberry
Huckleberry is a revival and expansion of a 1973 typeface called Mark Twain, which was G. Jaeger’s reaction to the popularity of VGC’s Eightball (also digitized and expanded as Orotund by Canada Type) from...
Lionheart
Lionheart is the digitization and expansion of Saladin, a neo-gothic typeface designed by Friedrich Poppl, long after he established himself as one of the greatest German designers of all time with some of the...
Screener
Game over. Insert coin to continue. 1 coin, 1 play. Credits 00. Screener is the latest child of arcade alphabets. Not too trendy, not too retro, not too stand-out, yet clear and fresh. Although...
Fantini
Fantini is the revival and elaborate update of a typeface called Fantan, made in-house and released in 1970 by a minor Chicago film type supplier called Custom Headings International. In the most excellent tradition...