font_foundry: E-phemera

Golden Ticket

Golden Ticket font

Golden Ticket is a digitization of hand-drawn poster lettering by Otto Heim from 1925. The regular style is meant to be used on its own, but the other three styles are meant to be...

Hadank

Hadank font

Hadank is a display typeface developed from hand-lettered words in a German printer’s letterhead from the 1920s.

Impersonal

Impersonal font

Impersonal is a detailed replica of letters appearing in “La Plume,” a 1950s personal ads magazine. The magazine billed itself as “The correspondence medium devoted to the connoisseur of the ‘unusual’.” Impersonal is a...

Lanier

Lanier font

Lanier is based on the handwriting of American poet and novelist Sidney Lanier, as seen in a letter written by him in 1875. The font features numerous special ligatures and letter combinations to better...

Coldstyle

Coldstyle font

Coldstyle is inspired by Old Style 1 from the 1935 Linotype catalog. It is a text font gently aged to capture the feel of old metal type, and includes “fi” and “fl” ligatures for...

Blackburn

Blackburn font

Blackburn is a distressed text font designed to capture the look of old printing at small sizes. Based on a 19th century French type specimen, it contains a complete international character set.

Shipley

Shipley font

Shipley is based on Kennerley, which is regarded by some as Goudy’s most beautiful type, but which seems to have suffered from desuetude in recent decades. This version is based on vintage printed samples,...

Exilis

Exilis font

Exilis is a condensed Latin face based on a 19th century sample. It was developed to typeset headlines in prop old newspaper clippings. The OSF weight has oldstyle figures and modified serifs on some...

Satisfaction Pro

Satisfaction Pro font

Satisfaction Pro is the vastly expanded and improved version of the popular font Satisfaction, inspired by cigarette ads from the 1930s. This new OpenType version has over 600 glyphs, including a full set of...

Garamold

Garamold font

Garamold and Garamold Italic are inspired by specimens of classic French type. At smaller sizes, the rough edges give it a very organic feel. The font contains classic ligatures and the long s for...