font_foundry: Greater Albion Typefounders

Portmeirion No.6

Portmeirion No.6 font

Portmeirion No.6 started life as an experiment by our designer, who was exploring the possibilities of a completely ‘over-the-top’ display Roman face, bringing in elements of Tuscan and ‘Circus’ design, along with anything else...

Chubbly

Chubbly font

The Chubbly family started life as an alphabet for an illustrated children’s book. These big, chubby and friendly letterforms are easy to read and have a sense of fun about them. They’re ideal where...

Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh font

Pittsburgh is the latest (as at August 2011) in a range of inter-war American inspired commercial faces, and takes its place alongside the popular Bettendorff and the Spargo family. These shaded stab-serif capitals speak...

Birmingham New Street

Birmingham New Street font

Birmingham New Street is the latest updated development of a typeface family inspired by the hand lettered title on a 19th century railway map. The map, prepared by the London and North Western Railway...

Stout

Stout font

Stout is a deliberately aggressively solid family of four faces, offered in two weights and in serif (deliberately large serifs) and sans forms. It’s ideal for signage that needs to be read over long...

Dem Bones

Dem Bones font

Dem Bones is a bit of fun-display alphabet (capitals), numbers and punctuation assembled out of the sort of knobbly ended bones that dogs used to gnaw on in all the best childrens cartoons and...

Sophie J

Sophie J font

We were marveling one day at a colleague’s handwriting. We noticed that it managed all at once to be casual and modern looking, yet admirably regular and legible as well. We took a few...

Merrivale

Merrivale font

Merrivale is an ideal example of the benefits of keeping ones eyes open- it was inspired by the gilt-finished raised lettering on a late Victorian shopsign in Melbourne, Australia. The family of seven faces...

Beckinslade

Beckinslade font

Beckinslade is a lovely elaborate blackletter face, released just in time for Christmas, but useable at any time of the year. It is in the best traditions of Victorian Gothic revival, drawing inspiration from...

Future Runes

Future Runes font

Future Runes is another in our occasional series of ‘retro-science-fiction’ based fonts, along with Albia Nova and Cullion. There are design niches for which this piece of fun will be just ideal…Enjoy!