Cloudy Day
Cloudy Day: Into every life a little rain must fall. We all have our cloudy days. Life happens. Sometimes we just do not feel like smiling. Cloudy Day is a font for one of...
font_foundry: HiH
Baltimore Geometric
Baltimore Type Foundry released its Antique Geometric series by 1883, including it that year on advance sheets for their 1886 Specimen Book, shortly after the firm was taken over by Charles J. Cary. We...
Gothic Tuscan One
Gothic Tuscan One is a all-cap condensed gothic with round terminals and decorative “tuscan” center spurs. It was first shown by William H. Page of Norwich, Connecticut among his wood type specimen pages of...
HiH Firmin Didot
Before Bodoni, there was Didot. With the publication by Francois Ambroise Didot of Paris in 1784 of his prospectus for Tasso’s La Gerusalemme Liberata, the rococo typographical style of Fournier de Jeune was replaced...
Shout
Shout is a “Hey, Look at ME” font. It is an attention-getting font for posters, flyers and ads. Its lineage includes the Haas Type Foundry’s 19th century advertising font, Kompakte Grotesk, which Jan Tschichold...
Gens De Baton
Gens De Baton is based on a charming lower case alphabet that appeared in the Almanach des Enfants pour 1886 (Paris 1886) under the heading “Amusing Grammar Lessons.” Gens De Baton means simply “Stick...
Baroniene ML
Genovaite Baroniene is former school teacher and a native of Lithuania who loves fancy letters. When she writes, she likes to add extra flourishes to her handwriting and printing. It simply appeals to her...
Cherub
According to the Holman Bible Dictionary, a ‘cherub’ is a member of a class of winged angels who functioned in the book of Genesis as guardians. The word cherub is Hebrew. The plural form...
Guthschmidt
Guthschmidt and Guthschmidt Condensed are based on a 1924 KLM Royal Dutch Airline poster that was designed by THE Dutch commercial artist Anthonius Guthschmidt (born Haarlem 1887, died Leiden 1958). The poster draws on...
Novelty Script
Novelty Script is a bold dynamic script, sharply delineated, yet fluid. Most of the lower case letters and many of the upper case letters have joins. The typeface was designed by Nicholas J. Werner...