font_foundry: LetterPerfect
Pietra is a Baroque-inspired, all-majuscule type design, based on the massive five-foot tall mosaic lettering high above the floor in St. Peters in Rome. The font includes two sets of capitals: full sized, proportioned...
Pontif is a typeface based on the inscriptional lettering work of Luca Horfei, the Vatican scribe who designed the major inscriptions for Pope Sixtus V’s Baroque-makeover of Rome in the sixteenth century. Garrett Boge...
The Kolo family was designed by Paul Shaw, inspired by the lettering of Koloman Moser, Gustav Klimt, Alfred Roller and other members of the Secession, Vienna’s turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau movement. Kolo’s family variants—narrow, regular,...
Kryptic is based on a design for computer optical character recognition (OCR) from the 1960s developed by Epps & Evans at the National Physical Laboratory. Its pure geometric and elemental shapes create graphic patterns...
Longhand is a script design modeled on casual handwriting. Its subtle rough edge and line variation simulate cursive writing on text paper. The font, optimized for legibility, works equally well at small sizes for...
Manito was designed by Garrett Boge in 1989. He employed a wide pen and angular, sturdy forms to simulate rough-hewn woodcut letters. The font, consisting of both capitals and small caps, provides an ideal...
Goteborg is a an original italic typeface designed by Paul Shaw in collaboration with Garrett Boge in 1998. Its graceful yet sturdy character shapes were inspired by twentieth century Swedish lettering. The face is...
Hadrian Bold pushes the limits for an extra-condensed titling face. Though remaining in the tradition of the 20th-century ‘grotesque’ designs, its heavy verticality and tight spacing demand attention for headlines at virtually any size.
Hardwood is a reworked foundry typeface from the 1930’s, providing an interpretation of the Art Deco graphic style. It harkens back to the golden era of poster design and Hollywood movie marquees, while retaining...
Koch Original is a revival of the original cut of Rudolf Koch’s classic sans serif, Kabel, retaining its tall ascenders and art deco flavor. It is suitable for both text and display setting.