font_foundry: Pelavin Fonts

Tribeca Script

Tribeca Script font

In a script font, every character should join neatly with every other, the spacing must appear uniform, the connections mustn’t look awkward and individual characters must work as both initial and final letters. While...

Setsuko

Setsuko font

Setsuko finds its origins on the ancient Silk Road, a network of trade routes crossing the continent of Asia, named for the Chinese silk trade which began in the Han Dynasty more than two...

Safety

Safety font

Safety is rendered with vertical stress and purely geometric shapes. The letterforms exhibit a stylized, precision typical of works from the Machine Age which had its greatest period of influence between the two world...

Rilke

Rilke font

Rilke is an adaptation of the lettering used by Gustav Klimt on his poster for the 1st Vienna Secession exhibition in 1898 and is named for Klimt’s contemporary the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The...

Monograph

Monograph font

For me, Monograph conjures ancient typewriters, telephone switchboards, vintage office machines past visions of the future. As though it were drawn with the rounded nib a of a Speedball “B” style pen, the soft...

HiFi

HiFi font

HiFi is a semi-connected geometric script with ornate capitals whose genesis lies in drive-in movie theaters, vintage auto emblems and radio dials. It embraces the stylistic tenets of retro futurism and proposes that the...

Book Country

Book Country font

Book Country first appeared on a poster for “New York is Book Country” an annual literary event. It was inspired by the lettering of Ben Shahn on a poster protesting the 1927 execution of...

Bokar

Bokar font

Much of my inspiration comes from imagery and style that technology has rendered obsolete. I treasure anachronistic artifacts of packaging and design which have somehow evaded obliteration by focus groups, and manage to still...

China Market

China Market font

The initial characters in China Market were created in 1996 for a logo featuring the Temple of Heaven in Beijing where emperors from the Ming and Qing dynasties worshiped heaven and prayed for abundant...

Salty Dog

Salty Dog font

Salty Dog’s a rough-hewn but sturdy rope script in two styles; a ready-made outline version and a solid that suits it for a variety of multicolor highlight and shadow effects. Rich with the hearty...