Handmade Bugler is a font based on the first logo created by Harry Warren in late 1974 for his sixth grade class newsletter, The Broadwater Bugler, at Broadwater Academy in Exmore, Virginia, on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

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Hemingway designed by Alessandro Segalini was inspired by the prize winning novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Miller Hemingway.

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Pacific Clipper has its roots in an old 1930s showcard lettering style. An extra bold version of this sign painter’s relic is shown in Carl Holmes' wonderful book on lettering.

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Sweater School is a friendly teacher’s font based on Cardigan. The structure is similar to the print style elementary school teachers prefer but with subtle compromises to improve readability.

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Stubble is a distressed grunge font with many useful variations that make things easy. It comes in both a Regular and Bold version, and a Smudged version as if the print block has slipped a little bit just at the vital moment. Also there’s 2 jumbled versions with the letters and numbers, and some punctuation, at odd angles and slightly off-whack; there’s 2 versions with little bits of overprint on most of the main characters (as if the corners of the block or stamp have just caught the paper); a couple of Caps Only versions; plus condensed and expanded versions of the main faces. The Bold version is not an exact expanded version of the Regular version, please note, the characters are different (i.e. the misprinting is different) in the two weights.

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Based on the original design, circa 1927.

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Inspired by 1930’s Art Deco lettering styles, the Mighty Tuxedo font family comes complete with a Regular, Shortcaps, and AllCaps Luxe version, to give it an impressive range of flexibility & flair.

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Poster type faces from the twenties and thirties are enjoying a new wave of popularity. The summary, even rather hard principle of the sign is required for a view from a distance. The information appearing on the poster must be readable even from the opposite pavement. And, as is often the case with monumental type faces, these type faces are legible even in small sizes. The name Bahnhof suggests the hypothetical use of the type face on railway station buildings. By overlapping the designs Outline and Solid, a two-colour effect can be achieved.

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A heavyweight playful typeface with a children’s comic feel.

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This is the tallest, skinniest, most condensed, non serif font I know of. I designed this because I felt a serious need for that one big, thin word to fit in a narrow space.

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Uni Sans is a custom sans font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items.

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The thinking behind Fairway was to create a relatively conventional soft sans with a certain amount of movement at the top of the x-height line.The face is casual and quirky but can still be used as a text face.

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MVB Solano Gothic Bold was originally designed as a display face for the City of Albany, California, located on the San Francisco Bay facing the Golden Gate Bridge and bordering the the Berkeley hills. Named for the City’s main street, the typeface needed to work on signage in proximity to older buildings, in contemporary settings, and for general print and web use. Rather than creating a neutered design to cover all bases, Mark van Bronkhorst chose to develop a simple, strong, condensed face that would offer flexibility of style by providing both retro and neutral forms.

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The original Ronsard Crystal began its life as a single-weight VGC photo display font in the 1950s.

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The Le Havre series is a series of geometric sans serifs inspired by the dignified era of the passenger ship, when getting to your destination was a delight in and of itself.

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SavoryPaste is a grungy sans serif from insigne. SavoryPaste includes 64 discretionary ligatures of the most common letter pairs for a more natural look without distracting repeating characters. The typeface family also includes OpenType small caps, old style figures and alternates without filled counters. The SavoryPaste family also includes a completely interchangeable and more restrained alternate.

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The Cinio family was specially designed for sign applications.

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Inspired by retro lettering on propaganda posters from the 30s to 40s.

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Inspired by retro lettering on advertising & propaganda posters from the 50s to 80s.

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Describe the 21st century politician. Left or right? Fat or thin? War or peace? Straight or gay? Hard or soft? Male or female? Pro or con? Young or old? East or west?

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Designed by Eric Gill and released by the Monotype Corporation between 1928 and 1930, Gill Sans is based on the typeface Edward Johnston, the innovative British letterer and teacher, designed in 1916 for the signage of the London Underground.

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Based on an early wood type design. An original creation.

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Ayita is a new sans serif design by Jim Ford and Steve Matteson.

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Used in advertising posters for the Soviet state foreign trade company named ‘Soyuzchimexort’ in the early 1980s.

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Bree, based on TypeTogether’s logotype, is a sleek sans serif that delivers a polished and modern look and feel for branding or headline usage.

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The design of Graublau Sans Pro took Georg Seifert over 5 years. With 7 weights and over 1000 glyphs per style, Graublau Sans is a type family that suits all typographic tasks. The regular styles have a rather clean and neutral appearance. The italics on the other hand, have a vivid design based on handwriting. For the use in headlines or logotypes Graublau Sans Pro offer 6 additional display styles with rounded corners and tighter spacing.

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Fox is a completely new typeface based on my previously designed Fox family font, which has been in distribution by T26 type foundry since 2001. Old Fox typeface design decisions were reconsidered in a way to improve legibility without sacrificing its originality. This new Fox family consists two subfamilies: Fox TRF and Fox Sans TRF.

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Sweet Gothic is a 2009 addition to the Sweet Collection of engraved lettering styles from the 20th Century. 

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Oval is a custom sans font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items.

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Constellation started with a simple geometric concept in the manner of Art Deco which gradually developed to a complete typeface, both upright and italic, total of seven weights. The concept allowed the font to be designed from Ultra Light in both very light and quite black styles.

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Based on the Robert Wiebking design for either Western or BB&S, circa 1918.

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On the border between formal and informal, Amescote is a fairly conventional sans-serif but it’s a font which has a bit of its own personality.

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Glow Gothic BF, like its predecessor Subliminal BF, represents further exploration into typographic special effects. In its original form, it features letters that are transparent, with an opaque glow. Glow Gothic Overlay and Glow Gothic Underlay share identical spacing values and are designed to be used together. Though “Overlay” can certainly be employed as a separate, stand-alone, solid font, using these two together allows for greater color and (tighter) kerning possibilities —see Gallery Images.

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A longtime font favorite of his, Michael felt that a set of lowercase characters would make Bank Gothic a more universally useful font. He set out on this ambitious task always mindful of the huge presence of its original designer, Morris Fuller Benton, hoping that whatever he did would live up to the high standards of this former giant of the font world.

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Pure, rounded and eclectic, almost abstracted letterforms. A monoline typeface with a soft, organic edge.

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Eckhardt Sans JNL continues Jeff Levine’s “mini series” of fonts modeled after hand-lettering used by sign painters; and named after his good friend, the late Al Eckhardt of Allied Signs in Miami, Florida.

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Snail is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items.

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Aldrans Medium is a homage to the poster style used in the 1920’s to promote skiing in Austria.

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Downturn was most directly inspired by letters painted on the wall of an old medical warehouse in Washington, D.C.. Other inspirations include lettering on manhole covers, metal signs and machinery in New York and DC.

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Le Havre is a geometric sans serif inspired by the golden era of the passenger ship, when getting to your destination was a delight in and of itself.

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Franklin Gothic, one of the most popular sans serif types ever produced, was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1902 for American Type Founders. In 1979, under license with ATF, Vic Caruso began work on more weights of the design for ITC.

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Designed by the renowned Robert Hunter Middleton of Chicago’s Ludlow Typograph Company, this “serifless roman” was first introduced in 1929.

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Punctured Bicycle is a true grunge font.

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A truly fun typeface that emerged in the 1970’s and remains popular to this day. This heavy sans serif face with curved terminals has been used extensively in display typography where a modern, but informal appearance is needed. Designed by talented designer Bob Newman in the Letraset Type Studio.

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Mostra Nuova is based on a style of lettering often seen on Italian Art Deco posters and advertising of the 1930s.

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Churchward Marianna and Churchward Marianna Shadow are two more OpenType font releases by BluHead Studio, LLC from the exciting and unique library of Joseph Churchward type designs.

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Terfens is a sans serif with inspiration from chancery scripts like Stefania. Subtly rounded and eschewing harsh technical lines, Terfens is a warm and inviting typeface. Its tall x-height gives it a friendly but not overly informal feel.

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Systematic variation of Art Deco capitals in Cassandre’s posters led to Anisette. Rich contrasts in width and weight of hand-lettered geometry suggested a hidden typographic opportunity.

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The Eagle series realizes the ideas behind Morris Fuller Benton’s famous titling, Eagle Bold, the symbol of American recovery, drawn in 1933 for the National Recovery Association.

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Black Monday is a distressed or “grunge” version of James Puckett’s Recovery typeface. The core of the Black Monday type family is a single Opentype font containing three full character sets of varying degrees of distressing treatment. Every glyph in each of the subsets is unique to provide an organically weathered look and feel.

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Charles Coiner (1898-1989) was a giant in the history of American graphic design, recognized with the first National Society of Art Directors Annual Award and an AIGA medal. As an art director at N. W. Ayer & Son Coiner commissioned work by great artists of the era including Norman Rockwell, Georgia O'Keefe, and Pablo Picasso. His work for private and government clients helped popularize modernism in the United States.

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Morris Fuller Benton’s Eagle, designed for ATF in 1934, which did yeoman-like duty on many WPA posters of the time. This version, unicase as was the original, has been designed to set tight, so that it creates dense and commanding headlines.

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Powdermonkey comes in just the 4 standard versions (unusually for Aah Yes
font families). It is a slightly-altered sans-serif font, with extensions in
some of the uprights and diagonals, making it an exuberant and eye-catching
fun-font for display situations.

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A soft-edged shortcaps typeface with enough funk to lighten any mood.

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A light hearted comic and clumsy typestyle inspired by an old pulp novel called “The Astronaut”.

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Mentone is a new general purpose typeface, an attempt at extending the line of the great sans-serifs of the previous century, Frutiger - Stone Sans - Myriad.

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Winner of the “no prizes for guessing” category, Overlapper’s main feature is that the letters overlap slightly. I thought it best to just come straight out with it. In case there’s someone just recovering from a lobotomy.

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What started out as my thesis project is now a complete sans serif typeface family in 14 styles.

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Designed by Douglas C. McMurtrie. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Based on the original Ludlow drawings, circa 1928.

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Inspired by posters of the early 1900s, Revue was designed for Letraset in 1968 by Colin Brignall.

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Relato Sans is the other face of Relato Serif (a typeface with much idiosyncrasy) never the less, the sans version of this typeface is more austere and aseptic. A humanistic type, with a contemporary cut, created for general use in texts and holders and with a great variety of weights, which allows the enough flexibility for projects of great magnitude.

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Geogrotesque is a semi modular with a subtle rounded finish typeface. All the characters are based in the same formal principle with its corresponding optical adjustments in order to adapt the system to an alphabet for texts. Although the type family has a geometric or “technological” construction, the rounded finish provides it a warm appearance, making the typefaces nicer and nearby.

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Colo is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

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Geogrotesque Stencil is the newest member of the popular Geogrotesque family, it has been thought as a display typeface, but it goes one step further and tries to solve some of the typical problems of stencils fonts.

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Typedesigner Hannes von Döhren created Brevia, a soft sans serif type family consisting of seven weights plus matching italics. The fonts have a hint of a brushed feeling and come across casual and friendly. Nevertheless Brevia’s architecture is straight, making it perfect for longer texts. Because of its big x-height, it also performs nicely in very small sizes. Brevia’s heavier weights are slightly more curved and have an eye-catching appearance. They unfold their strength especially in bigger sizes. This contemporary type family is intended to be used in applications like: Cosmetics, Service, Food and Advertising – basically everywhere where a pleasant feeling should be conveyed.

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Mostra is based on a style of lettering often seen on Italian Art Deco posters and advertising of the 1930s. Each weight of Mostra includes three fonts. The basic font includes the most conventional letterforms. Two secondary fonts provide alternate versions of some characters. The different letterforms represent commonly-found variations in Italian Art Deco lettering. Though they are spread over three fonts, they can be used in any combination to capture a particular mood or style. There are five weights ranging from Light to the ridiculously bold Black. Mostra features a full character set (caps only) and kerning tables for display setting.

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Findon is a classic sans serif uppercase stencil typeface.

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An art deco style typeface inspired by the poster from the 1971 film, Velvet Vampire.

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Originally released by the Stephenson Blake foundry in England, Doric is modeled on one of the sans serifs of William Caslon IV, who was the first to interpret sans serif letterforms into a typeface (1816).

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Neubau is a condensed geometric display typeface, designed in 2009. The inspiration for this face came from Joost Schmidt lowercase letters developed during 1925-28 in Bauhaus Dessau. Schmidt was one of the proponents of New Typography – a movement advocating the use of only lowercase letters which were constructed strictly geometrically using only ruler and compass.

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Another offbeat typeface inspired by the lettering on a design by Patrick Owsley for the Chicago Bears.

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Advertisers Gothic is bold and brash, like the city it comes from, Chicago. It was designed by the accomplished German-American matrix engraver, Robert Wiebking, for the Western Type Foundry in 1917. As its name suggests, it was designed for commercial headliner work, much as Publicity Gothic by Sidney Gaunt for BB&S the year before. See our Publicity Headline.

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Created in 2009 by V.H. Fleisher, Monod is a geometric sans serif typeface.

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Created in 2009 by V.H. Fleisher, Monod Brun is a geometric sans serif typeface.

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It was our initial intention to develop a suitable lowercase for Les Usherwood's Elston typeface, based on a few characters from an old German typeface called Hermes Grotesque (Woellmer, Berlin).

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It was our initial intention to develop a suitable lowercase for Les Usherwood's Elston typeface, based on a few characters from an old German typeface called Hermes Grotesque (Woellmer, Berlin).

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Retrozoid is the first Open Type font from Pizzadude.

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The typeface Fry was developed in 2008 specially for the Sky-Fish company (fish and seafood dealer).

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