Mahalia draws inspiration from vintage hand-lettering, but adds a modern, European twist.

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Happy Trails is a font designed by Harry Warren, based on the lettering (all upper case) that was used on most Trailways buses from 1936 through the very early 1960s.

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Pauline is a sans serif with a strong influence from retro scripts. Pauline is a geometric face formed with slow and deliberate rounded brush strokes. The tall ascenders give it a useful touch of naïveté. It’s a face suitable for some interesting titling and short bits of copy.

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Inspired by a piece of cigarette pack lettering by the great A. M. Cassandre, Nick designed the rest of the characters as an experiment. Geetype evokes the 1920s & 30s and is an unusual, eye-catching display face.

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Stephanie is a rounded geometric display font and works best in display applications, such as posters, headline, magazine, product branding, corporate branding, signage, logos and titles.

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Neon Bugler is a font based on the third logo created by Harry Warren in early 1975 for his sixth grade class newsletter, The Broadwater Bugler, at Broadwater Academy in Exmore, Virginia, on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

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Named after the trendy New York City locale, SoHo Nights BF features sensuous curves and tapering lines that combine to create a unique new look that’s a little bit art deco and a little bit art nouveau. The font also exhibits attributes that can be described as cartoon-like, and even “spooky” when seen in short blocks of large text.

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Zirphy is a rounded geometric display font and works best in display applications, such as posters, headline, magazine, product branding, corporate branding, signage, logos and titles.

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Teaspoon was originally designed by Haley Fiege as a project-specific font in 2007, then completed and produced by Canada Type for commercial viability in 2008. With a personality that can only be described as “ironic cute”, it serves as a much needed alternative for the old overused poster faces, such as Cooper Black and Gill Sans Extra Bold. Words that look good set in Teaspoon include puppies, rainbows, salmonella poisoning and Tom Cruise.

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Originally designed by Morris F. Benton for ATF in 1920, it was not completed for production until 1926.

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Based on the Morris F. Benton for ATF in 1920, it was not completed for production until 1926. The serif version we released a few years ago was so popular, that we decided to design a complementary sans serif version in three weights, along with three corresponding Swash fonts.

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Youngblood is a non-connected formal script with tall, sweeping ascenders and two alternates. These alternate forms can be mixed and matched for a custom look, and Youngblood is stronger in weight and is better suited for display work than most script fonts.

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A revival of the Ludwig & Mayer type design from 1930.

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Iliad was designed to bridge the gap between traditional serif faces and modern humanist fonts. It uses a gentle, traditional, partial serif combined with a subtle curving of many of the “corners” in the characters.

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Florencia flows with the spirit and excitement of a beautiful dancer. Its extended and flowing letterforms are designed to glide across the page.

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Weird Bill is Squid’s tribute to his most prominent influence, Bill Campbell, model kit box illustrator extraordinaire and creator of the Weird-Ohs!.

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Gerry Powell’s stencil version of Clarendon designed for ATF in 1938.

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Two typefaces called Stencil were released in 1937 within a month of each other; this one was designed by Gerry Powell for American Type Founders. The characters are designed to emulate the look of bold, cut-out stencil letters.

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In the United Kingdom, Virgin Trains uses various weights of Generation Gothic extensively.

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Another informal script designed in 1939 by M.K. Kaufmann for ATF.

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

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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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Xalapa is a wavy and rugged script.

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Savage Hipsters was designed by German pinstriper Tom Plate for Sideshow and all you retro kustom beatniks.

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Based on the design ‘Phosphor’ by J. Erbar, for Ludwig & Mayer, circa 1922-30.

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Hey kids! What’s wacky, bouncy, and jam-packed with excitement and thrills? It’s DOINKY! That’s right, you'll have bucket-loads of fun with this new OpenType font from Sideshow. Amaze your friends with tons of DOINKY ALTERNATES! Yes, DOINKY will make you the envy of all your pals so order yours today! (Batteries not included. Sold separately or in the big action-packed Doinky Play Set!)

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Inspired by retro lettering on advertising and propaganda posters from the 30s to 50s.

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

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Based on the original design, circa 1927.

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Based on the Albert Augspurg design, circa 1921-27.

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Introducing... SPEEDING BULLET -- featuring SPEED TRAILS for increasing the, ah, speed of your bullets!

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Cooper Black is a very heavy version of Cooper Oldstyle (also known simply as Cooper), an innovative typeface with rounded serifs and long ascenders designed in 1919. The Cooper family was the work of Oswald Bruce Cooper, co-owner of the Bertsch & Cooper design firm in Chicago. Cooper Black was first released by the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler foundry of Chicago in 1922. Oz Cooper was fond of saying that the Black fit the needs of “far-sighted printers with near-sighted customers.” Cooper Black set a trend in ad types which prompted such designers as Fred Goudy (one of Cooper’s early teachers) to follow suit with their own black faces (compare Goudy Heavyface).

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Based on Iberica by Carlos Winkow for the Spanish foundry, Nacional, circa 1942.

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Creaky Tiki was created for the rum-swillin' castaways out there who crave exotic tribal rituals with a crazy jungle beat!

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Hey kids! What’s wacky, bouncy, and jam-packed with excitement and thrills? It’s DOINKY! That’s right, you'll have bucket-loads of fun with this new OpenType font from Sideshow. Amaze your friends with tons of DOINKY ALTERNATES! Yes, DOINKY will make you the envy of all your pals so order yours today! (Batteries not included. Sold separately or in the big action-packed Doinky Play Set!)

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Creaky Frank is for all you boils n' ghouls who dig your fonts fresh from the grave...you know, like creepsville, man!

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Creaky Solid is for all you hipsters that prefer a nutty retro font that’s a little less freaky and a lot less tiki. Dig 'em all daddy!!

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Looking for a fun, funky dingbat font that works well with your wacky and weird projects? May we suggest..... DOINKBATS! Not unlike its designer famous tiki artist and sculptor Squid, Doinkbats are a little unbalanced and a little off-kilter yet still gets the job done.

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Dig this cats n' kittens ... A whole heapin' helpin' of tasty art bits from Tiki retro artist Derek Yaniger!

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Goofball is yet another wacky decorative typeface from Squid and Sideshow. As with most of his art and font design, Goofball is derived from Squid’s cluttered childhood recollections of greeting card and advertising lettering. Somehow it got all mushed together in his noggin and out came Goofball!

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Weirdbats are the perfect complement to the Weird Bill font, Squid’s tribute to the wacky Weird-Ohs! art of Bill Campbell.

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Yet another member of the Weird Bill dysfunctional font system!

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Kasuga, Japanese for spring day, is a contemporary script with eastern influence.

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Kasuga Brush is a contemporary script with eastern influence and authentic brush drawn character.

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Cooper Black, commissioned by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, is the best known of Oswald Cooper’s typefaces. Bitstream has expanded the 1921 original into a complete series of round-edged text faces.

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Bitstream Cooper was designed at Bitstream in 1986 by means of adding light, medium, and bold styles, with the corresponding italics, to the existing black ones.

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There has never been a publicly available digital version of Cooper Black’s original swash characters.

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Tweed is a journey into the 1930s world of hand-lettering.

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Hiruko is a full family of 16 different styles. Inspired by the early Swiss movements, Hiruko offers creativity and clarity within many media. Influenced by Japanese culture, Hiruko is based on the idea that less is more, however this applies in other directions when referring to the amount of work gone into producing the type family.

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An original design, loosely based on a typeface from an old wood type specimen book from the turn-of-the-century.

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Amity is a unicase type design in the spirit of Bayer Universal and its 1970’s child, Bauhaus. The lower case combines capital and lower case letterforms in a slick, inherently chuckable set led by a bespoke monocular “a”. An upper case of lining “capitals” compliment the lower case. The deftly-worked-out modular structure, employing quarter rounds and the seldom-used principle of overhead underhang, ensures great fit with very little need of kerning—most letters are strictly lining and occupy a square footprint.

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A fresh new decorative display face bubbling with life & spontaneity, Jabberwub belongs to a rare genus of creature fonts that time forgotócasual animated. A fun & bouncy eye-catcher that crosses into the land of the zany, dancing a whacky line between discord & rhyme, Jabberwub packs tons of fun into a state-of-the-art OpenType font loaded with 270 extra glyphs, including stylistic alternates, discretionary ligatures, word ligatures and capitalized ligatures, allowing creative typographers to achieve a custom hand-lettered look without all the mess & spilt glue of a manual paste-up job. Just like using rub-down type but it never cracks or splits, and it never runs out. The moment you start using Jabberwub you'll be laffing!

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Kayla Sans is a sans-serif display font and works best in display applications, such as headline, magazine, posters, product branding, corporate branding, signage, logos and titles.

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Hamburger Font BF is an endearing tribute to the lettering style of a logo, long retired, from a certain chain of fast food restaurants.

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Inspired by retro lettering on advertising & propaganda posters from the 30s to 60s.

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Wrap your chilly fingers around this ultra cool swingin' typeface! Cocktail Shaker is a swanky retro connecting script born out of 1950s lounge culture. Often referred to as the ‘googie’ look, Cocktail Shaker blends a casual loungy script with clean readability and a twist of modern Atomic Age charm.

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Sidewalk Cafe will serve up a look from your Font Menu that’s delectably deco.

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