Acropolis Now is P22’s tribute to the enduring contribution of Classical Greece to world culture. This set features two typefaces in the style of ancient Greek stone carvings (one modern, one of authentic Greek characters) and 52 graphic extras drawn from coinage and vase paintings.

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Minotaur is an original monoline design based on an Oscan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscan_language ) votive inscription from the second century B.C.E.

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Pericles Pro is an attractive typeface for headlines and short passages of text which recall inscriptional lettering and playful, art deco design.

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Pseudo-Hellenic is a font based the Greek typeface of Firmin Didot. The original Greek typeface became standard during the Victorian era and remained popular until the last part of the twentieth century.

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Alice in Wonderland. Innocent, emotional, almost childish, looks like it just came out of a fairy tale. The long stems, quirky serifs and loose characters, as well its youthful energy, establish an emotional attachment to this typeface. So perfect for children’s books. Designer Dimitris Foussekis completed this font with a matching series of 62 pictograms the so-called ‘Wonderbats’. Now, the brand new ‘Pro’ version has been expanded to include all European languages by supporting simultaneously Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts.

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Based on the original Stephenson Blake drawings.

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Andron 1 Greek is one package of the Andron family which offers full support for both modern and classical Greek, in all font styles. Greek scholars value this typeface for its classical elegance and yet modern appeal. Andron 1 Greek additionally offers a great range of ligatures and Greek specialities such as the original Kai-sign, which you’ll hardly find elsewhere. Get one of the most distinguished Greek text faces for high quality composing! Andron is a new design inspired by the best of classical typefaces.

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At the height of the Roman Empire’s reign of power, a bunch of guys wearing baxas, olive branch headgear and lined saffron togas told a bunch of guys wearing carbatinas, no headgear and cheapo coarse togas to go and hammer the proud history of the Empire onto every worthy slab of rock, obelisk and wall out there. This resulted in countless rocky manifestations of ancient clipart, interesting stories and weird messages becoming national tourist attractions and museum dressing all over the world to this very day, which is some 2000 years later.

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PF Champion Script Pro is the most advanced and powerful script ever made.

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The design of Beau Sans was inspired by Bernhard Gothic which is considered one of the first contemporary American sans serifs and was designed by Lucian Bernhard in the late 1920s.

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Centro Pro is the winner of the prestigious European Design Awards 2008 for original typeface.

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Designer Panos Vassiliou created Square Sans Pro in his quest for a true square-like text typeface which could balance simplicity with vitality and enhance with its subtle power the identity of any product or service, without compromising its characteristics as a text typeface.

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Colo Pro 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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While Din Display seems to retain DIN’s basic characteristics, it shines with its sharper corners and contemporary look. Completed in 2002, it was first released and published in Parachute’s award-winning 2003 catalog and immediately was a hit.

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Aviano is an extended titling face with influence from the power and timeless beauty of classical letterforms.

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Centro Pro is the winner of the prestigious European Design Awards 2008 for original typeface.

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Centro Pro is the winner of the prestigious European Design Awards 2008 for original typeface.

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This typeface was inspired by the rough surroundings of a modern city and reflects the contradicting nature of an emerging global youth culture.

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Scotch Modern is a revival of the typeface used in the book New York State Cabinet of Natural History.

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Back in 1936 the German Standards committee Deutsches Institut Normung (DIN) proposed DIN 1451 as the standard type of lettering for road signage. As the original manual states ‘the purpose of this standard is to lay down a style of lettering which is timeless and easily legible’.

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Informa is a comprehensive sans serif text family based on traditional lettering in contrast, proportion, rhythm and stroke. In particular its proportions were based on a 1978 award-winning flare-serif film type called Signa, by Swiss design trio Team 77.

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Based on the Keystone Type Foundry design, circa 1919. The l/c ‘g’ appears as an alternate character in our font.

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An original design.

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Driver Gothic is based on the typeface used for Ontario license plates. Although unique among Canadian provincial license plates, this face is very similar to, if not outright identical with, the face used on car plates in 22 American states: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia.

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Based heavily on Gill Sans especially in the mid weights, Astoria has a subtle top left serif which makes it not quite a Roman and not quite a Sans. Designed specificaly as a text face it still works very well as a headline font.

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Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Originally in one weight, Steve designed and produced three additional weights.

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Eleganza is my most elegant typeface.

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Loosely based on Prumyslava, an old Monotype design.

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Silverland is a revival of an old type font from the Bruce Type Foundry of New York, the original font included uppercase only plus 22 end caps. This 21st. century version has been expanded to include many more decorative end caps plus new lowercase, small caps, italic, italic small caps, swash, swash small caps and gothic version. Approximately six months of painstaking work has gone into making this font family over the last twenty two months.

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Based on Nacional by Carlos Winkow from the Spanish foundry, Nacional, circa 1941.

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Designed by the famous English (type designer) Eric Gill, it was created specially for the Silver Jubilee Wedding Anniversary announcement of George VI and Queen Mary.

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Although a sans serif, Colosseum owes its style to the original Trajan Roman form. Borrowing some characteristics from Friz Quadrata, in its san serif form it is more adaptable to text usage whilst still having a modern and original look which works well in headlines.

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Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Paul Hickson.

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The Universal Pi fonts are collections of symbols and mathematical characters useful for math textbooks and commercial or newspaper publishing.

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Dalek is a full font based on the lettering used in the Dalek Book of 1964 and in the Daleks strip in TV21 comic, spin-offs from the UK science fiction TV show, Doctor Who.

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The first sans serif types were made in London in the early 19th century. They were severely modern, all caps and bold.

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Back in 1936 the German Standards committee Deutsches Institut Normung (DIN) proposed DIN 1451 as the standard type of lettering for road signage. As the original manual states ‘the purpose of this standard is to lay down a style of lettering which is timeless and easily legible’.

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A creative variation of the Oldstyle form designed by E. Pechey for Stephenson Blake early in the twentieth century.

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Belgian is a revival of an old type font from the Bruce Type Foundry of New York, Belgian was first designed as a caps-only font in the 1860s with the lowercase added in 1867.

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Country Western is a revival of the classic William Page font known as Clarendon Ornamented originally designed in 1859 and again in 1877 by Vanderburgh & Wells.

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Slab serif fonts are generally macho, but Bullpen is 1,000,000 times more masculine than most slab serif fonts.

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In searching for a Roman to use there were bits of Bembo,Times,Garamond etc., that I liked and bits that I did not. So I set out to take the best bits of all my favorite Romans and tried to create the ultimate Roman typeface.

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Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman.

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Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman.

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Country Western is a revival of the classic William Page font known as Clarendon Ornamented originally designed in 1859 and again in 1877 by Vanderburgh & Wells.

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Country Western Script is a new font based on the classic William Page font known as Clarendon Ornamented originally designed in 1859 and again in 1877 by Vanderburgh & Wells.

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Ancient Olympian god of the sea, brother of Zeus; Poseidon is the bearer of a trident, the three pronged spear of tunny fishers and is drawn along by monstrous sea creatures-half horse, half serpent. Around him travels an entire retinue of dolphines, nereids, seals and different spirits of the sea.

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The best of both worlds: good for small screen resolutions and nice output at larger sizes.

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J. M. Bergling, in his 1914 masterwork Art Alphabets and Lettering, offered this face as suitable for all occasions Greek, and we couldn't agree more.

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The best of both worlds: good for small screen resolutions and nice output at larger sizes.

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Spanish Main is a revival of an old MacKeller Smiths & Jordan font named Sloping Black. Like most foundries MacKeller Smiths & Jordan doesn't display all the letters of the fonts in their specimen books so it took a little more time to find the complete character set for this old beautiful classic font.

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Inscriptions honoring public figures or dedicating temples were intended for public viewing in ancient Greece. Geometric letterforms, free of adornment, were chiseled into the stone. These very basic shapes are the inspiration for Lithos Pro, an Adobe Originals typeface designed by Carol Twombly.

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At the height of the Roman Empire’s reign of power, a bunch of guys wearing baxas, olive branch headgear and lined saffron togas told a bunch of guys wearing carbatinas, no headgear and cheapo coarse togas to go and hammer the proud history of the Empire onto every worthy slab of rock, obelisk and wall out there. This resulted in countless rocky manifestations of ancient clipart, interesting stories and weird messages becoming national tourist attractions and museum dressing all over the world to this very day, which is some 2000 years later.

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Originally designed by Sol Hess as just a roman and italic for Lanston Monotype, circa 1920-23.

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Copacabana is heavily based on one of my favourite typefaces Goudy Old Style Italic. It is sharper and more clearly defined than Goudy yet still retains it old style characteristics. The face is slightly angled so is basically upright whilst still retaining Italic characteristics.

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Designed by M. Fahrenwaldt for the Schriftguss foundry in 1929, Minister is a contemporary design based on Garalde types.

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Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. The x-heights are radically different; the x-height on the light version is small, and gets larger as the weights progress.

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The Cross has a rich and varied history and has been used in many cultures. It has been around since before Christianity, and has been used as a symbol of pride, honor, protection, and persecution. Of the many forms of the Cross, the Latin, Celtic, Greek, and the Maltese are the most common. The Egyptian cross, called the Ankh (cross with a circle on top) represents life and regeneration. The Maltese Cross began as a symbol for hospitallers during the crusades. The Maltese cross is also used as a symbol of protection by Firefighters. The cross also makes a great printer’s ornament.

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The designer’s father, Philip Grecian drew a logo for his business, Grecian Creative Services and asked Alex Grecian to expand on the logo. Alex extrapolated from the existing letters, creating a font to compliment his father’s logo.

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Patriot is a stupid unthinking being that shouts the same message, Patriot is the sans version of ‘Exocet’, a font released through Emigre. [Patriot missiles shoot down other missiles, so there must be some logic there] Patriot letterforms are based on primitive greek stonecarving.

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Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Originally designed by Frederick Goudy for the original Life magazine, circa 1908.

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Stretto (Italian for wood) is a revival and expansion of an Aldo Novarese font called Sintex, done for VGC in 1973.

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When the right late seventies / early eighties message is needed, Toisy comes to the rescue. Founded on a mix of references from letterforms of the time, this new original nods to a style that defined an era. A sexy theme font that conveys a clear image of what was truly chic thirty years ago, this alphabet is deeply rooted in sultry memories of soft, endless nights.

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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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Acropolis Now is P22’s tribute to the enduring contribution of Classical Greece to world culture. This set features two typefaces in the style of ancient Greek stone carvings (one modern, one of authentic Greek characters) and 52 graphic extras drawn from coinage and vase paintings.

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Loosely based on Pontecorvo, a design by Aldo Novarese.

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An original design based on Progreso from the Gans foundry circa 1923.

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Based on an Adrian Williams design, circa 1976 and Brook Type in 1903 designed by Lucien Pissaro.

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Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. This beautiful recreation by Les of the Frederick Goudy typeface, Kennerley Old Style, circa 1911-24, may be superior to any other.

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Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Unofficially named ‘No Frills’ in the early stages of development, his widow Elsie decided that it would be called Kingsrow.

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Forum Title was originally designed by Frederic Goudy in 1911. It was intended to be the heading font used for a book set in Kennerley. Based on inscriptional Roman stone cut capitals, this face is true to the early Roman forms which did not have a lower case. Forum exemplifies the classic Roman letterform at its finest. If a lower case were desired, Forum Title can be paired with Goudy Oldstyle for a harmonious hybrid font.

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Based on the Albert Kapr design, circa 1959.

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Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. A few weights were originally released by another foundry; but this complete version of the family is a better match to Les’ original drawings!

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An original design based on the Frederick Goudy design first shown in 1912. Originally a caps only design in one weight. Produced as a foundry face by Lanston Monotype 1924.

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Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Paul Hickson. Les based the design on a turn-of-the-century typeface of the same name. The foundry is believed to be Soldans & Payvers, circa 1904.

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Flexion developed out of design philosophy and ambigramatic artwork of John Langdon. Based on the contents in John’s book Wordplay, author Dan Brown hired John to create ambigrams for his forthcoming novel Angels & Demons. Mr. Brown was so impressed with his work he even named the main character Robert Langdon after John.

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