family of 1 font from GarageFonts
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Cheyenne JNL is a classic slab serif wood type with chamfered corners. Its tall, condensed design is perfect for short headlines that emulate the Old West and similar nostalgic themes.
Daniel Berkeley Updike seems to have stimulated the architect Bertram G. Goodhue to design the prototype in 1896 for Ingalls Kimball at the Cheltenham Press. Six years later Morris Fuller Benton at ATF developed it into the design and then the series that we know today.“Owing to certain eccentricities of form,†writes Updike, “it cannot be read comfortably for any length of time.†But he concludes: “It is, however, an exceedingly handsome letter for ephemeral printing.†Mergenthaler bought composing machine rights to the original design c.1896, but bought the Benton design in 1904.
family of 2 fonts from Kimmy Design
Chelsnuts was inspired by old Art Deco typefaces used in poster art back in the 1920s. Yet, in addition it has a playful side that makes it unique to the sharp letterforms typically seen in similar ultra-thick typefaces.
Chef Script is an experimental font designed by Carlos Fabian Camargo G. Its fantasy design contains 1463 glyphs to compose words, phrases and short messages on small and large sizes. The idea was born in a sketchbook that was perfected again by hand and achieving "non-neutral drawings" on tracing paper.
With bezier digitization the empty and full parts of letters appeared with soft and eloquent curves as calligraphic result produces optimal readability. More…
In that sense, Chef Script is influenced by Speedball lettering manual (1957), Ross F. George. The illustrative nature of "ChefScript-complete" does not look anything like the traditional type design hierarchies.
Therefore offers 7 hierarchical resource groups to design comfortable contexts flavored with illustration and typography:
Thus its letters have ascenders and descenders strokes perpendicular to its base line and equal to the height of the lowercase.
This font was inspired by a neon sign at a mission in downtown Seattle, “COME UNTO ME.” all in oblique capitals. The combination of squares and rounded elements between letters such as C and O, and U and N, was interesting and a full upper-and-lowercase character set was subsequently designed.
The final version comes in four weights, each with oblique styles.
family of 4 fonts from YOFF
A cozy “color me” font in two versions hollow and black also included are two smoothed versions.