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Cooper

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 ...

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Conga Brava

Conga Brava is the work of type designer Michael Harvey, a combination of the high-minded, purist letterforms of revivalist, modern calligraphers with the mundane, even crude, lettering of warehouse ...

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Rosewood

Rosewood font, like its relatives Zebrawood, Pepperwood and Ponderosa, was created by the designer trio K.B. Chansler, C. Crossgrove and C. Twombly, and has its roots in the slab serif style. The ...

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Reliq

Carl Crossgrove designed Reliq, a unique typeface reminiscent of early Greek and Roman graffiti. The Calm letters are positioned more or less normally along the baseline, while the Active letters, ...

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Rad

John Ritter, Adobe graphic designer, adapted Rad from a skateboard alphabet that he created for a college design assignment. In Rad, he captures the “no rules” spirit of the skateboard ...

Quake

After the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, Adobe’s Fryda Berd designed Quake to show that something constructive can come from something destructive.

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Prestige Elite

Prestige Elite is a slab serif monospaced typeface originally intended for use on a typewriter. It was designed in 1953 by Howard Kettler for IBM. Prestige Elite is a good choice for price lists, ...

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Postino

Tim Donaldson, creator of Banshee and Coriander, brings us Postino - a quirky display type modeled roughly on the typewriter face, Courier. Sturdy yet playful, Postino is aptly named by the Italian ...

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Garamond Premier

Claude Garamond (ca. 1480-1561) cut types for the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne in the first part of the sixteenth century, basing his romans on the types cut by Francesco Griffo for ...

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Chaparral

Chaparral is the work of type designer Carol Twombly and combines the legibility of slab serif designs popularized in the 19th century with the grace of 16th century roman book lettering. The result ...