Trajan
While designing Trajan, Carol Twombly was influenced by the style of carved letters produced by the Romans during the first century AD. Twombly completed the design, adding numerals and punctuation, ...
Latest Posts
Toolbox
Brian Strysko, a graphic design student at California Polytechnic State University, came up with an idea for a typeface crafted from everyday gadgets and tools. After much poking around in ...
Flood
Flood was designed by Joachim M�ller-Lanc� and is not just another handwritten face. At smaller point sizes it exhibits the natural, dynamic, and spontaneous flow of felt tip marker writing. At ...
Tekton
Tekton font is based on the hand lettering of West Coast architect Frank Ching, who wrote out the text for his books. It is an Adobe Originals typeface designed by David Siegel in 1989. Tekton is ...
Ex Ponto
Ex Ponto, designed by acclaimed calligrapher, type designer and artist Jovica Veljovic, is a spirited script typeface. Based on the rhythm of Veljovic’s handwriting, Ex Ponto combines the vigor ...
Studz
Studz was inspired by ornamental lettering from an 8th-century manuscript, to which Michael Harvey, British type designer, has given a “riveting” contemporary flair. The name suggests ...
Silentium
Based on 10th century Carolingian scripts, Silentium Pro sparkles with a quiet but ebullient sense of the human hand. As a multi-featured Adobe Originals OpenType family, Silentium includes myriad ...
Sassafras
Arthur Baker's display script Sassafras, designed in 1995, is based on the natural inline effect created when writing with a split-metal nibbed pen. Black and white are nicely balanced, giving this ...
Sonata
Designed for Adobe Systems in 1985 by Cleo Huggins, Sonata consists of 170 music-notation symbols for use in music publishing, with appropriate music setting software applications, to produce printed ...
Shuriken Boy
A few years ago when Joachim Müller-Lancé was doodling shapes on paper, he made the following observation: “My sketches revealed how letterforms can be perceived not only as black strokes on a white ...