Tag: showcard
Aramara Chromatic Font
Aramara Chromatic is a display typeface to write in colour. Palmar de Aramara is a colony in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico where people are fond of bright and basic colours. It is a typeface that consists of several font files
Steak Font
Here I am, once again digging up 60-year sign lettering and trying to reconcile it with the typography of my own time. The truth is I’ve had this particular Alf Becker alphabet in my sights for a few years now.
Platinus Script Pro Font
Platinus Script Pro is the latest example of what has now become a Sudtipos tradition: Adapting conventional calligraphic methods from the last two centuries to produce modern digital scripts for the current one. This time the resulting font explores the
Blue Moon Font
Blue Moon is a font design published by Fonthead. Published by Fonthead Design Inc.Download Blue Moon
Girder Poster Font
Girder Poster, also named Spurred Gothic, was inspired by showcard lettering samples featured in the book, Commercial Art Of Show Card Lettering, published in 1945. Although similar to Cooper Bold, Girder Poster’s serifs are spurred and the design’s incepton came
Showcard Collection Font
The Show Card collection of four poster fonts, Boadway Poster, Poster Gothic, Girder Poster, and Cooper Poster were all inspired by showcard lettering samples featured in the book, “Commercial Art of Show Card Lettering” by James Eisenberg, published by D.
Hipster Script Font
Hipster Script is another of my habitual attempts at trying to reduce the divide between manual and digital. In this case, I try to articulate brush lettering, try to get the computer to emulate continuous painting. The process wasn’t that
Filmotype Homer Font
Introduced by Filmotype in the early to mid-1950s, Filmotype Homer was created in response to customer demand for a wider brush script expanding on Filmotype’s popular sign painter sho-card lettering styles used in the late 1940s through the 1950s. With
Buffet Font
Buffet Script is based on fantastic calligraphy by Alf Becker, arguably the greatest American sign lettering artist of all time. The Alf Becker series of nameless alphabets published by Sign of the Times magazine in 1941 have attracted letter digitizers
Filmotype Melody Family Font
Originally released in the late 1950s, Filmotype expanded it’s Free Style typeface category with the introduction of Melody, an offbeat Googie era doo-wop typeface which was most frequently associated with music and entertainment lettering styles throughout the last 1950s and
Metroscript Font
Metroscript is a completely original typeface that is designed in the spirit of hand-lettering from the first half of the 20th century. Michael Doret had been doing hand-lettering in styles similar to Metroscript in his work for many years before
Cooper Poster Font
Cooper Poster was inspired by showcard lettering samples featured in the book, Commercial Art Of Show Card Lettering, published in 1945. Although named “Western”, the design was modeled after Ozwald Cooper’s 1921 original Cooper Black. Published by FontHausDownload Cooper Poster