Thorowgood Wide

What is the Thorowgood Wide font? One of the original Clarendon types, an English design, here derived from a specimen taken from an American...

MFC Tattersaw Monogram™

What is the MFC Tattersaw Monogram™ font? The source of inspiration for MFC Tattersaw Monogram is a specimen from the 1917 “Strong’s Book of...

Aparo

What is the Aparo font? Typography or Calligraphy. Unconnected or Connected. For us, at DSType Foundry, that was the main question. With Apar...

Marli™

What is the Marli™ font? Marli is an adaption of a face designed by F. Schweimanns and issued by the Stempel Foundry from 6 to 48 point, as “...

Diablo

What is the Diablo font? Diablo Light was originally called Fabric and was issued by the Farmer, Little & Co. foundry in New York. We lik...

Deux Chasses NF

What is the Deux Chasses NF font? American Type Founders released the pattern for this typeface under the name “Thermotype”. In the days of c...

Salto™

What is the Salto™ font? Salto was developed by Karlgeorg Hoefer and introduced in 1952 by the foundry Gebr. Klingspor in Offenbach. The capi...

Jaunty Gent NF

What is the Jaunty Gent NF font? In 1936, Erich Mollowitz designed a typeface named »Rheingold Kräftig« for the German type foundry J. D. Tre...

Alternate Gothic Pro Antique

What is the Alternate Gothic Pro Antique font? In 1903, the typeface family Alternate Gothic was developed for ATF (American Type Foundry) by...

1456 Gutenberg B42 Pro

What is the 1456 Gutenberg B42 Pro font? Is it necessary to tell the Gutenberg story? 1456 Gutenberg Pro is the second Gutenberg typeface pro...

Lateral Incised NF

What is the Lateral Incised NF font? Gravure was designed by Morris F. Benton in 1927 for American Type Founders and was also released in 192...

Hip Pop NF

What is the Hip Pop NF font? Type designer Friedrich Poppl is perhaps best known for his classic text faces and elegant scripts, but it seems...

Spinosa BT

What is the Spinosa BT font? Stephen Chick, of In Your Typeface Productions (IYTP) foundry, has created this rather prickly type design. Alth...

Ronde Script

What is the Ronde Script font? Ronde Script (Ronde meaning “A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the charac...

Freehand 471

What is the Freehand 471 font? Freehand 471 is the Bitstream version of Cascade Script by Matthew Carter. Released by Mergenthaler Linotype i...

Sessions

What is the Sessions font? Afrojet Type Foundry presents Sessions, a heavyweight modular typeface with a quirky personality. The design is a...

Tutti Paffuti NF

What is the Tutti Paffuti NF font? The specimen book Alphabete: ein Schriftatlas von A bis Z identified the pattern for this typeface as Stym...

Texicali™

What is the Texicali™ font? Texicali is a new multiple weight type design based on our FontMesa logo. The idea was simple: create a sans seri...

Tecnica Slab™

What is the Tecnica Slab™ font? Tecnica Slab font family has been designed for Graviton Font Foundry by Pablo Balcells. It is a modular, geom...

Period Borders NF

What is the Period Borders NF font? Here’s a collection of border elements taken from the pages of nineteenth and early twentieth century typ...