Download 1st Ave Font Family Style

Download 1st Ave Font Family Style

Download 1st Ave Font Style Family

1st Ave is the most experimental of my typefaces. I took a picture of a metal and neon sign in the East Village of New York City. These signs are slowly being replaced by LED and LCD displays, but if you look hard, you can still find quite a few in the city.

The signs give a mid 20th century feel to the city. To design 1st Ave, I took a picture of the sign, scanned it and increased the contrast in Photoshop so that the photographic forms became line art.

There weren't enough letterforms in the sign to create the whole alphabet, so I cut up the strokes and collaged them back together to finish the entire alphabet.

Important Note: 1st Ave is an experimental typeface and is not compatible with certain software such as Microsoft Word.

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Download 19th Century Retro Font Family

Download 19th Century Retro Font Family

family of 4 fonts from Matthias Luh

19th Century Retro is a re-design of an official German font style (called Fraktur) which was used in official documents in the 19th and early 20th century.

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Download 19th Century Retro Font Family Style

Download 19th Century Retro Font Family Style

Download 19th Century Retro Font Family

family of 4 fonts from Matthias Luh

19th Century Retro is a re-design of an official German font style (called Fraktur) which was used in official documents in the 19th and early 20th century.

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Download 161 Vergilius Font Family

Download 161 Vergilius Font Family

This font was inspired by the rare manuscript Roman Quadrata used by an unknown scribe to inscribe a copy of the Roman poet Virgils GEORGICS, somehwere around 161 to 180 AD. Only a few sheets have survived, now preserved by different libraries around the world. More…

In creating this font, we have adapted it for contemporary users, making differences between U and V; I and J (which made no difference at all to ancient Latin scribes) and naturally adding the glyphs for Thorn, Oslash, Lslash, W, Y, as well as the usual accented characters and punctuation, none of which existed at the time. Only capitals are present in the original; but we have provided alternates: so alternating each character A-Z/a-z will give a pleasant appearance of manual script. We have added the Roman numerals I V X L C D M in the OTF/TTF versions usable as Old Style Numerals alternates.

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Download 161 Vergilius Font Family Style

Download 161 Vergilius Font Family Style

Download 161 Vergilius Font Family

This font was inspired by the rare manuscript Roman Quadrata used by an unknown scribe to inscribe a copy of the Roman poet Virgils GEORGICS, somehwere around 161 to 180 AD. Only a few sheets have survived, now preserved by different libraries around the world. More…

In creating this font, we have adapted it for contemporary users, making differences between U and V; I and J (which made no difference at all to ancient Latin scribes) and naturally adding the glyphs for Thorn, Oslash, Lslash, W, Y, as well as the usual accented characters and punctuation, none of which existed at the time. Only capitals are present in the original; but we have provided alternates: so alternating each character A-Z/a-z will give a pleasant appearance of manual script. We have added the Roman numerals I V X L C D M in the OTF/TTF versions usable as Old Style Numerals alternates.

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Download 150 Font Family Style

Download 150 Font Family Style

Download 150 Font Style Family

family of 16 fonts from hgo

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Download 1467 Pannartz Latin Font Family Style

Download 1467 Pannartz Latin Font Family Style

Download 1467 Pannartz Latin Font Style Family

This family was inspired by the edition De Civitate Dei (by Sanctus Augustinus) printed in 1467 in Sobiano (Italy, Roma) by Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz who was the Punchcutter. It is one of the first few “Roman style” fonts, just before the birth of Jenson’s pattern (look at 1470 Jenson Latin).

The present font contains all of the specific latin abbreviations and ligatures used in the original (about 54). Added are the accented characters and a few others not in use in this early period of printing. More…

Decorated letters such as 1512 Initials, 1550 Arabesques, 1565 Venetian, or 1584 Rinceau can be used with this family without anachronism. If Italic style is required,(no longer existing in early time of printing) we recommend using 1557 Italique.

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