Alfrere Sans is a clean Sans Serif display family inspired by a well-known 1950s television caption. The family of seven faces have been designed for independent use, but they also have an extra feature. All faces have identical metrics and can be overlaid with each other, to yield an unending range of multi-coloured lettering effects. Bring a touch of the 5o’s to your next poster design. Better yet, explore the world of multi-coloured overlaid typefaces….
Posts Tagged ‘train’
Brighton Belle
Posted in Miscellany, New Font Announcements, tagged Brighton Belle, England, Merrivale, Pullman, train, travel, typeface on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a couple of posters designed in memory of the sadly missed Brighton Belle train service, designed to display our newly released Merrivale family. Why isn’t train travel like this any more? A freshly grilled kipper for breakfast, a pot o tea and good bitter marmalade, all with waiter service…
More of Portmeirion No.6
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged bath, display, grate, historic, locomotive, polish, poster, Roman, sedan chair, steam, sunlight soap, train, vintage, zebra on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a few more of our Portmeirion test pieces. Releasing any day now…
New Gallery – Families in Harmony
Posted in General Announcements, tagged artwork, chocolate, font, gallery, period, railways poster, train, travel, typeface, vintage on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve just posted a new gallery of posters which explore the use two (or more) typeface families in concert to create harmonious designs. We’ve taken a wide range of themes for these designs including travel, railways, toys, poetry, cars and (everyone’s favourite) chocolate.
Three New Releases
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1920s, 1930s, All Capitals, American, body, body text, character, charm, classic, didone, diesel, dingbats, discount, display, edwardian, electric, Elegance, elegant, fleurons, font, formal, fun, funny, glyphic, grotesk, grotesque, hand painted, hand-lettered, heading, illustration, illustrations, legible, locomotive, modern, moderne, naive, new style, offer, old, old-fashioned, ornaments, rail, railway, rustic, rustick, serif, sign, signage, signwriter, signwriting, signwritten, Small Capitals, special, stagecoach, steam, steam era, text, train, trains, typeface, vintage, western, wild west on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bertoni, “Pardon Me Boy!” and Woodruff -already previewed on our blog- have now been released on Myfonts.com.
Overlooking the Blindingly Obvious!
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged dingbats, fleurons, font, locomotives, ornaments, rail, railway, steam, train, trains on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A week or so ago we posted a preview of our railway based ornaments font. You might remember we were trying to think of a name at the time. We received some very good suggestions, one of which pointed out to us the blindingly obvious. That last post was under a heading of “Pardon Me Boy (is that the Chattonooga ChooChoo?)”, so there you have it, why not call the font “Pardon Me Boy!”.
Pardon Me Boy (is that the Chattonooga Choo Choo?)…
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged dingbats, fleurons, locomotives, ornaments, printer's ornaments, railway, steam, train on March 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Here’s another potential release concept we’re toying with for our nextset of fleurons. We’re not quite sure what we might call this one…any suggestions anyone?
Trains and Fonts Gallery Page Added
Posted in General Announcements, tagged 1920s, 1930s, poster, rail, railways, train, travel, vintage on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve just added a new gallery page “Trains and Fonts” which harks back to the golden age of rail travel, and of model trains. Why not have a look here?
