Retro / Historical
Runestone
Runestone is a bold font derived from ancient Runic alphabets carved into standing stones. It also evokes the style of engraved Greek and Phoenician lettering. An additional Small Caps version is included in the download.
Adventuring
Rock-steady and friendly, yet animated and exciting, Adventuring evolved from the hand drawn, uppercase title lettering used for the 1950s and 1960s dust jackets of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five books.
New Old English
New Old English was prompted by two Victorian coins, the mid nineteenth century gothic crown and gothic florin, which featured a gothic script lowercase with quite modern looking, short ascenders and descenders enabling it to fit snugly around the queen’s head or heraldic motif. With thicker hairline strokes than normal Old English, a less sharp, warmer feel than lettering scripted with a pen, and circular instead of rhombic punctuation, this font is an attempt to capture the round-cornered softness of the die-struck lowercase blackletter. To increase harmony and homogeneity between the cases, the uppercase is narrower and simpler than is customary, without the excessive width or antiquated flamboyance of the traditional blackletter. It might even allow text set in capitals to look acceptable.
Gill New Antique
In addition to the Gill New Antique family (Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic), two new weights, Medium and Semibold, are now available. Based on the Roman typefaces of Eric Gill – Perpetua, Joanna, and the hitherto neglected Solus. A tiny portion of Gill Sans, a few extraneous influences too… is this the undiscovered second sans?
Roundel
Roundel is a paradoxical, modern heraldic typeface. It is a display face of simple, angular and curved shapes, with each main glyph contained within a circle.
Transport New (Heavy, Medium, Light)
Transport New is a redrawing of the typeface designed for British road signs. In addition to the familiar Heavy and Medium weights, Transport New includes the previously unreleased Light weight font originally planned for back-lit signage but never actually applied. The original Transport font has subtle eccentricities which add to its distinctiveness, and drawing the New version has involved walking a tightrope between impertinently eliminating awkwardness and maintaining idiosyncrasy.