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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.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=1915 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1892 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1892#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:58:09 +0000 keith http://www.k-type.com/?p=1892
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.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=1892 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1849 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1849#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:34:34 +0000 keith http://www.k-type.com/?p=1849
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.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=1849 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=516 http://www.k-type.com/?p=516#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:39:10 +0000 admin http://www.k-type.com/?p=516
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?]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=516 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1763 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1763#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:07:58 +0000 keith http://www.k-type.com/?p=1763
Soft Sans is a modern sans serif family of fonts, businesslike and classic grotesque in origin, but made friendlier and less austere by the addition of rounded outer corners. Soft Sans is designed for clarity and legibility. The fonts have a healthily large x-height, handwritten forms of a and g, and distinct characters such as a barred uppercase i and a curved foot on the lowercase L.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=1763 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1745 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1745#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:44:39 +0000 keith http://www.k-type.com/?p=1745
Credit Card is an ALL CAPITALS font for simulating bank cards (and to suggest a context of banking, finance, membership or security). The number keys produce the bigger, squarer digits of the 16 figure card number. There is no lowercase in this font. Instead, the small numerals used for validity dates fill the lowercase letter keys, 1 > 9 being at a > i.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=1745 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1724 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1724#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:29:04 +0000 keith http://www.k-type.com/?p=1724
An all capitals family based on the hand lettering of English artist, Frank Bellamy, most famous for his comic art for Eagle and TV21, and his Dr Who illustrations for Radio Times. The uppercase characters are the wider and heavier of the scans, and the lowercase are narrower and lighter letters. The Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic are all supplied.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=1724 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1623 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1623#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:11:44 +0000 keith http://www.k-type.com/?p=1623
Blundell Sans is a type-hybrid that combines the precision and power of a sans serif with the elegance and humanism of a script. A resolutely upright font with a strong diagonal thrust.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=1623 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1608 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1608#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:24:49 +0000 keith http://www.k-type.com/?p=1608
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.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=1608 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1551 http://www.k-type.com/?p=1551#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 11:22:24 +0000 admin http://www.k-type.com/?p=1551
Excite is a neo-grotesque typeface family named after an x-height that's as tall as you can get without compromising the distinction between upper and lower case, helping to make it extremely readable both in print and on screen. It is modern and spacious, has short ascenders and descenders, and an airiness augmented by using both horizontal and vertical endings of open characters like C, S and 3. Unusually for a neo-grotesque, Excite has a clean, contemporary, single storey lowercase A. ]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=1551 0