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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=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=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 http://www.k-type.com/?p=601 http://www.k-type.com/?p=601#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:43:49 +0000 keith http://www.k-type.com/?p=601
A misprinted sans serif loosely based on Phillip Cavette's 1999 font 4990810, but with re-drawn outlines, more distress marks, a neater vertical aspect and no baseline irregularity. Unlike its inspiration, Sans Culottes is a complete font which includes a lower case, accented characters and as many dingbats as you can shake a stick at.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=601 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=580 http://www.k-type.com/?p=580#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:17:28 +0000 keith http://www.k-type.com/?p=580
The Ray Johnson font was inspired by the Father of Mail Art (or the Grandfather, depending on who you read). It is based on the block lettering style used by Ray to add the names of his correspondents to their bunny head portraits (the film 'How to Draw a Bunny' is a superb introduction). The font includes blank bunny heads and other Ray Johnson graphics as scalable vector images, and separate bitmap images are also provided as jpegs and gifs.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=580 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=566 http://www.k-type.com/?p=566#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:27:42 +0000 admin http://www.k-type.com/?p=566
The Victor Moscoso font is based on the 1960s psychedelic poster lettering of the artist Victor Moscoso. The letterforms are derived from some of his most celebrated Neon Rose posters of the late sixties, in particular the archetypical Moby Grape 'Neptune's Notion' of 1967.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=566 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=554 http://www.k-type.com/?p=554#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:22:05 +0000 admin http://www.k-type.com/?p=554
Mandatory is a full small caps font developed from the typeface used for UK vehicle registration plates. There is improved stroke separation on the M and W which are pointed at the centre, and the tail of the Q is thinner and clearer.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=554 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=544 http://www.k-type.com/?p=544#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:55:54 +0000 admin http://www.k-type.com/?p=544
Subway Ticker is based on a 5x7 grid, electronic display observed on a New York subway train in February 2005 en route to Coney Island.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=544 0 http://www.k-type.com/?p=536 http://www.k-type.com/?p=536#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:56:01 +0000 admin http://www.k-type.com/?p=536
Roadway is based on U.S. highway lettering observed on New York street signs. Two weights of highway lettering would often be used on the same sign, condensed for the main name (Roadway uppercase) and a half-size regular superscript (Roadway lowercase) for 'road' or 'street'.]]> http://www.k-type.com/?feed=rss2&p=536 0