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| x Tahoma |
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Sans-serif | Matthew Carter |
Tahoma is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for the Microsoft Corporation in 1994 with initial distribution along with Verdana for Windows 95.
Similar to Verdana, Tahoma has a narrower body, less generous counters, tighter...
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| x Abaddon Font | Dave Nalle |
Abaddon is a typeface designed by Dave Nalle of Scriptorium Fonts, inspired by the poster lettering of Art Nouveau artist Alphons Mucha.
Abaddon has some characteristics of Gothic lettering, with pointed demi-serifs and extended, very pointy...
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| x Verdana |
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Sans-serif | Matthew Carter | Microsoft |
Verdana is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation, with hand-hinting done by Tom Rickner, then at Monotype. Demand for such a typeface was recognized by Virginia Howlett of Microsoft's typography group....
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| x Lucida Grande |
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Charles Bigelow |
Lucida Grande is a humanist sans-serif typeface included with the Mac OS X operating system. It is a member of the Lucida family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. It is currently used throughout the Mac OS X user interface,...
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| x Andy Bold |
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Script | Steve Matteson | Microsoft |
The Andy typeface (originally known as Mead font) is a childish style design by Steve Matteson and owned by Monotype imaging. This typeface family has a controlled spontaneity feature which combines informality and legibility needed for long...
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| x Avenir |
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Sans-serif | Adrian Frutiger | Linotype |
Avenir is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988, and released by Linotype GmbH, now a subsidiary of Monotype Corporation.
The name Avenir is French for “future,” and takes inspiration from early geomeric sans-serif...
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| x FHWA Series fonts | Sans-serif |
The FHWA Series fonts (often informally referred to as Highway Gothic) are a set of sans-serif typefaces developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration and used for road signage in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, Spain, The...
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| x Fette Fraktur |
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Fette Fraktur is a Blackletter typeface of the sub-classification Fraktur designed by the German punchcutter Johann Christian Bauer (1802–1867) in 1850. The C.E. Weber Foundry published a version in 1875, and the D Stempel AG foundry published the...
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| x Willow |
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Tony Forster | International Typeface Corporation |
Willow is a name shared by two typefaces.
ITC Willow was designed by Tony Forster in 1990. Although a contemporary typeface, Willow is the reminiscent of the Scottish Arts and Crafts style made popular by painter and social reformer Jessie Marion...
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| x FF Scala Sans | Martin Majoor | FontShop |
FF Scala Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed in by Dutch designer Martin Majoor in 1993 for the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It was designed as a companion to Majoor's earlier serif old style typeface FF Scala,...
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| x Johnston |
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Sans-serif | Edward Johnston | Linotype |
Johnston (or Johnston Sans) is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by and named after Edward Johnston. The capitals of the typeface are based on Roman square capitals, and the lower-case on the humanistic minuscule, the handwriting in use in...
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| x ITC Benguiat |
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Serif | Ed Benguiat | International Typeface Corporation |
ITC Benguiat is a decorative serif typeface designed by Ed Benguiat and released by the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1978. The face is loosely based upon typefaces of the Art Nouveau period but is not considered an academic revival....
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| x Perpetua | Serif | Eric Gill | Monotype Corporation |
Perpetua is a typeface that was designed by British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker Eric Gill (1882–1940).
Though not designed in the historical period of transitional type (the hallmark of transitional type was John...
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| x Segoe UI | Sans-serif | Steve Matteson | Monotype Corporation |
Segoe (pronounced /ˈsiːɡoʊ/) is a series of typefaces named after Segoe Road in Madison, Wisconsin, where one of Monotype's engineers lived. The Segoe name, although originally registered to Monotype, is a registered trademark of the Microsoft...
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| x Akzidenz Grotesk | Sans-serif | Berthold type foundry |
Akzidenz-Grotesk is a realist sans-serif typeface originally released by the H. Berthold AG type foundry in 1896 under the title Accidenz-Grotesk. It was the first sans serif typeface to be widely used and influenced many later neo-grotesque...
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| x Coronet | Robert Hunter Middleton |
Coronet is an American typeface designed in 1937 by Robert Hunter Middleton. It is also sometimes known as "Ribbon 131".
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| x Corona | Serif | Chauncey H. Griffith | Linotype |
Corona is a serif typeface, designed by Chauncey H. Griffith, and presented by Mergenthaler Linotype in 1941. It is one of five typefaces in Griffith's 'Legibility Group' which contains typefaces especially well-suited to newsprint. Corona is based...
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| x Minchō |
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Ming typefaces, known as Song typefaces in mainland China, are a category of typefaces used to display Chinese characters, which are used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. They are currently the most used style of type in print for...
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| x Braggadocio |
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Monotype Corporation |
Braggadocio is a geometrically constructed sans-serif stencil typeface designed by W.A. Woolley in 1930 for the Monotype Corporation. The design was based on Futura Black.
Though a stencil face, Braggadocio bears comparison with the heavier weighted...
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| x Consolas | Monospace font | Lucas de Groot | Microsoft |
Consolas is a monospaced (non-proportional) typeface, designed by Lucas de Groot. It is a part of a new suite of fonts that take advantage of Microsoft's ClearType font rendering technology. It comes with Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7 and...
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| x Catull | Serif | Gustav Jaeger | Berthold type foundry |
Catull is an old-style serif typeface designed by Gustav Jaeger for the Berthold foundry in 1982. Since August 1999, Google has used the typeface for its logo. It currently costs upwards of $99.00.
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| x Calibri | Sans-serif | Lucas de Groot | Microsoft |
Calibri is a humanist sans-serif typeface family under the Microsoft ClearType Font Collection.
In Microsoft Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook....
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| x Frutiger |
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Sans-serif | Adrian Frutiger | Linotype |
Frutiger (pronounced with a hard g) is a series of typefaces named after its designer, Adrian Frutiger. Initially available as a sans serif, it was later expanded to include ornamental and serif typefaces.
Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the...
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| x Baskerville |
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Serif | John Baskerville | Linotype |
Baskerville is a transitional serif typeface designed in 1757 by John Baskerville (1706-1775) in Birmingham, England. Baskerville is classified as a transitional typeface, positioned between the old style typefaces of William Caslon, and the modern...
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| x Granjon |
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Serif | Chauncey H. Griffith | Linotype |
Granjon is an old style serif typeface designed by George William Jones (1860–1942) in the period 1928–1929, and based on the Garamond typeface that was used in a book printed by the Parisian Jean Poupy in 1592. The roman design was from Claude...
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| x Courier |
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Monospace font | Howard "Bud" Kettler |
Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface designed to resemble the output from a strike-on typewriter. The typeface was designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler in 1955. The design of the original Courier typeface was commissioned in the 1950s by IBM for...
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| x New Gulim | Sans-serif |
New Gulim (새굴림/SaeGulRim) is a sans-serif type unicode font designed especially for the Korean-language script, designed by HanYang System Co., Limited (now Hanyang Information & Communications Co., Ltd). It is an expanded version of Hanyang Gulrim ...
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| x Co Headline |
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Sans-serif | Dalton Maag | Dalton Maag |
Co Headline is a geometric sans-serif typeface developed in 2006 by Dalton Maag.
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| x Excelsior | Serif | Chauncey H. Griffith | Linotype |
Excelsior is a serif typeface, designed by Chauncey H. Griffith, and presented by Mergenthaler Linotype in 1931. It is one of five typefaces in Griffith's 'Legibility Group' which contains typefaces especially well-suited to newsprint.
Before...
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| x Fletcher |
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Fletcher is the name given to a revival of a nineteenth century blackletter typeface designed in the Paris foundry of Theophile Beaudoire (1833–1903). The typeface appears in the title pages of many 1870s books. Dan X. Solo's revival is based on a...
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| x Helvetica | Sans-serif | Max Miedinger | Linotype |
Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann.
Helvetica was developed in 1957 by Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas type foundry...
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| x Skia | Sans-serif | Matthew Carter | Apple Inc. |
Skia is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Apple Computer in 1993. Skia is Greek for "shadow,"and the letterforms take inspiration from 1st century BC Greek writing. The typeface was the first QuickDraw GX font, featured...
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| x Rotis | Otl Aicher | Agfa-Gevaert |
rotis is a typeface developed in 1988 by Otl Aicher, a German graphic designer and typographer. In rotis, Aicher explores an attempt at maximum legibility through a highly unified yet varied typeface family that ranges from full serif, glyphic, and...
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| x Franklin Gothic | Sans-serif | Morris Fuller Benton | International Typeface Corporation |
Franklin Gothic is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton (1872–1948) in 1902. The typeface is one of over 200 typefaces designed by Benton. There is an assumption that this typeface was named after Benjamin Franklin. “Gothic...
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| x Joanna | Serif | Eric Gill | Monotyping |
Joanna is a transitional serif typeface designed by Eric Gill (1882–1940) in the period 1930–31, and named for one of his daughters. The typeface was originally designed for proprietary use by Gill's printing shop Hague & Gill. The type was first...
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| x Univers |
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Sans-serif | Adrian Frutiger | Deberny & Peignot |
Univers (French pronunciation: [ynivɛʁ], "universe") is the name of a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1954.
Originally conceived and released by Deberny & Peignot in 1957, the type library was acquired in 1972 by Haas....
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| x Andreas | Michael Harvey | Adobe Systems |
Andreas is a humanist serif typeface designed by Michael Harvey, and licensed from the Adobe Type library. Harvey drew the lettering in 1988 as part of the book-jacket design for James F. Peck's book In the Studios of Paris: William Bouguereau and...
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| x Alexa | John Benson | Adobe Systems |
Alexa is a typeface. It was designed for Adobe Systems in 1995. It was designed by John Benson, a famous United States carver of inscriptions, including those at the John F. Kennedy Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. Benson modeled the...
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| x Century Gothic | Sans-serif | Microsoft |
Century Gothic is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed for Monotype Imaging in 1991. Century Gothic takes inspiration from Sol Hess's Twentieth Century, which was drawn between 1937 and 1947 for the Lanston Monotype Company as a version of the...
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| x Prestige Elite |
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Clayton Smith | IBM |
Prestige Elite, also known simply as Prestige, is a monospaced typeface.
It was created by Clayton Smith in 1953 for IBM. Along with Courier, it was extremely popular for use in electric typewriters, especially the IBM Selectric. Unlike Courier,...
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| x Monotype Grotesque |
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Sans-serif | Monotype Corporation |
Monotype Grotesque is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Frank Hinman Pierpont (1860–1937) and released by the Monotype foundry in 1926.
Pierpont based his design for Monotype Grotesque on Ideal, an earlier more idiosyncratic sans-serif by...
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| x FF DIN |
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Sans-serif | FontShop |
FF DIN is a realist sans-serif typeface designed in 1995 by Albert-Jan Pool, based on DIN-Mittelschrift. DIN is an acronym for Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Institute for Standardisation).
Pool encountered Erik Spiekermann at a 1994 meeting...
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| x FIG Script |
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Script |
FIG Script is a script typeface designed by Eric Olson in 2002 for Process Type Foundry, a digital foundry which he co-founded.
The name FIG is an acronym for "Frank (Sheeran), Ian (Chai), and Glenn (Chappell) who collaborated in the development of...
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| x Exocet |
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Jonathan Barnbrook | Emigre |
Exocet is a typeface designed by Jonathan Barnbrook for the Emigre foundry in 1991. It was used extensively for product designs in the 1990s, most notably for Tazo Tea. It can be seen in the 1993 movie Demolition Man where it is used extensively in...
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| x Bookman | Serif | Chauncey H. Griffith | Lanston Monotype Company |
Bookman or Bookman Old Style is a serif typeface derived from Old Style Antique designed by Alexander Phemister in 1858 for Miller and Richard foundry. Several American foundries copied the design, including the Bruce Type Foundry, and issued it...
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| x Kristen | George Ryan | International Typeface Corporation |
Kristen is a casual script typeface consisting of two weights designed by George Ryan for the International Typeface Corporation (ITC). It was inspired by a handwritten menu at a Cambridge, Massachusetts restaurant, and has an organic structure...
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| x Gentium |
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Serif | Victor Gaultney |
Gentium (Latin for of the nations) is an open Unicode serif typeface designed by Victor Gaultney and released under the SIL Open Font License [OFL], which permits modification and redistribution.
Gentium defines roughly 1,500 glyphs covering almost...
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| x Linux Libertine |
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Serif |
Linux Libertine is a computer font that is open source and free software; it is dual licensed under the GPL and the OFL. It was created by the Libertine Open Fonts Project that aims to create free and open alternatives to commercial fonts like Times...
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| x Bank Gothic | Sans-serif | Morris Fuller Benton | Linotype |
Bank Gothic is a rectilinear geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders (ATF) in 1930. The typeface is an exploration of geometric forms, and is contemporary with the rectilinear slab serif typeface...
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| x VAG Rounded |
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Sans-serif |
VAG Rundschrift or VAG Rounded (Rundschrift is German for round writing) is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1979 as a corporate typographic voice for the Volkswagen AG motor manufacturer. It features rounded termini on all strokes....
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| x Arial |
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Sans-serif | Monotype Corporation |
Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a sans-serif typeface and computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, other Microsoft software applications, Apple Mac OS X, and many PostScript computer printers. The typeface was designed in 1982 by...
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| x Old English Text |
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Serif | William Caslon | Monotype Corporation |
Old English Text is a 1935 revival of William Caslon's c. 1760 typeface Caslon Black, which was inspired by late medieval English textura letterforms.
Old English Text is in the graphic identity of several brands, and is popular for its evocation of...
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| x Starlet/Star | Sans-serif | Critzla |
Starlet/Star are the names of two very similar sans-serif fonts largely based on Also Novarese's earlier Sprint typeface. They were first seen in the logo of Native Instruments' Guitar Rig software in 2004 and were released to the public as a...
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| x Sistina | Serif | Hermann Zapf | Linotype |
Sistina is an old style serif typeface designed in 1950 by Hermann Zapf.
Sistina is an all-capitals titling font intended as a heavy supplement to Michelangelo Tilting, based on inscriptional capitals in Rome. Sistina was first released in metal in...
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| x Pricedown |
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Sans-serif |
Pricedown is a display typeface designed by Ray Larabie in 1998 based on The Price Is Right logo. The typeface is also used in the video game Grand Theft Auto, on the cover of "Weird Al" Yankovic's Ultimate Video Collection , in the logo of Pacdude...
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| x Andale Mono | Monospace font | Steve Matteson | Monotype Corporation |
Andalé Mono (also known as Andale Mono, Monotype.com) is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson for terminal emulation and software development environments, originally for the Taligent project by Apple Inc. and IBM. The Andalé...
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| x Gill Sans |
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Sans-serif | Eric Gill | ITC |
Gill Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill.
The original design appeared in 1926 when Douglas Cleverdon opened his own bookshop in his home town of Bristol, where Eric Gill painted the fascia over the window in sans-serif...
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| x Hoefler Text |
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Serif | Jonathan Hoefler | Hoefler & Frere-Jones |
Hoefler Text is a contemporary serif Antiqua font that was designed for Apple Computer to demonstrate advanced type technologies. Hoefler Text was created to allow the composition of complex typography; as such it takes cues from a range of classic...
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| x Bernhard Gothic |
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Sans-serif | Lucian Bernhard | American Type Founders |
Bernhard Gothic is a geometric sans serif typeface designed by Lucian Bernhard in 1930 for the American Type Founders (ATF). Bernhard Gothic is more organic and less regular than other geometric sans-serif typefaces, including Futura, Kabel ...
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| x Arnold Böcklin |
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Serif | Otto Weisert | Linotype |
Arnold Böcklin is a display typeface that was designed in 1904 by Schriftgiesserei Otto Weisert foundry. It was named in memory of Arnold Böcklin, a Swiss symbolist painter who died in 1901.
It is probably the best-known Art Nouveau typeface.
The...
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