Foundry: Font Bureau

  1. ITC Franklin Typeface
    Designer: Morris Fuller Benton, David Berlow, Victor Caruso
    In 1902 American Type Founders' release of Franklin Gothic introduced Morris Fuller Benton. In 1979 Victor Caruso, International Typeface Corporation,…
  2. Trilby Typeface
    Designer: David Jonathan Ross
    A wholly useful contemporary design with offbeat charm and subtle wit. The 19th-century French Clarendon, with its unorthodox reversed stress,…
  3. Interstate Typeface
    Interstate is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones in the period 1993-99, and licensed by Font Bureau. The…
  4. Farnham Typeface
    Designer: Johann Fleischman, Christian Schwartz
    "Farnham":http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/Farnham by Christian Schwartz and released by Font Bureau is a ridiculously diverse typeface. In its black display form, it…
  5. Prensa Typeface
    Designer: Cyrus Highsmith
    Spanish for press, Prensa is a new series from Cyrus Highsmith. He arrived at this family’s character through his process…
  6. Bodega Sans Typeface
    Designer: Greg Thompson
    A fresh take on the Art Deco sans. Also comes in a serif version, Bodega…
  7. Bureau Grotesque Typeface
    Designer: David Berlow, Jill Pichotta, Christian Schwartz, Richard Lipton
    Bureau Grotesque reintroduces the tooth and character of the nineteenth-century sans. Developed in 1989 for Roger Black, The Tribune Companies,…
  8. Rocky Typeface
    Designer: Matthew Carter
    A Latin with Bodoni proportions, or a Bodoni with Latin…
  9. BureauGrot Typeface
    Designer: David Berlow, Jill Pichotta, Christian Schwartz, Richard Lipton
    "Bureau Grotesque":http://typedia.com/explore/typeface/bureaugrotesque/ reintroduces the tooth and character of the nineteenth-century sans. Developed in 1989 for Roger Black, The Tribune Companies,…
  10. Agency FB Typeface
    Designer: David Berlow, Morris Fuller Benton
    ATF Agency Gothic was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1932 as a lone titling. In 1990, David Berlow saw…
  11. Dispatch Typeface
    Designer: Cyrus Highsmith
    Cyrus Highsmith created Dispatch in his search for an industrial grade slab-serif to serve as text and display. A taut…
  12. Poynter Gothic Text Typeface
    Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones
    Morris Fuller Benton’s drawings at the Smithsonian show a creative concern for effects of scale on typeface design. Tobias Frere-Jones…
  13. Poynter Old Style Display Typeface
    Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones
    In the sixteen-seventies, Christopher Plantin was the largest publisher of his day. Hendrik van den Keere cut for him an…
  14. Whitman Typeface
    Designer: Kent Lew
    Inspired by W.A. Dwiggins'…
  15. Giza Typeface
    Designer: David Berlow, Vincent Figgins
    The sixteen styles of Giza bring back the colorful power and variety of the original Egyptian letterforms, a glory of…
  16. Garage Gothic Typeface
    Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones
  17. Mantinia Typeface
    Designer: Matthew Carter, Andrea Mantegna
    Mantinia, designed by Matthew Carter, is a titling face inspired by the letterforms painted and engraved by Andrea Mantegna, artist…
  18. Niagara Typeface
    Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones
    While not a revival in the strictest sense of the word, Niagara recalls the crisp, elegant geometry found in some…
  19. Anisette Typeface
    Designer: Jean François Porchez
    Systematic variation of Art Deco capitals in Cassandre’s posters led to Anisette. Rich contrasts in width and weight of hand-lettered…
  20. Starling Typeface
    Designer: Mike Parker, William Starling Burgess
    In 1904 William Starling Burgess, Boston racing sailor, designed his second type. Six years later, now the Wright Brothers’ partner,…
  21. Zingha Typeface
    Designer: Xavier Dupré
    Zingha “balances French rhythm with American style.” Traditional inscriptions inspire design of the roman capitals, but Dupré allowed himself more…
  22. Antenna Typeface
    The calm and deliberation of Antenna offers further development to the excitement and mobility that we have come to expect…
  23. Moderno FB Typeface
    Designer: David Berlow, Richard Lipton
    In 1995, David Berlow cut FB Moderno for Esquire Gentleman and Reforma from a TrueType pole of Giza. Berlow conceived…
  24. Sand Typeface
  25. Zócalo Typeface
    Designer: Cyrus Highsmith
    Eduardo Danilo’s dramatic redesign of El Universal, a leading Mexico City daily, introduced Cyrus Highsmith’s Zócalo. The original text, and…
  26. Agenda Typeface
    Designed by Greg Thompson, Agenda offers a high-style alternative to the contemporary Swiss sans. Agenda is a fresh humanist sanserif…
  27. Armada Typeface
    Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones
    Tobias Frere-Jones began Armada in 1987. An experiment in algorithmic design, Armada follows the verticals and flat arches so often…
  28. Big Caslon Typeface
    Designer: Matthew Carter
    Big Caslon is a revival based on the three largest sizes of type from the H.W. Caslon & Sons foundry…
  29. Techno Typeface
    Designer: David Berlow
  30. Nobel Typeface
    Designer: Sjoerd Henrik de Roos, Tobias Frere-Jones, Andrea Fuchs, Fred Smeijers
    Conceived around the same time as Futura, Nobel lacks its strict adherence to geometric forms (perhaps a consequence of de…
  31. Salvo Sans Typeface
    Designer: Cyrus Highsmith
    Designed as a pair with Salvo Serif (originally called Boomer Sans & Boomer Serif) to tie the design of AARP…
  32. Salvo Serif Typeface
    Designed as a pair with Salvo Sans (originally called Boomer Sans & Boomer Serif) to tie the design of AARP…
  33. FB Titling Gothic Typeface
    Designer: David Berlow
    FB Titling Gothic is an immense series of nearly fifty styles inspired by that century-old favorite ATF Railroad Gothic. Led…
  34. Presna Display Typeface
    Designer: Cyrus Highsmith
    Cyrus Highsmith designed Prensa Display to accompany his popular Prensa. The family shares a distinctive tension within the forms, achieved…
  35. Canto Typeface
    Designer: Richard Lipton
    Inspired by Edward M. Catich’s seminal thesis on the origins of the Roman inscriptional style, such as that found on…