Tag: british

1. Adobe Caslon

   Designer: Carol Twombly ; Foundry: Adobe Systems

   Based on the original Caslon face cut by William Caslon in the eighteenth century. Caslon’s type, based on Dutch old…

2. Gill Sans

   Designer: Eric Gill ; Foundry: Monotype

   Eric Gill (1882-1940) was a versatile talent, active in many disciplines from wood-engraving to sculpture and calligraphy. In the 1920s…

3. Gildersleeve

   Designer: Paul J Lloyd ; Foundry: Greater Albion Typefounders

   Gildersleeve evokes the spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement of the 1920s. Think of a hand-cut Roman display face,…

4. Ivory

   Designer: Georg Herold-Wildfellner, Marcus Sterz ; Foundry: FaceType

   Ivory is inspired by a beautiful typeface used in an illustrated compendium about pomology from 1882. We separated the elegant…

5. DeLittle Chromatic

   Foundry: DeLittle of York, Wood Type Revival

   DeLittle Chromatic is a distinctively British display face in two colors. Its forms alternate between comical sweeps and rigid brutalism;…