Tag: slab serif
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- Blackoak
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Joy Redick designed Blackoak, a big and heavy Egyptienne-sytle titling slab serif face, in 1990. The extremely robust style of…
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- Clarendon
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Clarendon is an English slab-serif typeface that was created in England by Robert Besley for the Fann Street Foundry in…
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- Rosewood
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There were many typeface designs based on Clarendon letterforms seen in type catalogs from 1866 to 1875. Adobe’s Rosewood, released…
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- Archer
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Sweet but not saccharine, earnest but not grave, Archer is designed to hit just the right notes of forthrightness, credibility,…
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- Chaparral
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Created by Adobe type designer Carol Twombly, Chaparral combines the legibility of slab serif designs popularized in the 19th century…
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- Facebuster
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Facebuster is a no-nonsense block serif display typeface with hard geometry and minimal negative space. It’s ideal for making a…
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- Ziggurat
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Not explicitly a revival of any one typeface, Ziggurat takes its cues from the entire aesthetic of early slab serif…
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- FF Unit Slab
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When Kris Sowersby, Christian Schwartz, and Erik Spiekermann were designing the parameters for FF Meta Serif, they spent quite some…
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- Trilby
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A wholly useful contemporary design with offbeat charm and subtle…
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- Stag
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“Esquire contacted me in the summer of 2005 about drawing a new slab serif for bold, forceful headlines. I showed…