A wide ‘industrial’ font inspired by printed specimens found in the Central Lettering Archive at Central Saint Martins in London. Italian Sans is a prime example of a ‘vernacular’ Grotesque.

Initially drawn for HOTSHOE Issue 186, seeking inspiration and influence from European signage, in particular that of markets from small village shops to the sprawling hyper markets of Calais, we present Marche. Our interpretation on Eurostile; in particular Bold Condensed. Presented in the ‘Super’ weight, Marche is accompanied by foreword and backward slanting siblings for use in large display settings. Supplied in OpenType (.OTF) format, containing Latin-A and Central European character sets alongside stylistic alternates and typographic controls.

NCT Granite bring?s? the shapes of Renaissance type into the modern world with a robust and functional typeface designed to work on both screen and print. ?Its italic is about as wide as the ?r?oman, making it very easy to read in long text. NCT Granite supports all major European languages?, ?Vietnamese, Pinyin, Arabic and Hebrew transliteration, and multiple languages in the Cyrillic script. ?The typeface comes? with many ?O?penType features including oldstyle (and small cap) numerals, tabular and proportional numerals, and superscript, subscript, and fractions. Small caps are available for Latin and Cyrillic. Separate files with the lowercase replaced with small caps and the default figures replaced with oldstyle figures are ?included? for people using applications where? ??O?pen?Type features don’t work.

SILVER CHISEL Regular, Outline and Bevel, is an 3-font system that can be layered in different ways to create a infinite title effects used commonly in poster and 3D logo design. Silver Chisel’s layer combinations give you complete control in producing styles like, outline, 3D, beveled. It can be used alone and/or in layered and allows you adjust leading and kerning. Each font contains the similar metrics, so when your title is set, copy and paste-in-place to create layers of different weights/styles to build out your desired effect. Silver Chisel works great in any graphics application that allows you to utilize layers or 3D effects.

Reminiscent of lettering used on old stock certificates from the late 1800’s. With its extra wide letters and ornate features, LHF State Fair commands attention. Get over 60 bonus panels and ornaments when you purchase the set (Regular, Lined & Light).

Central Avenue was originally created for the graphic identity of an exhibition celebrating Birmingham’s infamous 1886 exhibition of Local Manufacturers and Natural History. The core of the identity was the bespoke typeface that we created based on the hand-painted signs from the original exhibition. The typeface style that they employed wasn’t the typical decorative Victorian face, it was a simple sans serif – much more industrial and much more relevant for a contemporary exhibition of its kind. What was essential was to not loose the essence of the original designs through digitising. We wanted to make sure that we managed to retain some of the awkwardness and personality that the hand painted letter forms had. Rather than imagining the lowercase characters, we decided to keep it ‘Victorian’ and designed a superscripted alternative that enables the user to create their own word logos.

Lisbon is a geometric stencil typeface based on an original metal stencil that Burrill found in a sign makers shop in Lisbon, Portugal. The font was first used in a series of posters commissioned by the British Council for Experimenta cultural biennale in Lisbon (2010). A lower case and punctuation has been developed from the original upper case, using the same strict geometric rules as the original.