Sophie O'Donnell

Borne of geometry, found-type and a genuine love of texture, Blakstone has a lot to offer the letterpress style type genre. With 25 styles including hatches, halftones, grunge, linen, inline, shadow, fills, and outlines, Blakstone becomes useful as a layered type system. Combine styles to control colors on different layers to achieve your desired effect or just use a single style to keep it simple.

Blakstone is full of open-type features including ligatures, discretionary ligatures, superscript numbers, subscript numbers, and automatic open-type fractions. Another great feature of Blakstone is its support for 130 International languages and dialects.

Blakstone has many uses in the design world including signage, branding, invites and cards, clothing design, the music industry, restaurant and grocery signage, coffee shops, the list goes on. Blakstone has a texture for any occasion.

I’d been thinking for a while about making a serif font with ball terminals: big fun round ends to the letters anywhere I can squeeze them in. So I made Breakfast Pastry! I started with a hand-drawn set of basic letters, then went hog-wild making alternates and ligatures galore with fun swirls, curls, and even more balls!

I’ve cleaned the letters up significantly to make them smooth and easy for any cutting or printing you may want to do, but I’ve also left in some of the hand-drawn character so that the letters are warmer and not too formal.

Then I took the first font, and made a second solid version without the cutouts. After that I thought: I tend to make plumper fonts ... why not make an even thinner version? So I did! All three versions have the same character set (over 700 glyphs total), which means they all have the same extras and alternates.

All three fonts have over 300 extended Latin characters for language support, as well as over 200 bonus items: alternate letters, letters with swashes, two-letter ligatures, small caps, catchwords, and even some bonus ornaments and elements to make the fonts even more flexible. (After all, if one swash on a letter is good, two or three might be great!)

Hops And Barley - a Vintage Font Collection.

Hops And Barley includes following:
• 6 fonts - a textured and clean version of each
• Catchwords, textured and clean version
• Ornaments, textured and clean version

Hops And Barleys’ core is four font styles. Fonts are designed in the same proportions and they have the same soft edges so that they work great together. Here’s a short introduction to the fonts

• Hops And Barley 1 -A Connected Script with Contextual, Swash, Stylistic and Titling Alternates
• Hops And Barley 1b -A Bold version of Script
• Hops And Barley 2 -A Serif vernacular Swash, Stylistic and Titling Alternates
• Hops And Barley 3 -A sturdy Sans Serif with a wide character.
• Hops And Barley 3b -A Bold version of Sans Serif
• Hops And Barley 4 -A Condensed Sans Serif
• Hops And Barley 5 -A set of 61 Catchwords
• Hops And Barley 6 -A set of 71 Pictograms

Hops and Barley fonts have rugged outline and eroded texture inside the letters. Hops And Barley C stands for Clean - they are an identical set of the styles but they come with straight and clean outlines and softened edges.

Hops and Barley fonts work great together or on their own. They’re a fantastic choice for any display use and when paired they can cover the whole display part in any project from website to packaging and from poster to logo.

The Hanscum font family is a playful geometry and nature-inspired display family sporting plenty of distressed and letterpress style textures. With an authentic vintage look and a variety of styles, Hanscum comes with many playful faces and is packed with ligatures. Also included in this family is a sister subtitle small caps font that compliments the rest of the heavier display styles, also packed with opentype features. And last but not least, Hanscum comes with extras to play with including stylized catchwords, symbols, and swashes to accompany your layouts.

Rough monospace type with cowboy boots: Here is Justice! Initially designed in 2004, Justice has been totally rethought in 2017 for the visual identity of Ceinturama. For this new version the fixed-width principle has been used to turn this typeface into a kind of construction game. A series of decorative accessories (systems of borders, arrows and ornaments) have been developed in order to make typesetting more playful.
Designed from the outset to be as comfortable on screen, on paper as on wall, Justice has aesthetic qualities suitable for handmade signage. It’s your turn to play!

Please find the PDF type specimen/manual over there.