Tea Chest™ Font Family

Tea Chest™ Regular (Assorted Collection) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 39.00

Robert Harling was born 1910 in Highbury/London, he died July 1 2008. Educated in Brighton and London. Then attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. After early experience working for the Daily Mail newspaper, became freelance designer. Clients included the British post office. Typographic adviser to London Transport. Around 1935 – director of one of London's leading advertising agencies. With James Shand, founder of the Shenval Press in Hertford, published the quarterly [...]

The English typographer Robert Harling created Tea Chest in 1939 with the Stephenson Blake foundry. Today, this classic design is available in digital format from Linotype GmbH.

Tea Chest is a bold stencil face. The font's narrow letters are all caps, and they sport small, slab serifs. Harling's design was most likely reminiscent of the old industrial lettering painted onto boxes and wooden crates that used to be shipped all over the world on the high seas. These letters had to be simple to reproduce, easy to read, and not take up too much space!

Try out Tea Chest for large signage displays, on exotic product packaging, or in magazine or newsletter headlines.