Still searching for the perfect font or ornament for this year’s Christmas cards or holiday party invitations? Allow us to come to the rescue! Before you give up hope, make sure to visit our new X-Mas Font Feature page. Here we’ve collected images showing great ways to use a number of appropriate text, headline, and symbol fonts. We are sure to have the style you are looking for!
Berthold Wolpe – born 29. 10. 1905 in Offenbach, Germany, died 5. 7. 1989 in London, England – typographer, type designer, teacher.
1924–27: studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Offenbach under Rudolf Koch. Then trains as a goldsmith in Pforzheim. 1929–33: teaches at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Offenbach and from 1930–33 at the art school in Frankfurt am Main. Designs commemorative reports, trademarks, posters, book covers and typefaces. 1932: meets Stanley Morison. 1935: emigrates to England.
[...]Matthew Carter – born 1. 10. 1937 in London, England – type designer.
1956: trains as a punch cutter in the Netherlands. 1963–65: typography consultant for Crossfield Electronics. 1965: moves to the USA and works for Mergenthaler-Linotype in New York. 1971: moves back to England where he continues to work for Linotype. 1980–84: typography consultant to Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 1981: the Royal Society of Arts make him a Royal Designer for Industry. 1981: he and Mike Parker set up
[...]David Farey (born 1943) created the fonts ITC Beesknees™ (1991), Bodoni™ Unique, Cachet™, Font, Gabardine, Greyhound™, ITC Highlander® (1993), ITC Johnston™ (with Richard Dawson, 1999), Little Louis, ITC Ozwald® (1992), Virgin Roman, Zemestro™ (2003), Tanseek Modern™ (with Arlette Boutros, Mourad Boutros, Richard Dawson, 2008), Tanseek Traditional™ (with Arlette Boutros, Mourad Boutros, Richard Dawson, 2008), Azbuka™ (with Richard Dawson, 2008).
Ong Chong Wah (born 1955 in Malaysia) created the fonts Abadi® (1987), Bookman Old Style™ (2005), Delima™ (1993), Footlight® (1986), Mahsuri Sans, Ocean Sans® (1993).
These fonts are part of the Monotype Library OpenType Edition.
Chris Brand (1921–1998) and Frank E. Blokland created the font Albertina™ for Monotype.
Albertina Font Family is part of the Monotype Library OpenType Edition.
Frank E. Blokland has a strong aversion to typefaces that are casually made, or careless re-works of earlier designs. His uncompromising opinions about type are evident not only in the many articles he has written, but also in the typefaces he has drawn.
An Award-Winning Start
Blokland studied graphic and typographic design at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague from 1978 to 1982. While still a student he founded the successful working group Letters, from which many well-known Dutch type
[...]Using digital technology, Philip Bouwsma synthesizes contemporary type styles with traditional and historic scripts and symbols from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. A lifelong calligrapher, Bouwsma also expresses his passion for the calligraphic form into his work. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, majoring in history and Greek. His love of letters, however, lured him away from arcane history to a career filled with art, design and the alphabet. Over the years, Bouwsma has
[...]Chew Loon Lo created the font Accolade in 1979. Accolade has descenders with exaggerated tails.
Kevin Simpson was five years old when the stylized “E” of the Electrolux logo caught his eye. This is the earliest recollection of an interest in what was to ultimately become an obsession. Years later in his graduating presentation at Ravensbourne College, UK, a strong type and calligraphy bias manifested itself and he earned an honors degree in graphic design.
Four years later, having become frustrated with the limitations imposed while working for a small independent type
[...]In 1991 as an experiment, Adam Roe decided to found Lunchbox Studios. Since then, Adam has become president and founder of his second company, Reelhouse Footage and FK in Los Angeles, California.
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Alisal is a trademark of Carter & Cone Type Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Accolade, Alexander, CG Adroit and Uncial are trademarks of Monotype Imaging Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Albany is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Albertina and Almanac are trademarks of The Monotype Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Abadi and Albertus are trademarks of The Monotype Corporation registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
