Streetbrush is a brush script font with a difference. It is not the kind of smooth and elegant font that hopes to end up on a soup package or a restaurant menu. It is dirty, fast, and real — a script with attitude.
Before embarking on a professional design education at Parsons, designer Robert Arnow was a graffiti writer in Brooklyn. Over the years he developed a signature style of expressive brush-rendered handwriting and illustration. The Streetbrush typeface evolved out of this, by repeating each letter hundreds of times with brush on paper. Streetbrush represents a unique blend of styles — urban graffiti meets Asian calligraphy. Being extremely detailed in its representation of a brush pulling ink across a textured surface, it is best used for large titling or signage. Have fun!
There used to be a time when a majority of advertisements and packaging had hand-lettered headlines and slogans, with matching hand-made borders and ornaments. Today, with shrinking margins and deadly deadlines, we often turn to digital ornaments and picture fonts to add a festive touch to our typographic designs. However, the standard frames and borders offered by layout and drawing programs can be stiff and boring. This is probably why
Frames and Borders is so successful. This font from
Outside the Line (also known for their delightful
Party Doodles and
Wedding Doodles) offers a collection of whimsical, hand-drawn frames for your invitation, packaging or
book cover designs.
After
Flavour,
Schoko and other tasty scripts for food packaging ,
Hubert Jocham recently brought out
Susa, a script with a slightly different look. It is a flowing, connected brush script, but has a sturdier character thanks to the almost monolinear strokes — i.e., strokes with hardly any difference between think and thin parts. The curves flow freely, with verticals at varying angles, giving an impression of spontaneity and playfulness. Susa’s bold and heavy weights are ideal for striking headlines, while the lighter weights work well for accompanying short texts in intermediate sizes.
Aldo Novarese’s 1955 “tipo inglese” Juliet was a remarkable venture — a typeface based on English roundhand scripts, but with a more upright silhouette in order to facilitate the punchcutter’s work. Thanks to its legibility and friendly color it became an immediate favorite with magazine and advertising designers.
Ambassador Script is
Canada Type’s digital version of Novarese’s elegant masterpiece. Going above and beyond its duty as a revival, it has been expanded with a huge number of alternates, swashes, flourishes and snap-on strokes. Whenever lush curves and calligraphic opulence are called for, Ambassador Script is what you need.
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