Typefaces from 2019: VVDS Organum (a decorative typeface for operas and phantasms), The Pretender (a package inspired by vintage American sign painting), VVDS Praliner (an all caps sans for display), Le Bonjour (Peignotian), Kristopher (a fancy serif), Nurnberg (an expressionist, modernized blacletter), The British Telegraph (based on vintage British headline type), Halau (a tiki font), Halau Serif, Sign Painter (a monoline Script, a layerable Sans, and two Decor ornamental styles, all based on Victorian era signs). Typefaces from 2018: VVDS Pacifica (a hand-lettered bold signage script inspired by American branding typography from the end of the 20th century), Le Bonjour (a retro sans), The Voyage Culture (font duo), Afterglow (a didone), VVDS The Bimbo (circus fonts), Two Letter Monogram, Diamond Monogram, Circle Monogram, Circle Frames, Harbour (a free decorative blackletter, +Harbour Decor: 2017-2018), Sandwich (a large 3d beveled typeface family), The Telegraph (transitional newspaper type), Golden Horn (a layered vintage typeface). Typefaces from 2017: The Bartender (a 14-font vintage typeface family with some letterpress styles), Easy Rider (a layered road movie brush script font), The New America (penmanship script), Ace of Spades (grungy), Cavalcade ( a layered serif typeface inspired by American and European typography of early 20th century, from movie posters to design of alcohol bottles like Martini, Cinzano and Campari), Old Standard (sans, script), Season Times (Sans+Script), Roadstar (a vintage speed emulation techno font). Typefaces from 2016: Chameleon (rough brush), Les Paul (beatnik style), 1994 Fancy, The First Division (an elegant handcrafted Peignotian typeface family), The Aviator, Ocean Beach (weathered athletic lettering font), Fenway Script (baseball script), Fenway Sans, Octanis (display family in Sans, Slab, Serif, and Rounded Sans sub-styles), Compare (a vintage wedge serif typeface inspired by the mafia), Unchained (Western typeface), The Selvedger (signage script), Driver (a retro speed emulation typeface family), Pasternak Script. Perm, Russia-based designer of the vintage handcrafted typefaces West End (2015, spurred Western typeface family), Winter Holidays (2015), The Sugar Cane (2015, eroded signage script), Montana (2015), Canyons (2015), Forest Tramp (2015), Heart of Gold (2015, a think inky brush), La Fa Salt (2015, a connected monoline script), Robinson (2015, handcrafted), Rise (2015, rough brush), Stout (2015, +Stout Roughen), Jack's Guitar (2015) and Bough (2015). Rudakov and Pasha Korzhenko, and operating as Vintage Voyage Design. Many of these fonts would look right at home on the cover of a children’s picture book.TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated onĪka P. Look for fonts which have a ‘stamp’ version in the family.

These two variations on The Twyford Code cover are exactly what I’m talking about: FONT FAMILIES The cover of Alperton Angels without the foiled look looks more in this style than the foiled version: The first of these covers is not at all what I’m talking about the second two are: To show you the sort of cover I’m talking about, let’s look at some Janice Hallett novels, which have been published with various covers. You won’t find geometry and symmetry on these covers because it looks hand-lettered and the art looks hand-drawn, possibly with collage effects, possibly looking like a linocut or woodblock print.Colour schemes are simple, maybe three dominant colours, avoiding neon, fluorescent and similar harsh accent colours.Looks as if it might have been made on an old fashioned printing press.But the designer has probably played with the baseline of the text, or reshaped it to fit around (or inside) the art.This style avoids gradients and layer effects such as shadows and glows.There may be some kind of distress on the typography either the sides are a bit wobbly or there’s some sort of texture embedded into the font.The text is often caps or small caps, or it might be an oblique brush script font, or actually hand-lettered by the designer.Once I line these covers up together, I start to see what unites this style of graphic design: Let’s call it the hand-lettered or hand-drawn look.

There’s a style of art and illustration, frequently seen on book covers, and I have no idea what to call it.

Fenway script typeface