First Round Completed

by Matthew | Jan 19, 2024 | art, design, news, process

First round competed of the new Ballpoint Regular complete character set which is based on a sign painter's sample from the early 20th C.

Continuing my work in progress with the first round competed of the new Ballpoint Regular complete character set. It is based on a sign painter’s sample from the early 20th Century; as such it was limited to the upper and lower cases, as well as a number set. I have finished a complete character set with this first pass and will be working on the refinements in size, shape, and spacing as the next step progresses.

Mór

Aptly named, “Mór” in Irish means BIG and this is a super-sized serif suitable for brand work, logos, and adding emphasis in your typesetting.There is the standard font in compressed, regular, and extended versions as well as a limited version of the glyphs with...

Happy Birthday Dolores

Dolores O'Riordan, the vocal powerhouse behind The Cranberries, was born 6 September 1971 in Ballybricken in County Limerick, Ireland. She was said to have begun singing before she could speak and has a lifelong catalog of musical hits and legions of fans around the...

Breaffy

Breaffy is the newest font from our foundry and represents a modern refinement on an oldstyle type. Inspired by the Cloister Oldstyle, we worked to modernize and expand the basic character set. Named after the village our Irish ancestors hailed from, we began...

Aoife (Ee-fa)

Aoife is a font family inspired by a sample found in a 1914 book entitled “Art Alphabets and Lettering” by J.M. Bergling. It is a tremendous book with amazing samples of typography that were being used across publications of that era. Aoife, is Irish for beautiful,...

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