Font Display

by | Feb 26, 2024 | code, design, news, process

Creating new fonts is only half the work. The other part is sharing and showing them off. That is the function that the blog performs for us…as a playground and workshop to test and share things in progress. 

We have discovered a few code solutions that will allow us to emebed these samples on the site and we are sharing those samples below; as well as some more customized options seen on some of our more recent blog posts, like here.

Lydia title card
Lydia is a new sans serif that was originally used for display purposes.

Although it only included an upper case character set, we are working to provide a complete character set for all uses.

Ballpoint Sans title card, a new sans serif font
Ballpoint Sans is derived from our other font, Ballpoint Regular.

This is a utility sans serif that is suitable for all uses from typesetting to display.

Ballpoint Roman sample text
Ballpoint is a fun slab serif font that offers a bit of whimsy in its character set.

Ballpoint is a new slab serif derived from a sign painter's manual from the early 20th Century.

Matthewscript preview image, spelling Uncial.
Our Uncial derived from an old lettering manual.

Matthewscript, a working name, is an Uncial that includes a lower case character set to expand the functionality of the typeface.

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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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