Sentence examples for about a typeface named from inspiring English sources

"Very strange how people complained about a typeface named after a serial killer and not a missile".

This logo was developed into a typeface named Avant Garde, one of the most successful and widely used fonts of the phototype period.

How about a month named Skip?

Ed cares about a Welsh Corgi named Ein.

Hustwit, a producer of music documentaries who stumbled onto design when he decided seven years ago to make a movie about a typeface, told me he had no intention of producing two more design documentaries.

At the end, an alphabet subtext is revealed: it seems that each letter coming through the door is in a typeface whose name actually begins with that letter.

For Barnbrook, this was an artistic experiment in the ways the look and name of a typeface determine how others will use it.

Above the window is the album title and at the top of the cover is the band's name in a typeface more crafty than on previous album covers.

His film "Helvetica" (2007) — perhaps the first documentary made about a single typeface — became an unlikely hit that helped establish the design-geek film as a viable genre.

The typeface was Caslon, named for William Caslon, a British printer of the day; it was clean and highly legible, with small serifs, and it conveyed a sense of upright sturdiness.

The final lettering was issued as a typeface by Linotype the following year, and given the name of its designer.