I am shocked to my very core that the name "Tropical Punch" hasn't been used for a font yet. What a delight, that my very first name choice is available, and I can grow my collection of fonts named after delicious food and drink!
Tropical Punch is a retro-tropical font with a ton of variety: I've included nearly 200 multi-letter ligatures with nesting letters, to add quirky and fun variety to all of your projects. There are also a few alternate vowels, plus a few dingbats to add jazzy pizzazz; and 10 smaller catchwords like THE, AND, WITH, and more!
I've also made an outline version--Tropical Punch Outline--which surrounds the solid letters beautifully, so you have even more options!
Of course, both versions have my usual 300+ extended Latin characters for language support. And I've included a set of uppercase Greek letters as well!
And everything, as always, is fully PUA-encoded so all characters are easy to access.
Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1960s. Show all posts
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Download Tropical Punch Font Family From Missy Meyer
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Download JNL Turntable Stencil Font Family From Jeff Levine
A disc jockey-only promotional sleeve for a 1964 [45 rpm] release of “Close to Me” and “Let Them Talk” by Dan Penn featured the song titles printed in a stencil typeface on the record sleeve.
Closely resembling a stencil version of Franklin Gothic but with its own unique characteristics, this design has been reinterpreted as Turntable Stencil JNL and is available in both regular and oblique versions.
For trivia buffs, Dan Penn is a singer-songwriter-record producer, often collaborating with Dewey Lindon “Spooner” Oldham; both closely associated with the late Rick Hall’s Fame recording studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
In 1964, Hall started the Fame record label, and for a time it was distributed by Vee-Jay Records of Chicago, the first major Black-owned record label in the United States.
Penn’s release was only the second for the new label; Fame 6402.
Friday, September 13, 2019
Download Starfire Font Family From MADType
Starfire is a retro styled geometric sans-serif family with roots in mid-century graphic design.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Download Psych Handlettering Font Family From Mysterylab
Here's a font system distilled from the lettering styles of a thousand vintage psychedelic rock albums and posters from the swingin' sixties. All of the grooviness, but perhaps twice the legibility of some of the more "far out" examples from the genre. This family features an extensive character set and multilingual glyphs, so you can say "Trippy, Man." in many languages. The three versions allow you to harmonize letter bodies and highlight strokes with the color palette of your project
Once loaded on your system, the three versions of the font show in your menu as the following three "weights": Psych Handlettering Bold, Psych Handlettering Incised, and Psych Handlettering Highlight. The 3-alphabet collection works together seamlessly to allow you to assign one color to the body of the letter, and a second color to the inset highlight lines. Just copy your text block, paste in place, reassign the font to the "highlight" version, choose a complimentary color, and off you go.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Download Summer of Love Font Family From Mysterylab
It's the Summer of Love all over again with this groovy psychedelic font. Designed in 2019, this typeface harks back to the carefree days of the late 1960s. Whimsical and offbeat with its swaying verticals, it nonetheless remains one of the more legible reimaginings of the genre, sporting all of the handlettered vibe of posters and album covers from the original hippie era, but with polished color and weight that evens out the legibility even at relatively small point sizes. Predominantly a unicase font, with a couple of alternate glyphs from upper to lowercase, Summer of Love works best as a large headline face, and benefits greatly from twisting and morphing the type blocks as was common during the original psych era. It's a real groove machine, baby.
Download Hippie Mojo Font Family From Mysterylab
Set the wayback machine for about 1967. Smell the patchouli? Now you can inject just the right dose of swirly-licious mojo into your retro design with this original vintage-styled sixties font. But as with many psychedelic hippie lettering designs, the history reaches back even further; it owes a designer's debt of gratitude to the designs of the Art Nouveau era as well. This is predominantly a uni-case alphabet, but also features a few alternative characters in the lower case – at the full height of the capitals. With an extensive character set and multilingual glyphs, you can use Hippie Mojo to say "Groovy baby" in many languages. Evoke the carefree and tripped-out vibe of the psychedelic era with Hippie Mojo; it's pure retro fun!
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Download Birthstone Font Family From TypeSETit
The Birthstone Family is a set of fonts that are not only diverse but perfectly compatible to interchange styles in a single block of text.
There are 3 precious gems: Script, Casual, and Formal. Plus for added luster, there's Bounce (both Medium and Light weights) plus a Titling font— A truncated version that includes caps and ending swashed forms.
You won't believe your eyes. All 4 styles are uniquely compatible to one another, but distinctly different.
See how easily the fonts may change according to the needs of the look.
The Pro version contains the three main styles: Script, Casual and Formal plus the lighter weight version of Bounce. You will also have lots of Opentype feature options.
Download Top Forty Font Family From Jeff Levine
A 1963 issue of Billboard Magazine contained an ad for Jimmy Smith (along with some other artists on the same record label) that was hand-lettered in a free-form style similar to show-card ‘one-stroke’ typographic design.
This was the inspiration for Top Forty JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Download Surf Bum Font Family From Jeff Levine
The term “Surf Bum” was a slang phrase used to casually describe anyone who spent as much of their time as possible at the beach catching waves in the 1960s.
The Revell Company was a well-established maker of plastic model kits such as military airplanes, monsters from Universal horror films and other such items when it hooked up with custom car designer Ed “Big Daddy” Roth to develop a model kit line capitalizing on the surfing fad that was sweeping the West Coast at the time.
A number of crazy-looking hot rods, dune buggies and what-have-you were turned out, and one such kit (“Surfite”, with Figure) featured a futuristic one-person dune buggy.
It was on the box for the model that the words “with Figure” appear in a casual, brush design type face.
Those few letters were the inspiration for creating a new retro type face entitled Surf Bum JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Download Personalization Font Family From Jeff Levine
In the 1960s it was a popular trend to personalize one’s possessions with your initials.
From wallets and handbags to eyeglasses; from luggage to even cars, initial personalization was the fad of the time.
The British division of Gulf Oil offered for sale a set of gold metallic stick-on initials for 25 pence, complete with two Gulf logos so the company could get some extra advertising mileage out of the promotion.
These extra-wide, bold initials served as the idea model for Personalization JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Friday, August 9, 2019
Download Opz Popz JNL Font Family From Jeff Levine
Opz Popz JNL is a collection of fifty-two designs based on geometric designs and pop art (reminiscent of the 1960s). These images are perfect embellishments for retro-themed work projects.
Download BLT Heirloom Font Family From Black Lab Type
Heirloom grew from an interest of soft and friendly forms from the 1970s, with respect to the time's chill vibes and natural earthy roots. Its refined approachable characteristics allow it to be very readable carry a modern relaxed attitude.
Available in 3 weights: Light, Regular and Bold. Any weight can be used as a display type, logotype and/or headlines, and lighter weights would work in bodies of text. The font pairs well with natural, historical or vintage graphic elements.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Download Grannys Greenhouse Font Family From Rocket Type
Granny's Greenhouse, a cute fun display font with tons of alternate characters. Granny's Greenhouse’s best uses are for headings, logotypes, quotes, apparel design, toy packaging, invites, flyers, posters, greeting cards, product packaging, book covers, printed quotes, cover albums, movies, etc.
To access the alternate glyphs, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS and Adobe Indesign.
How to use OpenType features: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/special-characters.html
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Download North End Stencil JNL Font Family From Jeff Levine
An image of a vintage British lettering stencil set [probably circa 1960s] spotted in an online auction inspired North End Stencil JNL.
The original lettering was a hybrid of both stencil and solid letter forms, but for the digital version all of the characters were given the stencil treatment.
North End Stencil JNL is named after a district in London, and the type face is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Friday, June 28, 2019
Download Intermediate JNL Font Family From Jeff Levine
The letters and numbers of a home movie titling kit from circa the 1950s or 1960s called the Magna Tech Titler Number 312 were die-cut from cardboard with a magnetic backing and were styled after Futura Bold.
The user of this set composed the desired title or phrase onto a metalized board and the result was photographed with their 8 or 16mm camera.
Because the dies of the characters were handmade, very slight variations in the shape and stroke width of the lettering would occasionally occur. These variations were incorporated into the design of the digital type face.
Intermediate JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Download Play Day Stencil JNL Font Family From Jeff Levine
The typography on a 1964 children’s activity book published by Whitman entitled “Build with Stencils” was in a bold, condensed design. The only problem was that the ‘rails’ [the parts that divide a letter into stencil pieces] were too narrow and would disappear at smaller point sizes. Widening the ‘rails’ just a bit greatly improved the appearance of the stencil characters.
Play Day Stencil JNL is now available in both regular and oblique versions.
In its day, the Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin published dozens of activity books for children, including a number of them with stencils. The company was a division of Western Publishers from the early 1900s through the 1970s, but went through a number of sales and name changes.
Currently [as Whitman once again] it is owned by Anderson Press, and is known for its line of coin folders and books on coin collecting.
Friday, May 17, 2019
Download Pintenium Script Font Family From FHFont
Pintenium is a vintage script with a hand-lettering brush style, and includes several OpenType features. Suitable for design, element design, wedding, event, t-shirt, logo, badges, sticker, and awesome work, and more.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Download -OC Pajaro Font Family From OtherwhereCollective
-OC Pájaro [pah-hah-roh, Spanish for bird] is a contemporary sans serif available in fourteen styles. It combines the readable width, rhythm and regular proportions of a grotesk with roots in a geometric. The result is a highly versatile font which fuses the timeless elegance of Futura with the compact utilitarian typesetting of the likes of Akzidenz and Helvetica.
-OC Pájaro effortlessly traverses the spectrum from high-end sophistication, approachable readability, and functional information design. Crafted with a tireless focus on kerning, angled terminals are cut to fit neighboring curved letters making the bolder weights perfect for logotypes and display type, while lighter weights are well suited for long passages of text. A large x-height and short ascenders that run level with the low cap-height give a strong horizontal emphasis and allow for tightly packed lines of type.
Typical of both grotesk and geometric styles the design has an even weight with minimal stroke contrast and the slanted form is an oblique rather than a true italic. The default double-story ‘a’ and ‘g’ give a more academic touch, while the friendlier single stories are available as alternates.
The font is designed with extensive open type features including old style figures when setting extensive copy in sentence case and circled uppercase, numbers and symbols inspired by 1960s transit signage.
Monday, April 15, 2019
Download Hard Stones Pro Font Family From FHFont
Hard Stones include sans, display, and script, retro combination with layered font, clean and rough vintage authentic style, Suitable for design, element design, event, t-shirt, logo, badges, sticker, and awesome work.
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