It is definitely an oddball and may never see use. I would classify it is as neo-Victorian medium-contrast decorative italic. I have recently worked on it extensively to make it usable as a multilingual slightly redesigned font in OTF format. Most of those 2,000 scans were lost when I changed computers a long time ago, but Abel Cursive survived and I made a down-and-dirty mow-and-blow font back then.
Before I sold my equipment and closed my business for good, I made a scan of every typeface at 72-point size that I owned for future development, if there ever came a time to work on something crazy like that. Apparently it was designed by Bernie Abel (perhaps one of CompuGraphic's employees) and I'm not sure it got much use, since I don't recall seeing it anywhere except my type catalog. One of the faces I never used in two decades of work was a rather ungainly decorative font called Abel Cursive. When I was a typesetter in New York City, I had one of the largest collections of typefaces from CompuGraphic's library available for setting. The annotations in the list below are quoted from Prescott's pages.
In these three years, he showcased his work on Facebook, and was mainly involved in reving 19th century typefaces, about half of which were from the Victorian era. For this reason, Prescott's oeuvre is split over several pages: His work can be partitioned into time periods. In 2019, he announced that he would stop making typefaces altogether. He operates as APT and more recently as AJPT. He advertizes himself as a leader in PostScript Open Type Font development specializing in the revival of print-only letterforms into digital typographic materials. Originally from Greenfield, MA, he graduated from Saddleback College, and worked for some time as a typesetter in New York. Pottstown (Philadelphia)-based designer and PostScript font hacker who ran Prescott Design and now Alan Jay Prescott Typography, but was also involved in other ventures such as the Black Walnut Winery. There are two type families, Augereau (a garalde in 13 styles) and Abrams Venetian (a Venetian in 6 styles).Ībrams Venetian was designed in 1989 based on Nicolas Jenson's renaissance letterforms, but was not available until ten years later.Īugereau was designed and released by George Abrams in 1997. The digital typefaces are managed and executed by Charles Nix. The Abrams Legacy Collection was established to preserve and promote the legacy of renowned type designer and lettering artist, George Abrams (d. TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Hind features five weights: Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold.Venetian typefaces The flat endings on each character share similarities with Futura. Hind is a clear cut font specifically designed for user interfaces. One key difference between Nunito Sans and Futura is the tail on ‘j’. Originally designed by Vernon Adams, then later expanded to include more weights by Jacques Le Bailly. Didact is very similar to Futura – but unfortunately it only comes in one weight: regular. Didact GothicĪccording to its designer, each character in the Didact Gothic Font represents the form it’s most commonly shown in elementary schools.
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There is however a cost associated with those services – around $25 a month. There are different services you can use to ensure Futura displays consistently across operating systems. Which means the rest of your visitors would see something other than Futura. Unfortunately for Apple, macOS has less than 10% market share. That means if you simply defined the font in your CSS, even without any additional font loaders or scripts, it would display perfectly on Apple products. Supreme Logoįutura comes pre-installed with macOS as a system font.
A simple, but memorable red background and the brand name overlaid in Futura Bold Italic. One of the most recognizable uses of Futura is the Supreme logo. Since then it has been used by a range of big brands, in both logos and marketing materials Futura is the oldest font we’ve covered, designed all the way back in 1927 by Paul Renner.