Overbold is an unapologetic display typeface inspired by an illustration in Eric Gill's Essay on Typography (p.51), in which he demonstrates «how not to make letters». In particular, he shows that increasing the weight of the downstroke in a serif «A» without structural adjustments yields an absurd, «overbold» result. I found the letter so charming that I decided to blatantly disregard Gill's wisdom and draw an entire overbold typeface. Here is the result. I'm not sorry.
Download Now Server 1 Download Now Server 3 Download Now Server 2 Kirshaw is not your grandfather's sans serif from the 1950s and 1960s. All those old classics like Helvetica, Futura, Franklin Gothic, Univers, News Gothic and others are old, and well past their prime. Kirshaw is a clean, rounded design with some sharp contrasting edges. Like the old classics, Kirshaw is easy to read in long body text, and small captions. Plus, it's delightfully modern and stylish for headlines and logo designs - unlike those old boring fonts that grandpa used to use. Kirshaw is a distinctive, modern, easy-to-read sans serif family consists of 14 weights (including italics). It’s an Adobe Latin 3 Character Set containing 350 glyphs per style (including special characters). Download Kirshaw Fonts Family From Kirk Font Studio