New Font: BigBlok
A great many years ago when working in game publishing I had a real fascination with doing titles in a strong, super-bold font called Bolt Bold. The truth is I rather overused it. In doing some research I find it on more than a dozen different game books I wrote in the early 80s, all quite collectable and out of print today.
Classic Font: Buccaneer
Buccaneer was one of our early font designs, originating way back in 1994 as part of the development of our Howard Pyle Fonts and Art collection. Buccaneer is based on the lettering which Pyle did for the frontispieces of his Book of Pirates and Book of the American Spirit. The lettering style was clearly designed to create the look of early wood type and our font preserves that effect very successfully.
Buccaneer has been quite successful since it was released, appearing in games, on book covers and most notably in titles for several movies by director Tim Burton, including The Corpse Bride. It has gone through several revisions since it was first released and now includes an extensive foreign language character set as well as a selection of alternate versions of the standard characters. It’s an excellent font when you want the look of antique and crudely printed type.
You can try the demo version of Buckaneer for free, or order the full version of Buccaneer online with the complete expanded character set.
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