Search Articles:
Search Products:

New Font: Atkinson Boomtown

Boomtown is based on hand lettering by early 20th century sign artist Frank Atkinson. It’s a classic wild west style font with super wide and bold look. It’s in the tradition of some of our other “circus” style fonts like Plowright and Atkinson Eccentric — perfect for poster and sign design. Although the source characters were hand lettered, we went through very carefully while developing the digital outlines to make sure that the characters are as regular in weight and shape as possible. The end result is very clean looking, but still has a lot of personality.

You can download and try the demo version of Atkinson Boomtown in TrueType format for Mac or PC. The full version of the font is available from our ordering site.

Rating 3.00 out of 5

January 26, 2009 | Filed Under Featured Fonts, Fonts, Gallery, New Fonts 

comments

Leave a Reply





  • Holiday Fonts and Art...

    Holiday Fonts and Art

    hatever holiday you celebrate, it's probably a time of cards and presents and decorations and parties -- that means you're going to need great fonts and art to add elegance and unique flare to your seasonal projects. The Scriptorium Holiday[more]


    Carmilla Font at Central Market...

    Carmilla Font at Central Market

    I stopped off for lunch at the cafe in our local Central Market (upscale grocery store owned by HEB) and was surprised to find that among the posters on their walls promoting various events at the store there was a poster for a "Day of the [more]


    Gothic Fonts Collection...

    Gothic Fonts Collection

    Our gothic font collection is a compilation of our most interesting fonts based on gothic type and late medieval calligraphy. It covers the range from the historical styles in which gothic printing had its inspiration to the ornate heigh[more]


    Retro Design in Django Unchained...

    Retro Design in Django Unchained

    We've started seeing previews for Quentin Tarrantino's new film Django Unchained in the theatres. The film looks like a high-octane take on the western genre done with a Tarrantino twist, and as has been the case with other recent films fro[more]


    Introducing Halloween Fonts...

    Introducing Halloween Fonts

    For many years one of our most popular collections has been our three package set of Horror Fonts and Art. Although that collection contains a lot of unique art, its real backbone is the extraordinary collection of 36 original fonts with ho[more]


    Special Font: Art Deco Borders...

    Special Font: Art Deco Borders

    We released the Art Deco Borders font as a special Font Club bonus font in 2009 and then somehow forgot to ever release it for purchase as a single font to the general market. A terrible oversight because it's such an excellent font w[more]


    Fun With Typeshow...

    Fun With Typeshow

    One of the amusing things about Typeshow, our new font preview tool, is that it logs what people type in as their sample text. This provides an interesting insight into how it is being used and the personalities of the users. The number[more]


    E. J. Detmold Arabian Nights Ill...

    E. J. Detmold Arabian Nights Illustrations

    E. J. Detmold was an early 20th century illustrator most known for his nature illustrations, particularly of insects, in books like Fabre's Book of Insects and The Life of the Bee. He also illustrated some fairy tale books, the most notabl[more]


    Winning Votes with the Right Vis...

    Winning Votes with the Right Visual Cues

    It's election season again and as some of you may remember, I'm a student of political signage. I wrote an article two years ago on political sign design which got a lot of attention and got me interviewed by the New York Times. One of m[more]


    Futuristic Fonts - Updated and E...

    Futuristic Fonts – Updated and Expanded

    Click to see larger sample. It's not easy to define what the future of font design will be, but we can certainly identify fonts which look like something from what we imagine the future to be[more]


    2012 Font and Art Sampler...

    2012 Font and Art Sampler

    At the end of every year we put together a special sampler package of releases from that year. This year our 2012 Font and Art Sampler has a large and outstanding collection selected from the many releases we've had during the year. It's th[more]


    Walter Crane Christmas Bonus...

    Walter Crane Christmas Bonus

    As a special treat for customers working on holiday card designs, we're making available a special mini-package of Christmas-themed images designed by Walter Crane at a tiny, almost minuscule price. The images are based on Walter Crane's[more]


    Holiday Bonus: Present Labels...

    Holiday Bonus: Present Labels

    As a special holiday gift to our customers we've put together a special selection of Christmas present labels using traditional art from our collection. There are 13 labels in PDF format, perfect for printing out and using to label your pre[more]


    Labor Day Special - Owen Jones C...

    Labor Day Special – Owen Jones Combo

    In honor of Labor Day we're offering a special for all the hard working designers and art fans out there. We're offering a special bonus of $20 off of any purchase from our collection of Owen Jones packages. It can be applied to any one i[more]


    Try Our New Font Preview Tool...

    Try Our New Font Preview Tool

    After a long search we've managed to find a new tool called Typeshow which will allow visitors to the site to create custom samples of any of our fonts. It is similar in design to the Texter tool which we experimented with in the past, but [more]


    Making Maps with the MapMaker Pa...

    Making Maps with the MapMaker Package

    This is a step by step guide to designing a small map using the elements and fonts of the MapMaker package. This tutorial was done using Adobe Photoshop, but the same tools and commands are available in every good graphics program, includin[more]


    Constructivist Fonts Package...

    Constructivist Fonts Package

    Our first new release for 2013 is our collection of Constructivist Fonts based on poster lettering from the early post-revolutionary period in Russia, including designs based on the styles of famous designers of the period like Alexander Ro[more]


    Cicely Mary Barker Fairies Mini-...

    Cicely Mary Barker Fairies Mini-Package

    Along with Arthur Rackham and Kate Greenaway, Cicely Mary Barker was one of the three great fairy illustrators of the early 20th century. Her Flower Fairies books were enormously popular and influential on illustrators of the period. willy [more]


    Owen Jones "The Preacher" Packag...

    Owen Jones “The Preacher” Package

    One of Owen Jones most interesting illuminated books is his 1849 edition of the biblical book of Ecclesiastes published under the title The Preacher, consisting of 35 hand-colored, fully illuminated pages. It is on[more]


    Special Font: Demosthenes...

    Special Font: Demosthenes

    Back in the 1970s my IBM Selectric Typewriter had a great font specifically designed for high readability when typing scripts and speeches called Orator. It has gone the way of most typewriter fonts, but we recently had a client who wanted [more]


    Folkard Font featured in Bard's ...

    Folkard Font featured in Bard’s Tale

    Bard's Tale is a venerable computer game which has gone through many versions and updates. In its latest incarnation as a multiplayer roleplaying game App for tablets and smartphones it has gone through a look and feel upgrade, and part of [more]


    The Art of Eleanor Brickdale...

    The Art of Eleanor Brickdale

    Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale was one of the great illustrators of the later Victorian era, even though she is not as well known as some of her male contemporaries. She was strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites like Waterhouse and Mi[more]


  • Recent Comments

  • Java Rotator

  • Site Admin
  • Log out
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org


    • Add to Technorati Favorites