You are probably familiar with Michael Doret’s work without even knowing it. If you have seen his logo for the New York Knicks, or one of his many covers for Time Magazine, then you are familiar with the power and dynamism he has brought to the art of hand-drawn letterforms. Doret’s font foundry Alphabet Soup shows that his background in lettering brings a unique perspective to type design. We’re proud to offer the collection at FontShop.

Metroscript

Virtually years in the making, Metroscript is an outgrowth of a lettering style that Doret has used in his design work dozens of times, usually for connecting words such as “and the”, “from”, etc. This style has been described as a “baseball” or “sports” script — which is true — but its applicability is really much wider than that.

Created in OpenType, Metroscript is chock full of features that will expand its usability, such as: 6 different tail styles with variable lengths; letters that “know” when they’re at the beginning or at the end of a word or following a certain other letter — and change accordingly; plus literally dozens of special characters, swashes, ligatures, accents, plus literally dozens of stylistic alternates, swashes, and ligatures, all fitting together in a way that makes each word seem as if it was lettered by hand. These extras are all built into the full-featured Metroscript OT font, and also as separate fonts for applications that are not OpenType-aware.

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PowerStation

A few years ago Doret needed to devise some letterforms for Hershey’s Chocolate. The design of Powerstation Block was the direct outgrowth of this project. When he initially decided to flesh out this “chocolate chunk” of a typeface into a family of usable fonts, he felt that the next in the family should be one in which the illuminated facets became more dominant — giving it a lighter feel — and so PowerStation Wedge was born. Doing a straight, solid version and then a thick, outlined version followed by wide versions of all of the above seemed only natural.

But why stop there? Doret wanted to give this extremely graphic display font even more flexibility and usefulness by adding a two color capability. This was achieved by creating “layerable” versions of the four faceted designs — i.e. PowerStation Block Low, which is the base solid font, and PowerStation Block High, which contains the highlighted facets. By pasting the High over the Low and colorizing them differently, one can easily achieve virtually limitless color effects.

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Deliscript

Although the initial idea for Deliscript Upright and Deliscript Slant was inpired by the neon sign in front of Canter’s Delicatessen in Los Angeles, the design soon took on a life of its own — and its own distinctive look. Unlike most “retro” fonts, Deliscript is not a retread of an older design that had been lost or forgotten, found, and then recreated. Like its sibling Metroscript, it is a completely new and unique design created from the ground up. It may have historical antecedents, but despite the “déjà vu” feeling it may provoke, it’s as new and fresh as anything else out there.

Alternates, ligatures, and variable-length tails are all built into the full-featured Deliscript Regular and Italic OT fonts. Separate fonts are included for applications that are not OpenType-aware.

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Download Deliscript Alts PDF Manual

Bank Gothic AS
Digital versions of Bank Gothic have never had a true set of lowercase characters — until now. Designing a set of lowercase characters also meant adjustments to the caps and small caps as well. This 21st century adaptation of a 20th century classic extends its usability and suitability for many more applications.

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Orion
Inspired by an enameled sign from a Paris flea market, Orion can be defined as a geometric, connecting script that is at once contemporary, yet classic and timeless. Every word it sets could be a logo.

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Kulturista, Nudista

Tomás Broušil’s latest typefaces share the same elementary shapes, proportions, and weight variants. Kulturista is a distinctive monolinear slab with sturdy serifs, a display typeface well suited for use in magazines and newspapers. It can also work well in a corporate identity, on heavy machinery, or on the cover of a book.

Nudista is a geometric sans-serif based on the proportions of Purista, released by Suitcase in 2007. This time, the forms are not based strictly on a square shape, but rather on a pleasant round oval. The letter outlines are smooth, even technical, but the geometric precision is compensated in places where it would get in the way of legibility and compromise the desired visual impact. This naked typeface with no needless decorations will humbly serve where expressive type could be distracting.

Typonine Sans

Typonine Sans is what you’d expect from a quality humanist sans serif, but with Nikola Djurek’s signature style and an extensive character set supporting a broad range of OpenType features and all Latin based European languages. Five weights cover headline and text use. Surprisingly readable Condensed and Mono companions are available.

Zócalo

Cyrus Highsmith’s Zócalo was born from the dramatic redesign of El Universal, a leading Mexico City daily. Designed in three subfamilies for setting at specific sizes, the series was tuned for distinct character frequency and repetition when set in Spanish. Nicholas Kis’ oldstyle and Chauncey Griffith’s classic Ionic No. 5 inspired the sturdy Text while the energetic character of Mexico City influenced the Banner and Display.

Sarcastic

Only Jonathan Barnbrook and Marcus McCallion could concoct such an original take on neon lettering and ’50s scripts. Marcus McCallion is now called Marcus Leis Allion

ARS Region OT

Angus R. Shamal took the Swiss neogrotesk tradition and diverted slightly to make his unusual but usable ARS Region. It’s now available in OpenType with small caps, oldstyle figures, and lining figures built in.

ARS Twenty OT
Now in OpenType.

Nuri Pro
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ARS District OT
Now in OpenType.

ARS Maquette OT
Now in OpenType.

Fonts used in title graphic: Metroscript, Bank Gothic AS.

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