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Texas typeface suggestion

Alessandro Segalini

Could you please point me two/three best culturally related to Texas typefaces.

Chester's Freedumb font? :-D

Go to myfonts.com and type "WBW" in the search box: you will find 21 woodtype fonts, many of which were named for towns in Texas.

Some of Downer's stuff.

hhp

Thank you for all the three suggestions.

You could also do a search at MyFonts for "Texas", and see that Phil Martin was born in Texas, and Scriptorium is based there. Another Houston-based designer is the Swisswoman Sibylle Hagmann, whose "Cholla" typeface for Emigre is named after a kind of cactus.

Or how about fonts based on the handwriting of 19th-century Texans?

http://www.texashero.com/

Ummm...thanks for the info on the Texas connections, Chester, but you neglected to mention that I lived in the Lone Star State for 45 years, designed dustjackets for several books on Texas history, had a brief flirtation with a former Miss Texas USA (who is now old enough to be a grandmother to a lot of you young whippersnappers), and have an abiding love for Shiner Beer (especially their bock...

Old Nick, I'm afraid that I'm not acquainted with your œuvre, else I woud surely have pimped you too. (I certainly don't mean to suggest that MyFonts has the answers to all typographic questions.) As for Texas beer... I'm sad for your loss of the Celis Brewery. Although from what I can gather, M. Celis is still supervising the brewing of his fabulous beers in Michigan, and has not abandoned his bolo tie.

PS; Nick, having looked briefly at your site, I wonder if you could suggest some Texas-specific types you have digitised.

PS; Nick, having looked briefly at your site, I wonder if you could suggest some Texas-specific types you have digitised.

As I mentioned earlier, the majority of my woodtype fonts, which have the suffix WBW (for Whiz-Bang Woodtype) are named for Texas towns (Dime Box, Falfurrias, Grand Prairie, Jefferson (Pilot), Mexia, New Boston, Pilot Point, Refugio, San Marcos, Sulphur Springs, Terlingua and Waxahachie); Texas rivers (Brazos and Rio Grande); Texas bays (Laguna Madre); or Texas phenomena (Gullywasher and Spindletop).

Nick, those are great! Very archetypical!

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