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Font family: Powell and Geary

Font subfamily identification: Regular

Unique identifier: S.JohnRoss: Powell and Geary: 2004

Full font name: Powell and Geary

Version: 2.0 www.cumberlandgames.com FREE FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY

Postscript font name: PowellandGeary

Manufacturer name: S. John Ross

Designer: S. John Ross

Description: A simple stressed font built for a map-labeling project.

www.cumberlandgames.com

www.cumberlandgames.com

Powell and Geary

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POWELL AND GEARY
A TrueType Font by S. John Ross
Cumberland Games & Diversions
www.cumberlandgames.com

It may come as no surprise that I've been collecting stacks of San Francisco street maps and travel guides from the 1920s, 30s and 40s for my Fly From Evil campaigns. Inspired by the look of a particularly nice map from the mid-30s, I built some fonts to create similar street labels, complete with identical mild stressing and bloating. This particular one, "Powell and Geary," is the simplest of the lot, an all-caps labeling font similar to several faces common in functional, non-decorative graphics of the 30s, especially on maps and charts (I keep running into it, too, when reading old 1930s agriculture magazines; don't ask me why I'm reading such things...)

This font is copyright 2004, 2011 by S. John Ross. "Cumberland Games & Diversions" is a trademark of S. John Ross. This font is free for private, non-commercial use. Contact me at [email protected] if you're interested in a commercial license.

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Version 2.0