With Kerning support added to fontstruct, no more horizontal bars are needed. I shall update the tutorial illustration as well.
This font is a free download, but some use is prohibited without contacting me first. Please abide by the readme which is included in the download! Thanks.
The Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) was the largest agency of FDR's "New Deal", employing millions of people. Over 2,000 posters were produced by the W.P.A. to raise awareness and support the arts.
I have a lot of admiration for these posters and a style of sign painters' lettering (sometimes called “gas-pipe”) that was common in the U.S. during the 1930s-'40s. WPA Gothic gets much of its inspiration from this poster in particular. This FontStruction stays true to the sample’s simple letterforms, but the FontStruct grid does present a few limitations. For more refined typefaces in this style check out DDC Hardware, Futura Display, FF Golden Gate Gothic, Refrigerator, and MVB Solano Gothic by some of my favorite type designers, two of which (Parkinson and Van Bronkhorst) are East Bay natives.
WPA Gothic has a few alternate glyphs hanging out in the Extended Latin slots with more to come.
To get a look at the typeface outside the confines of the FontStruct sampler, here's a sample poster.
May 25, 2008: Released a variation with low-waisted "deco" caps.
2019: 10 year anniversary update!
– Loosened the spacing a tad more.
– Added a few punctuation marks, including dashes, bullets, and inverted question/exclamation marks.
– Tightened ‘f’ spacing.
– Lengthened the quotes and apostrophes. They were so wee!
– And I fixed that Å! It’s not pretty, but it’s a ring.
Clone of LucasArts SCUMM - Credits. Alternate characters for the credits typeface in "Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis", (C) 1992/1993 LucasArts.
This is a clone of LucasArts SCUMM - CreditsClone of LucasArts SCUMM - Subtitle - Roman. Outline font used in the cut scene subtitles in "Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge" by LucasArts (1991). Extra Latin Characters supplied by marioflea82. Touched-up numerous outline flaws. Modified characters: L, general shape of "a" letters, ring above å New Characters: ' ; Note that you will have to DOUBLE the font size of the Outline TTF if you are using it together with the Solid TTF version. Just one of those FontStruct quirks that will hopefully be addressed in the future (where outline TTFs are rendered at 1/2 the size of the solid TTFs).
This is a clone of LucasArts SCUMM - Subtitle - Roman