Vincent Pacella

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Vincent Pacella American lettering artist and type designer from New York. Creator of ITC Cushing (1982) and ITC Pacella (1987). MyFonts.com hints that he may have died. According to Linotype, ITC Cushing has a long history. The font was originally designed by J. Stearns Cushing, a Boston-based book printer, and famous American type designer Frederic Goudy expanded it to include an italic weight. Under a special license from the American Type Founders, Vincent Pacella modified the design for ITC and added some additional weights. ITC Cushing is slightly condensed with large, bracketed serifs. Pacella changed the capital letters to better complement the lower case and replaced the sloping serifs of the italics to linear type serifs to produce ITC Cushing. ITC Pacella was fashioned in the tradition of Century Schoolbook, Corona and Nimrod. Both fonts are included in the Linotype library. In the 1970s, he made a Photolettering Egyptian headline typeface called Blackjack, which was digitized in 2007 by Nick Curtis as Flap Jacks NF. His 1970s semi-psychedelic typeface Carousel became Nick Curtis's Vinnie Culture NF (2007). His Pacella Vega Extended 10 (Photolettering, 1960s) was digitized by Nick Curtis as Palo Pinto NF (2010). MyFonts also credits Pacella with AT Stratford Bold, a thick slab serif. His PhotoLettering fonts Pacella Barrel and Pacella Colossus inspired Nick Curtis to create the beautiful ultra fat western slab serif Earmark NF (2009). The Western poster font Pioneer was revived by Nick Curtis as Trailblazer NF (2010). Bingham (done for PLINC) led Nick Curtis to design the angular octagonal typeface Binghamton NF (2010). In 2011, Vincent Pacella [posthumous credit?], Ben Kiel and Adam Cruz created the fat slab serif face Goliath, based on Film No. 6206 in the PhotoLettering archive. Klingspor link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Vincent Pacella [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Western fonts ⦿ Photo and film type era ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Nick Curtis ⦿ Psychedelic types ⦿ Frederic William Goudy ⦿

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