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Borges Lettering (was: CBdO Fonts Foundry) [Charles Borges de Oliveira]

The CBdO Fonts Foundry is headed by Charles Borges de Oliveira (b. New Orleans, 1971) and is located in Arlington, WA. Borges's typefaces are mostly scripts, signage typefaces and comic book style typefaces. many of them were first done at or are copublished with Letterhead Fonts.

• Aloha Script and Aloha Script Casual (2013): signage scripts. Developed together with Pierre Tardif.
• Alpine Script (2009). A brushy signage script.
• Avalanche (2004).
• Bounce Script (2004, a fifties style script). Published by P22 in 2013.
• LHF Chicago Script (2007). A fat baseball or signage script published by Letterhead Fonts.
• Desire (2013). A didone typeface with 644 glyphs for swash and titling work. The distressed version is Desire Rough & Ragged (2016). See also Desire Lite (2018).
• Enchanted (2007, informal script). Published by P22 in 2013.
• LHF Gloria (2011, Letterhead): pure art deco caps.
• Kodiak (2014). A Western slab serif co-designed with sign painter Brian Grant.
• Louisiana (2008): a hand-printed font based on the hand of Melanie Snedeker. It comes with Louisian Grab bag which has text balloons and arrows.
• Mocha Script (2011): a signage script typeface jointly developed by Borges and sign painter Bruce Bowers.
• Sadey Ann (2009, signage script).
• Sadey Pants (2009).
• Sarah Script (2003).
• Shocard Rodeo (2009).
• Versatile Bold (2017). A Latin / Greek / Cyrillic font family for layering with plenty of hatched, shadow, rust and 3d options. By Charles Borges de Oliveira and Vassil Kateliev. Followed by Versatile EP (a layerable poster font).
• Future Tense (2019). A sci-fi typeface by Charles Borges de Oliveira and Vassil Kateliev.

He also sells through Font Bros and Letterhead. Klingspor link.

View the typeface library of Charles Borges. Fontspring link. Interview in 2013.

View Charles Borges's typefaces. Adobe link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
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INTERNAL LINKS
Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Comic/cartoon fonts ⦿ Handwriting fonts ⦿ Type scene in Louisiana ⦿ Type scene in Washington ⦿ Brush script typefaces ⦿ Western fonts ⦿ Art deco typefaces ⦿ Signage typefaces ⦿ Typefaces with arrows ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Sketched typefaces ⦿ Sci-Fi fonts ⦿