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Squid & Steve (or: Rocket Type) [Dathan Boardman]

Rocket Type, Squid & Steve, Dandylion Brushworks and Dandylion Typeworks are all names of foundry set up in 2014 by Dathan Boardman. Dandylion Typeworks link.

The early typefaces by Dathan Boardman include Afternoon Tea (2010: inspired by a lettering specimen featured in Letters and Lettering by Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring) and Portsmouth (2012, with Ryan Lyse: a squarish typeface family). In 2015, Dathan designed the handcrafted typeface Little Pigeon, Jacuzzi Room, and the signage script Lampoon Brush (not to be confused with Sam Wang's Lampoon Brush from 1992).

Typefaces from 2016: Redshift (a rounded geometric full range sans), Aldin (a simple monoline sans family), Rifleman, College Dropout (handcrafted athletic lettering font), Portsmouth (a stackable sketched textured typeface), Afternoon Tea (after an alphabet published in 1938 in Letters and Lettering by Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring), Eisley, Material (brush font).

Typefaces from 2018: Diablo (beatnik style), Bivona (a retro jazzy typeface), Cream Cheese (handcrafted), Echophonic, Piquant (curly and joyous), My Left Foot, Mr + Mrs Konky (beatnik style), 500 Guitars. In 2018, at Great Lakes Lettering, Dathan Boardman published Penny Pincher, Posie, and Sharp Shooter. At Font Seed, he published Discount, a typeface co-designed with Stuart Sandler in 2018.

Typefaces from 2019: Delmonico (a vintage display typeface by Dathan Boardman and Ryan Lyse).

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Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Brush script typefaces ⦿ Signage typefaces ⦿ Sketched typefaces ⦿ Textured typefaces ⦿ Athletic lettering faces ⦿ Curly typefaces ⦿ Beatnik types ⦿ Victorian typefaces ⦿