Our House Graphics

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Our House Graphics [Russell McGorman] Russell McGorman (b. 1954) runs Our House Graphics. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, he is a designer and illustrator in Toronto (Richmond Hill), Ontario. He also is a signage design coordinator at Metrolinx in Toronto, and an expert on wayfinding typography. He created the free dot matrix typeface Campcraft (2010). The retail version of Campcraft has improved tracking and kerning, a few more glyphs and one (yes, just one) open type feature. It is available in four weights that can be combined to form a multi-layer (chromatic) font. Baro Black (2010) is a fat display typeface in the piano key or Futura style---it was initially called Bolo. Silex Black (2011) is a pointy octagonal face, characterized by McGorman as Silex Black is a solid, hard-edged, masculine display font suitable for [...] wrestlers or mixed martial arts fighters. Silex Stencil was designed in 2010. Kush Fat and Kush Shade (2011) are plump packaging typefaces described by McGorman in this way: Kush is what happens when you let your fonts sit around watching cartoons and eating cake and ice-cream all day---when their vectors are freed from constraints and allowed to follow their bliss. Kush has filled its insides to just the other side of contentment and comes to you on a sugar high with a head full of Loony Tunes. And... it's two ply! Typefaces made in 2012: Silex Black (mechanical and octagonal), Silex Stencil, After 5 (an an upright, slab serif, display typeface with an Art Moderne attitude), Reo (a fourties truck grill style typeface), Tynne (wedge serif family), Metro Bots (on the theme of city skies), Reo (a retro car grille-inspired typeface). In 2014, he published the retro stencil typeface 8th Avenue. In 2020, he published Era Max Radial (B;ack or Stencil) for extra large printing. Typefaces from 2021: EraMax 123 (a 5-layered (stacking) geometric sans serif, meant to be set big. It is based based on the original hand painted signage found in the T. H. & B Railway station in Hamilton Ontario, a classic Art Moderne building, designed by the New York architectural firm of Fellheimer and Wagner for the Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo Railway line and completed in 1933). His blog. Abstractfonts link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Our House Graphics [Buy fonts] [Designer info] Dafont page Fontspace page Behance page Creative Market page Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ The Canadian type scene ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Octagonal typefaces ⦿ Signage typefaces ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿