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Leksen Design [Andrea Leksen] Andrea Leksen (Leksen Design, Seattle, WA) has a Master of Design degree from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, Scotland, and a BA in Music Arts Administration from Whitworth University, Spokane, WA. She has been a freelance designer since 2003. She teaches at Seattle Pacific University. Her typefaces include: Nordique (2015). A circle-based simple Scandinavian-style sans typeface. It is related to Nordeco (2020). Bemis (2013). Based on the engraved type on the historical Bemis building in Seattle, this is a typeface with a large x-height. The peppermint-striped Christmas version is called Candy Cane Lane (2015). Cristoforo Italic (2013). Done with Thomas Phinney, this is a Victorian H.P. Lovecraft typeface. In 2012, Thomas had started work on Cristoforo, a revival of Hermann Ihlenburg's Victorian typeface Columbus (1890, ATF) and its accompanying American Italic, also by Ihlenburg. Kickstarter project. Phinney notes that it is known as the typeface of Call of Cthulhu, the H.P. Lovecraft roleplaying game, and as the original logo for Cracker Jack. Mr Gabe (2022). A didone display typeface. Creative Market link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Leksen Design [Buy fonts] [Designer info] Fontspring link [Buy fonts] Creative Market page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type scene in Washington ⦿ Lapidary typefaces ⦿ Victorian typefaces ⦿ Type in Scotland ⦿ Christmas / Season's Fonts ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿