Fillmore

Craig Eliason

Fillmore is now available from Teeline Fonts. 

This font was inspired by my research in recent years on the Auriol types from the first few years of the twentieth century, which culminated in an article in Printing History. Besides French art nouveau design, other influences include biomorphic Surrealist art, Isamu Noguchi sculpture and furniture, and 60s psychedelia like light shows and Lava Lamps. 

Though its blobs seem casual, I was careful to arrange the weight to boost letter coherence, resemble familiar patterns, and even out the color. As a consequence of that care, the regular weight works (perhaps surprisingly) well for running text at smaller sizes: