Barstow Type Family
A wood type revival typeface in 3 styles, available at NeueCo, my independent type foundry.
Barstow is my revival of the 1854 Wells & Webb reverse-contrast woodtype sensation, Gothic Tuscan Italian. The original 48 characters were designed by Darius Wells. Barstow expands Wells’ work into a type family with three styles and over a thousand letterforms:
Regular, modeled after the original;
Shadow, an outline font with a slight 3D shadow (or as the Victorians would say, a ‘modulated outline’);
Xtra, a dingbat font with all the gems and icons a designer could want including hearts, stars, rainbows, funky arrows and hands.
Features include robust Latin language support, symbols and decorative icons, as well as thoughtful OpenType features like substitution and alternates that make designing a breeze.
Barstow is great for short emphatic bursts of text in branding, headlines, deep thoughts and eye-catching quotes at 36pts and larger.
Licenses for my fonts are available for purchase at my foundry, NeueCo, which also has type testers, full glyph set information, and full licensing information, as well as a ton of images of Barstow at work.
