Hombre: A New Design with Traditional Roots

Hombre™ is a sure-fire attention-getter. Drawn by Thomas Oldfield and loosely based on popular typefaces of the 19th century, Hombre offers all the gun-slinging swagger and rugged style of Jesse James and his crew of outlaws. But, like John Wayne, it’s at home in a lot more places than just westerns.

This two-weight family (each with an italic sidekick) can be the ideal choice when you’re looking for an authentic, weather-beaten, time-ravaged – and a bit haphazard – typeface. Think: advertising and brochures for outdoor projects and sporting goods, headings and banners for web sites dedicated to camping, hiking, trekking and off-road biking. Hombre is also a natural for book covers, posters and packaging.

While Hombre’s home corral, is print at large sizes, the typefaces are equally at home in interactive environments like blogs, digital ads and games. Add to this, a large character set supporting most Western European and many Eastern European languages, including Cyrillic and Greek, and you can bring a rustic and timeworn look to a passel of projects.

The complete Hombre typeface family—in four styles—is available as either desktop from Fonts.com, or additionally as a web font as part of the Monotype Library Subscription.