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Tradesman

Tradesman™

by Grype
Individual Styles from $16.00
Complete family of 40 fonts: $200.00
Tradesman Font Family was designed by Jim Lyles, Brian J. Bonislawsky and published by Grype. Tradesman contains 40 styles and family package options.

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About Tradesman Font Family


Rough-hewn industrial geometric typefaces have been used and admired from early wood types through the digital age of Machine and beyond, but they have lacked an expansive enough family to become a true workhorse. The Tradesman family finds its origin of inspiration in the Craftsman tool company logo, and from there expands to type megafamily. Tradesman celebrates the angular octagonal forms of industrial lettering, transcending its brand inspired origin to give birth to a font family that pulls on modern and historical styles. It inherited its reliably tough tone from the all capitals lettering that inspired it, and goes on to include a lowercase, small caps style, and a comprehensive range of widths and weights, creating a straightforward, uncompromising collection of typefaces that lend a solid foundation and a broad range of expression for designers.

Designers: Jim Lyles, Brian J. Bonislawsky

Publisher: Grype

Foundry: Grype

Original Foundry: unknown

Design Owner: Grype

MyFonts debut: Jun 14, 2016

Tradesman™ is a trademark of Grype Type.

About Grype

Grype began as a grunge type outfit for a short-lived time under the independent designer Charles Leroux. It was acquired by Astigmatic (AOETI) in 2016 and has since transitioned under the team of Brian J. Bonislawsky and Jim Lyles into a type foundry that produces font families inspired by corporate, band, and other logotypes and branding. And we still have retained some of the early pepperings of grunge typography from the library to boot.Grype expands on branding logotypes and makes them into full fledged type identity kits.

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