Hobo Alternatives

ITC Motter Corpus was designed by the Austrian type designer Othmar Motter in 1993 to combine the display advantages of a sans serif extra bold design with the legibility of a roman weight. The Motter Corpus is available in the weights regular and condensed regular. The capitals with their strong strokes display slight irregularities and natural looking outlines. When used in very large point... Read More

Linotype Textra™ is a clever twist on the sans serif genre, designed by Jochen Schuss and Jörg Herz in 2002. Schuss says this about Linotype Textra: "Two in one! The same Linotype Textra, which is so neutral and practical for long text passages turns into an eye-catching headline type when used in larger point sizes. The trick? It's all in the details. The type's clear, robust forms give it a... Read More

FF Govan is a small family of chunky sanses in three widths. In 1999, Glasgow was designated the UK City of Architecture and Design. MetaDesign performed a great degree of creative work for this campaign, including this typeface, designed by Erik Spiekermann and Ole Schäfer. In design history, Glasgow is famous for the art nouveau work of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928). While... Read More

Drawn in by the logo printed on the side of a cup from the erstwhile GDR dining car company Mitropa, Johannes Erler started work on FF... Read More