FHA Sign DeVinneNC Font — By the Fontry

FHA Sign DeVinne is another in the series of updates/revivals from master sign painter F. H. Atkinson.

Commercial Purchases – Desktop and Extended:
http://www.thefontry.com/fhadevinne

Complete Specimen Book:
http://thefontry.com/fha_sign_devinne/fha_devinne_specimen.pdf

Designer’s Comments:

Around the end of the 19th century, the print typeface De Vinne was released and became popular. But, this is not that story….

Once, long ago, there were no large format digital printers or vinyl cutters. Signs, posters, banners etc., were screen printed, in the case of mass production, or hand lettered. Sign painting was a difficult skill to master. Some young men apprenticed to more skilled sign painters to learn the craft. Others got some paint and brushes, maybe a how-to book and let the paint start flying. For the hand letterers there weren’t fonts in the technical sense. Each painter would build a repertoire of forms. These forms defined broad categories – standard or block styles, roman styles, block serifs, scripts and casuals and the single stroke forms. If you wanted a bold you used a wider brush. Italic forms were a slanted block or serif form with script or casual flourishes and terminals. There were stove pipe forms that acted as condensed letter styles. Most clients accepted these limitations. But, there will always be clients who are difficult. These folks wanted a specific print font for their signs. In the digital age, it is a simple matter to purchase the font and run it through the plotter or digital printer and be done. Back in the day, those fellows had to adapt something they were practiced at to new serifs and terminals. Any new “font” had to be practiced until the painter could reproduce the letters with some confidence. DeVinne was popular enough that Frank Atkinson included it among his demonstrations fonts in his manual on sign painting. If you like bold serif fonts for display and headline type, FHA Sign DeVinne might be what you are looking for. Okay, so it is a revival of a Frank H. Atkinson classic, is that a bad thing? It is updated and modernized with an effort to clean up any pesky issues with character agreement. It seems a bit trite to say that Sign DeVinne is a face for a new millennial, but, there, we’ve said it. The font has clear bold strokes and a well defined character.

Free for Personal Use

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PersonalUseEULA_FHASignDeVinne

You have downloaded the files for the font FHA Sign DeVinne NC, (Non Commercial) and associoted font effects. The following is the personal use EULA.

For commercial usage, please contact the Fontry at:
[email protected]

or visit the Fontry at:
http://www.thefontry.com/fhadevinne

For complete Specimen Book:
http://thefontry.com/fha_sign_devinne/fha_devinne_specimen.pdf

Thank You from the Fontry.

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1. Allowed uses

You may use the licensed fonts to create images on any surface such as computer screens, paper, web pages, photographs, movie credits, printed material, T-shirts, and other surfaces where the image is a fixed size as long as the resulting items are not for sale for a commercial entity or business.

You may use the licensed fonts to create EPS files or other scalable drawings provided that such files are only used by the person licensing the font.

Examples of personal uses permitted by this license include: family birthday or party invitations, school work, personal scrapbooking, personal garage sale flyers, personal stationary, personal web sites.

2. Number of users

There can be any number of simultaneous users providing that all users belong to the same company or household downloading the font.

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