Ponderosa™ Font Family

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The designer Kim Buker Chansler created the fonts Birch™ (1990), Cottonwood™ (1991, with Barbara Lind and Joy Redick), Pepperwood™ (1994), Ponderosa™ (1990), Rosewood™ (1994) and Zebrawood™. Pepperwood™, Ponderosa™, Rosewood™ and Zebrawood™ are joint works of Kim Buker Chansler, Carl Crossgrove and Carol Twombly. Birch is based on a Latin Condensed wood type found in a 1879 William Page specimen book. The font is a particularly legible condensed display typeface notable for its angled [...]

From Carl’s early interest in calligraphy and drawing, through his youth and college years studying fine arts and book arts, to his eventual degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in Printing/Typography, the constant thread has been Carl’s fascination with letterforms. Before he knew there was such a thing as typeface design, he was assembling alphabets, drawing letters and poring over lettering guides. At RIT, Carl discovered the world of type design and began digitizing [...]

Ponderosa font is a joint work of the typeface designers K.B. Chansler, C. Crossgrove and C. Twombly, who also created Rosewood, Zebrawood and Pepperwood together. As the name suggests, it is so-called wood type. The origins of this kind of typeface can be found in the early 19th century. Called Italian or Italienne, these typefaces quickly became very popular. They are distinguished by square serifs whose width is larger than the stroke width of the characters. When the letters are set together, the heavy serifs build dark horizontal bands. The distinguishing characteristic of Ponderosa lies in its extremely fine figures between heavy serifs. The designers approached the boundaries of the impossible with this contrast. The typeface is reminiscent of the Wild West with its shootouts and heroes as well as of the 1970s with their platform shoes and wild hair-dos. When used carefully in headlines, Ponderosa font will surely attract attention.