FHA Eccentric French Font

Publisher: The Fontry

The curves are classic and the serifs are big. They're so huge that for years I never ever had the nerve to tackle this intimidating font style. However when fellow signmaker Frank Smith prepared for this interesting typeface by Frank H. Atkinson, I couldn't hand down the opportunity to take it from paper to keyboard. After all, at over 100 years of ages, I felt this alphabet had actually never ever been given a correct, digital treatment.

So how did this face endure the last century? Well, for those who don't understand the history, it endured in Atkinson's ubiquitous book, Sign Painting, published first in 1908, the generational standard for anybody interested in sign-related type design. The layouts and lettering treatments in this book have actually affected countless designers for more than a century, however a lot of haunting to me was this unusual confront with the huge serifs.

Well, I'm haunted no more. The work is done, the kerning is total, and absolutely nothing however a mouse-click separates an older idea from the contemporary world.

It's wide, it's huge, and with those insane serifs, it is absolutely eccentric-!!!