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Designer(s)
Morris Fuller Benton
Foundry(ies)
American Type Founders , Linotype
Release Year
1910
Country of Origin
United States
Classification
Ornamented, Novelty, Art Nouveau
Original Format
Metal (Foundry)
Distributor(s)
MyFonts, Linotype, Fonts.com
Tags
1910s, decorative, display, novelty, overused

Background
The Hobo font is a dynamically tapering face in which all strokes are accentuated curves,
achieving a superb decorative effect. Hobo almost suggests a freely drawn alphabet with its
unusual robust roundness. The Hobo font was designed to be used at large sizes. It has no
descenders: the lower case g, p, q and y are incorporated into the x-height. The Hobo font
imparts a friendly personality to display work such as invitations, menus, signage and
packaging.
Mistral is a casual script typeface designed by Roger Excoffon for the Fonderie Olive type
foundry, and released in 1953. The Amsterdam Type Foundry released a version in 1955.

The Hey Hey It's Saturday logo.

Straight Outta Compton by American rap group N.W.A..

Excoffon based the form of the typeface on his own handwriting. The stroke has an informal
graphic quality similar to brush and ink. The lowercase letters are carefully designed to connect
on a line to an extent unusual in script fonts. Descenders are long, and increase the sense of
motion. The face has several specially-designed ligatures (which have not been duplicated in
digital versions). In lowercase Mistral is a true connecting script, similar to cursive writing.

The Mistral typeface is used on the cover of the double Platinum selling album Straight Outta
Compton by American rap group N.W.A..

In Australia, the Mistral font is best known for the "it's Saturday" part of the Hey Hey It's
Saturday logo.
[edit] References
 Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey
of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN
1-57912-023-7.
 Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces.
Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
 Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-
11151-7
More Information About this Typeface:

Harlow is a decorative font designed by Colin Brignall which appeared with Elsner
+ Flake in 1979. The outline alphabet complements the standard characters and its
shadows make its forms seem lighter. Most distinctive in harlow font is the contrast
between the relatively regular forms of the lower case letters and the extravagent
capitals.

 
Design Foundry:

ITC - International Typeface Corp.

Designer:

Brignall, Colin

Classification: