
His early career has as many curlicues as a swash cap.

These fonts make ingenious use of OpenType technology and one of them, Ed Interlock, is truly a "smart" font, capable of automatically making the sort of visual decisions originally made on-the-fly by the typesetter or letterer.īenguiat was one of the most prolific lettering artists of the day. They've just released the Ed Benguiat Font Collection: five fonts based on lettering alphabets created in the 1950s and '6os by Art Directors Club Hall-of-Famer Ed Benguiat for Photo-Lettering, Inc. Ah, House Industries, that typographic hothouse! The Delaware-based independent type foundry is known for their inventive typefaces, creative packaging, and often fictitious backstories (tales of nonexistent Swiss designers and portly sign painters).
