LaFarge FONT Download

LaFarge was designed by Gregory Shutters and published by Typetanic Fonts. LaFarge contains 15 styles and family package options. The font is currently #47 in Hot New Fonts. 

LaFarge is a typeface primarily inspired by the historic mosaic titling capitals found in the New York City Subway, designed by architect Squire J. Vickers and his staff between 1915-1927. These elegant but industrial signs are characteristic of early-20th century American architectural lettering, and show an evolution of the classical Roman capitals to lower contrast, bolder serifs, and more regular character widths. The majority of this lettering still remains in subway stations today, and though elements of the style vary from sign to sign, many carry the unique features that are reflected in LaFarge: high-waisted crossbars with angled serifs, elegantly curved "R" leg, and distinctive trapezoidal serifs. LaFarge expands this style into a lower case, taking cues from contemporary typefaces like Bookman, Cheltenham, and Della Robbia.

A number of typographic features are included, such as small caps, ordinal indicators / superscript letters, arrows, and a set of borders inspired by early subway tile. The result is a fashionable, architecturally-minded typeface that is just as at home on the façade of a grand public building as it is on packaging, magazines, or the web. LaFarge works well in both text and display settings, remaining readable at small sizes but showing off its elegant details in larger uses.

LaFarge has received the Communication Arts Typography Award, the ADC Annual Merit Award, is included in the 2020 STA 100, and was part of designer Greg Shutters' winning portfolio in the 2019 Type Directors Club Ascender Awards. You can download a PDF specimen of LaFarge, and also view a video of LaFarge in action.

Font Family:
· LaFarge Thin
· LaFarge Thin Italic
· LaFarge Light
· LaFarge Light Italic
· LaFarge Book
· LaFarge Book Italic
· LaFarge Medium
· LaFarge Medium Italic
· LaFarge Demi
· LaFarge Demi Italic
· LaFarge Bold
· LaFarge Bold Italic
· LaFarge Black
· LaFarge Black Italic
· LaFarge Borders


File Size: 16.78 MB

Tags: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, american, architectural, arrows, arts and crafts, beaux arts, bookman, capital sharp s, cheltenham, della robbia, detroit serif, elegant, formal, goudy, headline, monumental, mosaic, new york, new york city, ordinal indicators, ordinals, serif, signage, sign painting, slab, small caps, subway, swash, titling, vernacular, versal eszett, vintage

Release date: October 13, 2021

You can use this font for:
- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
- Website publishing: create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
- PDFs: embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
- Video and broadcast: use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content and more
- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)