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Schnitzle AOE™

by Astigmatic
Individual Styles from $19.95 USD
The Schnitzle AOE Font Family was designed by Brian J. Bonislawsky and published by Astigmatic. Schnitzle AOE contains 1 styles.

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Schnitzle AOE is a playful hand-drawn display typeface inspired by lettering found in a series of vintage detergent advertisements. The original source carried a lively, casual charm, with tall, slightly uneven forms and an easygoing rhythm that felt both homemade and highly memorable. Schnitzle preserves that offbeat advertising personality while translating it into a clean digital typeface with a whimsical, storybook-like voice. Its narrow proportions, irregular texture, and friendly energy make it especially well suited for children’s books, playful branding, retro advertising, packaging, novelty graphics, and lighthearted editorial work. Schnitzle feels spontaneous and approachable, capturing the spirit of mid-century ad lettering while remaining useful for contemporary display design.

Designers: Brian J. Bonislawsky

Publisher: Astigmatic

Foundry: Astigmatic

Design Owner: Astigmatic

MyFonts debut: Oct 9, 2007

Schnitzle AOE™ is a trademark of Astigmatic.

About Astigmatic

In 1873, the strange and fantastic story began. Nearly two centuries later, Brian J. Bonislawsky was born, and carrying on a mix of the the footsteps his ancestors before him took, he picked up the the traditions and founded the Astigmatic One Eye Foundry, which later expanded to become the Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute. (For more of the background story, see the Historical Perspective link below.) Since its founding Astigmatic has worked with dozens of designers, helping them forge their own foundries as well as helping to increase the quality of type created by Astigmatic and these other foundries. Astigmatic strives to continually increase its range of typographic scope; taking on expeditions to revive old typestyles, unearth long lost typefaces, forge new styles yet unseen, and begin to develop more comprehensive language typestyles of the WGL4 set size which includes Greek and Cyrillic extensions. If you are looking for a wide variety of typographic influence and style, the Astigmatic One Eye Institute is your source for type.

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