Cabazon
An Informal Blackletter with Swagger.
Designed by Jim Parkinson
Story
Cabazon is an informal blackletter type Jim Parkinson designed and first published in 2005. In creating Cabazon, Parkinson researched legacy blackletter types, hand-lettered samples, and early manuscript samples. In particular, Parkinson found works by mid-20th century artists Rudolf Koch, Ross George, and Samuel Welo to be inspirational in pursuing his vision for Cabazon.
Many of the forms in Cabazon are simplified compared to other blackletter styles. Cabazon retains the warmth of hand-lettered forms and evokes a more casual feel with a bit of swagger but it certainly doesn't take itself too seriously. Parkinson’s own experience creating numerous blackletter nameplates for newspapers spanning several decades of his career informed his effort in producing this delightful type.
This update (v3.0) for Cabazon expands the glyph repertoire to over 1,000 glyphs supporting 224+ languages, including Vietnamese, African, and Oceanian languages. Among all those new glyphs, are a selection of stylistic alternates, discretionary ligatures, arrows, symbols, and more. Opentype features are built in to make accessing all those glyphs quick and convenient.
Use Cabazon for logos, food and beverage packaging, movie posters, and more for a charming and cool old world feel.
Features
Additional features include: Contextual Alternates, Fractions, Ordinals, Stylistic Sets, Localized Forms, and Standard Ligatures.
Glyphs
Basic Latin 94
Latin-1 Supplement 95
Latin Extended-A 124
Latin Extended-B 119
IPA Extensions 11
Spacing Modifier Letters 14
Combining Diacritical Marks 29
Greek and Coptic 4
Latin Extended Additional 247
General Punctuation 19
Currency Symbols 19
Letterlike Symbols 8
Arrows 8
Mathematical Operators 14
Geometric Shapes 2
Alphabetic Presentation Forms 2
Latin Extended-D 3
Additional Glyphs 189
Cabazon supports 224 languages. View our language support page to see which.