ITC Pious Henry font
ITC Pious Henry font (ITC library) is available in OpenType, TrueType, PostScript (Type1) formats for PC and Mac.
You can buy and download the font online. Click on the font picture to see more detailed font sample.
With extenders like swizzle sticks, ITC Pious Henry looks like it ought to come with cocktail onions. The rough, bouncy, narrow-shouldered letters would look right at home in a cartoon about a 1959 cocktail-lounge crooner. South Carolina designer Eric Stevens says, however, that for him Pious Henry evokes a feeling of the rural South. "Maybe it's a nave quality that belongs on a 'Boiled Peanuts' sign," he says. The underlying highly condensed sans serif form has been roughed up, with irregular edges and constantly changing x-heights, angles, and baselines. The effect is a typeface that seems to dance on the page - or the screen. And the odd name? Stevens explains that once he's got the basic letterforms down in a design, "I start to compose sample words and phrases so I can see how the typeface is developing, looking for potential problems and such." He hates to let the computer name a font file "Untitled-1," so he let free association come up with a name. "Pious Henry" was one of those phrases, and it stuck.
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