Foundry portfolio · Sans serif · Slab Serif · Decorative
Almairatype Studio is the place to look for collegiate and mascot lettering. Mascot College and Nugget both read as American campus signage, and the 21 releases repeat that combination of slab weight, outline options and athletic proportion.
Before you buy from this studio
Athletic faces are usually cut at shirt scale. Check the sharp inner corners, which is where a blade lifts, and round them slightly if the vinyl tears.
Very condensed collegiate slabs with tall stems and flat feet
Mascot College is a very condensed collegiate slab in which the stems run tall, the slabs are flat and thin and the counters close to slits, so a long name fits one line on a narrow format.
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Very tall heavy capitals with rounded corners and narrow internal channels
Nugget shows red capitals filling most of a white cover, where thick near-even strokes leave thin vertical openings in the U and G, the N draws a sharply narrowing diagonal and every outer corner softens.
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Tall condensed retro sans
Robusta is a tall condensed sans in cream on terracotta: very tall caps with softly squared curves, an even heavy stroke and a triangular counter in the A, set as one word across the plate with tracked notes in all four corners.
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Ultra-tall 5:1 pillar-condensed retro poster sans
Doughie is an ultra-tall, compressed retro condensed sans stretching rounded-corner vertical pillars edge-to-edge across posters and packaging!
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Retro condensed sans
Sunday Lunch is a retro condensed sans in dusty rose on cream: very tall narrow caps with flat terminals, a high waist and thin counters, set edge to edge on two lines with tracked lines above and below naming the category and the file formats.
Diagonal-sliced retro café condensed sans (Multilingual)
Biscora is a stylish condensed sans distinguished by crisp diagonal stencil-like angle cuts across the joints of 'S', 'R', and 'A' (Multilingual)!
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Friendly rounded 1970s burger-joint & mascot condensed sans (OTF/TTF)
Crouton is a cheerful, rounded-terminal condensed sans channeling vintage burger-shack menus and rubber-hose cartoon packaging (OTF, TTF & Multilingual)!
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Clean straight-sided heritage coffeehouse condensed grotesk (OTF/TTF + Multilingual)
Hermano is a clean, straight-sided vintage condensed grotesk with softly eased corners built for coffee roasters, craft beer, and utilitarian labels (OTF & TTF).
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Ultra-heavy retro condensed impact sans (OTF & TTF)
Crumbs is an ultra-heavy, round-shouldered condensed display sans (OTF & TTF) built for punchy retro bakery bags, mugs, and bold tees.
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Retro condensed sans display
Pretzel is a retro condensed display in orange-red on a textured cream ground: flat-sided letters with tight curves, blunt corners and very little space between the stems, set in one word across the plate with a tracked line above and two lines beneath.
Wide metal capitals with jagged cuts and curved outer spikes
Darkness is death metal lettering: letters fused into a single spiked mass, blade points reaching above and below the line, and a mirrored build that reads as a sigil before it reads as a word.
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Narrow clean sports capitals with long squared feet
American Football shows tall cream capitals on brown: narrow vertical stems, clipped O corners and straight slab feet produce an upright athletic title that stays lighter than the heavy varsity blocks.
Tall green block capitals with narrow rectangular counters and softly rounded corners
Brighter presents a green uppercase word on white, where long straight stems enclose narrow rectangular B, R and G interiors, subtle curved corners soften the dense rectangles and the title runs far heavier than the widely spaced captions below it.
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Narrow slab blocks with softly rounded outer corners
Class Senior displays yellow condensed capitals with thin white edging on navy, where the C and S have softly rounded outer corners while straight feet and a sharp R leg retain a sports-block structure.
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Light condensed capital sans
Mornings is a light condensed sans in yellow on a photograph of a shoreline: tall narrow capitals with oval bowls, a deep M centre and an even fine stroke, set as one large word with four tracked notes in the corners.
Western display slab with skull mark
Western Bullhead is a western display slab in dark brown on aged tan: heavy bracketed serifs, spurred stems, a notched crossbar and a tight even spacing, presented above a longhorn skull illustration with rope corners, so the pair reads as a ranch brand rather than a modern serif.
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Heavy condensed capitals with softened rectangular ends and small squared P counters
Hippie is a heavy condensed sans in the seventies poster tradition: tall stems, very narrow counters, flat terminals and spacing tight enough that a short word locks into a slab.
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Angular collegiate capitals with slab ends and segmented horizontal bars
Eternal College shows broad athletic capitals in two pale lines on black. The bowls are squared off, the corners clipped and the endpoints slab-like, while some horizontal portions sit as separate short bars below or within the main letter shape, adding a segmented rhythm without a conventional all-over outline.
Tall condensed athletic blocks with a fine pale outer contour
Jersey Varsity shows red narrow capitals on dark navy: thick straight uprights, clipped bowls and broad square feet create a compact two-row title separated from the ground by a fine pale contour, with a small date line above in a lighter treatment.
Sporty condensed college family
Prayer is a sporty college face in black on cream: condensed slabs with flat tops, heavy serifs and a high waist, offered as regular, italic, texture and outline, with a small format note at each side and a stacked specimen beneath the headline, so the sheet reads as a team type kit.
Very condensed distressed slab
Western Sporty is a very condensed square slab in black on a torn paper sheet: tall caps with heavy square slabs, scratched irregular fill and rough edges, set on two lines with a tracked line above and a caption beneath, over a ground of aged newspaper and travel props.
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