Johnny
Johnny is a sans-serif typeface published by Canada Type, designed by Patrick Griffin, Phil Martin and Rebecca Alaccari. It is one of 176 typefaces from Canada Type in the Type.lol catalog, 84 of them sans-serif.
From the foundry
Johnny T his font has roots in two early 1970s film faces called Harem and Margit. Both of those faces were uncredited, but Phil Martin alleged that he'd done this design for Playboy magazine — though there doesn’t seem to be a way to confirm that claim now. At any rate, both sources for this font looked like they were done in a hurry. They had plenty or quirks and irregularities that got in the way of their functionality. Such errors and impediments have been corrected for this digital retoolin
Published by Canada Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- sans