Lincoln Electric
Lincoln Electric is a sans-serif typeface published by Canada Type, designed by Patrick Griffin and Thomas Lincoln. It is one of 176 typefaces from Canada Type in the Type.lol catalog, 84 of them sans-serif.
From the foundry
Lincoln Electric L incoln Electric started its life as an in-house experimental film type Thomas Lincoln drew shortly after concluding his work as part of Herb Lubalin’s famed crew in the late 1960s,. The master alphabet was drawn on illustration boards using pen and ink and press-type lines. The typeface was initially made for use in the branding and promotional material of Lincoln’s new design outfit. This alphabet’s forms are a spin on Bifur, the all-cap deco face designed by Adolphe Mouron (
Published by Canada Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- sans