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Bowery Lane

$39.00$63,180.00

Meet Bowery Lane font, a medium contrast serif typeface in 6 weights, italics, and curl swash alternates.

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— OTF and/or WOFF and WOFF2 files
— Link to How to Use PDF
— License EULA PDF

 

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Bowery Lane

Bowery Lane Hoodzpah packaging pins ephemera font

Hey! Amy Hood here. I have long wanted to make an elegant, lower contrast, exaggerated serif font. Like if Clarendon and Georgia had a love child. Something unique but highly usable. So, I made Bowery Lane. Bowery Lane font is somewhere between a Scotch Modern, Transition, and Slab serif.

Bowery Lane Hoodzpah weights on black font
Bowery Lane Hoodzpah CBGBs Nico font
Bowery Lane Hoodzpah NYC Boroughs font

When you use the default character set of Bowery Lane font, it looks confident, classic, and bold, like the area of New York City the font gets its name from. The moderate contrast makes the font very usable, even at smaller sizes. But just when you think you know what Bowery is about, you turn on the curl swash alternates and feel as if you’ve stepped into the New York of You’ve Got Mail. Bowery, NYC, is a cultural quadrangle, at the intersection of four boroughs and two bridges, with centuries of history and reinventions, all emanating from 1 iconic street. This font aims to have a similar breadth of character and broad usability.

Bowery Lane Hoodzpah NYC illustration font

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Over the din and clatter of the bakery she said, “Gimme a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese on a Sesame Bagel.”

The Bowery was once a theater district in the 1800s. From the 20th century on it was a skid row, a lighting district, a creative hub, and more.
Bowery Lane Hoodzpah symbols emoji font
Bowery Lane Hoodzpah ligatures font
Bowery Lane Hoodzpah mathematics etc font

Bowery Lane font includes multiple swash style sets. Where Bookmania’s swashes have a relaxed, retro/nouveau feel, and Caslon’s swashes have an old money elegance, Bowery Lane’s swash style lies somewhere in the middle: round and whimsical, like the wrought iron details on the Vanderbilt Gate in Central Park. Not only does Bowery Lane offer swash alternates for the italic styles, it also offers them for the roman styles too.

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Bowery Lane Font Identifying Characteristics Hoodzpah

I’m obsessed with the defining characters that make a typeface recognizable. Futura’s pointy /A; GT Alpina’s upside down /s. I am very intentional about having such recognizable characters in my own typefaces. Here’s a look at those defining characteristics in Bowery Lane font:

  • Exaggerated cross strokes on the /G and /J.
  • Pronounced spurs on letters with beaks like /C, /G, /E, /F, /G, /T, and /S.
  • Ball terminals all over the place.
  • Curled tails on the /a and /u. Angled beaks on the upper and lowercase /S.
  • A tail on the uppercase /Y like you see on the lowercase /y. (Inspired by The New Yorker wordmark which I have always loved)
  • Pronounced barb on the stem of the /G.
  • Overall the characters are round and—dare I say—“buxom.”
Bowery Lane Hoodzpah Magazine Covers
Bowery Lane font Hoodzpah Lower Manhattan streets swash default

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Credits:

Type Design: Amy Hood of Hoodzpah
Engineered/Produced: Amy Hood of Hoodzpah, with support from Graeme Swank of Type Services
Illustrations: Amy Hood and Bea Morgan of Hoodzpah
Animation: Jose Sojo of Hoodzpah
Released: June 3, 2025

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Features:

  • Language Support: Most Western and Central European characters.
  • Numerals, fractions, currency symbols, and punctuation.
  • Fun extras like smiley faces, circle numbers, arrows, stars and more.
  • Swash Alternates

Details:

  • 592 Glyphs
  • Open Type Format

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