Trudeau Fonts

The TRUDEAU fonts are based on the wrought iron architectural lettering at nearby Albany Law School. The arch and lettering (at right) were designed as a small part of a major campus renovation in the late 1960s designed by the architect Robert Louis Trudeau, founder of Trudeau/Architects. Formerly called "Law School" the font and its new rail-less companion have been named to reflect their original designer.

The regular Trudeau font preserves the look of letters held between top and bottom rails. The font includes several pairs of brackets which cap the ends and create a sort of cartouche. The new Trudeau Sans has no rails, making the font much more flexible.

The complete version of each font includes caps, some alternates in the lowercase positions, numbers, limited punctuation, but no accented characters.

The TRUDEAU fonts are available for just $5. Download and try out the demo, which has some of each font. If you like it, send me $5 for the complete pair in your choice of TrueType or Type 1 for Windows or for Mac.

Download demo for Mac | Download demo for Windows

Too much information:

The name "sans" is misused intentionally. The font is not sans in the usual sense, as it retains its serifs. It's sans the connecting rails, of course.
I actually made an earlier version without the rails first, then added the rails. I lost the rail-less version (and a lot of other files) and didn't have the heart to recreate it at the time.
The photo above is taken from the back of the archway, then flipped, as it showed the sign better. That's Albany Medical Center in the background above, not the Law School.
The numbers are a new addition. I had inadvertently listed the font as including numbers; now it actually does, as well as a few other new and tweaked characters.
For missing letters and numbers, I looked at examples of decorative fonts with a similar historical feel.