Blue Ridge Parkway

Blue Ridge Parkway typography poster of the tunnel with headlights

The Blue Ridge Parkway is America's longest linear park and runs along the spine of the Blue Ridge mountains for 469 miles through Virginia and North Carolina, linking Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The road travels over 168 bridges, passes through 26 tunnels (25 of which are in north Carolina), and has many overlooks and scenic areas.

Blue Ridge Parkway tunnel with headlights

Ranger Naturalist Font

Check out my new font called Ranger Naturalist—an all-caps typeface inspired by the hand-lettered WPA federal arts project promoting national parks in the late 1930’s. This font adds a modern twist to the nuance and perfect imperfections seen in those iconic prints. Stretch, squish, and squeeze—this font is meant to be adjusted using brute force to fit any space. All the corners and curves are fine tuned to help keep the hand lettered feel even when stretched to nearly 200%, and it contains a reckless number of ligatures to give text a natural look.

Ranger Naturalist font animated headline
Ranger Naturalist font characters
Ranger Naturalist font numbers and punctuation
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Ranger Naturalist font ligatures and more

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