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Texas Hero Font Download

Texas Hero was designed by Brian Willson and published by Three Islands Press. Texas Hero contains 1 style.  

It occurred to me years ago that the graphic arts community might find useful a digital typeface that mimicked the classic look of nineteenth-century handwriting.

Conveniently, my mother then still volunteered at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, my hometown. She made copies of the letters of a few famous Texans — Houston, Austin, Travis, Burnet, Rusk. Thomas J. Rusk’s penmanship caught my eye as the most accessible of the bunch. I hadn’t realized at the time what a challenge it’d be to render a realistic-looking script face, but the result has, in fact, filled a niche.