Paradiso Typeface :: A Playful Alphabet

According to Myfonts.com's newsletter: Brian J. Bonislawsky’s successful script font Montelago was based on a logo from one of Las Vegas’ casino hotels. On a stroll across his home town, the Vegas-based, self-proclaimed “Professor of Fontology” found a similar source of inspiration in the Paris Resort and Casino. Its logo has a high “ooh-la-la” factor, with a capital P that is decidedly lustful. Taking his cues from just that one cap and four lowercase letters, Bonislawsky drew a lively, frisky alphabet with huge initial capitals. Paradiso is great for packaging, book covers and magazine headlines.

THIS FONT WOULD BE GOOD TO USE IN:

• Surf related endeavors; clothing brands, surf boars and gear, store signage


• Cosmetics aimed at youth; blush, eyeshadow, creams


• Comic Books or Childrens toys: hoola hoops, building blocks, hero cartoons
  

It's a fun font, isn't it. Almost goofy. But goofy in a kinda nice way. You can't always use this - it's a display font, but once in a while this is the flavor you want to give.

Buy at Myfonts: Paradiso

ABOUT THE FOUNDRY (according to myfonts.com):
(Which by the way, has a few free typefaces on their website for both PC and MAC)
Biography: In 1873, the strange and fantastic story began. Nearly two centuries later, Brian J. Bonislawsky was born, and carrying on a mix of the the footsteps his ancestors before him took, he picked up the the traditions and founded the Astigmatic One Eye Foundry, which later expanded to become the Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute. (For more of the background story, see the Historical Perspective link below.)

Since its founding Astigmatic has worked with dozens of designers, helping them forge their own foundries as well as helping to increase the quality of type created by Astigmatic and these other foundries. Astigmatic strives to continually increase its range of typographic scope; taking on expeditions to revive old typestyles, unearth long lost typefaces, forge new styles yet unseen, and begin to develop more comprehensive language typestyles of the WGL4 set size which includes Greek and Cyrillic extensions.

If you are looking for a wide variety of typographic influence and style, the Astigmatic One Eye Institute is your source for type.