Download Chopper Font Family
family of 4 fonts from Canada Type
In 1972, VGC released two typefaces by designer friends Dick Jensen and Harry Villhardt. Jensens was called Serpentine, and Villhardts was called Venture. Even though both faces had the same elements and a somewhat similar construct, one of them became very popular and chased the other away from the spotlight. Serpentine went on to become the James Bond font, the Pepsi and every other soda pop font, the everything font, all the way through the glories of digital lala-land where it was hacked, imitated and overused by hundreds of designers. But the only advantage it really had over Venture was being a 4-style family, including the bold italic that made it all the rage, as opposed to Ventures lone upright style. One must wonder how differently things would have played if a Venture Italic was around back then.
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