Benjamin Melville is a designer and typographer based in the south of England. With a solid background in graphic and UX design, web design, art editing, and print design, Benjamin has a broad range of experience to call upon when it comes to designing fonts.
Type design began as little more than a hobby, eventually growing into a side business. Releasing his type designs and design assets under the Graphics Bam label, Benjamin gravitates toward designs that are unique and unexpected, with an “emphasis on fun.” To that end, he focuses on handwritten designs, display fonts, and dingbat packs that give graphic designers one-of-a-kind type designs to work with.
One of Benjamin’s quirkier type designs is Acient Future, an “ancient typeface from the future.” This display type design is a fun and funky rendition for “wannabe Indiana Jones types and history buffs with an eye for a good design.”
Acient Future is a playful character set that features hieroglyphic-like letterforms that bend and twist as though they’ve traveled through time via a wormhole, creating an abstract medley of glyphs that are bouncy yet legible. This type design is not meant for long-form blocks of text. Instead, Acient Future is best displayed as a focal point in signage, logos, product packaging, merchandise, apparel, website banners and buttons, posters, book covers, album artwork, and any design project that needs a syncopated letter set to take center stage.
Offering 81 glyphs, Acient Future offers a full upper and lowercase alphabet, numerals 0-9, and some punctuation and special characters.
Right now through April 30, 2020, Acient Future is on sale for 65% off of its regular price so it’s a great time to add this one to your font collection!
Graphics Bam currently offers more than 175 products through YouWorkForThem, providing a wide range of type designs, glyph packs, dingbat packs, and other graphic design assets. Visit Benjamin’s portfolio to take a look at the rest of his work and bookmark it so you can check back for new additions in the future!
