Eagle Font

Font Bureau developed Eagle for Publish magazine starting in 1989, drawing on Morris Fuller Benton’s 1933 Eagle Bold for the National Recovery Administration. David Berlow supplied a lowercase and expanded character set, then added Book in 1990. Jonathan Corum contributed Light and Black in 1994.

Read the publisher’s family page for the source account and the edition currently offered. Keep a family name distinct from its particular release, width or optical branch.

The published series contains Light, Book, Bold and Black. Its history combines an earlier titling design with later lowercase and text-oriented development. Eagle and Eagle Lake are different family names; inspect the correct specimen before selecting files.

Use the original publisher specimen to inspect those features. An alternative can share a broad role without having the same letter shapes, metrics or character coverage.

Compare a short uppercase magazine heading with a mixed-case introduction. Inspect the counters and spacing in both, rather than judging the family from an isolated capital. Compare Book and Bold at the intended output size.

For independent comparisons, try Josefin Sans and Montserrat. Use the same wording and approximate output size. The related style guide provides broader design context.

Use Font Bureau to try the original and investigate the files, styles and terms for your intended workflow. This site does not distribute or serve Eagle font software.

The editable alternatives here have their own source profiles and included licenses. For the difference between a font file and copied characters, read Unicode text versus fonts.