A collection of traditional American patchwork quilt motifs in a decorative font package. Over 80 designs, to be used as free-standing illustrations, in borders, or as an overall pattern. Several designs will work together into a pattern.

African Patchwork was inspired by my observation that many traditional African patterns have strong similarities to the patterns of the American quilting tradition. I chose one of the patterns from the African Pattern Font 04 - Mali (based on traditional bogolan mud cloth designs) that reminded me of quilting patterns and superimposed it onto the Zim Black characters, to create a fusion of African and American design.

The hand lettering which inspired Matchbook JNL was used on an old matchbook from the Carrousel Restaurant in Miami Beach.

INSPIRED BY THE LOVERS OF LETTERS AND ANCIENT ANIMATED DRAWINGS: We present one of our most desired typographical tools of 2019: NUTCAKE CATCH-WORDS! Designed and produced by #carlosfabiancg and #a_freitez at different times and places in Venezuela and Colombia. Each word design was like “travel to the old school of hand lettering of 1930” due to the number of options and alternatives we discarded to solidify meticulous researches and Bezier drawings, based on analysis and synthesis of empty and full calligraphy, first done with a round brush and then perfected with pencil and paper. For this reason, each NUTCAKE CATCH-WORDS design contains a high dose of cursive expressiveness, apparently handwritten, and that is why our customers can take advantage of more than 160 words compiled in a single OTF file. NOTE: if you need any new word with the NUTCAKE CATCH-WORDS style, please write us and we will gladly design it to include it in your file. Below the list of 160 catch words: and, An, All, As, After, Ante, Avec, Break, Bright, Big, Back, Both, Best, Body, Butter, Breakfast, By, Bajo, Coffe, Café, Closet, Can, Cocktail, Cookies, Custom, Cabe, Con, Contra, Could, Crisp, Candy, City, Chocolate, Chocolat, Come, Del, Don't, Deliver, Desde, Di, Durante, Enjoy, Eat, Example, El, En, Entre, Front, Fire, Free, Fashion, For, Fresh, Friday, Family, Going, Great, Go, Heres, Here, Hand, Hacia, Hasta, Have, I'm, It’s, Imagine, It, Join, Just, Jam, Kitchen, Kiss, Know, Keep, Like, Life, Lady, La, Las, Les, Los, Le, Love, Money, More, Master, My, Mediante, Now, now, New, new, next, nuevo, nueva, Off, out, ofertas, oferta, offer, offers, Please, Para, Per, Page, Quality, Queen, Question, Valley, Queso, Right, Road, Save, See, Show, Something, So, Según, Sin, So, Sobre, Sale, Shop, Style, Styles, Sweet, Special, To, the, The, Theres, There, To, This, Three, They, That, Tras, Think, Time, Take, Transfer, Until, Vacation, Value, Vote, What, Hats, With, Welcome, Which, You, Y, You're, you, Zip, Zoom, Zombie.

Catchwords have always been offered alongside standard alphabets in wood type catalogs and so often appear on posters as a decorative punch that they have become part of the wood type vernacular. Words like 'The', 'And', 'To', 'For', and less common abbreviations could be inserted into a design along with decorative ornaments or stars when space was tight or to add variety in the design. HWT Catchwords features over 80 words based directly on designs offered by Hamilton and other wood type manufacturers of the 19th and early 20th Century.

For those designers looking for nothing more than a library of familiar catchwords and phrases re-drawn from vintage source material, look no further. Collected Catchwords JNL gathers up ninety-three of them, picked from the dingbat typeface library of Jeff Levine Fonts and placed into one convenient font file. "Free", "Sale", "As Advertised", "Dollar Days", "Look", "New" and dozens of other icons of print advertising are no more than a keystroke away.

Castor is a woodtype and letterpress hybrid based on grotesque letterforms. It’s a vintage decorative bold distressed display with 3 options for each letter; Uppercase, lowercase, and alternates. Castor comes complete with 4 styles plus catchwords, unique ‘catchword dividers’ (horizontal rules), ornaments, as well as a free set of extras! (grunge, dividers and bullets) The catchwords, ornaments, and dividers are designed to compliment the font family giving it a ton of diversity, and the designer unlimited creative options. Opentype features include alternate letters and numbers, double letter ligatures for realism, subscript numbers,and superscript numbers.

Gardo Grotesk is a bold condensed display typeface designed to make a strong impact. Armed with eye catching ligatures and catchwords, combined with its striking visual features, Gardo Grotesk grabs the attention of the reader effortlessly. Gardo Grotesk's Opentype Features include Standard and Discretionary Ligatures, Alternates, Catchwords (Contextual Alternates), Case Sensitive Forms, Fractions, Scientific Inferiors, Superscript and Tabular Figures.

Last year, we visited Brazil and we were totally captivated by its cheerful and warm people. Its wild nature is absolutely amazing and very noticeable in textile printing as well as in floral design. That was precisely what inspired us to create some ornaments and dingbats, which we then turned into a single typographic work. The resulting typeface was called Garden , a serif display handmade font with a playful and spontaneous feel. The Garden family offers a font with a set of original “catchwords” (‘Garden Catchwords’, based on brush calligraphy), floral dingbats and botanical ornaments. Please be aware, “Garden Catchwords” is a ‘Catchwords’ font, and does not offer standard AlphaNumeric characters. The OpenType version provides a wide range of creative options. Garden is well-suited for text composition, posters, headlines, label design and handmade-style items. Garden is inspiration, nature and joy!

Mid-century California was a magical place. Post-war optimism fueled the popularity of everything from Hollywood to roadside diners. Palm Canyon Drive is a monoline script inspired by retro matchbook covers, travel postcards, Tiki bars and Hollywood. With a classy yet unpretentious tone Palm Canyon Drive is as comfortable on a Tiki bar matchbook cover as it is on a Hollywood movie poster.

Signsurfer is a unique retro font - a signpainter font, handwritten by me. Inspired by the golden ages of handlettering, this script font highlights: - a bouncy baseline - tight spacing - and full Latin support --- Lots of really cool catchwords & shapes (you will get all the catchwords & shapes seen in the preview pics), five alternates and 37 ligatures help you to really get creative with this one. --- What you can use it for: - branding - logotype - poster - t-shirt designs - all kind of labels - greeting cards - wedding invitations ...and so much more --- This font also works great as a running text, too. = ) --- Process behind it: first I drew all of those fancy letters & catchwords with a brush on paper. I then carefully traced all of those letters & catchwords in Illustrator and transferred them into my Font Creator program. This helped getting the unique sign painters flow. --- Note: You will a need program that support OpenType Features for accessing the alternative glyphs.

Graduate Script is a contemporary calligraphic script. With over 825 glyphs Graduate Script can be dressed up or down, to enliven its style. You can add curls to beginning and end of any lowercase letter, or even in between them. Alternates for both upper and lowercase, as well as ligatures for double letters are included too. OpenType features such as five numeral styles, fractions and both standard and discretionary ligatures, make Graduate Script a well equipped font. Graduate Ornaments has over 300 glyphs and expands the design possibilities of Graduate Script even further. It offers additional ornaments and curls to add to lowercase letters, frames, automated borders that can be accessed by the keyboard and a lot more fun glyphs to work with. On top of that there are catchwords in different styles. Not finding the catchword you’re looking for? Just create your own! A full set of capitals, including roman accented caps, currency, numerals and punctuation is part of Graduate Ornaments. Designed to fit the same frames that are being used for the different catchword-styles, so you can easily integrate custom text with the existing catchwords. A detailed user guide is available in the gallery section.

The Raleigh Hotel at 18th Street and Collins Avenue on Miami Beach is an Art Deco landmark and part of the city's popular tourist district. A vintage matchbook from the hotel had its name hand lettered in what is now Beachfront Hotel JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions. The lower case letters have been made more traditional, eliminating the Deco-influenced "overhangs" present on the capital letters, and an alternate "E" from the original matchbook design is available on the bar and broken bar keys.

Inspired by an old matchbook which read: "Chop Suey: Finest Chinese and American Cooking". Chop Chop recreates that matchbook printed feel with soft rounded edges on what one would normally expect to be a sharp and pointy typeface. The typeface has two versions of each capital form, one in the capitals and one in the lowercase positions. The Contextual Alternates feature auto-magically swaps every other character with the alternative version allowing you to easily type you message, while creating a little diversity as well.

Religions are filled with signs and symbols. Some of them, like the the star of David and the Swastika-Rune received other significance during the third Reich. The superimposition of these two shapes creates the basis for this font. Matchwerk is a font, that critically questions and recalls the darkest chapter of our history.

Restaurant and Lounge is a casual, brush-style type face based on hand lettering found on a 1940s matchbook for the Park Avenue Restaurant (a popular dining spot during the golden years of Miami Beach).

Hannes von Döhren created Love Potion. Three fonts (Regular/Bold/Ornaments) that include extravagant Ligatures, Swash Letters, Catchwords, Arrows, Borders and other little specials. The hand drawn serif type family is intended to be used in applications like: Food, Clothes, Living, Wedding stationery or basically everywhere where love is in the air… Love Potion is equipped for professional typography. As an exclusively OpenType release, these fonts have an extended character set to support Central and Eastern European as well as Western European languages. In addition to that the fonts contain Standard ligatures, Swash Letters, Catchwords, Arrows, Borders and much more.

Handy Casual Condensed is an informal non-linking brush script that was inspired by hand lettering from 60's posters. This font combines a unique character with tons of Open Type features including ligatures, catchwords, stylistic alternates etc.

Cartoon cuts, sales builders, catchwords, mortised cuts, decorative embellishments and stock art are what comprise the images found within Typesetter Treasures JNL. Redrawn from vintage sources, these nostalgic illustrations add warmth and charm to any print or web project.

Explorer - a classy typeface collection. Explorer collection includes following: • 8 Fonts - a clean and textured version of each • Catchwords • Swooshes • Pictures Explorer’s core is a strong script type with straight edges. All the fonts are designed to work nice together. Here’s a short introduction to the styles: •Explorer Script is equipped with Contextual Alternates that make the connections between letters smooth. In addition it has Swash, Stylistic and Titling Alternates for standard characters for more customised look. Explorer Script has three weights. •Explorer Sans is a wide all caps sans-serif that doesn’t shy away from taking it’s own space. Explorer Sans has two weights. •Explorer Condensed is a sturdy all caps condensed sans-serif with rounded edges. Explorer Condensed has two weights. •Explorer Serif is a bulky all caps serif. •Explorer Swoosh is a collection of strokes and swooshes designed to go with the Script. Try adding a connecting one in the end of a word written with Script or place a loose swoosh above or below a word. •Explorer Catchword is a collection of catchwords designed to go with Explorer fonts.

Introducing Russell - An organic and expressive handwritten brush script font designed for versatility. It's legible; making it perfect for product packaging, editorial work, and poster design, and it oozes personality; great for branding, invitations, and more. This font packs a real punch with super duper textures and a ton of useful extras (that line is certainly getting copyrighted!) including custom catchwords, ink splatters, underlining brush strokes, and italics! Take a look below to see everything that's included. ---------------------- What's Inside? ---------------------- - Russell: The original Russell script font boasting a full glyph range with multilingual support. - Russell Alternative: An entirely new font with slightly different lowercase and uppercase letters - perfect for improving the handwritten aesthetic. - Russell Extras: A font full of useful extras (Swashes, strokes, and splatters) that look great with the Russell fonts. Simply select the 'Russell Extras' font and start typing. - Russell Catchwords: Just like the extras above, this font is packed with 23 bonus custom catchwords that beautifully complement the family. - Russell & Russell Alternative Italic: Both Russell and Russell Alternative have italic options included, opening up more design possibilities.

Flinton is a basic Vintage Serif Display Font. Flinton Font Family consists of 3 types of letters that have several variants into 14 font style, Include Regular Serif, Bold Serif & Script Demo and Catchwords & Illustrations for extras. This font is suitable for types of designs that have elements of Vintage Concepts, such as logotypes, posters, merchandise designs, etc. And this font has an opentype feature, also supported for several languages, Which consists of several styles: Clean Outline Roughen Texture Slant Texture Slant Script Demo Catchwords what is included in this font are as follows: Opentype Feature Multilanguage Support Numeral Sepparators Math Symbol More 1000 Count Glyphs I hope you enjoy using this Flinton Font Thanks For Support

A geometric-ish font family that's a bit off-kilter, offering three families: Regular, Rounded and Hatch as well as the bonus Noise, catchwords and dingbats for some occasions. Each font comes in Light, Regular and Bold styles. Complete latin character set with a range of ligatures.

Scruff was designed by Timothy Donaldson in 1995. This cheerful, laid-back font is made out of a variety of different fragments - stripes, dots, zigzags and more, giving each character its own identity. When brought together into words and sentences, the figures create a playful chaos like that of a patchwork quilt. To bring out its individual details, Scruff is best used in headlines in larger point sizes or as initials.

Catrina, designed by Eli Hernández, is an expressive typeface whose curves and straight lines meet each other in harmonious synchrony. Catrina comes in 6 weights, ranging from Thin to Black, plus a Handmade version and includes Dingbats and Catchwords which make it the perfect choice for packaging, branding, titles and advertising.

These charming little cartoon figures, known in the trade as "midgets", added a little extra oomph to everything from business cards to matchbook covers from the 1920s to the 1950s. Each font contains 52 different cuts, ready and waiting to spice up your layouts, and each carefully hand drawn from authentic historical sources.

Truens is a vintage display typeface. It's an all uppercase serif font collection with a Script font that was inspired by the look and feel of old serifs. Truens features include badges, ornaments, catchwords, and Multiple Language Support. This fonts is very versatile, all the styles work well together and can look authentically vintage.

Afferiants is pairing authentic font collection. Thats already match up and to be use together. Afferiant support ligatures and alternates character to make everything awesome design. This Collection best use for vintage or modern design, logo, poster, advertising, branding, invitation, postcard, and more. The extras include badge, catchword and ribbon. Its make you more easier to combine.

Introducing, Harsey Type Toolbox. One of our best-designed product that we ever created. This product consist of many styles such as script, sans, serif, and also includes dingbats, catchwords and badges all comes in font format. What makes this product even more special is you can use and combine all these fonts perfectly matched altogether.

A vintage look layered label font named "Quick or Dead". This font was inspired by American wild west history. The family includes six styles (including effect styles), for sample look at preview. This font will good viewed on any retro design like poster, t-shirt, label, logo etc. For using effects layers: - Type your text in Regular. - Copy that and paste at the same position. - Change the style to Shadow or Texture. Alternates and catchwords: - Capital letters are different than small (look to the preview). - Several small letters have alternates (look to the preview). - For the catchwords type the word (for sample 'with'), select that and turn on 'Discretionary Ligatures' on the 'OpenType' tab. Or paste it from 'Glyphs' tab in any place on your text. This in Illustrator. In Photoshop 'Discretionary Ligatures' you can find in the menu Type - OpenType.

Letterpress Studio -Crafted Vintage Goods Letterpress Studio includes following • 7 fonts - a textured and clean version of each • Ornaments • Catchwords • 25 Logo Templates Letterpress Studios core is seven fonts - textured and clean version of each. Fonts are designed in same proportions and work great together. Here’s a short introduction to the fonts: • Letterpress Script -A connected script with lot’s of OpenType features • Letterpress Script Bold -Bold version of Letterpress Script • Letterpress Condensed -A condensed sans-serif typeface with swash uppercase characters on • Letterpress Gothic -A sans-serif typeface with swash uppercase characters • Letterpress Sans -An extended sans-serif typeface with swash uppercase characters • Letterpress Wood -A woodcut style serif typeface with swash uppercase characters • Letterpress Black -A black woodcut style serif typeface with swash uppercase characters • Letterpress Ornaments -A set of pictograms, ornaments, borders and badges (OTF, AI & PDF) • Letterpress Catchwords -A set of over 100 woodcut-style catchwords (OTF, AI & PDF) All fonts have West European, Central European, Baltic, Turkish and Romanian character sets. Fonts come in OTF format. TTF are also available but OpenType features won’t work with them. Letterpress Templates -25 templates (AI) Letterpress Templates is a set of 25 ready made compositions with font pairings, shapes, ornaments and ready made 2-4 color schemes for each. Templates can be used as such or as a starting point for your own project. Download Letterpress Templates here.

Frederick Cody, as known as Buffalo Bill, and his renowned travelling Western Circus are now celebrated through the creation of the Buffalo Circus and the Buffalo Western type fonts, both developed quite in the spirit of the stirring wood type fonts from the 19th century. All characters are fully hand traced and vectorized and provided with appealing glyphs and cool catchwords.

Geiny, is a modern display typeface with flared serif and horizontal emphasis as its characteristics. alternative styles with curved crossbar, curved tails, and catchwords when you activate Discretionary Ligatures to create interesting typography composition. Features 296 glyphs Stylistic Alternate & Discretionary Ligatures Accented characters Multiple Languages Supported : Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese, Spanisch, Swedish, Zulu

Likely is a joyful, brush script type family with complementary sans and extras styles. Hand drawn freely but carefully, each font is designed to work together to present a vibrant and natural package. Layer and colorize the free Counter styles to easily enhance the color palette or use the over 170 matching catchwords and shapes to make your designs even more fun!

Frederick Cody, as known as Buffalo Bill, and his renowned travelling Western Circus are now celebrated through the creation of the Buffalo Circus and the Buffalo Western type fonts, both developed quite in the spirit of the stirring wood type fonts from the 19th century. All characters are fully hand traced and vectorized and provided with appealing glyphs and cool catchwords.

Introducing a vintage look label font named "Whisky Trail". All available characters you can see at the screenshot. This font have 7 styles - Regular, Full, Shadow, Light, Shadow FX, Light FX and Print. This font will good viewed on any retro design like poster, t-shirt, label, logo etc. For using effect layer: Type your text in Regular. Copy that and paste at the same position. Change the style to Light FX or Shadow FX. After that you can choose different colors for Regular font and Shadow or Light effects. For the catchwords type the word with space before and after word (for sample ' with ', or ' with2 ' for alternate view of catchword), 'Discretionary Ligatures' on the 'OpenType' tab must be turned on. Or paste it from 'Glyphs' tab in any place on your text. This in Illustrator. In Photoshop 'Discretionary Ligatures' you can find in the menu Type - OpenType. Thank you!

Newcastle gives you great opportunities for spicy typography. If you find some similarities to one of our fonts, ‘Blitzplakat’, you are right. We took it to the next level and made it even better: We extended the range of letters, added optional catchwords, extra shapes, shadows, dust and arrows. Here is a lead to get the most out of Newcastle: Use ‘Discretionary Ligatures’ in the OpenType section of your layout program of choice to turn frequent short words like ‘and’, ‘of’ or ‘from’ into catchwords. Choose ‘Styleformat 01’ to make them vertical. Keep ‘Contextual Alternates’ activated to make consecutive letters look more realistic (the second letter will be replaced automatically by a slightly different looking version). Want to roughen the look of your design even more? Add the dust hidden in the ‘Extras’ style by typing underscore, emdash, endash or hyphen. This font is vintage fun - let’s party!

If you need a simple way to get hand written / drawing style graphics – VVDS The BIMBO Collection is for you. Absolutely hand drawn lettering style collection gives you many styles for your graphic projects. Easy way to give your poster, or gift cards, or gift paper or something else a hand touch for really short time. 25 typefaces, 248 hand drawn graphics and 124 catchwords.