The idea of a brand-new grotesk is certainly rather foolish – there are already lots of these typefaces in the world and, quite simply, nothing is more beautiful than the original Gill. The sans-serif chapter of typography is now closed by hundreds of technically perfect imitations of Syntax and Frutiger, which are, however, for the most part based on the cool din-aesthetics. The only chance, when looking for inspiration, is to go very far... A grotesk does not afford such a variety as a serif typeface, it is dull and can soon tire the eye. This is why books are not set in sans serif faces. A grotesk is, however, always welcome for expressing different degrees of emphasis, for headings, marginal notes, captions, registers, in short for any service accompaniment of a book, including its titlings. We also often come across a text in which we want to distinguish the individual speaking or writing persons by the use of different typefaces. The condition is that such grotesk should blend in perfectly with the proportions, colour and above all with the expression of the basic, serif typeface. In the area of non-fiction typography, what we appreciate in sans-serif typefaces is that they are clamorous in inscriptions and economic in the setting. John Sans is to be a modest servant and at the same time an original loudspeaker; it wishes to inhabit libraries of educated persons and to shout from billboards. A year ago we completed the transcription of the typefaces of John Baskerville, whose heritage still stands out vividly in our memory. Baskerville cleverly incorporated certain constructional elements in the design of the individual letters of his typeface. These elements include above all the alternation of softand sharp stroke endings. The frequency of these endings in the text and their rhythm produce a balanced impression. The anchoring of the letters on the surface varies and they do not look monotonous when they are read. We attempted to use these tricks also in the creation of a sans-serif typeface. Except that, if we wished to create a genuine “Baroque grotesk”, all the decorativeness of the original would have to be repeated, which would result in a parody. On the contrary, to achieve a mere contrast with the soft Baskerville it is sufficient to choose any other hard grotesk and not to take a great deal of time over designing a new one. Between these two extremes, we chose a path starting with the construction of an almost monolinear skeleton, to which the elements of Baskerville were carefully attached. After many tests of the text, however, some of the flourishes had to be removed again. Anything that is superfluous or ornamental is against the substance of a grotesk typeface. The monolinear character can be impinged upon in those places where any consistency would become a burden. The fine shading and softening is for the benefit of both legibility and aesthetics. The more marked incisions of all crotches are a characteristic feature of this typeface, especially in the bold designs. The colour of the Text, Medium and Bold designs is commensurate with their serif counterparts. The White and X-Black designs already exceed the framework of book graphics and are suitable for use in advertisements and magazines. The original concept of the italics copying faithfully Baskerville’s morphology turned out to be a blind alley. This design would restrict the independent use of the grotesk typeface. We, therefore, began to model the new italics only after the completion of the upright designs. The features which these new italics and Baskerville have in common are the angle of the slope and the softened sloped strokes of the lower case letters. There are also certain reminiscences in the details (K, k). More complicated are the signs & and @, in the case of which regard is paid to distinguishing, in the design, the upright, sloped @ small caps forms. The one-storey lower-case g and the absence of a descender in the lower-case f contributes to the open and simple expression of the design. Also the inclusion of non-aligning figures in the basic designs and of aligning figures in small caps serves the purpose of harmonization of the sans-serif families with the serif families. Non-aligning figures link up better with lower-case letters in the text. If John Sans looks like many other modern typefaces, it is just as well. It certainly is not to the detriment of a Latin typeface as a means of communication, if different typographers in different places of the world arrive in different ways at a similar result.

Mezzotint CF is a daring and playful display typeface perfect for logotypes, posters, and editorial use. High-contrast strokes, flared serifs, aqueous connections, and inky terminals give Mezzotint CF its striking and rakish personality. Includes roman and italic sets across a single bold weight, with wide language support, optional ligatures, OpenType alternates, and more. Mezzotint CF pairs well with a contrasting, simple geometric sans-serif like Greycliff CF; for maximum effect, try a large difference in typeface size between the two. All typefaces from Connary Fagen include free updates, including new features, and free technical support.

Franklin Stone is a organic hand drawn typeface inspired by vintage type with hand drawn feel. Comes with regular, condensed and stamp. This typefaces is perfect for people looking for vintage aesthetic. Suitable for any graphic designs such as branding materials, t-shirt, print, logo, poster, t-shirt, quotes .etc You may not use the fonts in templates or for sale/free or on template websites. ( web/print/app ) We hope you enjoy the font, please feel free to comment if you have any thoughts or feedback. Thanks for purchasing and have fun! Regards, Ironbird Creative

Airy and delicate, Cerulya CF is a striking display typeface brimming with movement and grace. A unique semi-serif design with rounded teardrop terminals, Cerulya CF shines brightest at large sizes – perfect for logos, posters, headlines, and more. Includes five weights, roman and italic sets, and a selection of optional ligatures, swashes, and alternates. Cerulya CF pairs well with a contrasting, simple geometric sans-serif like Greycliff CF; for maximum effect, try a large difference in typeface size between the two. All typefaces from Connary Fagen include free updates, including new features, and free technical support.

Build your own board game! This unique font contains lots of bits and pieces to put together your very own custom board game. Print the backgrounds large on cardstock and use the blank die outline to createa custom die! This is a great creativity builder for kids – let them create their own game with their own rules! Alisha Peare of The Bubbly Blonde has come up with a great free synonym/antonym game to showcase some of the ways you can use this font. Download her excellent game for free here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Lost-Leprechaun-AntonymSynonym-Game-Board-FREEBIE

Ellograph® CF is a charming monospaced font family with easy readability and striking cursive italics. A generous x-height and short descenders allow for even, organized lines of text. Beautiful as a coding font and in logos, headlines, and text. With its clean construction and expressive italics, Ellograph® CF stands as a versatile font family on its own. It also pairs well with a wide array of typefaces – contrasting Ellograph with a serif like Artifex CF or Wayfinder CF is effective and beautiful. All typefaces from Connary Fagen include free updates, including new features, and free technical support.

Jugendstil Flowers are a collection of dingbats fonts with ornaments, leitmotivs and fleurons, free inspired in the visual style from the golden age of the Art-Nouveau graphic movement. A beautiful work with and organic forms and sensibility with the taste of the vegetal world, by Chyrllene K, who brings you a extra gift : Buying the three fonts (family pack) you get a special free bonus: the Victorian Advertising EPS PACK with ten amazing artworks (in eps) inspired in the Victorian ages magazine advertisings (see the banners). See all the glyphs from Jugendstil Flowers in the pdf brochure at the gallery section.

Be a Star font brings the universe into your creative designs. Use this font for posters, vinyl creations, logos, t-shirts, and many more projects. It’s written in the stars to make your design unique and fun! Use glow-in-the-dark vinyl or paper to make these letters stand out- of this world. There are 286 glyphs. These include upper and lower case letters, numbers, punctuation glyphs, latin extension, constellations, astrology signs, and letter alternates for upper case letters.

Figuera Variable is inspired by Victorian style serif typefaces. With a different width and weight you can make your design more fluid using only a single font family. These new fonts come with a new feature allowing you to create a variable widths and weights without using additional fonts. There are some limitations on the use of the new variable features because of the software compatibility, and currently requires Adobe CC 2018 or later. Creating webfonts using these variables is a fantastic feature.

BlusterLeft and BlusterRight are distortions of the font ConcavexCaps. Both are caps only, but some of the shapes on the lower-case keys differ from the corresponding shapes on the upper-case keys. They family was named Bluster because I thought they have a wind-blown, flopping-in-the-breeze look. Others may see them as spooky or eerie, something that could be used for Halloween.

The two great technical constraints a type designer can tackle are low resolution, which limits detail and dictates proportions between negative and positive shapes, and uniform width, which restricts each letter to a fixed horizontal space. Wrestle with both at once, and each letter becomes a black-and-white chessboard that challenges every design decision. Sometimes battling these constraints gets in the way of a good idea, but other times, tinkering with fewer options can make the job irresistibly easy and lead straight to a grid addiction. Gridlite, an experiment with a modular negative space, is the side effect of such an addiction. It’s simplified, monospaced, and variable: foreground and background alike are ready to be animated, typed, scaled up, scaled down, rounded, or otherwise deformed. Gridlite is primarily a variable font with axes that control the size of the elements, their shape, and the background (one for the rectangular field and one for the compact envelope around the letters). The fonts cover Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin scripts. Small caps are included, for no apparent reason ... and there is a monospaced elephant, too.

State Machine is a display typeface inspired by lettering applied to American and Russian Cold War-era military vehicles. It also features an alternate character set inspired by 1970s hand-made political banners. The name State Machine is a term found in both political theory and computer programming. The theoretical definition describes the political and bureaucratic organisation of a state as well as the repressive state apparatuses such as the military and police. Max Weber describes the state as "a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory". In computer programming, a state machine is a mathematical model of computation used to design computer programs. It is conceived as an abstract machine that is in one of a finite number of states. It can change from one state to another when initiated by a triggering event or condition. Taken at a wider conceptual level, when these two definition are combined the meaning becomes analogous to a tool (such as a philosophical idea) with which to transform a society.

The Dickens's Fairytale – it's a new chapter of VVDS products - The collections of fancy display fonts which will include many typefaces that will be perfectly combined not only with each other, but also with other collections of this series. As a result, you will get a large collection of beautiful fonts and graphics that will help you create beautiful designs without having to look for anything else. All these collections are inspired by classic books design of XIX and XX centuries like Franklin's Library Classic Collection and modern publishing houses like Barnes & Nobel Collectible Editions. This collection is the first one and including 12 font files. The Serif presented in two styles - cutted and normal. The cutted style has two weights - Regular and Bold. Also, there are two types of shadows - block and offset. Plus decor for cutted serif. The cherry on top - curly calligraphic Script with Swirl calligraphy elements for decoration. The both of types has many Open Type Features as Oldstyle Figures, Fractions, Stylistic Alternates and ending lowercase letters for script. • OTF & WEB • Multilingual

Doing your design work in magical way? Yes, please. With Against Perfection you can boost your design performance to the max. Against Perfection is a brush script font combined with a pleasing serif font. This pairing of script and serif offers just enough sensuous curves for appealing design result. Together, these complementary fonts convey modern and elegant looks. The swoosh and brush style details make the whole word look custom-designed. On the other hand, the serif font has a nice, solid weightiness combined with smoothed-off shoulders. Further more, this font has fascinating features that helps you maximize your design. Features: Alternates Ligatures Stylistic Sets Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation It is perfect to be used for many design projects, such as poster, logo, book cover, branding, heading, printed product, merchandise, quotes, social media campaign, etc. Learn more about how to use it by seeing the font preview. Thank you for purchasing our fonts. Please don’t hesitate to contact us, if you have any further question or issues. We’re happy to help. Happy Designing.

Cinzeled Victorian Alphabets is a bold and imposing display font. Add it to your creative ideas and notice how it makes them stand out! Letters crafted to obtain the cinzeled style from the press works from XVIII and XIX centurys.

Columna is an all-caps, Classical Roman-inspired typeface designed by the renowned Swiss typographer Max Caflisch (interesting fact: Columna is Caflisch's only typeface). Caflisch's Columna adds a stately elegance to any application, and is best used in large sizes.

Kaufmann is a joining script designed for American Type Founders by Max R Kaufmann, a letterer, typographer and art director of McCalls magazine. Monotone in weight and with short descenders, the Kaufmann font family is useful for advertising and display work.

Seleniak's outlines are based on the logo of the eponymous MSX video game, also created by its designer. Thus, all ratios are multiples of the typical 8x8 px video character unit, giving the typeface a characteristic appearance and interesting fitting properties.

Sarcastic is a monoline display typeface. It draws influence from a visual language of mid-twentieth century consumerism: 1950s script typography and the rhythmic forms of interconnected neon lettering. Sarcastic is perfect for contemptuous quips, disparaging proclamations, and castigating commentary.

Aventura is burlesquely round, stylishly seductive, eternally sugar-fixed, and loving to a fault. Plenty of stylistic alternates are included to heighten the mood or soften it. Either way you look at it, there's a lot of love in the air.

Black Bear is a stylish angled monoline font family of twelve styles in six weights. Each font is fully loaded with OpenType stylistic and titling alternates to give the fonts a different feel and help with optics for smaller point sizes.

In the days of wood type, suppliers offered words such as 'and', 'at', 'for', 'each' and numerous others as stock cuts called "catch words". This collection of twenty-six were re-drawn using a vintage type catalog page as a model.

Oksana Sans Condensed is designed for tight-fitting text. It has six weights from Thin to Heavy. Supports Western, Central, Baltic Latin and European Cyrillic codepages. Old-style digits, some ligatures, alternative characters and Ukrainian hryvnia sign are also included.

Introducing a vintage look layered label typeface named "Vintage Whiskey". This typeface includes six styles (including effect styles), for sample look at 4th preview. This font will good viewed on any retro design like poster, t-shirt, label, logo etc.

PORTAGE is a slab serif that carries its own weight. Adventurous and rugged, this typeface that evokes the wild country and makes headlines stand out. The typeface was built from a land and forest journal from the mid-50's.

Links was built adhering to a strict grid of 'linked' squares; and comes with special "Grid Glyphs" that line up perfectly with all characters. These Grid Glyphs can be used to create an invisible grid for your layout or as a background to enhance your design. Perfect for posters, logos and headlines, this font is available in four styles; Round and Square with accompanying obliques. This font was inspired by much of the lettering from the Dutch movement, or Functionalism which in turn was a descendant of the International Style pioneered by the Swiss. In keeping with these traditions, Links was build adhering to a strict grid of linked squares, taking a clear scientific approach to construct each character. One of the main features of International Style is the implementation of a Grid. This font has built in special characters that I call 'Grid Glyphs'; these Grid Glyphs line up perfectly with every character, enabling you to construct your own grid that echoes the form of the characters. These glyphs can also be used to create a background for your layout, as can be seen in the gallery pictures.

As comic book readers know all too well, team ups are every super hero’s bread and butter... when the brave and the bold are in a pickle, and super villains are running onion rings around them, here’s how they roll: They Meat! They Team-Up with your taste buds! They Fight Hunger! Our original Hero Sandwich font has become a go-to for video game and app graphics, due to its easy readability and friendly demeanor. The new Pro version adds nine weights from Thin to Heavy, with matching italics, plus a versatile Variable Font to dial in your preferred combination of weight and italic slant. Each weight includes four numbering options and support for 222 languages, including Cyrillics. So take a footlong bite out of crime, and make the subways safe again with our mouthwatering Hero Sandwich! Prepared with care and plastic gloves by those awfully nice chaps at the Comicraft deli.