Netra Slab is a minimalist and modern font. Having 9 thicknesses from Thin to Black will provide an easy choice as needed. With 390+ characters it can support more than 30 languages. If you want typography that looks smooth then choose the Rounded version. This font is suitable for writing general text, titles, even for brand logos.

Tact is a geometrically sans serif font, black and condensed looking glyphs, with an alternative glyph set to improve its use in different graphic contexts. It is suitable for use in the fields of science, art, architecture, urban planning, techniques, electronics, advertising, futuristic themes, sport, film, computers, phones, video games, magazines... Contains all Latin and Cyrillic glyphs.

Brighting Lovelyta is a magical script font carefully created with a touch of elegance. Whether you’re looking for fonts for Instagram or calligraphy scripts for DIY projects, this font will turn any creative idea into a true piece of art! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

The Saily feels equally charming and elegant. This stunning script font is a stylish homage to classic calligraphy. It features a varying baseline, smooth lines, gorgeous glyphs and stunning alternates. Fall in love with its authentic feel and use it to create gorgeous wedding invitations, beautiful stationary art, eye-catching social media posts, and cute greeting cards.

Tyrium is the font pack. The Normal font combines with the alternate character font to make each word unique. Then add the Splatters font as your tagline and — the ideal logo! What's included: - .TTF and .OTF files - Opentype features. - Splatters combines perfectly with Tyrium to create cool typography or logo design. - A range of multilingual support.

Norton is a full character set based on the five letters in the famous Norton Motorcycles logo. K-Type has attempted to remain true to the spirit of the original identity, whilst updating the face, particularly the upper case, to sit more comfortably in contemporary usage. Thanks to Paul Lloyd for the influence of his typeface, Duvall.

Alderwood | A Condensed Hand Drawn Typeface: Alderwood is a hand drawn condensed typeface that comes in multiple styles / weights. Get it in regular, stamp, outlined with oblique versions of each. The subtle imperfection of hand drawn type adds character to projects that require a more grassroots vintage aesthetic. What's Included? → 6 Fonts Files → Western European Characters Included → Web Fonts

Hand lettering found across the sheet music cover of 1931's "Bend Down, Sister" [from the Eddie Cantor film "Palmy Days"] covered a couple of varying Art Deco styles; both made with a round-tipped pen nib. Deco Pen JNL combines the best of both styles into one design that's available in both regular and oblique versions.

Slightly blurred, and handwritten - looks good with massive text. With ligatures for both upper- and lowercase double letters, and alternate letters, also for upper- and lowercase, it makes your text look soooo smooth! Oh, I almost forgot: Nusqie also comes with ligatures for double numbers! You will need to use OpenType supporting applications to use the autoligatures.

I come from a family of educators- my mom, husband, stepmom, brother-in-law, and sister are all currently teaching and I have taught in the past. This font was created after speaking to several elementary school teachers who were struggling to find just the right font to use on worksheets and projects in their classroom. They liked many features of other fonts, but needed small things altered in order to make a "perfect fit" for their class. Hand-drawn by me, this font hopefully addresses several of those issues. As penmanship styles vary across the globe, I am sure this font will not work in every classroom. But hopefully this style will work for many teachers to give their early readers a highly legible, neat, accurate font. It is best used with kerning turned on to allow for accurate letter spacing.

Schlange is a rich typeface with rounded terminals. The family includes five sans serifs and five slab serifs in weights from ultra light to bold. Schlange’s personality is determined by an open aperture and quite large lower case characters in comparison with the upper case set. Schlange’s personality is open and friendly, giving a text it’s used for a soft, warm appeal. Schlange will work well as a display type (think titles, short magazine call-outs, ad banners, and such), but it’s not a good choice for extensive bodies of academic text. Available in numerous weights, the typeface provides rich opportunities for mixing and matching and is great for typographic compositions. These qualities make Schlange a dream type for a packaging designer. It will feel at home in design for cosmetics or sweets, postcards, children’s books and menus.

Mezalia is a one of a kind typeface. Its shapes were strongly influenced by bastarda scripts of high medieval times. Unlike most fonts sharing similar origin, Mezalia is not just another blackletter but a fully functional text typeface, blending medieval poise and character with modern sensibilities. Stroke widths, imitating a broad nibbed pen of a scribe, fluctuate constantly giving paragraphs a characteristic vibrating texture. Despite it's strong character Mezalia is very legible and will be an excellent choice for a book or an elegant magazine. Mezalia has two distinct styles: straight and cursive (true italic if you will, although the word is not really correct here), which come in seven weights, from thin to black. Each weight contains a set of old-style figures, lining figures, small caps and ligatures. A separate style containing drop-cap initials is also available.

Smooth and shapely without a trace of fat. A seductively handsome devil without the attitude. This typeface wears a tie at the office, but keeps a pair of sneakers and a beach volleyball in the car. Ely Rounded is a family of four weights plus matching italics (with more on the way). Each weight includes extended language support for European, Cyrillic and Greek. OpenType features include fractions, tabular and proportional figures plus a few ligatures thrown in for good measure. This is a typeface that works well from text sizes to billboards, and is equally at home in print or on the web. Future updates of purchased fonts are, of course, free. Buy the full set and receive yet-to-be-released weights at no charge — even as the price of that growing full package increases.

Introducing the Digofa sanserif font. is an aesthetic font, which in its use has a natural beauty and has a modern style. This clean font when you use it will create an elegant and beautiful impression. We designed this san serif family font by paying attention to the combination of each letter to create a beautiful impression and appearance, making it easier to answer your needs, both formal and non-formal needs. This font is perfect for a wide variety of design projects, sporting events, branding, banners, posters, movie titles, food and beverage, technology, quotes, clothing, logotypes, and more. Of course, by using this font your various design projects will be perfect and amazing, because this font comes with a family of fonts, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your amazing projects.

Rockyeah is 3 style fonts: brush, serif and sans serif who have strong personalities and work very well in many design projects. - Rockyeah Brush made with fine brush pen with the fastest stroke movement. Comes with over 300 glyphs that will give you a vast possibility to play with each character. - Rockyeah Serif is an interpretation of Rockyeah brush. A serif font that focuses on legible, elegant and unique. With light and bold stroke combination this serif will give a modern-classic vibes on your design project. - Rockyeah Sans a geometric sans serif that focuses on legible, clean and useful for any project. This sans is an interpretation of Rockyeah Serif with the same caps height and bold stroke. This font is suitable for poster, tattoo, tees graphic, headline and etc :) Just play and rock it!

Ready for the wild & wooly world of LOLO Animals? These animals are happy to explore new habitats with you. There are more than 50 different animals residing in here, its a full out ecosystem. Looking for specific animals? Check out the keyword list above, for an idea of what kind of animals are included, or see the full character map to meet them up close & personal. Each vector illustration was developed by Luke Turvey, a professional artist, who's nature-themed art has appeared in exhibitions in Montreal, Tokyo, & N.Y.C. LOLO Animals are a great help, whenever you need some cool looking animals. LOLO Animals is a fully extended character set, with animals stampeding all over the alternate spots that are typically reserved for the West European diacritics & ligatures. You never know what you might find stomping around in there.

SK Skrynka™ is a strict monospaced geometric accidental typeface. He absorbed both industrialism and simplicity, and futurism along with modernism. It is imbued with the spirit of the distant future and refers to the culture of cyberpunk. With its features, it resembles a computer's electrical circuit and fits perfectly into a futuristic design. SK Skrynka font supports many languages: extended Latin (Western European, Eastern European and Central European, etc.), extended Cyrillic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, etc.), Greek and even Hebrew. This allows you to use it in absolutely any direction and style of design. Also, this font has many stylistic alternatives that bring variety to the monospaced typeface, further expanding its expressive capabilities. The SK Skrynka typeface will look great in headlines, or in stylized text and will become a functional addition to design work or game design.

Wait a second... Seconda. A sans serif with its own individuality. A typeface which combines character with legibility. A typeface which combines business with pleasure. Its moderate contrast and narrowing terminals give this typeface a gentle and sophisticated nature. Use it for books, reports, magazines, business letters — and relax. Use it for brochures, posters, signs, corporate identity projects — and enjoy. Seconda has sixteen styles, extensive language support, eight different kinds of figures, sophisticated OpenType features — so it’s ready for advanced typographic projects. For text and display use. When using Seconda in small text sizes, it will be a reliable and legible text face. When using it in big display sizes, it will show its refined details. Seconda has the companion typefaces Seconda Soft, Seconda XtraSoft, and Seconda Round. For more information about Seconda, download the PDF Specimen Manual.

Something beautiful does require extra energy to realize it !!! This Saylove font is very tiring in its work but now you only need a few minutes in an instant to make various crafts that you are working on, which allows you to work on various types of typography you need to get beautiful hands made in a short time. With some interesting initial and final forms, the Saylove font suits your needs in creating logos, invitations, cards, product packaging, headers, and whatever you want. You will be very satisfied with the presence of attractive replacement letters, where you can make according to the shape you expect, Saylove is equipped with a number of small letters including swash that you can use to realize a hand job that suits your imagination. I really hope you will get special satisfaction in using this font.

Balgena is a versatile, high-contrast sans serif font family. Qualux comes from the words Quality and Luxury. This font has a distinctive serif style with a luxurious style in a light form, but also has a friendly and playful style in a bold font. Balgena has an extra glyph to give the crafter more options in designing. These extras will make a design look more classy, elegant, unique and edgy. Balgena is a font suitable for many projects, for modern or even retro vintage designs, branding, logos, crafts, stickers, sublimation, wedding invitations, and more. This font is suitable for a variety of projects such as logos, branding, magazines, signage, fashion, and many more. You will get : 3 type fonts -Regular -Bold -Italic mail features: Uppercase and lowercase letters Numbers and punctuation Multilingual support PUA encoded fonts Alternative styles and ligatures Thank You

Helixa is a neo-grotesque typeface with a clean & modern design and an enduring appearance. This is a perfect choice for creating logotypes, branding, headlines, corporate identities, and marketing materials for web, digital & print alike. The typeface will be a great option for branding, logo/logotype design projects, marketing graphics, banners, posters, signage, corporate identities and editorial design. Adding extra letter spacing will make this font the perfect choice for minimal headlines and logotypes, as shown in the promo designs attached. Handcrafted and designed with powerful OpenType features in mind, each weight includes extended language support with Western European, Central European and South Eastern European sets. A total of 300 glyphs are available. Helixa typeface includes 12 fonts in total, with seven upright weights (Thin / Light / Book / Regular / Bold / Heavy) and Italic equivalents of all six weights.

Inspired by the streets of Brazil, Just Pixo is a display typeface that mimics pixação, Brazilian graffiti. In his book Pixação: São Paulo Signature, François Chastanet says, “This alphabet, with its vertical inscriptions axis, is to be directly classified in the king-size, monumental category; the systematic use of capitals, meticulously aligned and justified, their extreme verticality, are symptomatic of this architectural dimension”. As such, we designed Just Pixo for monumental type sizes and vertical alignments—a family with seven weights, alternate glyphs, multiple ligatures and is provided as a Variable Font too. Unique decorative serif capitals and lowercase sans serif versions make Just Pixo the perfect option for large displays, strong headlines, urban logos, and contemporary concepts. Despite its controversial use on the streets, this often politically charged style will typeface will take your next project to the next level.

All Ages is a true punk rock font. It has the same look and feel that you see wrapped around a light post telling you where the next show of your favorite band will be. All Ages will work with any of your headline, in your face, stylized design needs and it looks great BIG or small! For a customized look to your works, switch between uppercase and lowercase for a change of grunge to the letters, italics are also available. You can also use All Ages in layers if your background is a little too busy by using All Ages Letters on top of the All Ages Ripped Paper, you can even use All Ages Letters on it’s own for an alternate look. Each font includes a character set large enough to support you international punkers with multilingual characters.

A Trollkatt in Norwegian myth, is the cat associated with witches. The last few days a stray ginger cat seems to have adopted us - she comes into the house, lies down on the carpet and loves the cat food we bought her. We have posted some ‘found a cat’ messages online and hung op some flyers - just in case someone is missing a cat. Because of the stray, I decided that I should name this font something cattish, so Trollkatt is what popped up. The font is quite nice; I made it with my Chinese ink and a brush, from which I cut most of the hairs. This font won’t catch mice, but it will put some magic into your designs! And the stray cat… well, if she isn’t chipped and no one comes to fetch her, we will keep her. #happyending

Welcome to the world of Thurof, a bubble typeface that will provide a strong, bold, and whimsical touch to your projects. Do you want to make your messages more colorful and entertaining? Thurof is the ideal candidate. Thurof is available in three different styles: Regular, Outline, and Shadow. This means you can produce an effect that is appropriate for your project, from bright to lighter with an outline or shadow effect. Thurof's plethora of variant ligatures and characters distinguishes it from other languages. This allows you to use your imagination to create unique and inspiring designs. Thurof's multilingual support will also assist you in spreading your message over the world. Thurof is an excellent choice for projects that demand a fun, playful appearance. Allow Thurof to transform your message into something vibrant and inspiring, and leave an indelible impact.

Thirdlone is a handmade typeface with monoline script and sans. This font is perfect to be used as t-shirt designs, logo/brands, signatures, headlines, lettering quotes, and more. It also comes in uppercase, lowercase, punctuation, symbols, numerals, stylistic set alternate, ligatures, and multi-lingual support. Thirdlone Script includes 3 different styles: Regular, Stamp, and Ink. Thirdlone Sans includes 4 different styles: Regular, Stamp, Ink, and Edge. Regular styles are a regular style that have clean look on it. Stamp styles give you aged texture on the font that will push out the vintage feel. Ink styles will give the font a little bit of an ink feel. The Edge style give this font a rough feel on its edge. You can choose one of the styles mentioned above that match perfectly for your style, or just mix and match it.

Start good day for new font! present to you, Freaky! Freaky is a unique display serif font with two versions, regular and outline. Specially designed to create a striking and eccentric look in a variety of design projects. Freaky is a great choice for design projects that require a unique and striking visual identity. From bold branding to creative t-shirt designs, this font will add an unforgettable visual touch to any design medium you use. What did you get? Unique letterforms Works on PC & Mac Simple Installations Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word even work on Canva! PUA Encoded Characters Fully accessible without additional design software. I really hope you'll get pleasure using Freaky font and it will be perfect addition to your font collection! If you have some questions, please write me a letter! Shakira Studio

Related to typography and art, we define exhibitionist as an innovative work that is able to invite attention. An Exhibitionist must have a strong character, dare to appear as it is, natural, simple and modern-minded. That is what is represented in this font, a handwriting with a natural rhythm and reflects the lifestyle of urban society. We want to give a definition of exhibitionist in a positive typography frame. This font is very simple, too much glyph will make you confused, we make a lot of glyphs but we've filtered out only selected glyphs, so all you do is activate the ligature on your software and feel the interesting handwriting rhythm. We are sure with this font, you will look more stunning and attract the interest of visitors to look more closely at your brand

Introducing Fontena - A Font Family ! The Fontena - A Font Family will work perfectly for fashion, e-commerce brands, trend blogs, wedding boutiques or any business that wants to appear upscale and chic. The Fontena - A Font Family also Suitable for Logo, greeting cards, quotes, posters, branding, name card, stationary, design title, blog header, art quote, typography, art, modern envelope lettering or book design, happening style like handdrawn design or watercolor design theme, craft design, any DIY project, book title, or any purpose to make your art/design project look pretty and trendy. Features : Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) Accents/Multilingual characters (AÀÁÂÃÄÅCÇDÐEÈÉÊËIÌÍÎÏNÑOØÒÓÔÕÖUÙÜÚÛWYÝŸỲŸÆŒßÞ) PUA Encoded No special software is required to use The Fontena - A Font Family Check my other Font here : https://gilarstudio.com/ Give it a try! You will surely love it! Thanks and have a wonderful day, Gilar :)

Remesterad - Modern & Signature Script Perfect, Font It includes a full set of upper and lower case letters, multilingual symbols, numbers, punctuation marks and 20 ligatures. This font has a smooth ballpoint pen texture. It has a lowercase start and end ligature! This font is PUA coded which means you can easily access all the glyphs full of signatures! It also features many special features including glyphs and alternate ligatures. font designs made for various vector designs, printing such as digital wedding blogs, online shops, social media, while printing can be used in the field of clothing products, accessories, bags, pins, logos, business cards, watermarks and many others... so it can make your product look cute and attractive, and also Multilingual support!!! If you have any other questions, feel free to drop me a message :) happy designing :), Mu Fazzal

A vintage lettering stencil manufactured by the E-Z Letter Stencil Company of Baltimore, Maryland was the model for Schoolyard Stencil JNL, available in both regular and oblique versions. Re-drawn digitally and following the actual bend of the steel rule dies used to cut the stencils, this typeface has not been cleaned up from its original design. Upon close examination, you will find straight angles and slight curves in the most unusual places. This was representative of the difficult work involved in bending steel cutting rule material and fitting it into small areas. For many years, E-Z Letter was the main competitor to the Stenso Lettering Company; the originator of the oil board stencil lettering guide complete with automatic spacing holes. Anyone over 40 will well-remember lettering their science fair posters, report covers and ring binders with these stencils.

Dear Gray – Modern Wedding Fonts Dear Gray is a beautiful, feminine, and modern calligraphy script for your wedding designs. Dear Gray includes a full set of uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, punctuation, and common ligatures for a more harmonious look. With Opentype features and stylistic alternatives, Dear Gray gives you a lot of possibilities to make your design even more special. Following the trend of modern hand-drawn typography, Dear Gray is a friendly choice to convey your loving words. Dear Gray features: A full set of upper & lowercase characters Numbers & punctuation Ligatures Lowercase beginning swashes Lowercase ending swashes A ton of stylistic alternatives PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. Feel free to give me a message if you have a problem or question. Thank you so much for taking the time to look at one of our products.

Schlange is a rich typeface with rounded terminals. The family includes five sans serifs and five slab serifs in weights from ultra liight to bold. Schlange’s personality is determined by an open aperture and quite large lower case characters in comparison with the upper case set. Schlange’s personality is open and friendly, giving a text it’s used for a soft, warm appeal. Schlange will work well as a display type (think titles, short magazine call-outs, ad banners, and such), but it’s not a good choice for extensive bodies of academic text. Available in numerous weights, the typeface provides rich opportunities for mixing and matching and is great for typographic compositions. These qualities make Schlange a dream type for a packaging designer. It will feel at home in design for cosmetics or sweets, postcards, children’s books and menus.

The Overleys is a handwritten font with quick dry strokes and a signature style. perfect for branding projects, homeware designs, product packaging or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image or posters. The Overleys has an entire alternate glyph set. This is accessible simply by their own separate font file - just install this as normal and select 'The Overleys Swash' , ‘The Overleys Alt' or ‘The Overleys Brush’ in your text-tool. The Overleys includes 3 Font files: 1. The Overleys - A handwritten script font containing upper & lowercase characters, numerals and a large range of punctuation. 2. The Overleys Alt - The second version of The Overleys, with a completely new set of both lower and uppercase characters. 3. The Overleys Swash - A set of 26 hand-drawn swashes, with cool touch to underline you’re The Overleys text.

Introducing the Groovy font called Mawur. This font is the perfect way to add style and flair to your designs! The unique, sophisticated shapes and amazing mix of shapes in this font will automatically add a touch of class and sophistication. ideal for use in greeting cards, posters, product packaging, or just to add a little flair to your designs. Its simplicity will make it easy to read and you can use it anywhere you like. Grab your copy now and start making the most of it today! What’s Included : Standard glyphs Iso Latin 1 Simple installations We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. Fonts include Multilingual support

Ink Outlaw is not just a font; it's a rebellious statement in every stroke. Inspired by the raw energy and urban artistry of graffiti and vandalism, this font unleashes a torrent of creativity onto your canvas. Each letter is a work of defiant art, meticulously designed to capture the edgy spirit of street culture. With Ink Outlaw, your designs will command attention and provoke thought. Its bold and irregular lines, dripping paint effect, and rugged edges give your text a gritty, authentic graffiti feel. Whether you're working on posters, apparel, album covers, or any project that needs an unapologetically bold aesthetic, Ink Outlaw will be your accomplice in making a powerful statement. Embrace the outlaw spirit, break free from conformity, and let Ink Outlaw become the voice of your artistic rebellion. Transform your designs into urban masterpieces with this distinctive and daring font.

It is 1984 and Ridley Scott’s commercial for Apple tells us, “You’ll see why 1984 won’t be like ‘1984’.” The first Mac comes on the market. The Mac interface includes a font for use in small sizes called Chicago. The first version was designed by Susan Kare. The font’s modern grid-like character was also used for the first iPod screens, which is why this font is also associated with music. Today’s font upgrade, Little Micro Sans, is suited for small-point texts, product labels, lists of ingredients, and small captions in books, magazines, websites or applications. For online use, a variable format is particularly handy as it offers all font styles in a single file, has a faster display time and takes up less memory. Little Micro Sans is a revolution for small sizes. Specimen: http://carontwice.com/files/specimen_Little_Micro_Sans.pdf

This elegant condensed serif display typeface is perfect for designs that require a touch of class and nostalgia. Inspired by ancient concepts and the nostalgic classic era, Thronemy Font adds a timeless and sophisticated look to any design project. The condensed serif design of Thronemy Font is both elegant and easy to read, making it perfect for headlines, titles, and other design elements that need to be easily understood. Plus, its retro style is perfect for creating logos and headings that will make your designs stand out from the rest. Thronemy Font is a versatile font that can be used in a variety of design projects such as invitations, posters, book covers, packaging, magazine layouts, and more. No matter what your project requires, Thronemy Font can help you achieve a timeless and sophisticated design that will leave a lasting impression.

Green Fairy is a chromatic font family highly ornamented for display purposes. Green Fairy’s characters have been specifically designed to accommodate its loops and ornaments following a modern typeface structure. Green Fairy has four chromatic weights: 1. Green Fairy Outline 2. Green Fairy Dots 3. Green Fairy Stencil 4. Green Fairy Full The outline weight has been created as the base or structure for the other weights. You can combine these weights as well as add colours to obtain multiple effects and type styles. Green Fairy has also three combined weights (combos) to simplify your work flow, for these occasions when you only want to use one single colour in your font: 5. Green Fairy Dots Combo 6. Green Fairy Stencil Combo 7. Green Fairy Full Combo GREEN FAIRY ORIGINS The origin of this typeface is the lettering I designed in October 2015 as part of my illustrated cocktail artwork called “Absinthe. La Fée Verte (The Green Fairy)”. Originally, this lettering only featured eight letters “AB·SINTHE” vector drawn in Illustrator. Right after creating the full-colour artwork, I designed a fountain-letterpress print version of it, in collaboration with Ladies of Letters, A.K.A. Carla Hackett and Amy Constable from Saint Gertrude Fine Printing. At the beginning of 2016 –and thanks to the project @36daysoftype– I found the motivation, and most importantly the deadline, to draw the rest of the twenty-six letters of the uppercase alphabet using Illustrator. I started 2017 having my first two calligraphy courses sold out, so I took this amazing opportunity to devote myself to Green Fairy for a few months. In February 2017, I purchased the font software Glyphs and I started to re-draw all twenty-six letters of the uppercase alphabet again. PRODUCTION PROCESS Green Fairy started being one weight, but quickly turned into a layered/chromatic font. Things were going more or less fine till I arrived to the Dots weight: 1) I started drawing squares following a grid; 2) Then, the squares turned into diamonds following the same grid; 3) Then, the grid wasn’t working so well on the round letters so I tried randomising the position of the diamonds but it didn’t work; 4) So I went back to the grid, and this time scaled down the size of the diamonds creating a visual half-tone effect. I spent over four weeks working on the Dots weight and I felt like I was in the middle of a very long tunnel and I couldn’t see the light at the end. I encountered many other problems along the way but by June 2017, I felt I was back on track again. I kept working, tweaking, re-drawing and re-adjusting, and then the diacritics came on board… And then more re-drawing, re-tweaking, re-adjusting and then numbers… And then spacing, symbols, and currencies… And then more spacing, kerning, contextual kerning for triplets… In September 2017 I told myself “that’s it, I’m going to finish it now!” But guess what? More re-tweaking, testing, hinting, testing, rendering, testing… For those of you not familiarized with typeface design, it is extremely time consuming and it requires a lot of hard work, focus and determination. This project could not have been possible without the help of these generous professionals: Jose Manuel Urós, typeface designer based in Barcelona and my teacher twice in the past; Jamie Clarke, freelance letterer and typeface designer who has released a couple of chromatic fonts recently; Troy Leinster, Australian full-time typeface designer living and working in New York City; Noe Blanco, full-time typeface designer and hinting specialist based in Catalonia; And Nicole Phillips, typographer currently relocating from Australia to New Zealand. To all of you: THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

ITC Johnston is the result of the combined talents of Dave Farey and Richard Dawson, based on the work of Edward Johnston. In developing ITC Johnston, says London type designer Dave Farey, he did “lots of research on not only the face but the man.” Edward Johnston was something of an eccentric, “famous for sitting in a deck chair and carrying toast in his pockets.” (The deck chair was his preferred furniture in his own living room; the toast was so that he’d always have sustenance near at hand.) Johnston was also almost single-handedly responsible, early in this century, for the revival in Britain of the Renaissance calligraphic tradition of the chancery italic. His book Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering (with its peculiar extraneous comma in the title) is a classic on its subject, and his influence on his contemporaries was tremendous. He is perhaps best remembered, however, for the alphabet that he designed in 1916 for the London Underground Railway (now London Transport), which was based on his original “block letter” model. Johnston’s letters were constructed very carefully, based on his study of historical writing techniques at the British Museum. His capital letters took their form from the best classical Roman inscriptions. “He had serious rules for his sans serif style,” says Farey, “particularly the height-to-weight ratio of 1:7 for the construction of line weight, and therefore horizontals and verticals were to be the same thickness. Johnston’s O’s and C’s and G’s and even his S’s were constructions of perfect circles. This was a bit of a problem as far as text sizes were concerned, or in reality sizes smaller than half an inch. It also precluded any other weight but medium ‘ any weight lighter or heavier than his 1:7 relationship.” Johnston was famously slow at any project he undertook, says Farey. “He did eventually, under protest, create a bolder weight, in capitals only ‘ which took twenty years to complete.” Farey and his colleague Richard Dawson have based ITC Johnston on Edward Johnston’s original block letters, expanding them into a three-weight type family. Johnston himself never called his Underground lettering a typeface, according to Farey. It was an alphabet meant for signage and other display purposes, designed to be legible at a glance rather than readable in passages of text. Farey and Dawson’s adaptation retains the sparkling starkness of Johnston’s letters while combining comfortably into text. Johnston’s block letter bears an obvious resemblance to Gill Sans, the highly successful type family developed by Monotype in the 1920s. The young Eric Gill had studied under Johnston at the London College of Printing, worked on the Underground project with him, and followed many of the same principles in developing his own sans serif typeface. The Johnston letters gave a characteristic look to London’s transport system after the First World War, but it was Gill Sans that became the emblematic letter form of British graphic design for decades. (Johnston’s sans serif continued in use in the Underground until the early ‘80s, when a revised and modernized version, with a tighter fit and a larger x-height, was designed by the London design firm Banks and Miles.) Farey and Dawson, working from their studio in London’s Clerkenwell, wanted to create a type family that was neither a museum piece nor a bastardization, and that would “provide an alternative of the same school” to the omnipresent Gill Sans. “These alphabets,” says Farey, referring to the Johnston letters, “have never been developed as contemporary styles.” He and Dawson not only devised three weights of ITC Johnston but gave it a full set of small capitals in each weight ‘ something that neither the original Johnston face nor the Gill faces have ‘ as well as old-style figures and several alternate characters.