The famous roman type cut in Venice by Nicolas Jenson, and used in 1470 for his printing of the tract, De Evangelica Praeparatione, Eusebius, has usually been declared the seminal and definitive representative of a class of types known as Venetian Old Style. The Jenson type is thought to have been the primary model for types that immediately followed. Subsequent 15th-century Venetian Old Style types, cut by other punchcutters in Venice and elsewhere in Italy, are also worthy of study, but have been largely neglected by 20th-century type designers. There were many versions of Venetian Old Style types produced in the final quarter of the quattrocento. The exact number is unknown, but numerous printed examples survive, though the actual types, matrices, and punches are long gone. All these types are not, however, conspicuously Jensonian in character. Each shows a liberal amount of individuality, inconsistency, and eccentricity. My fascination with these historical types began in the 1970s and eventually led to the production of my first text typeface, Iowan Old Style (Bitstream, 1991). Sometime in the early 1990s, I started doodling letters for another Venetian typeface. The letters were pieced together from sections of circles and squares. The n, a standard lowercase control character in a text typeface, came first. Its most unusual feature was its head serif, a bisected quadrant of a circle. My aim was to see if its sharp beak would work with blunt, rectangular, foot serifs. Next, I wanted to see if I could construct a set of capital letters by following a similar design system. Rectangular serifs, or what we today call "slab serifs," were common in early roman printing types, particularly text types cut in Italy before 1500. Slab serifs are evident on both lowercase and uppercase characters in roman types of the Incunabula period, but they are seen mainly at the feet of the lowercase letters. The head serifs on lowercase letters of early roman types were usually angled. They were not arched, like mine. Oddly, there seems to be no actual historical precedent for my approach. Another characteristic of my arched serif is that the side opposite the arch is flat, not concave. Arched, concave serifs were used extensively in early italic types, a genre which first appeared more than a quarter century after roman types. Their forms followed humanistic cursive writing, common in Italy since before movable type was used there. Initially, italic characters were all lowercase, set with upright capitals (a practice I much admire and would like to see revived). Sloped italic capitals were not introduced until the middle of the sixteenth century, and they have very little to do with the evolution of humanist scripts. In contrast to the cursive writing on which italic types were based, formal book hands used by humanist scholars to transcribe classical texts served as a source of inspiration for the lowercase letters of the first roman types cut in Italy. While book hands were not as informal as cursive scripts, they still had features which could be said to be more calligraphic than geometric in detail. Over time, though, the copied vestiges of calligraphy virtually disappeared from roman fonts, and type became more rational. This profound change in the way type developed was also due in part to popular interest in the classical inscriptions of Roman antiquity. Imperial Roman letters, or majuscules, became models for the capital letters in nearly all early roman printing types. So it was, that the first letters in my typeface arose from pondering how shapes of lowercase letters and capital letters relate to one another in terms of classical ideals and geometric proportions, two pinnacles in a range of artistic notions which emerged during the Italian Renaissance. Indeed, such ideas are interesting to explore, but in the field of type design they often lead to dead ends. It is generally acknowledged, for instance, that pure geometry, as a strict approach to type design, has limitations. No roman alphabet, based solely on the circle and square, has ever been ideal for continuous reading. This much, I knew from the start. In the course of developing my typeface for text, innumerable compromises were made. Even though the finished letterforms retain a measure of geometric structure, they were modified again and again to improve their performance en masse. Each modification caused further deviation from my original scheme, and gave every font a slightly different direction. In the lower case letters especially, I made countless variations, and diverged significantly from my original plan. For example, not all the arcs remained radial, and they were designed to vary from font to font. Such variety added to the individuality of each style. The counters of many letters are described by intersecting arcs or angled facets, and the bowls are not round. In the capitals, angular bracketing was used practically everywhere stems and serifs meet, accentuating the terseness of the characters. As a result of all my tinkering, the entire family took on a kind of rich, familiar, coarseness - akin to roman types of the late 1400s. In his book, Printing Types D. B. Updike wrote: "Almost all Italian roman fonts in the last half of the fifteenth century had an air of "security" and generous ease extremely agreeable to the eye. Indeed, there is nothing better than fine Italian roman type in the whole history of typography." It does seem a shame that only in the 20th century have revivals of these beautiful types found acceptance in the English language. For four centuries (circa 1500 - circa 1900) Venetian Old Style faces were definitely not in favor in any living language. Recently, though, reinterpretations of early Italian printing types have been returning with a vengeance. The name Vendetta, which as an Italian sound I like, struck me as being a word that could be taken to signifiy a comeback of types designed in the Venetian style. In closing, I should add that a large measure of Vendetta's overall character comes from a synthesis of ideas, old and new. Hallmarks of roman type design from the Incunabula period are blended with contemporary concerns for the optimal display of letterforms on computer screens. Vendetta is thus not a historical revival. It is instead an indirect but personal digital homage to the roman types of punchcutters whose work was influenced by the example Jenson set in 1470. John Downer.

This is an unusual family of 3D designs that will add impact to your design. Due to the modular nature of this design there may be a very slight lack of smoothness to the curves at extremely large point sizes (around 100 pt and above).

Based loosely on a square, this hair line design works best at 24pt and above. Due to the modular nature of this design there may be a slight lack of smoothness to the curves at very large point sizes (around 100 pt and above).

Disalina is a typeface adjusted to your needs. You are looking for geometrical shapes, stylized ligatures or lettering reminiscent of Art Nouveau? Three stylistic sets that are included in every weight will make your project more creative. The Disalina family was inspired by the lettering and posters of late 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s. It merges beautiful vintage design and modern graphic thinking. The whole family consists of 7 weights – you will find different opentype features such as ligatures, stylistic sets, arrows, swashes and more. Disalina is a true friend – no more different fonts to mix & match different styles.

Introducing a new retro font called “Billy Sham“. Inspired from retro typography and lettering in the 70’s and 80’s combine with bold typography style. With a total of 534 glyphs with 359 alternate, you can make letter combinations for lettering with a lot of options. Come with open type feature ( a lot of alternates and end swash), its help you to make great lettering. Billy Sham best uses for Logotype, heading,cover, poster, logos, quotes, product packaging, header, merchandise, social media & greeting cards and many more. This font is also support multi language. To access the alternate glyphs, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw.

Moenna is a handwritten piece in bold style. This well-designed font is inspired by classic typographic designs from the 60's to 80's. Moenna is packed with lots of alternatives and swashes (see preview image), it will give you more options to customize your words with this OpenType feature. Moenna is best used for Logo Types, titles, covers, posters, logos, quotes, product packaging, headers, merchandise, social media & greeting cards, and more. This font also has multilingual support for standard latin characters. To access alternative glyphs, you'll need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign, and Corel Draw. If you have any questions, feel free to send me a message. Thank you!

From the basement labs and after hours lounge of R?U?S?S?T Institute, we present After 5. With a somewhat formal (ha ha) yet warm, friendly feel, its normally calm, even tempered and sensible rhythm takes on the syncopated, jazzy beat that goes along with too many martinis when discretionary ligatures are turned on. A friend once asked, was I trying to design a font that looked sort of �Korean?� I said no, I was trying to mess up the Latin alphabet. So, here it is: After 5, a bold, upright condensed slab-serif display typeface with a mixed-up attitude. Complete with bold roman and matching italics. This attention getting font is ideal for Posters, headlines, Packaging and logos.

Introducing Minimalist VONESA – a new nostalgic serif revival that will blow your mind. I've started looking at classic serifs with a narrow 80's & 90's range, and wanted to make the perfect one for you too! VONESA Minimalist is a beautiful nostalgic upper and lower case typography that looks amazing in upper and lower case settings as Display, Logo and body text. One thing to note about VONESA Minimalist is that the letter spacing is intentionally set for clean readability if you want to use it for body types, so I recommend setting the spacing a bit tighter for display use (around -20 to -40 should be!). Thanks for watching, and come and say hello on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/mordex.studio/ ~Mordex.Studio

Niccolo Niccoli (1364-1437) was a wealthy bibliophile and an acclaimed scribe, in Florence (Italy). He was one of the most important Italian calligrapher in this early time of rediscovering Roman script. Of rare accomplishment was his adaptation of the so called Italian humanistic minuscule script. We were inspired from his late work to create this present Font. We have added a lot of accented and other characters (U/V, I/J...) who was not existing in the original and replacing "long s" by a small "s" for a modern use. The OTF encoding was used for intelligent alternates, permitting to use different forms of the same lower case or capital in a single word, reproducing easily the charming variety of a real manual scripture.

Untalin is a Vintage retro font. Inspired from retro typography and lettering in the 70's and 80's combine with bold typography style. This font perfect for vintage and retro design, badge, logos,t-shirt, poster, branding, packaging, signage, book coverand so much more! Untalin with almost 490 glyphs inside the font, you can also create many of other typography designs. Stylistic Alternates, Swashes, Contectual Alternate and Ligatures is a list of features from OpenType which you can use to pairing the letters each other powerfully. Files Include : Basic Latin A-Z and a-z Numbers Symbols PUA Encode Multilanguage Support Thanks and have a wonderful day, If you have any questions, please get in touch with us Don't forget to check out our other products.

Rinterland is a Vintage retro font. Inspired from retro typography and lettering in the 70's and 80's combine with bold typography style. This font perfect for vintage and retro design, badge, logos,t-shirt, poster, branding, packaging, signage, book coverand so much more! Rinterland with almost 500 glyphs inside the font, you can also create many of other typography designs. Stylistic Alternates, Swashes, Contectual Alternate and Ligatures is a list of features from OpenType which you can use to pairing the letters each other powerfully. Files Include : Basic Latin A-Z and a-z Numbers Symbols PUA Encode Multilanguage Support Thanks and have a wonderful day, If you have any questions, please get in touch with us Don't forget to check out our other products.

Introducing Asheboro, a groovy retro font with modern style! Asheboro pairs the elements of groovy psychedelic lettering of the 1960's and 70's with the clean lines found in a modern geometric sans-serif. This combination creates a completely new aesthetic without losing the familiarity of the iconic typography of the past. With its iconic retro look, Asheboro is a great typeface selection for special branding projects, themed events, websites, even comic books and graphic novels. The Asheboro font family includes nine font weight variations for the ultimate font styling versatility. Each font weight is meticulously balanced and well-kerned for the optimal look. In addition, Asheboro includes a beautifully crafted number set, an expanded symbols set, and a large library of multilingual characters.

RAN Reformed Typeface for Beginners by Georg Salden - 
a headstrong and courageous approach to an improved handling of handwriting. Diverse and sometimes irreconcilable theories exist about how beginners are supposed to learn writing and reading. This has led to fierce discussions among experts already. We don’t want to pour more oil on the fire, but hope to create a new awareness for this topic, which is important to everyone of us. For beginners the combination of single characters (sounds) to whole words is essential during the acquirement of reading and writing. In this process they develop the skill to recall entire terms from memory. Therefore, after current practice, every word shall be written in a single stroke without lifting the pen in between. Georg Salden contradicts this postulate and warns, that coercively holding the pen down within a word can easily lead to exaggerated loop formations and a general meandering of the written text. The intellectual process in connecting single sounds to words while writing would happen anyway and the prohibition to lift the pen would often lead to tensions. 
To still support the necessary connections in general and to simplify the connecting, he teaches to write all round letters like a, e, g, o with inclusion of the connecting stroke, so that the spacing and combining with the next character arise by themselves. By settling the stroke at certain points and with a clear and logical writing method, a conscious and careful contact with the various strokes arises. All this automatically leads, together with a certain deceleration, to an increase of beauty and readability in the handwriting. 
The repeatedly discussed topic »connected or unconnected« appears to be solved in the most comfortable way as, depending on the particular character combination, both solutions are possible.

ARTIST HAND is a bold, informal script inspired by artistic handwriting. The font radiates confidence, is largely cursive, and contains glyphs that are friendly, familiar and highly legible. Artist Hand contains a full complement of Latin Extended-A characters.

Boomtown is a bold, slightly cursive font for advertising, headlines, packaging design, signposts or posters. Although it is highly constructed, it has some handwriting attributes, too. An italic font is in my planning and maybe a light style, too.

Amsterdam Belmonteria is a delicate and cursive handwritten font. This gentle font will look gorgeous on a variety of design ideas. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

A gothic style script based on a writing system devised by J.R.R. Tolkien, also known as the Tengwar of Feanor, used for many languages in Middle-earth. NOTE: this font comes with an interpretation guide in pdf format.

Rit Graph has been revived from old style font template often used by architects or engineers. The design of Rit Graph is casual yet sophisticate with a slanted proportion and little details of rough edges from writing tools.

Just in case you need something crispy for your next project - this could be it! Handmade, multilingual and with contextual alternates - 4 different versions of each letter, and these cycle automatically as you write, for a random look.

HU Mois KR is a calligraphy typeface with a sense of speed and a naturally slanted feel as if writing. It also gave a sense of free rhythm of handwriting. Includes Korean from the existing 'HU Mois' font.

Gerber is a fully accented pixel font for use at 10 pt size (or multiples). Gerber is supposed to look like children's writing on a chalkboard and it is named after an Austrian novel about an unhappy schoolboy.

An Art Deco condensed display sans font with 8 styles, +800 glyphs, +100 ligatures, +30 languages and many opentype features. It is perfect for poster designs, magazines, book covers, logotypes, headlines, newspapers and press. It's bold, daring, modern, geometric and covers a good range of weights from light to block.

Oktah Round Overview: 1600+ characters per font 16 static fonts 1 variable fonts Extensive OpenType features Support for 220+ Languages (Latin & Cyrillic) Special Symbols, Alternate Sets, and Features Free Trial Fonts Available Oktah Round is a rounded version of Oktah Neue. Oktah Round is soft and friendly, modern and warm. It's a typeface that combines human touch with high functionality. Oktah Round comes equipped with 1600+ characters per font and is available in 16 styles (from Thin to Black), and as a variable font that allows you to change weight and slant angle. Oktah Round supports more than 200 Latin languages and has amazing support for Cyrillic languages like Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Macedonian, Russian, and others. Relying heavily on the geometric forms and proportions first introduced in Oktah, this rounded version does more than just smooth out a few corners. To make curves sharper and more uniform, some terminals were modified. Other visual features (like curving tails in 'l' and 't') were dropped to create more clear cut look. Oktah Round is perfectly balanced and finely tuned to be the font you'd want to use again and again. The variety or styles and availability of a variable font give Oktah Round a potential to be used across multiple mediums. Oktah Round supports most Latin based languages, it also has support for Extended Cyrillic. The remainder of the extensive 1600+ glyph character set is reserved for punctuation, numbers, special symbols, and all sorts of additional symbols like squared numbers, geometric shapes, etc. All characters are evenly spaced and carefully kerned, so that there are no overlaps or glaring gaps in any language. OpenType features include Legible Alternates, Case Sensitive Punctuation, Fractions, Sub- and Superscript, Black and White Circled Figures, Ligatures, Oldstyle Figures, Tabular Figures and many others. The variable font incorporates both axes (Weight and Slant) and can be used for web and graphic design alike. 16 static font styles can be purchased separately or as part of Oktah Round family. Two fonts can be downloaded free of charge.

Rockglazer is a script font similar to a curve writing which expresses modernity, boldness and strength, unlike the other script fonts. There are swinging curves and wipes on some of the letters to add beauty, and the differences in the line thickness of each letter are so clear that you can use this font for bigger-sized texts for a better legibility. Enjoy the available features here. Features: Stylistic Sets Ligatures Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Rockglazer fits for various design projects, such as posters, banners, logos, magazine covers, quotes, greeting cards, printed products, merchandise, social media, etc. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Hopefully, you have a great experience using our font. Feel free to contact us if you require more information when you are dealing with a problem. Thank you. Happy designing.

Tropicollo is a handwritten mono weight cursive font. Its super clean and tidy design will turn any idea into a true standout end result! Works great applied to logos, prints, quotes, magazine headers, clothing, advertisements, product designs, labels, and much more!

Azebra is an elegant connected letter cursive script arriving with a family of detailed & artistic styles. Azebra features diagonal hatched texture, in extruded & shadow variations. Azebra is extended, containing West European diacritics & ligatures, making it suitable for multilingual environments & publications.

Sunday Monday font is a cursive, handwritten typeface. It has been crafted using India ink and an old steel pen. I have added some splatter and stain, to give it a 'grungy' look. Sunday Monday comes with kerning and all diacritics.

This messy, natural handwriting font is a mix of cursive and print. It seems that the busier my life is, the messier my handwriting gets- and this is based on my real-life scribbled notes to myself and shopping lists.

Introducing Meylinda Font by Tlatoustype Meylinda is a Modern Cursive Handwritten Script Font. Meylinda is perfect for book cover, product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background.This font also multilingual support.

Okaycat Font Foundry proudly presents "Lawson"! A retro classic style font, perhaps futuristic, containing European accents. Beautifully connected cursive with high legibility and style for your design, great for print and publication. See the new textured version Lawson Vintage please.

In 2007-8, Carolyn Puzzovio developed this OpenType typeface: Lagoon which is based on an Armenian model from the Mechitarist monastery, Venice, 1810. This project was supported by a grant from the AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council, UK) and won a first prize in the Granshan 08 type design competition. Oſten, Armenian digital types are designed to match the forms of Latin type characters and ‘Latinized’, by uprighting the forms; truncating ascenders and descenders and raising the x-height – but in this case the Latin characters in the OpenType font have been designed to blend in with the traditional Armenian proportions which are based on cursive forms – also incorporating some of the quirky shapes from the original model. Faithfully following the original created difficulties of ‘clashing’ characters, particularly those with long descenders, so the font contains over 100 alternative characters in the Armenian part, which will normally substitute automatically where necessary. The sloping lower case characters and upright capitals are traditional in Armenian – capitals are used less in the Armenian language. Three new characters for the Armenian unicode range are included: the Armenian dram (currency) symbol; the eternity symbol; and the index number symbol. This font which will be one of the first OpenType fonts to incorporate these newly unicoded characters.

Based upon an Arno Drescher design for Schriftguss, RMU Gong was freshly redrawn and redesigned and is intended for being a splendid font for headlines, subtitles, ads, posters etc. It comes with full sets of superior and inferior numbers, and even a long s can be accessed by typing [alt] + b.

P22 Acropolis is P22's tribute to the enduring contribution of Classical Greece to world culture. This set features two typefaces in the style of ancient Greek stone carvings (one modern: Now, and one of authentic ancient Greek characters: Then) and 52 graphic extras drawn from coinage and vase paintings.

Zona Black is a geometric sans–serif display black typeface. It was inspired by typography from 1920's posters featuring clean lines and some quite distinct glyphs such as the uppercase B and the H. Despite being black it's tall x–height makes Zona quite legible even in smaller sizes.