The first Tuscan lettering was penned in the mid-fourth century by the calligrapher Furius Dionysius Filocalus. The style was still in common usage as calligraphy when Vincent Figgins designed the first Antique Tuscan for print in 1817. Antique and Gothic Tuscan woodtype fonts appeared in the 1830’s. By the 1850’s, Tuscan fonts had become popular in America. These styles continued in print use into the twentieth century. Tuscan Antique and Gothic styles, borrowed from print and calligraphy, were perfect for signs, posters, handbills and other large format advertising. Sign painter, Frank Atkinson demonstrated several Tuscan forms in his book Sign Painting, A Complete Manual. Modified & Spurred Tuscan Romans were inspired by this and other works of the same period.

Venetian 301 is the Bitstream version of the Centaur type family. Centaur was designed by the American book designer Bruce Rogers on the basis of Venetian typefaces of 1470 of Nicolas Jenson. Beautiful Italic based on a face by Ludovico degli Arrighi was developed by Frederic Warde who was an American calligrapher and typography researcher was added as Italic to Centaur. Adapted for mechanical composition by English Monotype in 1929. Its lettershapes owe much to pen-drawn letters of Italian humanist minuscule and cursive. This elegant humanist face is useful for the finest typography both for book text and display matter. Cyrillic version included small caps was developed for ParaType in 2003 by Dmitry Kirsanov.

Ackerley Script is a new carefully crafted and nicely balanced curves on a script typefaces with personality. You can use it as a logo, badges, insignia, packaging, headlines, posters, t-shirt/apparel, greeting cards, and wedding invitations. The flowing characters are ideal to make an attractive message. Mix and match Ackerley Script with a bunch of alternative characters to fit your project. The alternative characters in this font were divided into several OpenType features such as Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Sets, and Ligature. The OpenType features can be accessed by using the OpenType program such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign. That’s it! I really hope you enjoy it - please do let me know what you think. More importantly, please don't hesitate to drop me a message if you have any issues or queries. Thank you!

Dextor Script is a new carefully crafted and nicely balanced curves on a script typefaces with personality. You can use it as a logo, badges, insignia, packaging, headlines, posters, t-shirt/apparel, greeting cards, and wedding invitations. The flowing characters are ideal to make an attractive message. Mix and match Dextor Script with a bunch of alternative characters to fit your project. The alternative characters in this font were divided into several OpenType features such as Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Sets, and Ligature. The OpenType features can be accessed by using the OpenType program such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign. That’s it! I really hope you enjoy it - please do let me know what you think. More importantly, please don't hesitate to drop me a message if you have any issues or queries. Thank you!

We've always liked Art Gothic (you've seen it on the titles and credits for TV's Murder She Wrote) but felt it was far too animated for most uses. Here is our super-simplified version, a calmer font that will fit many display uses.