Dino Kids. Inspired by a playful style in combination with Hand Lettering style. Every single letters have been carefully crafted to make your text looks beautiful. I hope this can inspire you for your work. Dino Kids is PUA encoded so you can access extras from the character map in most design software. Multilangual Support. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw. There are additional ways to access alternates, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac). Happy Creating!

Sunshine Daisies Hand Lettered collection brings 15 handwritten fonts infused with fun and sunshine. All of them, including sans serif layered font, can be combined in many ways. The script is full of alternates and the layered font has a pseudorandom function embedded that means two letters will never look the same when placed next to each other. To add even more fun we’ve included a special Sunshine Daisies Extra font that has 150+ doodles with 2-color fills. Perfect for quotes, t-shirts, book covers, posters, packaging projects, all Sunshine Daisies fonts are fully unicode mapped so you can use them in any application. Enjoy!

Remhu is a sans serif font from the modern era. An option with a distinctive shape adds value to your brand and is ideal for branding purposes. It’s wonderful to be able to help designers or product owners who are looking for ways to make their designs more classic and elegant. And, in particular, for font satisfaction, multilingual language support, numbers, and punctuation. of course, your various design projects will be perfect and extraordinary if you use this font because this font is equipped with a font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your extraordinary projects.

VILLANTEZ is a display that is basically a serif font that has been modified in such a way that there are breaks or distances at the body meeting of each letter, almost like in stencil letters. Creating a more attractive and different impression from other display serifs, this font can also be categorized in a more modern Victorian style by carrying a slight stencil modification. This font is also an all caps font with different letter and character heights in the uppercase and lowercase. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. Cheers!

Gemas is a wide typeface that looks incredible and has attractiveness when you see it. Each letter shape has been designed to have a character that is easily recorded in the mind. This font has cute and classy characters, clean lines, and smooth curves giving any project an extra touch of class. A serif modern and wide typeface that his own unique style & modern look. This typeface is perfect for large point size, for example in magazine layouts, packaging, book, title design, fashion brand, clothes, lettering, quotes design, and many other ways to your work. A-Z Character Set a-z Character set Numerals & Punctuations Multilingual Thanks, Alamsa

Neue School is a modern sans serif font with extra tight tracking & deep ink traps. Designed to maximize the available space, make impactful headlines. Inspired by old school narrow poster fonts, presented in a “neue”-way. The font consists of 8 weights, across 2 widths, plus italics. Symbols are fixed weight throughout, as a contrast to the font weights. There are 2 additional OpenType stylistic sets. Stylistic Set 1 adds more rounded edges to specific characters for a softer look. Stylistic Set 2 makes lowercase ascenders and symbol height equal to capital height, making it ideal for stacking type more easily with all same height.

Madre Script is a typeface that experiences adopting two building models: the typographic (with repetition of shapes) and the script (with the freedom of writing). The models are presented in a subtle, unobtrusive way and mainly without conflicts. The essence of each personality is present, coexisting harmoniously and enjoying the same stylistic space. After careful evaluation of the connections between characters, intelligent standards have been established for use of the ‘Contextual Alternates - calt’ OpenType feature, that used together with the ‘Ligatures - liga’ feature, offers a gentle and friendly pace. Madre, is therefore, a discreet, near silent ‘scriptypography'. It is the ideal choice for editorial, packaging and branding.

Qintan Script is inspired by urban, streetwear and vintage design. It's made with love! It's a hand-lettering style. Ideal for branding, logos, handwriting quotes, product packaging, headers, posters, merchandise, social media Books / Cover titles, special events, and more. Features: - Basic Latin A-Z and a-z - Numbers - Symbols - Stylistic Set - Ligatures - PUA Encode - Multilanguage Support To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. There are additional ways to access alternates, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac).

Gracelya is a new modern script calligraphy font with an irregular baseline. It looks lovely on wedding invitations, thank you cards, quotes, greeting cards, logos, business cards and more. Perfect for using in ink or watercolour. Includes initial and terminal letters, alternates, ligatures and multiple language support. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions. There are additional ways to access alternates/swashes, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac).

Akute is a sanserif font that we designed just for you, whether it’s for advertising, branding, or something else. Add value to your brand with a unique form. It’s a terrific opportunity to take advantage of designers or product owners who are looking for a way to make their ideas more classic and elegant. And, in particular, to meet the typeface, linguistic support, numerals, punctuation marks, and alternative four options. of course, your various design projects will be perfect and extraordinary if you use this font because this font is equipped with a font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your extraordinary projects.

Kliptones Brush Typeface , with authentic dry brush imperfections, and a very bouncy baseline It has a perfectly paired complimentary marker font , and a super handy set of bonus Swash. Ideal for logos, handwritten quotes, product packaging, header, poster, merchandise, social media & greeting cards. Features : Basic Latin A-Z and a-z Numbers Symbols PUA Encode Multi language Support To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. There are additional ways to access alternates, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac).

DIRTY NUMBERS LTD At $1 US dollar each: Dirty Numbers - Provides (9) individual sets of unique numerals [0 thru 9] and nothing else. That is all. Very limited character sets integrated into one font by Coniglio Type -and- a very inexpensive set of marketing numerals. They are revivals from type crafted images and they are monospaced, easy to use and to kern the way you wish. You will have to review your glyphs to locate them and they were pasted in the most logical and accessible places and made economical to you for your special design and crafts needs. Dirty Numbers by Joseph Coniglio, Coniglio Type 2021.

Hamelin is inspired by a retro look and combination with a hand lettering style. Every single letters has been carefully crafted to make your text looks beautiful. I hope this can inspire you for your work. Font is PUA encoded so you can access extras from character map in most design software. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw. There are additional ways to access alternates, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac). Happy Creating

Get ready to be bold and elegant at the same time. It’s time to see Wildrace, a display font created in capital letters with the racing theme. The font’s character is the thick letters formed similar to rectangles to give strong impressions. Therefore, it will be more noticeable and match the large-sized texts. Wildrace also provides interesting features to enjoy. Features: Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Use Wildrace for any design projects such as posters, banners, logos, book covers, headings, printed products, merchandise, social media, etc. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Purchase now. Happy designing.

Introducing Tjoekil Kajoe - Indonesian Vernacular Typeface, created by ikiiko collaboration with Brancok (a.k.a Dhani Soenyoto) Tjoekil Kajoe is a linocut typography shape adapted to indonesian vernacular culture with many decorative glyphs. You can play with sizes, alternatives and styles to get the style of typographic character just the way you want it. This typeface is perfect for an vintage poster, vintage product, linocut design, books cover, packaging design, magazine header, poster, quotes, and so much more. What's included? Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Punctuation Alternates & Ligature Stylistic Set Multilingual Support Enjoy our font and if you have any questions, you can contact us by email : ikiikowrk@gmail.com

Want to travel your audience to a world of gorgeous, elegant, versatile, yet modern? Looking for a font that makes your projects to spark happiness? Then, you go to the right way. Introducing Angelin Heart- A Calligraphy Font A modern and stylish handcrafted signature font that’ll make your audience swoon and enhance your projects. Suitable for social media posts and ads, printed quotes, t-shirt designs, packaging, or even as a modern text overlay to any background image. Angelin Heart includes Multilingual Options to make your branding globally acceptable. Features: Alternates Standard Ligatures Stylistic Sets Swashes Multilingual Support (67 languages) PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation

Sottel is a stylish modern calligraphy font in Hand Lettering style. Every single letters have been carefully crafted to make your text look beautiful. I hope this can inspire you for your work. Sottel is PUA encoded so you can access extras from the character map in most design software. Sottel also has Multi-linguage Support. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw. There are additional ways to access alternates, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac). Happy Creating.

Stepon is a versatile display font that offers a plethora of creative possibilities. This font is characterized by its bold, modern, and unique design, making it an excellent choice for a wide range of projects. The distinctive feature of Stepon is its versatility, with six different variations that include inline, outline, texture, and rough styles. Each variation stands strong on its own and can be easily combined with others, allowing you to unleash your creativity in various ways. Whether you're working on a logo, branding materials, invitations, packaging, posters, headlines, business collateral, greeting cards, magazines, films, or any other design project, Stepon has got you covered.

Start from the idea of our free font, Curely, which has hit the milestone - a 70K project views on Behance and a thousand times more download (still going). Now we came up with the Pro version of it. More complex, more features, and absolutely more playful. So, please welcome, Curely Pro. A Versatile casual handmade decorative lettering typeface. Still inspired from the girly things and cuteness overload in every letters. Perfectly fit for your cute, sweet, lovely, and casual branding or logo project. Or any design stuff that need a lovely cute touch on it, let the Curely Pro smooch it all the way baby!

Digitized handwriting fonts are a perfect way to give documents the “very special touch”. Invitations look simply better when handwritten than when printed in bland Arial or Times New Roman. Short handwritten notes look authentic and appealing. There are numerous occasions where handwritten text makes a better impression. Clay Handwriting Pro is a beautiful typeface that mimics true handwriting closely. Use Clay Handwriting Pro to create stunningly beautiful designs easily. This typeface comes with alternative characters for sophisticated typography – all easily accessible as OpenType features. A “random” feature even allows for automated random switching between variations of the same character, resulting in type that looks authentically handwritten.

Inkheart is a handmade font family of 22 fonts designed to play together. Inkheart family covers a wide range of different styles such as script, brush, sans and many other display styles - drawn in the same size so they naturally fit together. Inkheart also has Catchwords, Patterns and Ornaments that play perfectly with the letter-fonts. Inkheart family is a great tool for designing advertising, branding, posters, packaging and anything else with a coherent visual style. Each font goes a long way alone but together they’ll rock! Inkheart family is also packed with OpenType features such as Automatic Ligatures, Swash, Stylistic and Titling Alternates. Go wild with Inkeart!

The Thief Bird is an informal grotesque font. Although informal and grotesque may seem to be two quite different ideas, we have to dig into the origin of this typeface in order to understand the matter. The concept behind The Thief Bird was inspired by the adaptation that the vintage sign painters made when they took the grotesque style characters they saw in newspapers and magazines and reproduced them using a brush, aiming to make the prices of the products displayed on wooden boards stand out, as opposed to highlighting large headlines (such as the idea behind fonts like Franklin Gothic). The Thief Bird takes the language from sign painters and turns it into a font --this time around not aiming to set prices but to bring children stories to life. Thus, some legibility features from grotesque fonts were mixed with the brush calligraphy to add grace and zest to a font intended for children. The Thief Bird is a playful display font, with cheerful ligatures and alternate characters. It is really attractive for setting short paragraphs that tell stories for little people. The Thief Bird has one single weight and it’s ideal to be used in storybooks, candy packaging, films, toys, logos, labels, etc. The font has an extended set of 643 characters supporting 219 Latin languages. It has a complete set of small caps, sensitive cases, more than 30 pairs of ligatures, alternate characters and much more. This cool, informal and laid back typeface will be the perfect match for illustrations of fairy tales, comics for children and any product or publishing for the little ones. The Thief Bird supports this languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Corsican Creek,Crimean Tatar (Latin),Croatian, Czech, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut)Guadeloupean, Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian, Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, IgboI, locano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami (Inari Sami), Sami (Lule Sami), Sami (Northern Sami), Sami (Southern Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zulu, Zuni.

Sticky Melody is a charming display font that combines cuteness with a bold and prominent style. With its thick weight, rounded shapes, and distinct contrast, this typeface is designed to capture attention and infuse your designs with a playful and lively energy. The thick weight of Sticky Melody gives each letter a robust and substantial presence, making it stand out effortlessly. The rounded shapes add a touch of softness and friendliness, creating an endearing and approachable feel. The font's unique feature lies in its prominent contrast, which accentuates the curves and contours of each character, elevating the overall visual impact. Let the thick weight, rounded shapes, and prominent contrast of this font bring your creative visions to life, ensuring that your message stands out in the most charming and captivating way possible. You can use it in big text sizes to be greatly legible and enjoy the available features here. Features: Stylistic Sets Ligatures Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Sticky Melody fits in children's books, toy packaging, posters, headlines, logos, social media designs, and any design project that require a touch of delightful playfulness. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Thanks for purchasing our fonts. Hopefully, you have a great time using our font. Feel free to contact us anytime for further information or when you have trouble with the font. Thanks a lot and happy designing.

Your design project is your brand’s introduction to the public, so it is crucial to do it in the right way. An inappropriate font can totally change your messages and damage your work. For that reason, Karita is here to assist you with your needs. Karita is a classic, elegant, professional display serif font to increase the product and brand values promoted. This font looks more prominent than the others and shows strong, yet elegant impressions to attract customers. Continuity elements on every little scratch of the letters’ edges lead your eyes to follow one letter to another in line with serif font characters. Besides, this font type has thick lines and strong contrasts to attract customers and to show firm impressions. For a legibility reason, you can use this font for big text sizes. You can enjoy the available features here as well. Features: Stylistic Sets Ligatures Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Karita fits best for various design projects, such as brandings, posters, banners, headings, magazine covers, quotes, invitations, name cards, printed products, merchandise, social media, etc. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Thanks for purchasing our fonts. Hopefully, you have a great time using our font. Feel free to contact us anytime for further information or when you have trouble with the font. Thanks a lot and happy designing.

Condell Bio is part of the bigger Condell family: a project that involves series of typographies and whose early conception and development began in 2006. Unlike its Poster version , with its excessive and eccentric forms, Condell Bio tries to adapt itself to a monolinear shape, but conserving at the same time the organic character of its forms and endings. In this way Condell Bio is able to expanse its typographical use fields to a vaster scale. Condell’s endings and organic strokes haven’t been conceived in a structural way but stylistically. This means that Condell’s high readability doesn’t change and its original personality and idiosyncrasy as well. Condell can be said the ideal typography for connoting the corporation and brand identity, because of its high readability; especially its “eatable” forms, who collects images of food, are easily adaptable to food industry. Condell is highly recommended for the following products groups: cleansers, dish soaps, toothpastes, all sorts of personal hygiene products (shampoos, soaps,..), industrial cleanser products and also for products which refer to its softness, volatility and smoothness. Condell’s soft forms and nice endings, inspired through spontaneous brush strokes, give to the typography a very peculiar pleasant connotation. Its Italic (10 degrees inclination) has been produced singularly and not automatically calculated by the software. Condell Bio is composed of 16 fonts: from thin to black, whose weights are in regular and italic. Each singular weight has 600 characters and is composed of 206 languages.

Swan Song is a digitization of gorgeous free form calligraphy by British artist Rachel Yallop. It first appeared in The Calligraphy Source Book edited by Miriam Stribley (Running Press, 1986). Rooted in day to day handwriting, Swan Song is a quick and irregular artistic jolt at first impression, and surprisingly richly-textured art at second glance. Whatever these letters are used to communicate, the communicator is content, confident, humorous, strong and experienced, and the reader will be glad to receive the personal contact of such a communicator. Swan Song comes in all popular font formats, and includes plenty of built-in alternates.

Introducing, Givani, a font with a retro look but cute impression making this font unique with a consistent thickness, making memories of the 70s era, this font has an interesting alternative as well as several ligatures to complement it. This font is perfect for creating logos, invitations, novels, books, magazines, labels, greeting / wedding cards. So what are you waiting for! What's included? Uppercase Characters Lowercase Characters Support 75+ Language FEATURES Givani (OTF) So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to comment, or send me my PM or email at khoirtypework@gmail.com Thank you for seeing

Sassoon Felt’s more casual letterforms can be used either as informal text or for the teaching of reading and handwriting; having the letterforms most taught in UK schools. These fonts are an educators alternative to Comic Sans (from Microsoft) and Chalkboard (from Apple), which are more appropriate for ‘Print’ style writing in United States Elementary schools and may also be appropriate for parts of Australia, which can be identified usually by crucifix t, diagonal y downstroke, short f, two-stroke and there may be more. Free to download resources: How to access Stylistic Sets of alternative letters in these fonts

Akisa is a faux Japanese display typeface with amusing character characters that you may use for a variety of design projects. You will create a project that is striking and memorable in the minds of the entire audience if you use this typeface. Logotypes, food banners, branding, brochure, posters, movie titles, book titles, quotes, and more may all benefit from this font. Of course, using this font in your various design projects will make them excellent and outstanding; many viewers are drawn to the striking and unusual graphic display. Start utilizing this typeface in your projects to make them stand out.

Our latest fonts that save beauty in every word order you write with this font. made by paying attention to detailed geometric and paying attention to the perspective of the eye when reading the text using this font, so we made this font design to appear harmonious and comfortable to read. use this font to create a perfect design. This font is very suitable as text with displays for various kinds of branding, advertisements, posters, banners, packaging, news headlines, magazines, websites, logo design, banners, social media design and of course you can use a lot more.

Rapier, designed by Martin Wait for ITC in 1989, is an impulsive, energetic script font with strong ties to the brush and advertisement typefaces of hte 1940s. The zestful capitals contrast with small, narrow lower case letters, lending the font its dynamism and liveliness. Desinger Wait reached the energetic, almost aggressive feel of Rapier with snappy base forms and especially with ascending strokes. For an optimal look it is advisable to set Rapier's forms near to one another, so that the ends of the strokes of one figure touch the beginning of the next. Rapier is best used for headlines and short texts.

In the spirit of the old days, before water sparkled and before typefaces were known as fonts, Chank is proud to introduce Chippewa Falls the font. This font comes with fancy swirly uppercase letters and stout small caps for lowercase, as well as a heart-warming story. Chank rescued this former custom font from an abandoned design proposal. He gave it some TLC and before long a retro typeface emerged, with lettering worthy of good old fashioned sleigh rides and candy canes. Enjoy this font as you would a cup of hot cocoa next to a potbelly stove on a snowy day.

Introducing, Trimo, the clean and simple Modern Serif. This font has an attractive, clean and simple alternative and several ligatures that enhance it, making your font / logo even more attractive. This font has a thick and thin shape, making this font look unique but doesn't leave an elegant impression. This font is especially suitable for logos, invitations, novels, books, magazines, labels, greeting / wedding cards. So what are you waiting for! What's included? Uppercase Characters Lowercase Characters Support 75+ Language So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to comment, or send me my PM. Thank you for seeing

We've created a lively antiqua that is perfect for short emotional inscriptions. Coats will warm you up on a cold day and add a little kindness and easiness into any layout. Lines typed with this typeface start “trembling” in long texts, so be careful to use this family for special occasions and in small amounts. Imagine: on a cold day, you've just arrived home from a frosty walk to be rewarded with a cup of hot cocoa topped with marshmallows. We call this feeling the Coats effect. Add to your collection this unique font family that works perfectly in the contemporary digital age.

Victorina is a fantasy sans letter or display, inspired by the Victorian letters whose stylistic influence dominated the scene graph of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Victorina has a perfect structure of rigorous geometry. Victorina comes in several versions in both Black and Condensed, in italics with a varied repertoire of styles, besides providing small caps and ornaments. Victorina lets you work fine fantasy headlines when they overlap in layers of different styles. Victorina is a letter designed to recreate, with a contemporary vision, the spirit of those days of the industrial revolution and the early days of modernism.

Say goodbye to boring typography and hello to the lively energy that Night Market brings to every design endeavor. From posters promoting events at local night markets to bold signage capturing the spirit of bustling marketplaces, this font is here to infuse your creations with personality and flair with its cool rough textures. Add a dose of playfulness and creativity to your designs with Night Market - because who says business can't be fun? Night Market features : Standard Latin Numbers, symbols, and punctuations Multilingual Support. Fully accessible without additional design software Simple Installations Works on PC & Mac Uppercase Thank You.

AZ Ultra was inspired from a need to develop an easily changable worn italic headline. This font was designed for use as a display headline or sub headline.

A Venetian serif in 6 styles The Apolline typeface family was created by Jean François Porchez as a means to study the transition from Renaissance writing into the first printing types. Rather than sticking to the method commonly used these days for the creation of revivals of Jenson or Bembo types, it seemed more interesting to try and get in the same mindset as those exceptional designers during this pivotal period in the history of typography. Thus Apolline is an exploration of the design methods used by people like Nicolas Jenson and his contemporaries for adapting handwriting with its multiple occurrences (a, a, a, b, b, b…) into single, unique signs (a, b…). Initially Jean François made drawings modelled after his own calligraphy. They were done at a very small size on tracing paper (2 cm high for the capitals) to preserve the irregularity of human handwriting. Besides emphasising the horizontal parts of the letter forms, the serifs were designed asymmetrically to reinforce the rhythm of the writing. The final drawings were produced at a large size (10 cm high for the capitals) to allow for subtle optimisation of specific details. The very narrow and fluid Apolline italic Influenced by various concepts for an ideal italic by Van Krimpen, Gill, etc. Apolline italic was designed at 8° degrees. Although the structure of the letterforms were informed by chancery scripts, the italic has full serifs like the roman. Very narrow and fluid, its unique design creates a good contrast when used in combination with its upright counterparts. Thanks to the presence of the serifs similar to roman typefaces it sets very neatly in large sizes. The next step was digitising the drawings with Ikarus (the pre-Bézier-curves era) to create the final roman and italic fonts. Two years later, when the family was expanded to six series the same method was used, this time with Fontographer. This was necessary for correcting a few problems caused by the conversion to Bézier outlines, and to add intermediate weights. Before the advent of feature-rich OpenType, quality type families consisted of several separate fonts for each weight to provide users with various sets of numerals, an extended ligature set and alternates, ornaments, and so on. Introducing Apolline Morisawa Awards 1993

In the late 1930s, old Egyptiennes (or Italiennes) returned to the collective consciousness of European printers and type houses — perhaps because political news were front a centre, especially in France where Le Figaro newspaper was seeing record circulation numbers. In 1939 both Monotype and Lettergieterij Amsterdam thought of the same idea: Make a new typeface similar to the reverse stress slab shapes that make up the titles of newspapers like Le Figaro and Le Frondeur. Both foundries intended to call their new type Figaro. Monotype finished theirs first, so they ended up with the name, and their type was already published when Stefan Schlesinger finished his take for the Amsterdam foundry. Schlesinger’s type was renamed Hidalgo (Spanish for a lower nobleman, ‘son of something’) and published in 1940 as ‘a very happy variation on an old motif’. Although it wasn’t a commercial success at the time, it was well received and considered subtler and more refined than the similar types available, Figaro and Playbill. In the Second World War, the Germans banned the use of the type, and Hidalgo never really recovered. Upon closer inspection, Schlesinger’s work on Hidalgo was much more Euro-sophisticated and ahead of its time than the too-wooden cut of Figaro and the thick tightness of Playbill. It has a modern high contrast, a squarer skeleton, contour cuts that work similarly outside and inside, and airy and minimal solutions to the more complicated shapes like G, K, M, N, Q and W. It is also much more aware of, and more accommodating to, the picket-fence effect the thick top slabs create in setting. Basilio (named after the signing teacher in Mozart’s Figaro) is the digital revival and major expansion of Hidalgo. With nearly 600 glyphs, it boasts Pan-European language support (most Latin languages, as well as Cyrillic and Greek), and a few OpenType tricks that gel it all together to make a very useful design tool. Stefan Schlesigner was born in Vienna in 1896. He moved to the Netherlands in 1925, where he worked for Van Houten’s chocolate, Metz department store, printing firm Trio and many other clients. He died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1944. Digital revivals and expansions of two of his other designs, Minuet and Serena, have also been published by Canada Type.