The ballpoint pen woman’s handwriting As the name suggests — the Iris’ Hand is a woman’s personal handwriting, written with a ballpoint pen. Iris’ Hand is an amazing font — almost indistinguishable from “real” handwriting. Thanks to the over 200 different ligatures and stylistic alternates the typeface is extremely lively and varied. The ballpoint pen has its own characteristics, which are clearly expressed in this font. The stroke is not always uniformly thick. Sometimes only a delicate, thin line is created. Often it breaks off suddenly and leaves a gap. In addition to the normal version, there is also a light and a bold version. Handwriting is sometimes written more or less slanted. So does Iris’ Hand. The normal version is only slightly slanted. But there is also an oblique version that is significantly more inclined by 20°, which makes the script appear more regular and somehow feminine. The Iris’ Hand is also available as a variable font!

Sharka is heavy sharp condensed system of 7 display typefaces widths, plus 7 italics and 7 alternative version on each family member, inspired on dangerous personality and aggressive reputation of the great white shark, it was thought to create the feel of high impact, high risk action on extreme situations, polemic public scandals, financial advertisement alert, the italic version specially creates the feel of velocity, powerful mechanical energy and related similar topics. Recommended to use in big headlines, magazine covers, advertisements, robust public visual calls, but also, if it applied with good taste and good typographical skills, could be a good choice not only for prints but also for web and digital media devices.

Headlines are transformed into clear-cut messages with the handwriting type family Slandic. Its robust appeal combines the elegance of script typefaces with the lightness of handwritten notes. What makes the Slandic so playful is the synergy between the quite narrow lowercase letters and the wide uppercase letters. Therefore it might rather be an upright chancery italic of a humanist sans. You can see it very clearly in its sharp upward angles and its long-limbed ascenders. Its visual appeal sets a reliable tone. It is precisely balanced with a solid stroke contrast and confidently angular-shaped curves. Slandic perfectly enhances exciting contrasting typography adding a personal note without giving it a comic spin.

Caros Family is a modern sans-serif typeface that is clean, simple and highly readable. Letters in this type family are designed with geometric shapes without any decorative distractions. The spaces between individual letter forms are precisely adjusted to create the perfect typesetting. Caros is a versatile type family of 18 fonts. Caros family consists of 9 weights (Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, ExtraBold, Heavy & Black) with their corresponding italics. The Open Type fonts contain complete Latin 1252, Cyrillic, Central European 1250, Turkish 1254 character sets. Each font includes proportional figures, tabular figures, numerators, denominators, superscript, scientific inferiors, subscript, fractions and case features. We highly recommend it for use in books, web pages, screen displays, and so on.

Old Kharkiv was inspired by the first half of the 20th century photo with a signage on the building of the Ivan Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National University of Arts. During the development, the font has acquired unique features not from the original signage, for example, drops in uppercase were replaced with sharp serifs. This font contains the letters of all the main European languages, Cyrillic and basic special characters. Some uppercase letters (where allowed their form) have decorative elements (swashes) to use them as drop caps or initials. There are stylistic alternatives for some Ukrainian letters. Also, as a bonus, this font contains up to a dozen graphic elements that you can use in your layout.

Future Bugler is a font based on the second logo created by Harry Warren in early 1975 for his sixth grade class newsletter, The Broadwater Bugler, at Broadwater Academy in Exmore, Virginia, on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. This font can convey several perspectives or moods. It can suggest a space-age vision of the future, or an art-deco perspective of the future as in the movie “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”. It also communicates the idea of high performance, or extreme sports, without the grunge. Also be sure to check out the upright version of this font, Future Bugler Upright, available separately. Digitized by John Bomparte. Additional tags: NFL, NFL Network, NFLN

Dexter is an original new typeface creation by Alex Kaczun. It is a warmer, more sophisticated grotesque that is both fun and interesting. Its tight letter spacing and narrow proportions make the typeface particularly well suited for display sizes and headlines. This intriguing sans with distinctive letter shapes is typical for display fonts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dexter is ideal for titles and headlines looking for impact and style. Dexter is also an excellent choice for magazines, books, posters, brochures, flyers, etc. The large Pro font character set, which supports most Central European and many Eastern European languages, also includes a corresponding small caps font along with old style figures.

Karmaline is a six-weight sans serif font family with a unique and expressive design. This font has some intriguing special features such as subtly tapered topheavy vertical strokes and selected wedge-shaped horizontal strokes. It is evocative of designs from Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands in the period spanning 1900 – 1930, but with thoroughly modern features like high legibility at small sizes, even inter-character weight and flow, and a high x-height. You'll find Karmaline's semi-condensed width to be useful for both strong headlines and for comfortable copyfitting in narrow column widths. This font also works very well when adding layered shadow and highlight effects, and is a great choice for logos.

Nimrod was released by Monotype in 1980. Designed for current newspaper technology, the Nimrod font family evolved as a result of extensive examination of newspaper industry needs. Nimrod retains many of the features of the traditional newspaper Ionics, but some of the fussier detailing has been replaced by the more sober forms of the old styles, such as Plantin. A highly legible font family, especially in smaller sizes, its clear unambiguous character shapes make easily readable blocks of text. Nimrod also withstands the degradation encountered in newspaper production and printing. First used for body text in the Leicester Mercury newspaper, the Nimrod font family has subsequently become a popular choice in newspapers for text and headlines.

Introducing Monatomia, a new display font by Omar Sacca a.k.a. ortho*. Monatomia is a font that is sure to make a statement in any design project. With stencil shapes designed to mimic the look of neon signs, Monatomia has a retro-futuristic twist that is truly unique. Featuring 191 glyphs in two styles, Monatomia is the perfect font for creating quick and effective logotypes or titles. Whether you're working on a poster, a website, or a packaging design, Monatomia will bring a fresh and eye-catching look to your work. So don't wait any longer! Add Monatomia to your design toolkit and start creating bold, neon-inspired designs that will grab attention and make an impact.

Vinho De Amora is a truly vintage serif font. Drawn by Mans Greback between 2019 and 2021, this font is created with inspiration from wine cellars, painted typography and genuine quality produce. It has a distinct sharp character, steady legs and a bold and wide appearance. The Vinho De Amora family consists of three styles: Black, White and Stencil; each one geometrically consistent and complimenting, perfect for stacking on top of each other to create more variations. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality. It has extensive lingual support, covering all European Latin-based languages. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Lalo Grotesk is made up of five weights, their slant versions and a two axis (weight and slant) Variable font. Lalo Grotesk is a grotesque typeface with characterful lowercase letters that are highly legible in large body texts, while the uppercase letters are wider to give a sense of speed in big size headlines. Its shapes are super readable, making the font ideal for use in web and editorial projects. It also have a big range of standard ligatures and icons. Lalo Grotesk font family will keep expanding and improving. Users will continue to receive free updates with technical and aesthetic improvements. Any suggestion will be welcome, don’t hesitate to contact us!

This font has been especially designed for Mostardesign Studio by Olivier Gourvat. Created in 2010, this font family has been designed to serve sectors like financial services, modern industries, business and many more activities who needs a modern aspect in their communication. Its square proportions make the design very readable at a wide range of sizes. Shapes give the face a unique futuristic look and is a very practical choice for modern headlines, branding, text and web fonts work. The family contains also an alternative set with simplified letters designed especially for text and a unique stylistic set for titles and branding. UNicod Sans is available in 5 weights with corresponding italics and 2 styles.

NULATO is a sans serif font inspired by the great Alaskan outdoors and the clean shapes of the horizon. The font represents a modern and slick approach to a minimalist trend behind the core of great brand identity practices. Nulato took a year to develop, from the first sketches to the final 700+ glyphs the process took a significant amount of research and variables. The letters, specific ligatures, and symbols are a full stack. It was specifically designed with the classic approach to balance and appearance, but with a strongly advocated contemporary characteristic of font design and marks. NULATO evokes the perception of something familiar, but with that extra, needed for inspiring the new.

Introducing, Divine Stone - A brush display font. This font has unique shape with watercolor brush effect, very catchy for fresh and playful theme design. This font also perfectly made to be applied especially in logo, and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : uppercase and lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. How to access opentype feature : letterhend.com/tutorials/using-opentype-feature-in-any-software/

Introducing Al Nevrada Font. It's a display typeface with sharp serif forms. If you want to stand out then this is the font for you. It’s a chic and luxurious serif font with a contemporary feel. Use it to add a bold flavor to any design! It’s ready and perfectly fit for your logo designs, headlines, music projects & social media posts, event posters, brand imagery, product packaging, quotes, merchandising, etc. Features : OpenType features ( ligature, alternate ) Easy to use, you can use combination like a.2 e.2 etc Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, also works in Microsoft Word. PUA Encoded Characters - Fully accessible without additional design software. Multilingual support

Mersin is a modern sans serif font family. The asymmetrical structure of the beginning and ending shapes of letters such as "Cc, Ss" is its most distinguishing feature. Mersin has a total of 20 fonts, includings 10 weights and their appropriate italics. With its 2-axis (Weight & Italic) Variable Version, Mersin offers the advantage of using a very rich weight between 100-900. It includes detailed ligatures such as "Th, Tl, Ti, Tä, Tä, Tü, Tö, iï, fä, fä, fö fü" for very wide and different accents. “Mersin Book” and “Mersin Book Italic” are specially designed for body texts and small fonts usages. Ideal for corporate identity, posters, brochures, guidance signages and all other kinds of graphic design works.

KubaApplique is a bold and exciting African font that makes use of the interplay of black and white shapes -- reminiscent of the Kuba cloths that are made and used by the Bakuba tribe. Typified by a balance between dark and light areas, the characters reflect the ethos of Africa. Kuba applique contains the full range of upper and lower case characters, all punctuation and special characters as well as the accented characters used in the major European languages. Because the way in which the individual letters fit together is so important in Kuba Applique, I took especial care of the kerning and spacing of characters. The font is intended to be used as a display font.

This Kaonug display font will make your work stand out. It brings just the right amount of uniqueness and style to whatever project you’re working on, the anatomical shape of the letters makes it unique and artistic. This is a great font to use when creating logos, posters, advertisements, and all your projects or anything else that needs to stand out in a variety of media. 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

Mecanica is an original design by Alex Kaczun. It is a display font not intended for text use. It was designed specifically for display headlines, logotype, branding and similar applications. The entire font has an original look which is strong, dynamic, machine generated and can be widely used in publications and advertising. Mecanica is a futuristic, techno-looking and expressive typeface with an appearance of metal-like parts with some very sharp edges. This attractive display comes in roman with lower case and lining figures. The font also is available with true-drawn slant italics. Other design style variations include Swash as well as Ornamental Italic Capitals along with a few Ornamental Symbols to embellish and enhance the possibilities.

Paperclip Wire is a great font for anyone looking to have a straightforward yet elegant look. All letters consist of Capitals yet the uppercase letters are exaggerated. Because of the nature of the font I suggest using it in no less than 20 pt. font. However, because it is simple it can easily be read when printed. This typeface was developed loosely based on a paper clip itself. the x-height was determined based off the size ratio of the clip and the cap height was based off of a paper clip as it is folded open. The overall shape is straight lines and subtle curves, all relating to each other to allow for a constant flow of letters.

Hildor San is a san serif font with full set of uppercase and lowercase letters, multilingual symbols, numerals, punctuation and ligatures. Hildor San elegant san serif font 9 family, classic and elegant style for poster design, magazines, beauty branding with a flower-shaped asterisk glyph suitable for your beautiful and elegant design concept. Features Standard glyphs uppercase and lowercase letters Numerals, a large range of punctuation and ligatures. Lowercase letters include ending swashes. Works on PC & Mac. Simple installations, accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even work on Microsoft Word. PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. Fonts include multilingual support for; ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡

Meet our new exploration Cherione, a playful Sans Serif font family. Cherione has a unique letterform with the lowercase designed in the same height as the uppercase, which gives a playfully look. Cherione has a geometric shape and was carefully adjusted to look elegant and minimalist. Perfect for fashion, minimalist, luxury, kids, and other joyful themes. Cherione font family consists of 3 weights: Light, Normal, and Bold. So you can use this font set for many purposes such as logos, storefront, social media design, quotes, name cards, menus, magazines and editorial, signboards, posters, and more. There are 30+ unique ligatures which give you many variations of typography designing. Also complete with accents, swashes, and alternates.

Zibryain is a unique display font. Modern style created as a result of my experiments on letterforms, on the one hand I like the appearance of the individual curved lines, on the other hand they seem very strange, foreign and illogical. It was like looking into a microscope and seeing something strange. I wanted to develop and study these forms as something new, because I had never seen anything similar before. The result is a contrasting font that has sharp, smooth curves and lines. The Zibryain font is perfect for designing company logos, online game logos, magazine covers, biographies, business cards and all your design work of course. become more attractive in appearance.

Spirits design was initially based on Hermann Ihlenburg's Schoeffer Old Style from the 1912 ATF catalog. Soft is the closest version to the printed original typeface. Neutral, with more formal serifs, is ideal for editorial design, for example newspaper headlines. Sharp, more contemporary, is the best choice for meeting today's design needs. Condensed proportions and large x-height, features found in the original font, make Spirits ideally suited for headlines and branding design. As you would expect from Latinotype, this font comes with a standard character set that supports over 200 languages. Each version includes its own alternates and comes in 4 weights, ranging from Light to Black, resulting in a total of 12 font styles.

Barosaki is a unique blend of classic and modern shapes. Imperfect style ups and downs, like dancing letters, which are smooth, clean and simple. Perfect for weddings, events, invitations, escort cards, table numbers, header menus, displays, logos, slider blogs, custom addresses, stamps, packaging, greeting cards, etc. Barosaki Script including alternate glyph and beautiful swirl in a font including stylistic sets, Ligatures etc. The OpenType features can be accessed by using OpenType savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7 and Microsoft Word. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts), so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer.

Based on our experience as a graphic designer who works for a lot of companies, we often are requested to design a logo in a unique style but with an elegant shape. So, we try to brainstorming and create this font to make the idea is going out. This is perfect for BRANDING and LOGO DESIGN. You will get classy, elegant, and certainly unique logos with this font. (Update v.2) Added 10+ ligatures for your needs. :) angle is also included full set of: uppercase and lowercase letters multilingual characters numerals punctuation Wish you enjoy our font and if you have a question, don't hesitate to drop message & I'm happy to help :)

Delauney is a display font, inspired by the Art Deco style from the 1920s. Delauney visualizes luxurious looks, elegance, and wealth. This font is an all-caps font designed with geometric shapes and firm strokes that gives a clear look and minimalist. Delauney also has some OpenType features and accented characters to give you many alternatives in your creative process. A great choice for your headline, title, label, editorial, logotype, quotes, typography, and more! Delauney provides three styles : Regular: The main style for display or headline Shadow: Secondary style that you can use to beautify the Regular one. Catchwords: Available in three languages; English, Spain & Bahasa. Complete your words to look more decorative. Thank you for visiting Happy designing!

Sticky Written is a round, soft display font expressing funny, cute, fun nuances in every design. The letters look like soap bubbles flying around in the air in flowing shapes and balanced proportions. The Sticky Written font will live up and charm your designs in order to suggest positive and cute vibes to your target audience. You can apply this font, which provides a clipart as a bonus, for big text sizes to make it more legible and attractive. In addition, you can make use of some available features here. Features: Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Sticky Written fits best for various design projects, such as brandings, headings, magazine covers, quotes, 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.

Brush Drops is a modern, impressive font that mixes the brush script characteristics and lovely, smooth ink drop details. This capital letter font shows stronger, more elegant displays. The letter shapes are in soft and smooth brush wipes with even edge lines to show firmer, clearer impressions. Furthermore, the ink drop details show personal, interesting touch on some of the letter parts. Bright, contrast colors will make this font outstanding and eye-catching. In addition, you may apply it for big text sizes to be greatly legible, and enjoy the available features here as well. Features: Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Brush Drops fits best for various design projects, such as brandings, quotes, 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.

In 2007 we shared our first pride together. More than 1 million people took the streets of Madrid for this huge celebration … seeing the diversity of people supporting love was incredibly touching. Gay Pride is a celebration of freedom, human rights and the right to love whoever we want. It’s a memorial for the battles, the lives lost and the pain suffered while fighting for a growing list of equal rights. But let’s not forget there are still places where LGTBQ community is repressed and persecuted. As Letter crafters we love seeing the signs people design for their different pride parades, and we wondered… Why don’t we create a collection of handcrafted lettering to share some love and to add a typographic realness to the party? Love Wins Font is a series of 60 phrases handwritten with expertise and love specially designed to celebrate diversity. The lettering was crafted with different calligraphic tools creating diverse aesthetics. You can use them to create your signs, t-shirts, stickers, poster, banners.. all you need is to spread love during your Pride Celebrations (or day-to-day life!).

Kolaron – A Modern Condensed Sans Serif Font Kolaron is a contemporary condensed sans-serif font that effortlessly blends sophistication with modernity. Its sleek and streamlined design features condensed letterforms that exude a sense of efficiency and space optimization, making it an ideal choice for projects where legibility and style are paramount. The font’s clean lines and geometric shapes contribute to a polished and professional appearance, making it versatile for a range of applications, from corporate branding to editorial design. Kolaron’s balanced letter spacing and subtle yet distinctive details showcase a meticulous attention to typographic detail, ensuring a harmonious and eye-catching visual experience across various mediums. Whether used for headlines, signage, or digital interfaces, Kolaron stands as a testament to the elegance achievable in contemporary typography. Kolaron is perfect for branding projects, logo, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, invitation, stationery, game, fashion and any projects. Fonts include multilingual support for; Afrikaans, Albanian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.

Introduction to Monaz – Bubble Font Monaz – Bubble Font, a playful and airy display font, is inspired by the lightness and roundness of bubbles and balloons. Perfect for creating eye-catching headings, logos, and children’s books, this font not only grabs attention but also serves as an ideal choice for fun and whimsical projects. Design and Aesthetics In its design, Monaz – Bubble Font features characters that resemble bubbles, with rounded edges and a bouncy feel. Furthermore, the letters mimic the floating appearance of balloons, thus adding a cheerful and lighthearted touch to any design. Additionally, its rounded forms are easy on the eyes, ensuring readability while preserving its playful charm. Versatility and Usage Monaz – Bubble Font boasts high versatility, fitting a variety of design needs effortlessly. Not only does it shine in party invitations and product packaging, but it also excels in promotional materials. Moreover, its effectiveness extends to educational materials for children, making learning engaging with its friendly appearance. As a result, its readability and unique style make it a top choice for designers seeking to add a fun element to their projects. Accessibility and Appeal Designed for a wide audience, Monaz – Bubble Font features a simple and clear style that is easy to read. It appeals to all ages, capturing the whimsy of childhood while still being sophisticated enough for adult projects. In summary, this font brings a unique joy and playfulness to any design, making it a valuable addition to any font collection.

It can be a difficult task to find a unique, attractive, prominent display font for your design because you always want to use a more distinctive font than the others. Therefore, Chubby Lines offers you the best solution. It is a lovely display font in rounded shapes to express soft, friendly nuances to your design. Its unique geometry details and contrast sketch lines create a visually interesting font. To be easily readable, this font is best applied for big text sizes, which also provides you with a special clipart as a bonus. Furthermore, you can enjoy the available features here. Features: Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Chubby Lines fits best for various design projects, such as brandings, posters, banners, headings, magazine covers, quotes, 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.

Pure and not-so-simple Maybe it’s the air of purity, openness and transparency that they transmit, but geometric typefaces are more popular than ever among leading brands. Based on near-perfect circles, triangles and squares, geometric letterforms look uncomplicated, even though making them readable is anything but – something the designers of the first wave of geometric fonts discovered nearly a century ago. Many of the world’s most recognisable brands in technology, retail, travel, food, manufacturing and other industries continue to be drawn to the straightforward, honest character that geometric fonts convey. Fontsmith set out in 2015 to develop a typeface in the same tradition, but optimised for the demands of modern brands – online and offline usage, readability and accessibility. And, of course, with the all-important Fontsmith x-factor built in. FS Lucas is the bold and deceptively simple result. Handle with care The letterforms of FS Lucas are round and generous, along the lines of Trajan Column lettering stripped of its serifs. But beware their thorns. Their designer, Stuart de Rozario, who also crafted the award-winning FS Millbank, wanted a contrast between spiky and soft, giving sharp apexes to the more angular letterforms, such as A, M, N, v, w and z. Among his inspirations were the colourful, geometric compositions of Frank Stella, the 1920s art deco poster designs of AM Cassandre, and the triangular cosmic element symbol, which led him to tackle the capital A first, instead of the usual H. The proportions and angles of the triangular form would set the template for many of the other characters. It was this form, and the light-scattering effects of triangular prisms, that lit the path to a name for the typeface: Lucas is derived from lux, the Latin word for light. Recommended reading Early geometric typefaces were accused of putting mathematical integrity before readability. FS Lucas achieves the trick of appearing geometric, while taking the edge off elements that make reading difficult. Perfectly circlular shapes don’t read well. The way around that is to slightly thicken the vertical strokes, and pull out the curves at the corners to compensate; the O and o of FS Lucas are optical illusions. Pointed apexes aren’t as sharp as they look; the flattened tips are an essential design feature. And distinctive details such as the open terminals of the c, e, f, g, j, r and s, and the x-height bar on the i and j, aid legibility, especially on-screen. These and many other features, the product of sketching the letterforms in the first instance by hand rather than mapping them out mechanically by computer, give FS Lucas the built-in humanity and character that make it a better, easier read all-round. Marks of distinction Unlike some of its more buttoned-up geometric bedfellows, FS Lucas can’t contain its natural personality and quirks: the flick of the foot of the l, for example, and the flattish tail on the g and j. The unusual bar on the J improves character recognition, and the G is circular, without a straight stem. There’s a touch of Fontsmith about the t, too, with the curve across the left cross section in the lighter weights, and the ampersand is one of a kind. There’s a lot to like about Lucas. With its 9 weights, perfect proportions and soft but spiky take on the classic geometric font, it’s a typeface that could light up any brand.

Pure and not-so-simple Maybe it’s the air of purity, openness and transparency that they transmit, but geometric typefaces are more popular than ever among leading brands. Based on near-perfect circles, triangles and squares, geometric letterforms look uncomplicated, even though making them readable is anything but – something the designers of the first wave of geometric fonts discovered nearly a century ago. Many of the world’s most recognisable brands in technology, retail, travel, food, manufacturing and other industries continue to be drawn to the straightforward, honest character that geometric fonts convey. Fontsmith set out in 2015 to develop a typeface in the same tradition, but optimised for the demands of modern brands – online and offline usage, readability and accessibility. And, of course, with the all-important Fontsmith x-factor built in. FS Lucas is the bold and deceptively simple result. Handle with care The letterforms of FS Lucas are round and generous, along the lines of Trajan Column lettering stripped of its serifs. But beware their thorns. Their designer, Stuart de Rozario, who also crafted the award-winning FS Millbank, wanted a contrast between spiky and soft, giving sharp apexes to the more angular letterforms, such as A, M, N, v, w and z. Among his inspirations were the colourful, geometric compositions of Frank Stella, the 1920s art deco poster designs of AM Cassandre, and the triangular cosmic element symbol, which led him to tackle the capital A first, instead of the usual H. The proportions and angles of the triangular form would set the template for many of the other characters. It was this form, and the light-scattering effects of triangular prisms, that lit the path to a name for the typeface: Lucas is derived from lux, the Latin word for light. Recommended reading Early geometric typefaces were accused of putting mathematical integrity before readability. FS Lucas achieves the trick of appearing geometric, while taking the edge off elements that make reading difficult. Perfectly circlular shapes don’t read well. The way around that is to slightly thicken the vertical strokes, and pull out the curves at the corners to compensate; the O and o of FS Lucas are optical illusions. Pointed apexes aren’t as sharp as they look; the flattened tips are an essential design feature. And distinctive details such as the open terminals of the c, e, f, g, j, r and s, and the x-height bar on the i and j, aid legibility, especially on-screen. These and many other features, the product of sketching the letterforms in the first instance by hand rather than mapping them out mechanically by computer, give FS Lucas the built-in humanity and character that make it a better, easier read all-round. Marks of distinction Unlike some of its more buttoned-up geometric bedfellows, FS Lucas can’t contain its natural personality and quirks: the flick of the foot of the l, for example, and the flattish tail on the g and j. The unusual bar on the J improves character recognition, and the G is circular, without a straight stem. There’s a touch of Fontsmith about the t, too, with the curve across the left cross section in the lighter weights, and the ampersand is one of a kind. There’s a lot to like about Lucas. With its 9 weights, perfect proportions and soft but spiky take on the classic geometric font, it’s a typeface that could light up any brand.

It’s perfect for Christmas cards, branding, stationery, blog design, custom art, custom stamps, custom embossers, book, apparel, packaging, headline, Crafting, Logo, or much more! It will add a unique feel and looks stunning to any design project! Does not contain Caps.

SpeedSwash is a stylised oblique script-fraktur hybrid. That description could should bizarre - lets face it, it does - but the result is actually rather splendid we think. Lovely for poster work where a sense of life and motion is required.