Be yourself; everyone else is already taken -- Oscar Wilde Being a human being often means fulfilling who you really are. It’s about fulfilling your potential and living to the best of your abilities. And the Ratilla Script will help you show the world who you are! The Ratilla Script paves the way for you to write the information you need to send out to your audience. Make your projects to works of art, conveying your intentions clearly with the font! Maximize your designs with this urban and wavy font. It surely fits anywhere you want them to, giving them a place perfectly tucked in between your designs. Connect with your audience and stand out in the crowd as these fonts will show you that you and your works deserve their attention. Show your boldness as you make the world see of the elegant details put together in your projects! The Ratilla Script will be the perfect addition to aid you in your journey to be who you really are. Let the world see your beauty, bring it out through your handiwork and give your viewers a new perspective!

Ainslie Contrast is the newest in the Ainslie series, named for the famous mountain overlooking the Australian city of Canberra. The Ainslie series currently consists of four typefaces. The Ainslie design is very unique and originally began life as a semi-serif. Also available are a normalized sans serif and slab variants. This contemporary typeface’s high contrast catches the eye. The design flows with ease and sophistication. There are a mix of influences from Australia, which gives it a unique flavor. The original Ainslie was designed for the Canberra Australia Centennial Typeface Competition and named for the mountain that overlooks the beautiful capital city of Australia. Ainslie takes Canberra's distinct geometric design and blends it with the organic, flowing essence of aboriginal art and the smooth aerodynamic design of the boomerang. The typeface includes a multitude of alternates that can be accessed in any OpenType application. There are swashes and other details such as small caps, alternative titling caps and swash alternates. If you’re searching for a contemporary high contrast typeface with geometric simplicity and a hint of antipodean flair, Ainslie Contrast is fair dinkum.

The Augsburger Family is a product of the Art Nouveau period in Germany and Austria, reflecting the darker, heavier Jugendstil approach typical of the Secession movement in these two countries. Originally released by H. Berthold AG of Berlin and Bauer & Co. of Stuttgart in 1902, Augsburger has been attributed to the designer Peter Schnorr. This current version represents a year-long revision of the Augsburger Family. All three fonts have been updated to eliminate duel encoding, harmonize metrics, and review all glyphs. In addition, the following features have been included in the individual fonts: Augsburger Schrift: a total of 249 glyphs have been added, for a total of 467 and an increase of 114%. New are Tabular Numbers, Small Caps, a variety of Ligatures and the refinement of all accents. Augsburger Initials: complete redesign of upper case, inclusion of upper case from Schrift instead of lower case, plus inclusion of small caps and a selection of appropriate ligature. Augsburger Ornamente: includes some additional glyphs. Augsburger may be purchased as a complete family or as individual fonts. Each font package includes both TTF and OTF versions to allow you to select what is most useful to you.

Oliver Label solves a problem many creatives face – the endless search for a realistic pencil-textured font to add handwritten notes to images, quotes, blog posts, and more without having to do it themselves. With Oliver Label, you can easily add handwritten notes to your images! BIGGEST BENEFITS: Vector pencil texture 26 hand drawn elements so your quotes look beautiful and custom No more wasted time trying to add your own notes and handwritten feel to your work (or worrying about your handwriting!) INFO: Oliver Label Regular: A textured vector font that works with any Desktop application (Word, Photoshop, Canva, etc.). Includes ligatures ll, ss, and tt. Oliver Label Alternates: 'Alt' version of Oliver Label, where you'll get a whole new set of letters and numbers. This way, you can swap out regular letters for the alternates when you have two of the same letters close to one another (i.e. oo or bb) to look as realistic as possible. Includes ligatures ll, ss, and tt. Oliver Label Drawn: You'll also get 26 different hand-drawn shapes to add to quotes and graphics. Non-English support for the international designer

A Monogram is a lettering character made up of the main letters of a name and sometimes all of them. It is a kind of design which dates from the earliest times of our history. It is a distinctive mark that everyone could have themselves, to apply to documents and many purposes. The signatures of ancient Kings were Monograms. Today this brand, for the people of taste, must have the cachet of this era or the evocative feelings of ancient times. Our predecessors knew how to create it by using the capital that preceded Gothic and the other characters. The Vintage Monograms collection contain hundreds of ready to use in alarge of shape of the letters, with styles from Victorian, to Art Nouveau and to mediaeval like in the old manuscripts. Ready to use fonts, Vintage Monograms collection is a classic that features elegant and intricate monograms perfect for branding and personalization. Its ornate designs evoke the timeless style of vintage logos and can be used to add a touch of sophistication to invitations, stationery, and packaging. Monogram brings an air of refinement and exclusivity to any project.

The font is actually not a revival of ‘Avant Garde’—by Herb Lubalin—but it takes its spirit. Fibra is a geometric sans serif, yet without the typical structural strictness of these kind of fonts, that represents experimental type design. This can be seen in the contrast between curves and straight lines in some characters such as ’n’ and ‘h’ unlike rounded ones such as ‘a’ and ‘d’; details of some display characters (e.g. three upper terminals in ‘W’ and projection off the stem in ‘A’); and exaggerated terminal in ‘R’. All these features give Fibra a strong personality—a sans serif typeface that ‘gives you the chills’. Fibra was specially designed for display use. The font has a very generous x-height that allows for use in corporate text, thanks to its good readability. Fibra comes with 2 subfamilies—a more ’normal’ Basic family, with a smaller amount of stylistic features, for use in subheadings or any other type of text that requires formality, and an Alt family that shows off the true potential of the font, making it the perfect choice for magazine headlines, posters and logotypes.

Keep it fresh with South Coast! A cool and confident brush font designed to deliver refreshing script lettering to a range of design projects. South Coast consists of: South Coast • A handwritten brush script font containing upper & lowercase characters, numerals, and a large range of punctuation. South Coast Alt • This is a second version of South Coast, with a completely new set of both upper and lowercase characters. If you wanted to avoid letters looking the same each time to recreate a custom-made style, or try a different word shape, simply switch to this font for an additional layout option. South Coast Swash • A third font containing 23 hand drawn swashes. Simply type any a-z or A-Z character in this font to generate a swash. Perfect for underlining your South Coast text and adding a bit of extra flair! Ligatures • 15 ligatures (double-letters) are included to help your lettering flow more naturally. Language Support • South Coast fonts support the following languages; English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Malay, Hungarian, Polish, Croatian, Turkish, Romanian, Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Slovenian

Say hello to a casual handwritten font family - Dreaming OutLoud. 8 handwritten typefaces made to complement each other in the best possible way. They are easy to use and perfect for expressing your thoughts, posting quotes and simple daily updates on social media. The font package is complemented by more than a 100 transparent background marker lines (easy to change color!) - to emphasise what you are saying :) - and dingbats & doodles font. Two sub-packages included: Elementary package. Use this one if you primarily work in Canva/Cricut and similar applications and don’t want to deal with OpenType features of the PRO fonts. To access alternates - simply change the font to it’s ALT version. Voilà. You can use these fonts on your iPad in Procreate app! Charged package. You need this one if you feel comfortable with OpenType features, if you work in Adobe Suite and similar applications that have OpenType panel to access OT features. You can use these fonts in Canva-like applications as well - they are fully unicode mapped. Contact me with your MyFonts order # to get a free bonus - more than a 100 "Marker selection lines" in png and psd

Introducing Sunday Notes, a unique and beautiful handwritten font crafted with love and precision. This font offers a relaxed and friendly writing style, perfect for your creative projects. Inspired by the calm and cozy vibes of a Sunday, Sunday Notes adds a personal touch and warmth to your designs. Sunday Notes comes in two main variations: Regular and Italic, allowing you to express your creativity even more. Each letter in this font also offers multiple alternatives, providing flexibility to create captivating and eye-catching text. With Sunday Notes, you can bring a warm and friendly atmosphere to projects like logo design, greeting cards, invitations, merchandise, websites, and more. It's compatible with various devices and design software, making it easy to use seamlessly in your creative work. Whether you're a professional designer or an art enthusiast, Sunday Notes is the perfect choice to add a personal touch and beauty to your projects. Let's create stunning designs using Sunday Notes as the captivating handwritten font. Now, you're ready to introduce Sunday Notes to the world and inspire others with the beauty and warmth of this handwritten font.

insigne returns to Aviano’s classically inspired forms with this sans serif variant. Wide and geometric, Aviano Sans is perfect for any job that calls for a chic and dignified sans serif as seen in this demonstration video. Aviano Sans has consistently topped insigne’s best-seller chart for more than seven years, earning its stripes as an expressive and versatile typeface that belongs in any designer’s tool chest. Aviano Sans' five weights of Regular, Thin, Light, Bold, and Black include 42 Art Deco-inspired alternate characters that can turn you and your project into a force to be reckoned with. The typeface family also includes 40 unique ligatures that add a bit of swagger to this serious sans. insigne released the first Aviano in early 2007. Its beautifully drawn extended letterforms were a hit with designers, and Aviano quickly became one of insigne’s most popular offerings. The simplified variant of Aviano Sans followed soon after, paring down the structure around the core concept. The Aviano series continues to develop further today with new variants on this classic form. Be sure to check out the rest of the Aviano series, including Aviano, Aviano Serif, Aviano Flare, and Aviano Contrast.

The retro-inspired design of Aviano Copper echos the bold style of America’s Gilded Age. Inspired by the copper-inscribed intaglio printing designs of the early 20th century, the powerful, wide character shape of this font walks softly across your page while carrying a big stick. To create the right balance, small wedge serifs were added onto Aviano Sans, giving you a sophisticated style that looks and acts like it belongs nowhere short of Boardwalk. Developed to a new level of excellence, this design offers a wide range of weights from thin to black. There's full multilingual support of all Latin-based languages and five stylistic sets, swash designs, and 1000 glyphs per weight, including some unique ligatures. Number options include old style figures, tabular figures, and superscripts. Unique median spur alternates, swashes, and ligatures will help you customize every single design. The feel of last century’s personal and business correspondence is waiting for you in this member of the Aviano family. While ideal for headings, displays, logos, and short texts, Aviano Copper’s use for everything from letterhead to wine labels may just give you the monopoly you’re looking for.

Introducing Nestine – Elegant Sans Serif High Contrast Elegance Nestine – Elegant Sans Serif is more than just a font; it’s a visual masterpiece with high contrast that effortlessly exudes an air of elegance and luxury. The Epitome of Elegance Moreover, Nestine epitomizes elegance. Its striking contrast between thick and thin lines creates a visual appeal that is both refined and sophisticated, making it the perfect choice for luxury designs that demand attention. A Minimalist Marvel Nestine’s high contrast design is a minimalist marvel. It relies on the purity of its design to convey sophistication and elegance, proving that simplicity can be the essence of opulence. Ideal for Luxury Design Additionally, Nestine is tailor-made for luxury design projects. From high-end branding to upscale packaging, it adds a touch of opulence and refinement that leaves a lasting impression of sophistication. In Conclusion In summary, Nestine – Elegant Sans Serif is the epitome of high-contrast elegance. It’s the font that effortlessly combines the art of sophistication and luxury. With Nestine, your designs achieve a minimalist yet opulent quality that captivates the viewer, leaving an indelible mark of refined taste and aesthetic beauty.

The Pattern Project is an ornamental display type family. It is inspired by medieval initials and transforms their mesmerizing rhichness of detail into cool state-of-the-art typography. All letter shapes and patterns are exclusively geometric, providing a very distinct and contemporary feel. Pattern is the new sexy – perfect for vodka labels, record sleeves and posters. For editorial design and packaging. With a special typographic impact. Some practical details: - Family consists of 9 diverse patterns + a blank version. - 3 weights available. - As with patterns in general: It is quite essential how far you zoom in to change the graphic impression. 3 pattern resolutions (Coarse, Medium + Fine) allow varying the pattern size independently from the font size. - Each pattern comes with diverse weights and/or pattern resolutions. - Use in display sizes only. The bigger – the better! - Fine pattern resolutions require even larger font sizes than coarse resolutions. - Fonts gain kind of ʺtransparencyʺ through the patterns - handy for use on top of images. - Characterset is caps only and supports Central, Eastern and Western European languages. - Entertaining 2 min movie explaining the basic concept: youtube.com/watch?v=wbuUkRDApzs

The inspiration source for MFC Spindler Borders is a collection of border treatments revived from the “Catalog 25 TYPE FACES” by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler. The border designs were recreated from two different border sets, “Classic Art Borders” and “Classic Black & White Borders”. This collection of borders represents a structured repetition of elements in various ways to create elegant patterns and backgrounds. You can start with a new document or work on a new layer within an existing document. Select MFC Spindler Borders from the font menu. (Some users may have font previewing enabled in the font menu which will cause the font name to appear as border elements, disable this option in order to choose the name) Make certain that the point size of the font is the same as the leading being applied to the font so the borders will meet up properly. While we’ve adjusted this within the font, your program may override these settings. For instance a 12 point font should have 12 points of leading. Download and view the MFC Spindler Borders Guidebook if you would like to learn a little more.

Bitelover is an enchanting font duo brush script typeface with sans serif. clad in an exquisite accents, casual-chic, perfect for you who want a perfect and fabulous font! Suitable for many design projects such as logo design, branding, packaging, blog graphics, stylizing quotes, wedding stationery, art prints, collateral design, packaging, social media, and so on. I’ve truly enjoyed the process of creating this font collection and hope that it will bring some magic into your projects! Whats i get? Bitelover. OTF Bitelover Sans. OTF Whats Includes: Uppercase and Lowercase, Numbers and punctuation, Stylistic Alternate, Discretionary Ligatures, Multilingual Languages Support, Symbols and more. It's highly recommended to use it in opentype capable software - there are plenty out there nowadays as technology catches up with design. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, 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 and also equipped with Multilingual support. So, let's get it! Thanks and enjoy your day ...!. :)

Milton Glaser’s Kitchen Typeface from the mid 1970s exemplifies the bold 3-D art deco revival genre that was a trademark of the Glaser style. This typeface resulted from his involvement in the design of the The Big Kitchen in the World Trade Center’s concourse in New York City. The new P22 Glaser Kitchen takes on the technical challenge of overlapping 3-D shadows by offering two styles. P22 Glaser Kitchen Regular is spaced out so that the shadows do not overlap the white spaces of the neighboring letters. Whereas the P22 Glaser Kitchen 3D Fill and 3D Shadow can be used layered on top of one another to achieve the tight spacing intended by Glaser. P22 Glaser Kitchen was based on original drawings and phototype proofs from the Milton Glaser Studios archives. Typographic punctuation and sorts were imagined by James Grieshaber to work with Glaser’s design, as well as diacritics to accommodate most European languages. Over the years there have been many typefaces that borrowed heavily from the Glaser designs, but these are the only official fonts approved by Milton Glaser Studio and the Estate of Milton Glaser.

EraMax 123 is a multi-layered display geometric sans serif, meant to be set BIG, for large, colourful statements. It's the perfect face for packaging, posters & branding, where a strong, colourful voice is needed... Did I mention posters? The "Max" in EraMax comes from the ultra bold weight, but also, and mainly as a tip of the hat to Peter Max, the designer and artist, known for creating so many images which have come to be emblematic of the sixties and seventies. The bold gradient effects in some of his posters were the inspiration behind the dotted and striped layers. This font's vintage flavour truly stand out in a retro setting, but also has a modern flavour that lends it the flexibility to work well in a more contemporary context. This is the second of what is to be an extended family of typefaces based on the original hand painted signage found in the T. H. & B Railway station in Hamilton Ontario, a classic Art Moderne building, designed by the New York architectural firm of Fellheimer and Wagner for the Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo Railway line and completed in 1933.

Debut Studio Presents The Retromax.... This Script is a special script or typeface in which the emphasis is reversed from the norm: instead of the vertical lines being wider or thicker than the horizontal lines, which is normal in Latin alphabet writing and especially printing, horizontal lines are the thickest. It's quirky and fun, you can use for any project. Retromax is also a Layered Fonts, Layered fonts have letters that appear raised, or stacked in multiple layers of different shades or colors. Some layered fonts actually include multiple files for each layer. With layered font families, we can create novel combinations of 3D with Shade. Features: Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Punctuation Multiple Language & Stylistic Alternate Files Included: Retromax Regular Retromax Offset Retromax 3D Retromax Shade I hope you like my latest product, This collection will be perfect for creating posters, art prints, apparel and t-shirt designs, Instagram and other social media posts, and many more. if you have questions and problems when using it, please leave a message in the comments or via direct message, I will be very happy to reply, Happy Designing!

The idea behind this typefaces was to combine something retro and vintage with a style of this century. A reference from Vintage Typography, Art Deco, Neo Deco. With an improvised and create something in between those styling. Tiverton created in Serif, Sans-Serif and Script. Within 3 Style, it more helping and easier for create something without "thinking" the font compartment. Features of Sans Serif and Serif are comes with stylistic alternates and you can activated with Contextual Swash button on Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop, And Catchword such as the preview above, activated with underscore in the beginning and end of the letters, for example : _ the _ (underscore)the(underscore). Features of Tiverton Script are Ligatures, Contextual alternates, Contextual Swashes. no alternates. but Tiverton Script available with 2 Weight, Light and Regular. For a bonus, I create an Ornament Fonts. Special shout for the ornament fonts are for the borders. on the Number Character 0-9 are created for connected borders. for Beginning and end the lines you can press Shift on the Number Character. For example : type !2222@ on the text preview below and see on the Tiverton Ornament.

Another grungy masterpiece from Guillaume - this one with a woodprint touch. I have made the lowercase letters different from the uppercase by removing the cross-shaped counters and flipping where possible. Even the numbers have solid variants - available as OpenType "Stylistic Alts". Enjoy the new flexible possibilities! ALL fonts from CheapProFonts have very extensive language support: They contain some unusual diacritic letters (some of which are contained in the Latin Extended-B Unicode block) supporting: Cornish, Filipino (Tagalog), Guarani, Luxembourgian, Malagasy, Romanian, Ulithian and Welsh. They also contain all glyphs in the Latin Extended-A Unicode block (which among others cover the Central European and Baltic areas) supporting: Afrikaans, Belarusian (Lacinka), Bosnian, Catalan, Chichewa, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Kashubian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Maori, Polish, Saami (Inari), Saami (North), Serbian (latin), Slovak(ian), Slovene, Sorbian (Lower), Sorbian (Upper), Turkish and Turkmen. And they of course contain all the usual "western" glyphs supporting: Albanian, Basque, Breton, Chamorro, Danish, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galican, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Occitan, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Sami (Lule), Sami (South), Scots (Gaelic), Spanish, Swedish, Tswana, Walloon and Yapese.

Carve is an African font that was inspired by fonts such as Othello and Neuland designed in the mid-1920s. Rather than attempting to re-create these fonts in a digital form as so many others have done, I have tried to capture the “spirit” of the period and emphasize the “woodcarving” style of the font, while simultaneously giving it a contemporary feel. As a result the characters differ markedly any of the original styles and have much less of an “Art Deco” look to them. To further modernize Carve, I have included all the characters required for a full character set (lower case, as well as all punctuation, numerals, diacritics, special characters etc). The result is a thoroughly modern re-interpretation. The numbers (0 to 9) bear no relation to any originals but, I believe, are fully in keeping with the upper and lower alphabetic characters of my font. Carve comes in two styles: --Regular: contemporary, angular African style --Incised: exaggerating the chunky, hand-carved "woodcut" effect. The "in-line" effect has been hand-crafted to avoid the mechanical effect of computer-generated inline effects.

"Hi there, thank you for passing by. Colllab Studio is here. We crafted best collection of typefaces in a variety of styles to keep you covered for any project that comes your way! What if you could have a graffiti font collection? Or a street-inspired font collection? What if you want something clean, legible, yet still playful and fun? Searches online turn up nothing. Those popular sites only provide typical graffiti fonts. Well don't worry. What you’re looking for lies right here. We combine art and technology to bring the most extensive graffiti font collection around to your doorstep easier, faster, and cheaper than anywhere else. Introducing, Blindness Graffiti font is more than just random lettering. Its structured strokes and grungy strokes ooze its strong characteristic, inspired by urban style or cyberpunk design. It’s out of this world yet the balance between action and serenity keeps the font grounded. Blindness Graffiti is available in uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuations and lots of variations on each character include OpenType features, alternates, common ligatures and also additional swash to let you customize your designs. A Million Thanks www.colllabstudio.com

UTOPIAN is a color font family based on primary colors and pure geometric shapes, influenced by Bauhaus, DeStijl and Art Deco. Its pure shapes and basic colors are inspired by the beauty of simplicity of modular order and grid, creating a perfect environment where all these elements live in a perfect color harmony. In the other hand, DYSTOPIAN, the black and white family, represents a close sibling in appearance and structure, that carries an opposite meaning, with a darker look and feel. Both typefaces are, somehow, a reflection of the divided views and posible outcomes that the future times ahead yield before us. Package: Utopian/Dystopian comes in file with a pre-defined color palette. You can always change the colors converting the text to outlines. Technical info to use: The package contains a normal TTF/OTF set of fonts in Black and White and a colorfont in SVG-TTF format. To be able to use the color file you need to have installed Adobe Photoshop CC2017 or Adobe Illustrator CC2018. Not all the browsers support color fonts so please be sure to use them as graphics.

Hastings was inspired by my appreciation for old fashioned English murder mysteries set in the early part of the twentieth century. No one seems to capture the ambience of the roaring twenties or thirties better than the Brits. Everything from the clothing, to the cars, to the telephones, down to the smallest accessories like the pens, all seem to have been appropriated from the local museum. I'm hopeful that this typeface also embodies similar feelings with its sleek and streamlined Art Deco features. Hastings has a glyph count of 389 and supports the following languages; Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Meru, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkmen, Upper Sorbian, Vunjo, Walser, Zulu

Mousse Script is based on Glenmoy, a 1932 Stephenson Blake typeface. Glenmoy a prime example of what display typography was in pre-WWII American ad art. It graced the pages of magazines, sold numerous products and services, then simply died out when the typographic trends shifted towards the more personalized, stylized and handwritten types of calligraphy. The current trend in typography is a revivalism that brings all of the distinctive display typography of the 20th century, without chronological discrimination, back in the name of ‘retro’. Who are we to deny the masses what they want? Mousse Script doesn’t just bring Glenmoy back from the ashes of the 20th century. It expands upon the limited metal character set nearly twice over and takes advantage of the latest type technologies. This makes Mousse Script a striking typeface, both functionally and visually. A simple, attractive display font on the surface, Mousse Script is unique in its bold upright calligraphy, something rarely found these days. The OpenType version of Mousse Script combines both the regular and alternate character sets into a single, cross-platform package that takes advantage of the extended typographic features of the OpenType format.

A friend of mine says that sports are the ultimate popular drug. One of his favorite things to say is, “The sun’s always shining on a game somewhere.” It’s hard to argue with that. But that perspective is now the privilege of a society where technology is so high and mighty that it all but shapes such perspectives. These days I can, if I so choose, subscribe to nothing but sports on over a hundred TV channels and a thousand browser bookmarks. But it wasn't always like that. When I was growing up, long before the super-commercialization of the sport, I and other kids spent more than every spare minute of our time memorizing the names and positions of players, collecting team shirts and paraphernalia, making up game scenarios, and just being our generation’s entirely devoted fans. Argentina is one of the nations most obsessed with sports, especially "fútbol" (or soccer to North Americans). The running American joke was that we're all born with a football. When the national team is playing a game, stores actually close their doors, and Buenos Aires looks like a ghost town. Even on the local level, River Plate, my favorite team where I grew up, didn't normally have to worry about empty seats in its home stadium, even though attendance is charged at a high premium. There are things our senses absorb when we are children, yet we don't notice them until much later on in life. A sport’s collage of aesthetics is one of those things. When I was a kid I loved the teams and players that I loved, but I never really stopped to think what solidified them in my memory and made them instantly recognizable to me. Now, thirty-some years later, and after having had the fortune to experience many cultures other than my own, I can safely deduce that a sport’s aesthetic depends on the local or national culture as much as it depends on the sport itself. And the way all that gets molded in a single team’s identity becomes so intricate it is difficult to see where each part comes from to shape the whole. Although “futbol” is still in my blood as an Argentinean, I'm old enough to afford a little cynicism about how extremely corporate most popular sports are. Of course, nothing can now take away the joy I got from football in my childhood and early teens. But over the past few years I've been trying to perceive the sport itself in a global context, even alongside other popular sports in different areas of the world. Being a type designer, I naturally focus in my comparisons on the alphabets used in designing different sports experiences. And from that I've come to a few conclusions about my own taste in sports aesthetic, some of which surprised me. I think I like the baseball and basketball aesthetic better than football, hockey, volleyball, tennis, golf, cricket, rugby, and other sports. This of course is a biased opinion. I'm a lettering guy, and hand lettering is seen much more in baseball and basketball. But there’s a bit more to it than that. Even though all sports can be reduced to a bare-bones series of purposes and goals to reach, the rules and arrangements of baseball and basketball, in spite of their obvious tempo differences, are more suited for overall artistic motion than other sports. So when an application of swashed handlettering is used as part of a team’s identity in baseball or basketball, it becomes a natural fit. The swashes can almost be visual representation of a basketball curving in the air on its way to the hoop, or a baseball on its way out of the park. This expression is invariably backed by and connected to bold, sleak lettering, representing the driving force and precision (arms, bat) behind the artistic motion. It’s a simple and natural connective analysis to a designer, but the normal naked eye still marvels inexplicably at the beauty of such logos and wordmarks. That analytical simplicity was the divining rod behind Fan Script. My own ambitious brief was to build a readable yet very artistic sports script that can be a perfect fit for baseball or basketball identities, but which can also be implemented for other sports. The result turned out to be quite beautiful to my eyes, and I hope you find it satisfactory in your own work. Sports scripts like this one are rooted in showcard lettering models from the late 19th and early 20th century, like Detroit’s lettering teacher C. Strong’s — the same models that continue to influence book designers and sign painters for more than a century now. So as you can see, American turn-of-the-century calligraphy and its long-term influences still remain a subject of fascination to me. This fascination has been the engine of most of my work, and it shows clearly in Fan Script. Fan Script is a lively heavy brush face suitable for sports identities. It includes a variety of swashes of different shapes, both connective and non-connective, and contains a whole range of letter alternates. Users of this font will find a lot of casual freedom in playing with different combinations - a freedom backed by a solid technological undercurrent, where OpenType features provide immediate and logical solutions to problems common to this kind of script. One final thing bears mentioning: After the font design and production were completed, it was surprisingly delightful for me to notice, in the testing stage, that my background as a packaging designer seems to have left a mark on the way the font works overall. The modern improvements I applied to the letter forms have managed to induce a somewhat retro packaging appearance to the totality of the typeface. So I expect Fan Script will be just as useful in packaging as it would be in sports identity, logotype and merchandizing. Ale Paul