Out of a lifelong inner struggle, Philip Bouwsma unleashes a masterpiece that reconciles classic calligraphy with type in a way never before attempted. Maestro takes its cue from the Italian chancery cursive of the early sixteenth century. By this time type ruled the publishing world, but official court documents were still presented in calligraphy, in a new formal style of the high Renaissance that was integrated with Roman letters and matched the refined order of type. The copybooks of Arrighi and others, printed from engraved wood blocks, spread the Italian cancellaresca across Europe, but the medium was too clumsy and the size too small to show what was really happening in the stroke. Arrighi and others also made metal fonts that pushed type in the direction of calligraphy, but again the medium did not support the superb artistry of these masters or sustain the vitality in their work. As the elegant sensitive moving stroke of the broad pen was reduced to a static outline, the human quality, the variety and the excitement of a living act were lost. Because the high level of skill could not be reproduced, the broad pen was largely replaced by the pointed tool. The modern italic handwriting revival is based on a simplified model and does not approach the level of this formal calligraphy with its relationship to the Roman forms. Maestro is the font that Arrighi and his colleagues would have made if they had had digital technology. Like the calligraphic system of the papal chancery on which it is modelled, it was not drawn as a single finished alphabet, but evolved from a confluence of script and Roman; the script is formalized by the Roman to stand proudly in a world of type. Maestro came together on screen over the course of several years, through many versions ranging widely in style, formality, width, slant, weight and other parameters. On one end of the spectrum, looking back to tradition it embodies the formal harmony of the Roman capitals and the minuscule which became the lower case. On the other it is a flowing script letter drawing on the spirit of later pointed pen and engravers scripts. As its original designers intended, it works with simple Roman capitals and serifs or swash capitals and baroque flourishes. The broad pen supplies weight and substance to the stroke which carries energy through tension in balanced s-curves. Above all it is meant to convey the life and motion of formal calligraphy as a worthy counterbalance to the stolid gravity of metal type. The Maestro family consists of forty fonts distributed over two weights. The OpenType version compresses the family considerably down to two fonts, regular and bold, each containing the entire character set of twenty fonts, for a total of more than 3350 characters per font. These include a wide variety of stylistic alternates, ligatures, beginning and ending letters, flourishes, borders, rules, and other extras. The Pro version also includes extended linguistic support for Latin-based scripts (Western, Central and Eastern European, Baltic, Turkish, Welsh/Celtic, Maltese) as well as Greek. For more thoughts on Maestro, its background and character sets, please read the PDF accompanying the family.

Taco is a new Mexican style font family based on our Tavern and Algerian Mesa type designs. When I finished the extra heavier weights for Tavern I decided to play around with a decorated version, the extra bold letters allowed for much more room to work with an inlay pattern. After experimenting with several designs I decided on a Mexican pattern because the original base font is very popular in Mexican restaurant logos and menus plus it's frequently used on Tequila bottle labels. I originally planned three weights for the Taco font family, however, after completing the bold weight I've decided to release it now so you may put it to use while the regular and extra bold are being produced, sorry I can't estimate a release date for the two other weights. To use the fill font layers you'll need an application that allows you to work in layers such as Adobe Creative Suite products. The Taco Fill Uno font may be used as a stand alone font, however, we recommend searching for our Tavern font family where you'll find three different bold weights of this same design. Opentype features aware applications are also needed for accessing the many alternate glyphs in Taco, all the alternates that you love in our Tavern fonts are also available in Taco. While the fill font layers are in registration with one another some applications may throw them out of alignment by changing the spacing. Custom inter letter spacing in Adobe Creative Suite may also throw the fill fonts out of alignment. We recommend doing your custom spacing first then duplicate the type layer and change to the next fill font and color. The inspiration for the Taco name of this font family was from a homemade Taco dinner I made for a guest at my house, after dinner I searched to see if there was a commercial font named Taco. There was no such font named Taco and the rest is history. The old Stephenson Blake Algerian font has come a long way since 1908, and we're not done with it yet. We hope you enjoy our Taco font family, we're looking forward to see it in use.

Tuned Rompies is a retro and bold display font. It would look great on headlines, magazines, logos, branding and so much more! What's Included? Uppercase & Lowercase Numbers & Punctuation Alternates Multilingual Support Regular & Slant PUA Encoded

Tulipán Broken Caps Pro is new variable/complement of Tulipán Broken Caps, it includes 200 interesting ligatures, specially designed for games, apps, books, logos and packaging. Its bold structure is perfect to give great effects.

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, suitable for text or display, short descenders, tall ascenders, the condensed bold version, completing the family of 4 fonts in total.

Introducing Glooser a elegant Serif Font Inspired from modern style combine with bold typography style. Come with open type feature with a lot of alternates and end swash, its help you to make great lettering.

LD Grandpa is such a great font for any journaling application...and definitely not just for your masculine scrapbooking creations. It's bold and casual handwritten style is a perfectly useful addition to any font library.

Albeit Grotesk Stencil Caps is a graphic geometric stencil-style all caps display font family of four weights (Light, Regular, Medium and Bold) with slightly exaggarated diacritics for better readability making it ideal for headlines.

Hannah Joie was influenced by the early lettering that appeared on posters in Israel (e.g. the 1950s). The style of the lettering was bold, heavy, and prominent. Hannah Joie is an OpenType/TTF Unicode font.

Summer Morning is a striking, bold display font. It can easily be matched to an incredibly large set of projects, so add it to your creative ideas and notice how it makes them stand out!

Hip Hip Yay is a fun and quirky display color font capable of taking any product out of the ordinary! Use it on bold and bright creations such as banners, posters, covers, titles, magazines, etc.

Stargold is an elegant and bold script font. Fall in love with its incredibly versatile style and use it to create gorgeous wedding invitations, beautiful stationary art, eye-catching social media posts, and much more!

Handmade Gothic JNL is one of many typefaces inspired by lettering samples in a 1941 Speedball® Lettering Pen instructional booklet. The bold, Deco-style sans is perfect for many attention-getting headlines and titles.

Timeless Series is a cool, bold and thick lettered display font. No matter the topic, this font will be an incredible asset to your fonts’ library, as it has the potential to elevate any creation.

Introducing, Farland. a bold script font that carries the vintage feel. This font is perfect for logo, headline, signage, packaging, branding, etc. Features : uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual alternates / swashes and ligatures PUA encoded

Scriptissimo-Forte-Swirls is the bold version of Scriptissimo but with lots of swirls. Sometimes a job just calls for lots of embellishments, that's what this version is good for. Yours very swirly, Gert Wiescher.

Stencil Set JNL takes the 2011 release of Stencil Mark JNL (a spur-serif letter based on a vintage set of brass stencils) and transitions it to the design of a clean, bold sans typeface.

OPICULAR is a Starter Series of modern sans serif with a geometric typical characters, Inspired by minimalism typography and functionalities, digital or print. Opicular comes in 3 weights and 6 styles from Book to Bold.

Barclay Outline is a headline font in the style of a modern typeface. The letters of the Barclay Outline font are like a bold modern face with a fine outline contrasted and strong shadow strokes.

TETRA 84 is a super cool nostalgic retro font in 80s 90s Y2K style TETRA 84 is a 80s 90s Y2k Tetris inspired typeface. It's retro, bold, playful, fun and...Tetris! Have fun using it!

Cathena is a modern script with sweet touches and beautiful curves in each letter. It features a bold, authoritative, luxurious, modern and premium nature. Cathena is great for wedding invitations. magazines, logos, signatures, photography watermarks.

Anasite Malela is a bold script with groovy retro style. This font has a unique feel and you can use it to add that special retro touch to any design idea you can think of!

Easter Meadow is a striking, bold display font. It can easily be matched to an incredibly large set of projects, so add it to your creative ideas and notice how it makes them stand out!

Tumb is a bold quirky modern display font with stylized ink traps. It is perfect for giving your project a fun sophistocated playfulness. Perfect for headlines on posters, Instagram, print projects, branding, and logo design.

Anachronic is the polished version of our Chronic font family and preserves its libertarian dna. It's kind of strong, while friendly. Because sometimes you've just got to be bold — pero sin perder la ternura jamás!

Boldetton is an elegant and bold script font. Fall in love with its incredibly versatile style and use it to create gorgeous wedding invitations, beautiful stationary art, eye-catching social media posts, and much more!

Marcos, a playful vintage display font, bold and quirky, perfect for that retro look. every glyph is uniquely crafted. Marcos is perfect for logo, title, headline, even text, it is versatile and have high exposure.

Introducing by Essentials Studio Proudly Present, UNTLANG UNTLANG Is a A Bold Handwritten Font UNTLANG is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background.

Based on Mr. Hubbard's own hand printing, Richfont Medium is an extremely casual design. Actually light in weight, it renders best at 14 point and above. Richfont Light and Bold are available from the designer.

Benice is a modern display font that is super bold and perfect for headlines. It is fun and playful, perfect display font for any projects, such as logo, magazine, branding, sticker, sublimation and many more.

Bionic CIty is a bold and authentic slab serif font. It has a cool style and it will make any of your designs stand out. Use it for sports, racing design, or anything sports-related.

Bottania is an elegant and bold script font. Fall in love with its incredibly versatile style and use it to create gorgeous wedding invitations, beautiful stationary art, eye-catching social media posts, and much more!

Freich is a mighty bold typeface with a vintage vibe and rebellious feeling. Perfect choice for posters with super hero or propaganda themes. Its sharp and strong letter forms will make any statements more powerful.

This typically handwritten script fonts are based on my own handwriting. First release of the Hybi4-Script was back in 1999. Now it’s renewed and completed with many more special characters and a bold style.

Mercadillo is a casual script typeface based on the hand painted signs you can see in markets, shops and bars. Comes in 4 different weights (Black, Bold, Regular and Light) and it has OpenType features.