Zumbo is a capital letter font, hand designed. The letters can be freely combined: with or without decoration. 2022 by German typeface designer Joachim Frank.

First, the important information…Nori is a hand-lettered typeface that contains over 1100 glyphs, 250 ligatures, 487 alternate characters, 125+ swash and titling alternates, lining and old style numerals. To make sure it is perfectly clear—Nori is the result of brush and ink on paper. The textures produced in each glyph are real and the imperfections are intentional and add to the sincerity of the letters. I say this to be as blunt as possible in order to avoid confusion and to frame what this typeface represents—calligraphic, handwritten letters captured digitally for their warmth and poetic variation for print and screen. Like my handwritten, calligraphic or brush-driven faces before it (the Baka series and the TDC2 2010 winning typeface, Fugu), Nori is a product of my analog and digital hand. To view the words and sentences formed by this typeface is to look at how my hands, yes hands, make letters. The fluidity, as well as the irregularity, is human, honest and intentional—to do so lets the brush I am holding breathe life into each letter. Once digital, any number of points and repetitive processes can’t mask its influences—and I like that. The brush, a simple instrument, my tool, my friend designed to emulate traditional Japanese sumi-e brushes... the Pilot Japan Kanji Fude brush pen. Each letter, each variation was written over and over again until I found the right combination. From there, each was scanned, digitized and optimized. Points were removed in order to ‘clean’ the glyphs up some but I did not want to compromise the integrity of the actual brush stroke. Once this base set of characters (about 350) were completed, the thoughtful manipulation of the glyphs, their gestures and forms were further expanded to solidify the embellishments used within the ligatures, alternates, swashes and additional features. This process was admittedly self-indulgent to an extent. I wanted the words created with this typeface to have the flexibility of variation and cohesiveness of movement that someone fluidly producing these letters by hand might have.  I hope you enjoy this typeface as much as I did during the six months working on it. A specimen and style guide is included with the purchased of Nori.

Dramaturg is a handwritten, brush, fully connected script with ligatures and contextual alternates to help with flow and readability. Dramaturg is the most complete style, it contains over 600 glyphs, 7 stylistic sets, contextual alternates and ligatures. Every lowercase letter has six variations (uppercase letter has four). When the font is used in OpenType-savvy applications, the 3 variants of glyphs are automatically alternated to achieve a random-like effect. Dramaturg A and Dramaturg B have less glyphs than the Regular one (no stylistic sets), they only contain some selected alternates and ligatures. Language support includes Western, Central and Eastern European character sets, as well as Baltic and Turkish languages.

Beverly Hills is an all-caps display face in the Art Deco style. Its design features dramatically low crossbars, and each letter has a fine inline highlight. The most prominent letters in this typeface are clearly the E, F, G, and K, while the elegantly narrow S is sure to delight. A classy offering like Beverly Hills should only be set very large, either as a magazine headline, a store sign, or on the cover of a fine invitation. If you like Beverly Hills, you make enjoy other high-contrast Art Deco designs in Linotype's library, including ITC Anna, Avenida, Broadway, Jazz, and ITC Manhattan.

Waltery is a hand-lettered cute font for brand, logo and quotes design. 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 cute hand-drawn 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 outstanding, cute, and certainly unique logos with this font. Waltery is also included full set of: uppercase and lowercase letters multilingual characters numerals punctuation What will you get? Waltery-Regular Waltery-Italic Wish you enjoy our font. :)

Introducing Soulbeat Signature Font which has an elegant and natural hand lettering brush style like handmade. This font is best suited for your design projects that are fun, bold, and sporty. Can also be applied to logotype designs, website headers, making multiple letters for quotes, t-shirt designs, etc. Soulbeat Signature Fontmultilingual support: Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Zulu, and many more. What’s Included : Standard & Multilingual glyphs Ligature Works on PC & Mac Simple installations Accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and even work on Microsoft Word. Hope you enjoy our font!

Max J. Gradl was a German jewelry designer. A Web search today turns up several examples of his work from the turn of the 20th century. He seemed to favor green stones in silver metalwork. Gradl also did advertising work and co-authored a book on architectural design. Most important for our purposes, though, are the incredible hand lettered alphabets and monograms the man left behind. I’ve digitized one of those delightful alphabets and tried to keep it true to the original. Beyond the base character set of letters, numerals and basic punctuation, I had to extrapolate forms that, I hope, hold true to Gradl’s design. Enjoy!

NorB Architect fonts will add a beautiful architectural hand-lettering style to all your CAD project drawings. Architects have always wanted their CAD drawings to look more like they were drawn by hand, rather than by a CAD program. These AutoCAD fonts are the first step in bringing back that “artistic hand-drawn” feel to your CAD drawings or any graphic design project that can use true type fonts. NorB Architect is actually my emulation of architectural lettering, it comes with 4 weights: Medium, Regular, Semi Light and Bold along with their Condensed and Extra Condensed version. NOTE: For more variations of "NorB Architect" font please visit click on this link.

Proudly present Golden Radiant - Modern Serif Font Golden radiant is a modern serif font with an elegant curve in each letter and also alternates. This font perfect for all kinds of design projects such as branding, logo design, magazine, poster, invitation and many more. This font come with elegant uppercase and lowercase letter, number and punctuation, 60 elegant alternate. This font is PUA Encoded and multilingual support. I really hope you enjoy it – please do let me know what you think, comments & likes are always hugely welcomed and appreciated. More importantly, please don’t hesitate to drop me a message if you have any issues or queries. Thank you

Kanilia Font is a Modern Stylistic Serif typeface. A new serif that we created specially for branding needs, with extra ligatures and alternates in a unique shape just to add value to your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more stylish and modern. And specially for Kanilia Font , We prepared all the ligatures, and the alternates characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. A wide range of useful glyphs are included – see preview image of all glyphs. Dakosta Font includes: All uppercase & lowercase letters All numbers 0-9 & Punctuation Ligatures & Alternates Symbols Multiligual Letters

Qindars is a display font with a unique and fun theme, created by paying close attention to the uniqueness of each letter character, as well as the level of precision so that when used in words or sentences, it can produce a truly beautiful combination of letters, all of which we carefully designed for ourselves. Show you what makes us unique, and notice how beautiful, harmonious, and smooth each graphic treat is. This typeface is ideal for usage in a variety of unusual graphic projects, including games, book titles, outdoor activities, posters, banners, quotes, branding, and other unique projects. So, what are you waiting for? Get this font now!

Amanda Manopo is a calligraphy script font that comes with very beautiful changing characters, a kind of classic decorative copper script with a modern touch, designed with high detail to bring stylish elegance. Amanda Manopo Script is attractive as a typeface that is smooth, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read, because there are many fancy letter connections. I also offer a number of viable style alternatives for many letters. The classic style is perfect to be applied in various formal forms such as invitations, labels, restaurant menus, logos, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, labels or any type of advertising purpose.

Inspired by lettering styles of the 1930s, Seagrass BF is jazzy and jumping as a Lindy Hop. As such it captures I believe, something of the spirit of that age, yet somehow retains a fresh, contemporary feel. Headlines, logos, packaging, signage and branding are just a few of many usages. Seagrass BF contains Stylistic Alternates and Stylistic Sets for uppercase letters Y and Z, as well as ampersand (&). Other OpenType features include Standard Ligatures and Contextual Alternates. These features should at all times be employed to optimize the appeal of your word settings. So whenever your visual communication demands an energetic, vibrant voice please consider Seagrass BF.

Monocto is an upright italic, clearly evidenced by the lowercase letters a, e, f, g, i, k, l, v, w, x, y and several capitals. On one hand, the design is inspired by an historical German running hand written with a pen angle of 45°, and on the other, by rational, utilitarian monospace types, similar to those designed for the mechanical typewriter during the Industrial Revolution. As the writing tool touches the paper, a double-square with broken corners is produced, which then, according to ductus, transforms itself into letter components that are either 90°-verticals or 45°-diagonals. The systematic geometry of Monocto offers unexpected design possibilites.

Introducing Footle - serif font Footle is gentle and elegant font combined in it regular and italic styles, loaded with multilingual support. It's a very versatile font that works great in large and small sizes. This font is perfect for branding projects, home-ware designs, product packaging, magazine headers - or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image. FEATURES Uppercase, numeral, punctuation & Symbol Uppercase letters - regular glyphs Lowercase letters - italic glyphs Multilingual support No special software is required to type out the standard characters of the Typeface. Canva friendly Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! Mock ups and backgrounds used are not included. Thank you! Enjoy!

Lancea is a fancy sharp serif font. Inspired by medieval roman writing combined with the sharpness of a lance, Lancea is packaged in a font that has sharpness in each letter with an elegant shape that has a strong appeal. Lancea also gives it a sophisticated feel with a sleek and clean serif shape. Lancea typography can help you complete various projects such as luxury brand logos, journals, business cards, headline, products, social media posts, web, etc. There is a decorative alternative style feature for uppercase letters. If you are involved in a project that requires fancy and professional writing, Lancea is perfect to assist you in completing it. Thank you!

Audaciti Font is a Modern Stylistic Serif typeface A new serif that we created specially for branding needs, with extra ligatures and alternates in a unique shape just to add value to your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more stylish and modern. And specially for Audaciti Font , We prepared all the ligatures, and the alternates characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. A wide range of useful glyphs are included – see preview image of all glyphs. Audaciti Font includes: All uppercase & lowercase letters All numbers 0-9 & Punctuation Ligatures & Alternates Symbols Multiligual Letters

A bottle party is a party where you are supposed to bring whatever you wish you drink. When using my Bottle Party font, you need not bring anything at all! The font does all the partying itself - all you need to do is type, and the contextual alternates makes sure that your text doesn’t repeat the same letters over and over again! How is that? As I said, it happens automatically as you type, because the font cycles through the 4 different versions of each lower-case letter! The font is handmade with a brush feeling to it, legible at even very small sizes and it’s quite full of international characters!

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!

Akira Kobayashi modified his Eurostile Next design into a fun unicase version. Ascenders and descenders have been traded in for alternates of letters that all share the same height. The effect is similar to using all caps, although this is quite a bit more quirky. For example, letters like the lowercase a and e are now the same height as their capital versions and the lowercase y has been raised to fit between the baseline and top height. Odd relationships such as these give Eurostile Unicase a fresh and funky feeling. Try using it for headlines and titles, then use Eurostile Next for the body text!

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!

Hi, presenting a classic style font Aquatory. It's a thin and tall decorative font with nice classic shape. A descent advantage of this font is a big set of ligatures and additional characters. As you can see on the previews, the first and the last letters has an extra decorative swirl*. To achieve this result just type the first and the last capital letters*. Aquatory typeface supports most of the european languages and also has ukrainian cyrillic characters. *Make sure that OpenType features are supported & enabled in your software - such as "Alternates" & "Ligatures". Also please consider that this features is available only for english alphabet.

Qoroshi is a Japanese-style font with a distinctive display theme in each letter that may turn your project into a natural continent and give it a unique impression. Each lovely curve in each letter character makes your project memorable in the minds of your customers. 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.

Castellar is a capital letter typeface from John Peters, named after a location in the Alps. It first appeared in 1957 with Monotype. Peters modelled the design on the Roman script Scriptura Quadrata as it was used in the first two centuries of the Roman Empire. One distinguishing characteristic is the quadratic proportions of many letters, which are however mixed with circular and narrow forms. The original script was called Scriptura Quadrata because the ancient engravers used rectangular stone plates for their work. Castellar is a typical title typeface and is best used in large and very large point sizes to highlight its classic elegance.

Blooming Elegant Script Font is a hand-lettered modern calligraphy script with a playful yet elegant nature. It comes in 3 variants : Regular, Mono-line, and Mono-line Bold. The script fonts include Opentype Stylistic Alternates for all lowercase letters, and a selection of Ligatures to add some authenticity to your designs. Included alongside the script fonts, are two companion sans fonts : a neat and sturdy uppercase sans font for more formal-natured designs, and a jaunty, playful uppercase handwritten sans for more casual designs. Also included is a handy set of over 120 lovingly-drawn doodles is also included as 2 separate dingbat fonts.

Dakosta Font is a Modern Stylistic Serif typeface A new serif that we created specially for branding needs, with extra ligatures and alternates in a unique shape just to add value to your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more stylish and modern. And specially for Dakosta Font , We prepared all the ligatures, and the alternates characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. A wide range of useful glyphs are included – see preview image of all glyphs. Dakosta Font includes: All uppercase & lowercase letters All numbers 0-9 & Punctuation Ligatures & Alternates Symbols Multiligual Letters

Rahem Font is a Modern Stylistic Serif typeface A new serif that we created specially for branding needs, with extra ligatures and alternates in a unique shape just to add value to your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more stylish and modern. And specially for Rahem Font , We prepared all the ligatures, and the alternates characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. A wide range of useful glyphs are included – see preview image of all glyphs. Rahem Font includes: All uppercase & lowercase letters All numbers 0-9 & Punctuation Ligatures & Alternates Symbols Multiligual Letters

Introducing our latest creation, Maretha Font Duo, a set of two fonts designed for good combinations. Script and Sans, 2 different styles that allows you to make a great custom combination of lettering designs. These fonts include some features such like alternates, swashes and ligatures to give you more options accessible in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw, etc. Maretha Script also has individual swashes you can apply in any lowercase-letters by pressing 'underscore' and 'number 0-9'. These vintage minimalism fonts are great for any design project such as vintage logos, store fonts, clothing brand, label design, wedding invitations, quotes, craft and much more.

Introducing Bartharos which has an elegant and natural hand lettering brush style like handmade. This font is best suited for your design projects that are fun, bold, and sporty. Can also be applied to logotype designs, website headers, making multiple letters for quotes, t-shirt designs, etc. Bartharos multilingual support: Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Zulu, and many more. What’s Included : Web Fonts Standard & Multilingual glyphs Ligature Works on PC & Mac Simple installations Accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and even work on Microsoft Word. Hope you enjoy our font!

Young Baroque was designed by Doyald Young, and the font first appeared in the ITC library in 1984. It is a delicate and elegant typeface, whose basic forms are those of baroque script. The generous spirals adorning the capital letters give the font its temperament and contrast beautifully with the small, heavily slanted lower case letters. The flowing, graceful characters create an overall image of aristocratic elegance and dignity. This font can be used advantageously for labels, invitations and certificates and its capitals as initials to contrast harmoniously with both serif and sans serif fonts. Young Baroque is best used for headlines or short texts. Featured in: Best Fonts for Tattoos

Khalifah Script is a calligraphy script font that comes with very beautiful changing characters, a kind of classic decorative copper script with a modern touch, designed with high detail to bring stylish elegance. Khalifah Script is attractive as a typeface that is smooth, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read, because there are many fancy letter connections. I also offer a number of viable style alternatives for many letters. The classic style is perfect to be applied in various formal forms such as invitations, labels, restaurant menus, logos, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, labels or any type of advertising purpose.

Antura Script is a calligraphic script font that comes with very beautiful changing characters, a kind of classic decorative copper script with a modern touch, designed with high detail to bring stylish elegance. Antura Script is an attractive typeface that is smooth, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read because there are many fancy letter connections. I also offer a number of viable style alternatives for many letters. The classic style is perfect to be applied in various formal forms such as invitations, labels, restaurant menus, logos, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, magazines, books, greeting/wedding cards, packaging, labels or any type of advertising purpose.

The font has a truly futuristic nature. It perfectly conveys the atmosphere of technology and futurism and it's the best choice for sci-fi and hi-tech topics and pictures. The font letters are unrounded, it's build is very simple and straight. The font includes 7 styles: thin, extra light, light, regular, medium, bold, and black. With the variety of font widths, there is the ability to make different combinations in graphic or web design projects as well. Carefully kerned letters look well in paragraphs and titles. Special attention to uppercase headings. The font counts 477 glyphs for each style. The thin style is free to use.

The Mokgech typeface is inspired by cool old style blackletter letters. Mokgech typeface has many alternative characters such as swash, ligature and a choice of several characters from uppercase or lowercase letters. In addition, the Mokgech font is also equipped with an italic version. It is suitable for gothic, tattoo, serious and horror themed designs. Can be used for the design of alcoholic beverage packaging, tattoo, pomade designs, barbershops and so on with the Victorian classic concept. Apart from that this font is very easy to use in both design and non-design programs because all alternates and glyphs are supported by Unicode (PUA).

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

Batrider is a Script Display font inspired by vintage lettering in old labels. It comes in two style: regular and textured. Batrider textured contains rounded corner and authentic textured for an organic printing look. Carefully made with perfectly horizontal vertical bezier handles. Every single letter contains beautiful alternates characters (stylistic set 1 - stylistic set 16) and features ligatures. Batrider is great for designs such as the logotypes, packaging, branding, quotes, business cards and more custom design. The features are uppercase, lowercase, numeral, punctuation and symbols, ligatures, alternates, multi-lingual support, PUA encoded. How to get access alternate glyphs with designing software to open type fonts, click here.

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.

Streeters is a hand brush typeface, created for a specific project, where one of the assumptions in creating it was to combine the appearance of a manual brush, liquid paint but also a spatial effect. Uppercase and lowercase letters create a slightly different effect with the same character height. They are created in such a way that, in addition to writing with one letter case, it is also possible to mix and create many different combinations of uppercase and lowercase characters, for example, a unique look for the same repetitive words. The font is best for works where a non-standard, strong and distinctive form of communication is needed.

Burford Rustic is the weathered and textured alternative to the Burford Family. It works the same way as Burford as a layer-based font family, but with some style variations and new layering options. It includes 20 font files, starting with four texture variations from Black, Bold, Light to Ultralight. It also includes and Outline and two Inline Weights. Additionally it offers three line weights (light, medium and bold) for top layering options. There are two extruded fonts and two drop shadow fonts, all either in a solo version and set with Burford Rustic Black for users not using Opentype programs. For users that have Opentype programs, such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft Publisher and Quark, each font also comes with a set of Stylistic Alternatives for letters A C E F G H P Q R. There are two versions of each letter, and by using contextual alternatives, no two letters next to each other will be the same. Burford Rustic Basic package is created for users who don’t have access to programs with Opentype capabilities and are unable to use the layering effect. Burford Rustic can still be a powerful tool as each font can also be used on it’s own. It includes every font file not needed for the layering effect. The Burford Rustic Ornaments uses all basic keyboard characters - around 100 total elements per set. They are designed to go specifically with Burford Rustic and use the same textured edge. The set includes: banners, borders, corners, arrows, line breaks, catchwords, anchors and many more!

The concept of the Baroque Roman type face is something which is remote from us. Ungrateful theorists gave Baroque type faces the ill-sounding attribute "Transitional", as if the Baroque Roman type face wilfully diverted from the tradition and at the same time did not manage to mature. This "transition" was originally meant as an intermediate stage between the Aldine/Garamond Roman face of the Renaissance, and its modern counterpart, as represented by Bodoni or Didot. Otherwise there was also a "transition" from a slanted axis of the shadow to a perpendicular one. What a petty detail led to the pejorative designation of Baroque type faces! If a bookseller were to tell his customers that they are about to choose a book which is set in some sort of transitional type face, he would probably go bust. After all, a reader, for his money, would not put up with some typographical experimentation. He wants to read a book without losing his eyesight while doing so. Nevertheless, it was Baroque typography which gave the world the most legible type faces. In those days the craft of punch-cutting was gradually separating itself from that of book-printing, but also from publishing and bookselling. Previously all these activities could be performed by a single person. The punch-cutter, who at that time was already fully occupied with the production of letters, achieved better results than he would have achieved if his creative talents were to be diffused in a printing office or a bookseller's shop. Thus it was possible that for example the printer John Baskerville did not cut a single letter in his entire lifetime, for he used the services of the accomplished punch-cutter John Handy. It became the custom that one type founder supplied type to multiple printing offices, so that the same type faces appeared in various parts of the world. The type face was losing its national character. In the Renaissance period it is still quite easy to distinguish for example a French Roman type face from a Venetian one; in the Baroque period this could be achieved only with great difficulties. Imagination and variety of shapes, which so far have been reserved only to the fine arts, now come into play. Thanks to technological progress, book printers are now able to reproduce hairstrokes and imitate calligraphic type faces. Scripts and elaborate ornaments are no longer the privilege of copper-engravers. Also the appearance of the basic, body design is slowly undergoing a change. The Renaissance canonical stiffness is now replaced with colour and contrast. The page of the book is suddenly darker, its lay-out more varied and its lines more compact. For Baroque type designers made a simple, yet ingenious discovery - they enlarged the x-height and reduced the ascenders to the cap-height. The type face thus became seemingly larger, and hence more legible, but at the same time more economical in composition; the type area was increasing to the detriment of the margins. Paper was expensive, and the aim of all the publishers was, therefore, to sell as many ideas in as small a book block as possible. A narrowed, bold majuscule, designed for use on the title page, appeared for the first time in the Late Baroque period. Also the title page was laid out with the highest possible economy. It comprised as a rule the brief contents of the book and the address of the bookseller, i.e. roughly that which is now placed on the flaps and in the imprint lines. Bold upper-case letters in the first line dramatically give way to the more subtle italics, the third line is highlighted with vermilion; a few words set in lower-case letters are scattered in-between, and then vermilion appears again. Somewhere in the middle there is an ornament, a monogram or an engraving as a kind of climax of the drama, while at the foot of the title-page all this din is quietened by a line with the name of the printer and the year expressed in Roman numerals, set in 8-point body size. Every Baroque title-page could well pass muster as a striking poster. The pride of every book printer was the publication of a type specimen book - a typographical manual. Among these manuals the one published by Fournier stands out - also as regards the selection of the texts for the specimen type matter. It reveals the scope of knowledge and education of the master typographers of that period. The same Fournier established a system of typographical measurement which, revised by Didot, is still used today. Baskerville introduced the smoothing of paper by a hot steel roller, in order that he could print astonishingly sharp letters, etc. ... In other words - Baroque typography deserves anything else but the attribute "transitional". In the first half of the 18th century, besides persons whose names are prominent and well-known up to the present, as was Caslon, there were many type founders who did not manage to publish their manuals or forgot to become famous in some other way. They often imitated the type faces of their more experienced contemporaries, but many of them arrived at a quite strange, even weird originality, which ran completely outside the mainstream of typographical art. The prints from which we have drawn inspiration for these six digital designs come from Paris, Vienna and Prague, from the period around 1750. The transcription of letters in their intact form is our firm principle. Does it mean, therefore, that the task of the digital restorer is to copy meticulously the outline of the letter with all inadequacies of the particular imprint? No. The type face should not to evoke the rustic atmosphere of letterpress after printing, but to analyze the appearance of the punches before they are imprinted. It is also necessary to take account of the size of the type face and to avoid excessive enlargement or reduction. Let us keep in mind that every size requires its own design. The longer we work on the computer where a change in size is child's play, the more we are convinced that the appearance of a letter is tied to its proportions, and therefore, to a fixed size. We are also aware of the fact that the computer is a straightjacket of the type face and that the dictate of mathematical vectors effectively kills any hint of naturalness. That is why we strive to preserve in these six alphabets the numerous anomalies to which later no type designer ever returned due to their obvious eccentricity. Please accept this PostScript study as an attempt (possibly futile, possibly inspirational) to brush up the warm magic of Baroque prints. Hopefully it will give pleasure in today's modern type designer's nihilism.