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  1. Packard Old Style by Red Rooster Collection, $60.00
    Steve Jackaman & Ashley Muir. Packard Old Style is based on lettering drawn by Oswald Cooper for the Packard Motor Company (ATF 1913). The bold weight is credited to Morris Fuller Benton (ATF 1916), but it is highly probable that Benton did the adaptation for both weights. Packard Old Style Pro contains all the high-end features expected in a quality OpenType Pro font.
  2. Ajuice Script by Panatype Studio, $9.00
    Ajuice Script Font is a high contrast script font with a romantic theme with two font styles ( Regular & Round ) which is perfect for your designs that want a romantic style, modern vintage, elegant, soft, and carefully crafted for all graphic design needs. File Includes : OPENTYPE FEATURE Contextual Alternates Following Language Support : LATIN EXTENDED ( Western European, Central European, South Eastern European )
  3. Maylane by Raditya Type, $13.00
    Maylane is a beautiful, loving elegant typeface. It is suitable for wedding invitation, quote, greeting and many more. “Maylane” includes the full set of upper and lower case letters, multilingual symbols, numbers, punctuation, stylistic set, and ligature. This font has a smooth texture, so it will be perfect for all types of printing techniques. You can do embroidery, laser cut, gold foil etc.
  4. Ciabatta by Sudtipos, $39.00
    Ciabatta is a luscious font made especially for packaging. Thanks to 5 weights, it can be used for all eventualities; powerful in headlines or as lettering, yet very legible in small texts. Its shapes are slightly narrow and based on classical italics but Ciabatta includes alternates with a double-storey ‘a’ and ‘g’ which offer a more formal appearance upright.
  5. Hybi14 Boldie by Hybi-Types, $9.00
    The Hybi14-Boldie is a bold Script in two styles. It’s lack of excessive details makes it appropriate for all oportunities of headlines, slogans and advertising. It’s friendly and charming character makes it pleasant to look at. The fonts are offering a huge character set for usage in many languages. Also thousands of kerning pairs within each style are obligatory.
  6. Upstanding Pro by Multiformis, $10.99
    Upstanding Pro is suited for use as a display typeface, but legible enough to be used in small blocks of text (lighter weights), thus providing a lot of flexibility for all kinds of projects. Upstanding Pro conveys presence, strength and speed with the italics, yet conserving certain traces of sobriety and elegance. Want to make a statement? Use Upstanding Pro!
  7. Chattelyne by ZetDesign, $10.00
    Introducing our new font that we named Chattelyne Script. It gives a beautiful and natural impression. This font is very suitable for clothing, logos, Wedding Invitations, Branding, Posters, Quotes, magazines, banners, etc. all with a natural touch. This font is the best choice for your business. What you get? Standart Ligature, Stylistic Alternate and multilingual accents. I hope you enjoy my creation.
  8. Hybi15 Ronja by Hybi-Types, $9.00
    The Hybi15-Ronja is a characterful 4-style font family. It’s high recognition factor makes it appropriate for all oportunities of headlines, slogans and advertising. Though, it’s straight-line and well-balanced look makes it friendly and charming. The fonts are offering a huge character set for usage in many languages. Also thousands of kerning pairs within each style are obligatory.
  9. Ubicada - Personal use only
  10. Premier by ITC, $29.99
    Premier font was designed by Colin Brignall. Premier Lightline displays all the elegance and sophistacation of the 1920s and 30s and consists of a refined lowercase with high ascenders and generous capitals which can also be used alone. Premier Shaded is an all caps typeface which provides a robust counterpart to the fine elegance of Premier Lightline. Premier Shaded should be used with close or ever overlapping letter spacing and is ideal for strong, eye-catching headlines.
  11. Broggitto by Letterara, $16.00
    Broggitto is a beautiful incredibly versatile serif font duo. It perfectly combines a beautiful serif with an elegant brush sans serif. This font was created with care and given a lot of features to make it look very attractive. These styles are ready to be used together and give your designs a modern and unique look! Broggitto font suitable for all design projects. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs.
  12. Authem by Letterfreshstudio, $14.00
    Authem is a modern script typeface. It contains a complete set of lowercase, uppercase, alternative, ligature, punctuation, numbers, and multilingual support. You are welcome to use it for various purposes: logos, wedding invitations, titles, signatures, t-shirts, letterheads, signboards, labels, posters, and more. How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwjMkbB-wQ Thank you
  13. Sanelma by Melvastype, $35.00
    Sanelma is a brush script inspired by Hot Rod lettering and sign painting. Sanelma is a very versatile script: It includes two different styles of end swashes, swash caps, small caps, lots of alternate characters and underline option. All in all it has over 1,200 glyphs. Sanelma is bouncy and smooth and has a very organic feel. You have a lot of options to customize it and that makes it perfect for logos, packages and titles.
  14. Regon by Dicubit, $9.00
    Regon is a modern sans serif typeface/font family (18 fonts) designed with carefully handcrafted. This perfectly made to be applied in logo or branding, stationery, books, packaging, fashion, magazines, t-shirt, novels, labels and many advertising purposes. Styles: Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi Bold, Bold, Extra Bold, Black (All with Italic). Features: Uppercase, Lowercase, Number, Punctuation, Symbol, Multilingual. All the pictures used in the preview are not included. They are intended only for illustration purpose.
  15. Portland Grotesk by QUADRAAT, $35.00
    Portland Grotesk is a grotesque sans serif typeface with chubby proportions in 5 weights Light - Regular - Medium - SemiBold - Bold and supports all latin languages. Easy to use and easy to read. The character set contains 1109 glyphs with a wide range of alternates characters and includes: - Small Capitals - Fractions - Superiors, denominators - Open type features such as case sensitive, standard ligatures and several stylistics sets Portland Grotesk fits perfectly for all types of communication (Books, magazines, posters)
  16. Bloody Charm by PizzaDude.dk, $20.00
    Is it blood, melted ice, water or something slimy? Choose yourself, because Bloody Charm can be used for all purposed that needs something either scary or melting. I've added two versions: Regular and Drips. The Drips versions is (you may have guessed it already!) a bit more drippy than the regular version. Both versions uses contextual alternates, which in this case means that there is 3 different versions of all lowercase letters - and these automatically cycles as you type!
  17. Monatta by Pen Culture, $17.00
    Monatta is a luxury signature font. Created carefully with specific OpenType features include all caps, multilingual support (including currency symbols), 94 ligatures, standard numbers, and many others. this font perfect for any purpose, and very easy to use. Features : Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Number and Punctuation Stylistic Alternate Multilingual Accent : ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ Pua Encode Guides to access all alternates glyphs : http://adobe.ly/1m1fn4Y Please fell free to contact me on Hipenculture@gmail.com if you have any question Thank you
  18. Mr Dum Dum by Hipopotam Studio, $60.00
    Mr Dum Dum was designed for our game – Ba Ba Dum. In Ba Ba Dum players can learn words in different languages, so we needed a typeface that can support not only all latin characters but also Cyrillic, Greek and two Japanese syllabaries – Hiragana and Katakana. Eventually we wanted to add Chinese support so we designed 1314 Simplified Chinese characters – just enough to cover all words available in Ba Ba Dum plus necessary logograms to translate the games UI.
  19. Razen by HansCo, $15.00
    RAZEN is a sharp italic and bold font with unique style that will make your design looks modern, geometric and futuristic. You can use this font for any purpose, especially to make logotype like a technology or sport logo brand. This typeface is comes in ALL CAPS, punctuation, symbols, numerals, etc also support multilingual in all caps. Highly recommended to use it in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, Afinity and more. Enjoy!
  20. Ribuah Sans by LetterMuzara, $20.00
    Ribuah Sans is a sans serif font with high contrast, inspired by the font "Bodoni" and the architecture of brutalism. Ribuah Sans consists of three styles (light, regular, bold) and includes several writing systems such as Latin (supporting all European languages and Turkish), Cyrillic (supporting all Cyrillic-based alphabets), Greek and Hebrew. By it's modern, geometric and strict nature this font will immediately draw attention to your design, thereby becoming a perfect option for heading and advertising.
  21. Kustina by Youngtype, $18.00
    Kustina Script is a hand brush font made with brushes and ink. This typeface is ideal for use in thick watercolor designs or handwriting styles, such as blog titles, posters, wedding elements, t-shirts, clothing, book covers, business cards, greeting cards, branding, merchandise etc. How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwjMkbB-wQ Thank you!
  22. Delikat by Scholtz Fonts, $22.00
    Delikat is a graceful, finely crafted, slinky, slightly retro, somewhat quirky script font. Perfect for advertising material, clothing tags, restaurant and cafe menus, food labels, music videos, magazine pages, cosmetic branding and so many other uses we lose count! The font contains all upper and lower case characters, punctuation, numerals and mathematical operators, as well as all accented characters used in European languages. Delikat makes use of Opentype features, which enhance the fluidity and legibility of the script.
  23. Kalmiza Script by Nowlystudios, $12.00
    Kalmiza is a monoline script font with a cursive style, as many characters are smoothly connected. This lovely typeface is great for designers who are seeking a natural and authentic style in their creations! This gorgeous font includes all lowercase and uppercase characters, numbers, punctuation, alternate, an array of standard ligatures, and a selection of international characters as well. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the amazing glyphs and ligatures with ease
  24. Robur by Canada Type, $24.95
    It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that these letter shapes are familiar. They have the unmistakable color and weight of Cooper Black, Oswald Cooper's most famous typeface from 1921. What should be a surprise is that these letters are actually from George Auriol's Robur Noir (or Robur Black), published in France circa 1909 by the Peignot foundry as a bolder, solid counterpart to its popular Auriol typeface (1901). This face precedes Cooper Black by a dozen of years and a whole Great War. Cooper Black has always been a bit of a strange typographical apparition to anyone who tried to explain its original purpose, instant popularity in the 1920s, and major revival in the late 1960s. BB&S and Oswald Cooper PR aside, it is quite evident that the majority of Cooper Black's forms did not evolve from Cooper Old Style, as its originators claimed. And the claim that it collected various Art Nouveau elements is of course too ambiguous to be questioned. But when compared with Robur Noir, the "elements" in question can hardly be debated. The chronology of this "machine age" ad face in metal is amusing and stands as somewhat of a general index of post-Great War global industrial competition: - 1901: Peignot releases Auriol, based on the handwriting of George Auriol (the "quintessential Art Nouveau designer," according to Steven Heller and Louise Fili), and it becomes very popular. - 1909-1912: Peignot releases the Robur family of faces. The eight styles released are Robur Noir and its italic, a condensed version called Robur Noir Allongée (Elongated) and its italic, an outline version called Clair De Lune and its condensed/elongated, a lined/striped version called Robur Tigre, and its condensed/elongated counterpart. - 1914 to 1918: World War One uses up economies on both sides of the Atlantic, claims Georges Peignot with a bullet to the forehead, and non-war industry stalls for 4 years. - 1921: BB&S releases Cooper Black with a lot of hype to hungry publishing, manufacturing and advertising industries. - 1924: Robert Middleton releases Ludlow Black. - 1924: The Stevens Shanks foundry, the British successor to the Figgins legacy, releases its own exact copies of Robur Noir and Robur Noir Allongée, alongside a lined version called Royal Lining. - 1925: Oswald Cooper releases his Cooper Black Condensed, with similar math to Robur Noir Allongée (20% reduction in width and vectical stroke). - 1925: Monotype releases Frederick Goudy's Goudy Heavy, an "answer to Cooper Black". Type historians gravely note it as the "teacher steals from his student" scandal. Goudy Heavy Condensed follows a few years later. - 1928: Linotype releases Chauncey Griffith's Pabst Extra Bold. The condensed counterpart is released in 1931. When type production technologies changed and it was time to retool the old faces for the Typositor age, Cooper Black was a frontrunning candidate, while Robur Noir was all but erased from history. This was mostly due to its commercial revival by flourishing and media-driven music and advertising industries. By the late 1960s variations and spinoffs of Cooper Black were in every typesetting catalog. In the early- to mid-1970s, VGC, wanting to capitalize on the Art Nouveau onslaught, published an uncredited exact copy of Robur Black under the name Skylark. But that also went with the dust of history and PR when digital tech came around, and Cooper Black was once again a prime retooling candidate. The "old fellows stole all of our best ideas" indeed. So almost a hundred years after its initial fizz, Robur is here in digital form, to reclaim its rightful position as the inspiration for, and the best alternative to, Cooper Black. Given that its forms date back to the turn of the century, a time when foundry output had a closer relationship to calligraphic and humanist craft, its shapes are truer to brush strokes and much more idiosyncratic than Cooper Black in their totality's construct. Robur and Robur Italic come in all popular font formats. Language support includes Western, Central and Eastern European character sets, as well as Baltic, Esperanto, Maltese, Turkish, and Celtic/Welsh languages. A range of complementary f-ligatures and a few alternates letters are included within the fonts.
  25. Leroy by Andinistas, $39.95
    Leroy is a font family of 5 members designed from geometrizing Roman and Gothic skeletons. Its purpose is to provide optimal reading of titles and paragraphs with strong mechanical flavor. Because of this, its variables are designed to sort information in media such as labels, signs and industrial atmosphere packaging related with the Soviet Union’s fonts in 1920. This idea matured white horizontal lines superimposed on alphabets drawn with an ancient architectural team known as “Leroy K & E Controlled Lettering System”. Then that evolved into a family concept unifying its proportion to the same X height for its members, resulting in a versatile type system. Therefore, Regular and Bold variables have low contrast between thick and thin strokes. Its upstream and downstream are extremely short, generating a suitable interline that clogs the vertical area. Its overall width equal to its X height, supports its tight spacing that compacts the horizontal area. Therefore, the variant with black caliber has plenty of contrast between thick and thin strokes. The light variable has a “blind” effect radiating light halos, ideal to propose hierarchies and combinations with orthogonal projection. In that sense, Leroy’s modular character reminds constructivist ideology merged with typographical variants suitable for graphic design with geometric look. To achieve this, I studied the softening of forms and counter blocks into a typographical system specially designed for composing useful information to attract attention. In that sense, the dingbats were obtained through a careful process of research and testings done with drawings that provided full and empty visual strategies that with the passage of time helped to forge the major decisions of a metamorphosis from industrial tools, birds and humans from pictogram mixing various genres.
  26. Dansley by Letterhend, $17.00
    Meet Dansley – a script font that brings together the vintage and classic looks with a unique twist. Its bold form and chic details add a touch of sophistication and personality to any design project 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 & lowercase Numbers and punctuation Ligatures & Alternates 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.
  27. Feastland by Letterhend, $14.00
    Garland is a font duo with classic display font with Vintage Script. You can play around to fit the form using between typeface. This font 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 & lowercase Numbers and punctuation Alternates & Ligatures 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. Tags
  28. Seatyio by Twinletter, $14.00
    Introducing our new Font named Seatyio This font is designed with a script model that is suitable for writing for outdoor and indoor events, such as traveling or for the title of any particular event. and to be sure this font is not only limited to that purpose but also very special for every need of your project, be it a formal or non-formal project, this font is still beautiful and elegant. start creating awesome designs with this font! This charming font also offers the beauty of abstract typography harmony for a wide variety of design projects, including digital natural handwriting for designs, quote designs, for social media business designs, advertisements, trademarks, food and beverage promotion banners, text, posters, a signature, and all designs require handwriting or whatever design you want. This font is equipped with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation marks, swhases and several variations on each character including multi-language. ================================================== This font is best suited for open type friendly applications. How to get alternative glyphs from open type fonts: http://adobe.ly/1m1fn4Y PUA Character Code - Fully accessible without additional design software. do not hesitate anymore start using this font. and Feel free to send any message you want to convey.
  29. Sassoon Joined NORDIC by Sassoon-Williams, $66.00
    These fonts will join-as-you-type in your OpenType application as shown in the posters above. Choose Use Contextual Alternates option in your app to get basic recommended baseline joins for teaching. Additionally, use can choose from 7 Stylistic Sets of alternative letterforms that are so important for Teachers. Create ‘pen lifts’ anytime too! Fonts display unjoined by default on this website and are delivered that way - joining is controlled by your application. Designed for teaching children, these fonts enable progressive pupil exercises for a smooth transition between separate letters and the teaching of joined handwriting. Purchase a single font or the complete package contains the typeface ‘Sassoon Joined’ in a Regular weight only, for the 5 Nordic languages; Finnish (Suomi), Danish (Dansk), Icelandic (íslenska), Norwegian (Norsk), Swedish (Svenska), with English as the default language in all fonts. These fonts are for use with a compatible OpenType applications such as Word to get joined text. Or, enter " | " between letters for unjoined text. Free to download resources Stylistic Sets and how to access the alternative letters feature in these OpenType fonts Purchasers of this font package may use their Order Number to receive a free Copybook PDF by Rosemary Sassoon recommended for effective teaching
  30. Escript by Linotype, $29.99
    Linotype Escript is a part of the Take Type Library, which features winners of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contest. Hans-Jürgen Ellenberger designed this handwriting font with fresh, lively forms. Each letter has a slightly different character, yet all fit well together and this lack of concrete rules gives the font a spontaneous feel. Escript is well-suited to headlines, smaller texts, and initials when combined with constructed typefaces.
  31. Quache by Mans Greback, $29.00
    Quache is a flexible sans-serif, created by Måns Grebäck between 2018 and 2020. It has unique, stylish curvatures and is clear, legible and sharp with open letter forms. The font family consists of six weights and four widths, totaling in 28 main styles: Thin, Light, Regular, Bold, Black, Heavy and Condensed, Normal, Expanded, ExtraExpanded It supports Latin-based languages, and contains numbers and all symbols you'll ever need.
  32. Skarpa Condensed by Aga Silva, $23.99
    This is condensed and more visually compact version of Skarpa font. All kerning has been thoroughly revised and manually adjusted. The font is based on geometric forms devoid of excessive flourishing. Would suit modern designs either in fashion, technology or laboratory setting. Would look good on door plaques in pharmacy or simple drawer plaques - especially Medium or Bold specimen. Lighter specimens would look good in leaflet & magazine print (see presented posters).
  33. Werbedeutsch by RMU, $25.00
    A blackletter font I could not resist to revive: Ernst Schneidler’s Buchdeutsch, released by Schelter & Giesecke in 1926 which I renamed as Werbedeutsch. This font contains the letter ‚long s‘ which can be reached in two ways. Either you use the OpenType feature ‚historical forms‘, or you type the integral sign on your keyboard. To achieve all ligatures, it is recommended to activate both standard and discretionary ligatures.
  34. Quebra Condensed by Vanarchiv, $55.00
    Quebra Cond is an extend display sans-serif font family, available with four widths (Extra Condensed, Condensed, Normal and Expanded) and ten weights, italics versions are available. The main strokes contain small breaks simulating modulated variations on the letterforms, these details are more present on large body sizes. All font versions contain Latin and Cyrillic encoding characters and also ligatures, case-sensitive forms, fractions, oldstyle and finally tabular figures.
  35. Enge Journal Antiqua by RMU, $30.00
    Hermann Zehnpfundt’s Enge Journal Antiqua, released by the Emil Gursch Foundry, Berlin, in 1910, revived and redesigned. This font contains also a long s, which can be reached by typing option + b, or turning the round s into the long one by using the OT feature historical forms. It is recommended to also use the OT feature discretionary ligatures to get access to all ligatures in this font.
  36. Paget by Greater Albion Typefounders, $8.50
    Paget is a modern exploration of Tuscan design. Here you'll find simple geometric outlines with an 'Arts and Craft' charm about them. Paget is beautifully clear and easy to read, but offers a distinctive charm that conventional sans serif and serif faces don't. Paget is offered in regular and oblique forms and is an ideal way to merge tradition and all that is new and fresh in your designs.
  37. Captura Now Core Edition by TypeThis!Studio, $50.00
    Carefully refined shapes and sensitively balanced spacing and kerning create the gentle rythm that grants Captura its warm-hearted face, perfect in form and shape. www.typethis.studio This version covers all the essentials of Captura 265 Characters 8 Styles, including Italics Western European Language Support Numbers Symbols Punctuation If you need more features like small caps, special symbols, Cyrillic or Vietnamese language support, you may review the expert version of CapturaNow.
  38. Quebra Expa by Vanarchiv, $55.00
    Quebra Expa (Expanded) is an extend display sans-serif font family, available with four widths (Extra Condensed, Condensed, Normal and Expanded) and ten weights, italics versions are available. The main strokes contain small breaks simulating modulated variations on the letterforms, these details are more present on large body sizes. All font versions contain Latin and Cyrillic encoding characters and also ligatures, case-sensitive forms, fractions, oldstyle and finally tabular figures.
  39. Gauche Display - Personal use only
  40. Antique by Storm Type Foundry, $26.00
    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.
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