FF Signa Rounded is a natural complement to the rest of the FF Signa super family – and can stand on its own in a variety of print and on-screen applications. The design is Ole Søndergaard’s rounded branch in his FF Signa family three. In it, he took the distinctive shapes and proportions of FF Signa Sans and created a warm, inviting design for text and display copy. Like its parent design, FF Signa Round is not a humanistic sans, nor is it based on 19th-century grotesques. Its characters are minimalist interpretations of letterforms – distinctive, yet easy to read. Thanks to FF Signa Round’s large x-height, open counters and simple character shapes, the design does not overpower the message – and draws the reader in. At substantial sizes, especially in the bolder weights, the design communicates with amiable conviction. At text sizes, FF Signa Round remains inviting and legible. It can be used as a companion to the rest of the FF Signa family, providing depth of style and breadth of reach. The collection of designs can also be used on their own for brand, brochure, publication, and way-finding design in digital and hard copy environments. Like the rest of the FF Signa family, OpenType® Pro fonts of FF Signa Round provide for the automatic insertion of ligatures and alternate characters, and also offer an extended character set supporting over 100 languages, including most Central European and many Eastern European – in addition to Cyrillic and Greek.

In 1955 the Czech State Department of Culture, which was then in charge of all the publishing houses, organised a competition amongst printing houses and generally all book businesses for the design of a newspaper typeface. The motivation for this contest was obvious: the situation in the printing presses was appalling, with very little quality fonts existing and financial resources being too scarce to permit the purchase of type abroad. The conditions to be met by the typeface were strictly defined, and far more constrained than the ones applied to regular typefaces designed for books. A number of parameters needed to be considered, including the pressure of the printing presses and the quality of the thin newspaper ink that would have smothered any delicate strokes. Rough drafts of type designs for the competition were submitted by Vratislav Hejzl, Stanislav Marso, Frantisek Novak, Frantisek Panek, Jiri Petr, Jindrich Posekany, and the team of Stanislav Duda, Karel Misek and Josef Tyfa. The committee published its comments and corrections of the designs, and asked the designers to draw the final drafts. The winner was unambiguous — the members of the committee unanimously agreed to award Stanislav Marso’s design the first prize. His typeface was cast by Grafotechna (a state-owned enterprise) for setting with line-composing machines and also in larger sizes for hand-setting. Regular, bold, and bold condensed cuts were produced, and the face was named Public. In 2003 we decided to digitise the typeface. Drawings of the regular and italic cuts at the size of approximatively 3,5 cicero (43 pt) were used as templates for scanning. Those originals covered the complete set of caps except for the U, the lowercase, numerals, and sloped ampersand. The bold and condensed bold cuts were found in an original specimen book of the Rude Pravo newspaper printing press. These specimens included a dot, acute, colon, semicolon, hyphens, exclamation and question marks, asterisk, parentheses, square brackets, cross, section sign, and ampersand. After the regular cut was drafted, we began to modify it. All the uppercase letters were fine-tuned, the crossbar of the A was raised, E, F, and H were narrowed, L and R were significantly broadened, and the angle of the leg and arm of the K were adjusted. The vertex of the M now rests on the baseline, making the glyph broader. The apex of the N is narrower, resulting in a more regular glyph. The tail of Q was made more decorative; the uppercase S lost its implied serifs. The lowercase ascenders and descenders were slightly extended. Corrections on the lower case a were more significant, its waist being lowered in order to improve its colour and light. The top of the f was redrawn, the loop of lowercase g now has a squarer character. The diagonals of the lowercase k were harmonised with the uppercase K. The t has a more open and longer terminal, and the tail of the y matches its overall construction. Numerals are generally better proportioned. Italics have been thoroughly redrawn, and in general their slope is lessened by approximatively 2–3 degrees. The italic upper case is more consistent with the regular cut. Unlike the original, the tail of the K is not curved, and the Z is not calligraphic. The italic lower case is even further removed from the original. This concerns specifically the bottom finials of the c and e, the top of the f, the descender of the j, the serif of the k, a heavier ear on the r, a more open t, a broader v and w, a different x, and, again, a non-calligraphic z. Originally the bold cut conformed even more to the superellipse shape than the regular one, since all the glyphs had to be fitted to the same width. We have redrawn the bold cut to provide a better match with the regular. This means its shapes have become generally broader, also noticeably darker. Medium and Semibold weights were also interpolated, with a colour similar to the original bold cut. The condensed variants’ width is 85 percent of the original. The design of the Bold Condensed weights was optimised for the setting of headlines, while the lighter ones are suited for normal condensed settings. All the OpenType fonts include small caps, numerals, fractions, ligatures, and expert glyphs, conforming to the Suitcase Standard set. Over half a century of consistent quality ensures perfect legibility even in adverse printing conditions and on poor quality paper. RePublic is an exquisite newspaper and magazine type, which is equally well suited as a contemporary book face.

Starfire is a retro styled geometric sans-serif family with roots in mid-century graphic design.

Stereotype is a geometrical font in five weights based on the same square. It's a gradient!

This font family, of 3 weights, was inspired by old hand painted signs in Tel Aviv.

The beautiful and elegant typeface is excellent use in wedding invitations, art, posters, and small texts.

Sarastrada is a four weights typeface inspired in the Wild West posters. Published by Letter INC.

The Erbar font was designed by Jakob Erbar for the Ludwig & Mayer/Neufville foundry in 1930.

38 high quality illustrations portraying the first generation of kids growing up immersed in digital technologies.

The Erbar font was designed by Jakob Erbar for the Ludwig & Mayer/Neufville foundry in 1930.

KnewFont simulates neat and meticulous hand printing. Its letters slant left and come in five weights.

A revival of old hand painted sign in Old Jaffa, from the mid of 20th century.

Another batch of vintage letterpress cartoons, cuts, dingbats and embellishments is offered in Print Sellers JNL.

Font family designed for ornament use in texts, with four variants, arrows, emoji, geometry and symbols.

Roger Roberson skillfully adapted the sanserif to the monospace IBM typewriter at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1956.

Boink Scratchy Outline is a new variation in a series based on my classic "Boink" font.

BallPill — a trapless typeface in 5 weights alternates: ss01 ss02 ss03 – language: all latin glyphs and

Morris Fuller Benton’s version of the standard American nineteenth century blackletter made for ATF in 1901.

Highly legible single stroked stencil font family in 3 weights. Use for titles, signage, captions etc.

Equator is modern angular typeface available in two weights ready for traveling all over the world.

DB Flower Power is a collection of cute flowers in bloom with a spring themed feel.

The classic story of princes and princesses is represented here in DoodleBat Once Upon A Time.

A quick scribbled font, made to look written in a hurry...and believe me, it was!

52 high quality illustrations portraying the first generation of kids growing up immersed in digital technologies.

The beautiful and elegant typeface is excellent use in wedding invitations, art, posters, and small texts.

A rough and ready typeface created from a series of doodles that comes in uppercase only.

Prospector JNL is based on a lettering example found in an old Speedball-pen lettering handbook.

Part 2 in the series of "things of more or less importance" which include different drawings.

Set of vintage ornaments that are easily combined in a rapport (pattern) compositions or elegant frames.

Shearlight is a beautiful signature monoline script typeface with elegant but strong shapes in every glyphs.

A cartoonish, happy font with an uneven baseline, great for use in children's books and cards.

AndrewAndyStencil is a sans-serif, stencil font in two weights derived from the Ingrimayne font AndrewAndreas.

An austere grotesque with a hint of 1990s flair. Designed in the suburbs of Washington DC.

Suzanne in a can is an expressive yet naive writing that has a straightforwardness about it.

A display font inspired by Designer Shock, Designers Republic and the chunky designer look in general.

PL Torino Outline was designed by Ed Benguiat in 1960 after Alessandro ButtiÆs 1908 typeface, Torino.

The classic foamy look of a birthday cake - yes indeed. Grace and sweet in once font!

Rearranging the conventional disposition of thick and thin strokes in the Modern (Didone) class of typeface.

36 high quality illustrations portraying the first generation of kids growing up immersed in digital technologies.

Desperado is a modern bold type style that will work well in sign and truck lettering.