Blackletter typefaces follow certain fixed rules, both in respect to their forms and to the orthography. Possibly, they were a reaction to the half-developed Carolingian minuscule which was soon to end in the Latin script. Narrow, ordered script was to replace the round, hesitant and shattered shapes of letters in order to simplify writing, to unify the meaning of individual letters, and to save some parchment, too. Opposed to the practice common in monasterial scriptoriums where Uncial, Irish and Carolingian inspiration flew freely and as a result, the styles of writing differed in each monastery, the blackletter type was to define one, common standard. It was to express spiritual verticality, in perfect tune with the architecture of the Gothic era. Typography became an integral part of the overall style of the period. The pointed arch and the blackletter type were the vanguard of the spectacular transformation from the Middle Ages towards the modern era, they were a celebration of a time when works of art were not signed by their makers yet. Some unfortunate souls keep linking blackletter solely with Germany and the Third Reich, while the truth is that its direct predecessor, the Gothic minuscule, evolved mostly in France. Even Hitler himself indicated blackletter type obsolete in the age of steel, iron and concrete – thus making a significant contribution to the spreading of the Latin script in Germany. Once we leave our prejudice aside, we find that the shapes of blackletter type have exceptional potential, unheard of in sans-serif letterforms. The lower case letters fit into an imaginary rectangle which is easily extended both upwards and sideways. In its scope and in the name itself, the Moyenage type family project is to celebrate the diversity of the Middle Ages. I begun realizing the urge to design my own blackletter when visiting the beer gardens of Munich and while walking through the villages of rural Austria. The letters from the notice boards of inns are scented with spring air, with the flowers of cudweed, with white sausage and weissbier. The crooked calligraphic hooks and beaks seem to imitate the hearty yodeling of local drinkers and the rustle of the giant skirts of girls who distribute the giant wreaths of beer jugs. Moyenage is, however, a modern replica of blackletter, so it contains some otherwise unacceptable Latin script elements in upper case. I chose these keeping the modern reader in mind, striving for better legibility. The font is drawn as if written with a flat pen or brush, and with the ambition to, perhaps, serve as a calligraphic model. In medium width, the face is surprisingly well legible; it is perfect for menus as well as posters and CD covers for some of the heavier kinds of music. It has five types of numerals and also a set of Cyrillic script, symbolising the lovelorn union of Germans and Russians in the 20th century. Thus, it is well suited for the setting of bilingual texts of the German classic literature, which, according to the ancient rules, must not be set in Latin script.

Jonhson Black Script New fresh & modern style with handmade calligraphy, decorative characters and dancing lineage! It's so wonderful for invitations, greeting cards, branding material, business cards, quotes, posters, and more. Jonhson Black Script comes with 330 glyphs. Alternate characters are divided into several OpenType features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternate, Contextual Alternate. OpenType features are accessible by using OpenType savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X versions, and Microsoft Word. And this font has code PUA unicode (font with special code), so that all alternative characters can be easily accessed by craftsmen or designers.

Queen Sea is a fun script font with a curly alternate and swash look that is perfect for multipurpose projects. This font looks feminine and will fit well in any design and very recommended for crafts, posters, books, branding, quotes, print templates, packaging, invitations, music labels, product labels, logos and more. This typeface comes in uppercase and lowercase, with punctuation, symbols, numerals, swashes, alternates and also has multilingual support. Swashes is alternate from numeral 0 - 9, You can access swashes from your OpenType panel in your design software. Tutorial how to Install & use Alternate / Special Character : https://hanscostudio.com/tutorial/ Enjoy !

Uranos is a serif type family with uncomplicated appearance and modern, geometric glyphs shapes. Available in three styles, include many stylistic alternates and automatic ligature creation. Character set contain the complete Unicode Latin 1252 (Western European; ANSI), 1250 Latin 2 (Central European), 1254 Turkish, 1257 Baltic. Supported OpenType features: Acces All Alternates, Capital Spacing, Case-Sensitive Forms, Contextual Alternates, Fractions, Kerning, Localized Forms, Ordinals, Proportional Figures, Slashed Zero, Small Capitals, Small Capitals From Capitals, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set (1-20), Superscript, Tabular Figures, Titling. Kerning is prepared as single ('flat') table for maximum possible compatibility with older software.

Crimmy is a modern and clean brush with natural a handwritten font. This texture is very detailed. You can see the swash brushes as alternate characters in this font. Crimmy is suitable for logos, shirts, fashion, blogs, websites, product branding, posters, flyers, any print template or for text overlay to any background image. How to use alternate: if you use Adobe / Corel Draw you just block one of the letters / numbers (for swash) and an arrow will appear under the letter, and you can replace it with alternative characters. Alternative character ready for " f , g , j , y and numeral 0 - 9 "

Florian is an elegant Roman Display typeface with three weights. It’s great for branding, packaging or as in headlines. Florian is a classic high contrast serif with contemporary features. Florian has a clear sense of fashion and style. Florian is equipped with 150 OpenType alternates including Swash, Stylistic and Titling Alternates. Florian also has interlocking ligatures set in Discretionary Ligatures. These ligatures contain pairs in Uppercase + Uppercase and Uppercase + Lowercase. All Alternates are PUA encoded and can also be accessed from Glyph Palette or Character Map. Try combining Discretionary Ligatures with other Alternates in Caps to create striking word forms.

Introducing, A NEW RETRO BOLD FONTS WITH STYLISH AND ICON ALTERNATES, Psyche lover! Psyche lover is a retro font serif based that contains stylish alternates! You can make a unique branding retro and psychedelic designs with this fonts. This stylish bold fonts also included extrude and outline style that will compliments the regular style for more retro looks! This fonts suitable to use for poster, branding, merchandise, and any retro style! The "Love" shape also included in this font as an alternates for character "o". You can see all the alternates from preview above!! Also support multilingual and already PUA Encoded! Thank You!

Chellroy is a modern retro font with handdrawn Style - it's a cool modern style for retro classics, perfect for quote designs, cricut projects, header text, logos & branding, ads, posters, magazines, youtube, instagram, websites and more. It's packed with lots of alternatives and ligatures to bring your designs to life. Accessing Alternate Characters and Ligatures • To access each one, just make sure 'Standard Ligature' and 'Discretionary Ligature' are enabled, and follow your letter with plus symbol. For example, typing 'a+, a++' will generate the 2 alternative versions for the lowercase a. Features : Multilanguage Alternates PUA Encoded Ligatures Thank You

Mynaruse is an elegant and regal roman inscriptional titling family. It has sharp and elongated serifs that give the face extra punch. The face shines in settings that call for elegance and splendor. Mynaruse’s six weights range from a fine, delicate thin to a powerful and solid heavy weight. Mynaruse includes many useful OpenType features, including a set of swash alternates, alternate titling forms, ligatures and miscellaneous alternates. OpenType-capable applications such as Quark or the Adobe suite can take full advantage of the automatically replacing ligatures and alternates. This family also includes the glyphs to support a wide range of languages.

Michela Script New fresh & modern style with handmade calligraphy, decorative characters and dancing lineage! So wonderful are invitations like greeting cards, branding material, business cards, quotes, posters, and more. Michela Script comes with 612 glyphs. Alternate characters are divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternate, Contextual Alternate. Open Type features are accessible by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X versions, and Microsoft Word. And this font has code PUA unicode (font with special code). So that all alternative characters can be easily accessed by craftsmen or designers.

Welcoming to a new script font from letterel "Beyond Eternity" Beyond Eternity is a delicate script font with opentype featured such as ligature, swash and alternates. There are two styles for uppercase, a casual one and alternates one with beginning swash. For lowercase there are both beginning and ending swash to complete your design needs. All characters are coming with PUA encoded, so they are accessible. If you are not common with opentype featured you can use Beyond Eternity Alternates to access Uppercase Alternates and Beyond Eternity Swash to access lowercase swashes with ease. Happy Design

Say hello to new serif font, Kaelorin! Introducing Rosalind, a stunning modern retro serif font that effortlessly combines aesthetic charm with captivating alternate characters. This typeface falls into the category of modern retro serif fonts and is designed to bring a touch of nostalgia and elegance to your design projects. What sets Rosalind apart are its intriguing alternate characters. These alternates offer a wealth of creative possibilities, allowing you to experiment with various letter combinations and create unique and eye-catching typographic compositions. Each alternate has been thoughtfully designed to ensure visual coherence and seamless integration within the font.

• Clementia – a stylish condensed serif font with Art Deco mood and huge variety of stylistic alternates and ligatures. Thereby your typographic gets a unique and authentic style for a vide variety of projects. Cafe's menu, wedding invitation, branding, magazine's headers, t-shirt prints, posters - all these projects will breathe uniqueness. Your typography may be more discreet with basic stylistic set or it can be more playful, artistic and expressive with any of ligatures or stylistic alternates. • 970 Glyphs total; True Italics; Open Type Features as stylistic alternates, ligatures, old style / tabular / fraction / superior figures, manicules and small caps; Multilingual (Include alternates)

Poster Brush is a hand drawn font pair with lots of character. Poster Brush is packed with OpenType features - Contextual Alternates changes prevents identical double letters from being next to each other. With Stylistic Alternates you can manually change the letters. When you turn on Discretionary Ligatures you’ll get interlocking ligatures when typing with caps. Poster Brush Script is equipped with Standard Ligatures and Contextual Alternates to keep the flow smooth. It also has Swash alternates for certain letters. Poster Brush & Poster Brush Script work great together or as themselves. For the best price purchase the whole family.

Mellinde is new, fresh, & modern with handmade calligraphy, decorative characters and dancing lineage! Wonderful for invitations like greeting cards, branding material, business cards, quotes, posters, and more!! It comes with 472 glyphs. Alternate characters are divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternate, Contextual Alternate. Open Type features are accessible by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X versions, and Microsoft Word. And this font has code PUA unicode (font with special code) so that all alternative characters can be easily accessed by craftsmen or designers.

Introducing the pretty amazing script font that will add a bold feel called Hallo Berthany. This font has already OpenType features such as swashes, alternates, stylistic alternates, SS01-SS06 and supports 17 languages. Hallo Berthany is suitable for greeting cards, logotype, wedding, invitation card, signature mark and more. I've made the special font for all OpenType features like alternate, swashes, stylistic alternates etc. Get inspired by its unique style. What's included: - PUA encoded - Multilingual support - Opentype features If you have any questions or need technical support, don't hesitate to drop a message or contact me. Thanks have a nice day!

Chrome Balance is an experimental bitmap font created by photographing hand-modeled play dough and adding a chrome effect. It has a unique and dynamic look and is designed to accompany bold and simple designs such as album covers, posters etc.. The vector version of the same form has also been converted to the vector format, font named Amorphic. IG: algzl

A festive, elegant script, Corinthia flows with perfect connections and beautiful curves. It’s a delightful design that offers wide usage... Available in OpenType format, this award winning font comes with over 500 glyphs, and character sets for European languages. All three weights are perfect for creating elegant design work from packaging and romance novels, to invitations and social expression products.

Centima – a geometric sans serif typeface family, built in six styles. The typeface is intended for use in display sizes, but also is quite legible in text and is well suited for editorial and brand design. Centima is released in OpenType format with support for most European languages and includes some OpenType features – proportional/tabular, lining/oldstyle figures, slashed zero, ligatures, fractions.

Created by Chank in 1992, Ribjoint was Chank’s first attempt at creating a Egyptian, cursive font on the computer. Writing cursive with a pencil sure is easy, but getting all the letters to link up correctly in computerized font format is a bit tricky. Not the most graceful script in the world, but it works good enough for a BBQ pit.

A collection of animal drawings in font format. A great set of type dingbats in the genre of farm animals and more. See also other font families inspired by Gans' original typefaces: Gans Tipo Adorno, Gans Lath Modern, Gans Titular Adornada, Gans Ibarra, Gans Antigua, Gans Antigua Manuscrito, Gans Fulgor, Gans Radio Lumina, Gans Carmem Adornada, Gans Italiana, and Gans Titania.

Mangatha is handwritten script font. It has casual, classy, fun, and cute. It’s a great font for fashion, apparel projects, signature, album cover, logo, branding, magazine, social media, & advertisements, but also works great for other projects. Highlight : Fonts are provided in OTF formats. Character Set Numerals and Punctuation (OpenType Standard) Accents (Multilingual characters) Ligature Set PUA Encode Enjoy, Thank you Krakenbox

Here comes a New font, Vespertine is a Strong Rough Brush Font that is written casually and quickly. comes in two mode = Standart and italic. Letters are made with brushes on Procreate. Then crafted carefully drawn into vector format. That is why Vespertine has Rough and strong characteristic more natural look to your text with a more modern look to your text.

A heavy font made by Minor Praxis. Inspired by blocks toy design. Ideal use for headlines, medium and large prints format, displays, and posters. Built by a quite heavy structure and dense kern which can make a hefty and solid impression. It can be matched with basic sans serif fonts as a body copy. Available in 4 styles with multi languages support.

Lichtspiele Reklame is the ultra condensed version of Lichtspiele inspired by the 1920s — the golden age of cinema — where neon lights and marquee letters decorated cinema facades. Lichtspiele Reklame is crafted for large narrow formats and contains the display font and two italics (italic & contra-italic), like in these 20s, a time where movie announcements were shown on huge so called Litfaßsäulen.

I first wanted to call this family Crowbone, after Olaf Tryggvason, the legendary Viking king from Norway. Somehow I changed my mind and went for Crowfeather, because this is not a Viking font and the name ‘felt’ better. Crowfeather is a family of two distinct fonts: a classic Serif and an old school script font. They work really well together!

Amido is a gorgeous display typeface designed by Daily Studio. Make your design look exceptional with easy accessibility. Amido will pair beautifully with various fonts and function well with the project you are working on. Perfect for gorgeous logos and headers. This typeface includes full lowercase, uppercase, numbers, punctuation, and standard multilingual letters. With over 200 glyphs and file in OTF format.

Lang Sans is an elegant contemporary condensed typeface with strong stylistic geometric, authentic contrasts, drawing on the aesthetics and representing the shifting contemporary aesthetics. The distinctive stance gives the right visual consistency for branding and communications. Lang Sans is perfectly suited for headlines, large-format prints, brand identities, social media, advertising, editorial design, posters, magazines, logos, headings, body copy, digital and more.

Here comes a New font, Stoopid Markers is a Bold Market Typeface that is written casually and quickly. these strong Letters are made with Market Typeface on Procreate. Then crafted carefully drawn into a vector format. That is why Stoopid Markers has a charming, authentic, and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text with a more natural look to your text.

Funky Fat Jiggly PW is intended and suitable for Display use and Titles. It's not very suitable for long paragraphs of text. This font is meant for fun, fun, fun! It contains the basic characters. Uppercase, lowercase, numerals, and basic punctuation. See the character map for all of the included characters. Funky Fat Jiggly PW is available in OpenType, PostScript and TrueType format.

Antonia is an original type family of 46 font, 7 weights and 4 optical sizes. Born in the middle of the Alps, Antonia is as modern as it is down to earth. The multi-variant package includes text, display, and italic styles, looking crisp and perfect in all sizes and applications. Antonia is our first release available in Variable font format.

The Parity concept takes the minimalist unicase alphabet and expands it in another dimension, that of the megafamily encompassing a variety of weights, optical sizes and styles (roman/italic, serif/sans, proportional/monowidth)—of benefit whether fine tuning a single, quite specific font for the task at hand, or harmoniously combining several in the hierarchy of a multi-formatted page layout.

Tale is an experiment to convert the script-style calligraphy into bitmap format. The two variants have the same dimensions, but (as the naming suggests), Forty has double amount of pixels in it when compared to Twenty. Both variants have hand made bitmaps to compliment these correlating point sizes, and you can always get the appropriate bitmaps by multiplying by two.

Faithful Colony is a modern, elegant, classic typeface with a timeless look. It comes with seven weights ranging from thin to black, matching italics, and a variable format. Faithful Colony is perfect for fashion-related concepts, Luxury and Elegant design, Classy or high-end branding, logo, and many more. Try to combine the regular and italic styles for a modern and elegant look.

Bix Metric is a stylistic display font developed within a set grid. The mono-spaced first set of the family comes in 3 styles in both upper and lowercase glyphs allowing mixing of infinite combinations. Perfectly suited for headlines, large-format prints, brand identities, social media, advertising, editorial design, posters, magazines, logos, headings, digital and more. With multi-language support.

Casino Hand is a handwriting font that comes with some exciting new OpenType features*. The font comes with an alternate glyph for every uppercase letter, lowercase letter, numbers and some punctuation. These alternates are extremely easy to use with OpenType doing all of the hard work for you! Plus, you get the cross platform compatibility that OpenType provides. When the Contextual Ligatures feature of Casino Hand is utilized in your graphics application, the font substitutes a duplicate letter with the alternate glyph for that letter. This automatically makes the font look less like a font and more like real handwriting! Casino Hand also allows you to switch to use the alternate glyphs as the default by using the Stylistic Alternates feature. You can even use the two OpenType features together! This means that you can have duplicate glyph substitution with either the standard letters, or the alternates. You can also use the Glyph window in the Adobe CS applications to selectively choose characters. You can simply go into the glyph window and replace a letter that you don't like with its alternate. With Casino Hand, you essentially get two fonts in one, and a handwriting font that is much easier to use than previous designs. * Contextual Ligatures and Stylistic Alternates require Adobe CS applications. Many more software applications will be supporting these features soon!

The Thief Bird is an informal grotesque font. Although informal and grotesque may seem to be two quite different ideas, we have to dig into the origin of this typeface in order to understand the matter. The concept behind The Thief Bird was inspired by the adaptation that the vintage sign painters made when they took the grotesque style characters they saw in newspapers and magazines and reproduced them using a brush, aiming to make the prices of the products displayed on wooden boards stand out, as opposed to highlighting large headlines (such as the idea behind fonts like Franklin Gothic). The Thief Bird takes the language from sign painters and turns it into a font --this time around not aiming to set prices but to bring children stories to life. Thus, some legibility features from grotesque fonts were mixed with the brush calligraphy to add grace and zest to a font intended for children. The Thief Bird is a playful display font, with cheerful ligatures and alternate characters. It is really attractive for setting short paragraphs that tell stories for little people. The Thief Bird has one single weight and it’s ideal to be used in storybooks, candy packaging, films, toys, logos, labels, etc. The font has an extended set of 643 characters supporting 219 Latin languages. It has a complete set of small caps, sensitive cases, more than 30 pairs of ligatures, alternate characters and much more. This cool, informal and laid back typeface will be the perfect match for illustrations of fairy tales, comics for children and any product or publishing for the little ones. The Thief Bird supports this languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Corsican Creek,Crimean Tatar (Latin),Croatian, Czech, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut)Guadeloupean, Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian, Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, IgboI, locano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami (Inari Sami), Sami (Lule Sami), Sami (Northern Sami), Sami (Southern Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zulu, Zuni.

Missale Lunea is a calligraphic uncial typeface with a female note. The font offers lots of stylistic alternates, signs, zodiacs & symbols. OpenType features: stylistic alternates signs, zodiac & symbols, proportional, medieval numerals, Roman numerals numerators, denominators and fractions

Parka is a unique and fashionable stencil font with tons of alternatives and ligatures. Softly curved alternates match the solid and masculine looks for the balance of shape. Perfect for any titles, branding, logo, and many more.