Procerus was designed to achieve maximum impact on a narrow ground with ultra compressed letterforms. The idea was to explore the beauty in perfectly integrated straight shapes to maximize the use of space while keeping the empty space to a minimum. The result was a stunning display family that makes the type interesting, engaging while still being readable.

Solar Power is an organic handwritten brush font that's perfect for your brand content. This font features two sets of uppercase characters so you can achieve a natural hand drawn feel with your design. Solar Power is ideal for marketing & advertising content for brands, creating quotes & content for social media, web designs and lots more. Multilingual characters included!

Inspired by the Froben capitals believed to have been cut by Peter Schoeffer the Younger, son of Gutenberg’s apprentice, this design is neither strictly a Venetian nor an Aldine. The archaic approach and lack of the Aldine model lead us to place the face in the Venetian group. The design owes more to Goudy than to Schoeffer.

Girlstory is a font that inspired the story of a woman who tries hard for her children, never giving up in order to achieve and keep happiness together. This font has simple and interesting style characters for various design needs at this time, you can use it for embroidery, screen printing, business cards, cutting, branding, etc.

Norwich is a grungy version of the font Tenison and provides real blobby pen handwriting.

Mister Dorky is a grungy, jumpy and warm handwritten font made with an inky pen!

This is Resalaty added Arabic features with a pen handwriting style, for more fun text

Handcraft is a handwritten script font. This font is ideal for any design project that needs a more handmade look. Handcraft is a great way to add a touch of handcrafted charm to your next project. Central Europe is supported in the extended glyph set. Font contains 346 glyphs and includes some alternates, as well as others, all accessible via OpenType features. Remember to turn on contextual alternates and ligatures for the best experience. Handcraft /ˈhænd.krɑːft/ A skilled activity in which something is made in a traditional way with the hands rather than being produced by machines in a factory, or an object made by such an activity.

This highly stylish, engraved blackletter font was cut by Rudolf Koch between 1919 and 1921 for Klingspor in Offenbach on Main. It was then sold under the name Deutsche Zierschrift. I completely redraw and extended this font and called it Zierfraktur. To take full advantage of this fine headline blackletter font, please use it from, at least, 18 points upward. This font contains a bunch of useful ligatures, and it is recommended to activate both Standard and Discretionary Ligatures. The round s can be reached by typing the # key, and you get the numero sign by typing the combination N-o-period and activating the OT feature Ordinals.

A new fresh, bold brush font from Nicky Laatz. Pink Lemonade is Sweet, Casual and curvy...with subtle brush texture left in- perfect for head-turning statements and eye-catching branding. Pink Lemonade includes 45 natural-looking Opentype ligatures - perfect for making your words look freshly lettered, and like less of a font. Try alternating between having the ligatures active and not active for an even more natural look. Pink Lemonade will work wonderfully for beauty, posters, music brands, magazines, cosmetics, cook books, culinary art, book covers, sporting brands, bold headliners, and websites. Enjoy more inspiration using all Nicky Laatz's fonts on Instagram - @nickylaatz.

Melister font is the new elegant font! This font is specially made for those of you who need an elegant touch to design your next project with perfect and stunning results. Melister is equipped with lines such as hand strokes which are very suitable for various purposes. Such as title, signature, logo, correspondence, wedding invitation, letterhead, nameplate, label, newsletter, poster, badge, Branding, Greeting Card, etc. So beautiful on invitations like greeting cards, and more!!! Melister includes alternate glyphs and beautifully renders fonts including set styles, ligatures, etc. The Open Type feature can be accessed using intelligent Open Type programs such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7 and Microsoft Word. And this font has provided PUA unicode (custom code font). so that all alternative characters can be easily accessed in full by craftsmen or designers. If you don't have a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw X Version, you can access all the alternative glyphs using Font Book (Mac) or Character Map (Windows). Thanks and love designing :-)

Casemiro is an elegant new font! This font is made especially for those of you who need a touch of elegance and love to design your next project with perfect and amazing results. Casemiro is equipped with lines that are perfect for use for various purposes. Such as titles, signatures, logos, correspondence, wedding invitations, letterhead, sign boards, labels, bulletins, posters, badges, Branding, Greeting Cards, etc. Casemiro includes alternative glyphs and stirs beautifully in fonts including set styles, ligatures etc. The Open Type feature can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7 and Microsoft Word. And this font has provided a unicode PUA (special code font). so all alternative characters can be easily accessed in full by craftsmen or designers. If you do not have a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw X Version, you can access all alternative glyphs using Font Book (Mac) or Character Map (Windows). If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact me via Gmail: Cooldesignlab@gmail.com. Thank you and love to design :-)

Qellina calligraphy an elegant new font! This font is made especially for those of you who need a touch of elegance to design your next project with perfect and amazing results. Qellina is equipped with lines that are perfect for use for various purposes. Such as titles, signatures, logos, correspondence, wedding invitations, letterhead, sign boards, labels, bulletins, posters, badges, Branding, Greeting Cards, etc. So beautiful on invitations like greeting cards, and more !! Qellina includes alternative glyphs and stirs beautifully in fonts including set styles, ligatures etc. The Open Type feature can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7 and Microsoft Word. And this font has provided a unicode PUA (special code font). so all alternative characters can be easily accessed in full by craftsmen or designers. What will you get? - Qellina. OTF If you do not have a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw X Version, you can access all alternative glyphs using Font Book (Mac) or Character Map (Windows). Thank You.

Batman & Robin! Thelma & Louise! Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid! Hip Flask & Farrell! Frodo & Sam! Sonny & Cher! Calvin & Hobbes! Bert & Ernie! Dynamic Duos exist in all forms of literature & entertainment, and now Comicraft is proud to introduce its latest alliterative offering, DYNAMIC DUO! A buddy movie in font form, Dynamic Duo is a team-up of Solid and Open weights who can’t decide who is the lead and who is the sidekick! In the fine tradition of all two-in-ones and company-wide comic crossovers, first they fight and then they team up — to take your design on the biggest, loudest, most intense adventure of All Time. Dynamic Duo features comic-book style hook caps and alternate uppercase letters which automatically cycle for a more natural, hand-drawn appearance. Solid and Open weights can be layered to create chromatic effects, and matching variable fonts allow near-infinite control of weight and slant. Each weight contains 478 glyphs and supports 220 languages. Comicraft fonts are created BY comic book letterers FOR lettering comic books. Accept no substitutes! Artwork by Axel Medellin from Elephantmen #73

South time an enchanting handwritten script typeface with exquisite accents, casual-chic, perfect for you who want a perfect and fabulous font! Suitable for many design projects such as logo design, branding, packaging, blog graphics, stylizing quotes, wedding stationery, art prints, collateral design, packaging, social media, and so on. I’ve truly enjoyed the process of creating this font collection and hope that it will bring some magic into your projects! Whats Includes: Regular Script, Uppercase and lowercase, Numbers and punctuation, Ligatures, multilingual languages support, symbols and more. It's highly recommended to use it in opentype capable software - there are plenty out there nowadays as technology catches up with design. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer and also equipped with Multilingual support. So, let's get it! Thanks and enjoy your day ...!. :)

Zin Slab is a contemporary slab-serif typeface designed for various situations of typographic usage. Characteristic feature is a large x-height and balans between neutral construction of letters (strictly vertical axis) and dynamic open forms (opened terminals). Another typical feature is a visually narrower connection between stems and strokes. The complete font family consist of three width proportions (Normal, Condensed and Extended). Every sub-family has 5 weights, ranging from Light to Black with matching Italics. Each font includes small capitals, old-style and tabular figures, standard and discretionary ligatures, alternate glyphs and a many of typographic options applied by the Opentype features. Zin Slab can be effectively used for both text and display typesetting. It can be used especialy in magazine layouts and editorial design, as well in advertising typography, orientation systems, corporate identities and many other situations. Zin Slab is a member of the Zin super family, which also includes Zin Sans, Zin Serif and Zin Display fonts. You can try Demo styles in Medium weight fully for free.

Gorgeous Girl is our newest script font created with sweet and sweet hand strokes, with subtle touches and dramatic curves making this font unique. This bold calligraphy font is designed with a relaxed but elegant background, while still paying attention to the beauty of each letter, there are alternate options for lowercase letters, so that it automatically beautifies the visual appearance in your design project. besides that, this font also offers harmoniously beautiful abstract typography for your various design projects. This font is also perfect for wedding invitations, quote designs, for social media business designs, advertisements, trademarks, food and beverage promotion banners, text, posters, signatures, and any design that requires handwriting. 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. we hope you enjoy this font. Feel free to send whatever message you want to convey.

Zin Sans is a contemporary sans-serif typeface designed for various situations of typographic usage. Characteristic feature is a large x-height and balance between neutral construction of letters (strictly vertical axis) and dynamic open forms (opened terminals). Another typical feature is a visually narrower connection between stems and strokes. The complete font family consist of three width proportions (Normal, Condensed and Extended). Every sub-family has 5 weights, ranging from Light to Black with matching Italics. Each font includes small capitals, old-style and tabular figures, standard and discretionary ligatures, alternate glyphs and a many of typographic options applied by the Opentype features. Zin Sans can be effectively used for both text and display typesetting. It can be used especially in magazine layouts and editorial design, as well in advertising typography, orientation systems, corporate identities and many other situations. Zin Sans is a member of the Zin type system, which also includes Zin Slab, Zin Serif and Zin Display fonts. You can try Demo styles in Medium weight fully for free.

House Easte a Handwritten Display Font With 3 Style (Regular,Outline and Shadow) You Can Mix And Match for Your Awesome Project This fonts is ideal for crafting, branding and decorate your any project. This fonts are perfect for wedding invitation or your blog. Also with their help, you can create a logo or beautiful frame for your home. Or just use for your business, book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines and more. FEATURES : Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Punctuation More than 244 of glyphs PUA Encode 10 Ligatures Alternate 8 OpenType features were detected in the font (aalt dlig frac liga ordn salt sups kern) Support for 67 languages detected The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Check my other Font here https://gilarstudio.com/

Ansage does not claim to be neutral; it escapes from the rationalist sans of closed strokes and regular forms. Meaning Announcement in German, Ansage is versatile and communicates effectively across a broad range of media and formats such as branding, posters, websites, apps, titles and compositions with little spacing). Ansage is a sans serif font with a strong personality that emerges from an interest in and the study of a wide variety of typographic specimens of Gothic fonts from the nineteenth century. The design process behind Ansage brought about constant transformations in form; the result is a compact and robust font, with a large x-height, small ascenders and descenders, and open terminals that grow in expressiveness as it increases in weight. It is available in 10 weights, ranging from Hairline to Black, and 3 widths – Condensed, Regular and Expanded – plus italics, which make a total of 60 perfect variables to combine and contrast with each other. In addition, it also includes multiple open-type functions such as alternative styles, Old Style Figures, Tabular Forms, fractions, case sensitive, ligatures and more.

Magical Story a Handwritten Display Font With 3 Style (Regular,Outline and Shadow) You Can Mix And Match for Your Awesome Project This fonts is ideal for crafting, branding and decorate your any project. This fonts are perfect for wedding invitation or your blog. Also with their help, you can create a logo or beautiful frame for your home. Or just use for your business, book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines and more. FEATURES : Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Punctuation More than 240 of glyphs PUA Encode 14 Ligatures Alternate 8 OpenType features were detected in the font (aalt dlig frac liga ordn salt sups kern) Support for 67 languages detected The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Check my other Font here https://gilarstudio.com/

Bushing is a quick serif experiment going for open light display type. For years I have always stopped and really liked what I saw with fonts like the original Cushing from the turn of the 20th century. This time the desire for a font was stirred by Felici's article in CreativePro on fonts from the beginning of the 20th century, especially his captures of Cushing No. 2 and the version commissioned for Norwood press from ATF. I'm not interested in historically accurate reconstructions. My desire is for the general feel I get when I see a font. As a result, Bushing has little to do with Cushing (other than the last six letters). But it is a Serif font with small serifs and a huge x-height with a very open feel. I like it. I hope you do also. I made it into a limited display version of OpenType Pro. I added small caps and oldstyle figures, as I can hardly work without them. But ligatures seemed silly for this one.

Although better known for his residential buildings, Richard Neutra’s commercial projects nevertheless resonate the same holistic ecology—unity with the surrounding landscape and uncompromising functionalism. His attention to detail even extended to the selection of signage for his buildings. It is no wonder that Neutra specified lettering that was open and unobtrusive, the same characteristics which typified his progressive architecture. House Industries brings the same linear geometry to Neutraface without sacrificing an unmistakably warm and human feel. FEATURES AUTOMATIC SMALL CAPS: If you specify “Small Caps”, InDesign and Photoshop will automatically substitute the true small caps charac- ters as well as the corresponding figures and punctuation for any lowercase characters. NEUTRAFACE TEXT ALTERNATES: Neutraface Text contains several stylistic alternate characters. LIGATURES: This feature is on by default. It will substitute a long list of “f” and “t” ligatures. For example, open InDesign or Photoshop and type “ff” or “tt”. Like all good subversives, House Industries hides in plain sight while amplifying the look, feel and style of the world’s most interesting brands, products and people. Based in Delaware, visually influencing the world.

Introducing our newest Font, Kentya the name This font is made with elegant calligraphy nuances and there are so many kinds you can combine various kinds of font choices to get the beautiful writing you want, this font is also good for writing your name and trademarks and logos and words, sentences that beautiful of course with the right typography harmony. This font also offers the beauty of abstract typography harmony for a wide variety of design projects, including natural handwriting in digital form for designs, quote designs, for social media business designs, advertisements, trademarks, promotional banners, posts, posters, signatures, and all. the design requires 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.

Rubber B is a heavy display typeface with very tight open counters & character spacing and non-existent closed counters. It is an amalgam of styles and influences that demands attention. It is comparable with the highly geometric experimental fonts of the '90s and early '00s, but also heavily inspired by decorative fonts of the '60s and the psychedelic poster art of the '70s. Bold and loud, yet delicate, almost calligraphic in some cases. It works with Latin & Extended Latin, Cyrillic & Extended Cyrillic and Greek. It comes with 1,500+ glyphs, with more than half of them being ligatures. It also contains several Stylistic Alternates as well as Localised forms (available through the Open Type Features and also as ligatures). All these features are available in order to not only make sure that it works with as many languages as possible, but also that depending on the specific glyph or ligature one chooses to use, they have the ability to alter the emotional character of the word(s) they’re setting. Ideal for titles and logos, as it works best in medium and large sizes.

Nona Manis is a Handwritten Display Font With 3 Style (Regular,Outline and Shadow) You Can Mix And Match for Your Awesome Project This fonts is ideal for crafting, branding and decorate your any project. This fonts are perfect for wedding invitation or your blog. Also with their help, you can create a logo or beautiful frame for your home. Or just use for your business, book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines and more. FEATURES : Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Punctuation More than 244 of glyphs Support for 60+ Multilingual languages PUA Encode 12 Ligatures Alternate 7 OpenType features ( aalt dlig frac liga ordn sups kern ) The font Nona Manis contains 18 ligatures in 3 OpenType features The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Check my other Font here https://gilarstudio.com/

“Corinthiago” feels equally charming and elegant. This stunning handwritten font is a stylish homage to classic calligraphy. It features a varying baseline, smooth lines, gorgeous glyphs and stunning alternates Alternates to help enrich your designs: 1. Titling (titl) alternates, are accents for initial letters. is the first stroke that is long and and slightly curved according to the letters, both lowercase and uppercase. 2. Swash (swsh) alternates, is an accent at the end of a letter, is an additional stroke to end writing. 3. Stylistic alternate (Salt), is an alternative glyph to add style emphasis. 4. Stylistic set (SS), some additional glyphs for design alternatives. If you use a combination of two lowercase with a combination of tilt and swsh it will produce a harmonic letter that you can use for a logo, no problem also for a logo consisting of more than two letters, all you have to make sure is starts with a titl and ends with swsh. All glyph alternates (titl, swsh, Salt and SS) are also supported by multiple languages. Another OpenType that is also very important is Ligature (league), this font consists of 51 Ligatures including: Abe, Ade, Ale, Ab, Ad, Af, Aj, Ak, Al, Am, An, Ao, Ap, As, Ax, Ay, Az, aa, ar, be, cc, da, de, di, do, du, dy, ee, er, ii, ir, is, le, ll, lt, om, on, oo, op, or, ov, ow, ox, oy, oz, ss, st, th, tl, tt, ur and uu. We continue to see the possibility to update ligatures in the future. This font is the right choice for a modern design, can be applied to invitations, writing messages in the form of quotes, book and magazine covers, and of course for your brand logo text.

Fiorina is a modern Didone-style serif typeface of 72 fonts. It comes in 4 optical sizes, ranging from Text with moderate contrast to super-contrasted Grande. Each cut comes in 9 weights with corresponding sophisticated italics. The overall variety of styles makes Fiorina the ultimate magazine typeface. The glyph set supports all European Latin-based languages, as well as all major languages that use Cyrillic script. The type family also suppors numerous OpenType features, including 6 sets of digits, small caps, fractions, superscript and subscripts, ordinals, and more.

Gresic is a modern sans serif font, which is very bold, and contrasting, a font with this style is being sought after on the planet for modern design needs such as logo design, application design, website, social media, and others. Why not try Gresic Modern Font today? It comes in uppercase, lowercase, punctuation, and numbers; no more worrying about anything else.

Debrosee is a font with a modern, luxurious, classy and different style from the others. Debrosee has uppercase, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols that are elegant, modern and according to the standard. This font suit for modern style letter, example for logo, sport, adventure, fitness, and other masculine styles. This font also supports 17 languages ​​(see in the preview image).

INTRODUCING Bestina Modern Calligraphy. This font was designed by handwriting, and it has a modern and unique forms of calligraphy, the writing style is very natural. Bestina has a very unique style of calligraphy, it is very suitable for use in the work of modern design. The Features of this fonts is: * Standart ligatures * Stylistic Alternates * PUA Unicode (Private Use Areas)

Mangsi in Javanese means ink. We want to create a modern display typeface with an inked-like feel by combining clean modern serif strokes, brush strokes and the curved line made by the ink tank. Mangsi is a modern inked display typeface that unites the beauty of the old lines with the clean modern lines. A simple, yet distinctive, elegant font that can be applied to many areas of design. Coming with 170+ stunning and super easy to use alternates and ligatures. To get results like the preview just type M.3A.NGS.3I

Inspired by Beauville Script, Trauville is a handmade, modern, joyful and elegant pen font with a vintage touch. Its informal appearance, the bouncy baseline, the round forms and bumpy stems, the good connection between the letters and the large number of ligatures that create more authentic and varied connections between the letters, refer to the fluent handwriting.

With its 830 glyphs, the Trauville font is equipped with contextual and stylistic alternatives, many stylistic alternatives, swashes, initial forms and ligatures. This font contain a Central European language support to adapt to your design.

Trauville works perfectly on greeting cards, invitations, weddings, posters, magazines, fashion world, brands and logos, packaging, etc. He is friendly and kind, fresh and fun to work with.

California Starlight is a monoline signature font. Look like natural strokes using a roller pen. This is an upright font with a gently stroke follows the flow of the text. The uppercase size is higher, it's intended for a unique and prominent impression when used for 'branding', Tall and prominent yet integrated in the gentle flow of the lowercase. We propose this font for branding, logotype, photography caption, wedding invitation cards and merchandices, quote writing, craft projects, and various other unique prints. Stylistic Set Alternate (SS01 and SS02) is a swash at the beginning and end of the lowcase, also equipped with ligatures to add a unique impression and natural strokes. modern, sophistics and natural make this font a must have.

CyberNippon is a unique latin script font that references Japanese and Cyberpunk motifs. Literal translation of the name "Cyber ​​Japan" This typeface took many months to complete and was inspired by the style and mood of cyberpunk, for whom Japanese culture is very close. Since the Japanese are inherent in perfectionism, while working on this font, I brought everything to perfection. The result of all the work was, in my opinion, a font that was perfectly verified and worked out for many hours. The main motives that are visible in this work are the modern interpretation of the classic Japanese hieroglyphic systems - hiragana and katakana. Originally, the font was completely handwritten using a calligraphic pen, and then converted to digital format.

Black Bone Signature font is a classy, stylish, simple and elegant signature font. Specially designed with the concept of script fonts with natural pen strokes. The impression of soft line will be visible. I keep this font looks stylish, elegant, classy, modern, easy to use, and lots of combination options. This font easy to use and friendly for designer and it is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!. Black Bone Signature font is perfect for use as signature, branding, logos, quotes, card, wedding, social media, watermark, name tag, and many other project. Features: -Upper and Lowercase -Numerals & Symbols -Multilingual Support -Ligatures -Swash Please send a message if you have questions. Thank you !

Almere Script, is a manual handwriting font with using a brush pen, which are arranged very neatly, so that it makes a font script, with a shape like a wavy calligraphy, modern, unique, smooth & cleans. Almere Script, can be used for various purposes such as Magazine Title, Poster, Logo, T-Shirt, Sub Title, Business cards, Magazines, Book Covers, Wedding Invitations,Templates Instagram Story Post, Greeting Cards, Quotes, etc. Almere Script, allows you to create custom dynamic text. you can access by turning on; Stylistic Alternates, as well as ligatures in Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign or through a panel of glyphs such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Let's switch from the reguler character into character alternative to get the text with the layout of your dreams.

Beauville Script is a handmade pen font with a touch of comfortable elegance, inspired by the script headings of the 40s and 50s. Beauville is an upright, condensed and soft vintage script with a modern and contemporary twist. Its main characteristics are the bouncy baseline, round forms and bumpy stems. These qualities give Beauville it’s casual, friendly look and makes reference to traditional fluent handwriting. Beauville font is equipped with contextual and stylistic alternatives, swash alternatives and ligatures to create more authentic and varied connections between the letters. It has a Central European language support to fit your design. Beauville Script works perfectly in greeting cards, invitations, weddings, posters, magazines, fashion world, branding & logos, packaging, etc. It is friendly and lovable, fresh and fun to work with.

New Old English was prompted by two Victorian coins, the mid nineteenth century gothic crown and gothic florin, which featured a gothic script lowercase with quite modern looking, short ascenders and descenders enabling it to fit snugly around the queen’s head or heraldic motif. With thicker hairline strokes than normal Old English, a less sharp, warmer feel than lettering scripted with a pen, and circular instead of rhombic punctuation, this font is an attempt to capture the round-cornered softness of the die-struck lowercase blackletter. To increase harmony and homogeneity between the cases, the uppercase is narrower and simpler than is customary, without the excessive width or antiquated flamboyance of the traditional blackletter. It might even allow text set in capitals to look acceptable.

Ellington was designed by jazz lover, Michael Harvey for Monotype in 1990, and named after the great band leader, Duke Ellington. From experience gained carving letters in stone and drawing them for book jacket designs, Michael Harvey has created a condensed typeface combining the clear-cut sparkle of a modern face with some of the lively features of the broad-edged pen. Ellington has a fresh elegance that is particularly effective in display, while its compressed forms will prove economical in text settings. The Ellington font family has narrow characters with strong vertical strokes and angular calligraphic traits. Ellington is a lively face and an appropriate font choice for advertising and book work. Ellington has a sans serif companion family, Strayhorn.