Out of a lifelong inner struggle, Philip Bouwsma unleashes a masterpiece that reconciles classic calligraphy with type in a way never before attempted. Maestro takes its cue from the Italian chancery cursive of the early sixteenth century. By this time type ruled the publishing world, but official court documents were still presented in calligraphy, in a new formal style of the high Renaissance that was integrated with Roman letters and matched the refined order of type. The copybooks of Arrighi and others, printed from engraved wood blocks, spread the Italian cancellaresca across Europe, but the medium was too clumsy and the size too small to show what was really happening in the stroke. Arrighi and others also made metal fonts that pushed type in the direction of calligraphy, but again the medium did not support the superb artistry of these masters or sustain the vitality in their work. As the elegant sensitive moving stroke of the broad pen was reduced to a static outline, the human quality, the variety and the excitement of a living act were lost. Because the high level of skill could not be reproduced, the broad pen was largely replaced by the pointed tool. The modern italic handwriting revival is based on a simplified model and does not approach the level of this formal calligraphy with its relationship to the Roman forms. Maestro is the font that Arrighi and his colleagues would have made if they had had digital technology. Like the calligraphic system of the papal chancery on which it is modelled, it was not drawn as a single finished alphabet, but evolved from a confluence of script and Roman; the script is formalized by the Roman to stand proudly in a world of type. Maestro came together on screen over the course of several years, through many versions ranging widely in style, formality, width, slant, weight and other parameters. On one end of the spectrum, looking back to tradition it embodies the formal harmony of the Roman capitals and the minuscule which became the lower case. On the other it is a flowing script letter drawing on the spirit of later pointed pen and engravers scripts. As its original designers intended, it works with simple Roman capitals and serifs or swash capitals and baroque flourishes. The broad pen supplies weight and substance to the stroke which carries energy through tension in balanced s-curves. Above all it is meant to convey the life and motion of formal calligraphy as a worthy counterbalance to the stolid gravity of metal type. The Maestro family consists of forty fonts distributed over two weights. The OpenType version compresses the family considerably down to two fonts, regular and bold, each containing the entire character set of twenty fonts, for a total of more than 3350 characters per font. These include a wide variety of stylistic alternates, ligatures, beginning and ending letters, flourishes, borders, rules, and other extras. The Pro version also includes extended linguistic support for Latin-based scripts (Western, Central and Eastern European, Baltic, Turkish, Welsh/Celtic, Maltese) as well as Greek. For more thoughts on Maestro, its background and character sets, please read the PDF accompanying the family.

ITC Werkstatt is a result of the combined talents of Alphabet Soup's Paul Crome and Satwinder Sehmi, along with Ilene Strizver and Colin Brignall. It is inspired by the work of Rudolph Koch, the renowned German calligrapher, punchcutter, and type designer of the first third of this century, without being based directly on any of Koch's typefaces. Werkstatt has obvious affinities with the heavy, woodcut look of Koch's popular Neuland, but also with display faces like Wallau and even the light, delicate Koch Antiqua. Brignall began by drawing formal letters with a 55mm cap height, which Sehmi reinterpreted using a pen with a broad-edge nib. “Not an easy process,” says Brignall, “since one of the features of Koch's style is that while it was calligraphic in spirit, most of the time his counter shapes did not bear any resemblance to the external shapes, as they would in normal calligraphy. This meant that Sehmi could not complete a whole character in one go, but had to create the outside and inside shapes separately and then ink in the center of the letters.” The process was repeated, only without entirely filling in the outlines, for the Engraved version. Crome handled the scanning and digitization, maintaining the hand-made feel while creating usable digital outlines. “The collaboration of artisans with particular skills,” says Brignall, “in a modern-day, computer-aided studio environment, seems very much in step with the 'workshop' ethos that Rudolph Koch encouraged and promoted so much.”

Fibra One looks like a “soft” version of the Fibra font, but it is actually more than that—the second part of its name suggests that it is a reinterpretation of the original typeface. While this new version maintains the overall structure of Fibra and influence of the Avant Garde font, its shapes are different from those found in its predecessor—Fibra One features both soft corners and smooth transition between curved and straight sections. This gives the font a more dynamic and playful personality. Fibra One keeps the original contrast between curves and straight lines in glyphs such as ’n’ and ‘h’ (not found in rounded glyphs such as ‘a’ and ‘d’); details of display characters (e.g. three upper terminals in ‘W’ and projection off the stem in ‘A’); and exaggerated terminal in ‘R’. All these features give Fibra One a strong personality—a typeface that ‘gives you the chills’. Fibra One was specially designed for display use. The font has a very generous x-height that allows for use in corporate text, thanks to its good readability. Fibra One comes with 2 subfamilies—a more ’normal’ Basic family, with a smaller amount of stylistic features, for use in subheadings or any other type of text that requires formality, and an Alt family that shows off the true potential of the font, making it the perfect choice for magazine headlines, posters and logotypes.

Hanstoc Script is a formal calligraphy typeface. A sporty cursive, this retro lettering works as a cool team logotype or a vintage headline. Drawn and created by Mans Greback in 2022, it has a fresh style and a bold personality. Use underscore _ to make a swash. Example: Baseball_ Use multiple underscores to make different lengths. Example: Beauty____ The Hanstoc Script family consists of four professional styles: Regular, Bold, Italic, Italic Bold; complimenting each other for greater design opportunities. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Moller has a strong but soft character, with a cheerful and fresh theme, supported by 2 Style. Moller is able to answer your current needs who are designing something great. Moller is a bold and unique display font. Masterfully designed to become a true favorite character, moller is able to answer your current needs who are designing something great Its weight is superior in posters, social media, headlines, magazine titles, clothing, large print formats.

Typeface Wesna was created as a reflection of the current state of design whose starting point is rooted in the letterings from the Slovenian posters from the interwar period. Bold strokes, condensed letterforms, sharp stroke joints and unique features are combined in the typeface. Wesna preserves the Slovenian typography heritage and establishes the connection between the past and the present through new digital formation. Available in 3 weights, italics in Latin & Cyrillic.

Claudia Betta Font is a formal script font with multilingual support. It is ideal for wedding invitations, magazines, social media, restaurant menus, greeting cards, birthday invitations, headers and more. This font is equipped with a complete set of lowercase and uppercase characters, various kinds of punctuation ligatures, numbers and and multilingual support.

Saintecy is an equally relaxed and timeless handwritten font. It features an incredibly classic style, while still keeping a friendly feel. Saintecy is the perfect font for making original and outstanding designs, whether for formal or informal projects. Featured : Accents (Multilingual characters) PUA encoded Numerals and Punctuation (OpenType Standard) Full Support Dita Type

Internal Display attracts a typeface that is smooth, clean, unique, elegant, modern, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read. Classic style is very suitable to be applied in various formal forms such as invitations, labels, menus, logos, fashion, make up, stationery, letterpress, romantic novels, magazines, books, greeting/wedding cards, packaging, labels.

Midnight Workers is a Modern Sans-serif typeface inspired by freelancers who work late into the night to make a living for their beloved families. The simple and dynamic shape makes it very suitable to be used as headlines, logos, or other design needs that require a formal touch but still seem dynamic.

This luscious, loopy Lombardic face was inspired by an offering in the 1938 classic, Letters and Lettering by Paul Carlyle and Gus Oring. Suitable for formal or informal occasions. Both versions of this font contain the Unicode 1252 (Latin) and Unicode 1250 (Central European) character sets, with localization for Romanian and Moldovan.

Many blackletter and calligraphic typefaces are elegant and can be used for items like invitations and liturgical or religious texts. Rankensteen is probably not one of them. It is crude and bizarre and with a somewhat menacing appearance. It seems more appropriate for a letter from a pirate than for a formal invitation.

Roklin is an elegant serif family for use as both formal text and headers. Has quite a lot of character alternatives and also enhanced ligatures. It's perfect for casual typography as well as official documents, really. All characters are PUA Encoded, you can use this font easily in many common editor software easily.

This “Anglican” style typeface is based on an 1880s release from St. Louis’ Central Type Foundry originally named Euclid. It’s amazingly versatile, easily at home in both formal and fun settings. All versions of this font include the Unicode 1250 Central European character set in addition to the standard Unicode 1252 Latin set.

Angular Old Style by Viktor Kharyk is usable as display font, for non-formal texts, especially poetry, for children books and virtual games about adventures, history, and pirates and includes some original ornament set. By stylistic it connects with Italian Renaissance, Czechian types of the first half of 20th century and cut technology.

Kathryn attracts a typeface that is smooth, clean, unique, elegant, modern, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read. Classic style is very suitable to be applied in various formal forms such as invitations, labels, menus, logos, fashion, make up, stationery, letterpress, romantic novels, magazines, books, greeting/wedding cards, packaging, labels.

Christmas calligraphy is a dazzling formal calligraphy font that exudes sophistication and elegance. Fall in love with its ravishing style and use it to create beautiful designs. This will make the Christmas moment more classy and glamorous. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all the glyphs and sweeps easily!

MonteCarlo is a beautiful formal script— both contemporary and traditional. This connecting script’s italic is slight, making it an extremely legible design. Its additional flourishing options offer truly diverse possibilities for customization of display. MonteCarlo is perfect for those situations that require an ornate look, and a readable message, without compromising beautiful design.

Thinker Justice is a Modern Handwritten Font. Thinker Justice is a trendy and modern handwritten font. Simple and natural, this font will become your top choice for formal and informal designs in no time! Thinker Justice also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email.

Sunny Dream is a font duo package contain a bold sans serif with rough script which looks great to be paired especially for vintage and adventure theme! This font duo is purposely made for headline, display or logotype, and signature which need a standout appearing. This font is also suitable 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 : Bold and Script uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual alternates & ligatures 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.

Arando Script is a retro script typeface. A perfected calligraphy with uniquely beautiful letterforms, Arando Script is a professional quality handwriting font family. Drawn and created by Mans Greback in 2022, it is perfect for a formal restaurant headline or feminine logotype design. Arando Script is provided in four styles: Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic, which compliment each other and maximise your options and design experience. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Boldstrike is a retro bold script which will bring you back to 60s feel. The bold letterform with swash makes this typeface looks standout to be used for your retro theme project. 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 multilingual ligatures alternates swashes 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. For accessing opentype feature, kindly check this link letterhend.com/tutorials/using-opentype-feature-in-any-software/

Bounce is a unique and dynamic font inspired by molecular structures. Ideal for large format use in medical, science and technology projects.

Contains 36 magical seals based on the Lemegeton of King Solomon NOTE: this font comes with an interpretation guide in pdf format.

Eclectic PixelWeb is a collection of three sizes of popular web icons in the pixel aesthetic. With 80+ icons designed for creating e-commerce, navigation, and interface designs. Use it as a starting point in your favorite vector program, or use the icons as is - they are optimized for sizes at 20 point and will work in Flash and other web graphics programs. Shopping carts, directional arrows, buttons galore! It's like a pinata in font format, surprises for everyone! This font includes: a new and search buttons, home, security, email, search, and a host of other icons and images to make designing your next website a breeze!. Available in Mac and PC formats, in TrueType, PostScript and OpenType formats.

Introducing the sanserif font Goda. We design this very tempting and beautiful font with gentleness and yet still fit if you use it in various projects with masculine and feminine themes. We designed this san serif family font by paying attention to the combination of each letter to create a beautiful impression and appearance, making it easier to answer your needs, both formal and non-formal needs. This font is perfect for a wide variety of design projects, sporting events, branding, banners, posters, movie titles, food and beverage, technology, quotes, clothing, logotypes, and more. Of course, your various design projects will be perfect and amazing if you use this font because this font comes with a font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your amazing projects.

Introducing our newest font called Brifa. Fonts that have unique letters create a distinctive impression when applied to words or text. We designed this san serif family font by paying attention to the combination of each letter to create an elegant impression and appearance making it easier for you to use it according to what you need, both formal and non-formal needs. This font is perfect for a wide variety of design projects, sporting events, branding, banners, posters, movie titles, food and beverage, technology, quotes, clothing, logotypes, and more. Of course, your various design projects will be perfect and amazing if you use this font because this font comes with a font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your amazing projects.

The Sajola font is a contemporary sans-serif designed in four variants. Font designs range from formal and non-formal modern styles with a coherent typography system that has the same amount of weight, identical character sets, and vertical dimensions. Professional typography that supports using individual variants as main headings, sub-headings, sentence and paragraph texts, making this font complete as your choice. This font is designed with space-sensitive environments in mind. Environments such as interfaces, forms, and pathfinding applications. Font spacing is adjusted in a way that allows switching of weight and style without having a significant impact on overall space consumption. No matter the topic, this font will be an incredible asset to your fonts' library, as it has the potential to elevate any creation.

This beautiful font explores 3 very individual styles of one typeface. Each style pays homage to classic sans serif typefaces while adding contemporary flair to its characteristics. With both formal and informal styles, Aestetico explores how the shapes and curves of letters change their perception and focus. The informal letters are rounder and more quirky while the formal style utilizes more traditional sans serif letterforms. The whole set (54 styles) consists of 3 sister families, each in 9 weights with matching italics. The 3 variants ensure every design project is covered by Aestetico; its versatile nature is perfect for a huge variety of applications from editorial design to branding, advertising, publications and digital. As you would expect from Latinotype, this font comes with a standard character set (395 glyphs) and supports over 200 languages.