Mariken van Nieumeghen is a late medieval Dutch text from the early 16th century. The protagonist of the play (a young maid called Mariken) spends seven years with the devil (called Moenen), after which she is miraculously released. Mariken is a handmade font, which was based on the works of Robert Granjon (1545-1588), a French type designer and printer. Use it for product packaging, books and posters. Comes in 3 weights (with italics) and a hellish amount of diacritics.

When I first approached this design back in 2003 I wrote myself a design brief that called for a simple sans serif "avec serifs" (with serifs). Its emphasis needed to be on text usage but to be at home in display sizes. A range of weights with a controlled step from one weight to the next, uniform character sets, spacing and kerning throughout the range. Attention to openness of counter spaces would be paramount to work in text sizes. Matching italics should be true italics not merely slanted - with a cursive feel. During extensive testing I decided to include a suite of ligatures to eliminate the hairline gaps that occur between slab serifs at display sizes. The user may activate "Discretionary Ligatures" or "Stylistic Set 1" for ligatures that are not included in the Standard Ligatures (ff, fi, fl, ffi and ffl). A concise User Guide can be downloaded at this link.

Ligatures FS Rufus is an outgoing, likable sort of font with an eccentric streak. Wide letterforms and curious ink-traps make for an engaging personality, and a set of discretionary ligatures make FS Rufus irresistible to designers wanting to play. Not a small set, either: there are some 80 different options available. Wide The decision was made early on to make the letterforms of FS Rufus luxuriously wide. This generates a distinctive visual texture when the font is used for text. With other weights available for headlines, FS Rufus brings a curiously engaging look to editorial, magazine covers and advertising. Just look at my ink traps Ink traps are normally the preserve of fonts intended for printing at small sizes, in newspapers or directories – extra notches necessary to prevent ink from pooling. FS Rufus turns the ink trap into a beautiful eccentricity, flaunting it in both its lowercase and capitals. Take a look at the “h”, “a” and “k”, and the “B” and “N”. Attention-seeking? Moi?

Marlin Soft is a rounded corner version of our Marlin Geo font family and like its parent font also includes two sets of italics. The standard italic is set at twelve degrees and the slant version set at six degrees, the slant version is perfect for signage and headlines where you may want the look of an italic but are limited on horizontal space. Marlin Soft includes many alternates which may be accessed using opentype aware applications, with over three hundred alternates to choose from your creative possibilities are great. Whether you're looking for a round dot or a square dot Marlin Soft is one font family that delivers both set up as two separate fonts so you may change a whole page of text at one time. Your projects are sure to look nice and cozy with the warm feeling Marlin Soft will bring to your product label or page design. Three free sample basic fonts are available which are fully functional minus the alternates.

Everyone loves an Art Deco typeface. And there are hundreds of similarly-designed deco faces out there! But not one of them seems to have every form of every character that you want or need at any given moment. That’s why Swonderful was created! It has more letterform variations than you can shake a stick at (if you're inclined to shake sticks at things). With four variations of every uppercase form, two variations of every lowercase form (plus diacritical characters for the standard set), you’re bound to find the character you need for any given project, whether the style is French Art Deco, American Streamline Moderne, or Jazzy Midcentury Gaspipe. Just switch between stylistic sets! And you’ll find all those characters in three standard weights: Light, Regular, and Bold. They’re designed as a unicase, so they’re all height-compatible, and every set works with every other set, so you can mix and match to your heart’s delight!

Hipster Script is another of my habitual attempts at trying to reduce the divide between manual and digital. In this case, I try to articulate brush lettering, try to get the computer to emulate continuous painting. The process wasn't that different from my work with Feel Script's shot at computerized commercial lettering, though here we have a more casual contrast, rather than the high seriousness of the Copperplate script. Swashes, alternates, ligatures — too many of them, all trying to make the interplay between the tool’s two extreme widths remain faithful to hand movement subtleties. I also toyed with ligatures containing apostrophes, something I've never seen before. With this typeface I think I've become more balanced in uniting the spontaneity of post-war ad lettering with the current trends in illustration and design. Hipster Script received a Judge’s choice Certificate of Excellence at the Type Directors of New York and was selected to be part of the Bienal Tipos Latinos 2012.

Handsome was the first digital typeface to resemble nice, ordinary, fully cursive handwriting. Or neon. In 2005, Handsome Pro was one of the first script typefaces to utilize the OpenType format to simulate the natural quality of writing, by automatically substituting alternate contextual glyphs. The effect follows the conventional “joining rules” of calligraphy, which are a formalization of the way in which letter forms are modified in cursive handwriting for the sake of speed and efficiency—and also perhaps to make life more interesting. For the look of real handwriting, Handsome is most convincing at around 15 pts. At much smaller or larger sizes it works differently. At display size, the feel of the non-nib styles is very slick, more like a speedball Kauffman, owing to the smoothness of the finish. As script fonts go, Handsome has a relatively large x-height, which can be useful if you don't want the “writing” to look too small.

This font was created while looking at the various shapes my handwriting consistently took, especially in the ways that letters would have breaks in them. Over the course of a few months I continually tweaked the letter forms and shapes, and lo and behold, I developed Deco Sans. This family currently only includes a thin weight, as I'm only one person, and very busy with college. I'm continuing work on a regular, bold, and possibly a future italic weight, but these may not be released for many months to come. As this is a very thin font, it should be used at sizes no smaller than around 16 or 18pt as it tends to get lost in whitespace, and looks best at large sizes. As such, this weight should be considered more of a display font than a text font, however, I predict a regular weight to be very readable and much more useable for the everyday.

IntellectaMonograms is an extensive collection of ancient intrincate monograms, of all kinds, mainly Victorian style. To better understand the recherché combinations in these fonts, please take a look at the pdf brochures in the Gallery section.

Danielle Smith describes her friendly, hand-drawn typeface family, available in roman and italic, as ‘non-élitist and accessible’. Originally created for a theatre project at Massey University, Dandy is reminiscent of Pablo Ferro’s hand-lettering.

The design of the typeface Flamingo by Dior Sirous was inspired by this beautiful bird, creating long slim lines with soft curves at the ends. It is best suited for display use in Art Deco style.

Talbot Type Kitami is a minimal, geometric, stencil display font, inspired by Herbert Bayer’s Universal Typeface, created at the Bauhaus in the 1920s. Each character is created from a single continuous stroke, or combination of strokes.

BluHead Studio LLC is pleased to announce the release of Churchward Chinatype by New Zealand typeface designer Joseph Churchward. This stylized brush script is intended for display use, but is surprisingly legible at smaller point sizes.

FractalCaps was inspired by the self-similar nature of fractal geometry. It's a strictly decorative font, without accented characters. FractalCaps shines at large point sizes, and would be a good choice for wild and wooly posters.

Pantomime is an original and unusual casual Roman Script. Designed for using at larger sizes and headlines I have spaced the fortnight, as I believe this is the most effective way for producing interesting word patterns.

Hadrian Bold pushes the limits for an extra-condensed titling face. Though remaining in the tradition of the 20th-century 'grotesque' designs, its heavy verticality and tight spacing demand attention for headlines at virtually any size.

Webbies contains a set of 94 web-related dingbats. Use them in your e-shop, personal website, forum or wherever else you please! Webbies is best used at (any multiple of) size 15pt without anti-aliasing.

Crunk was inspired by the creator's (at the time) teenaged hoodlum of a brother. The font Crunk is great for headlines and text and has served its creator well over the years since it was made.

La Quinta is a display font for some small text and logo applications as well as branding, invitations, stationery, packaging, fliers, gaming texts and book jackets. Plus many other applications at the discretion of the designer.

Micelina modern script style sweet calligraphy, decorative characters and dancing baseline! Very pretty on invitations such as greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters and more! Micelina comes with 338 glyphs. Alternate characters are divided into several Open Type features such as ,Stylistic Alternates. The Open Type feature can be accessed using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop version of Corel Draw X, and Microsoft Word. And this Font has provided PUA unicode (custom coded font). so that all alternative characters can be easily accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Thank you for your purchase!.

I love going to flea markets and second-hand stores; in fact a lot of the furniture in our home is second hand (or pre-loved, a euphemism I find rather peculiar). I personally believe that buying used products is a good way to help this planet, as no new stuff needs to be made and the old stuff gets a second life. Fleabitten is a ‘western style’ serif font. You could use it to pimp the posters for your line dance festival, but hey, be creative! I am sure you’ll find some good use for this very nice pre-loved font. Yes, pre-loved: I loved it first!

Contania Script is a new fresh and 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. Contania Script comes with 608 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.

Omniscient is a narrative font that sees all… it’s everywhere and nowhere, the storyteller and the story, upper and lower case. This godlike font can be first person AND third person, friendly or serious, personable AND impersonal. It knows all the details but will only reveal them when it serves the narrative. The classical characters in Omniscient are all knowing, all seeing, and can even be all singing, all dancing on occasion. Even gods like to let their hair down and have fun. Features three weights with upper & lowercase alphabets, language support for Western & Central Europe, Automatic alternates, Stylistic Alternates & Crossbar I Technology™.

Gladian Script, a new & modern script with handcrafted calligraphy styles, decorative characters and dancing baselines! So beautiful in invitations like greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters and more !! Gladian Script is equipped with 144 glyphs. Alternative characters are divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates, and Ligature. The Open Type feature can be accessed using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, and Microsoft Word. And this Font has provided PUA unicode (custom coded font). so that all stunt characters can be easily fully accessed by a craftsman or designer.

Let us introduce you our new font Souljah, a natural script font. This font has a very contrast stroke, very wide down stroke and very tiny up stroke. Every glyphs shaped very flowy and smooth as if it is written by a dancing hand. All glyphs are connected nicely, this font also included ligature to add more natural touch. "Natural and Soulful Calligraphy" is a perfect tagline to describe Souljah Included Opentype font with ligature, swash alternate and multilingual support. Souljah swash Uppercase for beginning swash and lowercase for ending swash, this file was made to the user who is not common to opentype stylistic feature.

Introducing Mage Candy - Multilingual Handwritten Comic Font, a whimsical and lively typeface that brings the charm of hand-drawn comic elements to your design projects. This font is a celebration of creativity and spontaneity, capturing the essence of playful doodles and energetic illustrations. With its irregular strokes and quirky letterforms, Mage Candy - Multilingual Handwritten Comic Font exudes a sense of authenticity, as if each character was crafted by a skilled comic book artist's pen. The characters dance across the page with a dynamic rhythm, creating a visual experience that is both entertaining and engaging. I hope you enjoy in creating something awesome using Mage Candy. Thank you! :)

Celestial Script modern script style sweet calligraphy, decorative characters and dancing baseline! Very pretty on invitations such as greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters and more. Celestial Script comes with 427 glyphs. Alternate characters are divided into several Open Type features such as, Stylistic Alternates. The Open Type feature can be accessed using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop version of Corel Draw X, and Microsoft Word. And this Font has provided PUA unicode (custom coded font). so that all alternative characters can be easily accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Thank you for your purchase!.

Cajoun is a bold serif face from German designer Hans-Jürgen Ellenberger. The letters sit visually low on their baseline, in part due to their small x-height. Also, the curved portions of the letterforms have an old-style distribution of weight, which pulls the eye downward. This font has a contemporary feel, however, with crisp edges, and some pointy terminals. The typeface also contains old style figures. Cajoun is recommended for use in larger applications, where the eye can get a change to dance along its wide curves. Cajoun was designed in 2002, and is part of the Take Type 5 collection from Linotype GmbH."

Lancea is a fancy sharp serif font. Inspired by medieval roman writing combined with the sharpness of a lance, Lancea is packaged in a font that has sharpness in each letter with an elegant shape that has a strong appeal. Lancea also gives it a sophisticated feel with a sleek and clean serif shape. Lancea typography can help you complete various projects such as luxury brand logos, journals, business cards, headline, products, social media posts, web, etc. There is a decorative alternative style feature for uppercase letters. If you are involved in a project that requires fancy and professional writing, Lancea is perfect to assist you in completing it. Thank you!

Kamaniya is a lovely and magical script font, with characters that dance along the baseline. It has a casual, yet elegant touch. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease! Kamaniya Font includes a full set of lovely uppercase and lowercase letters, multilingual symbols, numerals, punctuation and ligatures. Also it includes: long lowercase beginning and ending swashes. The font has a smooth texture, so it would be perfect for your design. The file you will get is: • Works on PC & Mac • Simple installation • Encoded PUA Character - Can be accessed completely without additional design software. Enjoy!

The techno sound of the 1990s, a personal computer, font creation software, and some inspiration all came together to inspire the F2F (Face2Face) font series. Alessio Leonardi and his friends had the demand to create new unusual typefaces, which would be used in the leading German techno magazine of the day, Frontpage. Even typeset as small as 6-points, in nearly undecipherable layouts, it was a pleasure for the kids to read and try to decrypt the messages. Bubbly black letterforms dancing across the line: this is F2F Tagliatelle Sugo, a funky font from Alessio Leonardi. Try it out in a big headline today!

Dasha is a vintage-inspired and hand-drawn font, with an alphabet that bounces naturally along a dancing baseline. Inside the font you'll find a host of Opentype features and over 1,000 alternate characters, including a full set of alternate capital letters and 22 alternate ampersand characters (contextual alternates), seamless ligatures that automatically connect as you type (discretionary ligatures), beginning and end-of-word swashes plus a set of elaborate swashed capital letters (swash feature, and stylistic set 1 for Word users), old-style numerals (old style numerals) and arbitrary fractions (fractions). For best results, be sure to use Dasha in Opentype-friendly applications.

Introducing Fire Hell – a fiery font inspired by the intensity of death metal. With flames dancing within each letter, this font is tailor-made for death metal, black metal, gothic, horror, and other heavy music genres. The sharp, angular design adds a touch of darkness, making it the perfect visual companion for bands seeking a fierce and impactful typographic identity. Unleash the power of Fire Hell to set your artwork ablaze and embody the relentless spirit of heavy music. Ignite the darkness with this visually striking font! Fire Hell features: Allcaps Beginning Uppercase alternate Ending Uppercase alternate Numbers and punctuation PUA Encoded Characters OpenType Features

Quinshai Script a new fresh & modern script with a handmade calligraphy style, decorative characters and a dancing baseline! So beautiful on invitation like greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more!! Quinshai Script including alternate glyph and beautiful swirl in a font including stylistic sets, Ligatures etc. The Open Type features 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 given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Thanks and happy designing :-)

Setisa, a delightful monoline script font, enchants with its inherent cuteness and graceful simplicity. Each stroke is meticulously crafted, forming a seamless dance of letters that exude a charming, handwritten aesthetic. The monoline design lends a uniform and contemporary feel, while the script nature adds a touch of whimsy. Setisa effortlessly blends a sense of playfulness with a clean, modern edge, making it perfect for a myriad of creative endeavors. Whether used in branding, invitations, or any design project seeking a sweet and approachable tone, Setisa stands as a testament to the beauty found in simplicity, making every word written a joyful expression of charm and elegance.