A Sans Serif Family with a few unique relatives Our Bookable Sans Family was inspired by a lettering specimen from “Letters and Lettering” by Carlyle & Oring, but you'll find the inspiration has come a long way, baby. From its original reference of displaying a standard width and weight, to the two words showing a light narrow and a heavy wide, this friendly utilitarian display text face has grown to include three width families, with six weights from light to black each. The outliers of the family are Bookable Mondo: an uber heavyweight wide style exuding all brute power in an all-caps form, and Bookable Noir: a lightweight and narrow style with many unique alternate letterforms and ligatures that spoof film noir titling, but also goes off the rails having fun. Opentype features for the traditional families include: - Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions. - A small collection of f-based Ligatures. - Tabular & Proportional figure sets. - Ordinals. - Approx. 419 characters. Opentype features for Bookable Mondo include: - Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions. - Ordinals. - Approx. 391 characters. Opentype features for Bookable Noir include: - Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions. - Five Stylistic Alternate Sets. - Sixty-six unique ligatures. - Ordinals. - Approx. 701 characters.

A Belle Époque humanist serif in two styles: crisp, high-contrast Haut-Monde and soft, low-contrast Demimonde… When you design a lot of display pieces, you’re often in need of tall, slim type. Liaisons provides that, in a distinct fin-de-siècle style inspired by the great posters of the Gilded Age from Sweden, Denmark, France, and Scotland. (The ampersand alone is a bit of a love letter to Charles Rennie Mackintosh!) Both styles use the same slim skeleton, and are named after the stratum of society where one might find… a “dancing partner.” HAUT-MONDE is a high contrast face of the sort that says “High Society.” Elegant and sleek, it speaks to the refinement of the moneyed classes of a bygone era. Great for high-end products, too! DEMIMONDE is soft and low-contrast — more reminiscent of hand-lettering on Art Nouveau/Jugendstil/Wiener Werkstätte advertisements and posters. A comfortably chic display face all around! Both typefaces feature full Western and Eastern Latin character sets, as well as full Cyrillic/Slavic ones. And, perhaps best of all, both typefaces feature capitals with high, middle, and low waists, so you can change up the look as you see fit! Part of The Ampersand Forest's Sondheim Series

Sparrowhawk Script is retro signage font, bold and clean. There are so many variations on each character. Include Opentype stylistic alternates. You are able to create so many different typographical layouts easily and quickly. Make sure you use OpenType savvy program and simply open Glyph Palette to access all of the glyphs. This font is suitable for t-shirts, signage, logos, headlines, branding, packaging, etc. Sparrowhawk Script features 460+ glyphs and alternate characters. including initial and terminal letters, alternates, ornament, swash, ligatures and multiple language support. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions. How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: http://youtu.be/iptSFA7feQ0 Sparrowhawk Script is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all the extra characters without having special designing software. Mac users can use Font Book , and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favourite text editor/app. How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw If you need help or advice, please contact me by e-mail "maximal.fonts@gmail.com"

PB Carolingian Xc is a font face designed for imitate Carolingian minuscule (from the region of the German southeastern scribal schools) found in 10th century manuscripts. All characters are handwritten by use ink and quill pen, scanned, digitized and optimized for best quality without lost its handwritten visual appearance. Character set support codepages: 1250 Central (Eastern) European, 1252 Western (ANSI), 1254 Turkish, 1257 Baltic. Include also additional characters for Cornish, Danish, Dutch and Welsh language, spaces (M/1, M/2, M/3, M/4, M/6, thin, hair, zero width space etc.), historical characters (overlined uppercase Roman numerals, many mediaeval abbreviations, d-rotunda, r-rotunda, I-longa, e-caudata, historical ligatures for “nomina sacra”) and wide range of ancient punctuation. OpenType TrueType TTF (.ttf) font file include installed OpenType features: Access All Alternates, Localized Forms, Fractions, Ordinals, Superscript, Tabular Figures, Proportional Figures, Case-Sensitive Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates, Stylistic Set 1-11, Historical Forms, Historical Ligatures, Standard Ligatures. Include also kerning as single ‘kern’ table for maximum possible backwards compatibility with older software. Historical ligatures for additional glyphs are mapped to Private Use Area codepoints. OpenType features automatically exchange some default glyphs by stylistic alternates and create ligatures for better historical appearance.

Thrift is a beautifully curvaceous serif font with smooth curves and fine lines and plenty of OpenType features. Thrift is perfect for your next editorial, advertising, branding, book, or invitation project. Thrift Regular and Thrift Italic each include approximately 800 glyphs. Specific OpenType features include stylistic alternates, several stylistic sets with features like curved ascenders and descenders, multilingual support (including multiple currency symbols - for kicks I even included a Bitcoin symbol in there), standard and proportional oldstyle numbers, and four ampersand styles. It also includes 24 standard and discretionary ligatures that add character and interest to your typography. The OpenType features can be very easily accessed by using OpenType-savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. (To access most of these awesome features in Microsoft Word, you'll need to get comfortable with the advanced tab of Word's font menu. If you have questions about this, ask me!) Mail support : julie@upupcreative.com Find inspiration (and sneak peeks at my next font-in-progress) on Instagram: http://instagram.com/julieatupupcreative Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/upupcreative Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/upupcreative My website: http://upupcreative.com Please enjoy! I can't wait to see what you make with Thrift! Feel free to use the #upupcreative and #thriftfont tags to show me what you've been up to!

Athan Script is a classic calligraphy font. This is a classic thin font with an italic style. This font is available in several modern swirls that can make your work look elegant, sweet and perfect. This font is suitable for logos, branding projects, design of household appliances, product packaging, mugs, quotes, posters, shopping bags, logos, t-shirts, book covers, business cards, invitation cards, greeting cards, and all your other beautiful projects. Athan Script has 620+ glyphs and 400 alternative characters, including various language support. You can use this font for your work very easily. Because there are many features in it. Contains a complete set of upper and lowercase letters, punctuation, numbers and multilingual support. This font also includes several ligatures and alternative styles Set Stylistic For those of you who have software that is able to work OpenType (Corel Draw / Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign). If you don't 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). How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwjMkbB-wQ How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw Mail support: maximal.fonts@gmail.com

Allow me to introduce Hello Blushberry - Font Duo is a playful script containing many choices of alternative characters to choose from as well as ligatures that look natural to add to the authenticity of letters. A collection of strange and initial swash tips is also included to add finishing touches or fill the design space in your type design. Hello Blushberry a modern handwriting fonts, loaded with awesome opentype features, and full alternative upper and lower case character sets. make custom letters a dream thanks to all the extra decorative choices you can enter for beautiful and unique customizations - swash, endings, alternative letters and ligatures all make it the prettiest little thing since tutus and tiara. Designed to work harmoniously, this duo font consists of super fine and casual signature scripts and a complete and clean set of all sans serif letters. Sans Serif fonts consist of two outline fonts of different weights, and a regular version. Layer them with different colors and turbidity to get a million different views. This font is perfect for branding, logos, web and editorial design, branding, prints, invitations, crafts, quotes, and more. Includes Files: • Hello Blushberry Script • Hello Blushberry Script Capitals Need help? If you need help or advice, please contact me by e-mail at Greatstudio92@gmail.com.

This is a digital revival by Cristóbal Henestrosa based on an experimental typeface named Charter, designed – yet never fully accomplished – by the prominent William Addison Dwiggins. It is an upright italic, unconnected script typeface, whose main features are a pronounced contrast, condensed forms and exaggerated ascenders. While Dwiggins worked on this project from 1937 to 1955, he only completed the lowercase and a few other characters. However, it was used to set a specimen in 1942 and a short novel in 1946. The sources that Cristóbal used for Mon Nicolette were the original sketches by WAD as well as printing trails kept at the Boston Public Library, and a copy of the 1946 edition of The Song-Story of Aucassin and Nicolette. This gorgeous typeface can be used successfully in headlines, subheads and short passages of text from 12 points onwards, in applications such as fashion magazines, soft news, advertising, poetry, albums, and book covers. This project started ten years ago, while Cristóbal was studying the Type@Cooper Extended Program at New York City. A previous version was selected to be part of the Biennial Tipos Latinos 2018, and now Mon Nicolette is finally ready for commercial distribution with Sudtipos… and we are very proud of it! Festina lente.

This font is an adaptation of the cyprus syllabic script to a Latin-based font. I tried to assign as many correct letters as possible, but there were too many characters so I had to fit them. Please review the alphabet table of Cypriot syllabic to use the Font. To see all the characters, you can see all the characters and add them to the text by selecting this font from the add character section on the word page. Cypriot syllabary The Cypriot syllabary was used in Cyprus from about 1500 and 300 BC and is thought to have developed from the Linear A. The earliest known inscriptions from between 1500 and 1200 BC are in an unknown language called 'Eteo-Cypriot', or 'True Cypriot', and the script in which they are written is called Cypro-Minoan. From around 1200 BC Cyprus began to be colonised by Mycenaean, Minoan and possibly Cretan Greek settlers, and they probably adapted the existing script to write their own language - the oldest known inscription in Greek dates from the 11th century BC. Cypriot Greek had much in common with Greek dialects of Arcadia and Pamphylia, which corresponds to the province of Antalya in Turkey.

Buryland Font is Handmade Script, Sans, Serif inspired by Retro and Modern hand lettering style, so you can use this font into any style of your design. Buryland Font has three styles for each font, Regular, Stamped, and Outline. Buryland Font also has a standard Multilingual Support. With bonus illustration in this package, this fonts are great for Logotype, Branding Design, Logo Design, Digital Lettering Arts, Instagram Design, T-Shirt/Apparel, Badge, Packaging, Poster, Magazine, Book Cover, Quotes, Signs, Advertising Design, and any design needs. Buryland Font Features : - Upper and Lowercase Standard Characters, Punctuation, Numerals - OpenType Features such as Standard Ligatures, Discretionary Ligatures and Stylistic Set (ss01 – ss10) - PUA Encoded Characters - Fully accessible without additional design software. - Includes a range of multilingual characters. You can access all those alternate characters by using a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7 or higher. Guides to access all alternates glyphs : http://adobe.ly/1m1fn4Y Mix and match the alternate characters to add an attractive message to your design. Need help? Please, Feel free to contact me by e-mail yyudhara@gmail.com for any question about my font, Extended License document and more. Good Luck and Have fun ! YdhraStudio

The Signers of the Declaration of Independence font is a collection of all 56 signatures that appeared on America's Declaration of Independence. A must-have for autograph collectors, desktop publishers, lovers of history, or anyone who has ever dreamed of sending a letter, card, or e-mail to a friend or family member "signed" as if by one of the signers of America's Declaration of Independence. This unique font puts every signature on that history-altering document at your fingertips in the form of a high-quality Open Type font. Our fonts behave exactly like any other font on your system and are installed and selected the same way. No special software is needed. Each signature contained in our fonts is mapped to a regular character on your keyboard. Just as with any True Type or Open Type font, you can resize the signature, change its color, etc. Open any Windows application, select the installed font, and type a letter, and you will see the President's signature appear right there on your page where you placed your cursor. Painstaking craftsmanship and an incredible collection of hard-to-find signatures go into this one-of-a-kind font. We're confident you will enjoy it. Please note that this font is intended for entertainment purposes only.

Syntax was designed by Swiss typographer Hans Eduard Meier, and issued in 1968 by the D. Stempel AG type foundry as their last hot metal type family. Meier used an unusual rationale in the design of this sans serif typeface; it has the shapes of humanist letters or oldstyle types (such as Sabon), but with a modified monoline treatment. The original drawings were done in 1954; first by writing the letters with a brush, then redrawing their essential linear forms, and finally adding balanced amounts of weight to the skeletons to produce optically monoline letterforms. Meier wanted to subtly express the rhythmical dynamism of written letters and at the same time produce a legible sans serif typeface. This theme was supported by using a very slight slope in the roman, tall ascenders, terminals at right angles to stroke direction, caps with classical proportions, and the humanist style a and g. The original foundry metal type was digitized in 1989 to make this family of four romans and one italic. Meier completely reworked Syntax in 2000, completing an expanded and improved font family that is available exclusively from Linotype GmbH as Linotype Syntax. In 2009 the typeface family was renamed into a more logical naming of "Syntax Next" to fit better in the Platinum Collection naming."

Originally released in 2008, Stern is the only typeface to be produced and marketed simultaneously in digital and metal. In the twenty-first century, no less. It is also the last typeface Jim Rimmer ever completed. The process he used for its design and manufacture is the stuff of legend, and can be seen in the Richard Kegler documentary, Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century. The design is a delicate upright italic named in memory of Chris Stern, the late artist and printer from Washington State. In 2013, Canada Type remastered and expanded the design's offerings to a glyphset of over 1200 characters, updated programming. Now Stern Pro includes the following features: - Small caps. - Caps-to-small-caps functionality, useful for setting mid-height caps alongside lowercase. - Tall caps. - Historical forms. - A wide variety of alternates for both uppercase and lowercase letters. - Plenty of ligatures. - Seven types of numerals, enclosers, cojoiners and currency symbols. - Automatic fractions. - A complete set of lowercase ordinals, from a to z. - Case-sensitive forms. - Language support for Greek and over 50 Latin languages. 20% of this font's revenues will be donated to the Canada Type Scholarship Fund, supporting higher typography education in Canada.

Linotype Zapf Essentials is the modernized version of Zapf Dingbats and was also designed by Hermann Zapf himself. Over 372 characters and symbols are included within six fonts and make life a little more communicative, a little more informative, and a lot more interesting. The fonts contain symbols for both professional and everyday uses. With their markers, ornaments and arrows they are informative as well as versatile, timeless and lively. An interesting note to the story of Zapf Essentials: in 1977, Hermann Zapf created about 1000 sketches of signs and symbols. ITC chose those which became known around the world as Zapf Dingbats. For a typesetter, dingbats are the characters in the corner of the type box which can be used for just about anything. The last decade has seen the appearance of new symbols for e-mail, fax, mobile phones and other developments. These are now part of Linotype Zapf Essentials, just as they are now a part of everyday life. For a quick overview of the different Linotype Essentials variations, see the keyboard layout PDF in the Gallery section. It shows the keyboard layout of each font. A helpful hint from Hermann Zapf: Linotype Zapf Essentials should be used sparingly so that the characters retain their emphasis.

Love Bird Script is a stylish calligraphy font that features a varying baseline, smooth line, classic and elegant touch. Can be used for various purposes such as headings, signature, logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, labels, news, posters, badges etc. Love Bird Script features 213 + glyphs and 143 alternate characters. including initial and terminal letters, alternates, ligatures and multiple language support. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions. How to Access Alternate Characters in Photoshop CC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFlMwARHusY How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwjMkbB-wQ How to use stylistic sets font in Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions: https://youtu.be/x1A_ilsBsGs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVJlZQ3EZU0 There are additional ways to access alternates/swashes, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac). How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw Need help? If you need help or advice, please contact me by e-mail "balstudio2018@gmail.com" Thank you for your purchase!

The new Bunday™ Slab Font Family consist of three main states with different moods: the crisp and distinctive slab serif, the cute script styled italic and the matching upright italic. All states of Bunday™ Slab share the same contemporary, clear and open base forms and create a space-saving and pretty homogeneous text colour with good legibility. The font was manually hinted and contains extensive handcrafted kerning tables to ensure perfect appearance in all media. Bunday™ Slab ships with 9 standard, 9 upright italic and 8 italic styles from a considerable thin “Hair” to a pretty fat “Heavy” weight. It supports at least 99 languages and provides OpenType® features for ligatures, alternative glyphs, localised forms and more. Please take a look at the other members of the Bunday superfamily: Bunday™ Clean Bunday™ Slab Further information: Bunday Slab Specimen PDF Feature Summary: 9 weights: Hair, Light, Thin, SemiLight, Regular, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold and Heavy 3 Moods: Sans, Upright and Upright Italic Overall width: Narrow or Space-Saving Advanced “f” ligature set* “s” and “c” ligatures* Alternates Characters: a, ç, e, f, g, l, t, y and more* Capital German Esszett* Supports at least 99 Languages * Only available applications with advanced OpenType® support

The American Presidents font is a collection of the signatures of all 44 U.S. Presidents. A must-have for autograph collectors, desktop publishers, lovers of history, or anyone who has ever dreamed of sending a letter, card, or e-mail to a friend or family member “signed” as if by one of America’s Presidents. This unique font puts the signatures of America’s Presidents at your fingertips in the form of a high-quality Open Type font. Our fonts behave exactly like any other font on your system and are installed and selected the same way. No special software is needed. Just as with any True Type or Open Type font, you can resize the signature, change its color, etc. Each signature contained in our fonts is mapped to a regular character on your keyboard. Open any Windows application, select the installed font, and type a letter, and you will see the President’s signature appear right there on your page where you placed your cursor. Painstaking craftsmanship and an incredible collection of hard-to-find signatures go into this one-of-a-kind font. We're confident you will enjoy it. Please note that this font is intended for entertainment purposes only.

Pentecoste is created with stylist and handwritten characters. This handwritten font was PUA encoded. Pentecoste is a natural handwritten style that comes with Extended Latin Characters. Pentecoste works perfectly for logos, display, product branding, wedding invitation card, stationary, packaging, clothing, flyer, apparel, magazines, brochures, lable, posters, badges, etc. Pentecoste comes with 317 glyphs and 87 alternate characters contain with opentype features (supported with contextual alternates mode). Pentecoste also comes with 15 extended ligatures that allowing you to make stuff looks more exclusive and pro standard. You can access all those alternate characters by using OpenType savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions. There are additional ways to access alternates/swashes, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac). For other programs that doesn't support OpenType features or Glyphs Panel such as Photoshop, you can use Character Map in Windows to access the alternate characters. Files included: Pentecoste (otf) How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: http://youtu.be/cxonI5QvULk How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5XTaWYwWA4 If you need help or advice, please contact me by e-mail "tegakiscript@gmail.com"

This font was created in honor of my husband for our 12th wedding anniversary. 14 years ago, I met this tall, skinny guy from Indiana in the lobby of a hotel in Hong Kong. We talked. The next day, we had lunch together. And that night we had dinner together. And the next day. And the next. We met just before my 19th birthday, and on my birthday he took me to the top of Victoria Peak, where we looked out over the city of Hong Kong- such a beautiful place to begin a lifetime of love! We spent 4 months together in Hong Kong, falling in love with each other and with the beautiful city we were privileged to call home for that short time. We married the next year. We've lived in Indiana, Texas, China, Kentucky, and Florida over those 12 years of marriage and have welcomed 2 daughters into our lives. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he completes my life in a way I didn't know was possible. And I know that I'm blessed beyond words to have a supportive, wonderful, encouraging husband who is also a loving, involved, caring dad to our daughters. This font is for you, Keith!

To obtain maximum pleasure in working with Hangulatin, please use the typeface as follows: 1 Open an OpenType-savvy program 2 Select the "Hangulatin“ typeface. 3 Copy the following test text into your document: HEL LO WORLD ! THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS O VER THE LA ZY DOG . If this fails to bring about the desired result, please make sure that you are using an OpenType-savvy program and that usage of the OpenType features is activated in that program. Standard graphic programs are suited to that purpose. The same applies to Microsoft Word starting from the 2010 version upwards.To have fun and success with your new typeface, please write all words in the format shown in the sample text, i.e. all syllables need to be written in capital letters and separated from one another using spacecharacters (for single letters leave 2 spaces). If, however, a desired syllable is not to be substituted, proceed as follows: Please check + to see whether it is a word from the English language; + whether the word has been spelled correctly; + whether the word has been subdivided into syllables correctly; + whether the syllable has been terminated with a space character (allow 2 spaces for single letters).

Surf's up! Take an unforgettable adventure to the sparkling shores of Paradise Point. Ride our 25 majestic weights, from tranquil tall & thin to thunderous wide & heavy. Expand your horizons with the versatile Variable font to select any spot between. One-of-a-kind activities: Drop in a thrilling Inline weight for stylistic flair. Overlay with the matching Heavy for striking color effects. Discover hidden wonders! Stylistic Alternates will take you to the scenic heights of uppercase in a friendly lowercase style. Or immerse your text in interlocking Discretionary Ligatures for an authentic Tiki Type island experience. Enchanting views: Two versions of each letter and number automatically rotate for a natural, hand-drawn appearance. The Light weights have round ends to simulate a single pen stroke, which matches the center of the Inline weights for a perfect pairing. Explore! If you venture into unknown territory, each weight of Paradise Point contains 775 glyphs for stress-free support of over 200 languages. An all-inclusive getaway: Each weight of Paradise Point includes the features above, and can set readable body text as well as create striking logos and headlines. Use it for restaurant menus, surf and skate brands, or any design project where you want to convey lively, friendly, stress-free fun.

At the turn of the 20th century monolinear alphabets were often despised for their dullness. Typographers, therefore, took great pains to breathe some kind of individuality into the monotonous sans-serif scheme. They started with subtle differentiation in the thickness of vertical and horizontal strokes and finished by improving details. By this they arrived at a more decorative appearance of the type face which thus became more regardful of the eye of the bourgeoisie. Ideal Gothic is no exception. It is characterized by a correct stiffness which will improve the morals of every idea printed by this type face. The awkward curves of the italics are a little suggestive of openwork iron products or the bent iron of the decorative little railings in a Prague park. The so-called "hidden" and, furthermore, curved serifs complete the inconspicuous "charm" of this type face. All its above-mentioned features, however, suddenly turn into advantages when we need to design a magazine, a brochure or an annual report, in short whenever illustrations dominate. It is not by accident that the basic design of "Ideal Gothic" has such a light tonal value - it competes neither with fine pencil sketches, nor with sentimental landscapes. It is very suitable for business cards and corporate identity graphics.

Introducing Sociato: a typographic trendsetter. It's a quirky font that perfectly blends modernity and antiquity. The French Revolution was a period of uncompromising innovation in art and fashion, with celebrity artists, notably Jacques Louis David, creating propaganda for the new regime. This regime failed, but we have rare historical artifacts related to this historical upheaval. The typeface was inspired by a declaration published during the French Revolution that extolled the development of a new religion, the cult of the Supreme Being. It's a stunning piece of work, with a wild, baroque layout and hand drawn typography. Words leap off the page in a cascade of sounds and shapes, and quirky letterforms give it a lively, almost mischievous character. It's a veritable goldmine of typographic ideas. This typeface is based on the hand lettering in the original manuscript, but it has been enhanced by adding a full variety of characters. The typeface comes with a comprehensive range of diacritics, including old-style figures. The typeface is suitable for a wide range of uses, including titles and headers, and it should look beautiful in any typographic setting. Use Sociato to create a revolutionary identity, as bold and audacious as the French Revolution!

AwanZaman has a three-phase story, beginning with Dr Mamoun Sakkal’s two Arabic styles and culminating with Juliet Shen’s Latin extension. AwanZaman started as simply Awan, a commission for a modern, clean, monoline typeface for writing headlines and story titles in a forward-thinking Kuwaiti newspaper. Awan was based on the geometric forms of Kufic script, while in phase two, a second typeface (Zaman) was designed to add enough calligraphic Naskh details to make it easy to read in demanding newspaper settings. Together these two phases give the typeface a warm, familiar, and progressive look, as well as an explanatory two-part name — AwanZaman. Since most editorials use typical Naskh headline fonts with an exaggerated baseline, Awan’s rational forms immediately distinguish it as a modern and progressive voice in the crowded field of Arabic editorial typefaces. As the companion Arabic typeface, Zaman has the same basic proportions and forms as Awan, but with many cursive, energetic, and playful details. And since modern monoline fonts are increasingly being used to set extended texts, more features were borrowed from Naskh calligraphy to expand the typeface’s use from headlines into text setting. When using the AwanZaman Arabic family, Awan (geometric Kufic forms) is the starting point. To add the sweeping, energetic personality of Zaman (calligraphic Naskh forms), simply activate an alternate character through the option of 20 stylistic sets available in any OpenType-savvy software. The two typefaces function as one file — the AwanZaman Arabic family — allowing users to combine features from both designs to transform the appearance of text from geometric and formal to playful and informal. The third phase of AwanZaman’s development introduced a companion Latin typeface designed by Juliet Shen to fulfil the persistent need in the Arabic fonts market for modern and geometric bilingual type families. Due to the Arabic’s monolinear strokes, AwanZaman Latin was destined to be a sans serif with a tall x-height, larger counters, and corresponding stem thickness to harmonise with the Arabic’s overall text colour and page presence. But it needed much more. One of AwanZaman’s chief assets is making the two languages look on a par when typeset side by side. Arabic and English readers will have a different sense of what that entails, but this type family defers to the Arabic — graceful and artistic with a good mix of straight stems and curved forms. Latin in general doesn’t aesthetically flow the way Arabic does, yet the tone of the Latin needed to mirror both the Arabic’s more squarish curves and formal personality of Awan and the undulating and more playful shapes of Zaman without looking outlandish. That need was met by creating some novel Latin characters, which are accessed through four stylistic sets the same way as AwanZaman Arabic. The alternates are not just clever in the way they look and how they echo the Arabic aesthetic, but also in harmonising the disparate languages and serving designers well when needing a balanced, bilingual text face with a warm and lively voice. AwanZaman is a clever, seven-weight powerhouse that makes extensive use of OpenType’s stylistic sets (20 in the Arabic and four in the Latin) so writers and designers can make the most of everything from a single glyph in display sizes down to dense text in paragraphs. As AwanZaman Arabic has no italic, neither does the Latin; contextual distinction normally handled by italics is achieved by exploiting the family’s seven weights. AwanZaman’s intricate OpenType programming supports Persian and Urdu, with features such as the returning tail of Barri Yeh treated properly. From its inception in geometry to its melding of two worlds with novel forms, AwanZaman is a personal labor by designers Dr Mamoun Sakkal and Juliet Shen, and embodies the TypeTogether ideals of serving the global community with innovative and stylish typeface solutions. The complete AwanZaman Arabic and Latin families, along with our entire catalogue, have been optimised for today’s varied screen uses.