This family was inspired by a font carved circa 1590 for a Polish editor. We don't know who was the punchcutter, nor the printer's name. We have added the special East European diacritics (Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian )as the original font has only the Polish accents. It is a Garamond type, like our 1592 GLC Garamond or 1589 Humane Bordeaux, rough and a little approximate, but attractive. We recommend using OTF version with Windows Vista, providing a best compatibility.

Journey is a smooth and elegant vintage script family of four weights and a matching ornament set. Journey is packed with Alternate characters that let you easily create headlines, logos & posters with a custom-made feeling. Journey has a minimum three alternatives to every basic letter: To activate the alternates click on Swash, Stylistic or Titling Alternates in any OpenType Savvy program or manually choose from even more alternate characters from the Glyph Palette. For the best price purchase the Complete Journey Family.

Zanzabar is an exotic display font with a distinctive Middle Eastern flair. Its characters loosely mimic the Arabic script with lowercase letters being much smaller than uppercase. Special emphasis was given to the wispy, brush-like appearance of its characters for a suggestion of authenticity. This works best from far away or at small sizes. Although decorative by nature, the entire character set is relatively easy to read. Use Zanzabar for a restaurant logo, children’s book, or a movie poster.

Prop-a-ganda offers retro-flavored fonts inspired by lettering on retro propaganda posters, retro advertising posters, retro packages all the world over. This is perfect font for your retrospective project. Each letters of PAG Transformacio go into a rectangular box. When we type words with this font, we feel like putting building blocks or stamping the paper delightfully. It is a fundamental pleasure of typography. PAG Transformacio will be the best solution for posters, titles and anywhere you need retrospective lettering.

A futurist headline typeface exploring the concept of sub-baseline interconnectivity and flow. Boasting over 450 glyphs, this typeface comes with an enormous amount of ligatures to achieve optimum flow between letterforms. Its sources of inspiration are endless (old science fiction, Arabic letterforms and 90s UK garage/rap album artwork featuring futurist custom type.) The typeface is best suited to headlines and larger type. Currently available in Bold with an Italic version coming in the not too distant future. Enjoy!

Stallone is a stunning Elegant Script font with a classic retro style, regular artistic swirls, coming together to create a distinctive, high-quality and exclusive typeface that will bring vintage charm to your designs. This font is created with advanced OpenType functionality and has the best quality guarantee, contains stylistic and contextual alternatives, ligatures and other features; all to give you complete control and customization capabilities. It contains all the characters and symbols you need, including all punctuation and numbers.

The Swash version of Adriane Text features the best characteristics of this lineage, without losing the strong personality and elegant design featuring in your text styles, Adriane Swash brings a fancy look to this classic style. The family comes with a complete character set in Uppercase, Lowercase and Small Caps, and the Swash option can be activated through the OpenType features panel, including glyphs initial, intermediate and final, plus a wide range of stylistic ligatures, alternate glyphs, ornaments and languages.

Pelle Piano is the stage name for Per Ellstrom, a musician in Stockholm with an interest in irregular and informal lettering. ITC Coolman was inspired by lettering styles of the 1950s. “I have a passion for old '50s type lettering,” says Piano, “as seen on posters from B-movies and pocketbooks and cartoons.” Although ITC Coolman is not a script face, its caps work best with the lowercase, rather than together. The funky, bouncy look of Coolman cries out for beach movies.

Kingfisher is a bold brush family with Script, casual Caps and Extras. Kingfisher is divided into three styles -regular, distressed and one with stylised cuts that emphasize the brush stroke. Kingfisher is packed with several OpenType features: Contextual Alternates and Standard Ligatures are automatically on to keep the flow. For flashier characters, try Swash or Titling Alternates. Font is PUA encoded so you can access extras from character map in most design software. For the best price, purchase the complete pack!

Slinces Heart is a captivating script font that captures the essence of handwriting with a touch of romance. Each letter in this font is meticulously crafted with fairly high line contrast, adding a dynamic and eye-catching quality to the font. The swinging endings in Slinces Heart add a flourish of creativity and uniqueness. With its smooth and flowing letterforms, this font offers a natural and seamless writing style. For the best legibility you can use this font in the bigger text sizes.

Introducing the WBP Cor. A retro font based on the old drugstore signage (DROGISTERIJ). Many happy customers have observed it and is now made available for all. Accents have been added, and there quite are a few alternative glyphs. The A has two options for example: there's a sharp version consistent with the original signage, but also a rounded version consistent with the rest of de design. The font can be used to recreate retro signage or other niche designs.

On the very northern edge of South Tucson lies an Old Pueblo institution, Le Caves Bakery, Home of the Vegetable Donut. That’s what they were called when Le Caves opened; now you’d say Vegan Donut, or No Animal Products Used. Radical concept in the Brave New World of 1935. I started with the letters from their sign and extrapolated the rest of the font from those. Deco Donut Fat is extrapolated from Deco Donut. If you want a donut, type a 0 (zero).

Hello, Are you looking for a SVG font? Do you want of creating Something that stand out and inspire creativity, imagination, and endless fun? Wait no more, we will give you the best choice. Ice cube a SVG Color Font Inspiring from Playful typography. This font is perfect for a design that makes it more attractive and playful. made with a very good level of aesthetics making this font suitable for book cover, poster, packging, merchandise, logotype and much more.

Introducing Bilgraf, a cursive craft sans serif combination font. This typeface opens up a world of creative possibilities, offering a harmonious balance between the traditional and the contemporary. With Bilgraf, you get the best of both worlds – the timeless charm of cursive calligraphy and the contemporary appeal of a sans-serif display font. Whether you're an experienced designer or just starting your creative journey, Bilgraf is the tool you need to add a touch of elegance and modernity to your projects.

Scarfish is an urban-style handwritten brush font, with a unique brush texture. It is the best choice for creating eye-catching logos, branding, and quotes. The name scarfish was inspired by the legendary movie, scarface. The font Scarfish contains 198 glyphs. Supporting more than 66 languages, from English to Zulu. It is also PUA encoded, multilingual, and has open-type features such as ligatures. Scarfish is casual, carefree, and authentic. Handcrafted with passion and love for your awesome projects.

Clarize is an elegant high contrast serif fonts family, with the best features of the Didone style. Designed with consideration for more functionality with smooth details and a touch of modern and luxury, this font is perfect for designers who are developing in the field of books, fashion, magazine, blog, advertising, packaging, branding, etc. The family includes 10 styles: five weights from Light to Black Multilingual Languages. Clarize includes Ligature and discretionary "ct" and "st" that can be accessed via an access feature.

Toggle is a welcoming font with a charming and friendly demeanour. An all-caps display set with built-in layers of customisability in the form of two different cuts, regular and stencil, Toggle is happy to go along with whatever suits you best. The quirky corners and upbeat details flirt with tradition without conforming to what has been before, giving you confidence in Toggle’s quality type credentials while simultaneously freeing you to use it in a huge variety of situations.

Introducing Alevander Script Alevander Script is a classic calligraphy font. This is a classic thin font with an italic style. Here will get a beautiful classic font. This font has several modern swirls that can make work look elegant, sweet and perfect. With a style like this, this font would be perfect for logos, branding projects, homeware designs, product packaging, mugs, quotes, posters, shopping bags, logos, t-shirts, book covers, business cards, invitation cards, greeting cards, and more. all other beautiful projects. Can use this font for work very easily. Because there are many features in it. Contains a full set of lowercase and uppercase letters, punctuation marks, numbers, web fonts and multilingual support. This font also includes several binding styles and an alternative Stylistic Set for those who have software capable of working with OpenType (Corel Draw / Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign). If you don't have a program that supports OpenType features like Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw X Versions, you can access all the alternative glyphs using Font Book (Mac) or Character Map (Windows): Thank you for buying!

Sweet Rosetia font family consists of a script, a sans style and a set of dingbats. The handwritten modern script works perfectly together with the sans serif and 190+ cute illustrations. Sweet Rosetia Script includes a full set of lowercase letters with beginning swashes , a full set of lowercase letters with ending swashes, contextual alternates, stylistic alternates and ligatures features that makes the font look more natural. Sweet Rosetia is perfect in designs such as logotypes, brand, magazines, websites or blog headlines, packaging, branding, quotes, invitation cards, greeting cards, business cards, wedding invites, and more. Sweet Rosetia Includes: - Ligatures, Contextual alternates, Stylistic alternates, and Swash (Beginning and Ending Swashes) Uppercase, lowercase, numeral and punctuation - Sweet Rosetia Regular and Sweet Rosetia Sans - 190+ cute illustrations - PUA Encoded Characters - Fully accessible without additional design software - Multilingual support for English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Malay, Hungarian, Polish, Croatian, Turkish, Romanian, Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Slovenian. How to get access alternate glyphs with designing software to OpenType fonts, check this link : http: //adobe.ly/1m1fn4Y

Natasha is a modern script typeface that every single letter contains beautiful characters alternates and feature ligatures. This font come with 70+ Ligatures, Contextual alternates, and Stylistic alternates. This font is stylish, fresh and ideal for adding the special look to your designs. Natasha font that is special for fashion and matches applies in some designs such as the logotype, brand, magazine, website or blog headlines, packaging, branding, quotes, invitation cards, greeting cards, business cards, and wedding more. Natasha 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. Natasha Includes: - 70+ Ligatures, Contextual alternates, and Stylistic alternates - PUA Encoded Characters - Fully accessible without additional design software - Multilingual support for English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Malay, Hungarian, Polish, Croatian, Turkish, Romanian, Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Slovenian

Introducing Gastine Script modern calligraphy font. Hi Designer, Come again to complete your script font collection ...! Gastine Script is a calligraphy font. This is a modern thin font with an italic style. Here you will get a beautiful modern font. This font is available in several modern swirls that can make your work look elegant, sweet and perfect. With this style, this font will be 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. Gastine Script has 380+ glyphs included alternative, ligatures characters and various language support: ŠÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏŸŽÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöøùúûêýÿŒœšž 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, ligatures, alternates 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). Thank you!

Hi Font Lovers! Bring back my newest font, Introduce Beautiful in White. Script! This is a modern font script. This font comes in a sleek and italic style, created very slowly for a neat result that will give this font a very elegant impression. There are 410 glyphs in it! so you can get used to it freely and follow the current trends. Please try and hope you enjoy it! With a style like this, this font is suitable for logos, branding projects, home appliance designs, product packaging, mugs, quotes, posters, shopping bags, logos, t-shirts, book covers, business cards, invitation cards, congratulations. cards, and all your other beautiful projects. You can use this font for your work very easily. Because there are many features in it. Contains full set of lowercase and uppercase letters, punctuation, numbers, web fonts, and multilingual support. This font also includes several ligatures and alternative styles for the Stylistic Set for those of you who have software that can work with OpenType (Corel Draw / Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign). Thank you for purchasing!

marisa is a beautiful and flowing handwritten font with beginning and ending swash. It looks beautiful on a variety of designs requiring a personalized style, such as wedding invitations, thank you cards, weddings, greeting cards, logos and so on. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease! marisa a new fresh & modern script with a handmade calligraphy style, decorative characters and a dancing swash ! So beautiful on invitation like greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more!! The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Stylistic Sets. 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. You can mix and match with Opentype feature: More than 272 of glyphs Stylistic sets from ss01 to ss02 Multilingual Language The ZIP file are include the following : marisa font files If you don't have a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw X Versions, you can access all the alternate glyphs using Font Book (Mac) or Character Map (Windows). Check my other Font here : https://gilarstudio.com/ Thanks and happy designing :-)

Anglecia Pro is an exquisite and versatile system of three transitional serif typefaces designed to work together in editorial design. Sharing the same skeleton, vertical axis, and trapezoidal uncurved serifs, each of these faces bears different key dimensions and different contrast typical for three different type epochs. Anglecia Pro Text is a typeface designed for general typesetting in average reading sizes. Although it features a vertical axis, its soft skeleton, relatively small x-height and prominent ascenders and descenders give the typesetting a traditional warm texture with a slight contemporary touch. Anglecia Pro Title incorporates proportions of familiar transitional serif typefaces but exposes higher-than-average vertical contrast which makes it useful for setting captions, pull quotes or general purpose text in sizes of 12 pt and above. Anglecia Pro Display, still having non-rectangular serifs and the same soft skeleton as the rest of Anglecia Pro system, features extreme contrast, much thinner serifs and exaggerated ball terminals typical for Didone modern serif families. Its large x-height and tighter letter spacing suggests larger text sizes e.g. in decorative headlines, extra large pull quotes or logos. Altogether these three typefaces form 36 styles – each supporting numerous Latin-based languages as well as major Cyrillic languages. In roman styles the Cyrillic script comes in two flavours accessible via OpenType alternates – to choose either more traditional and curvy (default) or more formal and rigid type texture. In italics this feature affects uppercase and small caps. Also, each style is packed with OpenType features: ligatures, small caps, six sets of digits, superiors and inferiors, fractions, ordinals, and respective punctuation varieties including all-cap punctuation. There are also language-specific alternates for Polish kreska, Romanian Ș/ș, Catalan punt volat, and correct small-cap versions for Turkish/Azerbaijani i/ı. Some of the styles of Anglecia Pro can be found in Mint Type Editorial Bundle together with other fonts which make some great pairs. Check it out!

ATTENTION! See the newest version of Reina here. Reina Neue is now a family of 45 styles and it's also a Variable Font! Have a look. For the traditional version of Reina, you may stay here ;) --- Reina is Sproviero’s didone of the year. We recommend seeing its user’s guide . Inspired in the sweet letters of calligraphy and typography masters of our past; such as Didot, Bodoni and the incredible Herb Lubalin, its aim was to incorporate the decorative accolades from blackletter and copperplate styles of calligraphy into a Modern Roman typeface. Reina reflects sovereignty due to the enveloping atmosphere and the sensation of greatness that can be felt when using it. It has an unique way of standing over paper and screen, being its swashes responsible of an extreme elegance. Similar to what Lian did in his last font Breathe , Reina was designed to be playful yet formal: While none of its alternates are activated it can be useful for short to medium length texts; and when the user chooses to make use of its open-type decorative glyphs, it can be useful for headlines with dazzling results. TECHNICAL Reina is a family with many members. In order to achieve better results when printing, Lian took his time to design the necessary styles: Reina 72 Pro, prepared for display sizes; Reina 36 Pro, for medium sizes; and Reina 12 Pro, the best for text or decorative words in small size. Each of these members have variants inside, which are open-type programmed: The user decides which glyph to alternate, equalizing the amount of decoration wanted. Reina Engraved Pro has the same features than the variants mentioned above. The family also contains variants which were made exclusively for decoration. These are: Reina Words, a set of the most common words used in english, german, italian, french and spanish; Reina Capitals, which consists in a big set of ornamented capitals; and Reina Fleurons, those little friends which always help to embellish our work.

A year after the tremendous success of Memoriam in the "Lives They Lived" issue of the New York Times magazine at the end of 2008, Patrick Griffin and Nancy Harris Rouemy teamed up once more to tackle the same project for the 2009 issue. This time the magazine's design concept revolved around a typeface they created specifically for custom vertical malleability, and that can play just as well in single- or multi-color environments. The result was another iconic commemorative issue that shows exotic tri-line letters merging, swashing, extending and flourishing in stunning gold, silver and blue on black on the cover, and in black on white on the inside pages. Just like in the previous year, the issue won multiple publication design and typography awards. Crescendo is that typeface, finally issued for retail by public demand. Just turn your setting into outlines in your favorite vector program, grab single strands and extend away, and do your best alternating colours between strands. Crescendo comes with a limited punctuation set, but accented characters for Western Latin languages are included, and there many, many alternates and ligatures in there as well. This typeface is best used in large display sizes.

"Hi there, thank you for passing by. Colllab Studio is here. We crafted best collection of typefaces in a variety of styles to keep you covered for any project that comes your way! Pickatoon is a fun display font that we made because we knew what people wanted. Pickatoon has the look of your favorite childhood markers. It's not just for comic books, it's for EVERYTHING. It's for your Instagram selfies, it's for school projects, it's for your business logo, it's for your coloring books—it even works great with watercolors! We put a lot of time into making Pickatoon perfect. We knew you'd need it to be thick and thin and fat and skinny, so we did our best to make sure all those variations were available in every letter. And when you're drawing, you don't just want to draw the same thing over and over again—you want to be able to change things up with some simple tools. So we made sure that Pickatoon had different ways you could vary the thickness and give your work some character. Start create with this font!! A Million Thanks www.colllabstudio.com

Filigree, reminiscent of the delicate lace and jewelry produced in Europe in the 16th to 18th centuries, was inspired by the font Always, and by the way in which the threads (or filia) of the characters in Always intertwined. It has a soft, wafty character. It is best used as a display font at a relatively large size. At too small a size the delicacy of the individual filaments will be lost. Best results also from a combination of upper and lower case characters. Using upper case characters alone will not look as good. Alternate characters and ligatures are also included. If your application program supports "kerning" then I suggest that you turn it on. Although not essential, this will enhance the spacing of the letters. The font contains over 272 characters - (upper and lower case characters, punctuation, numerals, symbols and accented characters are present). It also includes a number of "open-type" characters - these enhance the flexibility of the font by providing alternatives that are used either at the discretion of the designer or are determined by the circumstances in which the font is used. It has all the accented characters used in the major European languages.

Wardruna Arabic is a method of writing Arabic with a Runic-like alphabet devised by Devin Lester. He imagined that if some vikings had settled in the Middle East, they might have started speaking Arabic and writing it with a version of the Runic alphabet. This particular alphabet is based on Tolkien's Cirth Runes. A band of vikings went to Baghdad after raiding in Europe. The markets in Constantinople were closed as the Turks had just sacked the city. These men had heard of the great market in Baghdad and went there to sell their wares, seeing that this land was warm and fertile they decided to stay. They ended up settling the land and taking Arab wives and having children, because of thier Northern European accent their Arabic evolved into a part-Arabic dialect of Iraqi arabic. This is why today you see a few Arabs with green eyes and dark blonde or red hair. The Arabic alphabet was too fluid for them and vikings disdained the use of paper as a persons writings could be burned, so the evolved their runes to fit Arabic.

Sterling Script was initially meant to a be digitization/reinterpretation of a copperplate script widely used during what effectively became the last decade of metal type: Stephenson Blake's Youthline, from 1952. The years from 1945 to 1960 saw a heightened demand for copperplate faces, due to post-war market optimism, as well as the banking and insurance industries booming like never before, which triggered the need for design elements that express formal elegance and luxury. The name Sterling Script is a tip of our hat to England, the Stephenson Blake foundry's country of origin. It is also a historical hint about copperplate scripts having been used mainly for banking and bonds in the 19th century. Originally we just wanted to resurrect a gorgeous metal type from the ashes of forgotten history. But after the main font was done we saw that the original s really needed an alternate. We made one. But we felt sorry for the original s and didn't want to see it dropped from use altogether, so we saved it by building a set of ligatures that solve the minor connection problem with the s at large sizes. Before the completion of the ligatures, a few different alternates were also drawn, and we were faced by the fact that the single font we set out to do was now a much larger set than we anticipated. While thinking about how to split up our unexpected bundle of large characters, we drew a few more alternates and some swashes. This abundance "problem" reached a certain point where there was no looking back, so we just decided to go all the way with this font. We added many more alternates, swashes, ligatures, and two full sets of each beginning and ending lowercase letter. The result is over 750 characters of sheer elegance. Sterling Script has many features that set it above and beyond other copperplate scripts: - It has 2 beginning and 2 ending alternates for every single lowercase character. The beginning and ending variants on the vowels are also available in accented form in the appropriate cells of the character map. - Sterling Script is the ultimate elegant font choice for luxury design. Very elegant, but not too soft. Its strong and confident shapes convey a message that is real, comforting and assuring. - One of the eventual purposes of expanding Sterling Script this extensively was to create a script that finds the middle ground between formal and informal without compromising either trait, a script where the degree of formality can be gauged, tweaked, cranked up or toned down depending on the layout's needs. Aside from beginnings and endings, there are multiple variations for the majority of the basic characters. This is a formal script on steroids, where twirls and swashes can be set to come out unexpectedly from any place in the word, which is great for reducing the inherent rigidity of words set in copperplate scripts and "humanizing" them whenever needed. This is especially useful for wedding, postcard and invitation design, where not every viewer of the collateral material has something to do with banking or insurance. - With such an extensive character set, a designer can easily set a word or a sentence in 10 or more different ways, and choose the perfect one for the task at hand. This is particularly useful for work where details are of utmost importance, like logos, slogans, or elegant engravings that consist of one to three words. Let those swashes and twirls intertwine for maximum elegance. The Sterling Script complete package consists of 7 fonts: Sterling Script, Alternates, Beginnings, Endings, Swashes, Swash Alternates, and Ligatures. Sterling Script is available in five different purchase options and price ranges. But with such a massive offering of variation, the Sterling Script complete package is definitely the most value-laden set in its class. Once you use Sterling Script, you will never want to go back to other copperplates.

In the world of graphic design, the right typeface can make or break a project. It’s not just about choosing a font that’s legible, but one that speaks to the essence of your brand or message. If you’re looking for a typeface that embodies classic charm and warmth, then look no further than Telephoto. Telephoto is a sans-serif typeface that harkens back to the twentieth century when analog was king. Its gentle, analog feel sets it apart from other typefaces on the market. When you use Telephoto, you’ll notice that it has a smooth personality that immediately injects classic ambience into your projects. But what really sets Telephoto apart are the subtle letter pair ligatures. These ligatures are a true testament to the attention to detail that went into creating this typeface. They break up the monotony of plainly repeating letters, creating a soft and organic feel that’s hard to find in today’s digital world. OpenType-savvy programs are where Telephoto truly shines, so make sure to turn off your application’s “standard ligatures” function to fully appreciate this effect. Telephoto is perfect for photographers, designers, and anyone who wants to bring a soft, analog feel to their work. Its delicate rendering is truly one-of-a-kind and adds a level of sophistication to any project. So why settle for a run-of-the-mill typeface when you can use Telephoto to make your work stand out? Give it a try and see the difference it can make. Most Latin-based European writing systems are supported, including the following languages. Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aromanian, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean, Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Dholuo, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kurdish (Latin), Latvian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Māori, Moldovan, Montenegrin, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Norwegian, Novial, Occitan, Ossetian (Latin), Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Sami, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Võro, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Wayuu, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Zapotec Zulu and Zuni.

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.

Read John Downers' article in Typographica®: ‘Our Favorite Typefaces of 2007’ http://www.typographica.org/typeface-reviews/scriptonah-and-casual-brush/ Click the Gallery above for the .pdf. Suitable for posters, titles, book covers, greeting cards, signs, packaging, invitations, ads, headlines and captions.