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  1. Ramai by Gassstype, $23.00
    Hello Everyone, introduce our new product Ramai is Display Typeface with a natural feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes. Ramai is Inspired by Food Logo style and combination with Unique Craft style. that will fulfill your design needs for quotes,sporty theme, logotype, wordmark, etc. This has many opentype features and support multi language. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the magical glyphs with ease!
  2. Thirteenth Classmate by Gassstype, $22.00
    Introducing Thirteenth Classmate – Handmade Brush Font is a Authentic Natural and classy style, this font is great for your creative projects such as watermark on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, photography, invitation, watermark,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. Thirteenth Classmate a natural handwritten feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes.photos, photography overlays, signs, window art, scrapbooking, tags and so much more!
  3. Valorica by Keristyper Studio, $14.00
    Valorica is a modern design with a vintage feel. A monoline display font that combines classic & modern styles. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with sans or serif. Featured: OTF Standard Uppercase & Lowercase Numeral & Punctuation Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ Alternate & Ligature PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  4. Agfolan by Attype Studio, $13.00
    Agfolan is a layered script font with autumn or Fall theme, use it to create spectacular designs. Combine it with Agfolan - Extrude to make an amazing 3D effect on your letter! Agfolan perfect for Autumn or Fall promotion, branding, logo, invitation, stationery, social media post, product packaging, merchandise, blog design, game titles, cute style design, Book/Cover Title and more. What's Included : - Multilingual Support - Made it into separated file to make it easier to use by beginner & separated file user can use the font with software which doesn't accept open type features. --- Hope you enjoy with our font! Attype Studio
  5. Gunhill by NREY, $19.00
    Gunhill is an elegant semi-condensed modern serif font inspired by vintage fonts. It perfectly represents modern and vintage esthetics. The font is perfect for elegant wedding invitation cards, beauty and fashion package design, very suitable for book design, magazines typography, packaging, branding and other creative projects. It has support for many languages as: Afrikaans, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Zulu Font includes both types of ligatures: standard and discretionary Thank you and have a great day!
  6. Princess Berlianty by Letterara, $12.00
    Princess Berlianty is a new modern calligraphy monoline script font. It has a classic and elegant touch and can be used for various purposes such as headings, logos, invitations, t-shirt designs, greeting cards, posters, labels, book covers, brochures ,quotes, headlines, titles, thumbnails, and any other creative design. Features : - Uppercase & Lowercase - Numerals - Punctuations (OpenType Standard) - Accents (Multilingual characters) - Ligatures - Works on PC & Mac - Simple installations - Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even works on Microsoft Word. don't wait anymore, put it in your shopping basket :) and follow me, because there will be many promos!
  7. Raphia by Twinletter, $15.00
    Raphia is a one-of-a-kind display font designed with caution in mind in order to create a font with a powerful, bold, and noticeable character for your varied creative endeavors, maximizing the impression of beauty. Not only that, but this font works well as text in sentences as well. So, what are you waiting for? Start making your creative ideas more beautiful and extraordinary right now, and don’t forget to employ this font. This font is perfect for games, sporting events, branding, banners, posters, movie titles, book titles, quotes, logotypes, and more. Start using our fonts for your amazing projects.
  8. Hell Plants by Hatftype, $15.00
    Hell Plants - Blackletter Display Font is a display font that is inspired by gothic and horror style because its shape is very unique and is perfect for any project that you will use with this theme. Hell Plants with opentype features such stylistic alternates, stylistic sets & ligatures good for logotype, poster, badge, book cover, tshirt design, packaging and any more. Features : 1.Uppercase & Lowercase 2.Multilingual support 3.Number 4.Symbol 5.Punctuation. 6.Extra Dingbat 7.Support in Mac and Windows OS -Support in design application (photoshop, illustrator, and more). There it is. I really hope you enjoy it.
  9. Fukoya by Keristyper Studio, $14.00
    Fukoya is a bold font with a soft and confident impression, modern with a clean touch. This font is good for logo design, social media, movie and book titles, short text, even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with the script, sans, or serif. Featured: Standard Uppercase & Lowercase Numeral & Punctuation Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ Alternates & Ligatures PUA encoded We recommend programs that support OpenType features and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  10. Pial by Eurotypo, $20.00
    Pial fonts Family includes: Pial Regular that is totally hand-designed, casual and youthful, with lines that sometimes swell extremely, contain 546 glyphs with many stylistic variations, swashes and ligatures. Pial Sans Regular and Expanded, also hand-designed, and Pial Serif Regular and Condensed to add a little seriousness. We have added also, a font of ornaments, extras and catchwords in the family. Using this font you will achieve a very elegant and warm work. Pial Family is very versatile and ideal for logotype design, magazines and book covers, children's material, fashion, headlines, cards, posters, websites, packaging and, basically, anywhere you want.
  11. Hadenut by HansCo, $15.00
    Hadenut Font is a lettering retro vintage font. You will get alternate characters such as swash on some characters. Equipped with all complete characters ranging from uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation marks and multi-lingual support, this font is ready to be used in any project. Very suitable for logotype, Stickers, Packaging design, Cricut Project, Headlines, Brand identity, T shirt or Apparel industry, Posters, Magazines, Books, YouTube, Instagram, Websites, Canva, Corjl or any of your creative design projects. Use this Hadenut font to add that special modern retro touch to any design idea you can think of! Enjoy!
  12. Elderich by Keristyper Studio, $14.00
    Introducing Elderich is a modern gothic typeface. Strong and geometric with a fraktur style inspired by the blackletter concept. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with script, sans, or serif. Featured: Standard Uppercase & Lowercase Numeral & Punctuation Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ Alternate & Ligature PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  13. Merosa by Grezline Studio, $18.00
    Merosa is an experimental display serif font that I crafted for fashion design. You can also use this font for other purposes such as logos, labels, invitations, magazines, books, greeting/wedding cards, packaging, stationery, novels, labels, any type of advertising and etc. Feature : - Alternates and Ligatures - Multilingual Language - Works on PC & Mac - Simple installations - Accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign, and even works on Microsoft Word. We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. Thank You!
  14. Magical Brush by Hanoded, $15.00
    Personally I think a brush font should have the word ‘Brush’ in its name. It’s not that easy finding a name - you need some magic to come up with a good one! Magical Brush is a completely handmade font. I used a small brush (a number 3 to be precise) and Chinese Ink. I wanted just a little ‘erosion’, so I used copier paper rather than my expensive French water color paper (which is quite rough). Magical Brush comes in the normal variant and a chickenpox one. Use it for your posters, your book covers and your Christmas invitations!
  15. Backdown by Letterhend, $19.00
    Introducing, Backdown- a handwritten display typeface. This type of 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 alternates and 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. How to access opentype feature : letterhend.com/tutorials/using-opentype-feature-in-any-software/
  16. Core Gothic N by S-Core, $72.00
    Core Gothic N is a simple and modern sans-serif Korean font consists of 9 weights (Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, ExtraBold, Heavy & Black). Character set is consist of Korean 11,172 characters, Hirakana & Katakana, Latin and Korean symbols. It is well balenced between Korean and Latin characters. Latin typeface (Core Sans N) was adjusted to be matched with korean typeface. Spaces between individual letter forms are adjusted in detail so that it makes perfect typesetting. Supported codepages are MS Windows 1252 Latin1 and MS Windows 949 Korean. We recommend to use for books, web, screen displays and so on.
  17. Ongunkan Death Space Unitology by Runic World Tamgacı, $50.00
    Dead Space is a science fiction/horror media franchise created by Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, developed by Visceral Games, and published and owned by Electronic Arts. The franchise's chronology is not presented in a linear format; each installment in the Dead Space franchise is a continuation or addition to a continuing storyline, with sections of the storyline presented in prequels or sequels, sometimes presented in other media from the originating video game series, which includes two films and several comic books and novels. I created this font by redrawing the alphabet in which the Death Space alien language is written.
  18. Dafilea by Keristyper Studio, $14.00
    Introducing **Dafilea** font, a lightweight elegance in romantic curves with a glitchy and fluid aesthetic. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with the script, sans, or serif. **Featured:** * Standard Uppercase & Lowercase * Numeral & Punctuation * Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ * Alternate & Ligature * PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  19. Veminit by Slide Shoot, $12.00
    Veminit Serif is a balanced, smooth, elegant and stylish serif font. He has a beautiful character. It fits perfectly with invitation card designs, company logos, movie titles, movie names, business cards, book titles, brand names and various other designs. Veminit Serif is a subtle serif font that exudes sophistication and elegance. Its stylish alternations and ligatures make this font the perfect partner for any project. FEATURE : - Ligature - Uppercase and lowercase - Numbering and Punctuation - Works on PC or Mac - Simple Installation - Supports Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, also works in Microsoft Word Hope you like it. Thank you.
  20. Geofota by Keristyper Studio, $14.00
    Geofota is a bold and heavy modern style font inspired by urban street culture. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with sans or serif. Featured: Standard Uppercase & Lowercase Numeral & Punctuation Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ Alternate & Ligature PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  21. Sceptical by Gassstype, $23.00
    Hello Everyone, introduce our new product SCEPTICAL is Strong Display Font with a natural feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes. SCEPTICAL is Inspired by Logo style and combination with Unique Craft style. that will fulfill your design needs for quotes,sporty theme, logotype, wordmark, etc. This has many opentype features and support multi language. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the magical glyphs with ease!
  22. Sarthane by Attype Studio, $13.00
    Sarthane is a layered script font with swash style perfect for wedding designs. Combine it with Sarthane - Extrude & special Character "{" & "}" to make an amazing 3D effect on your letter! Sarthane perfect for wedding promotion, branding, logo, invitation, stationery, social media post, product packaging, merchandise, blog design, game titles, cute style design, Book/Cover Title and more. What's Included : - Sarthane Family Font - Layered Font - Ligatures - Multilingual Support - Made it into separated file to make it easier to use by beginner & separated file user can use the font with software which doesn't accept open type features. --- Hope you enjoy with our font! Attype Studio
  23. Feeling Things by Abbasy Studio, $18.00
    Introducing Feeling Things, A Modern Serif Font with Retro Vibes. It was inspired by retro typography designs in 70's. There are more than 375 glyphs in this font including Multilanguage Support. OpenType features with Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternate and ligatures in some characters that allows you to mix and match pairs of letters to fit your design. Feeling Things is perfectly suitable for made to be applied 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.
  24. Nouveau Calendar JNL by Jeff Levine, $29.00
    Inspired by the lettering on Koloman Moser’s poster design for Fromme’s Calendar (circa 1912), Nouveau Calendar JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions. According to Wikipedia: “Koloman Moser (30 March 1868 – 18 October 1918) was an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art and one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte. Moser designed a wide array of art works, including books and graphic works from postage stamps to magazine vignettes; fashion; stained glass windows, porcelains and ceramics, blown glass, tableware, silver, jewelry, and furniture.”
  25. Missing Soul by Hatftype, $17.00
    Missing Soul - Blackletter Display Font is a display font that is inspired by gothic and horror style because its shape is very unique and is perfect for any project that you will use with this theme. Missing Soul with opentype features such stylistic alternates, stylistic sets & ligatures good for logotype, poster, badge, book cover, tshirt design, packaging and any more. Features : 1.Uppercase & Lowercase 2.Multilingual support 3.Number 4.Symbol 5.Punctuation. 6.Extra Dingbat 7.Support in Mac and Windows OS -Support in design application (photoshop, illustrator, and more) There it is. I really hope you enjoy it.
  26. Maron King by Storictype, $19.00
    Introducing new display typeface its called Maron King Inspired by victorian style with classic style .OpenType features some characters that allows you to mix and match pairs of letters to fit in your designs. It’s an all caps typeface, with strong and sleek letters. offering an infinite opportunity to customise and create logos, headlines, titling, product packaging, labeling, logo, classic shop, badges, movie title, t-shirt, posters, label, greetingcard, letterhead, book cover, etc. To access the alternate glyphs, you need a program that supports OpenType Features : Character Set A-Z Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) Ligatures Accents (Multilingual characters) Thanks and enjoy designing
  27. Gioties by IbraCreative, $11.00
    Gioties is an adorable display font that radiates an irresistible charm and playfulness. With its cute and whimsical letterforms, Gioties encapsulates the essence of innocence and joy. The rounded edges and friendly curves of each letter exude a sense of approachability, making it the perfect choice for designs that require a touch of sweetness and lightheartedness. Gioties effortlessly adds a delightful flair to children's books, playful merchandise, and cheerful branding. Its unique character variations and vibrant energy create a captivating visual experience, ensuring that any project adorned with Gioties becomes a canvas of endearing cuteness and boundless creativity.
  28. AT Move Bloggy by André Toet Design, $39.95
    BLOGGY designed in 2010 by André Toet. In the series of typefaces that were created by our team, BLOGGY stands out as a rough typeface based on a grid. Within this square grid the typeface is enlarged and reduced in size in order to create a dazzling font. A complete ‘extra alphabet’ was added to the font by cutting the letters diagonally. To us typedesign doesn't only mean designing fonts for books but also advertising, posters, film or digital use. We hope that BLOGGY will do the trick ! Concept/Art Direction/Design: André Toet © 2017
  29. Exec by Wiescher Design, $35.00
    I created my new »EXEC« sans font during the years 2018 to mid 2020. The Normal »EXEC«-family has 7 weights, ranging from Thin to Bold (plus 7 italics). This elegant Sans is suited for editorial, book text, advertising and packaging, logo, branding, small text as well as web and screen design. »EXEC« has advanced typographical support including ligatures, small caps, alternate characters, case-sensitive forms, fractions, super- and subscript characters. »EXEC« comes with a range of figures—oldstyle and lining figures, each in tabular and proportional widths. »EXEC« supports Basic-, Western-, and Central-European Latin-based languages.
  30. Fadello by Cooldesignlab, $15.00
    Fadello is a handwritten signature script with a natural & stylish flow, perfectly suited to signatures, stationery, logos, typography quotes, magazine or book covers, website headers, clothing, branding, packaging design and more. A handwritten script font containing upper and lowercase characters, numerals and a large range of punctuation. Fadello is a must-have signature script that has a diverse set of alternates that will surely be used many times over in various projects in the future. This collection fills a void and separates itself from other scripts available. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me by Gmail: Cooldesignlab@gmail.com.
  31. Mill Valley by Letterhend, $19.00
    Mill Valley is a monoline script with a casual and fun theme. This type of font perfectly made to be applied especially in logo, headline, signage 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 alternates / swashes and 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.
  32. Kalvier by Keristyper Studio, $14.00
    Introducing Kalvier a horror display font for your Halloween project with sharp and spiky style. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with sans or serif. **Featured:** * Standard Uppercase & Lowercase * Numeral & Punctuation * Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ * Alternate & Ligature * PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  33. Red Ribbon by Gassstype, $22.00
    Hello Everyone, introduce our new product Red Ribbon is Modern Display Typeface with a natural feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes. Red Ribbon is Inspired by Food Logo style and combination with Unique Craft style. that will fulfill your design needs for quotes,sporty theme, logotype, wordmark, etc. This has many opentype features and support multi language. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the magical glyphs with ease!
  34. Garten House by Letterhend, $19.00
    Garten House is a sophisticated high contrast display serif typeface. The ligature character makes this typeface unique and stands out rather than the regular serif font. Very suitable for logo, headline, tittle, 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 : Numbers and punctuation Multilingual Ligatures Alternates 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.
  35. Rieskeda by Keristyper Studio, $14.00
    Rieskeda is a luxurious and elegant font influent by both classically elegant and modern. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with script, sans, or serif. Featured: Standard Uppercase & Lowercase Numeral & Punctuation Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ Alternate & Ligature PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  36. Eckmann by Linotype, $29.99
    The font Eckmann is named after its designer, Otto Eckmann, and appeared with the Klingspor font foundry in 1900. The influence of the Jugendstil is clear to see in the flowing floral contours of the letters. This font was made for larger point sizes, like on posters, and while relatively legible, it is not meant for smaller print. The font was often used in book titles and advertisements of the 19th century and today Eckmann is often used to suggest a feeling of nostalgia and is often found on the Jugendstil facades in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
  37. Bogemia by Keristyper Studio, $14.00
    Proudly introduce our new font Bogemian decorated with geometric elements inspired by the Boho style. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with sans or serif. **Featured:** * Standard Uppercase & Lowercase * Numeral & Punctuation * Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ * Alternate & Ligature * PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  38. Jitter by RagamKata, $16.00
    Jitter is a Beautiful modern serif typeface Unique alternate and ligature, multilingual support . This typeface is perfect for an Display typeface, elegant & luxury logo, Magazine, fashion brand , cosmetic brand, fashion promotion, modern advertising design, invitation card, art quote, home decoration , book/cover titles, special events, and much more. Jitter Features: · Uppercase & Lowercase · Alternates & Ligatures · Numerals & Punctuation · Accented characters · Multilingual Support · Unicode PUA Encoded While using this product, if you encounter any problem or spot something we may have missed, please don't hesitate to drop us a message. We'd love to hear your feedbacks in order to further fine-tune our products.
  39. Antique by Storm Type Foundry, $26.00
    The concept of the Baroque Roman type face is something which is remote from us. Ungrateful theorists gave Baroque type faces the ill-sounding attribute "Transitional", as if the Baroque Roman type face wilfully diverted from the tradition and at the same time did not manage to mature. This "transition" was originally meant as an intermediate stage between the Aldine/Garamond Roman face of the Renaissance, and its modern counterpart, as represented by Bodoni or Didot. Otherwise there was also a "transition" from a slanted axis of the shadow to a perpendicular one. What a petty detail led to the pejorative designation of Baroque type faces! If a bookseller were to tell his customers that they are about to choose a book which is set in some sort of transitional type face, he would probably go bust. After all, a reader, for his money, would not put up with some typographical experimentation. He wants to read a book without losing his eyesight while doing so. Nevertheless, it was Baroque typography which gave the world the most legible type faces. In those days the craft of punch-cutting was gradually separating itself from that of book-printing, but also from publishing and bookselling. Previously all these activities could be performed by a single person. The punch-cutter, who at that time was already fully occupied with the production of letters, achieved better results than he would have achieved if his creative talents were to be diffused in a printing office or a bookseller's shop. Thus it was possible that for example the printer John Baskerville did not cut a single letter in his entire lifetime, for he used the services of the accomplished punch-cutter John Handy. It became the custom that one type founder supplied type to multiple printing offices, so that the same type faces appeared in various parts of the world. The type face was losing its national character. In the Renaissance period it is still quite easy to distinguish for example a French Roman type face from a Venetian one; in the Baroque period this could be achieved only with great difficulties. Imagination and variety of shapes, which so far have been reserved only to the fine arts, now come into play. Thanks to technological progress, book printers are now able to reproduce hairstrokes and imitate calligraphic type faces. Scripts and elaborate ornaments are no longer the privilege of copper-engravers. Also the appearance of the basic, body design is slowly undergoing a change. The Renaissance canonical stiffness is now replaced with colour and contrast. The page of the book is suddenly darker, its lay-out more varied and its lines more compact. For Baroque type designers made a simple, yet ingenious discovery - they enlarged the x-height and reduced the ascenders to the cap-height. The type face thus became seemingly larger, and hence more legible, but at the same time more economical in composition; the type area was increasing to the detriment of the margins. Paper was expensive, and the aim of all the publishers was, therefore, to sell as many ideas in as small a book block as possible. A narrowed, bold majuscule, designed for use on the title page, appeared for the first time in the Late Baroque period. Also the title page was laid out with the highest possible economy. It comprised as a rule the brief contents of the book and the address of the bookseller, i.e. roughly that which is now placed on the flaps and in the imprint lines. Bold upper-case letters in the first line dramatically give way to the more subtle italics, the third line is highlighted with vermilion; a few words set in lower-case letters are scattered in-between, and then vermilion appears again. Somewhere in the middle there is an ornament, a monogram or an engraving as a kind of climax of the drama, while at the foot of the title-page all this din is quietened by a line with the name of the printer and the year expressed in Roman numerals, set in 8-point body size. Every Baroque title-page could well pass muster as a striking poster. The pride of every book printer was the publication of a type specimen book - a typographical manual. Among these manuals the one published by Fournier stands out - also as regards the selection of the texts for the specimen type matter. It reveals the scope of knowledge and education of the master typographers of that period. The same Fournier established a system of typographical measurement which, revised by Didot, is still used today. Baskerville introduced the smoothing of paper by a hot steel roller, in order that he could print astonishingly sharp letters, etc. ... In other words - Baroque typography deserves anything else but the attribute "transitional". In the first half of the 18th century, besides persons whose names are prominent and well-known up to the present, as was Caslon, there were many type founders who did not manage to publish their manuals or forgot to become famous in some other way. They often imitated the type faces of their more experienced contemporaries, but many of them arrived at a quite strange, even weird originality, which ran completely outside the mainstream of typographical art. The prints from which we have drawn inspiration for these six digital designs come from Paris, Vienna and Prague, from the period around 1750. The transcription of letters in their intact form is our firm principle. Does it mean, therefore, that the task of the digital restorer is to copy meticulously the outline of the letter with all inadequacies of the particular imprint? No. The type face should not to evoke the rustic atmosphere of letterpress after printing, but to analyze the appearance of the punches before they are imprinted. It is also necessary to take account of the size of the type face and to avoid excessive enlargement or reduction. Let us keep in mind that every size requires its own design. The longer we work on the computer where a change in size is child's play, the more we are convinced that the appearance of a letter is tied to its proportions, and therefore, to a fixed size. We are also aware of the fact that the computer is a straightjacket of the type face and that the dictate of mathematical vectors effectively kills any hint of naturalness. That is why we strive to preserve in these six alphabets the numerous anomalies to which later no type designer ever returned due to their obvious eccentricity. Please accept this PostScript study as an attempt (possibly futile, possibly inspirational) to brush up the warm magic of Baroque prints. Hopefully it will give pleasure in today's modern type designer's nihilism.
  40. Polias by Esintype, $23.00
    Polias is an all-caps uniwidth typeface inspired by an ancient inscription carved on a monoblock stone in hybrid characters — between no-contrast linear sans to low-contrast flared serif. The inspiring inscription is the dedication by Alexander the Great, discovered in the Temple of Athena Polias in the ancient Ionian city of Priene. Stanley Morison mentioned this inscription in one of his lectures: “The distinctive feature of this inscription consists of a consistent thickening towards the ends of perpendiculars and horizontals.” … “We have not the right to say that the serif was invented for Alexander the Great's inscription, only that this is its first datable appearance.” The letter proportions are almost identical to the original, but the stroke features have been reinterpreted and characterized. Serif-like nodes at the end of the strokes are subtle extensions that serve to accentuate rather than break its monoline elegance. With an analogy, they are not flowers, but like blooming buds. Polias is a flared sans typeface which is closer to sans-serif forms on the spectrum between sans and serif. It’s especially light looking by design to convey rather thin and white typographic color of its original monumental look. It comes in eight weights and a variable font, scaled from Thin to Bold. It is multiplexed, so the weights do not affect text lengths. Light weights are closely based on the actual carving of the inscription. Thicker weights can be used on smaller typesettings to compensate for the weight difference of larger letters’ strokes, and to keeping the monoline appearance of the entire text block intact. This method can be used for any purpose, such as setting a hierarchy between the lines or to justify their lengths. Some of the original letterforms have been preserved and stylistic alternatives such as Ionic four-bar Sigma, dotted Theta, palm Y are provided as open type feature. Some of the other ancient forms, such as the three-bar Sigma (S), the pointed U, were also added for both the Greek and Latin scripts. Polias is preferable for big type settings such as logos and headlines as a modern representation of perennial classical forms. Its a fine fit for product branding, movie posters, book covers, packaging materials, and more, which require an epic look to attracting attention with a distinctive elegance. Polias can be considered for distinctiveness wherever Roman Capitals work. As a noun, Polias is one of the epithets of Athena / Minerva, and in this case referring to her role as the protector of the city of Priene. Polias is one of the seven typeface designs in Esintype's ancient scripts of Anatolia project, Tituli Anatolian series.
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