❧ Useful links: Luther’s Manuscripts at the UNESCO Memory of the World at Google Arts and Culture Martin Luther font on Kickstarter (with Film about the creation) Each letter of the Martin Luther font is strictly based on original samples found in Martin Luther’s 500 year old handwritten manuscripts. Letters that occur more often for example vowels have two or more different versions stored in the font. (➶ Figure 4) These alternative forms are exchanged automatically by the font as you type, and create a vivid look that comes close to actual handwriting. The font avoids that two identical letters are placed next to each other like, for example the two “o” in the word “look”. ➸ What Historic Sources is the Font based on? Two historic documents were used to base the font on. The notes Luther took before giving his speech in Worms in 1521 and a 6 page letter he wrote immediately after to Emperor Charles V., summarising his speech (➶ Figure 2). Both documents have been added to the UNESCO “Memory of the World” and can be seen at the Google Arts and Culture website. ➸ The Creation of a Handwriting Font The creation of a handwriting font is very different from the creation of a regular font. Harald Geisler has specialised in recreating handwriting in preceding projects with Albert Einstein’s, Sigmund Freud’s and his own handwriting. His experience working with Archives and Museums has gone into this project. First Geisler analyses the movement in the writing to understand how each letter is drawn. This involves partially learning how to write like a person. In this process not the outlines of the sample are reproduced but the original movement path of the handwriting (➶ Figure 3). In a second step width and contrast is added to reproduce Martin Luther’s characteristic impetus and the writing tools used at the time. (Link: Youtube Playlist showcasing the creation of individual letters) How about signs that can’t be found in archives? Some Glyphs can not be found in 500 year old manuscripts, for example the @-sign. Towards the end of the creation one collects a profund amount of details about how a writer moves on paper and addresses certain tasks moving the pen. Keeping this knowledge in mind an improvisation can be based on similar letter forms. For example the @ sign is based on of the movement of a lowercase a and parenthesis. ➸ Features of the Martin Luther font ❶ Extensive Documentation of the creation of the font, including high quality reproduction of the used manuscripts. ❷ Additional texts from Historian Dr. Henning Jürgens and Palaeographer (and Luther handwriting expert) Prof. Ulrich Bubenheimer ❸ Alternating Letters - in handwriting every word looks a bit different. To avoid that two identical letterforms are placed next to each other (for example in the word look) the font actively changes between different versions of letters as you type. ❹ Ligatures - characteristic writing forms when two letters are combined (for example “ct”) (➶ Figure 5) ❺ Terminal Letterforms - renders a special letterform when letter is at the end of a word. (➶ Figure 8) ❻ ‘’’Initial and Medial Letterforms''' - some letterforms are different when placed in the beginning or middle of a word, for example the lowercase s. ❼ Luther Rose - is a seal Luther used to authorise his correspondence. Today it is a widely recognized symbol for Luther. When you enter the numbers of Luthers year of birth and death 14831546 using the Martin Luther PRO font, it will render a stylised version of the Luther Rose. (➶ Figure 7) ❽ Historic letter-forms - letter-forms that are specific to medieval writing around 1500. For example the long-s or h with a loop at the bottom. (➶ Figure 6) ⚑ Multi language support - see the technical information tab for a full list of supported languages. (➶ Figure 11) ➸ The different Styles explained ❋ Martin Luther PRO - this includes all features listed above and is geared towards writing texts that are more readable today. It features alternating letters to create a natural handwriting look as well as two stylistic sets accessible through the OpenType menu. Historic forms are available through the glyph picker. ❋ Martin Luther Historic - this font creates a historically correct reproduction (i.e. with long-s) of Luther’s medieval latin handwriting. It features alternating letters to create a natural handwriting look as well as two stylistic sets accessible through the OpenType menu. ❋ Martin Luther Expert-1 - Dedicated access to the first set of letters only. ❋ Martin Luther Expert-2 - Dedicated access to the second set of letters only. ❈❈❈ Family Pack - recieve all fonts at a discounted price. ❈❈❈ ➸ Kickstarter The creation and development of the Martin Luther font was financed by 500 supporters on ➸Kickstarter.

Nyfors was a sudden idea. I noticed an ad in a magazine, with some handtexted words. I don't recall what the ad was about, neither the words. When I later on tried to remember how the single characters looked like and began to draw them, the result wasn't bad at all. I am not longer sure that they resemble the characters in the ad, but it doesn't matter. Nyfors is a nice handtexted typeface, whatever its origin. There is a small stream in Tyresö where I live and work, called Nyfors. During some centuries there was a center of small scale industries along it, and they used its water to run their machinery. The typeface has its name from that stream. Nyfors was released in 1995.

Blighty is simple and sweet handwritten font display. This font is suitable for handwriting logos, T-shirts, merchandise, quotes, social media posts, advertising, and a lot more!

Super Hand is a handwriting font. It includes the full West European diacritics and a full set of ligatures, making it suitable for multilingual environments and publications.

The elegant and cute Brownie Girly font was inspired by children's handwriting and is very suitable for book covers, magazine covers, packaging products, birthday gifts, and more.

The typeface of GR onsoo Script is the handwriting of artist 'onsoo'. This font is designed for use in the text or title of fairy tale books.

Thunder Stone is a handwriting signatures script, with typographic harmony for your professional design projects, including; logos, branding, magazines, blog posts, social media, quotes, advertisements & product designs.

A nice legible, slanted handwritten font with occasional rough lines. That is exactly what Ankertill Brewer is! Use this font to copycat real handwriting with big success!

George Gibson is based on handwriting samples dating back to mid-1800s England. The font features additional characters for foreign language support, as well as extra glyphs.

A beautiful unusual handwriting. It works good at any size and adds a weird look. Its exaggerated features give it a truly unique look while keeping legibility.

This attractive handwriting typeface from Typadelic exudes casualness and informality. Very readable at small and large text sizes...perfect for scrapbooking, greeting cards and casual letter-writing.

Old style handwriting, inspired by 1800-1900's letters. Contains hundreds of alternate glyphs; each lower case letter has four variations, accessible through contextual and standard alternates.

Bantublesh is handwriting style. This font create and nice to application for wedding invitation, tees design, cover, writing text, wedding moment, logo photography , signature and many more.

Lettre D'amour is an Oldstyle Handwriting Font. It comes in 11 Styles and two Angles with many OpenType Features. Alternate Caps, Alternate Ends and old style Numbers.

Handsta Signature a classy, contemporary of script font, inspired by Handwriting Signature. Ideally suited for advertising and packaging, festive occasions, editorial and publishing, creative industries and posters .

Bestters Supply is a hand made script font, bold, classic and fun vintage script. Can be used for various purposes such as logos, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, news, shopping bag, posters, badges etc. Bestters Supply comes with Opentype features with 400 glyphs inside. Including alternate characters upper and lower case, ligatures, discretionary ligatures, and multiple language support.

Tombstones tumble as the night shift begins; as bloodsucking bats turn into pale predators and the undead reach through the dirt that covers their coffins to crush and destroy those who dare cross the cemetery path... Finally there emerges a cold cast of creepy characters, a macabre cadre of lurid letters we had to call… GRAVEYARD SMASH.

Aphrosine is a font based on pointed pen script. A huge lot of alternatives and smart OpenType features allow it to look almost indistinguishable from real live handwriting. Aphrosine is something between handwriting and calligraphy: it took too much effort for being “just handwriting” but lacks seriousness and regularity comparing to true calligraphic fonts. That’s why it was called after a peculiar character from a children’s book: a witch who was very fond of dressing, makeup and writing letters. Aphrosine has three faces. But unlike most other type families, the glyphs from one face do not match exactly the glyphs from another one. The faces are based on writing with different nibs but by the same hand. The type is designed by Alexandra Korolkova and Alexander Lubovenko and released by ParaType in 2015.

My personal handwriting has changed a number of times over the years. Just Another Hand is a narrow brush drawn handwriting font, inspired very loosely by the handwriting of my high school days. There's a little artistic license taken with Just Another Hand in the sense that while I never really wrote with a brush in high school, I wanted a cleaner stroke for this interpretation. A little personality, a little restraint... a style that works for all sorts of projects across the board. The Just Another Hand Pro family contains 659 characters per font. The expanded SmallCaps option for gives the typestyle a little extra versatility, expanding on the original typeface inspiration. Opentype features include: A collection of ligatures Smallcaps Limitless Fractions Full set of Inferiors and Superiors Proportional figures and Tabular figure sets

An original script font designed by Victor Kharyk and licensed by ParaType in 2006. Based on Ukrainian Skoropis (fast handwriting) of 16-17th centuries. The font was named after Ukrainian Getman Bogdan Khmelnitsky, because the main sources and inspirations for the project were taken from collection of handwriting Universals (decrees) of that time -- the middle of 17th century. The shape of letters imitates flat nib quill handwriting with stress, bringing them informal liveliness. The Bogdan font character set contains Cyrillic, Old Slavonic , Glagolitic, Latin and Greek alphabets in two variants: Rejestrowy (Regular) and Siczowy (Alternate). The font is for use in display typography, but can work quite well for short text setting. Bogdan type is well suited for historical and cultural texts associated with Europe of 15-17th centuries

Introducing the Bouquet List - an ultimate handwriting script font. Inspired by the beauty of flower bouquets and the aesthetic of handwriting when you write some bucket list or itinerary on your journal while you travel. The Bouquet List is a handwritten font featuring 70+ ligatures that gives you beautiful typographic in organic, authentic, and natural handwriting style. Perfect for magazines, social media posts, travel blog, travel vlog, signatures, sticky notes, journal, quotes, restaurant menus, websites, women products, calendar marks, book covers, advertisements, wedding designs, even for a logo and branding! Its OpenType Features provides you an easy swash and magic underline (please see the instruction in the last two preview images). • How to add swash easily: type space three times after the word. • How to add underline: type underscore 2 or 3 or 4 times.

Abalda adds to the number of “bad-taste” alphabets as seen on faded commercial inscriptions painted on neglected old houses. To enhance its warm character, some picturesque discretionary ligatures were added. Use it for posters, private invitations, or create a punchy company logo – the smell of old times will coin decent traditional look without a vulgar “Art Nouveau” cheapness. Yes, Abalda shares its overall proportions with Zeppelin 43, hence the whole family is a good choice to combine with.

When I started designing this font, I had the purpose of giving a retro warming christmas feeling. So I added ornaments to add more value to your designs. Ornament glyphs can be arranged in numerous different designs.

Suave silky is a handwritten font. The designer was inspired by his own handwriting in high school.This font makes me go back to my days as a student.

Searching for a font that resembled true children's handwriting, this font's creator designed a font from his own first grade penmanship assignments. Ideal for anything related to children.

Shift Comic is the usual alternative to many similar typefaces. It’s based on my handwriting. I decided to make a thinner variety than most available on the market.

Sweetheart Script revives handwriting from the mid 20th century with a lot of bounce and personality. Use it in casual settings where you need a bit of flair!

Master Flo is a freestyle script based on handwriting. The face inspired by flat-nib felted pen or brush calligraphy. For use in short texts and informal headlines.

Based on an architect's handwriting, Lu has a good balance between quirkiness and legibility. With an extended character set, it is a good choice for setting short texts.

Qasiru is a messy handwriting font with a theme of fun and love, it has bold and irregular lines, but fits perfectly in the whole lettering. Thank you

A Hand-drawn font loosely based on Dan’s handwriting. Full of personal charm and interesting upper & lowercase characters, numerals and a large range of glyphs(Including Greek & Cyrillic).

Looking for nice handwriting fonts? Easy Hand from Okaycat comes in 2 weights, Regular and Semibold. You can achieve written by marker look by these easy going fonts!

Even as a child, I was interested in letterforms. I admired my grade 4 teacher's handwriting and so Ronita is based on fuzzy memories of her elegant script.

Aspic was inspired by the handwriting and drawings of Robert Blechman. Although informal, squiggly and even sloppy, Blechman's work communicates a quiet dignity which this font aspires to.

Misano a new, modern and fresh script with a handwritten style making this font looks elegant, natural, stylish and perfect for any awesome projects that need handwriting taste.

Boldieslab is a font width display type with slab contrast. bring if the old west and the 70s had a lovechild with not a unformal usage, it's the perfect typeface for adding sophisticated playfulness to any design project.

Introduces our new "Sovett" handwriting script font which is flexible in every typeface. This beautiful font you should use to create your perfect design work This font is designed with a natural touch of handwriting which is refined to create a portion and composition that suits your needs. So this font is suitable for craft, children's writing, adventure posters, food banner titles, wedding invitations, product packaging logos, quotes, social media page covers, furniture banner headlines, book covers, and much more.

Batelik -This is handwriting on paper using a pen and then we turn it into 3 styles such as regular Batelik which is original or natural handwriting without being cleaned or tidied up in the slightest while Batelik1, or Batelik2 I tidy it up and clean it, it's very modern and minimalist, it's really cool and it's amazing that you can try it for the job you're doing. letters are equipped with uppercase and lowercase letters, punctuation numbers and also language support

Introduce Bohate - is a font from handwriting on paper then made it come alive and I removed some of the smudges to make it look neat with an alternative for each letter that goes up and down differently like the letters b,d,f,g, h, j, k, l, p, t, y etc has a total of 713 glips featuring uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation, language support, swash, alternatives and binders. very natural you can try it and enjoy your work with this handwriting