Who haven't heard the phrase that ‘any past time was better’?. Although I sometimes find this phrase a little too pessimistic (because I try to think that the best is yet to come), it may be true regarding my passion, typography. I'm too young (29) unfortunately, and this means I did not have the pleasure of being contemporary with maybe the man who has influenced my work the most (1). The man that showed that letters are more than just letters to be read. Herb Lubalin (1918-1981), also called sometimes as ‘the rule basher’ (2), smashed the taboos and sacred rules of type design and gave it personality. He rejected the functionalist philosophy of europeans in favor of an eclectic and exuberant style. To him, letters were not merely vessels of form, they were objects of meaning. (3). Nowadays, when looking at his portfolio, who dares to deny that the term ‘typography’ and ‘beauty’ may go hand-in-hand without any problem? Ed Benguiat, one of Herb’s partners, still likes making jokes with the phrase “screw legibility, type should be beautiful” and what I understand of this is not to forget the rules, but to know and break them carefully. In an era of pure eclecticism, we, the lovers of flourishes and swashes, can't do nothing but admire all the legacy that Lubalin, this wonderful type-guru, left. My font Lubaline read as “the line of Lubalin” is my humble tribute to him. Those who know his work, may see the influences easily like in his ‘Beards’ (1976) and ‘The Sound of Music’ (1965) posters; the art-deco forms in many of his amazing logos and practically in all his creations where letters seem to be alive just like you and me. I really hope that the future finds me still learning more and more about type-design and letterforms, and like him, always willing to make innovations in my field: Because letters are not just letters to be read. NOTES (1) These are some of my fonts in which some of Lubalin’s influences can be seen (in order of creation): Reina, Aire, Erotica, String, Beatle, Heroe, Selfie, Model, Seventies, and many others that are still in progress. (2) (3) Steven Heller. Herb Lubalin: Rule Basher. U&lc (1998) http://www.printmag.com/imprint/my-favorite-lubalin/

It's here and it's a major upgrade to Hudson NY. Weight variations and alternate glyphs were some of the requests that were being received for Hudson NY and these have all been taken care of in the Pro Edition of Hudson NY. Hudson NY Pro still comes in Regular, Serif and Slab styles now with completely re-drawn glyphs, there are now six weights as well as italics for each style. Some of the additional features included in the Pro Edition is Small Caps, Stylistic Sets and Alternate Glyphs. Hudson NY is now loads more versatile, it is the perfect Display family for sports, beverage and entertainment. Press versions have been dropped in the Pro Edition as these were the lesser used and sluggish fonts of the original Hudson NY family so the focus was to create a cleaner family with more usability options. Each Hudson NY style now also includes a Variable font which saves you the hassle of installing multiple font files.

Utrecht is a handwritten font that is composed from natural and casual handwritten characters so that the shapes are less neat. The hand stroke node becomes the hallmark of this font. It was inspired by environmental posters that were directly handwritten in simple media. We named this font Utrecht, referring to this city in the Netherlands. We choose it because it is a friendly city, caring about the environment, its size is compact and therefore it is very easy to get a broad sense of the city in a short time. Likewise, this font is only handwritten with standard characters but on the other hand this handwriting gives the impression of being more familiar, reflecting natural design and spontaneity. This font is suitable for posters, crafts, writing quotes, unique logos, natural text writing. So this is Utrecht, a quirky handwritten font with a casual feel. It will effortlessly turn any design idea into a statement.

The Gold Rush is over, the prospectors have made their fortune and the mine has been worked out! The inhabitants of Boomtown USA have moved on -- the saloon is dry, the sheriff has hung his hat and the only visitors to the local whorehouse are tumbleweeds. Yeah, the buildings remain -- hollowed out husks carrying memories of bar room brawls, high noon shootouts and high stake poker games between outlaws -- but if you take a walk down the street be careful not to kick up too much dust... Turn the corner and you might see Ol' Toothless Joe standing on the corner sucking on a bottle of whiskey... And don't walk too slowly past the storefront of the undertaker -- that guy made his living putting strangers like you in a wooden overcoat from sunrise to sundown. Spooks and Spectres linger everywhere... there's a sign just down the road -- didn't you see it? "Ghost Town! Abandon Hope all who Enter Here!"

ITC Berkeley Old Style is based on a typeface designed by Frederic W. Goudy in 1938 called University of California Old Style. It was a private press type for the publishing house of that school. In 1958, about ten years after Goudy's death, Monotype re-issued the type under the name Californian, and it became a very successful face for book typography. Goudy himself said he designed this face to have the greatest legibility possible, and it is indeed free from the exuberances in some of his other faces. Tony Stan redrew the family for ITC for 1983, and it was named ITC Berkeley Old Style, Berkeley being the city where the University of California Press is located. Stan did a careful drawing of eight styles including italics. ITC Berkeley Old Style is a crisply beautiful tribute to a distinguished typeface, and it works well for books, magazines, and advertising display. Featured in: Best Fonts for Tattoos

Marco is a lively text face, with an informal touch, inspired by 15th century Italian letter-forms with strong calligraphic traces and intended to be used primarily in continuous and intensive reading conditions. Marco is full of features required for high-quality book typography, including: strong language-support in extended Latin, Cyrillic and polytonic Greek, a multitude of swashes in the italic styles of Latin and Cyrillic, stylistic alternates to obtain the best possible solutions and other typographic niceties. Inspiration for Marco goes back to Italian humanist typography such as those of Nicholas Jenson or Aldus Manutius, and general influences from calligraphy. As a result, Marco has matured into a personal and unique text face where its lively and somewhat informal style is an ideal counterpart to its careful and ingenious crafting. Toshi Omagari’s Marco features a huge set of over 1900 characters per style —and almost 2600 in the italics— and is available in Regular, SemiBold, Bold with matching Italics.

A charming confidant. Italic, but without the slant. Campuni is a sans-serif typeface that can be described as an “upright italic”: its letters are modeled on the handwritten forms of italics—but without the slant. This gives Campuni a contemporary, charming, and trustworthy character. As with most modern sans-serif typefaces, Campuni’s design is based on low-contrast, almost monolinear strokes with a neat and clear appearance. This is where Campuni’s steep and tapered joints come in: with a bit of contrast, they provide the perfect foundation for a steady rhythm between characters—just like you’d find in meticulous handwriting. Careful spacing ensures that this rhythmic character is preserved on the page and on screen, making for a pleasant reading experience. It’s not just the letterforms that gain from Campuni’s calligraphic heritage, though. This typeface is packed with calligraphy-style swash capitals and end swashes on lowercase letters, as well as discretionary ligatures. These are available via OpenType, allowing you to spice up your logo or headline with a hint of calligraphy in a breeze. Despite its flawless legibility in body text, Campuni is definitely eye-catching in display sizes. (Decrease letterspacing for some additional punch.) Besides logo design, Campuni is a great choice for branding, advertising, packaging, corporate design, or even signage and wayfinding. The range of topics that Campuni excels in varies from food, leisure, retail, e-commerce, music, and travel to games, toys, childcare, and family-themed events. Campuni has got an Extended Latin character set, seven sets of figures, case-sensitive forms, arrows, and a few other advanced typographic features—622 glyphs in total. Its eight weights span from Thin to Black.

Jacksonville is a stylish signature brush script. It has a unique, striking look which can be used to make any design stand out. It’s perfect for logos, fashion designs, stationary, quotes, and much more! To stay up to date for my latest fonts, follow me and let’s be friends because there will be many promos.

hello !! this time I released a new product called "all in" which has an elegant and modern style.This font is suitable for invitation cards, decorations, clothing products, greeting cards and others. This font also has uppercase, lowercase, numeric, puntuation and multilingual. and there are several ligature and stylistic alternate.

Karin's free reinterpretation of the early Renaissance Lombardic tradition, in two different versions. In the upper case the fill is blacker and has a straight pattern with diamond elements; in the lower case the fill is thinner with more white space and has a wavy pattern with rounded elements.

Mogaloa Script in a beautiful handwritten style. Equipped with 300 glyphs. Mogaloa Script is perfect for branding projects, home appliance design, product packaging, use in business cards, invitation cards, etc. Simply as a stylish text overlay onto a background image or anything that requires a touch of elegance.

Princess of the Dark - a new fresh handmade calligraphy font. Very suitable for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more!This font are perfect for wedding postcard. Or you can create perfect and unique design of your logo, blog, stationery, marketing, magazines and more :) MULTILANGUAGE OK!

Marbella Script with a smooth handwriting style and very pretty and lovely. Marbella Script is perfect for branding projects, home appliance design, product packaging, use in business cards, invitation cards, etc. Just like a stylish text overlay to a wallpaper or anything that needs a touch of love.

Luxart is a modern Serif Decorative font inspired by the 1920's, Art Deco and Gatsby styles. This font looks luxury, stylish, elegant and neat. This font is great for logo branding & invitations, photography, quotes, wedding design, business cards, posters, watermark, holiday cards, special events and much more.

Introducing the Milionaria font, which is used for the needs of designers who are looking for characters such as signature writing which is used for logo designs, branding, invitation cards, business cards and so on. This font is inspired by the natural but elegant handwriting style of characters.

Lorida - Condensed Display is an Elegant Condensed serif with eye-catching ligatures for each letter combination. it is based on a compact solid font, by combining various styles. Perfect for Logos, greeting cards, quotes, posters, branding, business cards, postcards, movie titles, blog headers, art quotes, typography, magazines and more.

Magnolian Script with a smooth handwriting style and very pretty and lovely. Magnolian Script is perfect for branding projects, home appliance design, product packaging, use in business cards, invitation cards, etc. Just like a stylish text overlay to a wallpaper or anything that needs a touch of love.

Stardust Script in a beautiful handwritten style. Equipped with 300 glyphs. Stardust Script is perfect for branding projects, home appliance design, product packaging, use in business cards, invitation cards, etc. Simply as a stylish text overlay onto a background image or anything that requires a touch of elegance.

Alleluya is a beautiful font family, The several styles work perfect together and will help you make your project more complete and bright. It has decorative characters and a dancing lineage which will look perfect on invitations, greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters and much more!

Marilyn Script in a beautiful handwritten style. Equipped with 350 glyphs. Marilyn Script is perfect for branding projects, home appliance design, product packaging, use in business cards, invitation cards, etc. Simply as a stylish text overlay onto a background image or anything that requires a touch of elegance.

Introducing Megalia Script in a beautiful handwritten style. Equipped with 300 glyphs. Megalia Script is perfect for branding projects, home appliance design, product packaging, use in business cards, invitation cards, etc. Simply as a stylish text overlay onto a background image or anything that requires a touch of elegance.

Hello Girl with a smooth handwriting style and very pretty and lovely. Hello Girl is perfect for branding projects, home appliance design, product packaging, use in business cards, invitation cards, etc. Just like a stylish text overlay to a wallpaper or anything that needs a touch of love.

Skeletons - a new fresh handmade calligraphy font. Very suitable for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more!This font are perfect for wedding postcard. Or you can create perfect and unique design of your logo, blog, stationery, marketing, magazines and more :) MULTILANGUAGE Style uppercase THANK YOU!!!

Unusual decorative capitals from embroidery work in a German church. Upper case has a diamond-shaped frame around each letter; lower case is just the letters without the diamond frame; and the ampersand gives just the diamond frame so you can use a different colour from the letter.

Diana Custin in beautiful handwritten style font. Equipped with 350+ glyphs. Diana Custin is perfect for branding projects, home appliance design, product packaging, use in business cards, invitation cards, etc. Just as a stylish text overlay onto a background image or anything else that needs a touch of elegance.

Paulend is a unique and elegant handwritten font. 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. What's Included? Uppercase, Lowercase, Numerals & Punctuations Ligature, Alternate & Swashes Simple installations Multilingual support PUA encoded

Villager font created with a simulated ballpoint will give it a natural handwritten shape. It's perfect for a signature, diary, business card, greeting card or printed product with a casual theme. With the discretionary ligature and alternate characters, it will make you a good choice of writing variations.

Introducing Jenitha A script font with a smooth calligraphy modern style. Comes with 500 glyphs. Jenitha is perfect for branding projects, homeware designs, product packaging, use in name card, invitation cards, etc. Simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image or anything requiring a sprinkle of elegance.

Mireille is a typographic homage to french culture. Your journey through gourmet food, classical music, opera and wine tours over 100 romantic alternates and ligatures that allow you to add outstanding elegance to your typography. Take care: you might have a crush on this typeface – La vie, c’est beau! www.typethis.studio

Rosegrace is a Modern Handwritten Script Font. Rosegrace feels equally charming and elegant. It looks stunning on wedding invitations, thank you cards, quotes, greeting cards, logos, business cards and every other design which needs a customized touch. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease! This font includes - also multilingual support - Uppercase Beginning Swash - Lowercase Beginning & Ending Swash Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank you!

Monstera Jam is a Signature Script Font, described by an elegant touch, perfect for your favorite projects. It looks stunning on wedding invitations, thank you cards, quotes, greeting cards, logos, business cards, social media, magazines, marketing materials, and every other design which needs a handwritten touch. Fall in love with its incredibly distinct and timeless style and use it to create spectacular designs! Monstera Jam Features: Regular and Bold Version Uppercase and Lowercase Numerical and Punctuation Ligatures PUA Encoded Multilingual Language Easy To Use

Present Anthem is a modern handwritten script font, described by an elegant touch, perfect for your favorite projects. It looks stunning on wedding invitations, thank you cards, quotes, greeting cards, logos, branding, business cards, social media posts, magazines, marketing materials, and every other design that needs a handwritten touch. Fall in love with its incredibly distinct and timeless style and use it to create spectacular designs! Present Anthem Features: Regular Version Uppercase and Lowercase Numerical and Punctuation Ligatures PUA Encoded Multilingual Language Easy To Use

Richford is a signature script font, described by an elegant and modern touch, perfect for your favorite projects. It looks stunning on wedding invitations, thank you cards, quotes, greeting cards, logos, business cards, social media, magazines, branding, marketing materials, and every other design which needs a handwritten touch. Fall in love with its incredibly distinct and timeless style and use it to create spectacular designs! Richford Features: Regular Version Uppercase and Lowercase Numerical and Punctuation Alternates and Ligatures PUA Encoded Multilingual Language Easy To Use

This font perfect for signature logo, handwritten quotes, product packaging, fashion magazine, photography, merchandise, branding projects, poster, social media post, book cover, flyer, and advertising. You can create easily and make it as if you wrote it yourself. handmade calligraphy style, decorative characters and a dancing baseline! So beautiful on invitation like greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more!! Best match for logo, badge, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt/apparel, greeting card, and wedding invitation. The flowing characters are ideal to make attractive messages

Domestic Script is a modern calligraphy font. This font is perfect for quotes, branding, ornaments, shirts, mugs, headings, blogs, logos, invitations and more! What's Include : Alternates PUA encode & Opentype ( It is full of Tails and glyphs ) Multilingual support Use the fonts for: logos, branding materials, wedding sign, wedding website card, farmhouse signs, sign bridal, shirts, pantry labels, sign bridal shower, business cards, greeting cards, wall decor, social media, planner prints and websites. If you have any question please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank You!

In B-movie awesomeness, Air began as Grotesk vs. Grotesque. I was trying to unify the prevailing traits of German and English Grotes(que/k)s in order to make something different but familiar. I am NOT trying to reinvent Helvetica (snore), so get that out of your system. From the onset, I intended this typeface to be a true workhorse that offers infinite options and flexibility for the user. At its core, it is the maturation of the Aaux Next skeleton I developed years ago. I worked out Aaux Next to settle my issues and love for Akzidenz. With Aaux Next, I strove to be mechanical, cold and unforgiving with it. I was single, young, cocky and it fit. Now I'm married, kids, dog and have found that I've turned into a big softy. When I look at Aaux Next (and have for the past few years) I see another typeface trying to eek out. I wanted it to avoid the trappings of robotic sans, quick tricks and compromises. The typeface’s DNA needed to be drawn and not just generated on a screen — so I set aside a year. I love type. I love working with type. I hate when my options for a slanted complement is only oblique or italic. I set out to produce both to balance usage — there are more than enough reasons to prepare both and I want the user to feel free to consciously choose (and have the option to choose) the appropriate typeface for print, web, etc. That flexibility was central to my decision-making process. The Oblique is immediate and aggressive. The Italic was redrawn at a less severe angle with far more movement and, as a result, is far more congenial when paired with the Uprights. Condensed and Compressed. Yep, why not? I know I would use them. There are nine weights currently available. The logical progression of weights and the intended flexibility demanded I explore a number of light weights and their potential uses — this has produced a number of ‘light without being too light’ options that really work based on the size. The result is a robust 81-font superfamily that is functional, professional, and highly legible without compromising its personality. Pair that with over 900 characters per font that includes ligatures, discretionary ligatures, stylistic alternates, fractions, proportional/tabular lining and proportional/tabular oldstyle figures, numerators, denominators, ordinals, superiors, inferiors, small caps, case-sensitive functionality and extensive language support and you have a versatile superfamily well-suited for any project.