It took me a long time, but I think I now understand why people of my generation and older feel the need to frame current events in an historical context or precedents, while most of the young couldn't care less about what happened ten years ago, let alone centuries back. After living for a few decades, you get to a point when time seems to be moving quite fast, and it’s humbling to see that your entire existence so far can be summed up in a paragraph or two which may or may not be useful to whoever ends up reading the stuff anyhow. I suppose one way to cope with the serenity of aging is trying to convince yourself that your life and work are really an extension of millenia of a species striving to accept, adapt to, and improve the human condition through advancing the many facets of civilization -- basically making things more understandable and comfortable for ourselves and each other while we go about doing whatever it is we are trying to do. And when you do finally convince yourself of that, history becomes a source of much solace and even a little premonition, so you end up spending more time there. Going far back into the history of what I do, one can easily see that for the most part it was ruled by the quill. Western civilization’s writing was done with quill pens for more than thirteen centuries and with newer instruments for about two. By the mid-18th century, the height of the quill experience, various calligraphy techniques could be discerned and writing styles were arranged in distinct categories. There are many old books that showcase the history of it all. I recommend looking at some whenever the urge comes calling and you have to get away from backlit worlds. Multiple sources usually help me get a better perspective on the range of a specific script genre, so many books served as reference to this quill font of mine. Late 17th century French and Spanish professional calligraphy guides were great aides in understanding the ornamental scope of what the scribes were doing back then. The French books, with their showings of the Ronde, Bâtarde and Coulée alphabets, were the ones I referenced the most. So I decided to name the font Auberge, a French word for hotel or inn, because I really felt like a guest in different French locales (and times) when I going through all that stuff. Because it is multi-sourced, Auberge does not strictly fit in a distinct quill pen category. Instead, it shows strong hints of both Bâtarde and Coulée alphabets. And like most of my fonts, it is an exercise in going overboard with alternates, swashes, and ornamental devices. Having worked with it for a while, I find it most suitable for display calligraphic setting in general, but it works especially well for things like wine labels and event invitations. It also shines in the original quill pen application purpose, which of course was stationery. Also, as it just occurred to me, if you find yourself in a situation where you have to describe your entire life in 50 words or less, you may as well make it look good and swashy, so Auberge would probably be a good fit there as well. This is one quill script that no large bird had to die for. A few technical notes The Auberge Script Pro version includes 1800 glyphs, everything is included there. Also latin language support. We recommend you to use the latest design application to have full access to alternates, swashes, small caps, ornaments, etc. The images from the gallery uses this version. For better results use the fonts with “liga” feature on. Awards During 2014 the early develop of Auberge Script was chosen to be part of Tipos Latinos, the most important type exhibition in South America.

The Spring is a romantic and sweet handwritten font. It looks astonishing on love letters, greeting cards, logos, business cards, and every other design which needs a personalized touch. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

Bride Style, A sweet beautiful delicate script font. Inspired from the wedding modern calligraphy style but presented in a fashion editorial way. Perfectly fit for branding, logo, wedding things, greeting cards, fashion, lookbook, moodboard, presentation, imagine the luxury, beautiful, stylish, and casual in the same time.

Best collection of display fonts, don't miss it: Standing font is vintage elegant, these typefaces are truly made for one another. They work very well to give you the perfect design label you have designed. It's perfect for Logo, Advertising, Apparel Design, Label, Signage, Etc. Enjoy!

This font is inspired by Van Morrison’s song named “Days like this”. Contains all Latin glyphs and more than 400 characters with ornaments. It is decorative, very modern and useful for logos, T-shirt designs, packaging design, posters, billboards, magazines, covers, etc. Contains regular and italic.

Saviola – Modern Display Font with all caps style and bold. You can combine a unique uppercase and lowercase, so it looks like natural. And this font perfect for signature, logo, branding, poster, band, apparel, photography, title, social media post, ad banner, book cover, product packaging, and advertising

Saphire is a elegant handwritten font with a natural and unique design will make your project more beautiful. The font is suitable for your branding project, printing, logos dan wedding. Included: Saphire (OTF) Features: Standard Ligatures Stylistic Sets Multilingual Support PUA encoded Numeral and Punctuation by Yumnatype

Estencil was inspired by the use of stencil fonts used as text knocked out of steel plates. Not suitable for long text, it works well for display, signage, and wayfinding applications., maintaining legibility from a distance. It includes the Western European character set, with 251 glyphs.

Sweet Brownie is a elegant handwritten font. Made for any professional project branding. It is the best for logos, branding and quotes. Every letter has a unique and beautiful touch. Includes: Sweet Brownie (OTF) Features: Standard Ligatures PUA Encoded Multilingual Support Numerals and Punctuation by Yumnatype

Introducing Destone - A bold font with 2 styles: Regular & Slab. Destone combines attractive curves with a fresh urban edge; delivering a stylish script which is guaranteed to add an eye-catching appeal to your logo designs, brand imagery, handwritten quotes, product packaging, merchandise & social media posts.

Honey Crafter is modern retro font. Made carefully with digital sketch and vectorizing one by one to get best shapes. Honey crafter comes with a lot of alternate that let you make great design composition. What is inside : Multilingual Support Stylistic Alternate, Stylistic set (01,02,03,04), Swash

Moood is a new modern grotesque typeface consisting of 5 styles. The glyph shape characterized by strong geometric outline with a little smooth rounded edges. Moood font suitable for various projects such as logos, brands, posters and many more. This font comes with alternate and ligature features.

Regina Tiffany is classy display serif font with 250+ characters. Includes uppercase, lowercase characters, multilingual, alternates and most common other characters. Regina Tiffany is perfect for logos, social media posts, product packaging, product designs, and other projects. FEATURES : Uppercase Number Punctuation Multilingual Alternate Ligature Multilingual Support

Park Avenue is a lighthearted contemporary script designed by Robert E. Smith in 1933 for American Type Founders. This unique design has small x-height lowercase letters with very long ribbon-like ascenders. Park Avenue is a good design for occasional pieces such as invitations and menus.

Popy Jelly is a elegant handwritten font. Made for any professional project branding. It is the best for logos, branding and quotes. Every letter has a unique and beautiful touch. Includes: Popy Jelly (OTF) Features: Standard Ligatures PUA Encoded Multilingual Support Numerals and Punctuation by Yumnatype

Sweet Flower Monogram is an incredibly beautiful and romantic monogram with handwritten script font, featuring little hearts as ornaments. It looks stunning on wedding invitations, logos, labels, business branding, thank you cards, quotes, greeting cards, business cards and every other design which needs a handwritten touch.