Southbeach is a 21 century art déco font. The bigger it gets, the better it looks.

I spend a lot of time following two obsessions: packaging and hand lettering. Alongside a few other minor obsessions, those two have been my major ones for so many years now, I've finally reached the point where I can actually claim them as “obsessions” without getting a dramatic reaction from the little voice in the back of my head. When you spend so much time researching and studying a subject, you become very focused, directionally and objectively. But of course some of the research material you run into turns out to be tangential to whatever your focus happens to be at the time, so you absorb what you can from it, then shelf it — like the celebrity bobblehead that amused you for a while, but is now an almost invisible ornament eating dust and feathers somewhere in your environment. And just like the bobblehead may fall off the shelf one day to remind you of its existence, some of my lettering research material unveiled itself in my head one day for no particular reason. Hand lettering is now mostly perceived as an American art. Someone with my historical knowledge about lettering may be snooty enough to go as far as pointing out the British origins of almost everything American, including lettering — but for the most part, the contemporary perspective associates great lettering with America. The same perspective also associates blackletter, gothics and sans serifs with Germany. So you can imagine my simultaneous surprise and impatience when, in my research for one of my American lettering-based fonts, I ran into a German lettering book from 1953, by an artist called Bentele. It was no use for me because it didn't propel my focus at that particular time, but a few months ago I was marveling at what we take for granted — the sky is blue, blackletter is German, lettering is American — and found myself flipping through the pages of that book again. The lettering in that book is upbeat and casual sign making stuff, but it has a slightly strange and youthful experimentation at its heart. I suppose I find it strange because it deviates a lot from the American stuff I'm used to working with for so long now. To make a long story short, what’s inside that German book served as the semilla, which is Spanish for seed, for the typeface you see all over these pages. With Semilla, my normal routine went out the window. My life for a while was all Bezier all the time. No special analog or digital brushes or pens were used in drawing these forms. They're the product of a true Bezier process, all starting with a point creating a curve to another point, which draws a curve to another point, and so on. It’s a very time-consuming process, but at the end I am satisfied that it can get to pretty much the same results easier and more traditional methods accomplish. And as usual with my fonts, the OpenType is plenty and a lot of fun. Experimenting with substitution and automation is still a great pleasure for me. It is the OpenType that always saves me from the seemingly endless work hours every type designer must inevitably have to face at one point in his career. The artful photos used in this booklet are by French photographer and designer Stéphane Giner. He is very deserving of your patronage, so please keep an eye out for his marvelous work. I hope you like Semilla and enjoy using it. I have a feeling that it marks a transition to a more curious and flexible period in my career, but only time will tell.

The idea of a brand-new grotesk is certainly rather foolish – there are already lots of these typefaces in the world and, quite simply, nothing is more beautiful than the original Gill. The sans-serif chapter of typography is now closed by hundreds of technically perfect imitations of Syntax and Frutiger, which are, however, for the most part based on the cool din-aesthetics. The only chance, when looking for inspiration, is to go very far... A grotesk does not afford such a variety as a serif typeface, it is dull and can soon tire the eye. This is why books are not set in sans serif faces. A grotesk is, however, always welcome for expressing different degrees of emphasis, for headings, marginal notes, captions, registers, in short for any service accompaniment of a book, including its titlings. We also often come across a text in which we want to distinguish the individual speaking or writing persons by the use of different typefaces. The condition is that such grotesk should blend in perfectly with the proportions, colour and above all with the expression of the basic, serif typeface. In the area of non-fiction typography, what we appreciate in sans-serif typefaces is that they are clamorous in inscriptions and economic in the setting. John Sans is to be a modest servant and at the same time an original loudspeaker; it wishes to inhabit libraries of educated persons and to shout from billboards. A year ago we completed the transcription of the typefaces of John Baskerville, whose heritage still stands out vividly in our memory. Baskerville cleverly incorporated certain constructional elements in the design of the individual letters of his typeface. These elements include above all the alternation of softand sharp stroke endings. The frequency of these endings in the text and their rhythm produce a balanced impression. The anchoring of the letters on the surface varies and they do not look monotonous when they are read. We attempted to use these tricks also in the creation of a sans-serif typeface. Except that, if we wished to create a genuine “Baroque grotesk”, all the decorativeness of the original would have to be repeated, which would result in a parody. On the contrary, to achieve a mere contrast with the soft Baskerville it is sufficient to choose any other hard grotesk and not to take a great deal of time over designing a new one. Between these two extremes, we chose a path starting with the construction of an almost monolinear skeleton, to which the elements of Baskerville were carefully attached. After many tests of the text, however, some of the flourishes had to be removed again. Anything that is superfluous or ornamental is against the substance of a grotesk typeface. The monolinear character can be impinged upon in those places where any consistency would become a burden. The fine shading and softening is for the benefit of both legibility and aesthetics. The more marked incisions of all crotches are a characteristic feature of this typeface, especially in the bold designs. The colour of the Text, Medium and Bold designs is commensurate with their serif counterparts. The White and X-Black designs already exceed the framework of book graphics and are suitable for use in advertisements and magazines. The original concept of the italics copying faithfully Baskerville’s morphology turned out to be a blind alley. This design would restrict the independent use of the grotesk typeface. We, therefore, began to model the new italics only after the completion of the upright designs. The features which these new italics and Baskerville have in common are the angle of the slope and the softened sloped strokes of the lower case letters. There are also certain reminiscences in the details (K, k). More complicated are the signs & and @, in the case of which regard is paid to distinguishing, in the design, the upright, sloped @ small caps forms. The one-storey lower-case g and the absence of a descender in the lower-case f contributes to the open and simple expression of the design. Also the inclusion of non-aligning figures in the basic designs and of aligning figures in small caps serves the purpose of harmonization of the sans-serif families with the serif families. Non-aligning figures link up better with lower-case letters in the text. If John Sans looks like many other modern typefaces, it is just as well. It certainly is not to the detriment of a Latin typeface as a means of communication, if different typographers in different places of the world arrive in different ways at a similar result.

This roly-poly romp through the alphabets is based on a showing from Carl Holmes' 1950s book, ABC of Lettering, published by art-for-the-masses magnate Walter T. Foster. Named as an apt companion to my East Coast Frolics.

Proudly present Adoha Typeface. A modern and classic serif typeface featuring its own unique style & modern look. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothing, lettering, quote, and so much more.

Hello! Introducing a decorative font — Qimzy. It's a smooth shape bold typeface with seamless sticky effect. This font includes lots of multilingual characters (check out a screenshot with available letters and signs). Thank you and wish you a peaceful sky!

Poxy is a black weight display font with 3 styles available. Built with particles, including circles, hexagons and stars. An Alternate Stylistic Set offers the option to make letters, numbers and symbols float away at the the top of each glyph.

Friendly Yellow is my sketchy/scratchy handmade sans font. I've made several layers for you to play around with, in order to get that feel-good handmade-sketch-font-look! I've also added ligature substitution for the most common double letters

Cinzeled Victorian Alphabets is a bold and imposing display font. Add it to your creative ideas and notice how it makes them stand out! Letters crafted to obtain the cinzeled style from the press works from XVIII and XIX centurys.

Add character to your paper crafts and publications. Download this cool Tough Love font to create lettering with a scratched or brush-stroke look. Design titles, captions, journaling and more, or simply give your publication an off-beat, handwritten appeal.

Spooky Witch is the latest Halloween font from Arkrist Letter studio. A serif font designed with elegant characters, but looks scary. Spooky Witch font is suitable for design, logo, greeting card, invitation, etc. make your day more spooky with Spooky Witch!

"Valerose" is a very unique and elegant handwritten display font. This font is decorated with roses in alternate letters. Uppercase, lowercase, swashes, titling, uppercase alternates, multilingual support, numerals, and punctuation are all included. Ideal for logos, weddings, valentines, and other occasions.

Are you looking for a fun, bouncy lettering set for envelopes, logos, typography, branding and greeting cards?! Well look no further! Created with stationary in mind, Hey Bombshell is sweet, sassy and LOADED with extras to make your work stand out!

Slavia Carolina is a vintage font with a modern touch that is suitable for logo purposes, design layout, cover, Headline, and more. Slavia Carolina has also included a full set of: Uppercase and lowercase letters Automatic ligatures Multilingual characters Numerals Punctuation

Shabby brush - creating this font Pavel was inspired by the past and visualized a good future. Erasing lines of letters, like memories that have passed through years. The long-lasting brush continues to create and inspire with all its strength

The sibling of Childos, with with additional Arabic glyphs for more international fun. Handwritten rough sans serifs style, as well as the development of free and attractive ligature to fill the space between letters and make playful children feel designs.

Cangste s a modern and classic serif font with a unique style and a modern look. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothes, lettering, quotes, and so much more.

Society Members is a cool, quirky and thick lettered display font. Whether you’re using it for crafts, digital design, presentations, or making greeting cards, this font has the potential to become your favorite go-to font, no matter the occasion!

Venice Initials are my redesign of a 15th century venetian original by an unknown calligrapher. Unfortunately only parts of the letters existed, so I had to design about half of them myself. Of course I enjoyed doing that. Yours Gert Wiescher

Beauty Luxury is a luxury typeface, mix of modern calligraphy and serif. full set of lowercase and uppercase letters, numerals and punctuation, multilingual symbols. luxurious and clean style to websites, modern logos, branding identity, social media quotes,and wedding stationery.

Odeon is the kind of font you would have seen on theatre or concert posters around the turn of the twentieth century. It is based on Art Nouveau sign lettering and has a heavy, playful look that's hard to miss.

Halloween Festival is a cool-lettered and spooky display font. It is perfectly suitable for any Halloween-related project or crafty idea! Halloween Festival is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

Dyane is based on monolinear scripts from the Bauhaus time. But it is very special for ist counterstrokes in the lowercase letters a, h, m and n that gives the script a very distinct rhythm. Your rhythmic type-designer Gert Wiescher

Lakeland JNL was inspired by lettering seen on a vintage container of Yankee brand motor oil. Originally all-caps on the package, the remaining characters were developed to expand on this casual semi-script design which was popular during the 1940s.

Bokeseni is a cute and casual sans serif font with an undeniably clean feel. It includes a condensed, and expanded version. With its neat and beautiful arrangement of letters, this typeface will look outstanding in both formal and non-formal designs.

Dolce Caffe was a handwritten font designed in the 2011 inspired in some berliner menu. Now we developed a 3D, 3D Rough and a Shadow version. They are very legible and high in style and carefully constructed all-uppercase letters.

"Polythem" is a beautiful high bold script font that makes for gorgeous logos, posters, wedding invitations, blog posts, social media, and more! Polythem Script includes ligatures to make everything look totally hand-done, and alternates for each letter. Thanks for visited

Dias Irregulares is a font inspired by ignorant tattoo style. Contains 2 alternative characters for each letter and 4 cute illustrations. It's perfect for artistic publications, clothing and many other things. All made by hand, such as my tattoo work.

Paletone is hand lettered sans in two style, Regular & Bold. With the organic and handmade feels, you can use this font for any project. This minimalist font also suitable for the project with earth tone color. Also good for quotes.

Aimstesa is a modern and classic serif font with its own unique style and beautiful characters. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothes, lettering, quotes, and so much more.

Hurley 1967 is a bold script, with clean lines and smooth curve combined with beautiful features! Simply amazing fonts, comes with 7 styles. Hurley 1967 has a bunch of styles as a families to designed lettering style logotype using the fonts.

Hendrix bubble is a modern and classic display font with its own unique style and modern looks. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & bold logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothes, lettering, quotes, and so much more.

Azebra is an elegant connected letter cursive script arriving with a family of detailed & artistic styles. Azebra features diagonal hatched texture, in extruded & shadow variations. Azebra is extended, containing West European diacritics & ligatures, making it suitable for multilingual environments & publications.

Rijaya Konoha is a modern and classic serif typeface with a unique style and fancy look. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothes, lettering, quotes, and so much more.

Quihk is a modern and classy serif font with its own unique style and modern look. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothes, lettering, quotes, and so much more.

Blackletters have a long history and appeal to the world of lettering. "Darkness" is a blackletter font, but with a contemporary style with a simple form. Darkness is very suitable for use on product labels, logos, ads, brochures, invitations, etc.

Customize your lettering project with this cool and clever font. Download it for fanciful journaling on scrapbook pages and greeting cards. Try it on Halloween party invitations or wherever you might want to add a whimsical touch to a unique publication.

Arroyo is based on water flow. Little creeks on the surface of the earth formed by the action of fast-flowing water, this phenomenon inspired me to create this font. The little gaps/creeks form the letters of the font.