Pompeian Cursive is a calligraphically-inspired display typeface featuring a limited number of alternate characters and a handful of graceful ligatures. A lively set of non-lining numerals accompanies, as well as a few calligraphically-inspired flourishes for ornament. The history of this typeface: Oswald Cooper’s relationship with the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler foundry was one instigated under the auspices of creating new styles of type in lieu of following stylistic trends. In 1927, BB&S requested that Cooper create a script-like cursive typeface design in step with Lucien Bernhard’s Schoenschrift and ATF’s similarly-styled Liberty typeface. In response to BB&S’s desire to emulate instead of innovate, Cooper wrote to Mcarthur, “I am desolated to see Barnhart’s hoist the black flag. Your own efforts through the years to boost the foundry into a place in the sun as an originator seem wasted.” Still, Cooper took up the task at hand, creating a delicate, sophisticated type design which he named Pompeian Cursive. The typeface featured a limited number of alternate characters and a handful of graceful ligatures. A lively set of non-lining numerals accompanied, as well as a few calligraphically-inspired flourishes for ornamenting the end of lines of type accompanied the typeface, as well. By reviewing the few remaining original drawings for the type, as well as copious samples of Pompeian Cursive from both Cooper & BB&S' proofing process and period-specific type specimens, Wordshape presents the first digital version of this classic hybrid script/sans typeface, complete with all original alternate characters and ornaments. Pompeian Cursive has been intensively spaced and kerned for the finest setting for weddings, announcements, and general display work. - What was the inspiration for designing the font? While researching a biographic essay for Japan’s IDEA Magazine, I came across the original proofs and drawings for Pompeian Cursive. While a number of foundries have released interpretations of Cooper’s assorted typefaces, they stray from the original rather dramatically in parts. Cooper is without a doubt my favorite type and lettering designer, and to bring a refined return to his original intentions is an immense gift. - What are its main characteristics and features? Pompeian Cursive is a typeface which functions as both a display face and a limited text face. It features classy, thoughtful, and delicate swash capitals and rugged lowercase characters with a low x-height and gracefully long ascenders and descenders. - Usage recommendations: Display type or text-setting. Perfect for newspaper work, editorial design, materials intended to invoke an "old-timey" flavor, or just about anything in need of personality.

The Schneidler Latein is a sharp and elegant Antiqua based on the ductus of the broad edged pen with a strong character. Running perfectly in paragraph text giving it something quite special and being effortlessly legible at the same time, Schneidler Latein works great in headings as well. Each glyph is a piece of art ready to be used in branding and blowup combining beauty and personality in a kick-ass blend. It is absolutely new to the digital world as it never has been digitized before. This new version digitized, further developed and extended by artist and graphic designer Lena Schmidt comes in nine styles from which there are four application-related ones like Subtext and Display and five weight-related ones like Bold and Heavy. Each style contains 948 glyphs, variations of numbers, three stylistic sets one preserving the historic forms of changed characters, small caps, open type features and superior and inferior characters. Designed by F. H. Ernst Schneidler the Schneidler Latein was released in 1916, the bold version in 1920 and the italics in 1921. Schneidler was born in 1882 in Berlin. He studied at the school for applied arts in Düsseldorf with professor F. H. Ehmcke and P. Behrens. He was as a painter, graphic designer and illustrator. In 1920 he was appointed as teacher in the school for applied arts Stuttgart. His students were Albert Kapr, Imre Reiner and Lilo Rasch-Naegele among others. Further well-known fonts from his hands are for example Legende, Amalthea, Schneidler Mediävel and Schneidler Antiqua. Lena Schmidt was born 1981 in Bremen. She is a german painter, graphic designer and illustrator mostly known for her huge wood carving paintings. From 2003 to 2011 she studied Fine Arts in Hamburg with professor Matt Mullican. From 2015 to 2019 she studied graphic design with a focus on type design at HAW Hamburg Department Design with professor Jovica Veljović. She lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.

Marit Otto about C-Nation: The building typeface. Although the 70ties were very liberating and progressive, still girls played mainly with dolls and sweet things and boys with all kinds of challenging stuff. They did all sorts of basic scientific experiments in mini labs and of course built cool things with Meccano building sets. As a girl I was perfectly happy with the toys I had access to. But at the same time I was very curious about all the adventure toys and discoveries my brother did. It also made me wonder why the grown up people thought that our world could be separated so easily by separating our toys in pink and blue sections. At this day of age Meccano is probably hopelessly old fashioned and far to manual. Children of today are fed by fast images and cool animations on screen, they learn, play, communicate and relax in the same space, the digital space. The special feature of Meccano was that even though it was very basic there was the promise you could create anything. It might even contribute to a logical mind. The typeface I designed refers to the Meccano feel. It is a creative typeface. A bit masculine and bold looking perhaps but after the first impression a subtle and refined female touch is revealed. It has links to architecture and associations with metal constructions like ‘The Eiffel Tower’ and (old railway) bridges. I am convinced that we all think of that as very charming man-made objects.

After researching the type styles contemporary graphic designers have been using over the past few years, I noticed a consistent use of Copperplate Gothic, and its derivative designs, for various corporate advertising campaigns. That level of usage gave me the inspiration to design a display font possessing subtle characteristics of Copperplate Gothic, and various Latin Condensed designs. The font I ended up designing was semi-condensed, with more contrast between thicks and thins than in Copperplate. Baltra also has a subtle flair in its otherwise traditional lowercase, while possessing a larger than average lowercase x-height. Copperplate Gothic, on the other hand, has minimal contrast and uses small capitals for its lowercase. After examining extensive type specimens from wood type, metal type, phototype and digital type, I was not able to find a single design possessing a majority of Baltra's characteristics. Consequently, I consider Baltra to be a truly unique design, sharing with Copperplate Gothic only its flairs on stems, and having only subtle characteristics in common with traditional Latin designs.

The year 1914 marked the appearance of Washington Ludlow's first typograph machine. This remarkable invention permitted typesetters to quickly cast a full line of lead type in one operation using supplied brass matrices, a procedure which was for the time a major technological improvement over the usual hand-set foundry type methods. Casting type the Ludlow way necessitated the creation of an entire range of new Ludlow typefaces, a development which made Ludlow not only a major manufacturer of printing machinery, but also one of the world's leading sources of professional type design. Renowned typographers such as Douglas C. McMurtrie and Ernest F. Detterer created original faces at Ludlow's request. Robert Hunter Middleton was Ludlow's design director for over fifty years, and during his distinguished career produced an entire library of typefaces representing virtually every known typographic style. He is recognized as one of the most prolific type designers of all time. Today, new Ludlow computer fonts are in preparation, including optically-correct versions of many classic Ludlow typefaces, drawn directly from the originals in the Ludlow company library.

Nearland is an aesthetic vintage Script font. Inspired from the past, elegant signage, gold leaf art, sign painting, lettering, logo and old label product. Nearland Script comes with tons of alternates characters and special alternate (i) lowercase is a ending swash thats to make more eye cacthy. Finally BOOM..!! you get a great design for your project. Nearland It's suitable for authentic logos, headings, sign painting, posters, letterhead, branding, magazines, album covers, book covers, movies, apparel design, flyers, greeting cards, product packaging, badge and more.

Branlerst is an aesthetic vintage typography font, inspired from the past, elegant signage, gold leaf , sign painting and old label product. Branlerst comes with alternates characters to make more eye cacthy . It is suitable for authentic logos, headings, sign painting, posters, letterhead, branding, magazines, album covers, book covers, movies, apparel design, flyers, greeting cards, product packaging, and more. You just cobine with the another font like script , serif or san serif font and adding some effect finally BOOM..!! you get a great design for your project.

Stefano is a meld of traditional Roman typeface design and calligraphic hand lettering. It is bold yet refined; elegant yet forceful. Stefano will enhance the urbane and elevate the prosaic.

An excellent example of early 1900's sign artistry. This Letterhead Fonts' revised version of Mike Henderson's bold font features all new spacing, kerning and improved characters. Includes 6 alternates.

Gafiton. A reverse contrast bold font suitable for display especially. Perfect for your daily project like for headline poster, packaging, social media, branding, or anything about pop and fun design.

Blang Yellow is a fun bold script font perfect for posters, logos, magazines, book covers, banners, and many more! Get this amazing freebie, and use it to create lovely designs!

The bold hand lettered title on the 1940 sheet music for the band piece "Drexel Marching Song" was the inspiration for Drexel JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.

A font designed in the style of vintage stencil show-cards. Uses bold chunky geometric shapes to form characters. This font is great for creating titles for books and products.

Wilko is the carnival barker of typefaces. Bold, impactful yet friendly, with two decorative variants. No frills, no corners, no messing. When you want to say it loud and clear.

Moonlander, a modern bold and wide sans serif font.This clean and sharp typeface is inspired from the lively urban lifestyle and can be perfect as a headline, title, logo, branding.

Inspired by a bold serif typeface used popularly in the 1960s, Reprint JNL is perfectly adept for handling any titling needs and will get the point across in short order.

Soft Time is an updated and cleaner version of my popular font Soft Lime. Soft Time has kept the bold and happy look that came with Soft Lime.Caps only fonts

Episodian is a retro-modern san-serif family with a sci-fi, techno edge and contemporary elegance of its own. Episodian now includes regular and bold with corresponding italic fonts.

Blang Haloc is a fun bold script font perfect for posters, logos, magazines, book covers, banners, and many more! Get this amazing freebie, and use it to create lovely designs!

Cadenza is a bold condensed display font that combines flair with functionality, elegance with utility. Its weight and readability make it ideal for newspaper and magazine headlines, titling and signage.

"Leaner" is uppercase sans-serif typeface. It’s clean and universal. Best for logos and heading. Extended latin glyphs Uppercase letters Thin / Regular / Bold weights + Same italics Numbers & punctuation That's it!

Xandercode is a bold and chunky lettered display font. Add this font to your creative ideas and notice how it will make them stand out! with spalsh vector bonus inside.

OVERLORD is a bold style font. This font is made in all capital letters. This font is very suitable for branding, logos, logotype and others. Overlord Features : Multilanguange PUA Encoded

Malibbie is a sweet and fun handwritten font with a unique charm. Fall in love with its bold style, and turn any design project into an original piece of art.

Squarity JNL is an ultra-bold font derived from Jeff Levine's Yorso Square JNL. Use the font at large point sizes to emphasize messages with power, punch, strength or toughness.

DC Inflate is an uppercase, bold, rounded display typeface. Ideal for logo design, big, fun and impactful titles. It supports the Western European character set and it contains 215 glyphs.

Gwyner, a strengthened didone with sharp and clean characteristics, comes with thin to bold weights and is suitable in italic for various uses. A condensed family for space-saving design.

Genesee JNL is a medium-bold sans serif inspired by the letter shapes of Jeff Levine's Paper Stencil JNL, and named for the river valley that traverses Rochester, New York.