Many typefaces are distinctive or attractive at the expense of legibility and versatility. Not so the Optima® family. Simultaneously standing out and fitting in, there are few projects or imaging environments outside of its range. Although Optima is almost always grouped with sans serif typefaces, it should be considered a serifless roman. True to its Roman heritage, Optima has wide, full-bodied characters – especially in the capitals. Only the E, F and L deviate with narrow forms. Consistent with other Zapf designs, the cap S in Optima appears slightly top-heavy with a slight tilt to the right. The M is splayed, and the N, like a serif design, has light vertical strokes. The lowercase a and g in Optima are high-legibility two-storied designs. Optima can be set within a wide choice of line spacing values – from very tight to very open. In fact, there are few limits to the amount of white space that can be added between lines of text. Optima also benefits from a wide range of letter spacing capability. It can be set quite tight, or even slightly open – especially the capitals. If there are any guidelines, Optima should be set more open than tight. It’s not that readability is affected that much when Optima is set on the snug side; it’s just that the unhurried elegance and light gray typographic color created by the face are disrupted when letters are set too tight. Optima is also about as gregarious as a typeface can be. It mixes well with virtually any serif design and a surprisingly large number of sans serif faces. The Optima family is available in six weights, from roman to extra black, each with an italic counterpart. In addition, the family is available as a suite of OpenType® Pro fonts, providing for the automatic insertion of small caps, ligatures and alternate characters, in addition to offering an extended character set supporting most Central European and many Eastern European languages. When you’re ready to find its perfect pairing, browse these fantastic matches: Monotype Century Old Style™, Dante®, Frutiger® Serif, Joanna® Nova, Malabar™, and Soho®.

Many typefaces are distinctive or attractive at the expense of legibility and versatility. Not so the Optima® family. Simultaneously standing out and fitting in, there are few projects or imaging environments outside of its range. Although Optima is almost always grouped with sans serif typefaces, it should be considered a serifless roman. True to its Roman heritage, Optima has wide, full-bodied characters – especially in the capitals. Only the E, F and L deviate with narrow forms. Consistent with other Zapf designs, the cap S in Optima appears slightly top-heavy with a slight tilt to the right. The M is splayed, and the N, like a serif design, has light vertical strokes. The lowercase a and g in Optima are high-legibility two-storied designs. Optima can be set within a wide choice of line spacing values – from very tight to very open. In fact, there are few limits to the amount of white space that can be added between lines of text. Optima also benefits from a wide range of letter spacing capability. It can be set quite tight, or even slightly open – especially the capitals. If there are any guidelines, Optima should be set more open than tight. It’s not that readability is affected that much when Optima is set on the snug side; it’s just that the unhurried elegance and light gray typographic color created by the face are disrupted when letters are set too tight. Optima is also about as gregarious as a typeface can be. It mixes well with virtually any serif design and a surprisingly large number of sans serif faces. The Optima family is available in six weights, from roman to extra black, each with an italic counterpart. In addition, the family is available as a suite of OpenType® Pro fonts, providing for the automatic insertion of small caps, ligatures and alternate characters, in addition to offering an extended character set supporting most Central European and many Eastern European languages. When you’re ready to find its perfect pairing, browse these fantastic matches: Monotype Century Old Style™, Dante®, Frutiger® Serif, Joanna® Nova, Malabar™ and Soho®.

Father's Day, or June 17 of this year, is in the middle of Argentinian winter. And like people do on wintery Sunday mornings, I was bundled up in bed with too many covers, pillows and comforters. Feeling good and not thinking about anything in particular, Father's Day was nowhere in the vicinity of my mind. My eleven year old son, Matías, came into the room with a handmade present for me. Up to this point, my Father's Day gift history was nothing unusual. Books, socks, hand-painted wooden spoons, the kind of thing any father would expect from his pre-teen son. So you can understand when I say I was bracing myself to fake excitement at my son's present. But this Father's Day was special. I didn't have to fake excitement. I was in fact excited beyond my own belief. Matí's handmade present was a complete alphabet drawn on an A4 paper. Grungy, childish, and sweeter than a ton of honey. He'd spent days making it, three-dimensioning the letters, wiggle-shadowing them. Incredible. A common annoyance for graphic designers is explaining to people, even those close to them, what they do for a living. You have to somehow make it understandable that you are a visual communicator, not an artist. Part of the problem is the fact that "graphic designer" and "visual communicator" are just not in the dictionary of standard professions out there. If you're a plumber, you can wrap all the duties of your job with 3.5 words: I'm a plumber. If you're a graphic designer, no wrapper, 3.5 or 300 words, will ever cover it. I've spent many hours throughout the years explaining to my own family and friends what I do for a living, but most of them still come back and ask what it is exactly that I do for dough. When you're a type designer, that problem magnifies itself considerably. When someone asks you what you do for a living, you start looking for the nearest exit, but none of the ones you can find is any good. All the one-line descriptions are vague, and every single one of them queues a long, one-sided conversation that usually ends with someone getting too drunk listening, or too tired of talking. Now imagine being a type designer, with a curious eleven year old son. The kid is curious as to why daddy keeps writing huge letters on the computer screen. Let's go play some ball, dad. As soon as I finish working, son. He looks over my shoulder and sees a big twirly H on the screen. To him it looks like a game, like I'm not working. And I have to explain it to him again. This Father's Day, my son gave me the one present that tells me he finally understands what I do for a living. Perhaps he is even comfortable with it, or curious enough about that he wants to try it out himself. Either way, it was the happiest Father's Day I've ever had, and I'm prouder of my son than of everything else I've done in my life. This is Matí's font. I hope you find it useful.

Sans meets serif. Would you like to express tradition by using a contemporary font? Sintesi might be exactly what you are looking for. Sintesi stands for synthesis: the unification of serif and sans-serif into a contemporary font, which surprises with different facets depending on its application. In copy size Sintesi performs like a sans-serif. It is a compact and well readable font that fulfills all requirements of modern digital media. In larger sizes, Sintesi unfolds its traditional character. Now, its strong contrast and the perceptible feather-ductus stand out clearly, as we appreciate it in a historical old style face. Sintesi is completed by a suitable italic. Its cursive character has more to do with writing-speed than to moderate inclination. Therefore Sintesi may be well-suited for many other purposes, not only for emphasis. The whole font family consists of 20 styles and offers a wide range of Western and Eastern European special characters, typographical ligatures, uppercase, oldstyle and fraction figures. Sintesi (Serif) builds together with Sintesi Semi and Sintesi Sans an extended family. Start combining antiquity with modernity! Download a free trial version of Sintesi with a reduced character set. Check it out!

Get ready for a modern spin on your typographic projects with the Typical Pro Sans Serif Font 9 Weight. This font offers a clean, grotesk feel that is perfect for any technical or heading design. Its contemporary design makes a perfect choice for projects with a modern flair. With clean lines, tight letter spacing, and a classic sans serif style, this font is sure to bring a unique edge to any project. Enjoy the perfect mix of texture and proportion with this modern font. Get ready to take your typography to the next level with Typical Pro Sans Serif Font 9 Weight. Typical Pro Sans Serif Font is a grotesk typeface of modern design, with technical precision and a clean finish. Its 9 weight offers clear and refined letters that provide perfect legibility for headlines and other text styles. Its line height is consistent and balanced, making it suitable for producing high-impact visual messages. Its modern, straightforward letterforms give projects an air of sophistication, while retaining a firm technical backbone. With nine different weights, it is the perfect choice for any heading or label that requires a strong, contemporary look.

Can we get a drum roll please? It’s not every day that a new link in a best selling chain is forged. First, there was Nanami, a font which took the world of type by force, storming to the top of MyFonts Hot New Fonts list; then there was Nanami Rounded, the most successful follow-up since Terminator 2. Well, say Hasta La Vista to boring design because now, there’s Nanami Handmade. With all the geometric, Japanese inspiration and style of the first two iterations, Nanami Handmade carries a quirky, mischievous charm. The font has a charisma matched by roguish anti-heroes; bad guys you love to love and good guys the other good guys hate, but everyone knows they’re what the audience turns up to see. Nanami Handmade comes in two styles, a solid and a hand-drawn, each of which has eight weights. Mix and match between these options to create a balanced piece which makes good use of the tactile, warm, earthy nature of the font. With these sans-serif styles working well in small and large sizes, both on and off screen, Nanami Handmade’s applications are virtually endless. Get your own piece of typography’s elite now, with Nanami Handmade, by Thinkdust.

Say Hello to Lovers Clouds! A set of three delightfully bold and sensual cloud-style fonts! Perfect for in-game quotes, packaging, branding, invitations, greeting cards and more. Super easy to use! Font Features: A-Z; a-z character set; 1 language (English); numbers and punctuation marks, symbols. Fonts can be opened and used in any software that can read standard fonts, even in MS Word. No special software is required to get started. It is recommended to use it in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. Made with love and magic ♡ Thank you for reading it, and do not hesitate to send me a message if you have any questions! ~ Anastasia

Gardens is a nostalgic arena font. Inspired by a soon-to-be demolished arena, this font was created to capture the memories and good times this building once contained. Upon hearing the news of the demolition, our team was struck with sadness and nostalgia. As youngsters we can recall attending a wide variety of events, such as hockey games, pro wresting and the circus. Our hope is that others can share in our nostalgic love of this once prominent arena. With curvy retro styling Gardens is unique and will fit in with many retro and vintage logos and design. Wether its t-shirts, posters or digital, Gardens will surely make your work stand out!

Here comes a New font, Introducing Arkanotes - Fun Script Font is a Authentic script that is written casually and quickly. Letters are made with handwritten on paper. Then scanned and carefully drawn into vector format. That is why Arkanotes has charming, authentic and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text with a more natural look to your text. Arkanotes Perfect for designs,branding projects, Logo design, Quotes product packaging ,design project as Invitation,logo, scrapbooking, tags and so much more! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the magical glyphs with ease! It also features a wealth of special features including You can activate 12 Ligatures OpenType panel.

Brouwerij means Brewery in Dutch. I just liked the name and it seemed to fit the font quite well. As for me, believe it or not, I’m not a beer drinker! I can’t understand why people go nuts when the word beer is mentioned. Like it is something special (after all, it is the third most consumed beverage after water and tea). Like you are not a man when you don’t drink beer! Brouwerij is a pleasant all caps font that comes with interesting swashes for the upper class letters. You can (obviously) use it to promote your home made brew, but any other drink can use a bit of Brouwerij as well.

Introducing Across The Street is this Another Rough Brush Font is a Authentic rough brush that is written casually and quickly. Letters are made with brushes on paper. Then scanned and carefully drawn into vector format. That is why Across The Street has charming, authentic and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text with a more natural look to your text. You can activate Ligature OpenType panel to make these two styles. It also has many that make your text and design more interesting.Crash Soul is perfect for homeware designs,branding projects, Logo design, Quotes product packaging This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of Ligatures glypsh.

One of my earliest memories of being able to write - an exciting skill - was of writing with my finger in the fine soft sea sand. I remember the freedom - I had no fear of making mistakes, of smudging ink or of doing anything wrong - and the ease with which I could write or wipe out any thing in the sand. Designing SandWriting was a tribute to those early memories. The font was an attempt to capture the simplicity and ease of a finger effortlessly making its mark in the sand. It can be used in many ways: in menus and invitations, in newsletters and advertisements, and in scrapbooks and brochures. It might be particularly useful for written material aimed at younger people. SandWriting contains all upper and lower case characters, all punctuation and special characters as well as all accented and standard European characters.

The year 2022 went and 2023 came. I can honestly say that last year was a horrible year and I am happy it ended a couple of days ago. The first week after New Year’s Eve always fills my head with the U2 song ‘New Year’s Day’ - so I named this font after a line from the lyrics. I also happened to watch a fantastic movie called ‘Im Westen Nights Neues’, directed by Edward Berger, but based on a book by Erich Maria Remarque, which, in English, was published as ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’. So there you have it: naming a font in 2 easy steps! ;-) All Is Quiet is a lovely brush font, which I created using my father in law’s Chinese pencil and ink. I can suggest some uses here, but I am convinced you can come up with that yourself.

Syoog is a robust proportional linear sans apt for headline, editorial, branding, packaging, printed materials and typographic applications. 240+ glyphs with ligatures and fractions available in opentype .otf format

Gothico Antiqua is the result of grunging up one of my early sans-serif type designs. It strangely works very well and looks authentic at small to medium settings.

A classic, narrow and clean sans serif family with seven weights, Roman and Italic, all with Old Style Numerals and Small Caps, for both headlines and body text use.

Sunday Market is a casual and playful sans serif font family. It is a family of six that supports multilingual languages. The font family is suited for any project.

Findon is a classic sans serif uppercase stencil typeface. It is reminiscent of the days before computers when the best way to reproduce letters quickly was to stencil them.

Entrée is a versatile sans serif font that works well in a variety of sizes and applications. It has a friendly, laid back personality and comes in six weights.

Boktto is a multi reformatted linear sans apt for headline, editorial, branding, packaging, printed materials and typographic applications. 240+ glyphs with ligatures and fractions available in opentype .otf format

Amongst the pages of a 1946 foreign publication entitled "100 Alphabets Publicitaires" ("100 Advertising Alphabets") is the casual brush stroke sans that was the design basis for Relaxation JNL.

Relish is a more traditional sans serif version of our Guildford typeface, with round punctuation. Relish contains all the high-end features expected in a quality OpenType Pro font.

Modernist sans serif with a "big" look and lots of weights. Compact, elegant and strong, Sense commands any kind of page -- from the largest headline to the smallest text.

Revue is a display face originally designed for Letraset. The heavy sans serif letterforms of this font are ideal for use in signage, on posters and in advertising display.

Tenso Slab is a versatile and playful Slab Serif based on the -in 2013 released- Tenso, which is a an economic running sans serif with a lot of character.

Kaz is a casual yet sturdy hand lettering font somewhere between architectural hand lettering and "comic sans". Kaz Thin offers a variation for the look of a thinner pen.

Pantra is a minimal and clear geometric sans. Pantra is clear, approachable, and effective in both headings and paragraphs and comes in 4 weights: light, regular, medium and bold.

A style example found within the pages of a vintage type foundry catalog inspired Case Lot JNL. The design is a classic early 20th Century sans with chamfered corners.

Hegsro is a apropos modernist linear sans apt for headline, editorial, branding, packaging, printed materials and typographic applications. 240+ glyphs with ligatures and fractions available in opentype .otf format

Borve is a compositional expanded tech sans apt for headline, editorial, branding, packaging, printed materials and typographic applications. 240+ glyphs with ligatures and fractions available in opentype .otf format

Marqana is an elegant and modern sans serif font. This font is ideal for writing web designs, business cards, or pretty much anything else that requires a unique touch.

PL Fiedler Gothic Bold is a display sans serif designed by Hal Fiedler. The distinguishing characters in the PL Fiedler Gothic Bold font are lower case q and t.

Luckily, I am not allergic to waffles - but a guy named Ethan Tremblay is...and if you know the story about that guy, you know the name of this font is from! What can I say? A handmade font full of quirkiness and a rough outline. Comes in both Regular (outline) and Solid. Use both versions as they are, or combine them. I've added 4 different versions of each lowercase letter and multilingual support!

Mollyta Script is a beautiful script font with many alternative styles, natural looking, elegant and perfect for any extraordinary project. Mollyta Script is suitable for various products such as invitations, product packaging, product design, crafters, labels, photography, watermarks, logos & branding. Everything can be accessed using software that supports Opentype, such as Adobe Indesign, Adobe CS Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop CC, and Corel Draw. Please message if you have any questions, and say hello. Thank you :)

Introducing The Soulmate - Brush Script is a Authentic brush script that is written casually and quickly. Letters are made with brushes on paper. Then scanned and carefully drawn into vector format. That is why The Soulmate has charming, authentic and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text with a more natural look to your text. You can activate Ligature OpenType panel, The Soulmate Perfect for designs,branding projects, Logo design, Quotes product packaging.

Agustina Script is a beautiful script font with many alternative styles, natural looking, elegant and perfect for any extraordinary project. Agustina Script is suitable for various products such as invitations, product packaging, product design, crafters, labels, photography, watermarks, logos & branding. Everything can be accessed using software that supports Opentype, such as Adobe Indesign, Adobe CS Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop CC, and Corel Draw. Please message if you have any questions, and say hello. Thank you :)

Call me some kind of weird, but I find designing fonts about the most fun you can have out of bed. Legible-scmedgible, sometimes you just have follow the font muse regardless of where she takes you. She threw me a circle, a triangle, a rounded stroke and a rounded-cornered square; “Make glyphs,” she sang. Okay! Is it legible? Yes. Is it readable? Kinda. For the right project, though, that’s enough!

In the heyday of "Tin Pan Alley", a song plugger was one whose job it was to bring a publisher's song to the attention of performers, show producers and radio station executives; the forerunner of the promotion man who visited disk jockeys with new record releases in the hopes of getting them played on the air. Song Plugger JNL was based on hand lettering spotted on some late-1920s-early 1930s sheet music.

Introducing Better at class – Brush Script is a Authentic brush script that is written casually and quickly. Letters are made with procreate. Then scanned and carefully drawn into vector format. That is why Better at class has charming, authentic and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text with a more natural look to your text. You can activate Ligature OpenType panel, Better At class Perfect for designs,branding projects, Logo design, Quotes product packaging