Blize Queen - Display Serif Font. Blize Queen is bold, groovy, clean and unique with display fell. Blize Queen is very versatile serif font that works great in large and small sizes. Helps to create layout display design in 60s or 70s design projects. Blize Queen is a display serif font with beautiful ligatures, tons of alternative glyphs and multilingual support. Come with open type feature with a lot of alternates, its help you to make great lettering. Blize Queen best uses for heading headlines, cover, poster, logos, quotes, product packaging, merchandise, social media & greeting cards and many more.

Density Heavy Slab Serif Features a smooth slab serif and a wide surface that makes it especially suitable for horizontal and lengkungan compositions. This is a front view, best used at larger sizes when weight and impact are desired. It's classic with a modern edge and most importantly packed with different styles, and ligatures Density is a heavy slab serif that comes with regular, oblique, outline, outline slanted, rough, rough slanted, extrude and extrude slanted style. this font is perfect for every project. suitable for branding logo, badge design, or apparel design. This font also comes with multilingual support.

Vigofam serif typeface is an elegantly themed font that has a dynamic serif style. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with sans or serif. **Featured:** * Standard Uppercase & Lowercase * Numeral & Punctuation * Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ * Alternate & Ligature * PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!

Introducing "Fendgy - Classy Display Serif Font". Fendgy-Classy Display Serif Font is an elegant and refined typeface that exudes a timeless sophistication. With its meticulously crafted letterforms, this font embodies a perfect balance between classic charm and contemporary design. Its graceful strokes and distinctive serifs make it an ideal choice for luxurious branding, editorial design, and upscale packaging, imparting a sense of refined exclusivity to any project. What's Included? 1. PUA Encode 2. Uppercase, Lowercase, Numerals and Punctuation 3. Ligature Collection 4. Stylistic Alternate 5. Installed on Mac and Windows 6. Language Support : Western Europe 7. Multilingual Support Enjoy Our Font!

Say hello to new serif font, Kaelorin! Introducing Rosalind, a stunning modern retro serif font that effortlessly combines aesthetic charm with captivating alternate characters. This typeface falls into the category of modern retro serif fonts and is designed to bring a touch of nostalgia and elegance to your design projects. What sets Rosalind apart are its intriguing alternate characters. These alternates offer a wealth of creative possibilities, allowing you to experiment with various letter combinations and create unique and eye-catching typographic compositions. Each alternate has been thoughtfully designed to ensure visual coherence and seamless integration within the font.

Introducing Romavich, a beautiful condensed serif font, inspired by the modern serif style features with thin lines and bold serifs. This casual and minimalist typeface is versatile and can be used for a wide range of designs, including magazines, editorials, posters, logos, branding, logotypes, wedding, fashion, cards, titles, and more. Romavich is an all-caps font with small caps, allowing you to create an elegant short texts and quotes. It comes equipped with numerous alternates and ligatures, adding a gorgeous touch to your designs. What you’ll get : Uppercase Smallcaps Numbers & symbols Punctuation Stylistic alternates Custom ligatures Multilingual support PUA Encoded Thank you!

Rostema - Display Serif Introducing Rostema, a captivating blackletter serif display font that seamlessly bridges the gap between tradition and modern design. This typeface is a testament to the timeless beauty of blackletter fonts, infused with a contemporary twist that makes it perfect for a wide range of creative applications. Whether you're designing posters, branding materials, invitations, or any other creative endeavor that demands a bold and distinctive typeface, Rostema is your go-to font. Its blackletter serif display style adds a touch of drama and sophistication to your designs, setting them apart and leaving a lasting impression.

Quador is a squarish serif, especially designed for contemporary typography on print and screen. The superellipse-based forms and high x-height allow large and open letterforms, perfectly adapted to the pixel grid on screen. With rounded serifs Quador provides a soft and friendly atmosphere. The font contains 6 weights from light to ultrabold plus true italics. 1.115 glyphs include 187 ligatures, small caps, tabular, old style, fractions …, and a wide range of flexibility for latin language and cyrillic support for every typographical needs. Quador is a contemporary serif typeface, special for logotypes, brands, magazines and editorial.

Comma Base is a sans typeface for it has no serifs. No wait, it is a typical serif typeface because it has a high contrast. Strictly speaking, Comma Base is a missing link between serif and sans, offering the best of both worlds. Comma Base supports several OpenType features for advanced typographic control. It consists of 16 styles, 8 weights from Hairline to Ultra, in both roman and italic. Comma Base is a uniwidth font. This means changing a text from normal to bold doesn’t effect the set width, a professional feature that is highly appreciated by graphic designers.

Vermont is an outline semi slab serif created by British designer Freda Sack. The serifs of Vermont are typical of slab serif fonts, having the same stroke width as the base strokes and forming a right angle to them. The strong figures of this font still manage to seem light and airy and the marked shading makes them seem almost plastic or sculpted. This class of font appeared at the beginning of the 20th century as an advertisement typeface, rose in popularity through the 1950s and phototypesetting in the 1970s. Vermont should be used exclusively in headlines and displays in larger point sizes.

Linotype Beluga is a part of the Take Type Library, winners of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contest. The font was designed by Hans-Jürgen Ellenberger to suggest the writing of the Middle Ages but without any specific models from that time. A distinguishing characteristic of the font is its pointed, effusive serifs, which give Beluga its feel of the Middle Ages or of mysticism. In spite of its dynamic character, Beluga is legible even in smaller point sizes, which makes it equally good for headlines as for shorter texts. Beluga combines well with sans serif, slab serif and constructed fonts.

Romantic is a Modern Beauty Sans Serif A Sans Serif font that we created special for branding needs with classy shape to add value of your brand. It's so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more classy and fashionable. And specially for Romantic font, We prepared any characters with Elegant shape to help you create classy style of your design. Romantic Modern Beauty sans serif font ready with: Lowercase and Uppercase characters Numbers and Punctuations Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Romantic font Wish you enjoy our font.

Introducing Eigerdals Slab - the ultimate font for creating a cozy and inviting atmosphere in your designs. This slab-serif font family captures the essence of the mountains of Norway and the streets of Stockholm, making it the perfect choice for design projects that need a touch of Hygge. With its top-heavy characters, Eigerdals Slab has a more approachable and warm feel that sets it apart from other font choices. Plus, its tall x-height, brushed and smooth look makes it both readable and stylish. But that's not all, Eigerdals Slab comes loaded with practical OpenType features like ligatures, unicase alternates, and a set of upright italic swash alternates, that can be fully utilized in software like Quark and Adobe suite. Not only that, it also includes support for a wide range of languages. Eigerdals Slab is an extension of the Eigerdals family, and its distinctive look pairs perfectly with other text faces. Whether you're using it for display work or longer blocks of text, Eigerdals Slab is the perfect font for adding warmth and friendliness to your designs. Don't wait any longer, try Eigerdals Slab today and elevate your work to the next level!

Triumphant, vigorous and strong. These were the keywords for the design of Girga, named after an Egyptian city in the Sohag Governorate. The power and strength of the Egyptian letterforms were balance with a few sans serif forms so the darkness of the text and the fatness of the overall glyphs could be kept. We never intended to design a revival of the nineteen century egyptian typefaces, but we included a series of features that can be found in many wood letters from that era. With five styles divided in Regular, Italic, Stencil, Engraved and Banner, Girga is full features that allow many design possibilities.

The Threepoints Series is the result of several years of work that bases three different sans serif type designs on one “shell”. Designed for optimal readability North, with its squarish shapes and rigidity are suggestive of an upright Swiss or Inserat typeface. The East variant takes on the look of another popular condensed grotesk with a softer, more rounded basic shape whilst maintaining the purpose of the original design. With minimal adjustments West leans towards more contemporary European designs. Although these are primarily display typefaces they function extremely well in text sizes in either upper or lowercase composition. Excellent for signage. Each variant comes with matched italic at no additional cost.

The Threepoints Series is the result of several years of work that bases three different sans serif type designs on one “shell”. Designed for optimal readability North, with its squarish shapes and rigidity are suggestive of an upright Swiss or Inserat typeface. The East variant takes on the look of another popular condensed grotesk with a softer, more rounded basic shape whilst maintaining the purpose of the original design. With minimal adjustments West leans towards more contemporary European designs. Although these are primarily display typefaces they function extremely well in text sizes in either upper or lowercase composition. Excellent for signage. Each variant comes with matched italic at no additional cost.

The Threepoints Series is the result of several years of work that bases three different sans serif type designs on one “shell”. Designed for optimal readability North, with its squarish shapes and rigidity are suggestive of an upright Swiss or Inserat typeface. The East variant takes on the look of another popular condensed grotesk with a softer, more rounded basic shape whilst maintaining the purpose of the original design. With minimal adjustments West leans towards more contemporary European designs. Although these are primarily display typefaces they function extremely well in text sizes in either upper or lowercase composition. Excellent for signage. Each variant comes with matched italic at no additional cost.

As designers, we seek perfection and originality. The more we step back and look at our work, the more changes we tend to find necessary. Drastic modifications are inevitable. The same is true of Grayfel. Grayfel began as an exercise at insigne to explore the crowded space of neutral sans. While the world of sans serifs is admittedly crowded, I still managed to find something new and different. The final Grayfel consists of 42 full-featured OpenType fonts containing three widths: Regular, Condensed, and Extended. Every width consists of 14 fonts--seven weights with matching italics, making it a good companion for setting clear text and headlines for print and screen. OpenType features are also available. There’s figure choices, such as proportional and old style figures. Additionally, Greyfel includes sophisticated typographic attributes: ligatures, fractions, alternate characters, small caps, superscripts and subscripts. Its extended character set supports Central, Western and Eastern European languages. Optical compensations also mean the outcome of this family is a hybrid of humanistic proportions. It’s a well-finished design with optimized kerning gives it a friendly look. If you like sans serifs within the tradition of Futura, Helvetica, Avant Garde and Avenir, then you’ll love Greyfel, too. Grayfel works well in a variety of applications. Subtly neutral yet fun, it’s suitable for headlines of all sizes as well as for text. Put it to the task for marketing, packaging, editorial work, branding and even on-screen projects. Try it out: it’s not just fun and playful; it’s Grayfel.

The typeface Drunken Pixel is designed from 2021 for the font foundry Typo Graphic Design by Manuel Viergutz. The font system (sans-serif, slab serif, small caps & unicase) of the display typeface is inspired in the past and present. 20 font-styles (Bottle, BottleCorkBottle, BottleCork, Crown Cork × Sans Serif, Small Caps, Slab Serif, Unicase) + 4 icon-styles with 903 glyphs (Adobe Latin 3) incl. 300+ decorative extras like icons, arrows, dingbats, emojis, symbols, geometric shapes, catchwords, decorative ligatures (type the word #LOVE for ♥︎ or #SMILE for ☺ as OpenType-Feature dlig) and stylistic alternates (6 stylistic sets). PROST! For use in logos, magazines, posters, advertisement and packaging plus as webfont for decorative headlines. The font works best for display size. Have fun with this font & use the DEMO-FONT (with reduced glyph-set) FOR FREE!

Zt. Sigata is an experiment where combining the two font styles into one, namely sans serif and serif, maybe this sounds very strange, don't worry this has been designed with very deep consideration with the serif style superti water droplets in the foliage that present coolness in every word and simple style sans serif with softness on each side, So when combined the two will be an extraordinarily beautiful design invention. Zt. Sigata comes with 6 styles (Regular/ italic, Kozi / italic, Rame / italic) that from each style have their own uniqueness, so it further expands your design experiment, and is great for poster design, packaging, logos, films and thanks to the uniqueness of each style may look good either in magazines or kompanye branding effectively. I hope you have a blast using zt.Sigata Thanks for use this font ~ Khaiuns X zelowtype

The font collection is called "Plastun", it is a vintage display font for logotype. These collections contain script and sans serif font. Every font comes with 4 style typefaces (clean, rounded, rough and textured). Plastun gives more extras animal and farm in one pack illustrations. This script font includes some alternates and ligatures. This texture style includes some different stamps for uppercase and lowercase in sans serif. The Plastun matches apply in some designs such as the logo, poster, label, badge, packaging, t-shirt, branding, quotes and more custom design. Plastun features : 4 style typefaces (clean, rounded, rough and textured) Uppercase, lowercase, numeral, symbol, punctuation, ligature and alternate(ss01-ss05) in script font All-caps, numeral, symbol and punctuation in sans serif font Multilingual PUA Encoded Plastun includes : 9 fonts (script, sans serif and dingbat) 12 hand-drawn illustrations in dingbat

Romance Breakin Vintage Serif Font is a type of serif font with a classic design inspired by the vintage era. The font has a characteristic bold line that looks elegant and gives a classy impression to every text display. The uniqueness of this font lies in its serif style, which gives an elegant and romantic touch to every word and sentence written with this font. With its advantage in providing a vintage and romantic impression, “Romance Breakin” Vintage Serif Font is suitable for graphic design such as logos, letterheads, posters, greeting cards, or designs for social media. This font can also be used for design projects that require a classic and elegant touch, such as wedding party designs, invitations, and vintage-style related products. Multilingual Support If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me Thank you

Varisse spans over two centuries of type design and draws its inspiration from well-loved classics that are as fresh today as they were when they were created. The range stretches from a quintessential 18th century transitional serif to an uncompromising 20th century sans. Think Baskerville, think Gill. The idea was to create a family that shared similar forms and the same vertical metrics, allowing them to be mixed to provide impact and readability as required. With a generous x-height and a host of options, the Varisse family is ideally suited to branding, packaging, magazines and editorial. It also provides a wealth of opportunity in website presentation. The fonts are divided into five subfamilies by degree of ‘serification’. Varisse Sans Varisse Soft Sans Varisse (normal) Varisse Soft Serif Varisse Serif Each subfamily contains six weights and accompanying italics.

In the history of 20th century graphic arts, the evolution of the informal sans serif has been a uniquely American phenomenon. The ongoing saga of this (still as popular as ever) sub-genre dates back to the maturity of the Industrial Age and early Hollywood film titling, runs through the prosperous times of interwar print publications, sees mass flourishing during the various media propagations of the film type era, and solidifies itself as arguably the most common design element in the latter years of the century. Fun, bouncy, playful, and highly exciting, the casual sans serif is now all over game packaging, film and animation titles, book covers, food boxes, concert posters, and pretty much everywhere design aims to induce excitement about a product or an event. The casual sans is the natural high pill of typesetting. We figured it was high time for the casual sans to adapt to 21st century technology, gain more versatility, and become as much fun to use as the emotions it triggers. So we’re quite excited to issue Bananas, a fun sans serif family in 6 weights and 3 widths that can be used anywhere your designer’s imagination can take you. Rather than being based on a single design, Bananas was sourced from multiple American film era faces, all from 1950s and 1960s, when the casual sans genre was at its popular peak. Headliners’ Catalina and its very similar cousin, Letter Graphics’ Carmel, served as initial study points. Then a few Dave West designs informed the design development and weighting process, before narrow and wide takes were sketched out and included in the family. The entire development process happened in a highly precise interpolative environment. All Bananas fonts come with a full glyph complement supporting the majority of Latin languages, as well as five sets of figures, automatic fractions, quite a few ligatures, biform/unicase shapes and other stylistic alternates.

Petrarka may be described as a Condensed, Sans-Serif, Semi-Fatface Roman. Huh? Bear with me on this. The Fatface is a name given to the popular nineteenth-century romans that where characterized by an extremity of contrast between the thick and thin stroke. The earliest example that is generally familiar is Thorowgood, believed to have been designed by Robert Thorne and released by Thorowgood Foundry in 1820 as "Five-line Pica No. 5." Copied by many foundries, it became one of the more popular advertising types of the day. Later, in the period from about 1890 to 1950, you find a number of typeface designs with the thin stroke beefed up a bit, not quite so extreme. What you might call Semi-Fatfaced Romans begin to replace the extreme Fatfaces. Serifed designs like Bauer’s Bernard Roman Extra Bold and ATF’s Bold Antique appear. In addition, we see the development of semi-fatface lineals or Sans-Serif Semi-Fatfaces. Examples include Britannic (Stephenson Blake), Chambord Bold (Olive), Koloss (Ludwig & Mayer), Matthews (ATF) and Radiant Heavy (Ludlow). Petrarka has much in common with this latter group, but is distinguished by two salient features: it is condensed and it shows a strong blackletter influence, as seen in the ‘H’ particularly. Petrark was released about 1900 by the German foundry of Schelter & Giesecke of Leipzig and is one of the designs of the period that attempts to reconcile roman and blackletter traditions. Making a cameo appearance in this Multi-Lingual font is the Anglo-Saxon letter yogh (#729), which, along with the thorn and the eth, is always useful for preparing flyers in Old English. There are still pockets of resistance to the Norman French influence that washed up on England’s shores in 1066. This font stands with King Canute, seeking to hold back the tide (ignoring the fact that Canute was a Dane). Support the fight to preserve Anglo-Saxon culture. Buy Petrarka ML today. Petrarka Initials brings together the Petrarka upper case letters with a very sympatico Art Nouveau rendering of a female face.

Presenting the ✨The Qostter Retro Serif Font✨ by alitdesign. The Qostter Retro Serif font is inspired by stylish designs from the 80s to 90s. At that time the font style like "The Qotter" had a firm and trendy impression. The Qotter retro font has a wide selection of alternative characters and swashes that make it easy to create bold retro-style designs. The Qostter Retro Serif font is very suitable for making designs with retro concepts, simple and playful designs, for example making magazine cover designs, music covers, YouTube thumbs, text headers, logotypes and so on with an elegant retort theme. Besides that this font is very easy to use both in design and non-design programs because everything changes and glyphs are supported by Unicode (PUA). The Qostter Retro Serif font has a total of 758 glyphs including symbol, multilingual and alternative glyphs. We really enjoyed the process of making The Qostter Retro Serif font, we hope you are also happy when using The Qostter Retro Serif font. Language Support : Latin, Basic, Western European, Central European, South European,Vietnamese. In order to use the beautiful swashes, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw. but if your software doesn't have Glyphs panel, you can install additional swashes font files.

Introducing Behind The Nineties Sans - the perfect counterpart to our beloved font, "Behind The Nineties." This new sans-serif addition effortlessly captures the classic vibes of the 80’s and 90’s while infusing a contemporary touch for a timeless yet modern aesthetic. Key Features: Sans Serif Sophistication: "Behind The Nineties Sans" exudes sleek and modern elegance, offering a clean alternative to its serif predecessor. Regular and Italic Styles: Whether you prefer a straightforward look or a touch of italicized flair, this font provides versatility for all your design needs. Classic with a Contemporary Twist: Embrace the spirit of the 80’s and 90’s with a font that seamlessly blends classic elements with contemporary sophistication. Editorial Excellence: Elevate your editorial projects with the precision and clarity of "Behind The Nineties Sans," ensuring a polished and professional appearance. Luxury Serif Companion: Pair it with "Behind The Nineties" serif font for a cohesive design that radiates opulence and luxury. Dramatic Impact: Make a statement with the font's dramatic presence, capturing attention and adding a bold touch to your creative endeavors. Multi-language support including Western European, Central European, South Eastern European, South American, Oceanian, and even Esperanto. "Behind The Nineties Sans" is your go-to font for achieving a harmonious blend of nostalgia and modern flair. It's time to redefine classic design with this exquisite sans-serif typeface.

Performance is a set of perforated plates that appear to be characters. The construction of characters is described by sequences of holes whose shape and placement define the appearance and mood of font styles. An interesting feature of the design is an absence of side bearings and leading. Due to this feature a text article set by Performance forms a perforated coherent surface similar to postage stamp block.

Trilight is a result of my fascination (obsession?) with how the appearance of a typeface can impact on the tactile as well as visual sense to strengthen and guide its imapct. It consists of simple block characters with a triple highlight to give the effect of dimension. The Trilight family consists of both highlighted and solid characters to provide a two color display without the need to convert characters to outline.

Fat and sassy, this ultrabold brush font is based on the works of lettering legend Mike Stevens as seen in his book, Mastering Layout. A natural choice for can't-miss headlines, this typeface also works surprising well for short blocks of body copy. Both the OpenType and Truetype versions of this font contain the complete Latin language character set (Unicode 1252) plus support for Central European (Unicode 1250) languages as well.

Meet Kidsnote, where each letter is like a letter in the margins of the page, written with a ballpoint pen. This dissimilar family of different fonts is framed by the atmosphere of handwritten notes. From block and cursive letters to underlining and mini-doodles, every typeface captures the feeling of writing with a real pen. Like the pages of a notebook, written in small handwriting. Features: - Extras - Kerning

A condensed loose brush style. This font has a breezy elegance and casual sophistication, yet in a different context or color, it could be seen as nervous and urban. A weird dichotomy. Set in smallish text blocks, it has a surprisingly even color. This is due to a balace that has been struck between keeping the roughness and idiosyncracies of a hand-drawn face but ensuring an overall regularity.

RealFat is a typeface that has been started with the intention to create a very squared bold font with a futuristic look and feel. The squared shapes also refer to the architecture of big city buildings with small windows. This font fits perfect on modern posters, flyers and other artwork or pixel based work. Most characters have the same width and height and are perfect 'building-blocks' for typographic compositions.

Suitable for headlines, subheads and short copy blocks, this decidedly Deco number is based on Willard T. Sniffin’s Hollywood, designed for American Type Founders in 1932. A few of the fussier details have been modified from the original to render a clean, streamlined and sophisticated face. All versions of this font include the Unicode 1250 Central European character set in addition to the standard Unicode 1252 Latin set.

VU Rock nRoll is a block display typeface, that comes in English and Greek characters, numerals and a very basic set of marks. It was inspired by graffiti and custom made wooden type. Having a rough look, it feels appropriate for short messaging and titles since its design is dynamic. Posters, labels and tees would host beautiful designs, that can stand out! Choose your text and rock n roll!

Introducing Chokana, a nostalgic multi-line font inspired by the 70's aesthetic. Font looks amazing as alone words and as full text blocks. Also it good for bright captions and unforgettable logos. This font could be the perfect solution if you want to give a lovely retro touch to your designs. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thank you and have a great day!

The original characters, and now-rarely-seen alternate characters, for Memphis, designed by Emil Rudolf Weiss for American Type Founders in 1930, provided the pattern for this wispy, ultralight typeface. Although intended primarily for headlines, this typeface can also be used for brief blocks of text, if set 18 pt. or larger. Both versions of the font include 1252 Latin, 1250 CE (with localization for Romanian and Moldovan).

Newt Juice is a funky hand drawn font comes in both Outline and Fill styles. Put them both together in your favorite application and you can get some really organic looks. Newt Juice is perfect for kid stuff or grungy graffiti. While it is an all caps font, the upper and lower case characters are position differently to create more randomness. Be the first on your block to juice the newt!

ITC Johnston is the result of the combined talents of Dave Farey and Richard Dawson, based on the work of Edward Johnston. In developing ITC Johnston, says London type designer Dave Farey, he did “lots of research on not only the face but the man.” Edward Johnston was something of an eccentric, “famous for sitting in a deck chair and carrying toast in his pockets.” (The deck chair was his preferred furniture in his own living room; the toast was so that he’d always have sustenance near at hand.) Johnston was also almost single-handedly responsible, early in this century, for the revival in Britain of the Renaissance calligraphic tradition of the chancery italic. His book Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering (with its peculiar extraneous comma in the title) is a classic on its subject, and his influence on his contemporaries was tremendous. He is perhaps best remembered, however, for the alphabet that he designed in 1916 for the London Underground Railway (now London Transport), which was based on his original “block letter” model. Johnston’s letters were constructed very carefully, based on his study of historical writing techniques at the British Museum. His capital letters took their form from the best classical Roman inscriptions. “He had serious rules for his sans serif style,” says Farey, “particularly the height-to-weight ratio of 1:7 for the construction of line weight, and therefore horizontals and verticals were to be the same thickness. Johnston’s O’s and C’s and G’s and even his S’s were constructions of perfect circles. This was a bit of a problem as far as text sizes were concerned, or in reality sizes smaller than half an inch. It also precluded any other weight but medium ‘ any weight lighter or heavier than his 1:7 relationship.” Johnston was famously slow at any project he undertook, says Farey. “He did eventually, under protest, create a bolder weight, in capitals only ‘ which took twenty years to complete.” Farey and his colleague Richard Dawson have based ITC Johnston on Edward Johnston’s original block letters, expanding them into a three-weight type family. Johnston himself never called his Underground lettering a typeface, according to Farey. It was an alphabet meant for signage and other display purposes, designed to be legible at a glance rather than readable in passages of text. Farey and Dawson’s adaptation retains the sparkling starkness of Johnston’s letters while combining comfortably into text. Johnston’s block letter bears an obvious resemblance to Gill Sans, the highly successful type family developed by Monotype in the 1920s. The young Eric Gill had studied under Johnston at the London College of Printing, worked on the Underground project with him, and followed many of the same principles in developing his own sans serif typeface. The Johnston letters gave a characteristic look to London’s transport system after the First World War, but it was Gill Sans that became the emblematic letter form of British graphic design for decades. (Johnston’s sans serif continued in use in the Underground until the early ‘80s, when a revised and modernized version, with a tighter fit and a larger x-height, was designed by the London design firm Banks and Miles.) Farey and Dawson, working from their studio in London’s Clerkenwell, wanted to create a type family that was neither a museum piece nor a bastardization, and that would “provide an alternative of the same school” to the omnipresent Gill Sans. “These alphabets,” says Farey, referring to the Johnston letters, “have never been developed as contemporary styles.” He and Dawson not only devised three weights of ITC Johnston but gave it a full set of small capitals in each weight ‘ something that neither the original Johnston face nor the Gill faces have ‘ as well as old-style figures and several alternate characters.

A practical sans serif need not appear dry, constructed, or derivative. It can excel in its sensible role and yet possess a distinct flair. Iskra (spark or flash) is a new sans serif designed by Tom Grace. It was conceived to challenge the limits between utilitarian and decorative. Sporting a low-contrast profile, it is a study of bridled energy in the Cyrillic and Latin scripts. Its eye-catching forms are an oblique tribute to the less-predictable style of brush lettering, and contain daring, elegant curves, economical proportions, and a slight top-heavy asymmetry. Its warmth comes from the subtle emphasis on the structures and details of individual letterforms, whereas its solidity is demonstrated through its balanced rhythm over long spans of text. Each font supports over 75 languages and is hand-tuned for a pleasing legibility and aesthetic both in print and on screen. This type family makes an excellent choice for presentations, articles, branding, and advertising. Available in 14 styles, Iskra represents a fresh, stimulating, forward-looking perspective on how we see both the vitality of the particular letter and the overall harmony of text. Iskra is available in three different character repertoires: Iskra, complete set — Iskra CYR, Cyrillic-based subset with a Latin supplement — Iskra Cyr, Latin-based subset. Both the LAT and CYR series conform to most standard codepages used by typical software covering their respective scripts. All three series have similar OpenType functionality."