Richard Lipton’s inspiration for Englewood came from the calligraphic hand of Philip Grushkin. Lipton has always admired his somewhat loose but disciplined hand and felt that it was worthy of keeping this style alive in a typeface that could be a somewhat accurate emulation of the warmth and life found in these letterforms. Spontaneity is a challenge to capture in a type treatment but with Englewood, Lipton hopes to honor Mr. Grushkin with a design that works especially well for an invitation, a menu, or in any display setting that calls for an informal calligraphic hand. This single weight display script includes small caps — somewhat of a rarity for a handwritten script — for flexible typesetting, along with 42 alternates that include 18 contextual ligatures to simulate the appearance of spontaneous writing.

Please welcome Barela. Barela is a handwritten font and has character such as friendly, casual type family and smooth. It is intended to be used everywhere where a pleasant feeling should be conveyed like advertising, food, fashion or something that include happiness. It will look great on all of your products and make them more fancy and relax. With the uniqueness of the shapes, Barela can attract attention of anyone and be an eye catching font in your design. The bold letters of this font makes it stand out from the crowd. This font also provide with feature such as Uppercase & Lowercase, Number, Punctuation, Multilingual Support (Western and Europe), Support in Mac and Windows OS and easy to install. We hope you like our Barela and thank you for purchasing. Scratch Design

Rumble Born is a retro bold script which will bring you back to 60s feel but still with fun and playful look. This font perfectly made to be applied especially in logo, and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual ligatures alternates swashes PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. For accessing opentype feature, kindly check this link letterhend.com/tutorials/using-opentype-feature-in-any-software/ Email us to letterhend@gmail.com if you need something! Happy Designing!

While watching the 1947 holiday classic “Miracle on 34th Street”, one scene in particular presented a chance to develop a retro type design. ‘Kris Kringle’ suggests to a mother visiting with her child in the Macy’s toy department to try Gimbel’s for a toy she couldn’t find at the store. The news of this behavior reaches Mr. Macy himself, who embraces the practice as a brilliant marketing strategy. A number of departments are then presented with reference books containing competitor ads, and the visual of the cover stating “R.H. Macy & Co. Shopping Guide for the Convenience of Our Customers” shows on screen. The thin, Art Deco sans serif monoline with a few serif-like hooks added onto some characters became the basis for Shopping Guide JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Blanc Seing is a signature decorative font with which you can achieve a handwritten-type lettering feeling. Blanc Seing is a multilingual lettering font with Greek (of course), Latin characters and diacritics. This signature style is perfect for your modern graphic design needs. This font has a really nice flow so you can use it in a large body of text if you want to give it a touch of personality. It can also be used on social media content, for branding or packaging applications. Also, this is the ideal typeface for organic product branding and packaging. Additionally you can use its romantic vibes for wedding invitation designs. Especially if you are looking for a font for Instagram quote posts or any other social media content, this typeface is for you!

Give your typographic designs a touch of retro style with Amderais! Amderais is one of our 2022 fonts inspired by the famous retro typographic designs of the late 60s to 70s. This font has an extruded version so you can easily create retro effect fonts. This typeface is very suitable to be applied especially to logos, and various other formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting/wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make-up, stationery, novels, and labels or other types of fonts. advertising purposes. Feature : - upper & lower case - numbers and punctuation - multilingual - ligature - alternative - swashes - PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports the OpenType feature and the Glyphs pane like many Adobe and Corel Draw applications, so that you can view and access all variations of Glyphs.

Elyanor is a classic display serif font, drawing inspiration from French Renaissance type. It is available in both regular and italic styles, making it versatile for use in various design projects. Elyanor's serifs make it perfect for creating headlines and titles that grab attention. Additionally, its classic look lends itself well to editorial design, where it can add a touch of sophistication and elegance to text-heavy layouts. Elyanor is also suitable for use in monograms, logos, and branding materials, where its distinctive and memorable appearance can help establish a brand's identity. Its versatility extends to poster design, allowing it to create bold and eye-catching typography that stands out from the crowd. Elyanor is a versatile font that offers a unique and shabby-chic aesthetic, perfect for a wide range of design projects.

Present to you for New Modern Serif, Stract! Stract is a sophisticated ligature and alternate serif from us. This typeface has been made carefully to make sure its premium quality and luxury feel. The ligatures and alternates makes this typeface unique and stands out rather than the regular serif font. This font is very suitable for logo, headline, tittle, and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : - Ligatures & Alternates - Letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuation - No special software is required to use this typeface even work in Canva - Multilingual Support Please contact us if you have any questions. Enjoy crafting and thanks for supporting us! Thank you.

Fathan a fonts of stylish calligraphy that have a varied base line, fine lines, classic and elegant touches. Can be used for various purposes. Such as title, signature, logo, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, nameplate, label, news, poster, badge etc. Fathan displays stylish calligraphy alternate characters. Includes initial letters and terminals, alternatives, ligatures and multiple language support. Programs that support in this font is a Adobe Photo Shop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Corel Draw and Microsoft Office. OpenType features can be accessed by using open type smart programs such as adobe photo shop, adobe Illustrator, adobe indesign, corel draw and microsoft office. can also be accessed through the character map. Special greetings for all, all of us all smoothly in running the routin. Thank you for your purchase!

Patmos Serif is a hand drawn serif font, inspired by the art of the cyrillic calligraphy, as well as the script of the Greek Orthodox art. The font contains Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets and it is delivered in Opentype and Truetype format. It supports Central, Eastern, Western European, Baltic, Turkish, Greek and Russian languages. Patmos Serif has a variety of stylistic alternates and classes, titling altrenates, discretionary and standard ligatures and it is fully unicode-mapped (PUA encoded). The standard ligatures of the font are 4 decorative ornaments, that you may add at the end of a word and they match perfectly with the titling alternates. All you have to do is to make sure that ‘standard ligatures’ are activated in your application and then type "d" and a number from 1 to 4.

Peckham, designed by Daniel Hernández, is a contemporary and versatile slab serif of 8 weights (and matching italics)—ranging from an elegant Thin to a heavy Black—with strong serifs that give it a playful look while preserving the overall geometric structure of the font. Peckham comes with the standard Latinotype set of 395 glyphs resulting in a language support for 94% of the languages using the Latin alphabet. The font also includes stylistic alternates (A, R, Y, a) which provides extra versatility. The name of the font reminds us of the city that witnessed the birth of Vincent Figgins (1766). Figgins became known as the type designer who first included slab serif fonts in a commercial catalog. Peckham pays homage to classic typefaces yet looks very contemporary. Digital editing and corrections by Alfonso García.

Introducing, Annette Bradford - Ballpoint Signature Script. This typeface made from a natural ballpoint handwriting, so if you need digital signature or natural hand writing for quotes, this is the perfect typeface for you! This font perfectly made to be applied especially in logo, and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual ligatures alternates extra doodle (in glyphs panel) PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. Email us to letterhend@gmail.com if you need something! Happy Designing!

@andinistas presents Bleak , an experimental font designed by #carlosfabiancg. Bleak is based on the imaginative use of contrast applied in the empty space and on the dramatic distributions of the wide and compressed horizontal of more than 400 textured symmetric capitals inspired by compositions of the Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, among others. In the Europe of the 20s, scarce resources prevailed, which gave these great artists the firm determination and dedication to create a visual vocabulary, characteristic of the composition with movable types of wood and metal. As they did not readily dispose of the forms of the letters they required, they did not hesitate to construct them with metal rulers, ornaments and other improvised pieces and remains and obtained in the forgotten corners of the typographic composition workshop.

Romance Story is a classy handwriting font with a distinctive curve, inside with some interesting features that are perfect for an authentic-style project. Romance Story is perfectly suited to signature, stationery, logo, typography quotes, magazine or book cover, website header, clothing, branding, packaging design and more. A handwritten script font containing upper and lowercase characters, numerals and a large range of punctuation. Romance Story Includes: - Basic Character ( Uppercase and Lowercase, Numerals, Symbol and punctuation ) - Multilingual support - Ligatures - PUA Encoded - This font including alternate glyph. To access the alternate glyphs, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw. How to get access alternate glyphs with designing software to open type fonts check this link : http: //adobe.ly/1m1fn4Y

Foncy Serif features open, ligature and alternative types that are packaged in 3 fonts: Regular, Italic and Bold. Foncy fonts include uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation and multilingual support. Foncy Serif is an elegant and unique serif font, thin yet impressive. Expertly designed to make your creations look amazing, this font will look beautiful and impressive with a variety of characters to display and is perfect for use on various ideas such as Editorial Projects, Logo Designs, Weddings, Clothing Branding, Product Packaging, Magazine Headers or simply as a stylish text overlay for any background image which will make your presentation more stunning and stand out. Foncy Serif also supports Multi Language and is PUA encoded !! Give us "likes" and support our work. Thank you very much. Have a nice day and Enjoy!!!

Kabusi San Serif is a premium font family with 18 different styles to choose from. Designed to aid you in the creation of visually stunning projects of all types. It is the most widely used typeface on the internet, in printed materials, and in other design projects. This Kabusi San Serif font embodies both modernity and classicism while remaining simple and clean in appearance. Apart from their great looks, this premium font family will assist you in giving your company a more unique look that will pay off! of course, your various design projects will be perfect and extraordinary if you use this font because this font is equipped with a font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your extraordinary projects.

It's the Summer of Love all over again with this groovy psychedelic font. Designed in 2019, this typeface harks back to the carefree days of the late 1960s. Whimsical and offbeat with its swaying verticals, it nonetheless remains one of the more legible reimaginings of the genre, sporting all of the handlettered vibe of posters and album covers from the original hippie era, but with polished color and weight that evens out the legibility even at relatively small point sizes. Predominantly a unicase font, with a couple of alternate glyphs from upper to lowercase, Summer of Love works best as a large headline face, and benefits greatly from twisting and morphing the type blocks as was common during the original psych era. It's a real groove machine, baby.

Signature Script is a smooth pen script with large display capitals and small but legible lowercase letters. It’s ideal for logo, signature, poster, brochure or any display use. Signature Script is great for typing headlines or a restaurant logo - it’s stylish but legible enough due to its smooth shapes. Signature Script has at least three alternates for every basic lowercase letters that are automatically connected to next letter nicely. This feature is coded inside Standard Ligature so I recommend keeping that on. There’s also Stylistic Alternates for every standard Uppercase letter and Swash, Stylistic and Titling Alternates on certain lowercase letters that can be used to spice up your words. The font is PUA encoded so you can access extras in most graphic design softwares even without OpenType support.

Originally made for a health food store chain we cannot name, Pipa is the embodiment of organic display typography. Although it draws inspiration from some cold type ideas, like the uncredited Atlantis from VGC and a couple of older photo-lettering faces, its overall expression is right in line with what has become today's vernacular in integrity organic display packaging. Pipa's construct approaches the thick-and-thin idea from a rarely used perspective, where the flow in form contrast naturally seeps out from within each stroke, while minimizing the amount of strokes helps the totality of the setting come positively alive. This is bead and lava lamp psychedelia for the 21st century. Pipa comes with plenty of alternates, including some very cool unicase variations, and extended Latin language support.

Logtown Duo is a hand-drawn font that blends vintage charm with a rugged edge. It's the perfect choice for your vintage-themed logos, branding, and adventurous designs. This font combo combines both elegant Script and Slab Serif styles, giving you options from solid to textured looks. Plus, it's got your back with support for multiple languages, making sure your message reaches everyone. Whether you're aiming for nostalgia or a modern twist on the classics, Logtown Duo has you covered for stylish and impactful designs. Features A set of uppercase and lowercase glyphs Number, symbol, and punctuation Multilingual Support Alternates, ligatures, and swashes (script version) Type j_1 until j_9 to features swash, ligatures will automatically replace the standard letter pairs whenever available, when using any OpenType capable software (script version).

Introducing, Valegan Display Font, display font with a touch of vintage look and feel. This font duo is also perfectly made to be applied especially in logo, headline, signage and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : Regular & Stamp Style uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual alternates / swashes and ligatures PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. How to access opentype feature : letterhend.com/tutorials/using-opentype-feature-in-any-software/ Email us to letterhend@gmail.com if you need something! Happy Designing!

CA Zentrum is a compelling mix of conciseness and pragmatism. Bold, distinct and original, contemporary and versatile. At a closer look, it reveals rounder reading-friendly forms. The choice of weights aims at an easy, straight forward use. A set of five well-balanced weights and three widths ranging from light to black and from condensed to wide. This variety ought to be enough to cover most needs without throwing the typographer into questions. The family’s glyph set supports over 100 Latin languages. With its blend of timelessness and modernity, the type-family is uniquely suited for modern corporate visual languages, websites, corporate design, editorial design and advertising. Careful spacing and a great choice of OpenType features make it especially well suited for text copy and/or editorial design.

Brim Combined packs all of the character of the popular layered typeface, Brim Narrow, into three eye-catching font styles. Inspired by antique wood type from the 1800s, Brim is warm and tactile. Its innovative styles produce both striking headlines and sophisticated titles, making it perfect for posters, packaging and logotypes. Brim Combined makes it even easier to achieve punchy headlines on the web. This flattened version of Brim does not require professional design software to use and is compatible with Microsoft Word. • Combined 1 features Brim’s elegant, handmade line work • Combined 2 includes a drop shade with an outline • Combined 3 has an offset shade and a reversed-out face Brim is an all-caps typeface with Western European, Central European and South Eastern European language support.

Bonna and Bonna Bold is a casual calligraphy family Font with an original textured appearance that will allow you to create an effect even more authentic. It’s an exclusively Open Type release with 815 glyphs, 93 ornaments to combine with letters and decorate your text. There are plenty of options to create something unique and special with lots of possibility an infinity of combinations: standard and discretionary ligatures, several swashes and stylistics alternates for each letter, catchwords, tails that can be added to the beginning or end of each letter, and much more. These ravishing fonts have already an extended character set to support Central and Eastern as well as Western European languages. Bonna was designed to help your projects look more creative, wonderful and fascinating! Have fun with it!

The first thought that crosses a type designer’s mind upon seeing a slab serif is: I wonder what it would look if it was serifless. And so, after building Henderson Slab , I followed my instincts and gave it a sans serif companion. Henderson Sans comes in seven weights plus italics, each of which casting an eye on the crafty lettering origins of what is now the ubiquitous mode of corporate communication. This sans serif is a glyph-for-glyph match for Henderson Slab , inheriting pretty much all of its features and quirks, like the wealth of alternates and swashed variants — simple, endearing or otherwise. Henderson Sans is a family of seven weights plus italics, all full of open features and extended Latin language support. (Basic version do not include alternates, swashes, etc).

The genesis of ApronSoft font type family is inspired by soft-vertical structure of airplane window. On the other hand ApronSoft is making a reference to technological design mentality of early 2000's. In short texts it has stable view and also humanist effect. Very suitable for mobile apps, web designs, sportive & technological product packs and ads designs. Especially Narrow Bold and Condensed Bold Italic weights have fluid and strong expression for striking headlines. User friendly ApronSoft serves rich opentype properties; small capitals, alternative letters (a, c, e, g, k, l, q, s, y, A, C, G, K, M, N, R, S), stylistic sets, standart and optional ligatures, oldstyle figures, tabular linings, arrows, bullets and wide money currencies, fractions and math symbols. With reduced file size, it’s softer now!

Do you hear that sound of Dick Dale's guitar? Here it is! Introducing you a new font family with retro surf rock vibes! Straight outta retro vinyl covers and surf gig posters to your font collection! We're all missed the sun, so grab this family and get some of the summer vibes. No matter what your next design project – a tiki t-shirt collection / summer rock festival or gigs / greeting cards / or a header for your new zine, - you'll get your goals with this family. A lot of alternates will give you a hand written's mood and absolutely unique typographic style. Up to 10 styles for some of them. Open Type Features as Stylistic Alternates, Small Caps and Fractions. Three styles: Clear, Roughen and Scratched. Three widths: Light, Regular and Bold.

Mowaq es una tipografía limpia, abstracta, moderna, minimalista y de trazos sencillos pero elegantes. Sus cuatro pesos hacen un juego visual de degradados muy marcados. La tipografía Mowaq fue inspirada a partir de los estilos mayúsculas sans-serif, como uso de encabezados y subtítulos en dos libros donde se necesitaba mostrar un aspecto limpio, moderno y minimalista. Los tipos minúsculas fueron adaptados posteriormente a la familia Mowaq. Mowaq is a clean, abstract, modern, minimalist typeface with simple but elegant lines. Its four weights make a visual game of very marked gradients. The Mowaq typeface was inspired by sans-serif uppercase styles, used for headings and subheadings in two books where a clean, modern and minimalist look was needed. The lowercase types were later adapted to the Mowaq family.

Meringue, a transitional serif face, is designed specially for modern glossy magazines. It is ideal for fashion photography, fashion publications and mag covers, and can be used for headings and captions, as well as for body copy. The italic version, with its wave-like vertical strokes, creates yet more stylishly expressive feel. Text set in Meringue has an elegant weightless look, and the strongest effect can be achieved with high-quality printing. The typeface includes old style figures, ligatures, and alternative characters that allow creating truly versatile design by means of typography. Designers may also find Meringue perfect for beautiful presentations, invitations and other special occasion papers. Meringue was designed during the Type and Typography course at the British Higher School of Art and Design, supervised by Ilya Ruderman.

The most sensational design of the decade is now at large. These high-definition fonts can be used for titles, banners, tattooing, logotypes and many more places. Be it domestic or industrial, formal or informal, it can be used in every field imaginable. It has a sensational, funky style and remarks the current youth's style. Such a font style has never been seen by the world, until today. These designs are 100% original and handmade. I searched a million miles but found this as the most appropriate idea for the world of font types at this time. It's the coolest, funkiest and the best font ever made. It's the era of graffiti and 3D, and we've combined both to give you CRESCENT.. So, use it, love it, buy it!

English HU Basic Sans is a body text font with simple Sans structure. It is well used in medias that are appropriate to use sensible font types. yet, its shows it's stylish aspects with it's wide main body. Greek Το HU Basic Round είναι μια γραμματοσειρά κειμένου σώματος με απλή δομή Sans. Χρησιμοποιείται καλά σε μέσα που είναι κατάλληλα για χρήση λογικών τύπων γραμματοσειρών. Ωστόσο, δείχνει ότι είναι κομψές πτυχές με το μεγάλο κύριο σώμα του. Υπάρχουν 1 βάρη του HU Basic Round : light Cyrillic HU Basic Round - это шрифт основного текста с простой структурой Sans. Он хорошо используется в средствах массовой информации, которые подходят для использования разумных типов шрифтов. тем не менее, это показывает его стильные аспекты с его широким основным корпусом. HU Basic Round имеет 1 толщины: light

Roadhouse is a layering typeface family that is part of the greater Evanston type collection, which is inspired by American typefaces commonly used at the turn of the century leading up to Prohibition. Roadhouse reflects the style of lettering used on tavern signage and printed ephemera during the early 20th century. The family comes with 31 layering fonts, from top layers like bevels, highlights, stripes, outlines, as well as extruding and drop layers. It also includes 2 script fonts, upright and oblique, as well as 9 complimentary text fonts for smaller text settings. Either get the entire family of extrusions, bevel angles or the basic family with ready to use fonts that don’t need to be layered. Roadhouse is a great display typeface for logos, branding, packaging, and advertising.

Moron is a distinctive and idiosyncratic display typeface: a winsome-but-nasty, old-and-yet-new drawing of Victorian sans-serif letterforms (with some 1970s sausage fonts thrown in). Moron started life as a sans-serif redrawing of Nylon but developed into a unique typeface with a character all its own. It is based, very loosely, upon Victorian Tuscan and Grotesque type found in the churches and cemeteries of the city of Glasgow. These letterforms originated before the dawn of modernism and at a time when the Arts and Crafts Movement was flourishing. In this age of early mass production and mechanisation, the Victorian ability to balance functionality with ornamentation had fascinating results. The typography of that period displays a unique combination of industrial heft and romantic decoration.

Telemark is a monolinear slab serif influenced by the wide serif typefaces of the 19th century. The name refers to the vintage form of skiing which was introduced in Norway at the same period of time and allowed more fluid turns. After the Telemark style was replaced by newer techniques in the Alpine countries it has experienced a rise in popularity in recent years. The Telemark type family features the three weights in an additional label style which allows an uncomplicated creation of editable pointers, banners and cartouches. Different combinations of end pieces result in a great variety of designs. Telemark is suitable for headlines and logotypes and complements script typefaces as well as any neutral grotesque. Details include 207 characters in three weights, a total of six styles and manually edited kerning.

Hello World, Introducing, Hi Maria is a beauty script font suitable for your design project needs, such as; wedding themes, Christmas themes, social media posts, quotes, overlays on images, tagline logos, posters, print needs, website banners, and more. Features A set of uppercase and lowercase glyphs Number, symbol, and punctuation Multilingual Support Some Swashes and Ligatures So Easy to Use Access Swashes by keyboard key parenleft ' ( ' to feature beginning swash 1 key bracketleft ' [ ' to feature beginning swash 2 key plus ' + ' to feature middle swash 1 key equal ' = ' to feature middle swash 2 key parenright ' ) ' to feature ending swash 1 key bracketright ' ] ' to feature ending swash 2 For Example: type [love+you] Thank you a million times for downloading and using this font for your projects. Enjoy this font and happy creating!

The Dorrington is a font trio package contain a monoline script and sans serif which looks great to be paired especially for vintage and adventure theme! This font trio is purposely made for headline, display or logotype, and signature which need a standout appearing. This font is also suitable to be applied especially in logo, and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : 2 Monoline Script Font and 1 Sans serif font uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual alternates & ligatures PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations.\

Plantin is a family of text typefaces created by Monotype in 1913. Their namesake, Christophe Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn in Dutch), was born in France during the year 1520. In 1549, he moved to Antwerp, located in present-day Belgium. There he began printing in 1555. For a brief time, he also worked at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. Typefaces used in Christophe Plantin's books inspired future typographic developments. In 1913, the English Monotype Corporation's manager Frank Hinman Pierpont directed the Plantin revival. Based on 16th century specimens from the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, specifically a type cut by Robert Granjon and a separate cursive Italic, the Plantin" typeface was conceived. Plantin was drawn for use in mechanical typesetting on the international publishing markets. Plantin, and the historical models that inspired it, are old-style typefaces in the French manner, but with x-height that are larger than those found in Claude Garamond's work. Plantin would go on to influence another Monotype design, Times New Roman. Stanley Morison and Victor Larent used Plantin as a reference during that typeface's cutting. Like Garamond, Plantin is exceptionally legible and makes a classic, elegant impression. Plantin is indeed a remarkably accommodating type face. The firm modelling of the strokes and the serifs in the letters make the mass appearance stronger than usual; the absence of thin elements ensures a good result on coated papers; and the compact structure of the letters, without loss of size makes Plantin one of the economical faces in use. In short, it is essentially an all-purpose face, excellent for periodical or jobbing work, and very effective in many sorts of book and magazine publishing. Plantin's Bold weight was especially optimized to provide ample contrast: bulkiness was avoided by introducing a slight sharpening to the serifs' forms."

a, g, k and y It was a forensic examination by Jason Smith of his existing designs that laid the groundwork for FS Jack. Jason made a list of unique characteristics that would give the sans serif font its typographic thumbprint, which included an unusually large x-height and slightly off-the-wall letters like the lower-case “a”, “g”, “k” and “y”. “I wanted to make something that was slightly uncomfortable,” says Jason, “and in doing so simplify the quirkiness down to a few letters.” Fernando Mello did “the rest of the cooking”, filling the design out and making the additional weights. Tipos Latinos Upon its release in 2010, FS Jack was submitted by Fernando, who is Brazilian, for the esteemed type design biennial, Tipos Latinos, where it was selected as a winner in the Families category. It went on to be selected for type exhibitions throughout Latin America and around the world. “FS Jack is a workhorse,” says Fernando, “but also very ownable and distinctive, and available in a good range of weights, crafted by Jason and I.” Corporate “FS Jack took a couple of years to get noticed and is still fairly underused,” says Jason, “which is good in a way, for our Brandfont clients that have adopted it.” FS Jack was chosen as the signature font for The Shard in London, from its signage down to business cards. Fontsmith also worked with Lloyds Bank to customise FS Jack into a bespoke font for the bank’s updated brand identity – part of Fontsmith’s Brandfont service, which you can read about here. Fat Jack Included in the FS Jack family – just – is FS Jack Poster, the super-heavy weight of the range. “That was a last minute addition,” says Fernando, “after Jason and I started talking about how much we liked Gill KO, a typeface that is almost comically fat.”

Oddsorts is delighted to present Bradley Wayside and Bradley Chicopee as its début offerings. Begun in 2000 as a wedding gift for the designer’s wife and used privately for years, they’re finally available to the public. The fonts were inspired by the masterful art nouveau lettering of Will H. Bradley, whose posters for Ault & Wiborg printing inks and Victor Bicycles continue to draw collectors after more than a century. Wayside and Chicopee expand the twenty-odd characters Bradley drew into a comprehensive multiscript system that includes modern Greek and extended Cyrillic alphabets, ordinals, automatic fractions, and ornaments. Bradley Wayside and Chicopee derive much of their charm from an organic mix of shape and spacing intrinsic to hand drawings. Mimicking that spirit in type used to mean painstaking substitution and adjustment of characters. The Bradley fonts make imaginative use of OpenType’s power to achieve the same effect — minus all the work. Wayside and Chicopee contain alternate forms for every letter — up to seven for some characters. Part of what makes these Bradley types delightfully “smart” fonts is that the fonts themselves actually choose the variation best suited to a letter’s place in a word. All you need to do is turn on your software’s “Ligatures” or “Contextual Alternates” option and the Bradleys do the rest. The alternates even work in most word processors. Bradley Wayside and Chicopee are available in “Standard” and “Pro” editions. The Pro editions sport all the bells and whistles, including the alternates. They support over one hundred forty languages and include localized forms especially for setting Bulgarian, Serbian, Polish, Romanian, and Turkish. The Standard editions are geared toward casual use and are ideal for license as webfonts, where streamlined character sets mean faster load times.