The Latin, or Roman, alphabet was originally adapted from the Etruscan alphabet during the 7th century BC to write Latin. Since then it has had many different forms, and been adapted to write many other languages. According to Roman legend, the Cimmerian Sibyl, Carmenta, created the Latin alphabet by adapting the Greek alphabet used in the Greek colony of Cumae in southern Italy. This was introduced to Latium by Evander, her son. 60 years after the Trojan war. There is no historical evidence to support this story, which comes from the Roman author, Gaius Julius Hyginus (64BC - 17AD). The earliest known inscriptions in the Latin alphabet date from the 6th century BC. It was adapted from the Etruscan alphabet during the 7th century BC. The letters Y and Z were taken from the Greek alphabet to write Greek loan words. Other letters were added from time to time as the Latin alphabet was adapted for other languages.

A characteristic of the Minea font family is the achievement of the calligraphic handwriting effect. In addition to basic, simple letter forms, it contains a large number of additional stylistic alternatives and ligatures that, by combining and changing without repetition, give the effect of calligraphic writing. Some of these characters can be changed by automatically turning on a particular OpenType function, when ligatures replace the combination of letters that are part of them, the letter is replaced by a certain alternative when found in a given context, and capital letters are replaced with decorative initials. Letter swap functions can be used in all programs that support OpenType programming. Minea is an attractive font that is sleek, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read. The Minea font family, based on original calligraphic sketches, contains a total of six weights. Thin, regular and medium weights have ligatures and alternate letter shapes, which help make the syllable look like an authentic calligraphic print. Semi-bold, bold, and black weights contain only basic letter shapes. The font family contains Latin and Cyrillic. Includes Russian and Serbian alternative letter forms. The family of calligraphic fonts Minea can be used on various occasions, and is intended for use in print and online. Can be used in the realization of certain tasks, unusual advertisements, packaging and invitations, diplomas ... as well as for all purposes where this type of letter is needed.

Colorful Candy is funny hand letering font make from hand lettering ideas in typeface. Each one works perfectly in conjunction with the others so you can mix and match them until your hearts content! The possibilities really are endless and all styles are useful for so many different designs - have fun using it! Colorful Candy a super fun and playful hand-lettered bold typeface. It is perfect for story books, illustrations, comic books, t-shirts, posters, greeting cards, logos, branding, stickers, svg, crafting and all for display purposes. The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates, and Ligature. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. This font is also support multi language.

Light and flexible, slightly retro, casual and readable, Hoofer combines 28 brush script, mono line script and sans-serif styles with ornaments into one Mega-Family. The different styles of the Hoofer Mega-family have been chosen to work together and to harmonize in a pleasing way. The Hoofer Mega-Family of fonts can be divided into three sub-families: Hoofer BRUSH subfamily: An eclectic group of five fonts. These are mainly joined scripts. Hoofer LINE subfamily: Seven mono-line scripts with joined letters in a number of weights, widths and styles. Hoofer SANS subfamily: Sixteen casual, Sans-Serif fonts. They are very readable and in a variety of weights & styles The mood of the Hoofer mega-family is light and flexible, slightly retro, casual and readable. It combines script and many sans-serif styles with ornaments into one Mega-Family. The different styles of the Hoofer Mega-family have been chosen to work together and to harmonize in a pleasing way. The Brush Sub-Family is designed for titling, packaging and display purposes, The Line Sub-Family can also be used for titling, packaging and display, however, it is less “showy”, and conveys an air of informality. The Sans Sub-Family is designed to shine as sub-heads and as body text. The wide range of Hoofline styles gives you, the designer, great flexibility in creating just the mood or impression that you want. Most of the fonts can use one or more OpenType Features. These can be accessed in a number of ways. The reason for this is that the major software producers provide different (and often conflicting) ways of accessing OpenType Features. In some cases such software manufacturers provide NO way of accessing certain OpenType Features. We have tried to remedy this by providing a highly flexible family of fonts. OPENTYPE (these OpenType features are only available in the “otf” fonts and not in the “ttf” fonts.) OpenType features that Hoofer makes use of are: Swashes (Word-Begin and Word-End Features); Alternate Numerals; and True Small Caps. ORNAMENTS In addition the Hoofer family has a font containing 94 ornaments. ALTERNATE NUMERALS You can access two sets of figures (numbers) in Hoofer Sans fonts. Both sets are tabular and lining but they differ in the height (but not the width) of the figures. The height of the alternate figures has been chosen so that they are compatible with the small caps. However, these alternate figures are available in ALL Hoofer Sans fonts, whether they feature small cap fonts or not. Hoofer has all the features usually included in a fully professional font. Language support includes all European character sets, Greek symbols and all punctuation. Opentype features include automatic replacement of some characters and discretionary replacement of stylistic alternatives.

The long-awaited Rust Bundle addition to our Panton type family has arrived, featuring the headliner Panton Rust and its trusted partner Panton Script Rust. Start your engines and get ready for 72 fonts, grouped into five weights ranging from SemiBold to Heavy, and including multiple Base combinations with different Shadows and Grunge Textures. All of the above is also a part of the accompanying Panton Rust Script, whose natural flow is further emphasized with specifically adjusted Contextual Alternates. The list of OpenType features wouldn’t be complete without localizations, figures, fractions, superiors and inferiors, numerators and denominators, as well as tabular numerals for Panton Rust. The Rust Bundle includes Extended Latin and Cyrillic coverage, providing support for more than 130 languages. This handcrafted package was created to bring about authentic and original vintage type, making it especially suitable for any design that speaks of craftsmanship, a sublime human touch, and a mature signature with undeniable flavor. In Rust we trust! Features: • Textures, Shadows and Inline versions of the fonts which can be combined for a multicolor effects • 72 styles in total, including 42 fonts for Panton Rust and 30 fonts for Panton Script Rust; • 5 weights from SemiBold to Heavy; • Extended Latin and Cyrillic coverage with support for more than 130 languages; • A broad set of contextual alternates and ligatures for Panton Script Rust

Letterpress Studio -Crafted Vintage Goods Letterpress Studio includes following • 7 fonts - a textured and clean version of each • Ornaments • Catchwords • 25 Logo Templates Letterpress Studios core is seven fonts - textured and clean version of each. Fonts are designed in same proportions and work great together. Here’s a short introduction to the fonts: • Letterpress Script -A connected script with lot’s of OpenType features • Letterpress Script Bold -Bold version of Letterpress Script • Letterpress Condensed -A condensed sans-serif typeface with swash uppercase characters on • Letterpress Gothic -A sans-serif typeface with swash uppercase characters • Letterpress Sans -An extended sans-serif typeface with swash uppercase characters • Letterpress Wood -A woodcut style serif typeface with swash uppercase characters • Letterpress Black -A black woodcut style serif typeface with swash uppercase characters • Letterpress Ornaments -A set of pictograms, ornaments, borders and badges (OTF, AI & PDF) • Letterpress Catchwords -A set of over 100 woodcut-style catchwords (OTF, AI & PDF) All fonts have West European, Central European, Baltic, Turkish and Romanian character sets. Fonts come in OTF format. TTF are also available but OpenType features won’t work with them. Letterpress Templates -25 templates (AI) Letterpress Templates is a set of 25 ready made compositions with font pairings, shapes, ornaments and ready made 2-4 color schemes for each. Templates can be used as such or as a starting point for your own project. Download Letterpress Templates here.

A handwritten ”font for technicians“ from ca. 1900. Very geometrical, rigid forms borrowed from the typical characteristics of Jugendstil / Art Nouveau. This script is found in a magazine from the Otto Maier publishing house, Ravensburg, which was issued sometime in the years shortly before WWI. The magazine is entitled ”Schriften-Sammlung für Techniker: Verkleinerte Schriften der wichtigsten Alphabete“ (Collection of scripts for technical specialists: reduced scripts of the most significant alphabets) and published by Karl O. Maier. The original copy, produced by means of a galvanized plate, is just 7 centimeters wide. It served as the model for technical professions in which, at that time, the captions of drawings were still done by hand. The characters have been scanned, digitized and greatly magnified. Special attention was given to ensure the ”uneven“ edges, typical of handwritten script, remained effectively noticeable even in the digitized form. As a result, this ”technical“ font retains a handmade touch. Especially worthy of note are the Jugendstil forms characteristic at the turn of the19th century. In comparison, many alleged ”ultramodern“ font types of today suddenly look quite old-fashioned. Maier’s Nr. 21 Pro is suitable for all European languages. It includes ”Latin Extended-A,“ for Central and Eastern Europe incl. Turkish, and even Cyrillic and Greek, too. The font includes several stylistic alternates as well as a number of ligatures.

Trail Boss JNL emulates vintage wood type and was inspired by a few visual examples found online. The erratic widths of the letters are part of the intrinsic charm of this kind of lettering.

SeeSaw is a novelty bounced display font. Suitable for children's books, packaging and greeting cards as well as other creative possibilities. Pick and choose letter combinations between caps and lower case letters. Have Fun!

This vintage typeface named "Classic Heritage" has a steampunk look and was inspired by old-school lettering styles. The 13 stylistic alternate letters can help you to create a unique and interesting text composition.

Bang-Zoom! is a traditional comic book font based on lettering by award-winning illustrator and letterer Galen Showman. Its five weights and styles and smart OpenType features allow for professional comic book typesetting.

The hand lettered title for the 1890s book called “The Octopus” featured extra bold Art Nouveau lettering with rounded serifs. This is now available as Headline Nouveau JNL in both regular and oblique versions.

Bomber was inspired by the lettering used on the vehicles of the U.S. military. This font works great as an old-school style of athletic lettering. Also included is a fifteen character dingbat set.

School Desk JNL is a block-style sanserif based on die-cut cardboard letters used in classrooms during the 1940s and 1950s for making various projects and teaching children the basic shapes of letters.

Majesty is a refined and elegant incised serif typeface designed to convey a sense of drama with any implementation of it. However, Majesty’s austerity is softened by the inherent familiarity of its letterforms. Having being inspired by classic engraved type, it has the echoes of familiar stone inscriptions over the centuries embodied within this 7-font type family. Majesty has a branding and titling focus, this is most apparent in the all cap letter combinations that are incorporated. Just activate Discretionary Ligatures and watch your type shape-shift on the fly to create interesting and appealing typography. There are a select number of Swash/Stylistic Alternates included that can also help you embellish your designs. Other features include Proportional, Tabular, and Old Style Figures, as well as Small Caps and Petite Caps, with the latter harmonising perfectly with the lowercase glyphs so that you can create unicase-style typography. You can find out more at majesty-font.com . Key features: • 5 text weights – Light to Black, plus Display and Poster weights • Small Caps, Petite Caps, Ligatures and Discretionary Ligatures • European Character Set – Latin Only • 840 glyphs per font.

The famous lettering “Capital Trajana” (inscription at the bottom of the column that bears its name erected in the year114 A.D.) is usually identified as the classic example that defines Imperial Capital forms. However, much earlier, there were already countless examples of Greco-Roman epigraphy of excellent execution, as evidenced by the monumental inscriptions from year 2 b.C. sculpted in the Portico di Gaio e Lucio Cesari in front of the facade of the Basilica Emilia, in the Roman Forum, erected by Augustus, dedicated to his two grandchildren for propaganda and dynastic needs. It has been more than two thousand years and the forms of these letters are still part of our daily life, product of their qualities of readability and beauty. It is probably the added semantic value that have made them an icon full of symbolism that expresses majesty, monumentality, order and universal power. Numerous authors, calligraphers and designers have studied this legacy such as Giovanni Francesco Cresci, Edward Catich, L.C. Evetts, Armando Petrucci, Carol Twombly, John Stevens, Claude Mediavilla, just to name a few. Marcus Traianus font is a fitted version of the two models mentioned, which is accompanied by Small Caps, lowercase (carolingas) and a set of numbers (Indo-Arabics) in addition to the Romans figures and diacritics for Central European languages Marcus Traianus is presented in two weight: Regular, Italic, Bold and ExtraBold.

The Pagnol typeface has been designed with a principle developed by A. M. Cassandre in 1937, when the great French designer created the Peignot typeface following paleographic studies on the evolution of letterforms. Researches in the history of writing have proved that the lowercase "a" is at its origin nothing but the "A" shape transformed through centuries by scribes until the invention of printing. A large number of lowercases meanwhile kept their original shapes. If the scribes’ hand didn’t find the necessity to simplify them, it is only because these letters could be easily written. Integrating the classical shapes of capitals to the lowercases has already been used, keeping the lowercases which are only a deformation of capitals. Nevertheless, the respect of readability imposes to keep ascendants and descendants from traditional lowercases which serve as optical focus points in a text and make reading easier. The particularity of Pagnol is to use rounded shapes on top and bottom of pointed capital letters to make them fit with corresponding lowercases (Aa, Mm, Nn, Vv, Ww, Zz). Lowercases proportions are wide, to be in tune with classic lowercase shapes in order to optimize readability. Five weights in roman and italic have been designed to offer a wide palette of typographic possibilities in all sizes and all paper and screen supports.

Cal Roman Modern is one more font from PKG “Cal” (Calligraphic) group. This time for calligraphic sketches we used a wide brush instead of the iron pen. Instead of minuscule letters, there are Small Caps (which are the same weight as capitals). Because there is no difference in the stroke thickness of capital letters and lowercase capital letters the difference in height is only one pen width, because of that, it is possible to use small capitals together with capital letters without noticing a difference in the thickness of the letters. Cal Roman Modern font is rhythmic, informal elegant, bright and light. As such, this font is widely used in the typographic creation of shorter text forms: magazine, catalogs and book titles, logos, posters, movie spots, banners...

Petunia Monogram is a beautiful extension to Eliza Gwendalyn's Petunia font family, originally published by Great Lakes Lettering! The letter forms in this uppercase-only font are angelic and more refined, with sweeping, elegantly thin swashes and flourishes. Petunia Monogram contains three variations of each uppercase letter, a larger version and two smaller ones, each with different swash flourishes. With the help of the OpenType ligature feature, you can create beautiful three-letter monograms. There are also 20 whimsical crest graphics and flourishes that you can use to build single letter crests. Petunia Monogram is perfect for wedding and personal stationary, invitations, and much more! See our "How-To" poster to learn how easy it is to make beautiful monograms and initialed crests!

Urbax; Bold expressive script for urban people and urban projects. Fit for Logo, Brand, Titling, Shirt, Hoodie, Products, Signage, Prints and Various Creative Projects. Contain 5 stylistic sets with lot of alternates. Contain basic latin multilanguage support.

Bodoni Classic Ultra is my really fat, high contrast extension to my ever expanding Bodoni Classic family. The Script cut is very decorative, the italic cut can be mixed with it to give it a calmer touch.

Earhtroline is a Handwritten Monoline Script Font Earhtroline is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Earhtroline also multilingual support. Enjoy the font. Thank you!

Alexandra Gistela is a stunning handwritten signature script font that exudes beauty and elegance. Alexandra Gistela is perfect for creating luxurious branding materials, wedding invitations, greeting cards, and other projects that demand a touch of refined beauty.

Looking for an elegant font to class up the place? Maybe you have some wedding invitations that you've been putting off for a month. Belmont is an elegant, modern script font that is perfect for contemporary occasions.

Big Dreams is a handwritten script font. It is casual, classy, and beautiful. It’s a great font for fashion, apparel projects, signature, album cover, logo, branding, magazine, social media, & advertisements, but also works great for other projects.

Brettisa is a dazzling script font. This font is neatly crafted and highly detailed. Whatever the topic, this font will be a wonderful asset to your font library, as it has the potential to enhance any creation.

Coconut Milk Script is a fun new handwritten font with lots of personality. It contains multi-lingual support with accented characters for international Western European users, as well as a special double "tt" ligature and stylistic alternative.

Old Landmark is a monoline script typeface, that inspired by the old advertising posters. Old Landmark comes with uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuation and many variations on each character, including OpenType alternates to let you customize your designs.

The Glasten is a distinct and graceful script font. Fall for its ravishing style and use it to create gorgeous designs. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all glyphs and swashes with ease!

Annabella is a joining classical English script, written with a Japanese brush on rough watercolor paper, scanned and finished by hand on screen, taking care to keep the "rough" touch. It can be used together with Brigitta.

Giselle is a beautiful script font. It has a classy, elegant, and modern look which can be used for logos, branding, invitations, stationary, wedding designs, social media posts, and every other design that needs a handwritten touch.

Brithny is a sweet and bold script font with alternates and lovely swashes. It has an incredible alternates and love swashes. Use it to add that special retro touch to any design idea you can think of!

Watten is a script with Handwritten Style. It is made with digital brush pen strokes that making this font look authentic. This font is perfect for fashion brands, wedding invitations, business cards, logos, signatures, calligraphy and more.

Anttariksa is a casual, fun script font, created by using a brush pen. Clean and a little bit quirky, this font is the perfect fit for all of your logos, branding, social media, and crafty DIY projects.

Roselitta is a dazzling script font. This font is neatly crafted and highly detailed. Whatever the topic, this font will be a wonderful asset to your font library, as it has the potential to enhance any creation.

Alexandra Gistela is a stunning handwritten signature script font that exudes beauty and elegance. Alexandra Gistela is perfect for creating luxurious branding materials, wedding invitations, greeting cards, and other projects that demand a touch of refined beauty.

Artica is an elegant sans serif typeface, offered in five weights. It was inspired by classic Roman letterforms. Artica Pro supports Latin, Cyrillic and modern Greek scripts, and includes swash initial & final forms, stylistic alternates and ligatures.

Dreamy Sakura is a lovely script font. Whether you are using it for designs, quotes, titles, brand names, book covers, posters, or just any creation that requires a touch of beauty, this font is a great choice.

Watershed is a stylish script font. It has Open Type features such as Stylistic Sets, Ligatures, and Swashes. This font is also multilingual and PUA encoded. Use it for any design projects that require a charming appearance!

Chloe is a very dramatic script with high contrast between the up- and down-strokes. It is not really useful for long copy, but very good at short captions or as a decorative part of your layout.