Wild Loops is a handwritten monolinear typeface for wild ideas. Inspired by the marker sketches and graffiti on the walls, the font perfectly complements Doodle illustrations. It speaks to a young audience and looks a bit crazy with stretched Ascenders and Descenders. At the same time, the font is elegant and will work well for invitations, greetings, clothing brands and jewelry. The main feature of the font is a smart Contextual Alternates that substitute different versions of letters depending on its position in the word (at the beginning, middle, and the end of a word), which makes the writing more natural. View PDF Specimen: https://michaelrafailyk.com/typeface/specimen/WildLoops.pdf Contextual Alternates: ACDEFGHIJKMRSUWZabcdefghjlmnqrstvwxyzАДЕЁЗІЇКЛМНСШЩЯгдеёжзклмнстухцщьΑΕΖΗΙΚΛΜΞΥΆΈΉΪϲÀÁÂÃÄÅĄĂĀẢẠẮẰẲẴẶẤẦẨẪẬȦĎĐÐÈÉÊËĚĒĖẺẼẾỀỂỄƐĞǦĠÌÍÎÏĮĪĨỈỊİṂŘŔŠŚȘŽŹŻçğģǧġņṇřŕŗşṣýỳÿỷỹỵžźżЈјЅѕўӯ123456789. Stylistic Alternates: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNQRSUVWXZabcdefghjklmnqrstvwxyzАВДЕЁЗІЇКЛМНСТШЩЯгдеёжзклмнстухцщьΑΕΖΗΙΚΛΜΞΥΆΈΉΪκϲÀÁÂÃÄÅĄĂĀẢẠẮẰẲẴẶẤẦẨẪẬȦĎĐÐÈÉÊËĚĒĖẺẼẾỀỂỄƐĞǦĠÌÍÎÏĮĪĨỈỊİṂŘŔŠŚȘŽŹŻçğģǧġņṇřŕŗşṣýỳÿỷỹỵžźżЈјЅѕўӯ123456789&. Ligatures: jj ll. Superscript, Subscript, Fractions: ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹ ₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉ ½ ¼ ¾. Glyph count: 994. Languages count: 104. Languages: Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Asturian, Azerbaijani (Latin), Basque, Belarusian, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chamorro, Chewa (Latin), Croatian (Latin), Cornish, Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dinka, Dutch, English, Erzya, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Fula, Gaelic (Scottish), Galician, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Guarani, Hausa (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo (Latin), Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Karelian, Kashubian, Kinyarwanda (Ruanda), Kirundi (Rundi), Kumyk, Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgian, Macedonian, Malagasy (Latin), Malay (Latin), Maltese, Maori, Marshallese, Moksha, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo (Afan, Galla), Papiamentu, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Romani (Latin), Romanian, Russian, Rusyn, Sami, Samoan, Sardinian, Serbian, Shona, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Sorbian, Spanish, Swahili (Kiswahili), Swedish, Tagalog, Tatar (Cyrillic, Latin), Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Ukrainian, Ulithian, Uzbek (Latin, Cyrillic), Venda, Vietnamese, Walloon, Welsh, Wolof (Latin), Xhosa, Yapese, Yoruba (Latin), Zulu. The promo images used illustrations from the city walls of Groningen and Wrocław, photos of Cottonbro, Karolina Grabowska, Marlene Leppänen, Zhugewala from Pexels, and photos of Kevin Grieve, Liwei Zhang, Nathan Dumlao from Unsplash.

The concept of the Baroque Roman type face is something which is remote from us. Ungrateful theorists gave Baroque type faces the ill-sounding attribute "Transitional", as if the Baroque Roman type face wilfully diverted from the tradition and at the same time did not manage to mature. This "transition" was originally meant as an intermediate stage between the Aldine/Garamond Roman face of the Renaissance, and its modern counterpart, as represented by Bodoni or Didot. Otherwise there was also a "transition" from a slanted axis of the shadow to a perpendicular one. What a petty detail led to the pejorative designation of Baroque type faces! If a bookseller were to tell his customers that they are about to choose a book which is set in some sort of transitional type face, he would probably go bust. After all, a reader, for his money, would not put up with some typographical experimentation. He wants to read a book without losing his eyesight while doing so. Nevertheless, it was Baroque typography which gave the world the most legible type faces. In those days the craft of punch-cutting was gradually separating itself from that of book-printing, but also from publishing and bookselling. Previously all these activities could be performed by a single person. The punch-cutter, who at that time was already fully occupied with the production of letters, achieved better results than he would have achieved if his creative talents were to be diffused in a printing office or a bookseller's shop. Thus it was possible that for example the printer John Baskerville did not cut a single letter in his entire lifetime, for he used the services of the accomplished punch-cutter John Handy. It became the custom that one type founder supplied type to multiple printing offices, so that the same type faces appeared in various parts of the world. The type face was losing its national character. In the Renaissance period it is still quite easy to distinguish for example a French Roman type face from a Venetian one; in the Baroque period this could be achieved only with great difficulties. Imagination and variety of shapes, which so far have been reserved only to the fine arts, now come into play. Thanks to technological progress, book printers are now able to reproduce hairstrokes and imitate calligraphic type faces. Scripts and elaborate ornaments are no longer the privilege of copper-engravers. Also the appearance of the basic, body design is slowly undergoing a change. The Renaissance canonical stiffness is now replaced with colour and contrast. The page of the book is suddenly darker, its lay-out more varied and its lines more compact. For Baroque type designers made a simple, yet ingenious discovery - they enlarged the x-height and reduced the ascenders to the cap-height. The type face thus became seemingly larger, and hence more legible, but at the same time more economical in composition; the type area was increasing to the detriment of the margins. Paper was expensive, and the aim of all the publishers was, therefore, to sell as many ideas in as small a book block as possible. A narrowed, bold majuscule, designed for use on the title page, appeared for the first time in the Late Baroque period. Also the title page was laid out with the highest possible economy. It comprised as a rule the brief contents of the book and the address of the bookseller, i.e. roughly that which is now placed on the flaps and in the imprint lines. Bold upper-case letters in the first line dramatically give way to the more subtle italics, the third line is highlighted with vermilion; a few words set in lower-case letters are scattered in-between, and then vermilion appears again. Somewhere in the middle there is an ornament, a monogram or an engraving as a kind of climax of the drama, while at the foot of the title-page all this din is quietened by a line with the name of the printer and the year expressed in Roman numerals, set in 8-point body size. Every Baroque title-page could well pass muster as a striking poster. The pride of every book printer was the publication of a type specimen book - a typographical manual. Among these manuals the one published by Fournier stands out - also as regards the selection of the texts for the specimen type matter. It reveals the scope of knowledge and education of the master typographers of that period. The same Fournier established a system of typographical measurement which, revised by Didot, is still used today. Baskerville introduced the smoothing of paper by a hot steel roller, in order that he could print astonishingly sharp letters, etc. ... In other words - Baroque typography deserves anything else but the attribute "transitional". In the first half of the 18th century, besides persons whose names are prominent and well-known up to the present, as was Caslon, there were many type founders who did not manage to publish their manuals or forgot to become famous in some other way. They often imitated the type faces of their more experienced contemporaries, but many of them arrived at a quite strange, even weird originality, which ran completely outside the mainstream of typographical art. The prints from which we have drawn inspiration for these six digital designs come from Paris, Vienna and Prague, from the period around 1750. The transcription of letters in their intact form is our firm principle. Does it mean, therefore, that the task of the digital restorer is to copy meticulously the outline of the letter with all inadequacies of the particular imprint? No. The type face should not to evoke the rustic atmosphere of letterpress after printing, but to analyze the appearance of the punches before they are imprinted. It is also necessary to take account of the size of the type face and to avoid excessive enlargement or reduction. Let us keep in mind that every size requires its own design. The longer we work on the computer where a change in size is child's play, the more we are convinced that the appearance of a letter is tied to its proportions, and therefore, to a fixed size. We are also aware of the fact that the computer is a straightjacket of the type face and that the dictate of mathematical vectors effectively kills any hint of naturalness. That is why we strive to preserve in these six alphabets the numerous anomalies to which later no type designer ever returned due to their obvious eccentricity. Please accept this PostScript study as an attempt (possibly futile, possibly inspirational) to brush up the warm magic of Baroque prints. Hopefully it will give pleasure in today's modern type designer's nihilism.

Avantgarde fonts Batory and Batoswash are monoline sansserifs designed by Bo Berndal. The futuristic Batory (think Bladerunner and Total Recall) and the spicier relative Batoswash come in three versions: Narrow, Middle and Wide. The font family is available in Truetype and Postscript for Mac and PC. Bo Berndal, born 1924, has been designing typefaces over 56 years, for Monotype, Linotype and other foundries. "Batory is a monoline reaction to my many calligraphic fonts", says Bo Berndal. "That is also the reason I did several widths instead of weights. Batory has short stems and high x-height. Batoswash is a Batory gone wild!" The successful Batory has already been used for logotypes, vignettes in magazines and as headline type.

Pronto is a fast and breezy calligraphic handwriting font that moves to a timeless beat. Its catchy rhythm and casually artful forms make it a choice font not only for packaging, but also for signs and café bistro boards and menus. Alternative forms for almost every letter are provided within the font. Pronto is a single feature-rich font that includes extra alternate characters, as well as a wide range of Latin-based languages, including Turkish and the languages of Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic region. To take advantage of all the OpenType features included in the font, please use within programs that support such advanced typography. Designed by Koziupa and digitized by Ale Paul.

YR Gothic Arabic font draws inspiration from the Gothic calligraphic style, renowned for its timeless elegance. This style is characterized by a harmonious balance of thick and thin strokes, with a focus on vertical lines. The result is a graceful, fluid letterform, with consistent attention to detail throughout. YR Gothic Arabic font is a sophisticated choice that conveys a sense of refinement and sophistication. With its classic and timeless design, this font is well-suited for various formal applications, such as branding, invitations, and official documents. Its versatility also allows it to be used in a range of other contexts, including advertising and signage, where its sense of elegance and refinement can elevate any design project.

Introducing Taylor Johnson Display Font is a handmade font style dance and then traces of life to have a Grungy brush and unique calligraphic shape, the writing style is very natural and simple. 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!

Slapjack is a unique rendition of a broad-edged calligraphic script ideal for packaging, signage, and titling. Its presence is strikingly bold and rhythmic, yet stylishly elegant. With a glyph count well over 700, Slapjack is a fully-featured pro font. Both regular and light weights have contextual and stylistic alternates, stylistic sets, swashes, ligatures, fractions, and Central European language support. Using Adobe InDesign which supports Stylistic Sets allows you to instantly convert your text to a version without baseline connectors for a more streamlined look. These can also be selected via the glyph palette. As a bonus feature, unlike most script fonts, Slapjack is designed to also set well in all caps adding to its versatility.

Amorino is a new casual and organic calligraphic font. Is the perfect blend of elegant and casual. With the total number of 889 glyphs, is equipped with plenty of OpenType features. Uppercase letters can alternate between at least four different forms and lowercase letters have up to thirteen choices more to avoid repetition. These effects include start and end forms words. To activate the optional glyphs you may click on Swash, Contextual, Standard Ligatures, Stylistic or Discretionary Ligatures buttons in any OpenType savvy program or manually choose the characters from Glyph Palette. Amorino font might be the choice to use on creating headlines, logos & posters for branding and packaging purposes. Hope you enjoy.

Gyst is a neo-humanist sans-serif typeface that artfully blends the principles of Grotesque and Antiqua. With its classic uprights and the serifs in its true italics, Gyst spans the arc from a modern humanistic sans serif to a captivating calligraphic serif. Contrasting strokes and luscious, on the other hand razor-edged terminals reflect a sense of grace, thriving at the intersection of geometric precision and flourishing sophistication. Made for body text as well a s display use. In any situation, you will find the autonomous cursive posture to be a perfect playmate for the upright. Gyst comes in four upright and italic weights, all equipped with a whole lot Alternates and Ligatures.

SQUADRA is a serif typeface with more than 220 characters, framing a perfect union between typefaces of his style and unconventional shots from the calligraphic pen; Its strong and imposing appearance, the pronounced contrast between his strokes and changes in traditional aesthetics provide you with elegance and distinction to differentiate over other types of the same class. Easy modifiable and great graphic content to small and large format SQUADRA is able of generating a clear and direct message, suit almost any topic and perfect for use in posters, logos and editorial headlines. Infinitely versatile typeface that evokes both the beauty and finesse of the plants as power its thorns and its deadly poison.

Venetian 301 is the Bitstream version of the Centaur type family. Centaur was designed by the American book designer Bruce Rogers on the basis of Venetian typefaces of 1470 of Nicolas Jenson. Beautiful Italic based on a face by Ludovico degli Arrighi was developed by Frederic Warde who was an American calligrapher and typography researcher was added as Italic to Centaur. Adapted for mechanical composition by English Monotype in 1929. Its lettershapes owe much to pen-drawn letters of Italian humanist minuscule and cursive. This elegant humanist face is useful for the finest typography both for book text and display matter. Cyrillic version included small caps was developed for ParaType in 2003 by Dmitry Kirsanov.

The Wildaloney script is a beautiful, classic calligraphic font in regular and italic, which will add a sweet, elegant, and perfect feel to your design. It’s great for logo projects, wedding invitation cards, branding, home designs, product packaging, and every other design that needs an elegant typeface. This script has more than 400+ glyphs in each style, has two uppercase heights and many alternative lowercase characters, as well as a large selection of stylish devices, allowing you to make your design truly unique. To activate the OpenType Stylistic alternative, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or newer versions.

Based on 10th century Carolingian scripts, Silentium Pro sparkles with a quiet but ebullient sense of the human hand. As a multi-featured Adobe Originals OpenType family, Silentium includes myriad alternate forms, ligatures, and titling characters that add an air of tasteful liveliness to contemporary graphic design and typography. Designed by Yugoslavian calligrapher and type designer Jovica Veljović, Silentium works well in both display sizes and text setting as small as 8 points. Silentium is the Latin word for silence, a discipline commonly practiced in the medieval European monasteries and court scriptoria where the Carolingian script flourished. Now, more than ten centuries later, Silentium Pro brings the fluid energy of their work to contemporary design and typography.

Kardia is a versatile type family that lets you compose a wide range of texts, from extensive reading materials to striking, eye-catching headlines and titles. Features include ample proportions that have been revised to maintain similar line performance across all its weights. It also has an elevated x-height which facilitates reading in small bodies, in addition to help building solid headlines. Inspired by brush lettering, it takes many features from calligraphic strokes and the foundational style, adapted to a contemporary typographic language. It has 4 weights, all of them including their corresponding italics, small caps and character set that supports Central, Western and South Eastern European, Afrikaans and many more.

Lab Slab Pro is a geometric slab typeface with a technological and minimalist look and is suitable for use in large sizes. It has eight versatile weights, (from Thin to Black) including true italics for each one, and a wide range of stylish alternate characters to improve its use in different graphic contexts. The name of this typeface was inspired by an experiment, mixing a structure with calligraphic influences and completely geometrical and structured drawings. Lab Slab Pro has a wide range of OpenType® features such as: small caps, old style/titling and small caps figures, fractions, superior and inferior scripts, scientific components and ligatures. Lab Slab Pro is Lab's best and most powerful mutation designed by Tiponautas.

Carton is a font family whose origin comes from his Display version, which is made up of a parallelepiped in isometric projection on a large grid. The Carton type family boasts an entire range of original forms with a number of different constraints other than calligraphic strokes or modular construction techniques. The constraints chosen in the process of creating this alphabet allowed us to give it specific features which would lead to the development of a coherent family of type. The design of the Bold and Regular departs from the earlier strict geometrical forms and increases in contrast and complexity. It paved the way for the creation of a thinner character for the reading of ordinary texts.

This font is a collection of ornaments and drawings suitable for Halloween themed materials. There are bats, singly and in swarms, owls, dead trees, spiders and webs, as well as calligraphic ornaments with a decidedly creepy bent. Most of the characters in this font were drawn on a napkin with a felt marker, and the resulting ragged texture was very suitable to the Halloween subject matter. Where the same stroke is repeated in one glyph, the contours have been edited to minimize obvious repetition. Use it for your Halloween party invitations and posters. Combines well with: PR Bramble Wood 1, PR Bramble Wood 2, PR Hallow Doodles 02, PR Cauldron, PR Swirlies 01, PR Swirlies 05.

This Font is born basing itself on several standard typographic models. Inspired by our calligraphic drawings, the idea was to synthesize these many shapes into a unique font that can be used commonly. The slab base has been gradually humanized. The serifs have been carved, refined, rounded off, in order to galvanize the font and ease the task of reading in lower case. The angle of attack of the round letters is an echo of the 15 Century typographic heritage. It was important for us to create an expressive and humanized font, which could also be used for edition. The purpose was to confront the Ancient typographic canon of beauty with some funny and fancyful elements.

This is a decorative Arabic font designed specifically for titles and headlines. It comes in five weights ranging from light to extra bold, providing options for different styles of titles and highlighting. The bold style and gently curved terminals make the font readable from a distance and suitable for applications where large font sizes are needed. The rounded yet authentic Arabic letters give the font an aesthetically pleasing appearance with a calligraphic and stylish vibe suitable for a variety of modern purposes. While maintaining the integrity of the Arabic script, the added flares and a touch of handmade imperfection makes this font perfect for use in magazines, blogs, websites, signage, invitations, stationery and other graphic design projects.

Introducing our new Wedding font, Audrey & Reynold! Audrey & Reynold is modern calligraphic font with contemporary, sophisticated accents. It is perfect for wedding branding, wedding invites and cards, and maybe for red wine label. Audrey & Reynold includes a full set of gorgeous uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, a large range of punctuation and ligatures. Uppercase and lowercase include beginning and ending swashes, giving realistic hand-lettered style, that makes the font look fabulous! Audrey & Reynold have all multilingual support: Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Note : The love symbol in the main cover is a modification, not included in the font Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks and have a wonderful day!

Lilith Script Pro is a family inspired from hand lettering and calligraphic typography that I've seen when in urban cities when I've travelled the world. Its strength is the magical mix of contextual alternates and 104 ligatures. Both open type enabled and completely automatic make sure that the flow of the writing will always be pleasant and perfect. The ligatures will always be substituted automatically through the "liga" feature, while the contextual alternates can be turned on and off through the "calt" feature. Lilith Script Pro is perfect for special logos and playful invitations or headlines. With its 574 glyphs per style there is really nothing you can't do with this family.

Manchette is an Arabic headline typeface that was inspired by the hand-written Naskh newspaper headlines during the 60s-70s era in the Arab world. The word "manchette" is a french word, that means headline. It was used mainly by the Egyptian calligraphers and designers. The typeface presents sharp and contemporary details, while taking into consideration the original Naskh rules to echo the elegancy of the hand-written titles. Featuring many opentype features, such as contextual alternates, ligatures, and a small set of stylistic alternates. The typeface also features a dynamic Kashida that can be controlled through the variable fonts technology in the Variable GX file which contains all the weights as well.

Parfumerie Script is a sophisticated calligraphic font defined by its smooth curves, clean lines and the finest of fine strokes. Graceful and refined in its most basic script form, a range of Swash and Decorative alternates (including a unique local style called Filete Porteño, an ornamental form native to Buenos Aires) allows users to elevate their designs to higher levels of aesthetic beauty and elegance. Parfumerie Script Pro contains over 2500 glyphs, among which are swashes, ornaments and decorative alternates. Some alternatives are offered separately too. Use professional software that widely support Open Type features. Otherwise, you may not have access to some glyphs. For further information about features and alternates, see the User Guide

Manchette Fine is the high contrast cut of Manchette typeface, which was inspired by the hand-written Naskh newspaper headlines during the 60s-70s era in the Arab world. The word "manchette" is a french word, that means headline. It was used mainly by the Egyptian calligraphers and designers. The typeface presents sharp and contemporary details, while taking into consideration the original Naskh rules to echo the elegancy of the hand-written titles. Featuring many opentype features, such as contextual alternates, ligatures, and a small set of stylistic alternates. The typeface also features a dynamic Kashida that can be controlled through the variable fonts technology in the Variable GX file which contains all the weights as well.

Liceum is a calligraphic script with attractive look, created in the name of Gymnasium in ancient Athens, where Aristotle and the Peripatetics taught philosophy. The OpenType feature includes Stylistic Alternatives, Swash, Ligatures, Discretionary Ligatures, more than 150 Dingbats and Ornaments, Diacritical, and Cyrillic letters. It allows you to mix and match letter pairs to fit your design into a harmonious typographic whole (headlines). Liceum font is attractive but classical, smooth, clean, simple, elegant, and very legible. Liceum is very suitable for various purposes and design of logos, posters, brands, t-shirts, letterhead, signage, book covers, magazines, invitations, labels, menus, fashion, stationery, letterpress, book covers, diplomas, certificates, greeting cards, packaging, and other beautiful and creative things.

Brillo Typeface stems from the effort of combining the modern look of a grotesque sans serif font with the elegance of the calligraphic copperplate's swashes. The result is a typeface that is perfectly suitable for modern graphic applications, such as publishing, branding and web, but which has some ornamental features that differentiate it from all the other grotesque families. Brillo doesn't want to be a neutral typeface. It's a font with a strong personality, which can give outstanding aesthetic and conceptual relevance to the graphic projects which will be used in. Brillo is a typeface thought for titling rather than for texts. For this reason it works better with character sizes bigger than 16 points.

Margareta is a modern calligraphic font with handwriting with mono-line model. It's perfect for branding, logos, wedding invitations, diaries, cups, mugs, greeting cards and more. What’s included: 1. Style in this font include: Regular & Italic 2. 103 Ligatures 3. Works both on Mac & PC 4. Simple installations 5. Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, CorelDraw, even work on Microsoft Word. 6. Support multilingual; ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ 7. To access the alternate glyphs, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign and CorelDraw. More information about how to access alternate glyphs, check out this link (http://goo.gl/ZT7PqK)

Avantgarde fonts Batory and Batoswash are monoline sansserifs designed by Bo Berndal. The futuristic Batory (think Bladerunner and Total Recall) and the spicier relative Batoswash come in three versions: Narrow, Middle and Wide. The font family is available in Truetype and Postscript for Mac and PC. Bo Berndal, born 1924, has been designing typefaces over 56 years, for Monotype, Linotype and other foundries. “Batory is a monoline reaction to my many calligraphic fonts”, says Bo Berndal. "That is also the reason I did several widths instead of weights. Batory has short stems and high x-height. Batoswash is a Batory gone wild!" The successful Batory has already been used for logotypes, vignettes in magazines and as headline type.

Hot Salsa is a calligraphic script font inspired by the classic, fairly well-made brush letters from the casual sign painting style, mixed with the fast and gestural tags you can find on walls all around the world. This is a fresh font that allows you to play with its numerous swashes, alternates and ligatures to make it feel more sober or a little flirty depending on your needs. Hot Salsa started with a brush pen and a lot of paper. These were later re-traced onto many layers of tracing paper with the intention of maintaining the brush pen and handmade feeling while making the structure consistent to ensure its readability and performance.

Sultania is a harmonic synthesis of the old characters’ suppleness and the resolute, clean design of modern typography. The rich in contrast calligraphic approach with thick and thin strokes is still visible and you can almost feel traces of ink on paper while it’s shapes in general, without serifs and any embellishments, proclaim its up-to-dateness swinging between roundness and rigor. Elegant, noble, yet still affected by traces of the handwritten script, Sultania is reminiscent of power, wealth, mind and culture. Sultania’s historical roots and it’s originality remind of oriental colors. A close Orient, at the gates of Europe, in which Latin characters are mixed with distant sounds. The Byzantium of the Sultans.

In 1916 the Prang company - still famous for their excellent pens and pencils - commissioned Thomas Woods Stevens to hire the best calligraphers of the era to hand letter sample pages with different Prang pens and in a variety of styles. The resulting book is a font maker's dream, a collection of period lettering samples perfect for making new fonts. One of the sample pages shows off the look of the Spoonbill pen with a set of classic art deco style letters by Charles Earley. This sample is the basis for our Spoonbill font, which includes a full character set, plus character variations for nesting and overlapping, and a small selection of decorative border characters in the art deco style.

This font was inspired by the “Cancellaresca moderna ” type, which was calligraphed by Francesco Periccioli (published in 1610 in Siena, Italy). It was entirely handwritten by the designer for each circumstance, using quill pen and medieval ink on a rough paper, with added characters as accented ones and a lot of ligatures with respect for the original design. This font includes “long s” and also a lot of ligatures as “ff”, “ffi” “fij” “pp”... It can be used for web-site titles, posters and flier designs, editing ancient texts or greeting cards, or as a very decorative and elegant font. This font retains its qualities and beauty over a wide range of sizes.

I wanted to design my own sans-serif typeface for my web site to complement the rest of my type library; I designed Congenial as an understated, highly legible complement to my more decorative display faces. Of course, I’m never far from my calligraphic roots, so Congenial retains some hand-drawn elements, visible particularly in the heavier weights of this generous 10-face family. As befits its name, Congenial is a friendly and inviting face with a generous x-height and highly differentiated characters. See what’s included! http://bit.ly/1Agnkio These fonts have been specially coded for access of all the swashes, alternates and ornaments without the need for professional design software! Info and instructions here: http://lauraworthingtontype.com/faqs/

Grimoire on the other hand combines two seemingly contradicting principles — calligraphic and constructive ideas — and makes them work together. The font is based on a modular system but simulates a handwritten typeface. Felix Braden about this concept: "I was so fascinated by this idea, that I have since designed a couple of typefaces following this principle, e.g. the psychedelic Bikini released by Volcanotype. Even my recent work, the multi awarded FF Scuba is inspired by this concept, however with increasing age I have become less interested in experimental typography and more so in designing typefaces which are more versatile in use." For a detailed type specimen have a look at: http://on.be.net/17WyhE6

Experimental lettering Stephen Rapp created in 1999 became the spark that Stephen's imagination transformed into the Tai Chi design. Tai Chi is a display face but it could also be used as a textured calligraphic script. Its delightful sense of movement distinguishes it from other scripts. Individual characters stand poised in a vertical Zen-like balance while at the same time displaying an inner rhythm that makes them appear to dance along the line. Rich in texture and variation, Tai Chi works very well at medium and large point sizes. The font contains several alternate letters that help maintain a hand-lettered look. Tai Chi includes both upper and lowercase letters but works well in all uppercase settings.

Good Faster is a bold script typeface. In a quirky calligraphic style, this flowing font has a rustic look and soft lines. The Good Faster family consists of four styles: Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic, complimenting each other for the greatest design possibilities. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.