When master letterer Hugh Gordon and his student, Ross F. George developed a set of lettering pens between June 16, 1913 and Sept. 1, 1914, they had no idea that their invention (which they named Speed-Ball®) would still be in use nearly a hundred years later. The C. Howard Hunt pen company [originally of Camden, New Jersey] became the original (and sole) distributor of these pens. By 1915 an instructional booklet entitled "Modern Pen Lettering" was produced, and it was copiously illustrated with examples of layouts, lettering techniques and an assortment of alphabets for the user to learn. Nouveau Poster JNL is Jeff Levine's interpretation of a sanserif design found within the pages of this vintage publication.

Samsekrat is an authentic serif typeface that exudes timeless elegance and sophistication. With its meticulously crafted letterforms, Samsekrat strikes a harmonious balance between tradition and modernity, making it versatile for a range of design applications. The serifs are distinct and refined, lending a classic aesthetic to the typeface, while subtle nuances in letter spacing and stroke weights contribute to its overall grace. Samsekrat’s authenticity shines through in its attention to detail, capturing the essence of traditional serif typography while maintaining a contemporary edge. This typeface is a testament to the craftsmanship and artistry behind authentic design, making it a compelling choice for projects that demand a touch of refined character and enduring style.

It all started with a Portuguese soap packaging from the first half of the 20th Century. The 5 uppercase letters that spell NAZARÉ were sufficient to drive the creation of this design. Nazaré fits in a semi-serif category and it has a large contrast. It works outstandingly in display use specially in the bolder weights that have even more contrast. The regular weights have a more moderate contrast and an overall less extravagant design, fitting best in the typographical conventions. this provides a better render in text use. You can use this font in large headlines, logos, posters, book covers, and general display use as well as short strings of text. Nazaré is the name of a small Portuguese fishing village known for its giant waves and peculiar people.

Sabbatical is a no nonsense brush font family with lots of character. The family contains 3 hand-lettered fonts, Regular, Bold and Basic. This dry textured script font is inspired by travel journals written by adventurous souls, hence the name. The design is perfect for any type-based creations, quotes, invites, packaging, branding and much more! Sabbatical Basic has his own unique form which complements Sabbatical Regular and Bold. It consists of a fun caps font with an even more playful variation. All Sabbatical fonts have alternate glyphs that can either be accessed by the swashes feature, stylistic sets, or glyphs panel, depending on the application you are using. There are lots of discretionary ligatures that offer more variation. With over 880 glyphs the design options are unlimited.

After Letrista Script, Calderón Estudio returns with a new contemporary and adaptable typeface. Tulipán Lovely Script is a font with three variations resulting in a subtle design that can be smooth as the fresh tulips that inspired it, markedly delineated as a tulip in full bloom, or rough as crocodile skin. Tulipán evokes the soul of vintage brush lettering. See our samples here. Features include: Tulipan Display: Stylistics alternatives, contextual alternates, swash, discretionary ligatures, standard ligatures, oldstyle figures, language support, titling alternates and 59 ornaments. Tulipan Broken: Broken effect, Stylistics alternatives, contextual alternates, swash, discretionary ligatures, standard ligatures, oldstyle figures, language support, titling alternates, small caps and 59 ornaments. Tulipan Rough: Rough effect, Stylistics alternatives, contextual alternates, discretionary ligatures, language support, cath words, 77 ornaments and free samples patterns! You will love it!

Vinlatte is a font inspired by the uniqueness of a cake topping by giving a hollow accent and arranged in such a way that makes Vinlatte very elegant and classic with a style that displays a uniqueness in each character of the letter. Vinlatte is shaped and made by combining the contours and anatomy of regular letters in general as a strong base and modified by giving a cavity accent so that it has a unique value and when used in a template, poster, cake advertisement, children's magazine and of course it will be very interesting for them. . who see it and will definitely make the product look more attractive, unique and will bring the soul to your product and of course add to the selling value of your product.

Boho is inspired by a bohemian girl who is a free soul and creative spirit. She is a city girl, but she loves spending a lot of time outdoors and being close to nature. She loves art and going to the antiques and organic food markets. She is a wild and free spirit who knows no bounds. Boho is Coto Mendoza’s first Script font family, which is based on gestual calligraphy with Cola pen. A first exposure to gestual strokes applied to font design can be seen in her previous work, Macarons. Boho consists of 4 subfamilies: Script, Line, Sans and Serif. Each subfamily comes in 4 weights: Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic. Script and Line versions include a teardrop terminal variant. Dingbats and ornaments are also included. Boho. Love and creative spirit!

Cake Shop has a lengthy history. Originally designed during the Eighties by Aussie artist David Art Wales, the font was inspired by the awkward but charming hand-lettered signs in a Maltese cake shop near his Sydney home. "These signs were hand-drawn by someone who clearly had no experience but who'd really put their heart and soul into the job. There was a real sincerity to the characters that I wanted to capture." For a brief time during the early Nineties, MTV used Cake Shop for all their on-air interstitials. Since then, it's become a go-to font for everything from children's books to album covers and ice cream branding. In a recent update, Wales added airier spacing to more closely resemble the original signs the font was based on.

Sharp and bold are the right words to describe Crucial Typeface. Crucial is a serif typeface that has a pointed tip so that each piece of character gives a bold and elegant impression. Having 8 weights and each weight packaged in an elegant Italic set, this typeface will add boldness and elegance to your designs. Crucial can be used for a variety of design styles. It is suitable for strong-spirited designs as well as for a more striking and classy editorial look. ?There are many useful features in this typeface including aalt, frac, league, lnum, locl, onum, ordn, salt, sinf, ss01, ss02, ss03, subs, sups, kern.

Typefire font will be known as TA Typefire from now on. Additionally, Cyrillic, Caucasian Albanian scripts and some glyphs were added. I made some slight modifications to letters. I hope you like it. Much love! TA Typefire is perfectly suited for editorial design, branding, magazines, logos, headings and more. TA Typefire OT Features: aalt, calt, case, dlig, dnom, frac, kern, liga, locl, numr, ordn, salt, sinf, ss01, ss02, ss03, subs, sups Supported Languages: Western Europe, Central/Eastern Europe, Baltic, Turkish, Romanian, Cyrillic, Caucasian Albanian Amount of glyphs included 456 Latin Plus languages supported 94% Latin Plus diacritics included 88% source: underware TA Typefire graphic presentation at Behance

Scatio is squarish with vertical terminal cut, a multi-purpose sans serif which can be use for many kind of graphic design projects. The Light, Regular and Medium weight have good legibility for text, the bolder and lighter weights can be used for headlines, display, posters, and more. Each members of the Scatio family contains 400+ glyphs which covers Western and Eastern Latin based languages. Each font is also equipped with some useful OpenType Features, such as: Fraction (frac) Numerator (numr) Denominator(dnom) Standard Ligatures (liga) Localized Forms (locl) Ordinals (ordn) Proportional and Tabular Lining (pnum & tnum) Superscript and Subscript (sups & subs) Scientific Inferior (sinf)

Kaizena is a modern script font with alternates, final form, stylistic sets, including front and back swashes. It can be used for various purposes, and suitable for logo design, branding, greeting cards, stationery, wedding invitations and much more. The design of Kaizena nuanced Japanese style, but it is very feasible to use in modern themed designs. Kaizena uses OpenType Features, so designers can access alternate glyphs easily with graphic design softwares. Besides that, these alternate glyphs are located in Private Use Area, so they can be accessed easily with Character Map, Babel Map, or font manager softwares.

ITC Kumquat is the work of American designer Eric Stevens. He started with the logo for his company, Tower of Babel Design, and expanded upon the Mesopotamian look to create a typeface to match. Stevens imagined drawing figures in the sand with a stick and how this method would change the way one usually draws characters, usually with lines replacing curves. Most characters are slim but a few, like the uppercase A and L, were made to contrast with the rest. ITC Kumquat is a great display typeface for anything which should have an antiquated feel.""

I happened to mention to the proprietor of an antique barn near here that I'd be interested in any old typewriters she happened to come across. A conversation ensued, the proprietor withdrew into a back room, and she re-emerged with an old handwritten letter, dated 18 Sept. 1825 and spanning nearly three pages. The letter, penned by Samuel Clarke, a Princeton, Mass., pastor, sought donations for the victims of an accident at sea. I thought his script unique, stylistic, and definitely something worth digitizing, so I bought the old letter and took it home. Had to come up with several uppercase characters to round out the set, but the results seem good and proper. Full release has complete character set.

"Metteora" is a hand lettered font style that is perfect for greeting cards, branding, stationery design, social media, packaging, magazine layouts, prints, logos and more! This unique font features complete lowercase alphabets and uppercase alphabets along with a few other ligatures and stylistic alternates to create a truly handwritten look and feel. "Metteora" has a variety of unique, coded features to create compelling, handmade outcomes. Multilingual support is included for Western European languages. OTF is included for the full, "Metteora" font. This is the personal license font that can be used for all personal needs. If you want to use this font on items you are going to sell or on anything promoting your business, please purchase the extended license version. Thanks, Haksen

Trolls are lurking under each and every river crossing. The earth is shaking as Ogres stomp across the land, spiked clubs in hand. Swordsmen and Sorcerers are waging war on one another even as the pure and young and stout of heart search for the talisman which will restore harmony once more. Are you under the spell of some wizard's magickal incantation or are you just looking for exactly the right typestyle for your J.R.R. Tolkien Convention newsletter? Regardless, an ancient curse has been lifted and the Talmudic Legend of the Clay Beast they call GOLEM has been restored to his former majesty. The shapeless mass is no longer one of unfinished substance, no longer a body without a soul. The Homunculus that was once Comicraft's Golem has had a spiritual awakening and is now available with the crinkly bits smoothed off.

'Youthink'. An energetic handwritten font, a reflection of the lifestyle of young people with an expression of what it is. Equipped with unique ligature makes this font appear with unpredicted surprises, worthy of a young soul that always accentuates freedom of work and thought. In short, this Font is an analogy from young people's creations. YOUTH - THINK - INK. from these words we put it together as Youthink. Pure handwriting makes this font more personal touch, complemented by multi-language support makes it free to appear in any part of the world, plus some alternate makes it more stand out. This font is very suitable for young and modern designs, very suitable for YouTube broadcasts, brand logos, prints for crafts and t-shirts, adrenaline sports hobbies, Journey Caption and certainly very instagramable. Stay safe and enjoy the font. Thanks

This steam era typeface, created by Gustav Schroeder in 1884, found popular use on soap box labels and tobacco tins during its initial release. Then, later, a successful and stout revival of Gustav's face, named Othello, was carried out by Morris Fuller Benton in 1934, and the typeface's appeal widened to include items such as broadside posters featuring Boris Karloff's Frankenstein. After metal gave way to film type, Gustav's creation experienced a brief fashion moment in the 1960's, but then disappeared entirely, never re-surfacing as a full digital typeface. With the release of Bathysphere, the typeface comes full circle, having been completely redrawn from scratch using Gustav's original specimens. The new extended language support establishes the typeface firmly in the modern era, while Bathysphere's refinement of subtle blunt corners restores a deep-sea grace to this iron giant.

Since 1985, Cartoonists Across America & The World have been promoting literacy, creativity, the arts, and other positive issues using cartoons and humor. Founder Phil Yeh and his band of artists -- including Comicraft President and First (Flying) Tiger, Richard Starkings -- create books, paint murals, take part in school assemblies, conventions, conferences and other public events for all ages throughout the world! Cartoonists Across America & The World have worked in partnership with the Center for The Book in The Library of Congress and other organizations all over the world. They have painted more than 1000 murals in 49 of the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico, Italy, England, France, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and the Cayman Islands. So we made Phil a font 'cause he's a noble soul. Avoid Extinction -- Read, Reuse, Reduce and Recycle!

Sheridan Gothic, also known as Grant Antique, is a quaint design produced in the late nineteenth century. Its proportions are in keeping with extra condensed faces of the times. Its uppercase letters are quite narrow. Its lowercase letters are equally narrow and tall. This pleasant and enduring design contains a touch of novelty, too. Swelled terminal flourishes on such characters as C, J, S, c, e, r, and s help add interest and warmth to what is basically a friendly old soul. Sheridan Gothic is now available in the OpenType Std format. Some new stylistic alternates have been added to this OpenType version. Advanced features work in current versions of Adobe Creative Suite InDesign, Creative Suite Illustrator, and Quark XPress. Check for OpenType advanced feature support in other applications as it gradually becomes available with upgrades.

Y'know the real trouble with Spider-man, Superman and the rest of the soulful superheroes, gloating supervillains and musing muckmonsters is They Just Don't Shut Up! For Crying Out Loud, give those iron jaws a REST willya?!? Yak Yak Yak! Blah Blah Blah! Yada Yada Yada... "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility!" "You won't get away with this, Luthor!" "I'm the best there is at what I do!" SHUT UP!!! Letterers don't get paid by the WORD you know! QUIT YER WHINING! Yeah, yeah, yeah this font IS the much requested typeset -- featuring upper AND lower case characters -- created by Starkings & Roshell for the X-Men back in the Age of Apocalypse. Hell's Squakkin' Teeth -- The X-MEN... don't even get me started on THOSE guys! What THEY need is the mutant ability to put a freakin' sock in it!

While sketching for a music project logo, Donald DBXL Beekman looked at several wood type alphabets as a starting poing. One of these was No.120, patented in 1880 by William Hamilton Page. With its distinct diagonally cut serifs and round shapes cut off at top and bottom, it bore just the right feel for the project. DBXL digitized the alphabet, adding all characters needed for a full set. During this process all shapes were widened, tweaked and streamlined to enhance consistency and rhythm along the whole font. VLNL Bonen is an all-caps display font with a very specific western cowboy or circus look. For instance burger or barbecue grill restaurants would do well with this one. We can easily see it shine on a festival flyer or poster as well, and not just country & western festivals. VLNL Bonen is suitable for any ‘big’ use that needs to stand out of the crowd. Bonen is the Dutch word for beans, a world wide source of nutrition and proteins it comes in a multitude of shapes, colours and sizes. Beans are also the most eaten foods in a cowboy’s diet along the trail. Available in abundance and easily preserved and transported, many recipes on the cattle drives in the American Wild West used beans. Think of chili, mashed beans with biscuits and bean soups. “Keep them doggies movin’, cowboy!”

The new OpenType font Shrub feels like a printed, textural typestyle, influenced by the great slab-serif fonts of the 20th century and organic, messy effects of old Xerox copiers. You might call this one a “multi-messter font” because it not only comes grainy and coarse, but also features a special stylistic alphabet set to add extra schmutz as you see fit. Users of Adobe’s Creative Suite applications can access this feature as either “Stylistic Set #1” in InDesign or “Stylistic Alternates” in Illustrator. The extra blotches can be turned on or off as you see fit. Put a little organic texture mixed with old-school legibility to make you flyers and other designs look like they were really printed! Shrub speaks with a compelling, grounded personality in a voice that’s easy to read.

Dorriss girls were the dancing troop at the Moulin Rouge. I had the idea for this font while trying to come up with an alternative to beveling. I thought it would be interesting to create this sort of stepped effect as I've never really seen this treatment on a font before. Then my need to create chaos shows up again with Doriss Girls informal. A hand drawn take on the forms. This seemed like it would appear on an old art nouveau poster by the great Toulouse Lautrec, so there you have the genesis of this font. I've been somewhat compelled by the letterforms so I may expand and create a more normal version of this font someday with a range of weights. That would be the bees knees.

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.

Inspired by the strange, blocky lettering on the sides of a set of a set of plastic kitchen containers in my childhood home, 8th Avenue is a sophisticated, somewhat syncopated font with a retro look and feel that at the same time brings a very modern attitude to your design. 8th Avenue works well as display font for packaging, headlines and logos. Those pastel turquoise plastic boxes from the early 1950s, with white screen printed letters reading FLOUR, SUGAR, COFFEE etc. on one side were a simple quiet presence in our home back then and for decades after. Seeing them, even that soft blue-green colour felt like home. SUGAR, the soul survivor of that set has become one of those mundane items of daily life that somehow become simple icons of another time, ripe with memories. Obviously I had to make a font. September 2014

Nature Boy was born in a fantasy world of old, where you can find magic, elegance, dreams and fun all together... just like nature in its purest form with its leafy curves and shapes that make it peacefully enjoyable. Soft and simple yet fairly ornamental, attributes that create an enchanting atmosphere but keep the texts legible at the same time when combined. Nature Boy can bring life and magic to every design, from editorial to posters, brands and packagings. Just picture this font on any product intended to move your soul and take you on a journey into a different and most beautiful place and time and let the adventure begin. This font family is made up of optically corrected regular, italic and bold types. All of them contain functional ligatures with alternative glyphs for texts and words to be dynamical and fluently graphed.

Darkness Falls… beware the Moon and stick to the road. Keep clear of the moors, for there you will only find a bloody, UNNATURAL death. Tonight, as every night there is a Full Moon, the Blood Beast stalks the village. It is ready to catch the unwary one, the show-off, the FOOL! It walks the Earth in limbo from one month to the next and only one who is loving in spirit can bring an end to its Carnivorous Lunar Activities! Blood Beast arrives in three weights, Regular, Bold and Heavy, but we recommend you don’t tackle any of them unless you are brave of heart and prepared to save the soul of the poor victim who was left with the Mark of the Blood Beast! Features: Three weights with alternate upper and lowercase characters Languages: Western & Central Europe Automatic alternates & Crossbar I Technology™

STF Eclectic Medley is the budget-concious answer to your dingbat blues! This "best of" collection from the Eclectic One, Two and Three fonts is the ultimate grab-bag dingbat resource. Every slot in the font is filled (over 200 characters!), and includes the form-making glyphs from Eclectic Three. The Eclectic family is legendary, with a cult-like following among the inititated. You'll find yourself using Eclectic Medley almost daily to add spice to your otherwise san-serif typographic existence. This font is essentially a soap opera of typographic image elements, created for projects when I couldn't find the "thingbat" I needed. Almost more of a collection of illustrations, there are many characters which connect to form patterns, and of course it's like a "small neutral European country" army knife for the creative community. Available in Mac and PC formats. License it today!

Typographers — and clients alike — are often obsessed with novelty. Be it self-consciously peculiar details with made-you-look appeal — or just austere, detached minimalism, constant seek for novelty in typography often becomes an end in itself. A lot of times, an old trick is better than a bagful of new ones — all you might actually need would be a good, reliable font family with soul, providing that comforting, familiar feel. This is where Forrest comes in: a type family born out of a lifelong passion for digging into old archives of fonts, in search for that good ol’ type — simple, honest, made with love. But make no mistake, Forrest is as savvy as fonts come, packed with smart features. Handsome swashes, cute small capitals and old style figures all add a bit of flair and enable a highly sophisticated and contemporary approach to typography.

Between twilight and daybreak it is said that the dark side of the human psyche eclipses the sun that shines from the depths of our souls. Certainty turns to doubt, clarity becomes confusion, man turns into wolf, the dead wake, vampires seduce the young are restless and milk boils over on the stove. Those that seek only to bathe in the light of a romantic new moon often end their tragic lives soaked in nothing other than their own blood, and the milk spilt on the stovetop has no one left to cry over it. There are fifty shades of grey during those hours after sunset and I think just as many in my porridge this morning. Yes, okay, I admit it, I spoiled the milk! This porridge tastes like it was left in a graveyard overnight. Death warmed over. Gothic and lumpy. Just like the Buried weights of this font.

Soundboy is an ode to Elvis Presley and his music. The font was drawn by hand from a number of images from the Blue Hawaii film and finished to perfection. The digitization was done with great care and the font was also provided with a number of extras such as ligatures. Soundboy is a playful and translatable font that at first sight has already caught everyone with a spontaneous and broad smile. Logos, house styles, magazines, covers, vinyl records, book covers, t-shirts, house styles and all kinds of other graphic expressions will look a lot happier. This font is more than welcome in this sour society. The packaging makes the consumer buy and Soundboy certainly contributes to that. Don't wait for someone else to get it in your area, the best designs deserve the most beautiful fonts. Enjoy the "Soundboy font", it will never let you down.

Dvarlin Staves is a collection of 512 rune glyph's divided into six font family's. The three main font's are Root, Caber and Bole, while Remnant, Branch and Blossom are taller versions of the main set. They all come in four weights: Light, Regular, Semibold and Bold. As well as a Italic and a Slant style for the purpose of adjusting letters on a curved line. It also features codex:437 glyph set and an extended array of letters and corner alternatives, including the default runic glyph's. The collection stands at 72 styles that contains a total of 36 864 glyph's. For extra supporters consider gifting some Staves away to a crafty friend.

You think swirls, swashes and curls are kitsch? Wait till you've seen our self-confident set of uncomplicated hand-drawn ornaments. If you're looking for the right flourish to spice up your greeting cards or prettify your wedding invitations, look no further! With LiebeOrnaments your designs will look as accurate as if you had spent three weeks in calligraphy boot camp—while maintaining an aura of softness and loveliness. This single font includes an impressive set of almost 200 variations on classical ornaments (many accessible directly with the keyboard). LiebeOrnaments is the perfect companion for our best-selling typeface LiebeErika, which has a cameo appearance on some of the samples shown above.

The successful Gill Sans® was designed by the English artist and type designer Eric Gill and issued by Monotype in 1928 to 1930. The roots of Gill Sans can be traced to the typeface that Gill's teacher, Edward Johnston, designed for the signage of the London Underground Railway in 1918. Gill´s alphabet is more classical in proportion and contains what have become known as his signature flared capital R and eyeglass lowercase g. Gill Sans is a humanist sans serif with some geometric touches in its structures. It also has a distinctly British feel. Legible and modern though sometimes cheerfully idiosyncratic, the lighter weights work for text, and the bolder weights make for compelling display typography. Gill Sans is also available as Value Pack for Macintosh, PC or as Hybrid CD with both platforms.