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  1. Broken Drive by Sarid Ezra, $15.00
    Introducing, Broken Drive, a grunge display font! Broken Drive is a grunge sans based font that have natural textures. This textured font will make your poster and presentations looks more bold and stand out! You can use this font for any purpose, especially for movie poster. You can combine the uppercase and lowercase to make your design more natural and handmade. This font also support multilingual.
  2. Easter Risen by Letterara, $14.00
    Easter Risen is a new, fresh, sweet, and unique handcrafted font. It's ideal for branding and decorate your projects. Easter Risen font has a classy and modern look that can be used for logos, branding, easter, invitations, posters, advertisements, stationery, animated films, social media posts, youtube channel, and much more! It is PUA coded which means you can access all the glyphs and sweeps easily!
  3. Funny Nature by URW Type Foundry, $39.99
    Funny Nature is not a typeface but a collection of small, comic-like symbols. Lüdicke used to work often for a supplier of gardening equipment etc. He had to come up with new, original and vivid ideas for the design of catalogues and ads. He designed Funny Nature, a wonderful collection of illustrations. Can you hear the humming and buzzuing, can you smell the flowers?
  4. Artukge Script by Tebaltipis Studio, $15.00
    Introducing new latest from TebTipsudio, Artukge Script is a typeface with personality. You can use it as a logo, badge, insignia, packaging, headline, poster, etc The alternative characters in this font were divided into several OpenType features such as Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Sets, and Ligature. The OpenType features can be accessed by using OpenType program such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign. Thank you!
  5. Zebudabi by Patria Ari, $15.00
    Introducing Zebundabi, a fun handwritten matcha font with unique glyph shapes. Zebundabi has lowercase and uppercase that can be played off easily, so you can get a unique combination to use for your project to make design more beautiful. Zebundabi suitable for book cover, tshirt, tote bags, merchandise, books, poster, title, quotes, and many more! Fonts featured : Uppercase Lowercase Numbers Punctuation & symbols Accented characters
  6. Variable by MADType, $34.00
    Variable is a sans-serif monoline typeface family that can be used in a variety of typographic environments. The UltraThin weight is perfect for use at large sizes in magazines or anywhere a hairline effect is needed. The Black weight feels reminiscent of wooden router lettering. Variable is very versatile due to its calming curves and can be used in print or on-screen environments.
  7. Kid Candy by Zeenesia Studio, $12.00
    Kid Candy is a sweet and friendly handwritten font. Kid Candy is a serif and sans font that can meet your design needs with funny and cheerful themes You can use it in your various designs, clothes, logos, posters, invitations, crafts, and more. Its natural and unique style makes it incredibly fitting to a large pool of designs. The only limit is your imagination!
  8. Cornelia Handwritten by Letterara, $12.00
    Cornelia Handwritten is a stunning handwritten brush font with a cool and bold style. It can be used for various purposes like logos, titles, news, posters, advertisements and much more. It will add a unique spark to any design project that you wish to create! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the amazing glyphs and ligatures with ease!
  9. Tamitsa by QubaType, $20.00
    Tamitsa is a condensed display sans font. The font is universal and can be used in different directions of graphic design - Internet, printed materials, clothing, logos, posters, labels, navigation and more. Thanks to character compression, you can place a large amount of information in a compressed space. It will read equally well in large and small sizes. Tamitsa contains 4 fonts: 2 regular and 2 slanted.
  10. Garnet by Ksenia Belobrova, $19.00
    Garnet as a modern font kit inspired by fonts and calligraphy of XX centure. It includes Capitals (6 Styles) and Script so you can combine them as you like. Geometric Sans + Handwritten Script is a modern and fresh looking combination which can be used for many tasks. Garnet is good for headlines, posters, packaging, book covers, cards and as a starting point for logotypes.
  11. Moku Brush by Deltatype, $49.00
    Moku Brush is a structural brush script inspired from handwriting with brush, with straight letterform you will get less formal but more sweet! Moku Brush come with nine weights, so you can use as body text or even better with headline. With nine variations, you can use this font in different sizes with different weights, you will get better balance when do type setup.
  12. Rallynda by Balevgraph Studio, $12.00
    Rallynda is a whimsical yet adaptable handwritten font, that can easily stand out. Simple but with a strong visual effect, this font will instantly make your creation more appealing than any others. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs with ease! What's Included? Uppercase & Lowercase Numbers & Punctuation Ligature, Alternate & Swashes Multilingual Support PUA Encoded Enjoy our font
  13. CG Clarendon by Monotype, $29.99
    The first Clarendon was introduced in 1845 by R. Besley & Co, The Fan Street Foundry, as a general purpose bold for use in conjunction with other faces in works such as dictionaries. In some respects, Clarendon can be regarded as a refined version of the Egyptian style and as such can be used for text settings, although headline and display work is more usual.
  14. Keira by Youthlabs, $18.00
    Introducing Keira Serif Font - A Brand New Serif Font with Simple and Elegant Look, More Opentype Feature, more neat curves Keira Serif Font Inspired by Simple and Elegant Typography. Keira Font is a very versatile font. you can use this font to various design. Basics can improve more than 200 alternative character. What's the Feature ? Uppercase & Lowercase Alternate 91 Language Support Ligatures Stylistic Alternate
  15. Kiwiberri by Melonaqua, $10.00
    Introducing Kiwiberri, a fun and playful handwritten font that you can use for your home or work projects. You can put it on shirt designs, mug designs, printable chalkboards, printable planners, websites, note-taking apps, wall art, greeting cards, and many more. The sky is the limit. This is multilingual so it is compatible with other languages. Kiwiberri is created to showcase handwritten fonts using brushes.
  16. Vriegbe Script by Tebaltipis Studio, $15.00
    Introducing new latest from TebTipsudio, Vriegbe Script is a typeface with personality. You can use it as a logo, badge, insignia, packaging, headline, poster, etc The alternative characters in this font were divided into several OpenType features such as Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Sets, and Ligature. The OpenType features can be accessed by using OpenType program such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign. Thank you!
  17. Masbrushy by Sesa Grafika, $69.00
    Masbrushy is a bold and Modern handwritten Lettering font. Clean and a little bit quirky, this font is the perfect fit for all of your logos, branding, social media, and crafty DIY projects. This font especially design for awesome logo project. You can use this font for Logomark Project. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!
  18. Toddler Toys by NJ Studio, $19.00
    Hi...Thank for your visit :) Toddler a handmade fonts are font designs that are made for various vector designs, printing such as digital wedding invitations, blogs, online shops, social media, while printing can be used in the field of product clothing, accessories, bags, pins, logos, business cards, watermarks and many others ... so it can make your product look elegant and attractive, and also Multilingual support!!! Happy design ...
  19. Fastest by Letterara, $16.00
    Fastest is a unique and modern sans serif font, specially designed for headlines, big text, branding, logotypes, marketing graphics, banners, posters, signage, and display usage. It can easily be matched to an incredibly large set of projects, so add it to your creative ideas and notice how it makes them stand out! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the amazing glyphs.
  20. Versica by Letrasupply Typefoundry, $25.00
    Versica is a handcrafted display font. This font family consists of multiple style fonts that can be used either as authentic individual fonts or can be combined to get cool layered type. The package is completed with swashes, shadow and serif font. Don't forget to play with stylistic alternates character that featuring the font. You may get a perfect font for any advertise or editorial work issues.
  21. PR Swirlies 01 Frames by PR Fonts, $10.15
    This font is a collection of simple calligraphic ornaments suitable for invitations, gift tags, and anything that can benifit from a "spoonful of sugar" visually. The frames font uses the same calligraphic elements as PR-Swirlies-01, but has them combines in ways which form an elliptical cartouche. Many of the elements can be used in a modular way to create frames of varying length.
  22. Varsity is a distinctive and eye-catching font that is instantly recognizable for its bold and spirited character, reminiscent of the lettering used on college and university apparel, sports team jer...
  23. PMN Caecilia eText by Monotype, $29.99
    PMN Caecilia™ is the premiere work of the Dutch designer Peter Matthias Noordzij. He made the first sketches for this slab serif design in 1983 during his third year of study in The Hague, and the full font family was released by Linotype in 1990. The PMN prefix represents the designer's initials, and Caecilia is his wife's name. This font has subtle variations of stroke thickness, a tall x-height, open counters, and vivacious true italics. Noordzij combined classical ductus with his own contemporary expression to create a friendly and versatile slab serif family. With numerous weights from light to heavy, and styles including small caps, Old style figures, and Central European characters, PMN Caecilia has all the elements necessary for rich typographic expression. eText fonts - the optimum of on-screen text quality With our new eText fonts that have been optimised for on-screen use, you can ensure that your texts remain readily legible when displayed on smartphones, tablets or e-readers. The poor resolution of many digital display systems represents a major challenge when it comes to presenting text. It is necessary to make considerable compromises, particularly in the case of text in smaller point sizes, in order to adapt characters designed in detail using vector graphics to the relatively crude pixel grid. So-called 'font hinting' can help with this process. This, for example, provides the system with information on which lines are to be displayed in a particular thickness, i.e. using a specific number of pixels. As font hinting is a largely manual and thus very complex technique, many typefaces come with only the most necessary information. What is unimportant for a text printed in high resolution can result in a poor quality image when the same text is displayed on a screen, so that reading it rapidly becomes a demanding activity. Specially optimised eText fonts can help overcome this problem. An extremely refined and elaborate font hinting system makes sure that these fonts are optimally displayed on screens. Monotype has not only adopted font hinting for this purpose but has also thoroughly reworked the fonts to hone them for display in low resolution environments. For example, the open counters present in the letters C, c, e, S, s, g etc. have been slightly expanded so that these retain their character even in small point sizes. Also with a view to enhancing appearance in smaller point sizes, line thickness has been discreetly increased and x-height carefully adjusted. Kerning has also been modified. Don't leave the on-screen appearance of your creations to chance. Play it safe and use eText fonts to achieve perfect results on modern display devices. Many typefaces, including many popular classics, are already available as eText fonts and new ones are continually being published. The eText font you can purchase here are available for use as Desktop Fonts or Web Fonts. Should they be used in Mobile Devices such as smartphones, tablets or eReaders, please contact our OEM specialists at sales-eu@monotype.com.
  24. Smashed Display by Raquel Fernandes, $17.49
    Smashed Typeface is a reversed-contrast, slab serif, display font. Was inspired by the old west days that we can often see in printing, circus posters and wanted notices in western movies, even tho the style was really used in many parts of the world during that period. This style is sometimes called as "circus letter" too. Was designed to have a modern look, using straighter lines and an extended style, can be used on various situations like posters, logos for restaurants, alternative business like an old washing station (as you can see on the next images), music bands etc. I believe that is a promising typography that can be used by various designers in a lot of diverse project. It counts with 226 multi language characters, one weight on version 1.0, on a next version I hope to take this project to another level, creating a variable typeface from condensed to really extended weights. It would complete this typography and eliminate the limits of use.
  25. Lowpoly by Krafted, $10.00
    Want to give your design a bit of that vintage look we all love? Great idea, because the right font can change the way people see your brand. Introducing Nostalgiz - a Vintage Modern Font. Whether you’re designing presentations, ads, social media campaigns, or merchandise, Nostalgiz can step up to the task. Try it out and see what a difference a unique font can make. What you’ll get: Multilingual & Ligature Support Full sets of Punctuation and Numerals Compatible with: Adobe Suite Microsoft Office KeyNote Pages Software Requirements: The fonts that you’ll receive in the pack are widely supported by most software. In order to get the full functionality of the selection of standard ligatures (custom created letters) in the script font, any software that can read OpenType fonts will work. We hope you enjoy this font and that it makes your branding sparkle! Feel free to reach out to us if you’d like more information or if you have any concerns
  26. Bagiqu by Twinletter, $17.00
    Bagiqu is a sporty Sans Serif font. Designed for any purpose you can use it to create a stunning design. The Bagiqu font is ready for your big projects and for the best results of your work. This font is suitable for Logo Design, Poster Design, Signature Design, Branding, and More. You can also use it on social media like a logo etc. This font has 25 alternates and 94 ligatures for all letters and 2 styles, making it a versatile tool for creating originality for your various design needs. You Can Create Professional Quality Typography With These Fonts in Your Artwork or Use It For Personal Projects! What’s Included : - All glyphs Iso Latin 1 - Alternate, Ligature - Simple installations - We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many Adobe apps and Corel Draw so that you can see and access all Glyph variations. - PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. - Fonts include Multilingual support
  27. Lovely Unicorn by Gilar Studio, $16.00
    Introducing " Lovely Unicorn" Lovely Unicorn Is a Handwritten Font With 3 Style (Regular,Outline and Shadow) You Can Mix And Match for Your Awesome Project This fonts is ideal for crafting, branding and decorate your any project. This fonts are perfect for wedding invitation or your blog. Also with their help, you can create a logo or beautiful frame for your home. Or just use for your business, book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines and more. FEATURES : Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Punctuation More than 265 of glyphs Multilingual Language PUA Encode 28 Ligatures Alternate The alternative characters were divided into several 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. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Check my other Font here https://gilarstudio.com/
  28. Nostalgiz by Krafted, $10.00
    Want to give your design a bit of that vintage look we all love? Great idea, because the right font can change the way people see your brand. Introducing Nostalgiz - a Vintage Modern Font. Whether you’re designing presentations, ads, social media campaigns, or merchandise, Nostalgiz can step up to the task. Try it out and see what a difference a unique font can make. What you’ll get: Multilingual & Ligature Support Full sets of Punctuation and Numerals Compatible with: Adobe Suite Microsoft Office KeyNote Pages Software Requirements: The fonts that you’ll receive in the pack are widely supported by most software. In order to get the full functionality of the selection of standard ligatures (custom created letters) in the script font, any software that can read OpenType fonts will work. We hope you enjoy this font and that it makes your branding sparkle! Feel free to reach out to us if you’d like more information or if you have any concerns.
  29. Anak Sultan by Gilar Studio, $16.00
    Introducing "Anak Sultan" Anak Sultan Is a Handwritten Display Font With 3 Style (Regular,Outline and Shadow) You Can Mix And Match for Your Awesome Project This fonts is ideal for crafting, branding and decorate your any project. This fonts are perfect for wedding invitation or your blog. Also with their help, you can create a logo or beautiful frame for your home. Or just use for your business, book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines and more. FEATURES : Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Punctuation More than 256 of glyphs Multilingual Language PUA Encode 24 Ligatures Alternate The alternative characters were divided into several 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. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Check my other fonts here : gilarstudio.com
  30. The Funy Times by Gilar Studio, $16.00
    The Funy Time's Is a Joyful Display Font With 3 Style (Regular,Outline and Shadow) You Can Mix And Match for Your Awesome Project This fonts is ideal for crafting, branding and decorate your any project. This fonts are perfect for wedding invitation or your blog. Also with their help, you can create a logo or beautiful frame for your home. Or just use for your business, book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines and more. FEATURES : Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Punctuation More than 256 of glyphs Multilingual Language PUA Encode 24 Ligatures Alternate The alternative characters were divided into several 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. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Check Out my other fonts here : gilarstudio.com
  31. Neastone by Sealoung, $25.00
    Introducing Neastone A Modern Chic Serif Fonts. Beautiful and soft fonts in a contemporary style that can make your design projects look modern, elegant and luxurious. Made with many alternative characters to make it easier for you to do various design projects and give you fun while typing. Neastone fits perfectly into those nostalgic moodboards and vintage logos. It come with a unique lower and uppercase plus numbers, punctuation & multilingual letters. You can apply them to designs like social media posts, logos, merchandise, book covers, posters, video content thumbnails, quotes, landing pages, wedding invitations and much more which you can make with this great item for any design :) Features: - Uppercase - Lowercase - Numeral - Punctuation - Multilingual - Opentype Features & PUA Encoded - Ligatures - Alternates Notte: Use a program that supports the Opentype features and the glyph panel is available, so you can see the various alternative characters available. Examples of programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Corel Draw or Affinity Designer.
  32. Black Quality by Alit Design, $14.00
    Black Quality is an elegant and certainly cool Black Letter styled font family. The process of making this font from sketching to the final file takes up to 5 months. Black Quality can be used as a font layer but can also be used alone without a layer, many styles that you can combine from the outline to the Rough style. Black Quality is perfect for Victorian, Classic, Elegant and vintage designs. This font is very well used for design wine, packaging, beer logos, tattoo studios, and more. Besides you get letter fonts you also get "BONUS" ornament sets in the form of font formats. You can combine all ornament elements as in the Black Quality font display. For those of you who like to collect or have design projects that are victorian, black letter or awesome designs, you must and must have a Black Quality font on your device. Best regards Alit
  33. Luar Galaxy by Gilar Studio, $16.00
    Luar Galaxy a Handwritten Display Font With 3 Style (Regular,Outline and Shadow) You Can Mix And Match for Your Awesome Project This fonts is ideal for crafting, branding and decorate your any project. This fonts are perfect for wedding invitation or your blog. Also with their help, you can create a logo or beautiful frame for your home. Or just use for your business, book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines and more. FEATURES : Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Punctuation More than 219 of glyphs Multilingual Language PUA Encode Ligatures Alternate The alternative characters were divided into several 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. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Check Out my other fonts here : gilarstudio.com
  34. Apocalyptic by Artisticandunique, $9.00
    Apocalyptic - Sans Serif Font Family - Multilingual - 24 Style (2022) Apocalyptic - Sans serif font family is a futuristic-modern font. The emotional integrity it creates due to its structure is suitable for use in technology, science, space and similar subject contents.Apocalyptic - sans serif font family, from Thin to Heavy, offers a full range of expression for interfaces and corporate design; in multiple languages, from print to screen media.It offers rich solutions to your creative projects with its alternative versions.You can easily use the sans serif font feature in many areas.You can create your text with normal characters and highlight Heavy characters and titles. It is functional in many sizes and environments that you can use as a main actor in strong headlines. If you are looking for a font with these features, Apocalyptic sans serif font family may meet your needs. With this font you can create your unique designs. If you have a question, please contact me. Have a good time.
  35. RePublic by Suitcase Type Foundry, $75.00
    In 1955 the Czech State Department of Culture, which was then in charge of all the publishing houses, organised a competition amongst printing houses and generally all book businesses for the design of a newspaper typeface. The motivation for this contest was obvious: the situation in the printing presses was appalling, with very little quality fonts existing and financial resources being too scarce to permit the purchase of type abroad. The conditions to be met by the typeface were strictly defined, and far more constrained than the ones applied to regular typefaces designed for books. A number of parameters needed to be considered, including the pressure of the printing presses and the quality of the thin newspaper ink that would have smothered any delicate strokes. Rough drafts of type designs for the competition were submitted by Vratislav Hejzl, Stanislav Marso, Frantisek Novak, Frantisek Panek, Jiri Petr, Jindrich Posekany, and the team of Stanislav Duda, Karel Misek and Josef Tyfa. The committee published its comments and corrections of the designs, and asked the designers to draw the final drafts. The winner was unambiguous — the members of the committee unanimously agreed to award Stanislav Marso’s design the first prize. His typeface was cast by Grafotechna (a state-owned enterprise) for setting with line-composing machines and also in larger sizes for hand-setting. Regular, bold, and bold condensed cuts were produced, and the face was named Public. In 2003 we decided to digitise the typeface. Drawings of the regular and italic cuts at the size of approximatively 3,5 cicero (43 pt) were used as templates for scanning. Those originals covered the complete set of caps except for the U, the lowercase, numerals, and sloped ampersand. The bold and condensed bold cuts were found in an original specimen book of the Rude Pravo newspaper printing press. These specimens included a dot, acute, colon, semicolon, hyphens, exclamation and question marks, asterisk, parentheses, square brackets, cross, section sign, and ampersand. After the regular cut was drafted, we began to modify it. All the uppercase letters were fine-tuned, the crossbar of the A was raised, E, F, and H were narrowed, L and R were significantly broadened, and the angle of the leg and arm of the K were adjusted. The vertex of the M now rests on the baseline, making the glyph broader. The apex of the N is narrower, resulting in a more regular glyph. The tail of Q was made more decorative; the uppercase S lost its implied serifs. The lowercase ascenders and descenders were slightly extended. Corrections on the lower case a were more significant, its waist being lowered in order to improve its colour and light. The top of the f was redrawn, the loop of lowercase g now has a squarer character. The diagonals of the lowercase k were harmonised with the uppercase K. The t has a more open and longer terminal, and the tail of the y matches its overall construction. Numerals are generally better proportioned. Italics have been thoroughly redrawn, and in general their slope is lessened by approximatively 2–3 degrees. The italic upper case is more consistent with the regular cut. Unlike the original, the tail of the K is not curved, and the Z is not calligraphic. The italic lower case is even further removed from the original. This concerns specifically the bottom finials of the c and e, the top of the f, the descender of the j, the serif of the k, a heavier ear on the r, a more open t, a broader v and w, a different x, and, again, a non-calligraphic z. Originally the bold cut conformed even more to the superellipse shape than the regular one, since all the glyphs had to be fitted to the same width. We have redrawn the bold cut to provide a better match with the regular. This means its shapes have become generally broader, also noticeably darker. Medium and Semibold weights were also interpolated, with a colour similar to the original bold cut. The condensed variants’ width is 85 percent of the original. The design of the Bold Condensed weights was optimised for the setting of headlines, while the lighter ones are suited for normal condensed settings. All the OpenType fonts include small caps, numerals, fractions, ligatures, and expert glyphs, conforming to the Suitcase Standard set. Over half a century of consistent quality ensures perfect legibility even in adverse printing conditions and on poor quality paper. RePublic is an exquisite newspaper and magazine type, which is equally well suited as a contemporary book face.
  36. Antique by Storm Type Foundry, $26.00
    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.
  37. Spooky Hollow by Forberas Club, $16.00
    ntroducing Spooky Hollow by Forberas, yet playful but still serious. You can use this as decorative material for your upcoming project.
  38. Paihuen Rough by RodrigoTypo, $25.00
    It is an Alternative version of "Paihuen Pro" containing 3 styles that can be combined and all in a rough style.
  39. Pumpkin Hunter by Forberas Club, $16.00
    Introducing Pumpkin Hunter by Forberas, yet playful but still serious. You can use this as decorative material for your upcoming project.
  40. Potomac by Context, $15.00
    A hearty utilitarian face inspired by stenciled type found on train cars and shipping crates. Ideal for posters, headlines, and titling.
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