It took me a long time, but I think I now understand why people of my generation and older feel the need to frame current events in an historical context or precedents, while most of the young couldn't care less about what happened ten years ago, let alone centuries back. After living for a few decades, you get to a point when time seems to be moving quite fast, and it’s humbling to see that your entire existence so far can be summed up in a paragraph or two which may or may not be useful to whoever ends up reading the stuff anyhow. I suppose one way to cope with the serenity of aging is trying to convince yourself that your life and work are really an extension of millenia of a species striving to accept, adapt to, and improve the human condition through advancing the many facets of civilization -- basically making things more understandable and comfortable for ourselves and each other while we go about doing whatever it is we are trying to do. And when you do finally convince yourself of that, history becomes a source of much solace and even a little premonition, so you end up spending more time there. Going far back into the history of what I do, one can easily see that for the most part it was ruled by the quill. Western civilization’s writing was done with quill pens for more than thirteen centuries and with newer instruments for about two. By the mid-18th century, the height of the quill experience, various calligraphy techniques could be discerned and writing styles were arranged in distinct categories. There are many old books that showcase the history of it all. I recommend looking at some whenever the urge comes calling and you have to get away from backlit worlds. Multiple sources usually help me get a better perspective on the range of a specific script genre, so many books served as reference to this quill font of mine. Late 17th century French and Spanish professional calligraphy guides were great aides in understanding the ornamental scope of what the scribes were doing back then. The French books, with their showings of the Ronde, Bâtarde and Coulée alphabets, were the ones I referenced the most. So I decided to name the font Auberge, a French word for hotel or inn, because I really felt like a guest in different French locales (and times) when I going through all that stuff. Because it is multi-sourced, Auberge does not strictly fit in a distinct quill pen category. Instead, it shows strong hints of both Bâtarde and Coulée alphabets. And like most of my fonts, it is an exercise in going overboard with alternates, swashes, and ornamental devices. Having worked with it for a while, I find it most suitable for display calligraphic setting in general, but it works especially well for things like wine labels and event invitations. It also shines in the original quill pen application purpose, which of course was stationery. Also, as it just occurred to me, if you find yourself in a situation where you have to describe your entire life in 50 words or less, you may as well make it look good and swashy, so Auberge would probably be a good fit there as well. This is one quill script that no large bird had to die for. A few technical notes The Auberge Script Pro version includes 1800 glyphs, everything is included there. Also latin language support. We recommend you to use the latest design application to have full access to alternates, swashes, small caps, ornaments, etc. The images from the gallery uses this version. For better results use the fonts with “liga” feature on. Awards During 2014 the early develop of Auberge Script was chosen to be part of Tipos Latinos, the most important type exhibition in South America.

Compass TRF is a reevaluation of an existing Compass typeface dated 2002. Compass is a geometric contrast serif typeface - "contemporary Didone". New Compass consists of four styles—regular, italic, alternate and flourish initials with small caps. Compass TRF is recommended for use as display typeface. It is suggested that flourish initials font to be used for decorative purpose only, not basic typesetting. Compass TRF generated as OpenType single master format with Western CP1252 character set.

Decorative, semi-serif fonts with high contrast: - Fogthree-ACL (AllCaps & Ligatures) with lots of unique (92 basic and 144 diacritic) Ligatures. - Fogthree as an accompanying, classic font with delicate feel, ideal for headlines, short text, logos, packaging and advertising. Ligatures gives text a unique, elegant and romantic feel. These Ligatures are PUA encoded and can also be accessed from Glyph Palette or Character Map. It comes in OpenType format with extended language support.

Decima Round – one more addition to the Decima fonts family. It is a new version of recently released Decima Pro fonts with new content and styles. The main difference in the new version is a visual softer impressions of letter shapes made by the rounding of all glyphs’ corners and terminals. Decima Round is released in OpenType format with some OpenType features and support of most Latin languages as well as Cyrillic.

Diploma is a revival of Diplomat, a metal type made by the in-house team of Ludwig & Mayer and first published in 1964. Strong elegant caps with confident serifs make Diploma a great addition to the toolbox of poster and book cover designers. Diploma's character set covers a large range of codepages, including support for Baltic, Central and Eastern European languages, as well as Turkish and Welsh. Comes in all popular font formats.

Rito Regular and Italic is a clean, crisp and modern monospaced font ready to make your work shine. Its distinctive ink-trap inspired chiseled glyphs create a unique flavor that is more pronounced in the italics. Rito is not your typical monospaced boring font - from the outset the goal was to develop an exuberant, dynamic and contemporary mono-spaced font. Ideal for coding, writing and has plenty of attitude to stretch into display formats!

Calamity Wayne is a reverse-contrast slab serif, inspired by the ‘wild west’ French Clarendons (aka Italians or Egyptians) of the late-1800s. Despite the idiosyncrasies that make it ideal for display and headline uses, it is also surprisingly legible in text settings. Calamity Wayne supports Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, and is available in OTF and TTF formats. Acknowledgement: I am very grateful to David Jonathan Ross (https://djr.com) for his support and encouragement.

Moller has a strong but soft character, with a cheerful and fresh theme, supported by 2 Style. Moller is able to answer your current needs who are designing something great. Moller is a bold and unique display font. Masterfully designed to become a true favorite character, moller is able to answer your current needs who are designing something great Its weight is superior in posters, social media, headlines, magazine titles, clothing, large print formats.

EFCO Overhold, a family of 25 fonts, block allcaps with spur serif accent, created as a font pair with other font collections. available with height and width axes which make a lot of possible layouts. and also available in variable font format for unlimited possible layouts. EFCO Overhold is a great typeface for typography logo composition, branding, packaging, signage, print, headline, pair with your illustration, or pair with other ephemera fonts collections, etc.

Decima – condensed geometric Sans Serif typeface, released back in 2009 and quite successful ever since (MyFonts Rising Star, February 2009). Decima Pro – an upgraded version of Decima, with careful refinements to glyph shapes and extension of glyph amounts, which enabled support of more Latin languages as well as support of Cyrillic. Six more alternate styles have been added to the original six styles. Typeface is released in OpenType format with some OpenType features.

This typeface takes most of its design cues from Isonorm, developed by the International Standards Organisation in Switzerland in 1980. In this version, the overall design has been homogenized to eliminate some of the anomalous forms in the original. Suitable for both text and headlines with a cutting edge vibe. All versions contain the complete Latin 1252, Central European 1250, Turkish 1254 and Baltic 1257 character sets, with several language-specific localizations.

The Sweet Orange Blossom font is a handwritten font that gives neat but realistic roller pen feelings when being displayed! It offers support for all the characters in all western European languages as well as standard punctuation glyphs. Perfectly suitable for numerous use such as product labels, quotations, banners, logos, product packaging, titles, headers, menu lists, and even for digital note taking! It comes in OTF format. Feel free to purchase and try!

Gerova is a serif display font that is aesthetically pleasing and has beautiful curves. Gerova font also gives the impression of luxury with a sleek and sharp serif. This font provides a unique collection of glyphs that are perfect for completing a variety of projects, such as logo designs, identities, product labels, fashion, magazines and more. Gerova font features Open Type Format (OTF), alternative styles, ligatures, kerning, uppercase & lowercase letters, numeral, punctuation and multilingual support.

Calling Code — very nice monospaced font — 1. is a monospaced font family for coding and tabular layout. 2. simply consists of 4 style, Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. 3. is ready in both OpenType and TrueType formats. 4. has slightly condensed width for more useful space. 5. has good distinguishability and legibility and cute curly tails. 6. brings a fresh sensitivity to boring old existing monospaced fonts. You can try Regular style for free.

Maraka is a handwritten font family, drawn with a paint marker on rough paper, then scanned and turned into vector format. Maraka has a lot of alternative letters and is available in three versions: “Regular”, characterized by an unique look obtained by drawing the letters on a rough sheet, "Solid" and "Serif". Maraka is ideal for large headers, straplines and typographic compositions, but it still gives a great dynamic effect when writing wordy paragraphs.

Introducing Easysans is a All Caps Handmade Sans Serif Font,Textured Sans Serif Font that is written casually and quickly. Letters are made with brushes on Procreate. Then crafted carefully drawn into vector format. That is why Easysans has charming, authentic and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text with a more natural look to your text,design more interesting. Easysans is perfect for homeware designs,branding projects, Logo design, Quotes product packaging

Candide is a neoclassical face for editorial, magazine and newspaper applications. It reflects classical archetypes and is distinguished by its elegant and sophisticated appearance. The Candide family consists of 16 styles. It comes in OpenType format and provides an extended language support. All weights contain standard and discretionary ligatures, proportional lining figures, tabular lining figures, proportional old style figures, lining old style figures, matching currency symbols, fraction- and scientific numerals, matching arrows and alternative characters.

Hello Everyone, Introduce our new collection BERANI is a Strong Display Font that is written casually and quickly. Letters are made with brushes on Procreate. Then crafted carefully drawn into vector format. That is why BERANI has charming, authentic and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text with a more natural look to your text. design more interesting. BERANI is perfect for homeware designs,branding projects, Logo design, Quotes product packaging.

Winston was inspired by strolls through downtown Winston-Salem, NC. Back in the 60's, 70's and 80's Winston-Salem was responsible for supplying tobacco and hosiery to people around the world. Now, smoke stacks and ghost signage fill the downtown area. Winston blends the modern city aesthetic with the vintage influences of classic advertising. All Caps typeface Capital letter alts US and Western European language support OTF file format

Doire is a monowidth font based on the face used on the old Royal Gaelic manual typewriter. Doire Royal is a “rough” version of that font. Doire was first digitized in 1993 by Michael Everson and originally used the MacGaelic character set on the Macintosh platform, and ISO/IEC 8859-14 on the PC. In 2008 Doire version 3 was released in OpenType format, completely compliant with Unicode encoding and with an extended character set.

Errorism - Original Handmade Brush Font is an Authentic brush Font that is written casually and quickly. Letters are made with Procreate. Then trace down into vector format, and carefully crafted into a typeface. That is why Errorism has a rough, authentic, and strong characteristic more natural look. You can activate Ligature OpenType panel. Errorism Perfect for designs, branding projects, Logo design,Quotes product packaging and another Project that require cool strong brush font.

Introducing The Soulmate - Brush Script is a Authentic brush script that is written casually and quickly. Letters are made with brushes on paper. Then scanned and carefully drawn into vector format. That is why The Soulmate has charming, authentic and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text with a more natural look to your text. You can activate Ligature OpenType panel, The Soulmate Perfect for designs,branding projects, Logo design, Quotes product packaging.

Pixter straddles the lines between the extreme forms of grid based pixel fonts, and more conventional grotesque fonts. Its array of styles create a palette of textures to work with multiple scenarios, from large format display to oversized passages of copy. Inspiration for Pixter initially grew from old computer bitmap fonts, but branched out into Swiss and Dutch graphic design, such as the graphic work of Josef Müller-Brockmann and typography of Wim Crouwel.

Callingstone is an elegant and modern sans serif font. Fall for its ravishing style and use it to create gorgeous wedding invitations, beautiful stationary art, eye-catching social media posts, and much more! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the amazing glyphs and ligature with ease! Features : Callingstone Regular, sans serif font All Caps, Numerals and more punctuations. Multilingual support for various languages Open Type Format

Lagom Grotesk is a contemporary neo-grotesque sans serif typeface with strong stylistic geometric contrasts. Its distinctive wide-open stance was designed to give the right visual consistency for branding and communications, representing the shifting contemporary aesthetics. The distinctive stance gives the right visual consistency for branding and communications. Lagom Grotesk is perfectly suited for headlines, large-format prints, brand identities, social media, advertising, editorial design, posters, magazines, logos, headings, body copy, digital and more.

Old Harbour is a font collection of 12 hand drawn fonts inspired by the vintage hand lettered signage, the old bottles’ labels and the aesthetic of my favourite old school tattoos. The fonts can work together in endless combinations, to create beautiful vintage designs for apparel, logos, labels, posters or any merchandise product you can imagine. All the fonts support Western European languages based on Latin script and delivered in OpenType and True Type format.

Reminiscent of vintage Paris. Think Tea Parties, Sweet Treats, Candy Shoppes, Boutiques, Fine China, Couture, Cakes and Pastries. This font is perfect for cards, menus, signage, and much more. Les Bonbon Boutique PW is intended and suitable for Display use and Titles. It's not suitable for long paragraphs of text. This font is meant for display, titles, beautiful signage, cards, etc. Les Bonbon Boutique PW is available in OpenType, and TrueType format.

Typeface Wesna was created as a reflection of the current state of design whose starting point is rooted in the letterings from the Slovenian posters from the interwar period. Bold strokes, condensed letterforms, sharp stroke joints and unique features are combined in the typeface. Wesna preserves the Slovenian typography heritage and establishes the connection between the past and the present through new digital formation. Available in 3 weights, italics in Latin & Cyrillic.

With a hand-inked look, Panhandler flows like decorative but unfussy cursive writing. The font has automatically substituting glyphs and ligatures to avoid some of the problems other connnecting scripts encounter. It also includes a set of swash capital letters and a decorative swash ending lowercase set. Panhandler is available in the OpenType format (both flavours) and will work with on all standard platforms and software. Advanced features will require OpenType compatible software.

Xanakee is a curvacious bubbly fun font, with equal parts pleasant approachableness and a swaggerish strut. Xanakee features large, leisurely curves controlled by the consistency of the monoline stroke. All with a friendly, human voice and confident gait. OpenType versions have a few special features, like some smallcaps and some fanciful swash figures. Purchase it from MyFonts and you'll get TrueType format in your download as well. Also available as web type, too, of course.

Introducing Better at class – Brush Script is a Authentic brush script that is written casually and quickly. Letters are made with procreate. Then scanned and carefully drawn into vector format. That is why Better at class has charming, authentic and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text with a more natural look to your text. You can activate Ligature OpenType panel, Better At class Perfect for designs,branding projects, Logo design, Quotes product packaging

Proudly Present .. Fabitha Script Fabitha Script goes with Modern and Natural Calligraphy, ready to give your design project with Fresh and Fabulous Style. This font have an 177 Standard Glyph + 109 Glyph Alternate in Open Type Standard Format. Suitable for various purpose such as digital lettering, headings, logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, lable, news, posters, badges, branding materials, t-shirt, print, business cards, quotes, logo, poster, and suitable for any graphic design project.

NOh CARBONE is a serif typeface with more than 250 glyphs, including Capitals, Small Letters, Numbers & Special glyphs and Punctuation. Appropriate for medium and large formats, its high contrast, strong features & aggressive and unconventional diagonal endow it with great elegance and give it distinction over other types of the same style. This typeface is adapted to different topics and applications, is easily modifiable and capable of generating a clear and direct message.

Hyugos is a condensed type of font that has a different character from the previous condensed font, Hyugos has a strong but soft character, with a cheerful and fresh theme, supported by 24 choices of font types. Hyugos is able to answer your current needs who are designing something great. Its weight is superior in posters, social media, headlines, magazine titles, clothing, large print formats - and wherever you want to see it.

The 1884 specimen book of San Francisco Palmer and Rey Type Foundry featured this elegant design under the name Oxford. The decorative caps, combined with the centered small caps, have a timeless appeal. Both versions of the font include complete Latin 1252, Central European 1250 and Turkish 1524 character sets, with localization for Moldovan, Romanian and Turkish.

Wrought is a bold geometric display font by Jon Cartagena. It's purpose is to give a rugged, heavy feeling to your designs. Wrought is available in four weights: Thin, Light, Regular, and Bold. Each character is carefully designed to be vertically aligned at the center. This gives Wrought a unique flair, while promoting a harmonious look through each word.

Enhance your creative projects with the captivating charm of the Little Angel Handwriting Font. This exquisite handwriting font offers a harmonious blend of elegance and playfulness, making it an ideal choice for a wide range of design ventures. Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, the font includes both uppercase and lowercase characters, ensuring versatility in your typography.