In the late medieval period appeared a "semi-cursive" writing, the French "écriture de civilité". Quickly, it is carved and melted down in lead for printing. It is a very elegant running font, with numerous variants, both final than initial characters, many of the accented small characters were present in the model I was inspired by, after “Fournier Le jeune ”, in his catalogue "Modèles des caractères de l'imprimerie et des autres choses nécessaires au dit art nouvellement gravés par Simon-Pierre Fournier le jeune" published in 1742 in Paris. A render sheet, included in the font file, makes all characters easy to identify on keyboard. This font, very attractive and decorative may be used for web-site titles, posters and flyer designs, editing ancient texts, labels, greeting cards... and anything you want! It supports as easily enlargement as small size, remaining elegant and pretty.

Friendly Monster - Character Monster Font. Friendly Monster funny font is a kid's friendly spooky monster for your projects. When we talk about monster, it's not always the one that really scary. We can all have a cute, adorable, and friendly monster as well. Friendly Monster comes just like that. Friendly Monster has a strict style, but still gives a cheerful impression, making it very easy to read and apply in all design projects such as poster designs, clothing, logos, quotes, album covers, books, business cards, product designs, and many more design projects The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates, and Ligature. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. This font is also support multi language.

1977 was a good year for soccer. Attendance for the North American Soccer League (NASL) grew 33%, to 13,000 per game. Brazillian soccer legend Pelé played his final match, kicking for both the New York Cosmos and Santos of Brazil. And a soccerboy named Charlie was crowned with the nickname Chanky. In honor of his soccer hero Pelé, Charlie insisted the neighbor kids call him Chelé. They laughed at him and called him Chanky after Spanky from the Little Rascals. As he grew into his manhood, he became Chank the internationally renowned font designer. Chank created this font Soccerboy, as filtered through the artistic eyes of his 1977 childhood. It's a tri-line font, hand-drawn in Chank's signature cartoon whimsy. Soccerboy encourages play with color and alternate characters. Create coloring effects yourself using layers and the magic wand and paint bucket tools in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator.

The roly-poly serifs, inspired by West Banjo, designed by Dave West, add such irrepressible charm to this typeface that you just want to pinch its little cheeks, if you are so inclined. Equally at home in the 1960s, when it was originally released, as the 1860s, from which it drew its inspiration. The PC Postscript, Truetype and Opentype versions contain the complete Latin language character set (Unicode 1252) plus support for Central European (Unicode 1250) languages as well.

ITC Woodland is the work of Japanese designer Akira Kobayashi. It is based on Kobayashi's hand lettering with a flat brush or square-edged pen. I wanted to design each weight to act its own part," says the designer. "The light version tends to look almost fading in small sizes, but the heavy weight is as black as Cooper Black." The cheerful ITC Woodland is ideal for graphics, greeting cards, correspondence, and other applications requiring a light touch.

The beautiful Art Deco monoline pen lettering on the cover of a 1940s piece of sheet music inspired Central Park JNL. The 1940s was an era when couples took romantic walks along the pathways of Manhattan's Central Park or rode around it in hansom cabs. Big bands played at the major clubs and ballrooms and "uptown" meant the well-to-do. Men dressed in their tuxedos and top hats and the ladies were in their jewels and evening gowns.

A vintage piece of sheet music for "Waitin' at the Gate for Katy" (from the 1934 movie "Bottoms Up") provided the hand-lettered, Western-influenced lettering which is now available as Badlands JNL. Some of the characters originally had overly-thick vertical strokes which stood out from the rest of the letters, so they were "standardized" in order to provide a more aesthetically pleasing overall design. Available in both regular and oblique versions to fit your design needs.

Legendary Legerdemain’s lovely assistant, Leggy is just that -- she’s tall, dazzlingly attractive in her tight-fitting clothes, and has legs right up to her neck! She looks good, strikes attractive poses, and gives LL room to make magic. Gasp as Legendary Legerdemain saws her in half! Cheer as she floats in the air! Look Away as Legendary Legerdemain makes her the target of his knife throwing act! See the families related to Legendary Legerdemain Leggy: Legendary Legerdemain.

Sheet music for the title song from the 1933 Jean Harlow-Clark Gable film "Hold Your Man" has the movie title hand lettered in a dual line sans serif with Art Deco influences. This is now available as Dual Line Deco, and is available in both regular and oblique versions. The song itself was written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, whose vast catalog of musical compositions was tapped for the 1952 musical classic "Singing in the Rain".

Old Tijuana JNL was modeled from the hand lettered title on the cover of the 1939 sheet music for "Class Will Tell" and is available in both regular and oblique versions. Casual, playful and reminiscent of the "serape" style of pseudo-Mexican lettering found on ad designs of the 1930s and 1940s, the type face isn't just for South of the Border themes. Use it for any festive occasion and the design will blend in well.

For decades, the Greenwich Village area of New York was a home for artists, poets, writers and free-thinkers of their time who were labeled "Bohemians" because of their non-conformist approach to life and the arts. Greenwich Village JNL is an Art Nouveau-influenced typeface with a Bohemian approach in its double crossbars on the A and H; all the while being a nice example of hand lettering found on a vintage piece of sheet music.

The hand lettered title found on the 1924 sheet music for the tango “Sentimiento Gaucho” (“Sentimental Gaucho”) offered a different take on the thick-and-thin lettering that permeated the late 1920s through the Art Deco age. A ‘slash’ or ‘swipe’ is cut through the characters (similar to “Directa JNL” – another take on this type of design). Last Tango JNL is the digital recreation of this novelty lettering and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

A lament is a sad song, and the music of the cowboys of the Old West had their fair share of them. However, a vintage piece of sheet music from the early part of the 20th century with the title "The Dying Cowboy" brought at least one positive trait to its mournful song. The title lettering was drawn in a fashion that emulated lettering made with quick strokes of a paintbrush, and became the inspiration for Cowboy Lament JNL.

Early 1900s songwriters had a penchant for devising lengthy titles for their compositions. A perfect example from 1909, "It Is Hard to Kiss Your Sweetheart When the Last Kiss Means 'Good Bye'" is a whopping fourteen words long. The sheet music for this piece has a hand lettered, Art Nouveau sans serif design which became the working model for La Vie Nouveau JNL [which translates to "the new life"], and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Let’s have fun with the sweet and fun handwritten font Phitaya that will brighten all your handy works. It is a suitable choice for children-themed work, book, logo, quote, greeting cards, quaint branding, and many more. It is also perfect for a stylish text overlay to any background image or semi-formal text. This font package consists of a full set of the alphabet from A to Z, uppercase and lowercase letters, numbering, and punctuation that available in OTF format only. For international use, Phitaya, a sweet handwritten font is supported for multilingual language so it will be a perfect match for fun and cheerful occasion. Phitaya is easy to download and uses a font that will complement your scribble works. Give a fresh and unique statement in every letter you make by using our brand-new font. Please contact our support team if you find any difficulties in purchasing, downloading, or using the font. You may also send us messages or questions regarding this or any other product of ours.

Moreli Display is a wonderful typeface designed to bring a spirit of psychedelia to your projects. With mixable uppercase and lowercase glyph, ligatures, alternates, and outlines version, offers unmatched versatility for psychedelic theme design projects, apparel, branding, promotional materials, stickers, quotes, and social media posts. Let your creativity flow and embark on a captivating and transformative visual journey. Features A set of uppercase and lowercase glyphs Number, symbol, and punctuation Multilingual Support Alternates, ligatures, and swashes Outline Version Type j_1 until j_20 to features swash, ligatures will automatically replace the standard letter pairs whenever available, when using any OpenType capable software.

The Mramor family first appeared in the Stormtype catalogue in 1994. The first sketch arose in 1988 through the narrowing of Roman capitals. It has uniform width proportions and, above all, original lower-case letters, unprecedented with Roman Capitals. The text designs are discontinued since they were replaced by the related Amor Serif family (along with its -sans version). Now, Mramor has “only” 10 designs that each include true small caps, Cyrillics and a rich variety of figures, ligatures and alternates. Mramor excels in corporate identity or bottle-label design, also whenever there is a need for a “classic” looking face.

DRUMBEAT, a brand new face from Edy Type, coming to help resolve the necessities of loose scripts in Packaging and Editorial Design. Its' very particular thicks and thins and ups and down, makes it very suitable whenever informalities is required. Used with tiny little characters, enlarged to mammoth sizes or filling a large page with it, would show it’s perfect balance and color, almost as if where hand writen. In fact, a truly different script, a graphologist would declare that is written by a person very sure of what he wants, and besides and best of all, it’s pretty.

Introducing “Khakoy Font” – Unleash Playful Creativity! Dive into a world of limitless imagination with Khakoy Font, your ultimate tool for injecting a playful spirit into your designs. Khakoy Font is the embodiment of joy and whimsy in typography. Crafted to spark delight, it’s your go-to choice for projects that demand a dash of fun and a pinch of mischief. With its lively and distinct characters, Khakoy Font invites you to explore the playful side of design. It’s a font that ensures your message is conveyed with a contagious sense of playfulness, captivating your audience instantly. Designed to ignite creativity, Khakoy Font adds a touch of amusement to your projects. From cheerful posters to charming children’s books, this font is your partner in crafting designs that leave a lasting, joyful impression. Let your designs break free from the ordinary and embrace the vibrant spirit of Khakoy Font. Elevate your creative game, infuse humor and light-heartedness into your work, and watch your designs come alive with this delightful typeface. Discover the magic of Khakoy Font today! – PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software.

The Seol Sans design offers a fresh palette for designers working with the Korean alphabet, particularly those looking to pair Latin and Korean alphabet (or Hangul) forms without creating typographic friction. The choices for Hangul fonts that work well with humanist Latin typefaces are limited. As Monotype’s first original Korean design, the Seol Sans typeface is a humanist take on the traditional rigid and hard designs of Hangul characters. The Seol Sans design more closely resembles the natural curve of hand-written characters. Seol Sans features Neue Frutiger for its Latin glyphs, and works harmoniously with Neue Frutiger World and Monotype’s CJK typefaces Tazugane Info (Japanese) and M XiangHe Hei (Chinese). Seol Sans is a great choice for global brands using a Sans Serif design looking to maintain their visual identity, and communicate with a consistent tone of voice in the Korean market.¶

Sabor is a voluptuous upright connected display font with mixed taste of script fonts. There were many inspirations for Sabor, but all started with a book from the 1950s about the battles of World War II. To that first sketches of a naive dense display typeface we, day by day, start to create a mixed style evolving some lettering concepts from 1950s, some calligraphy notions and the first display ideas. The feeling of this font is good to be used in many artworks, like logos, packaging, party invitations, layouts for t-shirts, magazine headings, and much more, since websites to and all kind of printed jobs. That font is not really a script, but, like the scripts we strongly recommends to use the caps only in the beginning of words and sentences, to contrast with the lower cases : it’s not designed for all-caps settings, so avoid that kind of use. This font has almost 700 glyphs and supports the most important Latin-based languages. We works hard in a tour-de-force kerning: over 12.000 kerning pairs soft adjusted handily. Its OpenType features include final forms, initial forms, special sets (upper and lowercase's), hundreds of contextual alternates ligatures providing letter-form variations and connections that make your designs really special, and ornaments (tails). Because of its high number of alternate letters and combination's, we suggest the use of the glyph palette to find ideal solutions to specific designs. The sample illustrations will give you an idea of the possibilities. You have full access to this amazing stuff using InDesign, Illustrator, QuarkXpress and similar software. However, we still recommend exploring what this font has to offer using the glyphs palette: principally to get all the power of the Contextual Alternates feature. You can get an idea of the power of this font looking at the “Sabor User Guide”, a pdf brochure in the Gallery section. Also available two sister fonts easy to use : SaborWords and SaborRasgosEscritura Sabor has original letters designed by Iza W and overall creative direction plus core programming by Paulo W.

Excited-Alphabets is a lowercase display font. The letterform is sans-serif with a few appendages to give the letters a life-like and cheerful form. Also, each Letter has two poses (i.e. s and S) which makes it easy to design the perfect headline, characters can also be chosen individually from the glyphs menu to get a unique look. Its dynamic or ‘dancing’ look makes it perfect for (short) editorial headlines, celebratory lines, fun branding, social media posts, website headers, posters, ads, products, stationery designs and more. Excited alphabets was born in Frankfurt (Germany) when two ‘almost-neighbours’ met at a coffee shop. Inspired by the illustration of Sumbo Pinheiro, Excited was designed by Harald Geisler and Sumbo Pinheiro. From quirky illustration to font, this was a fun project to work on because each alphabet comes with its own sassy character.

Amazing lightness of modern calligraphic writing is reproduced in handwritten script font Sadlyne. This font consists of a pair of handwritten script font and additional font with hand-drawn flourishes and decorative elements. An outstanding feature of them is the fanciful swirls of the initial and final tails of the letters, which will add a playful elegance to your typography designs. The handwritten font itself includes all abundance of modern calligraphic font capabilities. The font pair Sadlyne is the best option for your wedding stationery and wedding monograms. Also it will be perfect for branding, logos, social media, packaging, and other projects. Sadlyne script contains a full set of uppercase letters and 5 full sets of lowercase letters, (standard, alternative, and initial, final form and flourish form). To make a needed form just type a letter with a number (such as a1, b1, c1...) and 27 ligatures - which can be used to create a handwritten calligraphy look. Sadlyne script font contains the Cyrillic glyphs too. The Cyrillic part of the font contains the uppercase letters and 3 full sets of lowercase letters, (standard, initial and final form). To make a needed form just type a letter with a number such as a1, б1, в1... After that select the word and apply the Open Type Features in programmes such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and others) Also Cyrillic part of the font contains 12 Cyrillic ligatures. To use all features of the font you need to have an access to all Opentype Features in software you work with. Sadlyne Symbols is a font with over 36 hand-drawn elements, illustrations and swashes that can help you to make your design unique and matchless. Combine and merge swashes and illustrations to create your own designs and make borders, frames, dividers, logos, and more (just use A-Z and a-z keys in the included Sadlyne Symbols font). A different symbol is assigned to each uppercase or lowercase standard character, so you do not need graphics software, just type the letter you need. Multilingual Support for 31 languages: Latin glyphs for Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh, Zulu. And Cyrillic glyphs support for Russian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian languages.

It's a heavy and pop font that I imagined to be a naughty child. There are three kinds of "YanchaPop" which is easy to use with standards, "YanchaPopRounded" with a gentle impression which rounded the corner a little, "YanchaPopJitabata" of a cheerful image tilted randomly. It corresponds to Hiragana · Katakana · Alphabet · Numerals · Symbols · Kanji(chinese characters). You can also write vertically. You can use it easily, because it contains JIS first · second level, and IBM extended Kanji(about 6700chinese characters). This font is bold, recommended to use it for headlines and prominent places. It might be good for shop pop etc. I think it would be fun to make people around us happy like a naughty child. ＜「やんちゃポップ」紹介文＞ やんちゃな子供をイメージした、太めのポップ体です。 スタンダードで使いやすい「やんちゃポップ」、角を少し丸くした優しい印象の「やんちゃポップRounded」、ランダムに文字を傾けた元気なイメージの「やんちゃポップじたばた」の3種類がございます。 ひらがな・カタカナ・アルファベット・数字・記号類・漢字に対応。縦書きもできます。 漢字はJIS第一水準・第二水準・IBM拡張漢字（約6700文字）に対応しているので、使いやすいかと思います。 太めのフォントなので、見出しや目立つ場所に使うのがオススメです。お店のポップなどにもいいかもしれません。 やんちゃな子供みたいに、周囲の人たちを楽しくできるようなフォントになればいいなぁと思います。 ＜スタイルカテゴリー＞ ポップ体、角ゴシック

The main reason I wanted to design this font was because I really didn’t like how poorly some fonts tried to mimic an Oriental appearance. Trying to make western words appear Asian with a font composed of brush strokes is almost always doomed to failure. However, I find Croasian works extremely well with one syllable words that are Asian sounding. A good font to have if you want to express an Asian name or business phonetically in a western alphabet while still retaining an Asiatic feel. Croasian has a glyph count of 397 and supports the following languages Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Meru, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkmen, Upper Sorbian, Vunjo, Walser, Zulu

The 1913 sheet music for "There's A Girl in the Heart of Maryland (with a Heart That Belongs to Me)" may have had no shortage of words in the title - fifteen to be exact, but it also offered some nice hand lettering in the Art Nouveau style. Maryland JNL is a condensed typeface with an unusual twist. The "S" and "G" both have spurs on them, which is reminiscent of the preceding Victorian period and the popular spurred Tuscan alphabets of the time.

Sheet music for the 1910 composition "Good-By Betty Brown" has its title hand lettered in a thick and thin, condensed sans serif design reminiscent of lettering found in later comic strips and books of the 1930s and 1940s. Transcending both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles, Funny Papers JNL gets its name from the slang reference Americans of the early 20th Century gave the Sunday comics pages in their local newspapers, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Popular music of the early 1900s included a genre called two step; round dances utilizing a sliding step with a tempo in either march or polka time. 1911's "Daughters of the American Revolution" was one such march/two step. The cover of the sheet music had the title hand lettered in a slightly rounded sans serif type design in the Art Nouveau style popular during that era. It is now available as Two Step Nouveau JNL, in both regular and oblique versions.

According to Wikipedia, Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The name originally referred to a specific place: West 28th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Manhattan. With this in mind, Tin Pan Alley JNL, a typeface based on the bold hand lettering from a vintage piece of sheet music is aptly named.

Toward the end of the 1920s, Art Deco influences were starting to creep into modern design. The hand lettered title on the cover of the1928 sheet music for “Fascinatin’ Vamp” not only embraced the new Deco movement, but sent it on a wild typographic ride. Letters of mixed thicknesses and stylings made up the two word title, and this unusual group of letter shapes became the inspiration for Free Form Deco JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Edits and Credits JNL is a cheerful sans serif typeface modeled from ceramic letters in a movie titling set from the late 40s or early 1950s. In the original kit, letters would be lined up accordingly against a contrasting background and photographed for home or professional movie and slide titles. Note: The cap height is slightly smaller than normal for the respective point size. This will give the effect of wider line spacing - similar to that of home movie titles.

In a career spanning the early 1900s through 1940, George M. Cohan wrote and produced over 50 plays, 300 songs and was also an actor, singer and dancer. Many of his works honored his Irish roots, and the cover of one piece of sheet music called “The Irish American” (1905) had its title hand lettered in a condensed Art Nouveau type design with tiny spurred serifs. This is now available digitally as Dress Rehearsal JNL, in both regular and oblique versions.

Blue Goblet Ornaments are the ornament complement to Blue Goblet, a fun and whimsical brush script. These lively and cheerful ornaments can be resized and rotated easily without any loss of quality and can easily be converted to outlines and modified. Combine them to form unique compositions or insert them into text to add some excitement to your designs. Please see the sample .pdf to see all 48 ornaments in action. Blue Goblet Ornaments is a collaboration between insigne Design and Portland Studios.

Ciribiribin is an Italian ballad composed by Alberto Pestalozza in 1898. Many versions with different sets of lyrics have been recorded over the years. The hand lettering on the sheet music for one such popular version of the song was comprised of bold characters with a "semi-serif" treatment; that is, characters with partial or no serifs on certain strokes of the letters. Ciribiribin JNL extends this unique design into a complete digital typeface. Available in both regular and oblique versions.

Cold Snowflake - Quirky Ice Cream And Candy Theme Font is a delightful typeface designed to capture the essence of ice cream and candy in a playful and fun manner. The font features quirky, bold, and chubby letterforms, mirroring the sweet and indulgent theme it represents. It can be effectively used alone or in combination with its twelve charming variations. With twelve distinctive variations inspired by ice cream, candy, cones, sprinkles, sticks, melting treats, and chocolate, Cold Snowflake is the perfect choice for children's projects, crafting, and any design that seeks to evoke a sense of fun, playfulness, and a vibrant, colorful aesthetic. This font suits a wide range of applications, including logos, crafting projects, invitations, packaging, posters, titles, businesses, greeting cards, stickers, children's books, magazines, and any design related to the delightful world of ice cream and candy. With its sweet and cheerful theme, Cold Snowflake adds a touch of whimsy to your creative work, making it perfect for all things sweet and playful.

Welcome to the world of Chayno, where handwritten style meets fun casualness. Are you looking for a sleek yet casual and playful look for your various visual projects? Chayno is the perfect choice. With three different variants, including Regular, Outline, and Shadow, Chayno gives you the flexibility to deliver effects that suit your design needs. You can create a clean, professional look or add a fun, playful touch to your project. Chayno also features creative ligatures and alternate characters, allowing you to explore a variety of fun letter variations. Not only that, this font supports multiple languages, ensuring your message can be received by audiences all over the world. With Chayno, every word becomes more than just text - it becomes an expression and an experience. Let's make your messages attractive and uplifting together with these cheerful fonts. Chayno - turns words into fun adventures. Immediately use this font to bring joy to all your projects!

Big Bang! Cute Sans with Additional Swashes Introducing the elegant "Big Bang!" Cute Sans with Additional Swashes If you are needing a touch of funnies chic cute sans for your designs, this font was created for you! Big Bang was built with OpenType features cute characters for uppercase and lowercase letters, loads of different swash character for numerical, uppercase and lowercase letters in file with the name Big Bang Swashes, in other side for Bing Bang regular and slant version include numbers, punctuation, ligatures and it also supports other languages :) Accessing the swashes / opentype features / glyphs: This font works best in a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Indesign, Adobe Illustrator CS, or Adobe Photoshop CC. You can access the swashes and alternates from the 'Glyphs Panel' in these programs. More Questions? Here are some (potential) answers! You are not permitted to resell this font in any way. Multilingual Support is included for Western European Languages Cheers!

"Pearly Smiles," a delightful handwritten font meticulously crafted with love and attention to detail. This font encapsulates the essence of joy and brings a touch of whimsy to your design projects. "Pearly Smiles" embodies the playful nature of handwritten script, with its charming curves and natural stroke variations. Every letter reflects the genuine warmth and sincerity of my personal handwriting, infusing your designs with a sense of individuality and happiness. With its elegant yet cheerful style, "Pearly Smiles" is versatile and perfect for a wide range of creative applications. Whether you're designing logos, branding materials, invitations, greeting cards, or any project that calls for a lighthearted and personal touch, this font will add a touch of enchantment and personality. The meticulously designed letterforms of "Pearly Smiles" ensure both legibility and artistic appeal. Its balanced proportions and thoughtfully crafted characters make it a pleasure to work with, whether on digital or printed mediums

The Englishman William Caslon punchcut many roman, italic, and non-Latin typefaces from 1720 until his death in 1766. At that time most types were being imported to England from Dutch sources, so Caslon was influenced by the characteristics of Dutch types. He did, however, achieve a level of craft that enabled his recognition as the first great English punchcutter. Caslon's roman became so popular that it was known as the script of kings, although on the other side of the political spectrum (and the ocean), the Americans used it for their Declaration of Independence in 1776. The original Caslon specimen sheets and punches have long provided a fertile source for the range of types bearing his name. Identifying characteristics of most Caslons include a cap A with a scooped-out apex; a cap C with two full serifs; and in the italic, a swashed lowercase v and w. Caslon's types have achieved legendary status among printers and typographers, and are considered safe, solid, and dependable. Carol Twombly designed this Caslon revival for Adobe in 1990, after studying Caslon's own specimen sheets from the mid-eighteenth century. This elegant version is quite true to the source, and has been optimized for the demands of digital design and printing. Adobe Caslon? makes an excellent text font and includes just about everything needed by the discriminating typographer: small caps, Old style Figures, swash letters, alternates, ligatures, expert characters, central European characters, and a plethora of period ornaments.