Blackletter typefaces follow certain fixed rules, both in respect to their forms and to the orthography. Possibly, they were a reaction to the half-developed Carolingian minuscule which was soon to end in the Latin script. Narrow, ordered script was to replace the round, hesitant and shattered shapes of letters in order to simplify writing, to unify the meaning of individual letters, and to save some parchment, too. Opposed to the practice common in monasterial scriptoriums where Uncial, Irish and Carolingian inspiration flew freely and as a result, the styles of writing differed in each monastery, the blackletter type was to define one, common standard. It was to express spiritual verticality, in perfect tune with the architecture of the Gothic era. Typography became an integral part of the overall style of the period. The pointed arch and the blackletter type were the vanguard of the spectacular transformation from the Middle Ages towards the modern era, they were a celebration of a time when works of art were not signed by their makers yet. Some unfortunate souls keep linking blackletter solely with Germany and the Third Reich, while the truth is that its direct predecessor, the Gothic minuscule, evolved mostly in France. Even Hitler himself indicated blackletter type obsolete in the age of steel, iron and concrete – thus making a significant contribution to the spreading of the Latin script in Germany. Once we leave our prejudice aside, we find that the shapes of blackletter type have exceptional potential, unheard of in sans-serif letterforms. The lower case letters fit into an imaginary rectangle which is easily extended both upwards and sideways. In its scope and in the name itself, the Moyenage type family project is to celebrate the diversity of the Middle Ages. I begun realizing the urge to design my own blackletter when visiting the beer gardens of Munich and while walking through the villages of rural Austria. The letters from the notice boards of inns are scented with spring air, with the flowers of cudweed, with white sausage and weissbier. The crooked calligraphic hooks and beaks seem to imitate the hearty yodeling of local drinkers and the rustle of the giant skirts of girls who distribute the giant wreaths of beer jugs. Moyenage is, however, a modern replica of blackletter, so it contains some otherwise unacceptable Latin script elements in upper case. I chose these keeping the modern reader in mind, striving for better legibility. The font is drawn as if written with a flat pen or brush, and with the ambition to, perhaps, serve as a calligraphic model. In medium width, the face is surprisingly well legible; it is perfect for menus as well as posters and CD covers for some of the heavier kinds of music. It has five types of numerals and also a set of Cyrillic script, symbolising the lovelorn union of Germans and Russians in the 20th century. Thus, it is well suited for the setting of bilingual texts of the German classic literature, which, according to the ancient rules, must not be set in Latin script.

Lucilee is a full featured, OpenType script font from Michael Clark. It is a sweeping italic with many alternates, including ligatures, beginning and ending swashes, and a full Central European character set. It is a joining script that is fluid and also suitable for titling. Lucilee was designed with packaging in mind, but can be used for a wide variety of uses.

One Stroke Script is the work of British designer Paul Clarke, a highly legible, casual typeface that looks as though it were drawn with a brush. Upper- and lowercase letters should be spaced closely together for the best effect. One Stroke Script is good for a variety of applications: anywhere a cheerful, spontaneous look is desired. Featured in: Best Fonts for Logos

La tipografía Nahualli, esta basada en los escritos castellanos del Códice Méndoza del siglo XVI. Aunque no es un estilo claro, la caligrafía aporta un estilo perfecto para documentos historicos. The Nahualli typography is based on the Castilian writings of the Méndoza Codex of the 16th century. Although it is not a clear style, calligraphy provides a perfect style for historical documents.

Moonlight Serenade is a 1939 song composed by Glenn Miller, with lyrics by Mitchell Parish. Moonlight Serenade font is an all caps affair - very legible, very recognizable and very useful. Upper and lower case differ slightly and are quite happy to mingle. In the words of Mitchell Parish: I bring you and sing you a Moonlight Serenade! Comes with a universe of diacritics.

Derailer’s eclectic character set is comprised mainly of disparate sans serif characters that claim to play well together. OpenType users also benefit from 52 ligature features that automatically substitute a unique pairing of letters when any upper or lower case character is keyed twice in a row. Derailer Pro extends the character set to support Eastern European Latin, Baltic, Greek and Turkish.

Madromit(ma-do-ro-mi) is a somewhat nostalgic display font. Do you remember computer advertisements in the 80s and 90s? Yes, it is the most excited period in the history of computer. We call the design in this period Primitive Digital Design. Madromit is, so to speak, the revival or reconstruction of the primitive digital type in the period. The structure and elements of this font are very simple and the key features are geometric shape and simple griddy design with rounded corners, oval bowls, and right‐angled joints which we used to see in the primitive period. In addition to this, Madromit has one more characteristic feature — classic engraving font —. It is called Open Style. Open style is one of the classic method to decorate and emphasize the font. Our aim is the synergy by the mixture of primitive digital design and classic engraving method. This mixture makes new impression we have never seen before. Madromit family consists of 5 styles for stacking color font. Please use Photoshop or Illustrator, or your favorite graphic design apps that can handle layers. Layers are the printing plates of wood type. You should be able to change text color for each layers. Madromit "Standard" style is the base of this font family. You can add open effect by stacking "Fill" layers over the Standard layer. Instruction 1. Type your text as you like. 2. Set font-name "Madromit" and font-style "Standard". 3. Set color of "Standard" layer. 4. Duplicate the "Standard" layer to make "Fill" layer. 5. Set font-style "Half Fill" or "Full Fill" and new color of upper layer. Madromit Standard, Half Open, and Full Open style can be used solely.

With its extended complement, this comprehensive redesign of Bank Gothic by Elsner+Flake offers a wide spectrum for usage. After 80 years, the typeface Bank Gothic, designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1930, is still as desirable for all areas of graphic design as it has ever been. Its usage spans the design of headlines to exterior design. Game manufacturers adopt this spry typeface, so reminiscent of the Bauhaus and its geometric forms, as often as do architects and web designers. The creative path of the Bank Gothic from hot metal type via phototypesetting to digital variations created by desktop designers has by now taken on great breadth. The number of cuts has increased. The original Roman weight has been augmented by Oblique and Italic variants. The original versions came with just a complement of Small Caps. Now, they are, however, enlarged by often quite individualized lower case letters. In order to do justice to the form changes and in order to differentiate between the various versions, the Bank Gothic, since 2007 a US trademark of the Grosse Pointe Group (Trademark FontHaus, USA), is nowadays available under a variety of different names. Some of these variations remain close to the original concept, others strive for greater individualism in their designs. The typeface family which was cut by the American typefoundry ATF (American Type Founders) in the early 1930’s consisted of a normal and a narrow type family, each one in the weights Light, Medium and Bold. In addition to its basic ornamental structure which has its origin in square or rectangular geometric forms, there is another unique feature of the Bank Gothic: the normally round upper case letters such as B, C, G, O, P, Q, R and U are also rectangular. The one exception is the upper case letter D, which remains round, most likely for legibility reasons (there is the danger of mistaking it for the letter O.) Because of the huge success of this type design, which follows the design principles of the more square and the more contemporary adaption of the already existing Copperplate, it was soon adopted by all of the major type and typesetting manufacturers. Thus, the Bank Gothic appeared at Linotype; as Commerce Gothic it was brought out by Ludlow; and as Deluxe Gothic on Intertype typesetters. Among others, it was also available from Monotype and sold under the name Stationer’s Gothic. In 1936, Linotype introduced 6pt and 12pt weights of the condensed version as Card Gothic. Lateron, Linotype came out with Bank Gothic Medium Condensed in larger sizes and a more narrow set width and named it Poster Gothic. With the advent of photoypesetters and CRT technologies, the Bank Gothic experienced an even wider acceptance. The first digital versions, designed according to present computing technologies, was created by Bitstream whose PostScript fonts in Regular and Medium weights have been available through FontShop since 1991. These were followed by digital redesigns by FontHaus, USA, and, in 1996, by Elsner+Flake who were also the first company to add cursive cuts. In 2009, they extended the family to 16 weights in both Roman and Oblique designs. In addition, they created the long-awaited Cyrillic complement. In 2010, Elsner+Flake completed the set with lowercase letters and small caps. Since its redesign the type family has been available from Elsner+Flake under the name Bank Sans®. The character set of the Bank Sans® Caps and the Bank Sans® covers almost all latin-based languages (Europe Plus) as well as the Cyrillic character set MAC OS Cyrillic and MS Windows 1251. Both families are available in Normal, Condensed and Compressed weights in 4 stroke widths each (Light, Regular, Medium and Bold). The basic stroke widths of the different weights have been kept even which allows the mixing of, for instance, normal upper case letters and the more narrow small caps. This gives the family an even wider and more interactive range of use. There are, furthermore, extensive sets of numerals which can be accessed via OpenType-Features. The Bank Sans® type family, as opposed to the Bank Sans® Caps family, contains, instead of the optically reduced upper case letters, newly designed lower case letters and the matching small caps. Bank Sans® fonts are available in the formats OpenType and TrueType.

Before Bodoni, there was Didot. With the publication by Francois Ambroise Didot of Paris in 1784 of his prospectus for Tasso’s La Gerusalemme Liberata, the rococo typographical style of Fournier de Jeune was replaced with a spartan, neo-classical style that John Baskerville pioneered. The typeface Didot used for this work was of Didot’s own creation and is considered by both G. Dowding and P. Meggs to be the first modern face. Three years later, Bodoni of Parma is using a very similar face. Just as Bodoni’s typeface evolved over time, so did that of the Didot family. The eldest son of Francois Ambroise Didot, Pierre, ran the printing office; and Firmin ran the typefoundry. Pierre used the flattened, wove paper, again pioneered by Baskerville, to permit a more accurate impression and allow the use of more delicate letterforms. Firmin took full advantage of the improved paper by further refining the typeface introduced by his father. The printing of Racine’s Oeuvres in 1801 (seen in our gallery image #2) shows the symbiotic results of their efforts, especially in the marked increase in the sharpness of the serifs when compared to their owns works of only six years earlier. It has been suggested that one reason Bodoni achieved greater popularity than Didot is the thinner hairlines of Didot were more fragile when cast in metal type and thus more expensive for printers to use than Bodoni. This ceased to be a problem with the advent of phototypesetting, opening the door for a renewed interest in the work of the Didot family and especially that of Firmin Didot. Although further refinements in the Didot typeface were to come (notably the lower case ‘g’ shown in 1819), we have chosen 1801 as the nominal basis for our presentation of HiH Firmin Didot. We like the thick-thin circumflex that replaced the evenly-stroked version of 1795, possible only with the flatter wove paper. We like the unusual coat-hanger cedilla. We like the organic, leaf-like tail of the ‘Q.’ We like the strange, little number ‘2’ and the wonderfully assertive ‘4.’ And we like the distinctive and delightful awkwardness of the double-v (w). Please note that we have provided alternative versions of the upper and lower case w that are slightly more conventional than the original designs. Personally, I find the moderns (often called Didones) hard on the eyes in extended blocks of text. That does not stop me from enjoying their cold, crisp clarity. They represent the Age of Reason and the power of man’s intellect, while reflecting also its limitations. In the title pages set by Bodoni, Bulmer and Didot, I see the spare beauty of a winter landscape. That appeals to a New Englander like myself. Another aspect that appeals to me is setting a page in HiH Firmin Didot and watching people try to figure out what typeface it is. It looks a lot like Bodoni, but it isn't!

Linotype Venezia Initiale is part of the Take Type Library, selected from the contestants of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. Designed by German artist Robert Kolben, the font is based on the classic forms of Roman writing in the 1st and 2nd centuries found chiseled on countless buildings and monuments. Linotype Venezia Initiale is a timeless, elegant font particularly well-suited to headlines or as initials in combination with other fonts, working especiall well with sans serif alphabets.

Rocket Stars is a classic display serif font. With medium low contrast stroke, fun character with a bit of ligatures and alternates. To give you an extra creative work. Rocket Stars font support multilingual more than 100+ language. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, a short text even a long text letter and good for your secondary text font with script or serif. Make a stunning work with Rocket Stars font. Cheers, Maulana Creative

Lina Serif is an antiqua balanced between classic and modern. The design focused on the combination of flowing shapes and partially edged transitions, that give Lina her character. The font plays with a high line contrast in combination with dynamic shapes. This makes Lina a casually elegant display font. The terminals remind on floral shapes. Lina gives your design a human, natural touch. Lina Serif is available in 4 weights or as variable font with infinitely variable interpolation of weight.

Icarus - Serif Font Family - Multilingual - 4 Style With its modern vintage look, Icarus font offers a wide variety of styles to help you discover the best mood for your projects, from body text to large titles, classic styles to modern and bold styles. It is very suitable for books and magazines, editorials, titles, websites, logos, branding, advertising and more. With this font you can create your unique designs. If you have a question, please contact me. Have a good time.

Rokha is a wedge-serif typeface with 5 weights plus obliques. Its sharp serifs were inspired by Goudy's classic Copperplate Gothic, Rokha feels land looks like carved stone, edgy and sharp. Serifs are exaggerated, pointy, and strong, this font demands attention from the viewer at all costs. Lower and uppercase letters make it more amicable in different contexts and give it extra versatility. Its striking presence makes it ideal for display, headlines, posters, big branding, and catching any viewer's eye.

Boetia is an Art Nouveau period font which is designed to give some of the feel of ancient Greek lettering and design. It also echoes the lettering of the Psychedelic poster era and would be a great addition to any 60s font collection. The overall effect is both modern and classical at the same time, with readable, bold character forms perfect for posters or other titling uses. If you like our Hendrix or Pantagruel fonts you're going to love Boetia.

Welfords is another lovely modern calligraphy typefaces, which is combining the style of classic calligraphy with an modern style. combines from copperplate to contemporary typeface with a dancing baseline, modern and elegant touch. Welfords features 500 glyphs and alternate characters Include . The Features of this fonts is; Standart ligatures Swash Alternates Stylistic Alternates Stylistic sets PUA Unicode (Private Use Areas) Programs that support in this font is a Adobe Photo Shop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Corel Draw and Microsoft Office.

Sharon is a Classic Display serif style with Uppercase and Lowercase feel nice balanced. Provide alternates font in uppercase and lowercase variant style make the design letter looks incredible. Honestly it works perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirts and much more. Recommended to use in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop with opentype feature. How to access Alternate Characters? Open glyphs panel : In Adobe Photoshop choose tool Window glyphs In Adobe Illustrator choose tool Type glyphs Have a great day, Haksen

New "Sabinella script" font Perfect for text cushions, mugs, frames, logo types and other home decorations make your home look attractive with neat calligraphy Sabinella is a magical script font carefully created with a touch of elegance. This is a beautiful combination of timeless elegance and authentic calligraphy. It features an incredibly classic style, while still keeping a friendly feel. Sabinella is the perfect font for making original and outstanding designs. You will get: Thank you for your attention Have a nice day :)

Elevate your designs with Club Winers, a captivating serif font that exudes sophistication, richness, and luxury. With its elegant and timeless appeal, Club Winers is the perfect choice for those seeking a touch of refined beauty in their typographic creations. Designed with meticulous attention to detail, Club Winers showcases graceful serifs, meticulously crafted letterforms, and subtle yet distinctive curves. Each character is thoughtfully balanced, resulting in a harmonious interplay between classic elegance and contemporary allure. All CAPS letters have alternates.

Berta font is a typeface design that is inspired by vintage typographical styles. This font have a classic, timeless feel with distinctive details like, flourished lines, and varied stroke widths. They are commonly used in design projects that require a historical or nostalgic touch, such as wedding invitations, posters, book covers, and more. With a vintage font, designers can add a touch of sophistication and elegance to their work while also evoking a sense of bygone eras. Support both English and Hebrew letters

Introducing a stunning geometric Art Deco style typeface, inspired by the retro aesthetics of 1930s Shanghai posters. This font design boasts clean, crisp lines and a modern look while still honoring the classic design elements of the past. Its carefully crafted curves and angles create a perfect balance between simplicity and sophistication, making it an excellent choice for a wide range of design projects. This typeface is sure to captivate and engage your audience, adding a touch of timeless elegance to any design.

Amongst some pages scanned and posted online of old wood type alphabets comes this lovely, ornamental design in a reversed style of white lettering on black rectangular boxes. This classic set of wood type is now available digitally as Wood Fancy Reverse JNL. There is a narrow blank box on the “less than” key for use as an end cap, and a wider blank box on the “greater than” key to use between words as a blank space if so desired.

Tereiya is a timeless embodiment of modern serifs, seamlessly blending classical elegance with contemporary design. Its gracefully sculpted letterforms boast a harmonious balance of thick and thin strokes, exuding a sense of sophistication and refined aesthetics. Tereiya’s serifs are striking yet understated, delivering a distinguished presence that elevates any typographic composition. With its meticulously crafted details and graceful curves, Tereiya remains a paragon of typographic artistry, ideal for conveying a sense of timelessness and enduring style in both print and digital applications.

Moilgo is a beautiful bold typeface that was inspired by classic typefaces that are synonymous with luxury brands, beauty and elegant curves, high contrast and an all-round feel, perfect for art projects and typography across all platforms. Moilgo also has unique ligatures which makes it easy for you to create a logo for your personal branding and your business beautifully. Moilgo will be perfect for many project like logos, magazines, posters, branding, packaging, quotes, blog headers, advertisements, and more.

Karolina is a calligraphic serif font. It is inspired by Edward Johnstons (1872–1944) calligraphy and the foundational hand (which was based on the carolingian letters and therefore the name Karolina). The Uppercase letters are based on the perfect proportioned roman capitals. Karolina is a classic and clean typeface with smooth shapes that will give an elegant touch to your projects. It is suitable for formal use and works well both for headlines and as body text in smaller sizes.

ITC Cheltenham font in its present form is the work of designer Tony Stan. Originally designed by architect Bertram Goodhue, it was expanded by Morris Fuller Benton and completed by Stan in 1975 with a larger x-height and improved italic details. ITC Cheltenham font is an example of an up-to-date yet classic typeface. In 1993 Ed Benguiat added the Handtooled weights to this family. ITC Cheltenham® font field guide including best practices, font pairings and alternatives.

Dexa Pro is now available on variable version. The family was designed by Ceyhun Birinci in 2020 with an inspiration to create a contemporary super family with inspiration from classic sans serif families. It's a workhorse family consisting of condensed, narrow, normal and expanded widths. Each width has a wide weight range from thin to black, along with their true italic counterparts. With more than 770 glyphs per font, It offers a ton of language support from all the Latin languages to Cyrillic.

Lumina is a font that exudes sophistication and style. Combining modern and classic elements, it boasts a unique and distinctive look that sets it apart. This versatile font shines brightly in larger contexts, making it ideal for various design applications. Whether you're working on a logo, web font, or looking to add a touch of elegance to your project, Lumina is the perfect choice. With its radiant presence, Lumina effortlessly elevates any design, adding a dose of charm to your visual creations. **Uppercase

Magdelin is a minimal yet warm gothic sans with normal and alternate families. At its core, the design has simple forms and low contrast, yet it takes some qualities from the humanist class with its calligraphy or cursive-inspired details found in the italics and the bowl shapes of characters like b and d. The small x-height, longer ascenders and descenders, and semi-condensed proportions give it a bit of a vintage or classic feel while still appearing contemporary and modern.

Aira is a serif font with a modern style that is designed very neatly and boldly, especially for designers and clients who want to have a classic yet trendy design concept, with 35 alternative lowercase letters and 9 ligatures, as an option for those of you who want to add a unique touch to your design. This font is perfect for a sturdy and discreet company logo and is also perfect for magazine layout designs, articles, quotes, and even posters.

The Bunker Typeface is inspired by the glamorous and cool nightlife in big cities. Designed with a retro sign concept, this font looks different and cool to use for making neon retro lettering designs. classic slab serif like “Bunker Typeface” are very easy to apply to any design, especially those with an retro and sign concept, apart from that this font is very easy to use in both design and non-design programs because all alternates and glyphs are supported by Unicode (PUA).

Raspberie is a special font that was designed carefully with love and passion for a classic and retro design theme. You can play with this font for a large scoop of media such as poster design, graphic design, logotype, packaging design, branding, and whatever you want. Contains more than 300 glyphs, 98 stylistic alternates, and 23 ligatures to produce a retro look and playful design. Comes in 2 styles, regular and italic. FONT FEATURES Additional Accents 66 Languages Kerning Alternates Ligatures

Blufcrowds is a classic style of script font. With regular mono-line stroke, slanted and fun character with a bit of ligatures and lowercase alternatives. To give you an extra creative work. Blufcrowds font support multilingual more than 100+ language. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, a short text even a long text letter and good for your secondary text font with sans or serif. Make a stunning work with Blufcrowds font. Cheers, MaulanaCreative

Streamline Moderne is a gorgeous serif typeface that is both classically elegant and modern. Create beautiful wedding invitations, use it as an elegant solution for your next magazine layout,logo, powerpoint templates design , quotes teks or choose Streamline Moderne for any graphics that require a sleek look with a vintage flair. Create something beautiful today with Streamline Moderne. What's included? - Uppercase Characters - Lowercase Characters - Multilingual support for various languages including: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, and more.

Casler Font is a display font designed for any creative project that needs to be stand out. While get inspired by some vintage aphotecary labels, Casler Font wrapped as firm yet unique font display that consists over 1000 glyphs and 26 icon as extras. A terrific combo that gives experimentally mood in classic and modern style. Casler Font is a best thought for any advertisements usage, logos, headlines or headings, book covers and many more. A must have display font collection!

Goudy Modern/Open was designed by Frederic Goudy, who was inspired by the caption of a French engraving. It is Goudy's first attempt at a "modern" face, but with less contrast and rigidity normally found in Bodoni style Modern faces. Goudy Modern was designed later in 1918 after viewing a proof of Goudy Open with the line filled in. Not a true modern face, but still a Goudy classic. The Pro versions include ligatures, varieties of numerals and Central European character sets.

Mosaic Melodies is a stylish serif font that seamlessly blends timeless charm with modern flair. Its meticulously crafted letterforms offer an elegant twist on traditional serifs, creating a captivating visual appeal. The font's high contrast strokes convey a dynamic flow, and its accompanying italic version adds a touch of graceful variation. Whether for magazines, websites, or branding, Mosaic Melodies brings a sophisticated yet contemporary touch to any design, making it an ideal choice for those seeking a balance between classic and stylish typography.

Introducing Fortune Vintage Font set. This typeface has an old school look with classic western shapes. Fortune Vintage Font has three "layers" for more convenient recoloring. All of the small letters has one or two alternates with bottom expanded shape*. Fortune Vintage Font supports most of the European languages and also has Ukrainian Cyrillic characters. *Make sure that "Contextual & Stylistic Alternates" features are supported & enabled in your software. Also please consider that this feature is available only for English alphabet.