ZX Spectrum In 1982, a home computer came on the market that would launch the UK IT industry. The ZX Spectrum sold five million units and spawned thousands of software titles. It was the must-have gadget for every teen. FS Sinclair is inspired by the memory of Sir Clive Sinclair’s greatest creation: the experience of entering its clunky command codes and reading its simple, grid-placed type. Smart, switched-on, great in text and display, FS Sinclair is a modern grid-based font, drawn with the Spectrum in mind and brought to life by well thought-out design. Formula Having completed the font for Channel 4’s brand update, the Fontsmith team defined the formula for its next font: the creative essence of the C4 work but with more structural discipline, more rigid form and a little more seriousness. The new font wouldn’t look self-consciously retro but it would reference the past and, it was hoped, influence the future. Readability Like the ZX Spectrum, it took a while for the new font to do exactly what it was meant to do. Many of the early concepts by Phil Garnham and Jason Smith were too jagged – the result of an awareness of getting too close to existing fonts of the same ilk, such as Wim Crouwel’s Gridnik. Eventually, FS Sinclair evolved into a more readable, functional grid-based type design that answered Phil and Jason’s original, self-set brief. Idiosyncratic There’s a technological, systems feel to FS Sinclair but ultimately, humans are in charge. The lowercase “a”, “n”, “m” and “r” have clean-cut “ears”, and the square-ish design is softened by round joins on the inside of the letterforms. The idiosyncratic design of letters such as “g”, “j”, “k”, “v”, “w” and “y” bring the design up to date. This is a modular font with character, and a range of weights that allow varied application.

Argone is a handmade, organic, display family and comes in four weights. It also has a version with lower case letters – Argone LC

Alphabet primarily used for writings with magical purpose in ancient times NOTE: this font comes with a comprehensive interpretation guide in pdf format.

Breesh font is a dancing handwriting, quickly trace with a pointed brush. The inspiration come from both asian calligraphy, italic and copperplate alphabets.

Zamaica is a thin and modern display font. Add it to your most creative ideas and notice how it makes them come alive!

Skaklia is a modern sans serif font with a geometric touch. It comes in 2 shapes regular and rounded and its matching italics.

Steinschrift Pro is a condensed sans serif font which comes with West and Central European as well as with a Cyrillic character set.

Venture is an all caps typeface inspired by the great outdoors. Also comes in 2 extra styles, great for that vintage print look!

This font family is based on the letterforms of a fin-de-siècle sans serifs, and comes in two versions - Roman and Shadow.

More cartoon illustrations, sales builders, ornaments, embellishments and miscellany come your way with Message Helpers JNL; all re-drawn from vintage source material.

Julio is designed in the best tradition of English scripts. It comes in very handy if you want to have an elegant touch.

A freely written handwriting font with a lot of ligatures added for credibility. The PRO version comes with Greek and Cyrillic glyph sets.

Malino is a humanist sans serif that gives a slightly stiff and strong feel but still presents a harmonious blend. The main characteristic of Malino is the flat shape at the end of the letter (specific : inner side of the letter C, G, J, S, a, c, e, g and s) and still maintain the curvature of the outside (Overshoot) so that empty space ( Open Counter) looks wider and the level of readability produced is much higher.