Southbeach is a 21 century art déco font. The bigger it gets, the better it looks.

I spend a lot of time following two obsessions: packaging and hand lettering. Alongside a few other minor obsessions, those two have been my major ones for so many years now, I've finally reached the point where I can actually claim them as “obsessions” without getting a dramatic reaction from the little voice in the back of my head. When you spend so much time researching and studying a subject, you become very focused, directionally and objectively. But of course some of the research material you run into turns out to be tangential to whatever your focus happens to be at the time, so you absorb what you can from it, then shelf it — like the celebrity bobblehead that amused you for a while, but is now an almost invisible ornament eating dust and feathers somewhere in your environment. And just like the bobblehead may fall off the shelf one day to remind you of its existence, some of my lettering research material unveiled itself in my head one day for no particular reason. Hand lettering is now mostly perceived as an American art. Someone with my historical knowledge about lettering may be snooty enough to go as far as pointing out the British origins of almost everything American, including lettering — but for the most part, the contemporary perspective associates great lettering with America. The same perspective also associates blackletter, gothics and sans serifs with Germany. So you can imagine my simultaneous surprise and impatience when, in my research for one of my American lettering-based fonts, I ran into a German lettering book from 1953, by an artist called Bentele. It was no use for me because it didn't propel my focus at that particular time, but a few months ago I was marveling at what we take for granted — the sky is blue, blackletter is German, lettering is American — and found myself flipping through the pages of that book again. The lettering in that book is upbeat and casual sign making stuff, but it has a slightly strange and youthful experimentation at its heart. I suppose I find it strange because it deviates a lot from the American stuff I'm used to working with for so long now. To make a long story short, what’s inside that German book served as the semilla, which is Spanish for seed, for the typeface you see all over these pages. With Semilla, my normal routine went out the window. My life for a while was all Bezier all the time. No special analog or digital brushes or pens were used in drawing these forms. They're the product of a true Bezier process, all starting with a point creating a curve to another point, which draws a curve to another point, and so on. It’s a very time-consuming process, but at the end I am satisfied that it can get to pretty much the same results easier and more traditional methods accomplish. And as usual with my fonts, the OpenType is plenty and a lot of fun. Experimenting with substitution and automation is still a great pleasure for me. It is the OpenType that always saves me from the seemingly endless work hours every type designer must inevitably have to face at one point in his career. The artful photos used in this booklet are by French photographer and designer Stéphane Giner. He is very deserving of your patronage, so please keep an eye out for his marvelous work. I hope you like Semilla and enjoy using it. I have a feeling that it marks a transition to a more curious and flexible period in my career, but only time will tell.

Get your Aussie on! The new typeface, Ainslie, with its mix of influences from Oz, makes its mark as the first semi-serif from insigne Design. Ainslie, named for Mt. Ainslie and Canberra’s inner suburb of the same name, was originally developed for the Canberra Australia Centennial Typeface Competition. Canberra is Australia’s capital, and it’s a planned city designed by American Walter Burley Griffin, a contemporary and one-time associate of Frank Lloyd Wright. Griffin’s plan involved a distinctly geometric design with several focal points--one of which was Mt. Ainslie. This same purely geometric scheme is now the basis for insigne’s new release. Similar to the Chatype project in its scope, its challenge, and the way its concept was developed, Ainslie incorporates influences from Canberra and surrounding areas to form a font that is uniquely Australian. In comparison, Chatype was developed for the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee by insigne in conjunction with designer Robbie de Villiers. Chatype took elements from Chattanooga’s industrial character and Cherokee past and merged them with the area’s technological influences. Likewise, Ainslie takes Canberra’s distinct, geometric design and blends it with the organic, flowing effect of aboriginal art. Add in touches from the smooth, aerodynamic design of the boomerang and Ainslie gives you a look uniquely Australian yet usable in a wide range of applications. The fashionable typeface includes a multitude of alternates that can be accessed in any OpenType-enabled application. These stylish alternates along with a number of swashes as well as meticulously refined details with ball terminals and alternate titling caps keep the font well accessorized. Also included are capital swash alternates, old style figures, and small caps. Peruse the PDF brochure to see these features in action. OpenType enabled applications such as the Adobe suite or Quark can take full advantage of the automatic replacing ligatures and alternates. This family also offers the glyphs to support a wide range of languages. While Ainslie wasn't selected as the final font in the Canberra competition, the outcome allowed for additional adjustments to the typeface. Several approaches were attempted for the final product including a technological hexagonal concept, which may still be developed to another form later. Some of the organic forms were removed and substituted with more abrupt endings, leaving the face looking pretty spiffy and a fair bit more legible. In the end, Ainslie was pulled back to the basic forms from which it was started. Give it a go for your next project. It’s guaranteed to be anything but a barbeque stopper.

This roly-poly romp through the alphabets is based on a showing from Carl Holmes' 1950s book, ABC of Lettering, published by art-for-the-masses magnate Walter T. Foster. Named as an apt companion to my East Coast Frolics.

Proudly present Adoha Typeface. A modern and classic serif typeface featuring its own unique style & modern look. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothing, lettering, quote, and so much more.

Hello! Introducing a decorative font — Qimzy. It's a smooth shape bold typeface with seamless sticky effect. This font includes lots of multilingual characters (check out a screenshot with available letters and signs). Thank you and wish you a peaceful sky!

Poxy is a black weight display font with 3 styles available. Built with particles, including circles, hexagons and stars. An Alternate Stylistic Set offers the option to make letters, numbers and symbols float away at the the top of each glyph.

Friendly Yellow is my sketchy/scratchy handmade sans font. I've made several layers for you to play around with, in order to get that feel-good handmade-sketch-font-look! I've also added ligature substitution for the most common double letters

Cinzeled Victorian Alphabets is a bold and imposing display font. Add it to your creative ideas and notice how it makes them stand out! Letters crafted to obtain the cinzeled style from the press works from XVIII and XIX centurys.

Add character to your paper crafts and publications. Download this cool Tough Love font to create lettering with a scratched or brush-stroke look. Design titles, captions, journaling and more, or simply give your publication an off-beat, handwritten appeal.

Spooky Witch is the latest Halloween font from Arkrist Letter studio. A serif font designed with elegant characters, but looks scary. Spooky Witch font is suitable for design, logo, greeting card, invitation, etc. make your day more spooky with Spooky Witch!

"Valerose" is a very unique and elegant handwritten display font. This font is decorated with roses in alternate letters. Uppercase, lowercase, swashes, titling, uppercase alternates, multilingual support, numerals, and punctuation are all included. Ideal for logos, weddings, valentines, and other occasions.

Are you looking for a fun, bouncy lettering set for envelopes, logos, typography, branding and greeting cards?! Well look no further! Created with stationary in mind, Hey Bombshell is sweet, sassy and LOADED with extras to make your work stand out!

Slavia Carolina is a vintage font with a modern touch that is suitable for logo purposes, design layout, cover, Headline, and more. Slavia Carolina has also included a full set of: Uppercase and lowercase letters Automatic ligatures Multilingual characters Numerals Punctuation

Shabby brush - creating this font Pavel was inspired by the past and visualized a good future. Erasing lines of letters, like memories that have passed through years. The long-lasting brush continues to create and inspire with all its strength

The sibling of Childos, with with additional Arabic glyphs for more international fun. Handwritten rough sans serifs style, as well as the development of free and attractive ligature to fill the space between letters and make playful children feel designs.

Cangste s a modern and classic serif font with a unique style and a modern look. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothes, lettering, quotes, and so much more.

Society Members is a cool, quirky and thick lettered display font. Whether you’re using it for crafts, digital design, presentations, or making greeting cards, this font has the potential to become your favorite go-to font, no matter the occasion!

Venice Initials are my redesign of a 15th century venetian original by an unknown calligrapher. Unfortunately only parts of the letters existed, so I had to design about half of them myself. Of course I enjoyed doing that. Yours Gert Wiescher

Beauty Luxury is a luxury typeface, mix of modern calligraphy and serif. full set of lowercase and uppercase letters, numerals and punctuation, multilingual symbols. luxurious and clean style to websites, modern logos, branding identity, social media quotes,and wedding stationery.

Halloween Festival is a cool-lettered and spooky display font. It is perfectly suitable for any Halloween-related project or crafty idea! Halloween Festival is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

Dyane is based on monolinear scripts from the Bauhaus time. But it is very special for ist counterstrokes in the lowercase letters a, h, m and n that gives the script a very distinct rhythm. Your rhythmic type-designer Gert Wiescher

Lakeland JNL was inspired by lettering seen on a vintage container of Yankee brand motor oil. Originally all-caps on the package, the remaining characters were developed to expand on this casual semi-script design which was popular during the 1940s.

Bokeseni is a cute and casual sans serif font with an undeniably clean feel. It includes a condensed, and expanded version. With its neat and beautiful arrangement of letters, this typeface will look outstanding in both formal and non-formal designs.

Dolce Caffe was a handwritten font designed in the 2011 inspired in some berliner menu. Now we developed a 3D, 3D Rough and a Shadow version. They are very legible and high in style and carefully constructed all-uppercase letters.

"Polythem" is a beautiful high bold script font that makes for gorgeous logos, posters, wedding invitations, blog posts, social media, and more! Polythem Script includes ligatures to make everything look totally hand-done, and alternates for each letter. Thanks for visited

Dias Irregulares is a font inspired by ignorant tattoo style. Contains 2 alternative characters for each letter and 4 cute illustrations. It's perfect for artistic publications, clothing and many other things. All made by hand, such as my tattoo work.

Paletone is hand lettered sans in two style, Regular & Bold. With the organic and handmade feels, you can use this font for any project. This minimalist font also suitable for the project with earth tone color. Also good for quotes.

Aimstesa is a modern and classic serif font with its own unique style and beautiful characters. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothes, lettering, quotes, and so much more.

Hurley 1967 is a bold script, with clean lines and smooth curve combined with beautiful features! Simply amazing fonts, comes with 7 styles. Hurley 1967 has a bunch of styles as a families to designed lettering style logotype using the fonts.

Hendrix bubble is a modern and classic display font with its own unique style and modern looks. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & bold logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothes, lettering, quotes, and so much more.

Rijaya Konoha is a modern and classic serif typeface with a unique style and fancy look. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothes, lettering, quotes, and so much more.

Quihk is a modern and classy serif font with its own unique style and modern look. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothes, lettering, quotes, and so much more.

Blackletters have a long history and appeal to the world of lettering. "Darkness" is a blackletter font, but with a contemporary style with a simple form. Darkness is very suitable for use on product labels, logos, ads, brochures, invitations, etc.

Customize your lettering project with this cool and clever font. Download it for fanciful journaling on scrapbook pages and greeting cards. Try it on Halloween party invitations or wherever you might want to add a whimsical touch to a unique publication.

Arroyo is based on water flow. Little creeks on the surface of the earth formed by the action of fast-flowing water, this phenomenon inspired me to create this font. The little gaps/creeks form the letters of the font.

Ardenwood is based on a wood-carved alphabet from the early 1500s. It features gothic characters with elaborate floral decorations. The lower case has the more basic versions of the letters while the upper case characters are more extensively decorated.

You can pack a lot of letters into a single line with this face, originally released as Clarendon XX Condensed in 1859. Both versions of this font support the Latin 1262, Central European 1250, Turkish 1254 and Baltic 1257 codepages.

This would be a great font for a book. There are 7 fonts in the font family, so there are a lot of choices to work with. The font features all capital letters with some alternate glyphs for certain characters.