A typeface is a tool. Sure, there are frilly fonts that are more art than craft, showy faces that exist merely to call attention to themselves. But, in the end, any functional typeface worth its salt lives to serve one thing first: the text, the content. Everything else—the fashion of the moment, the allure of individual words and letters—is secondary. MVB Solitaire™ epitomizes this universal typographic mandate. As a tempered sans serif somewhere between a humanist and a gothic, MVB Solitaire captures a 21st-century neutrality. But practical doesn’t have to mean banal. MVB Solitaire has a soul. While some “neutral” type is dead the moment the ink hits the page, MVB Solitaire delivers text that feels lively, contemporary, relevant. Readers will not tire of this type. Behind the useful exterior is an arsenal of thoughtful technical features. It’s no surprise that this family’s creator, Mark van Bronkhorst, was first a graphic designer before becoming a type designer. Mark built all the goodies into MVB Solitaire that he would appreciate as a user: case-sensitive punctuation; alternate forms that can be invoked individually or together; oldstyle and lining figures in both tabular and proportional widths; slightly shorter lining figures that don’t stand out in running text, but also cap-height figures for all-cap settings; and the ability to speak nearly any Latin-based language. MVB Solitaire aspires to be the sort of workhorse that a designer keeps installed on their system at all times. It is a family bound to have a permanent spot in the font menu, always at the ready for projects (those most common of all) where the typography mustn’t mask the message. It has that quality that all truly useful typefaces have: the capacity to get the job done without getting in the way.

Who haven't heard the phrase that ‘any past time was better’?. Although I sometimes find this phrase a little too pessimistic (because I try to think that the best is yet to come), it may be true regarding my passion, typography. I'm too young (29) unfortunately, and this means I did not have the pleasure of being contemporary with maybe the man who has influenced my work the most (1). The man that showed that letters are more than just letters to be read. Herb Lubalin (1918-1981), also called sometimes as ‘the rule basher’ (2), smashed the taboos and sacred rules of type design and gave it personality. He rejected the functionalist philosophy of europeans in favor of an eclectic and exuberant style. To him, letters were not merely vessels of form, they were objects of meaning. (3). Nowadays, when looking at his portfolio, who dares to deny that the term ‘typography’ and ‘beauty’ may go hand-in-hand without any problem? Ed Benguiat, one of Herb’s partners, still likes making jokes with the phrase “screw legibility, type should be beautiful” and what I understand of this is not to forget the rules, but to know and break them carefully. In an era of pure eclecticism, we, the lovers of flourishes and swashes, can't do nothing but admire all the legacy that Lubalin, this wonderful type-guru, left. My font Lubaline read as “the line of Lubalin” is my humble tribute to him. Those who know his work, may see the influences easily like in his ‘Beards’ (1976) and ‘The Sound of Music’ (1965) posters; the art-deco forms in many of his amazing logos and practically in all his creations where letters seem to be alive just like you and me. I really hope that the future finds me still learning more and more about type-design and letterforms, and like him, always willing to make innovations in my field: Because letters are not just letters to be read. NOTES (1) These are some of my fonts in which some of Lubalin’s influences can be seen (in order of creation): Reina, Aire, Erotica, String, Beatle, Heroe, Selfie, Model, Seventies, and many others that are still in progress. (2) (3) Steven Heller. Herb Lubalin: Rule Basher. U&lc (1998) http://www.printmag.com/imprint/my-favorite-lubalin/

Architype Crouwel is a collection of typefaces created in collaboration with Wim Crouwel, following his agreement with The Foundry, to recreate his experimental alphabets as digital fonts. Crouwel's most recognized work was for the Van Abbe and Stedelijk museums (1954 –72) where he established his reputation for radical, grid-based design. Architype Vierkant was developed from the few letterforms that Crouwel created for an opening spread in a 1972 Drupa catalogue, on the theme ‘typo vision international’ – this single reference showed an interesting interplay of the experimental ideas underpinning his controversial ‘new alphabet’ and Fodor.

inceptum - Sans serif font family It help you develop your creative projects with its 10 styles and futuristic alternative characters and multilingual supports. With these features, it will be effective in creating alternatives in your projects. It is also assertive about being a highly readable font with different wights. Ideal for books and magazines, editorials, headlines, websites, logos, branding and more. This font family can meet your needs in all creative projects, modern and classic.

Sublima is meticulously designed to adapt its personality to any project. With 302 alternative characters and 18 stylistic sets, you get unlimited power to take your creativity to the next level. Sublima is the smartest choice for any creative project. With a single click, you can change its typographic personality and adapt it to your desired style. Choose between 3 predefined styles or create your own style by combining the hundreds of alternate characters available.

Turis is meticulously designed to adapt its personality to any project. With 241 alternative characters and 20 stylistic sets, you get unlimited power to take your creativity to the next level. Turis is the smartest choice for any creative project. With a single click, you can change its typographic personality and adapt it to your desired style. Choose between 3 predefined styles or create your own style by combining the hundreds of alternate characters available.

The idea behind this typefaces was to combine something retro and vintage with a style of this century. A reference from Vintage Typography, Art Deco, Neo Deco. With an improvised and create something in between those styling. Tiverton created in Serif, Sans-Serif and Script. Within 3 Style, it more helping and easier for create something without "thinking" the font compartment. Features of Sans Serif and Serif are comes with stylistic alternates and you can activated with Contextual Swash button on Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop, And Catchword such as the preview above, activated with underscore in the beginning and end of the letters, for example : _ the _ (underscore)the(underscore). Features of Tiverton Script are Ligatures, Contextual alternates, Contextual Swashes. no alternates. but Tiverton Script available with 2 Weight, Light and Regular. For a bonus, I create an Ornament Fonts. Special shout for the ornament fonts are for the borders. on the Number Character 0-9 are created for connected borders. for Beginning and end the lines you can press Shift on the Number Character. For example : type !2222@ on the text preview below and see on the Tiverton Ornament.

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, suitable for text or display, narrow, short descenders, diamond shaped ornamental points at median.

Epsiolet is wacky, crunchy and unpredictable! Comes in Open Type with loads of different ligatures! Note: you will need to use OpenType supporting applications to use the autoligatures.

Interesting script font with lovely crunchy details - comes with multilingual support and contextual alternates with 4 different versions of each letter, and they cycle automatically as you type!

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, condensed, bold, curved serifs, a very useful design for display, upper and lower case.

An interesting hand lettered sans serif type style with a “brush stroke” feel was used for various article headlines in the October, 1938 issue of “Radio Stars” magazine.

Shipping stencils cut on an antique machine with its somewhat crude slab serif type design inspired Container Stencil JNL, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Wood Line JNL is based on a printed example of a vintage handmade wood type. This sans serif digital font is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Doodles the Alphabet was designed to coordinate with Doodles the picture font. Doodles received honorable mention in U&lc’s First Annual Type Design Competition in the Picture Category.

Cubic is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc. It is perfect for t-shirts and other items.

Dimor is a modern display type family with 6 styles. Specially designed for headlines and short sentences. We hope this will contribute to your impressive and distinctive title

A slightly wild brush script suitable for posters! Comes with contextual alternates - meaning the font has 5 different versions of each letter, which automatically cycles as you type!

Zag is a custom sans font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items.

Weekend Tabloid JNL is a classic sans serif wood type design that found its way into the setting of newspaper headlines during the pre-electronic age of publishing.

This contrast grotesque works well in text sizes and in large ones. Here are two sub-families: contrast and most contrast Display. Ideal companion for Osnova type family.

Dan Pro is a custom sans font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics, and perfect for t-shirts and other items.

Reader is a custom sans font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items.

Device™ display typeface is inspired by industrial type used for decals and signage. This typeface pairs nicely with geometric sans serifs like Cerebri Sans and HK Grotesk.

Based on vintage wood type, Nostrand JNL is a tall, condensed serif face - named for an avenue in font designer Jeff Levine's home town of Brooklyn, New York.

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, suitable for display. It has curved sides, very short descenders, and curved, blocky serifs.

Proteina is a simple retro font, clean and contemporary modular sans for titling. It is perfect for headlines, apparel, fashion, album artwork, posters, logos and minimal type layouts.

Jailbreak JNL takes the wood type design used for Hoosegow JNL and gives it a stencil treatment; offering a wide and bold stencil alphabet with a Western feel.

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, with classic flat slab serifs, unbracketed, short descenders. Very popular in the 19th century.

Oval is a custom sans font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items.

Neo Brushly is an enchanting handlettered brush font that encapsulates the artistry of free-flowing strokes and the warmth of handcrafted expression. With each character meticulously crafted, the font exudes a genuine, human touch, reminiscent of brush strokes on canvas. The letters dance dynamically, creating a harmonious rhythm that lends a unique, personalized flair to any project. Neo Brushly captures the essence of spontaneity, making it an ideal choice for designs that seek a balance between casual elegance and a hint of playful sophistication. The organic, brush-inspired design imparts a sense of authenticity, making Neo Brushly an inviting and versatile choice for a wide range of creative endeavors, from branding to invitations, infusing a touch of handmade charm into every typographic creation.

Lockal - the ultimate font display that's here to take your designs to the next level. With a solid structure and an impressive collection of ligatures, this bad boy is bound to make your creations pop. But wait, there's more! Lockal comes in not one or two but THREE styles - Regular, Rounded, and Rough. And as if that wasn't enough, each style also has an oblique mode for when you need that extra edge. So whether you're working on a branding project or creating eye-catching posters, Lockal has got your back. Trust us; your clients will be blown away by the results. Don't settle for ordinary fonts when you can have something extraordinary like Lockal. Get it now and watch your creativity soar!

Sambelethok an excellent font for modern hand-lettered logo designs. Sambelethok is a font intended for logotype creation. But with almost 500 glyphs inside the font, you can also create many of other typography designs. Stylistic Alternates, Swashes, Contectual Alternate and Ligatures is a list of features from OpenType which you can use to pairing the letters each other powerfully. This font is great for your next creative project such as Logotype, printed quotes, invitations, cards, product packaging, headers, Letterhead, Poster, Apparel Design, Label, and etc. Files Include : Basic Latin A-Z and a-z Numbers Symbols PUA Encode Multilanguage Support Thanks and have a wonderful day, If you have any questions, please get in touch with us Don't forget to check out our other products.

Cloister Open Face was designed in 1929 by Morris Fuller Benton as one weight of the Cloister Old Style family. Cloister itself appeared from 1897 with American Type Founders, and later for the typesetting machines of the Linotype, Intertype and Monotype companies. At that time, it was the truest modern industrial revival of the Jensonian Roman. Benton stayed close to the style of his model in both design and spacing. Cloister Open Face has an old-world elegance, and it works well for titling in books and magazines. In 1458, Charles VII sent the Frenchman Nicolas Jenson to learn the craft of movable type in Mainz, the city where Gutenberg was working. Jenson was supposed to return to France with his newly learned skills, but instead he traveled to Italy, as did other itinerant printers of the time. From 1468 on, he was in Venice, where he flourished as a punchcutter, printer and publisher. He was probably the first non-German printer of movable type, and he produced about 150 editions. Though his punches have vanished, his books have not, and those produced from about 1470 until his death in 1480 have served as a source of inspiration for type designers over centuries. His Roman type is often called the first true Roman." Notable in almost all Jensonian Romans is the angled crossbar on the lowercase e, which is known as the "Venetian Oldstyle e.""

Extraordinary impact and visual conspicuousness. Dr Slab is a super 3D serif family for posters, logos and all display. The basic idea is not a brand new. Stacking type system have been used since before wood type age. As you imagined, colored wood type(woodcut), many other engravings and contemporary printer machine print many colors separately with different printing plates for each colors. Dr Slab uses the same system for 3d effect. 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. Dr Slab "Base" style is the core of this font family. You can add effects by using the other styles(Rim, Shadow, Ext). Instruction 1. Type your text as you like. 2. Set font-name "Dr Slab" and font-style "Base" 3. Set color for "Base". 4. Duplicate the layer which includes "Base" text. 5. Set font-style and color for new layers. 6. Stacked layers in different font-style and color make the text in 3D. For further detail, https://www.dropbox.com/s/9p9083zv2855bcq/DrSlab.pdf Dr Slab "Base" style can be used solely. Rounded slabs add soft, cute and casual impressions to your design. Spec: OpenType Format (.otf) with over 500 glyphs! Basic Latin ✓ Western Europe ✓ Central Europe ✓ South Eastern Europe ✓ Mac Roman ✓ Windows 1252 ✓ Adobe Latin 1 ✓ Adobe Latin 2 ✓ Adobe Latin 3 ✓ Almost all Latins are covered.

One of the good practices of today’s type foundries is that they release their type families as systems including both serif and sans serif type. Usually, the sources of inspiration need to be well tried with time and practice, since production of a type family is such a laborious and complex process. From the beginning, it needs to be clear that the result will be suited for universal use. Such systems, complete with the broad, multi-lingual variations permitted by the OpenType format, have become the elementary, default instrument of visual communication. Non-Latin scripts are useful for a wide scope of academic publications, for packaging and corporate systems alike. And what about outdoor advertisement designated for markets in developing countries? Cyrillics and Greek have become an integral part of our OpenType font systems. Maybe you noticed that the sans serif cuts have richer variety of the light – black scale. This is due to the fact that sans serif families tend to be less susceptible to deformities in form, and thus they are able to retain their original character throughout the full range of weights. On the other hand, the nature of serifed, contrasted cuts does not permit such extremes without sacrificing their characteristic features. Both weights were drawn by hand, only the Medium cut has been interpolated. Anselm Ten is a unique family of four cuts, slightly strengthened and adjusted for the setting in sizes around 10 pt and smaller, as its name indicates. The ancestry of Anselm goes back to Jannon, a slightly modified Old Style Roman. I drew Serapion back in 1997, so its spirit is youthful, a bit frisky, and it is charmed by romantic, playful details. Anselm succeeds it after ten years of evolution, it is a sober, reliable laborer, immune to all eccentricities. The most significant difference between Sebastian/Serapion and Anselm is the raised x-height of lowercase, which makes it ideal for applications in extensive texts. Our goal was to create an all-round type family, equally suitable for poetry, magazines, books, posters, and information systems.