The use of pattern is strongly integrated into African art, craft and culture. If you are creating designs which are to have an African look, then the African Pattern Fonts are an essential resource. The patterns vary tremendously -- either gently rounded in shape, or with a stark African angularity they reflect the ethos of Africa. Some of the fonts (African Patterns 01 and 02) have been inspired by the designs of Africa without regard for specific tribes or ethnic borders. They create a strong sense of "African-ness" without a narrow connection to any specific tribe. African Patterns 03 (Zulu and Ndebele) and 04 (Mali), in contrast, have been closely based on traditional patterns that are currently in use by the better known pattern-using African tribes. You can use the fonts as elements in graphic designs (using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Freehand or equivalent programs). However, you don't have to be a graphic designer to use these fonts: you can easily make borders and patterns in word processing packages such as Microsoft Word. (See the Gallery Images for instructions). Each African Pattern font contains 52 different pattern units. You can combine these in a myriad of ways giving an almost unlimited number of patterns. You can even overlay one pattern with another, allocating a different color to each layer. Explore your own creativity -- experiment!

STF Eclectic Two contains more of the useful and the sublime. Alarm clock time icons and many characters which connect add extra usefulness to this dingbat font. Stuff you'll need someday for a graphic element, bullet or dingbat application. Perfect for website icons! The Eclectic family is legendary, with a cult-like following among the inititated. With over 100 characters in the complete set, you'll find yourself using Eclectic Two almost daily to add spice to your otherwise san-serif typographic existence. This font is essentially a soap opera of typographic image elements, created for projects when I couldn't find the "thingbat" I needed. Almost more of a collection of illustrations, there are many characters which connect to form patterns, and of course it's like a "small neutral European country" army knife for the creative community. EcTwo features an complete architecturally-inspired alphabet, more of those smiley face variations, the eight ball, alarm clocks for the hours, the bouncing ball (with connecting dotted lines!), the paper airplane (flying and crashed!), the work dog, the chainsaw, Dorothy's slippers, the sideways arrows again, a handicapped symbol, chicken feet tracks, male/female symbols, gears, polynesian-inspired ornaments for patterns, a lighthouse, a torch, and more. Sounds twisted, eh? Make your own juxtapositionsof characters for funky borders. Available in Mac and PC formats. License it today!

Have you heard? It’s in the stars: next July we collide with Mars! But until then, there are plenty of good reasons to treat yourself to this swell typeface. LiebeLotte Swell is a great investment for letter lovers who design beautiful things for their friends and family and also for designers who love their clients: Your next birthday invitation? Check. That photo album you’re making for your mom? Check. The business cards you’re designing for your friend who runs a deli? Check. There are so many nice things that want to be designed, and LiebeLotte Swell wants to be your assistant in the old-fashioned way: polite and friendly. Just like her monolinear siblings in the LiebeLotte family, charming LiebeLotte Swell knows how to impress with her perfectly drawn curves and her perfectly connected loopy letterforms. Of course LiebeLotte Swell comes with a state-of-the-art character set. She also sports a variety of ligatures and alternative forms, available through OpenType features. (Please make sure your software supports ligatures for the letter connections and OpenType if you wish to use the advanced features.) Advanced designers, check out the complete LiebeLotte family with six weights of monolinear loopiness. You may also want to take a look at our best-sellers LiebeErika and LiebeKlara, they get along great with LiebeLotte Swell.

The idea for this completely new font design with overlapping characters came when Axel Stoltenberg, longtime IKARUS program developer at URW + +, visited a restaurant. As it can be seen quite often , the daily specials were offered handwritten with chalk on a blackboard applying a writing technique never been available before for digital fonts: each character is partly covered by its predecessor creating a three-dimensional effect. The implementation of this unusual notation for digital setting required a lot of programming and testing until all necessary character variants were produced and set properly always using the correct form. In order to achieve this, the OpenType Pro font ThreeDee contains about 12,400 characters and all the necessary OpenType features (GSUB ) for the automatic setting in OTF savvy application programs. The slightly playful basic design for ThreeDee was created by Anna Stoltenberg , the daughter of Axel, specially devised for the innovative representation and support of its special nature. The shadow generated with IKARUS even intensifies the 3D effect. As is well-known, making use of the embedded OTF features, i.e. the automatic access to all the 12,400 character variants , a corresponding text / layout program ( InDesign, Quark Xpress, current Open / LibreOffice or MS Word etc. ) is required. ThreeDee is a headline font that will unveil all its charisma and exceptional quality at appropriate, larger sizes.

Forget that hipster coolness for a minute and design something cute and charming with LiebeLotte! Go ahead and make beautiful things with her: birthday cards, wedding invitations, love letters, new signage for your deli—so many things look sweeter when you use this well-crafted handwriting font. We’ve put all of our heart and soul into this typeface—it took us a whole year to draw, refine, and interconnect all these loopy letterforms. We hope it’s really hard to tell that this is a typeface at all—the perfect connections and many swash variations make it look like you actually sat down with a pen. A pretty good pen in fact. LiebeLotte comes with a state-of-the-art character set. She also sports a variety of ligatures and alternative forms, available through OpenType features. (Please make sure your software supports ligatures for the letter connections and OpenType if you wish to use the advanced features.) Advanced designers, please take a look at our best-sellers LiebeErika and LiebeKlara: the all-new LiebeLotte makes a great companion for these popular fonts. We do think you’ll have plenty of fun with this versatile package of loopy letters for letter lovers. Or lovely letters for loop lovers. And hey, you can absolutely use LiebeLotte to make happy hipster designs, too! Promise!

Thirsty Cream is my handmade and slightly curly font. I had birthday greeting cards, invitations and products for kids. But I guess that it is useful for a good handful of other things. While the lowercase has it's curly moments, the UPPERCASE is quite steady and super legible

Sheet music from the 1911 stage production of the comic opera “The Enchantress” featured the hand lettered names of both the star and composer in a monoline Art Nouveau style. This sans serif type design is now available as Theater Nouveau JNL in both regular and oblique versions.

The hand lettered credits from the 1950 Humphrey Bogart film “In a Lonely Place” inspired the digital version called Screenwriter JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions. The font was named after the profession of the main character (Dixon Steele) who was a Hollywood screenwriter.

The hand-lettered title of a vintage Walter Foster "how to draw" book inspired the Deco-influenced alphabet of Art Lesson JNL. Bold and retro in nature, this typeface gets the message across in a straightforward way, yet still has a bit of a casual feel to it.

Hello Everyone, introduce our new product Font Biker Boys This Is Hand Drawn Display Font.This is a Textured Natural Style and classy style with a clear style and dramatic movement. This font Biker Boys is great for your next creative project such as logos, printed quotes, invitations, cards, product.

Baskara is a stylish calligraphy font, Baskara made with natural hand strokes that will be suitable for your various design needs such as branding, logo signatures, weddings, photography and many others. Baskara includes : Uppercase and Lowercase Character Numeral and Punctuation Stylishtic Alternates (Beggining and ending lowercase swash) Multilingual Support

A 1929 German travel poster had the caption “Wer schlafwagen reist spart zdeit und geld” (“Whoever travels in a sleeping car saves time and money”) hand lettered in an Art Deco sans serif style. This is now available as Foreign Tourist JNL, in both regular and oblique versions.

A spontaneous, fresh, honest and non-doctored brush script font with an almost complete set of extra characters. Excellent for people that want to put their statement on the wall, but don't have the hand for it, but it's also great for use in poster design, bookcovers and scrapbooking.

Cut Nyak Dhin is a modern script with handwriting, decorative characters, designed to perfectly combine informal, sassy, romantic, sweet scripts. Hand-drawn design elements allow you to create many beautiful typographic designs in an instant like branding, logos, web design and editorial, prints, invitations, crafts, quotes, and more.

Daytonia is a handmade script font. You can use this font for every project. Suitable for branding logo, hand lettering, or apparel design. This font also has multilingual support, numbers and symbols, alternates, swashes, and underlines. Daytonia is already PUA Encoded. Don't hesitate to contact me at saridezra@gmail.com

HiBaby is a beautiful hand-painted font, with an organic, fun design and with a mixture of lowercase and uppercase, making it interesting and unique. This fonts can be used for various purposes such as headings, signature, logos, wedding invitations, t-shirts, letterhead, signage, labels, news, posters, badges etc.

SDhauntedhouse is a whimsical hand-drawn typeface. This font has a slightly eerie vibe, and I created it inspired by haunted house movies. You can use this font for logos, quotes, invitations, greeting cards, journals, posters, clothing, and more. This font will infuse your designs with playfulness and fun!

Originally designed by calligrapher Arthur Baker, Marigold font was released by Agfa Compugraphic in 1989. Marigold font is narrow in width like the chancery hand, and its shapes are true to the prescribed Renaissance proportions. The authentic handwritten look makes it versatile for a large variety of informal uses.

Federal Case JNL is a stencil version of Government Issue JNL... adding the feel of industrial, military or high-level government espionage... From the lettering on a shipping crate to the cover of a secret folder of undercover plans, this font fits like a hand in a glove.

Beskill is a modern handwritten script font. Every hand stroke, we keep it simple. The ligature is also available which gives a beautiful impression on this font. This font is perfect for your project or branding such as quotes, weddings, headings, designs, logos, invitations, and more! Thank you!

Bumper is the ideal ultra-black Sans Serif if you wanna make noise. The three widths could even be mixed in one single word, which creates a hand-made, edgy look. Bumper falls between glossy mags and poster art, and has a great effect when used for flyers.

Spring Fashion JNL was modeled after an example of hand lettering from an old book displayed on an online auction. Rendered in lower case only with basic punctuation, this type design was made specifically for headlines. Its light, airy personality adds charm to simple ad copy or titles.

Named for a Manhattan neighborhood, Morningside Heights JNL is based on lettering found on a 1920s-era piece of sheet music. Part of the charm of hand lettering from the Art Nouveau era is found in the non-standard line thicknesses, experimental character shapes and varying character widths.

Red Mignolet is a hand-drawn slab type brush font. This font adopts a bold, firm, natural and trendy style. Very suitable to meet your design and packaging product needs at this time, especially when the current trend is Branding on MUG or CUP with natural fonts like painted!

Christmas moment is a hand brush font perfect for crafting, branding, invitation, stationery, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, special events, or anything. Christmas moment comes with a full set of uppercase and lowercase letters, ligatures, multilingual symbols, numerals, and punctuation.

Teen Years JNL was inspired by the hand lettered name for the Joyce Records label (circa 1956) which first recorded the New York doo-wop group The Crests (of “16 Candles” fame). The type design is a block sans serif, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Tough Stuff JNL is a solid version of Jeff Levine's Tough Guy JNL [an outline font with a cast shadow]. In this version, the bold lettering shows off its "hand-made" look, and is perfect for posters, fliers or ads that need to grab attention without looking too formal.

Brush Signature is a hand brush font perfect for crafting, branding, invitation, stationery, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, special events, or anything. Brush Signature comes with a full set of uppercase and lowercase letters, ligatures, multilingual symbols, numerals, and punctuation.

Blusty Font Duo is an handwritten script font based on the expression of real handwriting, lets you transform type into an exciting and beautiful piece of work. The irregular, hand-lettered look adds a real human touch to things and comes along with a lot of loving details.

Lion is playful, wild, and full of expression. Lion Solid is sans pattern, but just as brave. Mix upper and lower case with pride, and turn on double-letter ligatures for added hand-made presence. Shown in posters with other Atlantic fonts including Atlantic Doodles and Eeeek images.

Fondy Script is a hand-drawn brush typeface, created by Måns Grebäck during 2018. It is a bold, sporty font in high quality, with soft and rounded characteristics. The font support hundreds of languages and contains contextual and stylistic alternates. Use ¤ after any word for a decorative swash.

Soul Collections is a hand brush font perfect for crafting, branding, invitation, stationery, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, special events, or anything. Soul Collections comes with a full set of uppercase and lowercase letters, ligatures, multilingual symbols, numerals, and punctuation.

Ashwood is a contemporary, premium and sophisticated take on hand lettering. Its carefully crafted unique character has a soft edginess and looks great across fashion, branding, packaging, website headers, album art, magazines, advertising campaigns and social media. This typeface includes multilingual support and features a range of contextual ligatures.

The title card “Airplane Hydraulic Brakes” in the beginning of a WWII armed services training film had the words "hydraulic brakes" hand lettered in an Art Deco slab serif style. This served as the model for Training Film JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Hello my name is Zalena font, our new and fun font collection. Combining hand drawn style with a modern twist. Zalena comes with a ligature alternative that you can use to give your projects more options. Perfect for logos, notes, posters, t-shirts, stickers, posters, mugs, labels, etc.

Hubbard is based on hand lettering from the Roycroft Arts and Crafts movement of turn-of-the-century New York. The Roycrofters were heavily influenced by the design concepts of William Morris and Charles Rennie MacKintosh. The font takes its name from Elbert Hubbard, leader of the Roycroft movement.

Pinkus is a nice, uncomplicated serif font. It was hand drawn on plain white copy paper, hence the roughness. Pinkus is an all-caps affair, but upper and lower case letters can be interchanged. Pinkus can be used on posters, postcards, books, magazines and whatever else you fancy. Enjoy!

The 1935 sheet music for Shirley Temple's "That's What I Want for Christmas" [from her 20th Century Fox film "Stowaway"] provided the hand lettered sans which became the model for Artistry JNL. A condensed block design with rounded corners, the typeface is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Mountain Hills is a hand brush font perfect for crafting, branding, invitation, stationery, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, special events, or anything. Mountain Hills comes with a full set of uppercase and lowercase letters, ligatures, multilingual symbols, numerals, and punctuation.

What started as an image of a single vintage brass stencil of the letter 'P' spotted in an online auction has turned into Blacksmith JNL. From that single letter Jeff Levine has created a complete Western stencil font, retaining the hand-made look of the original stencil piece.