The famous roman type cut in Venice by Nicolas Jenson, and used in 1470 for his printing of the tract, De Evangelica Praeparatione, Eusebius, has usually been declared the seminal and definitive representative of a class of types known as Venetian Old Style. The Jenson type is thought to have been the primary model for types that immediately followed. Subsequent 15th-century Venetian Old Style types, cut by other punchcutters in Venice and elsewhere in Italy, are also worthy of study, but have been largely neglected by 20th-century type designers. There were many versions of Venetian Old Style types produced in the final quarter of the quattrocento. The exact number is unknown, but numerous printed examples survive, though the actual types, matrices, and punches are long gone. All these types are not, however, conspicuously Jensonian in character. Each shows a liberal amount of individuality, inconsistency, and eccentricity. My fascination with these historical types began in the 1970s and eventually led to the production of my first text typeface, Iowan Old Style (Bitstream, 1991). Sometime in the early 1990s, I started doodling letters for another Venetian typeface. The letters were pieced together from sections of circles and squares. The n, a standard lowercase control character in a text typeface, came first. Its most unusual feature was its head serif, a bisected quadrant of a circle. My aim was to see if its sharp beak would work with blunt, rectangular, foot serifs. Next, I wanted to see if I could construct a set of capital letters by following a similar design system. Rectangular serifs, or what we today call "slab serifs," were common in early roman printing types, particularly text types cut in Italy before 1500. Slab serifs are evident on both lowercase and uppercase characters in roman types of the Incunabula period, but they are seen mainly at the feet of the lowercase letters. The head serifs on lowercase letters of early roman types were usually angled. They were not arched, like mine. Oddly, there seems to be no actual historical precedent for my approach. Another characteristic of my arched serif is that the side opposite the arch is flat, not concave. Arched, concave serifs were used extensively in early italic types, a genre which first appeared more than a quarter century after roman types. Their forms followed humanistic cursive writing, common in Italy since before movable type was used there. Initially, italic characters were all lowercase, set with upright capitals (a practice I much admire and would like to see revived). Sloped italic capitals were not introduced until the middle of the sixteenth century, and they have very little to do with the evolution of humanist scripts. In contrast to the cursive writing on which italic types were based, formal book hands used by humanist scholars to transcribe classical texts served as a source of inspiration for the lowercase letters of the first roman types cut in Italy. While book hands were not as informal as cursive scripts, they still had features which could be said to be more calligraphic than geometric in detail. Over time, though, the copied vestiges of calligraphy virtually disappeared from roman fonts, and type became more rational. This profound change in the way type developed was also due in part to popular interest in the classical inscriptions of Roman antiquity. Imperial Roman letters, or majuscules, became models for the capital letters in nearly all early roman printing types. So it was, that the first letters in my typeface arose from pondering how shapes of lowercase letters and capital letters relate to one another in terms of classical ideals and geometric proportions, two pinnacles in a range of artistic notions which emerged during the Italian Renaissance. Indeed, such ideas are interesting to explore, but in the field of type design they often lead to dead ends. It is generally acknowledged, for instance, that pure geometry, as a strict approach to type design, has limitations. No roman alphabet, based solely on the circle and square, has ever been ideal for continuous reading. This much, I knew from the start. In the course of developing my typeface for text, innumerable compromises were made. Even though the finished letterforms retain a measure of geometric structure, they were modified again and again to improve their performance en masse. Each modification caused further deviation from my original scheme, and gave every font a slightly different direction. In the lower case letters especially, I made countless variations, and diverged significantly from my original plan. For example, not all the arcs remained radial, and they were designed to vary from font to font. Such variety added to the individuality of each style. The counters of many letters are described by intersecting arcs or angled facets, and the bowls are not round. In the capitals, angular bracketing was used practically everywhere stems and serifs meet, accentuating the terseness of the characters. As a result of all my tinkering, the entire family took on a kind of rich, familiar, coarseness - akin to roman types of the late 1400s. In his book, Printing Types D. B. Updike wrote: "Almost all Italian roman fonts in the last half of the fifteenth century had an air of "security" and generous ease extremely agreeable to the eye. Indeed, there is nothing better than fine Italian roman type in the whole history of typography." It does seem a shame that only in the 20th century have revivals of these beautiful types found acceptance in the English language. For four centuries (circa 1500 - circa 1900) Venetian Old Style faces were definitely not in favor in any living language. Recently, though, reinterpretations of early Italian printing types have been returning with a vengeance. The name Vendetta, which as an Italian sound I like, struck me as being a word that could be taken to signifiy a comeback of types designed in the Venetian style. In closing, I should add that a large measure of Vendetta's overall character comes from a synthesis of ideas, old and new. Hallmarks of roman type design from the Incunabula period are blended with contemporary concerns for the optimal display of letterforms on computer screens. Vendetta is thus not a historical revival. It is instead an indirect but personal digital homage to the roman types of punchcutters whose work was influenced by the example Jenson set in 1470. John Downer.

Barkanon is not your ordinary humanist sans serif typeface. Blending modern styling with classic humanist flow creates a bold and captivating look. Designed to be expressive in the right places and legible where needed. Barkanon is great for headings, body copy, logos, etc. Barkanon was picked to be a part of the 2024 Typodarium and an early version of the font was featured on James Edmonson's (Oh No Type Co) YouTube channel Barkanon covers 96 languages, 9 styles plus italics, with stylistic alternates, ligatures, and other opentype features.

Introducing a new vintage font called “Hostel Vintage“. Inspired from vintage typography and lettering in the 70’s and 80’s combine with bold typography style. With a total of 534 glyphs with 359 alternate, you can make letter combinations for lettering with a lot of options. Come with open type feature ( a lot of alternates and end swash), its help you to make great lettering. Hostel Vintage best uses for Logotype, heading,cover, poster, logos, quotes, product packaging, header, merchandise, social media & greeting cards and many more. This font is also support multi language.

Sweetgentle is a new modern calligraphy typeface containing 750 glyphs. It has OpenType features and PUA encoded. Of course this is a smart font that works with popular design software like Photoshop, Coreldraw, Illustrator, Microsoft Office, ect. This Modern Calligraphy typeface welcomes you to use it for various purposes such as logos, cards, wedding invitations, headings, signatures, t-shirts, letterheads, cutting, hot stamping, signage, labels, posters and more. It's craft friendly!!!! OPENTYPE TECHNOLOGY: - Stylistic alternate - Contextual alternates - Standard Ligatures - Discretionary Ligatures - Contextual Ligatures - Initial Letter - Medial Letter - Terminal Letter - Numerals - Punctuations

IT’S MAILBAG TIME! Dear Jolly JG Roshell and Rascally Richard Starkings, Comicraft Fonts are a thing of Beauty and a Joy Forever! You guys must be a Wild Bunch, and I roar with delight whenever a new comicbookfonts release appears in my emailbox. But I have to level with you daredevils...what about us Letterhacks? We need representation too! We haven’t spent years hammering away on our typewriters to be ignored! BRING BACK THE LETTER HACK! In fearless font form. You know it makes sense! Truly Yours, Forbush, Irving, senior.

AZ College Brushed font was inspired from a combination of typical collegiate t-shirts designs and also the current wave of A&F t-shirt designs (rough painted look). This font utilizes an "old look" to the line work which is designed to have a "worn feel" to it. It is designed to compliment it's sister font; AZ College. Ideal for use as headline or sub-head text in you design. Note: This font is somewhat detailed and is memory intensive. It is not recommended to use, unless you have a powerful computer.

Shifters Handwritten Script is a font with distinctive handwritten characters and is perfect for branding projects, logos, wedding designs, media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, labels, photography, watermarks, invitations, stationery, and any project that needs a handwritten touch. Features Character Set A-Z , Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard), Accents (Multi-lingual characters), Ligatures. There it is! I really hope you enjoy it. Comments and likes are always welcome and accepted. More importantly, don't hesitate to send a message if you have a problem or question. Now just read this, go there and make it happen.

This is a font that will fit in the "hard to read section" because it may not be super legible at first sight - that is because of the negative space. But when you combine the two layers (Layer and Box) the letter suddenly appears very legible! Play around with your favourite colour palette while adjusting the transparency in order for the colours to blend, giving a really nice handcrafted look! You have 4 different versions of each letter to play around with and of course there is multilingual support!

Introducing Jola jolie brush and smooth font handwritten brush font that is very natural according to what is depicted in ink looks very beautiful and charming and also comes with the same font neatly smooth and not many smudges you just have to choose according to your needs and also your taste there is also a heart in the middle to add your name or say. It's perfect for any type of work you're working various purposes such as logos, wedding invitations, headings, t-shirts, letterheads, signage, labels, news, posters, badges etc.

MollyO font family is based on the original, reliably cool handwriting of illustrator (and dear friend), MollyO of mollyOcards. Like MollyO herself, this font is unique, unpretentious, and beautiful. Part printed and part script, it has the authentic connections and stops of a contemporary, casual font. For the truest handwritten feel, keep discretionary ligatures on, or turn them off where you want more evenness. MollyO is expressive in all-caps, available in two weights, and with effortless warmth and inky flow, will bring a wide range of creative projects to life.

Operandi is geometric sans family available in 6 weights inspired with vintage posters design from period between two great wars. Unpretentious family guided by simple design solutions – slightly wide by its character, decently recognizable, fully capable to lead any project – Operandi offers combination of functionality and visual balance that should be enough to recommend it as right choice. From Light to Black, packed in extended Latin character map, Operandi also contains a few OpenType features such as Ligatures, Fractions and 2x Stylistic Sets – one for complete uppercase alternatives and one for “a” and “g”.

Salom was designed by Austrian type designer Igor Labudovic during his year at Reading University. Besides Latin, it originally included Arabic and Hebrew. The peaceful coexistence of both writing systems in his fonts led him to combine the words Salaam and Shalom to the font family name. Salom’s sibling, Salom Sans, features the same letter proportions and therefore allows a rich spectrum of diverse typography, yet keeping the harmony between all styles. The sans has an additional light weight, while the serif comes with an expressive stencil style.

Introducing Magern – Serif Typeface Versatility and Elegance Firstly, Magern stands out with its versatility. Created meticulously, it beautifully complements various editorial and magazine layouts. Consequently, it brings elegance and readability together. Craftsmanship in Design Besides, the craftsmanship in Magern is impeccable. Each letterform is thoughtfully designed, ensuring it carries a classic yet contemporary feel. As a result, it captivates readers’ attention effortlessly. Adaptability Furthermore, Magern proves to be exceptionally adaptable. While it exhibits a strong presence in headings, it also maintains subtlety in body texts. Thus, it enhances overall readability.

Zaire SF is a distinctive, elegant, ethnic style font, inspired by the ancient masking traditions of the tribes indigenous to Zaire in Central Africa. The font captures the magic of the mask, representing the dance, the ceremony, the secret society. It evokes the very heart of Africa. Zaire is best used as a display font and is also effective for headings and posters. The tall, slim silhouette epitomizes the elegance of contemporary African design. It includes a full character set: characters for English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese.

Yolanda Love Script is a stylish script font that features a varying baseline, smooth line, modern and with a depth love. For those of you who are need a touch of love and modernity for your designs or branding, it can be used for various purposes such as headings, wedding, invitation, signature, logos, branding, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, lable, news, posters, badges etc. A wide range of swashes (a-z), alternates (A-Z), and ligature are included so that you can give your logo or name a custom, hand-calligraphy look.

This font was inspired by the title logo of the TV show The Wild Wild West (season two). The font was named after the train in the TV show. Wanderer is a combination of my Classic Tuscan Rodeo Clown font and a Robust Slab Serif font. Wanderer is available as a stand alone font or with the optional fill fonts. Caution: Use of this font may cause the Wild Wild West theme song to play over and over in your head. Solution: Try temporarily using another FontMesa font such as Rough Riders.

NuOrder is a modern-day sans-serif typeface with humanist bones. The design incorporates a dynamic structure with minimal contrast and a natural stroke path to promote easy reading—resulting in a warm well-balanced typeface best suited for a wide range of applications in a hi-tech era. Details include nine weights with matching italics and over 550 characters per style. Opentype features consist of five variations of numerals, including inferiors, superiors, fractions, alternate lowercase a and g, and language support covering Western, South, and Central Europe.

Woolen is a hand-inked & italicized serif, based upon a 17th century type specimen by Jean Jannon. Many of the capital letters are decorated with subtle sprigs and leaves, while the lowercase letters remain classically styled, giving the font a warm and natural look with just the right amount of dignity. Woolen is perfect for logos and branding – she shines in retail identities, particularly for farms, markets, and restaurants. Even though the font is slanted, it reads beautifully as body text and display headlines. Multi-language support is included in the font.

Teorema. Well balanced Reading. Looking for a geometric yet flexible character? Teorema typeface combines different geometric shapes, according to a pragmatic approach that favors flexibility and ease of use. The font is distinguished by the contrast between perfectly circular shapes, and other, more angular ones in search of a formal balance aimed at optimizing the recognizability of the characters and finally the legibility of the text. Worthy of a geometric “theorem”? Try Teorema for free. Download a free version of Teorema Regular and Bold with a reduced character set. Check it out!

Asly Brush is the font style handmade dancing and then live trace to have Grungy brush and unique forms of calligraphy, the writing style is very natural. The Features of this fonts is: Standart ligatures Stylistic Alternates Stylistic sets PUA Unicode (Private Use Areas) Can be used for various purposes.such as headings, logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, labels, news, posters, badges etc. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7

"Birthday Party" is a playful handwriting font special for childish display,that puts a smile on your project and will inspire you to create something fun and memorable.It is perfect for greeting card, headings, flyer, product packaging, book cover, printed quotes, logos, etc. "Birthday Party" will help you to create special and touching typographical design for childish projects, for every day or the happiest day in life, summer vacations, baby shower, happy birthday cards and many more. It is really universal and modern font. The owner of endless possibilities!

Daniel Berkeley Updike seems to have stimulated the architect Bertram G. Goodhue to design the prototype in 1896 for Ingalls Kimball at the Cheltenham Press. Six years later Morris Fuller Benton at ATF developed it into the design and then the series that we know today. “Owing to certain eccentricities of form,” writes Updike, “it cannot be read comfortably for any length of time.” But he concludes: “It is, however, an exceedingly handsome letter for ephemeral printing.” Mergenthaler bought composing machine rights to the original design c. 1896, but bought the Benton design in 1904.

This casual handwriting font adds a touch of personality and charm to any project. With its organic, flowing lines and unique character, it captures the essence of natural handwriting while remaining legible and easy to read. The font is perfect for adding a natural touch to invitations, posters, social media graphics, and more. Its versatility makes it a great choice for a wide range of creative projects. Whether you're looking to add a fun and casual vibe or simply want to create something that stands out, this handwriting font is the perfect choice.

When merely “extended” just would not do, here is Paragraph Stretch™: a super extended or elongated geometric display typeface. It is a typeface with an unicase effect: the capitals and lower case fit the same height and a similar width, so they are interchangeable: fancy a round “W” in all caps? Use the lower case. Want a straight “x” in lower case? Use the cap. And so on. Designed for use at larger sizes for logotypes, short titles or headings. It supports Western plus Nordic, Eastern European and Turkish languages.

Clover Display is a Unique Modern Elegant Typeface with Web-fonts which derived from Olive Font Family. It's a very versatile font that works great in large and small sizes. Clover Font would perfect for branding, logos, headlines, Captions. or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image. Strong capitals and a smooth, open lowercase are effective in a variety of applications. It's shown a clean, minimalist, warmth, quirky, yet still purposed to be versatile and easy to read. 08 Weights with 16 Styles Included. Free updates and feature additions.

Rotosh BKL Regular Font is a modern Arabic and English font designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of users. It contains many characters, signs and languages, including the splintered languages derived from Arabic and English . The font is distinguished by its unique drawing and shape, making it a truly versatile font. The font is also easy to read and legible, making it the perfect choice for any project. With Rotosh BKL Regular, you can be sure that your designs will be truly unique and stand out from the rest.

Destructive Decisions is a font based upon the inherent flaws of human nature—presented under the guise of complete legibility. At first impression this font is very readable, but upon closer examination you'll notice the edges are fuzzy and some of the lines are off-kilter. You can read it, but it is also a bit foggy. No matter how hard it strives for perfection. This font was originally designed for a cable tv show about substance abuse, but is now available for use in your web and print designs, too.

Bogue is a slab serif type family of 8 weights and matching italics. Bogue Slab comes with a lots of stylistic alternates that makes it very versatile in various uses like logos, editorial design, branding, web design, package design and much more. You can use it to create short powerful phrases and headlines and also use it in longer text like lead paragraphs and body texts. So if you are looking for a versatile slab serif font you have found it! Bogue Slab is a slab serif version of Bogue

Hudzaifah is a crème de la crème modern calligraphy font with sophisticated messy ink accents. It is perfect for branding and packaging design. Hudzaifah includes full set of lovely uppercase and lowercase letters, multilingual symbols, numerals, punctuation and ligatures. All lowercase letters include beautiful and unique . Also, includes multi-lingual support. There it is! I really hope you enjoy it - comments & likes are always welcome and accepted. More importantly, don't hesitate to send a message if you have a problem or question. Now just read this, go there and make it happen :)

Dress Code is a modern sans-serif font family that includes 12 fonts: 2 styles - regular and round, each with 6 weights - extra light, light, regular, medium, semi bold and bold. Also included in this font are many alternatives that give you more options for creating your project. with them, you can be unique and experiment with your design. This font is easy to read and versatile, suitable for editorial tasks, creating logos, book and magazine covers, cosmetics, advertising, branding, wedding invitations, posters, postcards, labels, business cards, packaging and much more.

NORTH ZONE Urban Font is a supercharged, with extra attention to quick strokes and sharp details, NORTH ZONE It contains uppercase, lowercase and swash. NORTH ZONE is ideal for logos, apparel, t-shirts, hoodies, quotes, product packaging, or anything that needs a typographic turbo-boost and you’ll get a unique swash to accompany the font. Language Support - We've added in a great deal of extra characters to support many different languages. If there is a problem, question, or anything about my fonts, don't hesitate to ask! Big Thanks Ergibi Studio

Hippie Vintage’s bold, groovy, clean and unique with vintage fell. Hippie Vintage is very versatile sans font that works great with vintage themes. Hippie Vintage is a vintage sans serif font with beautiful ligatures, tons of alternative glyphs and multilingual support. Helps to create layout design in 60s or 70s design projects. Come with open type feature with a lot of alternates, its help you to make great lettering. Hippie Vintage best uses for heading headlines, cover, poster, logos, quotes, product packaging, merchandise, social media & greeting cards and many more.

Bagoni Type is a very versatile, clean and visually elegant font inspired by the serif typography used in editorial media in the 80s. Bagoni Type with its high contrast and very simple and easily recognizable shape makes it very easy to read, so it also works with small and long text. Great for magazine pictures, for wedding invitations, for branding, poster design and more. Bagoni Type comes in bold and italics that is complemented by various features of open type. Check out Gradia which is a great pair for Bagoni Type.

It's unpredictable! It's enigmatic! It has a winning smile and a devil-may-care personality. It can be charming and obliging and yet also elusive and impractical. It is the doer of deadly deeds, it is the dextrous hand of ELEPHANTMEN artist Justin Norman. It is swift and decisive, hesitant but packed with Talent. Ladies and... uh, More Ladies... Moritat has entered the building. Whoops, actually Moritat has LEFT the building. Moritat is the alias of Justin Norman, comic book artist and illustrator. The font is based on his pen lettering.

Anghones Script is a simple typeface - easy to read and comfortable to wear! You can use them as logos, badges, badges, packaging, headlines, posters, t-shirts / clothing, greeting cards, business cards, and wedding invitations and more. The flowing characters are ideal for creating interesting messages to your taste. Mix and match a group of alternate characters to fit your project. It will be more interesting if you add swashes! Alternate characters in this font are divided into several OpenType features such as Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures and Ligature Alternates. Email support: maculinc@gmail.com Thank you! -Maculinc

This square serif typeface is a real workhorse. It is a modern tool for text design: extremely legible, pan-european multilingual (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), well shaped. Bandera Pro has six weights with original italics, alternatives, small capitals and three sets of digits. It catches attention in headlines of posters and magazines or makes reading comfortable in plain texts. Bandera Pro shares main proportions with sans serif Osnova Pro typefamily so ideally can pair it. Bandera is Spanish for ‘flag’. And Bandera is a symbol of Ukrainian fighting for freedom for many years.

Boxed typography is a new and extensive 18 weight typeface, brightly conceived and designed to look good on small screen devices, but offering also enlightened looks on paper. The semi-modular geometric font shapes seek to be fully responsive to the grid of screen«s pixels to deliver a crisp, fluid reading rate. Due to its extensive range of weights and subtle difference in thickness, compensating for the stain of characters between different CSS styles is really easy. It offers an extensive set of Latin characters, even the Cyrillic.