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.

Stout Boots is a bold style serif font with strong character and soft features. Stout Boots is equipped with Swash, Stylistic and Titling alternates as well as with Standard and Discretionary Ligatures And this font Stout Boots is a stylish font that is both retro and bold font. It's thick curves give a groovy vibe with the serifs bringing it slightly back to traditional. Comes with alternatives and ligatures, helps to create stunning logos, quotes, posts, blog posts. branding projects, magazine imagery, wedding invitations, and much more. The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates, and Ligature. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. This font is also support multi language.

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Behooved - Ligature Serif Font. Behooved is equipped with swash, stylistic and titling alternates as well as with standard and discretionary ligatures. Behooved is a ligature serif font with strong character and soft features. Behooved is a stylish serif font that is both retro and great ligature font. It's thick curves give a groovy vibe with the serifs bringing it slightly back to traditional. Comes with alternatives and ligatures, helps to create stunning logos, quotes, posts, blog posts. branding projects, magazine imagery, wedding invitations, and much more. The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates, and Ligature. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. This font is also support multi language.

Firon is a modern Decorative Display font. Bold strokes, fun character with a bit of ligature and alternates. To give you extra creative work. Firon font support multilingual more than 100+ language. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with script or serif. Make stunning work with Firon font. This is all caps font style. Cheers, Maulana Creative

Kartoz is a modern Tech Decorative Display font. Medium stroke, fun character with a bit of ligatures and alternates. To give you an extra creative work. Kartoz font support multilingual more than 100+ language. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, a short text even a long text letter and good for your secondary text font with script or serif. Make a stunning work with Kartoz font. Caps only Fonts. Cheers, Maulana Creative

I've always loved drawing faeries and I love using them in my scrapbooking pages. So after hunting around for a unique decorative fairy font for my crafts I couldn't quite find what I wanted to use, so I decided to create a whimiscal set of fairy drawings and characters that would suffice. I was influenced in the drawing of the fairies by my love of the 3D poser graphics art,several awesome comics, Alphonse Mucha and several Masters of Art. These decorative Fairy dingbats would be great to use in fabric crafts,textiles, embroidery patterns, scrapbooking, greeting cards, Rubber stamps, name titles, Calligraphy, the possiblities I feel are endless when thinking of craft applications.

Nutcase is a perfect example of a font that principally designed itself. I created a hexagonal template (the most economical form in nature by the way) and took out the center to increase the decorative element. I played around with it, creating some pleasing characters at first but it soon became clear it would translate into a complete alphabet, so I set to work applying the idea to both upper and lower cases. It wasn't all straight forward though, avoiding awkward characters and retaining legibility took a little perseverance but it eventually paid off. I thought of this primarily as a decorative display face but having tested it out, found it reads surprisingly well as body copy too.

With its bold and confident strokes, Cooked Mellow is perfect for a variety of applications, from craft projects and farmhouse decor to websites, SVG designs, home decor, branding, blogs, logos, invitations, and more. The combination of uppercase and lowercase letterforms in Cooked Mellow provides versatility and allows you to create visually appealing compositions. The font also includes a wide range of numbers and punctuations, ensuring you have all the necessary elements for your design needs. Cooked Mellow supports multiple languages, making it suitable for projects targeting diverse audiences. Its extensive character set, including ligatures, offers even more creative possibilities to enhance your designs. With PUA Encoding, accessing additional characters and glyphs is a breeze.

Naïve is a serif handwritten font designed by Fanny Coulez and Julien Saurin in Paris. Our goal was to draw a font with finely irregular lines that give a human and whimsical feeling. The three weights of this subtle Parisian hand-drawn font can be enhanced with two alternates fancy glyphs for each letter, the “Fantaisies”, to improve your designs and bring a more poetic and unusual feeling. We hope you will enjoy our work :) You could follow us on our Instagram: instagram.com/sc.type Merci beaucoup! Note: This font is part of our Naïve superfamily that contains lot of variations: Line, Inline, Serif, Sans Serif, and a special Art Deco one. Just click on our foundry name to see them all!

Novante is a luxury display serif, a beautifully smooth and elegant typeface with high contrast of the letterforms that represents glamour and magnificence. Inspired by the luxurious Art Deco and modern minimalist of the design trends. Novante is an All-caps font equipped with lots of stylish ligatures and classy alternates that you can mix and match to get an elegant typographic look. This versatile font can be used for branding, logos, labels, quotes, magazines, cards, or short body text. The fonts features: Uppercase Small-caps Numbers Symbols Punctuations Accents (26 languages) Stylistic alternates Stylistic set 01-04 Discretionary Ligatures I hope you enjoy this elegant font as much as I was excited making it. Ramz. Check out Ranille which is a great pair for Novante.

Sansterdam is a modern condenced grotesque font family. It's great for titles, posters, logos. Condensed font allows to include more information in one line. Sansterdam has special Deco version with circle uppercase letters and oldstyle numbers for more vintage feeling. Also Sansterdam has signature script font with many ligatures and alternates for more unforgettable combinations! Font looks amazing as alone words and as full text blocks. Also it good for bright captions and logos. Language support more than 30 languages: Afrikaans, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmal, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Zulu etc. Download Sansterdam for your next project today! Thank you and have a great day!

Ernest is a handmade typeface with an unique yet strong personality. Say it bold with this font. Punk & Wave styles. Ideal for type based designs.

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century. Suitable for text, a narrow, thin Antique, with flat unbracketed serifs.

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, condensed, bold, flat thick serifs, a very useful design for display.

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, suitable for display, geometric slab serifs unbracketed, short descenders, very condensed.

An antiqued looking Caslon type letter, very retro but works well for many of today's applications. This font also works very well for text settings.

A semi-heavy face slightly condensed, inspired by the Germanic & European type fonts. Applications include captions, packaging, invitations, cards, posters, ads, book jackets, and manuals.

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, suitable for text or display, short ascenders and descenders, serifs triangular.

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, suitable for display, geometric slab serifs unbracketed, short descenders, very condensed.

Amoba is a very thick slab-serif font type. This font has supported supporting languages: Latin Western Europe and also comes with uppercase, lowercase, and ligature, So it gives design without limits

Fairlady is a somewhat chunky script font that is developed from my own handlettered brush letters. My idea was to design a bold cursive script font with a strong 1950's vintage feeling to it. Fairlady is a decorative and quite tightly spaced font with preserved legibility which makes it perfect for vintage cards, labels, posters, logos, packaging and more. It has multilingual support for most European countries.

Decorative font Shaltai was developed by young Russian designer Katya Galuyan. The letters slightly resemble rolling, falling and broken eggs. Egg-shaped appearance of the characters determines the name of the font. Shaltai Boltai is a Russian cousin of English Humpty Dumpty, French Boule Boule and Swedish-Norwegian Lille Trille. The font can be used for advertising and display works, children books and so on. Released by ParaType in 2008.

Angars Runes is a Middle Age style rune typeface. With engraved letterforms and gothic curves, this font is the perfect addition to a medieval project. The font was drawn and created by Måns Grebäck in 2019. Use the symbols plus + period . multiply × colon : for decorative separators. Angars Runes contains all characters you will ever need, as well as numerals and alternate letters. This is a font with multilingual support.

"Blaze Vortex" is an edgy graffiti monoline font that adds a raw and urban touch to your designs. With its captivating swash decorations, this font takes your designs to the next level of awesomeness. Perfect for streetwear brands, music posters, and urban-themed projects, "Blaze Vortex" exudes boldness and excitement. Unleash your creativity and make your designs stand out with this electrifying font. note : key for swash use : ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP

Pastel Palooza - Quirky Easter Display Font, a delightful and playful typeface designed with the joyous spirit of Easter in mind. This fun and decorative font captures the essence of the holiday, making it the perfect choice for Easter-themed projects. Crafted with care, Pastel Palooza features a total of 10 font variations within the typeface, each reflecting the whimsical elements of the season - from eggs and bunnies to flowers and carrots.

Houseplants are commonly grown for decorative purposes, positive psychological effects, keeping fresh or health reasons such as indoor air purification. Actually, just like this font has a positive effect on your artwork! This font comes with a heavy load of diacritics! On top of that, it has contextual alternates, which means your text cycles through 6 different versions of each letter! Hard to tell that this is actually a font!

Spring Market is a farmhouse-style serif font. One of my first-ever releases, it was lovingly hand-drawn and inspired by the countryside of Upstate South Carolina. Spring Market Rustic Farmhouse Serif Font has the perfect amount of rusticity and refinement for your next project. I recommend this font for logos, invitations, and your next home decor project that needs that shabby chic touch! Spring Market features European language support!

MOLE is a Decorative display font. MOLE come with ROUGH & FLOWING style, it will make this typeface can be used in all design projects and works perfectly for pairing with script typeface or handmade fonts, Headlines, Posters, Packaging, Postcards, Invitation, Wedding Sign, Sign Painting, Signboard, and much more. Try MOLE, and let her fun and elegant excitement make you happy and enhance your creativity! You can use this font very easily.

I’m pleased to introduce my decorative font Magic Ivy. Magic Ivy is a fantasy font to add a touch of magic to your designs! Unique uppercase letters are ideal for your wedding monograms and logos. Use this botanical font for wedding invitations, branding, packaging, magazines, florist shops, social media, restaurant menus, greeting cards, headers, poster, fabulous book cover and many more. Magic Ivy comes with uppercase, lowercase, numerals and punctuation.