Belle Amour – Modern Calligraphy is an handwritten script font based on the expression of real handwriting. Cattus – Modern Casual Script will work perfectly for fashion, e-commerce brands, trend blogs, wedding boutiques or any business that wants to appear upscale and chic.

Jositary is and elegant and fashionable handwriting font, which looks like a signature. This font is intentionally made with unique alternates. Jositary suits perfectly for branding, posters, invitations, greeting cards, news, product packaging, blog posters, logos, business cards, all including personal charms etc.

The 1895 specimen book from Barnhart Brothers and Spindler featured this whimsical typeface, originally called Anglo. An unusual combination of elegance and quirky charm. Both versions of this font support the Latin 1252, Central European 1250, Turkish 1254 and Baltic 1257 codepages.

FlyHigh is a decorative text face with slab serifs. It comes in eight styles: plain, semibold, bold, extrabold, italic, semibold italic, bold italic, and extrabold italic. Its low x-height makes it more appropriate for uses such as invitations than for book text.

Fattty is a chunky fun font with plenty of wobbly bits. It's perfect for bold brands and funky projects. It's friendly curves are a great fit in kids books or on chubby posters. But remember, say it loud I'm fat and I'm proud!

Hi there, introducing an abstract font named Dash Grid. At's a geometric display typeface made of square dashed blocks. Dash Grid font supports most of the european latin languages and includes ukrainian cyrillic alphabet (check out all available characters on the last screenshot).

Hello guys... We proud presenting our new font. It's name THREEFONTE. THREEFONTE is cute and unique stacked font. THREEFONTE would perfect for kids poster, t shirt, flyer, cover children book, cartoon, comic , cristmast invitation, greting card, valentine card, new year party and etc.

Foda Naskh is a modern naskh typeface that Combines the originality and modernity, which shows the letters beauty and the ease of reading. Foda Naskh is typical for books, the writing of newspapers, headlines, magazines, poetry, long and short text paragraphs and more..

The Catthy Wellingten is a modern script font. It has a playful and feminine look, which is great for wedding invitations and anniversaries, blogs and logos. Catthy Wellingten is a handwritten font, described by an elegant touch, perfect for your favorite projects.

"Monster Blood" is a unique horror font with a blood-like melt in every letter. This font is perfect for Halloween moments, movie titles, logos, book covers, horror stories and more. "Monster Blood" comes with lowercase, uppercase, multilingual support, numerals, and punctuations.

Sugar Sand is a handwritten sans serif font. A new fresh handmade font with rough edges. This font is support multi language. It will be perfect for many different project ex: quotes, logo, blog header, poster, branding, fashion, apparel, letter, invitation, stationery, etc….

Annalena Script is a romantic typefaces. bold, elegant & fun vintage script font. Can be used for various purposes.such as logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, news, posters, badges etc. Features 423+ glyphs and 160 alternate characters, ligatures, swash and multiple language support. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. There are additional ways to access alternates/swashes, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac).

Elegantly&Modest a work that is purely a result of handwriting, has a natural characteristic. this is perfect for invitations, signatures, blogs, social media, business cards, product brands. elegantly has two sets of letters, namely Stylistic standard and Stylistic Alternate. and includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and punctuation marks, also equipped with 42 ligature. OpenType features can be accessed by using OpenType smart programs such as Adobe Photo Shop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Corel Draw and Microsoft Office. can also be accessed through the character map. special greetings for all, all of us all smoothly in running the routine

Dayna Silva - Elegant Script Font is a modern handwritten script font with a lovely touch. Dayna Silva Font will work perfectly for fashion, e-commerce brands, trend blogs, wedding boutiques, or any business that wants to appear upscale and chic. Dayna Silva Font multilingual support: Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Zulu, and many more. What’s Included : Standard & Multilingual glyphs Ligature Works on PC & Mac Simple installations Accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and even work on Microsoft Word. Hope you enjoy our font!

Raqillas, its modern rough brush with original dry brush imperfections, and highly bouncy base line, is crafted to be simple and straightforward but unobtrusive, Ideal for logos, handwritten quotes, product packaging, headers, posters, apparel, merchandise, social media & greeting cards. Basic Latin A-Z and A-z Symbol Numerals PUA Encode Multilingual Support You need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. There are additional ways to access alternatives, using the Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac).

GRINDS! A handwritten display brush font, all caps. GRINDS font is suitable for branding, logotype, apparel, T-shirt, Hoodie, product packaging, quotes, flyer, poster, book cover, advertising, etc. Whats Include? Opentype support Multilingual support PUA encoded Features: All uppercase, numerals, punctuations, and ligatures Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator Glyphs panel, or under Stylistic Alternates in the Adobe Photoshop OpenType menu, Adobe InDesign, Corel Draw, even work on Microsoft Word Please message me if you're unsure of any language support. Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoy it! Please don't hesitate to drop me a message if you have any issues or queries.

Fillmade Signature is a handwritten signature typeface coming with more than 389 stylistic ligatures. Its classy energetic look makes it the perfect fit for feminine logos, printed quotes, invitation cards, social media headers, product packaging and a lot more! Files Include : Fillmade Signature.otf Multilanguage Support To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. There are additional ways to access alternates, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac).

The original Swift (1985) proved its worth in corporate identities, magazines and newspapers and occasionally in books. It is a versatile type and can be used in a wide range of circumstances. It is a striking type, with large serifs, large counters and letters that produce a particularly strong horizontal impression. This means that words and lines in Neue Swift are easily distinguished, even where there are large spaces between words, as can occur in newsprint. Neue Swift's large, robust counters were designed to improve legibility particularly in newspapers. It was designed in the early eighties, when papers were less well printed than they are today, and its special features help it survive on grey, rough paper printed on fast rotary presses. Today it is used more often outside newspapers than in them. Neue Swift (2009) is the newest version of the Swift concept. It has been improved by technical and aesthetic enhancements, and has been expanded into a family of twelve variants. Featured in: Best Fonts for Logos, Best Fonts for Websites, Best Fonts for PowerPoints

Gessetto is an extensive chalk font family, containing script, sans, roman, figures and ornaments. One of the things most charming about chalkboard lettering is the variation; in both texture and style. Our goal was to achieve a real chalk effect using the varied typographic genres in a digital format. With flexibility and control for the designer in mind, we built a digital chalk toolkit. The script is a fusion of Italic Roman and cursive, it contains swashy alternates for each capital letters with some long and extended flair on some ascendent and descendent letters. An all caps high contrast sans is in 5 complimentary styles. The Roman is precisely proportioned and maintains elegance while being bold. There is a set of Figures and ornaments. Gessetto is perfect to grab attention on signage, print advertising and editorial applications like book covers, but suits branding applications too. The diverse styles and subtle handcrafted textures in this display type family will well serve any designer looking for the authentic chalkboard aesthetic. We recommend to combine Timberline with: Turquoise

Metrisch is new sans serif typefamily of seven weights plus seven italics uprights in each weights. The typefaces designed based on traditional geometric construction that have been built with letter size wider, the x-heights taller and short descender that almost proportioned with the basic letter shape. With little details added like clean vertical cuts on the terminals and optimized sharp corners that makes this fonts smooth and refined looks. It was represents the flavor of the most common humanist typefaces style and grotesk feels. The weights comes from extra light to extra bold suitable to make display appearance, and the book and medium weights also works well as small/medium text sizes to accompany your design, such as editorial fashion magazine, solid headline, websites heading, poster, advertising, logo, signage, etc Also, Metrisch type-family fully loaded with OpenType features such as some stylistic alternates, case-sensitive forms, fractions, small capitals,and another most common numerals features such as super & subscript, tabular & oldstyle figures, numerator-denominator, and has more extended latin diacritics characters.

The Heinemann fonts were initially developed by the in-house design team at Heinemann educational publishing out of the necessity to find the perfect font for use in early primary reading books and literacy products. Basic Heinemann is defined by longer ascenders and descenders which help children to distinguish between letters; rounded edges on all letterforms help focus the reader on the individual letter shape; and modified characters (eg. a, g,) ensure instant recognition of letterforms. Heinemann Special offers further modified characters and kerning pairs ideal for dyslexic or special needs use (eg a, d, b). The Heinemann fonts were developed in partnership with children, literacy advisors, teachers of special needs/dyslexia and primary school teachers, and are now released in response to hundreds of requests from publishers, designers and teachers to purchase them. They have been trialled in schools and learning institutions over an 8 year period, and are a favorite for use in both print and electronic product. The modern, clean aesthetic of the fonts ensures that their use can span beyond educational application.

Amour is a calligraphy script font that comes with beautiful alternate characters. copper plate mix calligraphy with handlettering style. Designed to convey stylish elegance. Amour Script is attractive as a typeface that is smooth, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read. Classic style is very suitable to be applied to all types of formal items such as invitations, labels, menus, logos, fashion, make up, stationery, letterpress, romantic novels, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, labels, and others. . Amour Script features 1550+ glyphs and 1320 alternate characters. including multiple language support. It features OpenType with style alternatives, character binding and strokes, which allows you to mix and match letter pairs to match your designs, as well as a touch of ornament to make this font look elegant. • New Updated • Amour Script! Amour has now been updated to include 4 styles; bold/bold italic version, regular & italic version. This gives you the option to completely change your font style with the click of a mouse, whether you're looking for a smoother style, a bold version, or an italic finish.

Fast Rewind: A Timeless Handwritten Script Font A handwritten brush script with a versatile, relaxed and nostalgic feel. This illustrative brush script owes its inspiration to the 1950s art direction typical of mainstream magazines and book covers. A relaxed hand-lettered title was often paired with illustrations of handsome couples or escapist scenes, encouraging readers to settle into the latest gripping story from authors such as Ray Bradbury, Donald Westlake or Arthur Miller. Fast Rewind aims to repurpose this vintage look for contemporary designers with two handwritten fonts, drawn in ink and brush, and then digitally mastered to maintain those all-important human imperfections. Included are the Regular and Alternative designs, with a complete set of uppercase and lowercase characters, along with numbers, symbols and language support. Also included are a variety of underlines and illustrations as seen in these visuals. Each style also comes with its own selection of extra glyphs to helps you achieve the perfect flow between characters and avoid tell-tale repetition. Thanks to all the great photographers who provided images for these visuals.

A new happy handwritten sans serif font has arrived! Little Boxes has been designed with felt pen on smooth paper to create the illusion of human craft and then digitalized. Three different fonts Regular, slanted and dance. Optimized shapes to obtain the best readability without loosing the analogical feeling of the original designing tool, makes this font perfect both for printing and digital environments and it allows the use of the font on any project with different media supports. This fresh font family is ready for text, but check your opentype features window while using the font and discover a beautiful set of alternate letters. Create catchy words and add more fun to any layout, which makes it a perfect match for titles and display too. A friendly typeface to give a whimsical touch to your projects. We highly recommend using Little Boxes for App, web, ePub, digital Ads, Video games, and a great fitting for printing; headlines, posters, DIY hand-lettered artwork, books, holiday cards, invitations, T-shirts, labels, packaging, artisanal goods, etc.

Mareka, our newest font, is now released. Beautiful, tidy, and elegant font with a distinctive shape. If you employ this typeface, your once-good project will become something truly unique. This typeface is appropriate since the shape of each letter may be used in a variety of ways, including serious, relaxed, and natural. Because everyone does not necessarily understand Japanese letters, we supply fonts with letters that can be utilized for your project. We produced this display font with a Japanese theme or an Asian font, which we designed to fulfill the needs of your Japanese-themed project. Of sure, your initiative will be understood by people all around the world. Logotypes, food banners, branding, brochure, posters, movie titles, book titles, quotes, and more may all benefit from this font. Of course, using this font in your various design projects will make them excellent and outstanding; many viewers are drawn to the striking and unusual graphic display. Start utilizing this typeface in your projects to make them stand out.

Turn the page to the future and leave all the past behind. It’s a new age and you will move the cogs of the world forward! There is no need to worry or fear, the Claston Script will pave the way for you. With its clean script-type design and curved indentations, this font will take your projects to the next level! Move forward with elegance and bring your audiences to where your vision is: the future. It might take some time to get them there, but that’s okay! You have the perspective, the frame of mind, and most importantly the attitude to wrap it all together into a neat project! The Claston Script aims to bring out a modern and stylish view to what you make. It fits right in with your designs, whatever it is! It’s beautiful without trying too hard, it’s gorgeous without being apologetic, it’s brave in the face of uncertainty, these all represent you. Easily connect with your urban and forward thinking audience with this script and blow their minds!

The Stempel family consists of two fonts; each made to look like a set of block stamps. Each letter appears inside its own roughly drawn square. Stempel One's letters are very simple form/counterform objects. Stempel Two's forms are more ornate: each square stamp has a thin border inside of it, and then the individual letterforms have been knocked-out, so that the colored area depicts the counters around the letters rather than the letters themselves. As a line of text is typed, a box appears for each letter entered, and all of the boxes slightly nudge against each other to form the line. The Stempel fonts have the appearance of a hand-made quality to them. Their forms appear too random, too delicate, and too thought out to have been made on a machine. Using these fonts will add a nice warm, linoleum-cut touch to your work. Both Stempel One and Stempel Two were designed by German designer Martina Balke in 2002, and are part of the Take Type 5 collection from Linotype GmbH."

The Heinemann fonts were initially developed by the in-house design team at Heinemann educational publishing out of the necessity to find the perfect font for use in early primary reading books and literacy products. Basic Heinemann is defined by longer ascenders and descenders, which help children to distinguish between letters; rounded edges on all letterforms, which help the reader focus on the individual letter shape; and modified characters (eg., a and g), which ensure instant recognition of letterforms. Heinemann Special offers further modified characters and kerning pairs ideal for dyslexic or special-needs use (eg., a, d, and b). The Heinemann fonts were developed in partnership with children, literacy advisors, teachers of special needs/dyslexia, and primary-school teachers and are now available in response to hundreds of requests from publishers, designers, and teachers to purchase them. They have been tested in schools and learning institutions over an 8-year period, and they are a favorite for use in both print and electronic products. The modern, clean aesthetic of the fonts ensures that their use can spread beyond educational applications.

Introducing Brushbress, a handwritten font with a dry brush texture with rough details. The Brushbress has been designed to suit a variety of projects with a complete set of alternative characters to completely change the look of your designs. You can use it for business branding, Instagram quotes, blog headers, fashion apparel, sports communities, film, photography, hobbies and much more ... Please note that Brushbress includes standard letters of several ligatures including lines to sweeten the look. The brushbress includes: Brushbress a brush font with upper and lowercase characters, numbers, and punctuation. How to use Brushbress lines in your ligatures, simply type underscore undersecor a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i, find the line that fits your character Multilingual support Brushbress supports multilingual characters for languages Brushbress is compatible with any software that can read standard fonts, although substitutes and binders require Opentype-enabled software. Most of the programs are now compatible with Opentype features. Any question? Feel free to contact me, I'll be happy to help you :)

Morro is based on simple geometric shapes – circles, triangles and rectangles. Imagine cutting circles, triangels and rectangles from paper and arranging them into letters where the outer edges form a filled figure. Arranging figures like this to form letters is nothing unique. You can find several beautiful examples of alphabets that inspired the creation of Morro. Everywhere from a 1936 booklet by Draughtsman called ”Modern lettering for all branches of commercial arts” to obvious examples is from the paragon of the design industry - Milton Glaser - with his typeface Baby Teeth. What sets Morro apart from other digitized versions of Glasers' ”Baby teeth”, or other similar designed fonts, is that Morro is expanded into lower case and also supports Basic latin, Western European, Central European, south Eastern European and Pinyin. There are also stylistic alternatives to some of the glyphs. Morro Regular works like a stencil and is accompanied by a block shadow style and an outline. The Morro family of fonts are layered and can be superimposed on each other to create several types of text effects.

Kardinal is a sans serif humanistic type family. The family has 16 weights, ranging from Thin to Black with extra drawn italics and small caps versions. The Kardinal type family is ideally suites for small text, books and magazines, branding, posters, as well as web and screen design, headlines and more. Kardinal comes in 16 styles with extended language support. All weights contain standard ligatures, proportional figures, tabular figures, old style figure, numerals and arrows, matching currency symbols and fraction. The construction of characters combines clean grotesque style and calligraphic features with humanist fragrance. Out standing for the designs are the small serifs. They are giving the letters movement and freshness, as well as contribute to a better readability in different volume texts and including lots of details that give it a unique personality. The Regular and Medium weights are perfect for body text while the italic give an interesting texture to the text. The range of styles give a good flexibility to this family. The fonts are carefully hinted and perfect for digital use.

Rialto dF is a book face inspired by calligraphic tradition. Named after the famous bridge in Venice, it was conceived as a bridge between calligraphy and typography, roman and italic. It can also be thought of as an imaginary bridge between Italy and Austria, since it is the result of collaboration started in 1995 between the Austrian Lui Karner and Venetian Giovanni de Faccio. The letterforms of Rialto dF were drawn directly in digital format with a starting point deriving from humanistic letterforms memorized in the hearts, minds and the manual ability of its designers… As tradition demands, uppercase, numerals and punctuation are used in combination with italics – the same solution adopted by Francesco Griffo when he cut his first italic for the Virgil, the first of the octavo series printed and published in Venice by Aldus Manutius in 1501. Rialto dF comes in two optical weights: Piccolo, for up to 14 pt, and Grande for 16pt and above. Alternate characters and various dingbats are also provided and these are available through OpenType features developed by type designer and technician Karsten Luecke.

Hillstone is a handwritten font with a rough texture, the process of making letters with scratched with strong and fast stroke on paper to make the rough texture that characterizes of Hillstone, so this is a font with a rough and dry brush style. We repaired the letters computerically and if they didn't unite well and we made several alternate glyph. There is no problem for long or short text, so this font can be used in various designs widely. you can use this font for instagram, quotes and other long text, this font is also unique for one word text or short typing, that you can use for product brands, company logos, books and magazine covers, everytype will look very typical. use ligatures and alternatives to your taste.38. Anything made with this font will definitely be wrapped in a very contemporary style and elegance. We make several priview images as a guide for designing directions, please check them all Best regard and thank you very much.. 38.lineart studio

South Rose is modern sweet Calligraphy South Rose is such the perfect typeface for any kind of your project, such as advertisements, branding, graphic design, quotes, wedding design, logo for online or offline business, photography, and others. Make your business more beautiful! Note : this helps you to use all of our font functions To get Special Characters like Our Preview Image · Adobe Photoshop go to Window - glyphs · Adobe Illustrator go to Type - glyphs You can get special characters by access Character Map for Windows user, and Font Book for MAC user. Download tutorial below : How to Access special characters, You can Download the link for Support you http://www.mediafire.com/file/o3sml68hxp6h6yd/Access_Spesial_Characters.pdf/file This is information and tutorial how to use ligatures in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word (Windows and Mac). And Enable alternates characters in other apps. Download the guide here : http://www.mediafire.com/file/edm9sjjwx9g1vi2/How_to_Active_Ligature.pdf/file if you get a trouble on our font kerning : http://www.mediafire.com/file/9e0q5sjzx97e06m/how_to_slove_trouble_kerning.pdf/file Includes · Beginning and Ending Characters · Ligatures · Numbers + punctuation · International Languange

One of the most remarkable characteristic of this humanistic sans serif is its versatility. Ronnia’s personality performs admirably in headlines, but is diffident enough for continuous text and small text alike. The heavier weights deliver very cohesive shapes, and they have been successfully used for branding and newspaper headlines. Its ten styles grant the designer a broad range of coherent color and texture variations in text blocks, necessary tools to solve complex information and editorial design problems. Ronnia has been mainly engineered for newspaper and magazine applications manifested in its properties: economic in use, highly legible, and approaching the reader with some friendliness and charm. Ronnia features about 800 characters per weight, including small caps, fractions, old style and lining numbers, scientific superior/inferior figures, and a set of symbols and arrows. It supports over 40 languages that use the Latin extended alphabet. Ronnia Basic is a reduced version of Ronnia. It is still an OT-font but without any particular features except of a set of ligatures, class-kerning and language support including CE and Baltic.

Vocal is a sans serif type family designed by Ani Dimitrova. The family has 28 weights, ranging from Hairline to Heavy with matching Italics and Small Caps. In addition, you get a nice alternate version of the Heavy weight with extra thin accents. Which is a pure joy for setting titles. Vocal comes with extended coverage of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic Script. The Regular and Medium weights are perfect for body text while the extra drawn Italic gives an interesting texture to the text. The stems are a little tapered to the middle and the corners are cutted, which makes them a little rounded in small sizes. That gives the font an organic, warm and friendly touch. Vocal is equipped for complex, professional typography with Open Type Features including — small caps, localized forms, standard ligatures, subscripts, superscripts, numerators, denominators, numbers in circles arrows, currency symbols and fractions. The fonts are carefully hinted and its wide proportions make them a perfect choice for screen usage. Vocal suits also ideal for book and editorial design.

Adamant Sans on Behance. Adamant Sans: Specimen Manual PDF. Adamant Sans is a contemporary and very functional typeface. It stands out from the crowd with its uniquely designed rounded corners and beautiful italics. This carefully designed family consists of 18 fonts, including true italics. Its extreme weights, such as hairline and black are ideal for setting big and powerful headlines, while intermediate weights work very well in long texts at small point sizes. Weights are finely balanced so that they can be easily combined, depending on the type of paper and other conditions. Thanks to its proportions, high x-height and wide apertures, this typeface is very legible and suitable for setting books, magazines, newspapers, but is also valuable for use in large sizes, as well as for complex corporate projects. It supports advanced typographic features such as small caps, lining and oldstyle figures in proportional and tabular widths, fractions, ligatures, etc., and provides simultaneous support for Latin and Cyrillic as well as kerning for these languages. Adamant Sans is the ideal companion of the Adamant serif version.

A modern and elegant look of a sans serif tagline. This font comes with nine levels of thickness, from light to black, according to your needs. It pairs well with san serif and modern script as pictured or stands alone as a representative header and brand for an elegant look. Olarwe is equipped with a professional modern character font that can present an elegant and attractive identity for your company for business use, such as business cards, name tags, and uniforms as brand elevation. This modern Olarwe typeface is suitable for embossing as letter nameplates or even sprinkling them in your office with elegant-looking cutting stickers. This elegant Olarwe-type shape also looks excellent for book covers or magazine articles. You can see all the available characters in the screenshot above, and you can try the modern & elegant Olarwe now for any design issues. Olarwe is also multilingual, making it easy to work with for any country and language use. It also comes with Ligatures and alternative stylistics to make your designs more attractive.

A little more flower and a little less power, please. Fun, friendly, fashionable, and feminine to a fault, Jojo takes display typography to a whole new level, where eyes can’t help but appreciate the day and the design at hand. It takes a graphic designer very little imagination to see these letters on posters, book covers, clothes, and craft paraphernalia. Or how about a sign over a bakery? A music sleeve? A romantic comedy titling? Cosmetics products? Pretty much anywhere! Jojo takes its name from a Beatles song about getting back to where we once belonged. It also takes most of its shapes from vintage photo-setting days, when an art nouveau typeface called Spring, by B. Jacquet, was putting happy times back where they belonged, which was everywhere. The original photo-setting face came in just 26 letters and 10 numerals. This digital retooling optimizes the original forms and expands on them, for a full character set of over 430 glyphs, including ligatures and stylistic alternates, and support for the majority of Latin languages.

Iridium™ was designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1972 for Linotype. It is in the modern" style like Bodoni or Didot, in that it has the sparkle created by a high thick/thin contrast and a symmetrical distribution of weight. But the sometimes harsh and rigid texture of the modern style is tempered by Frutiger's graceful interpretation. Iridium itself is a very hard, brittle and strong metal; yet the Latin and Greek roots of the word mean rainbow, or iridescence. And indeed, this font is infused with a more lustrous and complex spirit than the average rather stark modern typeface - note the stems that gently taper from waist to serif, the nicely curved ovals of the round characters, and the slight bracketing of the serifs. Iridium was originally designed for phototypesetting, and Frutiger himself cut the final master photo-mask films by hand. This digital version has all the craftsmanship of that original and includes the roman, a true italic, and the bold weight. Iridium works particularly well for book and magazine text and headlines."