One menorah that I have long found particularly appealing was named The Tree of Life Menorah, a replica of which I gave as a gift one holiday to a kindly old couple who were neighbors and became friends. It had a simple, organic elegance that I see in the best of Art Nouveau sculpture. To me personally, Judeism is a celebration of life, like the triumph of the flower that blossoms in the crack of the city sidewalk. Just as Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the temple and the miracle of the oil, it celebrates the victorious quest for freedom of the Hebrew people led by Judah Maccabee. Hanukkah represents determination and courage and faith — and it represents the presence of God in the lives of His people. It is interesting to note that the founding of the Albanian nation in the early twentieth century grew out of the resistance of the Albanian people to the imposition of Greek language and culture in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The typeface, HADASSAH, designed by Henri Friedlander (1904-1996), is my favorite Hebrew typeface. Thirty years in the crafting, I believe it is unsurpassed for its shear beauty, combining a subtle modulation of stroke with a simplicity and clarity of form. No doubt, that is why it has become so popular. For me, the Sîyn/Shîyn characters are especially satisfying. For a Hanukkah message in Hebrew, I would choose HADASSAH LIGHT for a headline and print it as large as I could. If, however, you are looking for a friendly, warm face for a seasonal message in a roman-letter based language, may I suggest BETHLEHEM EPHRATH. It will be as comfortable as a bulky, hand-knit sweater on a frosty afternoon and reflects the solid, encompassing, family orientation of this holiday. It was on the way to Ephrath that Jacob’s beloved wife Rachel gave birth to Benjamin and then died from her labor. It was to Ephrath that Naomi and Ruth returned and in Ephrath that we have the wonderful, heart-warming story of the marriage between Ruth and her Redeemer-Kinsman, Boaz. And it was to Ephrath that prophet, Samuel, went to find a new king and there in Ephrath that the prophet annointed a small shepherd boy named David. The Proverbs tell us to seek wisdom. Never underestimate the impact you have on others. Words of kindness can change people’s lives. The Talmud says that the highest form of wisdom is kindness. Be wise this holiday season. The font BETHLEHEM EPHRATH is based on the typeface Accent with the permission of URW++ of Hamburg, Germany. Like most display fonts, it is most effective at 18 points and larger. Like most script fonts, it is most effective when set with both upper and lower case. Although this font is readable in all caps (many scripts are not), that does not make it a good idea. Do so only with caution.

Get in the swing with Metairie. This high-contrast script from Jeremy Dooley sets the rhythm for your next headline or short phrase with its fresh, expressive forms. Metairie’s (sometimes exaggerated) scrawled letterforms play on the colorful world of calligraphy to bring you a fully developed personality of its own. Inspired by elixirs and pharmaceuticals of the 1800s, this design has forms that dig down deep to the soul. It brings a unique, vibrant feel for your next message. The typeface supports all major Latin languages, and the expanded OpenType capabilities let you slide elements easily and quickly into your design. Metairie also includes a number of distressed options. Improv a bit, too, with Metairie’s decorative ornaments, variations on the fleur de lis. Ornaments and tails are accessed through the glyph palette or using the Swash function. An extensive set of ligatures gives you more options for humanizing the handwriting on the page. Then take it up a notch by using the glyph palette to find the perfect solution for project. You have full access to this amazing capability with InDesign, Illustrator, QuarkXpress and similar software. We recommend that you explore what this font can offer by using the glyph palette. Get a glimpse of ​​the font’s strength by looking over the brochure in PDF format in the "Gallery" section. Ready to step in? Take a stab at your next design with Metairie. It could be just the color you need.

Hochland is a modern, condensed font, inspired by street urban style posters. It works well for headlines, logotypes, signs, posters, greeting card, letterhead, t-shirts, watermarks and more.

Selopaty Campble is a beautiful and cool handwritten signature font. Looks amazing on branding, quotes, business cards and other designs. The font includes multiple language support. Happy Designing!

Glamour Shine is a handwritten serif mixed-case/unicase font to give your products that handwritten, spunky feel. It's perfect for greeting cards, fun branding, and crafting files.

A funny childish handwritten font, with a spirit. This typeface can tell fairy tales. Trango is a sans serif that goes well with the slab serif Besley Hand.

Karisa House is a fun display font featuring the perfect amount of trendiness. Whether you’re using it for crafting, digital designing, presentations or greeting cards making, it’s perfect!

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

From a few hand drawn letters seen on a poster from 1939 you may find this font familiar. Miss Scarlett resembles the Gone With The Wind poster lettering.

Completely computer generated, Rockford exudes an energetic, yet quirky handwritten quality. Rockford doesn't follow many typographical rules which make it perfect for casual notes, scrapbooking and greeting cards.

Jh Hikmat is a modern arabic font; it is derived from the Naskh and Ruqaa calligraphy script. It is ideal for kids books, greeting cards and advertising projects.

The hand lettering on a World War I recruitment poster for the French Air Service inspired French Nouveau JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Remnant Sorts JNL is an assortment of twenty-six various images. Pointing hands, price tags, vintage stencil designs and other miscellany comprise the choices gathered in this font.

Rolsting Script is a beautiful and cool handwritten signature font. Looks amazing on branding, quotes, business cards and other designs. The font includes multiple language support. Happy Designing!

Shoebop is a playful, rhythmic brush script with a delightful retro flair. Its joyful presence is ideal for web and print headlines, posters, signage, logos, and greeting cards.

Simple Stamp is the hand-drawn font. It is good for games, cartoons, posters, chidlren's books, and for any other places, where loud and funky headlines are needed.

Kids Activities JNL is based on the hand lettering found on the covers of some 1955 Cub Scouts activity books. It's available in both regular and oblique versions.

Juggler is a medium-line font suitable for work requiring a friendly style. Ideal for packaging, also suitable for special invitations, birthday cards, posters, ads and book jackets.

Arastla Script is a stylish and unique signature font that is easy to remember. It’s great for unique branding, photo overlays, watermarks, business cards, invitations, and much more.

Mondiale is a three-flavor unicase family with a tasty hand drawn feel. It contains uppercase letters and uses the lowercase as variations, providing flexibility for your designs.

Curlz is designed to look like bent, twisted metal. The Curlz font is best used for impudent, carefree titles. Curlz is appropriate for menus, signage and greetings cards.

Macro is a hand-drawn display font available in a regular and a bold version. Both versions come with double upper cases. Prepare to make a monstrous statement!

Richard Miller Rounded started out as just a logo for a website/business card. It is a modular sans that works well in both print and web design.

A sort of latin inspired and hand scribbled font. Comes with ligatures for double letters. You will need to use OpenType supporting applications to use the auto-ligatures.

Balkerious is a modern elegant font. Font with a touch of classy elements. Perfect for logos, headlines, cards, invites, paragraphs, cover photos, web design, lettering, and other designs.

Don’t go for the fonts with all that fancy flare. You want something classy and timeless. A font that tips the hat to the old school hand letterers.

Artsy & Raw is a sweet font family designed to look absolutely hand drawn. It's so imperfect that is perfect for artistic projects. I'm sure you will love it!

A single weight rounded font, similar to the popular Futura font with several new twists. Usage recommendations include captions, packaging, invitations, cards, posters, ads, book jackets, and manuals.

Introducing Cartoon Mood - a cute handwritten font by Elysart This font is perfect for children's books, logos, greeting cards, animation designs, clothes, posters, krafting, stickers, toys, and more!

Kasper was designed by Franco Luin in 1995. It is an informal script typeface and its playful, dynamic characters are perfect for greeting cards and other personal correspondence.

Optimus is a cool and modern display font. This font is ideal for writing web designs, business cards, or pretty much anything else that requires a unique touch.

A generous assortment of cartoons, catch words, ornaments, embellishments and even a pointing hand tourist sign modeled from an actual vintage metal one round out Printers Stuff JNL.

Supermarket was inspired by a particular naïf Brazilian hand-lettering alphabet used in commercial advertising posters (promotions, offers, discount price, etc) used in some supermarkets at Recife, Brazil.

Though there are many thousands of digital typefaces available, none seem to be made exclusively of letters that tessellate, a complete tessellating alphabet. This void is now filled with not one typeface, but a group of typefaces, the Tescellations kinship group. Even though I am aware of only one use for this typeface--writing about tessellations--that does not mean there are not hundreds or perhaps thousands of other uses. These typefaces are a byproduct of two maze books I designed, Puzzling Typography and Puzzling Typography A Sequel. I found the challenge of making mazes from tessellations, including letter tessellations, intriguing and these typefaces are a byproduct that endeavor. There are seven members of this typeface kinship group. I tried to select the the glyphs that fit together best to form Tescellations; it is the most readable of the lot. The reason for an Italics version is that I needed one for the maze project. In constructing it, I tried to include as many different lower-case glyphs as I could rather than just skew the regular version. A purist might insist that the tessellation deal with the counters. My approach was to worry only about the exterior of any letter that has an interior, but for anyone who who might object to the counters, versions with filled counters are included. What did not fit into Tescellations was dumped into Tescellations Two, which is somewhat of a ransom-note type of face. It comes in two styles, a regular version and a version in which the counters are removed. TescellationPatterns shows how many of the characters in these typefaces tessellate. It has over 100 tessellation patterns, each on only one character. Simply type several lines with any character and make sure the leading is the same as the font size, and you have an instant tessellation pattern of a letter.

Pilar and Ferran based Arlette on the fast stroke of one letter from a Roger Excoffon family, but along the way they abandoned that starting point in favour of experimentation. Many sans serifs are like a svelte black dress: functional, beautiful, and the unfussy outfit for a nice evening get together. The Arlette family isn’t like this. It’s a stunner — an incandescent reimagining of what defines a sans and how it can look. Arlette explores the boundaries of the sans serif landscape and returns with forms developed from gestural vigour. Thinking of it as “painterly” may at first seem to fit, but it underestimates Arlette’s ability to master an unseen world of countless emotions and physical applications: magazines, branding, editorial, teen and young adult works, book covers, and a host of products and packaging whose content will be amplified with Arlette’s voice. Not only does Arlette use its eight weights plus italics to speak in Latin-based scripts, it is also fluent in Thai and has six weights (hairline through bold) with which it meets that challenge, whether in text or display. Arlette Thai’s modern nature is seen in two features for the script. One is the decorative Thai characters that are based on original palm leaf manuscripts. Another is a version of the Latin numerals adapted to the height of the script due to their wide use in Thailand. Arlette Thai has been meticulously developed, including contextual kerning to avoid mark clashes. Arlette’s OpenType capabilities include mathematic and scientific figures, positional forms, pointers, arrows, and oldstyle, lining, and tabular lining numerals. In addition to all this, it’s packed with swashes and swash ligatures in both scripts for enthusiastic typesetting. Because it pushes experimentation without compromising readability, both Arlette Thai and Latin are surprisingly legible in small sizes and arrestingly beautiful when their details can be seen.

Picture this: you’re sitting in the Korova Milk Bar, sipping on a glass of the old moloko plus, and suddenly, you’re hit with the realization that your designs are missing something. That something, my dear malchiks and devotchkas, is this typeface. Its unconventional style will make your work stand out from the rest and leave your audience in awe. It’s not just about making your designs look pretty, though. It’s about making a statement, about challenging the norm. This font is all about breaking the rules, just like Alex and his droogs did in the streets of London. So, my fellow dim-witted bratchnies, don’t miss out on the opportunity to add a touch of surreal eccentricity to your work. Get this Clockwork Orange-inspired typeface today, and let your designs become a symbol of rebellion and creativity. Most Latin-based European writing systems are supported, including the following languages. Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aromanian, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean, Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Dholuo, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kurdish (Latin), Latvian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Māori, Moldovan, Montenegrin, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Norwegian, Novial, Occitan, Ossetian (Latin), Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Sami, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Võro, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Wayuu, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Zapotec Zulu and Zuni.

Pi fonts which had been used for the time tables of the Deutsche Bahn

Symbah is fun, a carefree hand drawn typeface with a child-like spirit. Made with a brush and ink, and then converted into a digital format for you to enjoy. The design is fresh, organic and produced purely by hand and brush, a technique not replicated by digital methods alone. Symbah is full of personality and is ideal for projects that need creativity with an imaginative, and unique feel. Details include manual edited kerning and spacing, ligatures and case-sensitive punctuation.