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  1. Ambrosine by Hanoded, $15.00
    Ambrosine is a female name, which comes from the Greek. It means ‘immortal’. This handmade didone-ish font may not be immortal, but it is quite divine in appearance. Comes in regular and italic styles.
  2. The Cats Whiskers by Hanoded, $15.00
    Ok. Another font with cats in it. I asked my son, Sam (age 4), to draw some cats and I have to say: I'm very proud of what he created. The tiger I asked him for became a spinosaurus mom with her baby and I also got some happy hearts thrown in for good measure. The Cat's Whiskers is a very legible hand made font. Nice and loose, not too messy and with just a hint of childishness. Comes with a litter of diacritics. Oh… and a big thank you to Jakob from pizzadude.dk for suggesting I should post more pics of cats on FB - which eventually led to the name of this font.
  3. PF Stamps Pro by Parachute, $79.00
    PF Stamps covers a wide range of applications which require the stamp effect. This is a form of lettering which was very popular in the mid-twentieth century for product labeling. Special machinery was developed by mainly two companies, one in the United States and the other in Germany. This machinery produced paper die cuts which were later used as a base for the marking with a paintbrush. PF Stamps Paint was developed to simulate this type of lettering. Two other styles, Metal and Flex, have been very popular since its original release. The first one was developed from a metallic stamp imprint, whereas the second one with its slight 3-D look simulates letters stamped on plastic. To insure realistic results, uppercase letters are different from lowercase. This is very useful when two similar letters sit next to each other. There 3 more styles: Solid (the stencil in its regular clean form), Rough and the very interesting Blur. The all new “Pro” version comes to complete this series with what was missing: 93 matching frames and frames parts which will satisfy the most demanding designer. This is a bonus font which is available only with the purchase of the whole family. Use these frames “as is” at any size, or connect the frame parts to each other to create longer frames. Finally, this series supports more than hundred languages which are based on the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic scripts.
  4. Palma by FaceType, $10.00
    Handwriting fonts have a great disadvantage when it comes to double letters: they look fake. With Palma come loads of ligatures for double letters to make your design look authentic (as shown on the image above).
  5. Victory Script by CozyFonts, $25.00
    Victory Script is the sixth font family created by American Graphic Designer Tom Nikosey. Tom specializes in Lettering, Typographic Design, Illustration for Branding and Trademarks. CozyFonts Foundry is Tom's intro into the world of font design. Aladdin Family is the first font, Skratchbook Family is the second & Noodlerz Family is the third, Toms Finger Family is the fourth, Posterface Family is the fifth & Introducing Victory Script Family as the sixth with 2 fonts: Victory Script & Victory Script Aged. Please visit www.TomNikosey.com or Google Tom Nikosey for more info on his illustrious career. CozyFonts is Tom's intro into the world of font design.
  6. Ming Gothic JJCR - Personal use only
  7. Satsuma by Hanoded, $20.00
    Satsuma. It used to be only a Japanese orange, but now it's a typeface as well. A rather unusual typeface. Satsuma is rough around the edges, squarish and playful. It is handmade and comes with over 400 interlocking ligatures. If that ain't fun, I don't know what is! Of course, Satsuma comes with extensive language support AND accented ligatures! Due to the complexity of this font, it only comes as TTF.
  8. Cerulean Blue by Hanoded, $15.00
    Cerulean comes from the Latin word caeruleus, meaning dark blue. I have always liked this color, so I decided to name a font after it. Cerulean Blue is a handmade brush font family, consisting of a nice handwritten font and a caps font. Both fonts come with their Italics. Cerulean Blue can be used for just about any design, but product packaging and book covers come to mind.
  9. Sign Stickers JNL by Jeff Levine, $29.00
    In the early 1960s, the Duro Decal Company of Chicago, Illinois added to its line of water-applied decal lettering a retail sign cabinet of die-cut, pressure sensitive vinyl letters and numbers. Four of the six sizes offered for sale were cut from white plastic with a black outline and a secondary gold inline for a tri-color effect. Sign Stickers JNL emulates as closely as possible the look of these nostalgic pieces, complete with the slight shifts in line weight due to hand-cut silk screens and the printing process. For those of you who prefer to make your own multi-colored letters, a three piece fill font set is available for the low price of a single font purchase. Combine the backfill, midfill and frontfill layers for a truly retro look!
  10. Hatolie by Gilar Studio, $16.00
    Introducing New Font : Hatolie - Elegant And Luxuries Typeface Hatolie - Elegant And Luxuries Typeface will work perfectly for fashion, e-commerce brands, trend blogs, wedding boutiques or any business that wants to appear upscale and chic. Hatolie - Elegant And Luxuries Typeface also Suitable for Logo, greeting cards, quotes, posters, branding, name card, stationary, design title, blog header, art quote, typography, art, modern envelope lettering or book design, happening style like handdrawn design or watercolor design theme, craft design, any DIY project, book title, or any purpose to make your art/design project look pretty and trendy. Features : Uppercase & Lowercase Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) Accents/Multilingual characters PUA Encoded Check my other Font here : https://gilarstudio.com/ Give it a try! You will surely love it! Thanks and have a wonderful day, Gilar :)
  11. Arkeo BT by Bitstream, $50.99
    Arkeo BT is designer Brian Sooy's first typeface family published by Bitstream. Given very few design elements to work with, Brian has designed a bitmap font that is unique and very readable. There are three widths, Condensed, Regular and Extended. In our opinion, pixels never looked so good. Arkeo performs equally well on screen and as on paper. The OpenType versions include an extended character set featuring oldstyle figures, fractions and additional f-ligatures. Design was begun in late 2001 and completed in 2002. Sooy asked Bitstream to critique, which we did gladly. We also added additional characters for OpenType. This included alternate figure set, an extended set of fractions and additional f-ligatures. Sooy used preliminary versions for setting parts of the TypeCon 2002 material and website.
  12. The Coventysh by DLetters Studio, $30.00
    The Coventysh is a beautiful and Elegant Mono-Line Script Font, Available 2 weight styles are perfect for Logo Design, Branding, Clothing Design, Signage, Poster, Wedding Invitations and so much more! My goal for this font was to create an easy-to-read Monoline Font Script that serves a variety of purposes. The Coventysh, It has a handcrafted feel and natural touch then tidied up to create a consistent character set. It is perfect for your creative projects. What’s Included : S-Alt, SS01, SS02, SS03, Ligature 2 Weight Style (Regular and Light) Works on Win, Mac Simple installations Accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even work on Microsoft Word. PUA Encoded Characters Fully accessible without additional design software. Hope you enjoy with The Coventysh font! Contact me if you have questions
  13. Hyper Brush by Bisou, $9.00
    Hyperartism is an artistic movement born in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland) which advocates free and uninhibited creation, in all forms, for everyone. HyperBrush was originally created for the new collective's logo and is the perfect cross between the corrosive spirit, the assumed nonchalance and the natural class of Hyperartists' works. HyperBrush is the ideal font for anyone who wants to add a touch of fantasy to a soft design, or a bit of seriousness to a completely crazy project. Its quirky, edgy and clean look is just as suitable for a festival poster as it is for a DIY shop sign, for the title of a trashy short movie or else for a toilet door sign in a hipster lounge bar. With HyperBrush, it's easy to put more hyper into any project!
  14. Hello Fresh by Resistenza, $29.00
    Fresh is best! Say hello to this playful and bouncing font designed by Resistenza. This all-caps have been specially created to add a lively mood to your graphics. You’ll be able to create catchy quotes combining these all-caps fonts or you can use them individually. Including 2 sets of letters on each font (uppercase & lowercase), so you can choose an alternate for each glyph just using your keyboard or the opentype glyphs panel on Indesign, illustrator and other apps with opentype features. Have fun with this friendly font family and give a whimsical touch to your projects. Perfect to create headlines, posters, DIY hand-lettered artwork, books, holiday cards, wrapping paper, invitations, T-shirts, labels, packaging, fashion supplies, food products, artisanal goods, and an endless array of options.
  15. Girl Script by Scholtz Fonts, $10.00
    Based on the popular Girltalk font, cute, cheeky Girlscript, was specially designed for the young-teen market. I felt that it was time for Girltalk to have a "big sister" script font to complete the group. Pretty & feminine, with a large dose of cheek, Girlscript is great for: -- “girl style” stationery -- diary covers -- clothing hang-tags -- party invitations -- greeting cards -- book covers -- movie posters -- CD covers -- game advertising media Girlscript is perfect for hen parties, baby showers, pamper parties and other occasions that bring out the “girl in” women. Think sugar 'n spice, think cute 'n cheeky, add a dash of Girlscript and you're on a winning streak! Girlscript is fully professional, carefully letterspaced and kerned. All upper and lower case characters, punctuation, numerals and accented characters are present.
  16. Aromatic Ginger by Java Pep, $15.00
    Introducing an elegant calligraphy font called Aromatic Ginger. This fonts inspired by dip pen calligraphy that every letter made many stylistic alternates like swash, tail and etc. The Aromatic Ginger font is perfect for greeting card, wedding invitation, logotype, personal branding, signature and many more. What's the feature - Uppercase and lowercase - numeral and punctuations - OpenType features initial and terminal form, swashed, alternates, and stylistic alternates. - Multilingual support more 25 language - PUA encoded Note: For access OpenType features this font, make sure that your software is supported OpenType like illustrator cc, photoshop cc, or Corel x8. If not yet supported, for the alternative to access OpenType can using character map check this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV7n5nxmsLs&feature=youtu.be Thanks for using this font. Have a nice day:)
  17. Arek Latin by Rosetta, $60.00
    Arek is Rosetta’s award-winning collection of Latin and Armenian families. Originally designed for use in textbooks and the schoolroom, Arek is an active typeface that holds the reader’s attention with kinetic details tucked into restrained letterforms on the page. For clarity and ease of reading, Arek pairs its nuanced upright and its perky italic styles for both scripts. Though first designed with school books in mind, Arek equips the typographer with eight styles covering a wide range for editorial and other challenging typesetting environments. Essential expert features such as ligatures, lining and ranging figures, and contextual alternates ensure Arek is ready for any assignment. Extras like a full array of bullets, dingbats, and manicules make this family nimble enough to make the grade with readers in all sorts of editorial projects.
  18. Baelish by Maculinc, $18.00
    Introducing Baelish Script! It is a perfectly playful new font pair. Creative and relaxing, together or apart, Baelish allows you to create lots of beautiful typographic designs in an instant, just in time for all labels, cards, and branding! Perfect for DIY projects, greeting cards, labels, quotes, posters, wall art, branding, packaging, websites, photos, photos & photography overlays, signs, window art, scrapbooking, tags, and more! Baelish Script has alternative uppercase and lowercase character sets, as well as Standard Ligatures options - allowing you to make your design truly unique. Don't forget to add Swash to the design you match to make it more attractive. The alternative characters in this font were divided into several OpenType features such as Stylistic Alternates, Ligature and Ligature Alternates. Mail support: maculinc@gmail.com Thank you! Maculinc
  19. Hideout by Monotype, $50.99
    Jim Ford's Hideout typeface is definitely walking on the wrong side of the law. Inspired by the flared serif lettering of antique tobacco tins, its sturdy shapes are confident, eye-catching, and hark back to the Wild West. Large sizes bring Hideout's details to life, emphasising the delicate nicks in its Ks and Rs. For designers that need to soften some of its swagger, a set of decorative alternatives offer a little Art Deco elegance, adding some refinement to its chunky letterforms. With its 14 weights, Hideout is an adaptable design that works especially well when used for display – for example in book covers, packaging, posters, restaurant menus, or editorial. Don't miss the ghost weights, which hint at the kinds of weathered lettering found on faded and peeling Wanted posters.
  20. Shaky Kane by Comicraft, $39.00
    He sees you! He can see everything YOU do! He wears X-Ray Spex! He glows in the dark! Top Pop Cult Comic Artist Shaky Kane pushes at the limits of taste, dragging a scalpel down the veil of your illusions to make you see the world as it really is, as HE sees it. You've wondered at his work in the pages of ELEPHANTMEN! THE BULLETPROOF COFFIN! CAP'N DINOSAUR! THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE A ROBOT! MONSTER TRUCK and DEADLINE! You've worn the HATEFUL DEAD t-shirt and drawn blood with the SHAKY KANE FAN CLUB pins. Now Shaky Kane isn't just a disaffected punk rock way of looking at the world, it's a font too. A little Shaky, a little Stirred, best served with a purple eyeball spiked on a cocktail stick.
  21. Augsburg Initials by Kaer, $18.00
    Hey! I'm happy to introduce to you my new initial's set. These drop caps I found in the "Introductorium in astronomiam" manuscript. It was printed in Augsburg in 1489 by Erhard Ratdolt. I've added some lost letters and assembled a full alphabet. Augsburg is a medieval gothic style font. Set of dim colored and monochrome grunge style emblems. Engraved initial drop caps. Perfect for vintage premium identity, Middle Ages posters, luxury packaging. If you want dark and strong medieval style concepts, please try it. --- *You can use color fonts in PS since CC 2017, AI since CC 2018, ID since CC 2019, macOS 10.14 Mojave* *Please note that the Canva & Corel doesn't support color fonts!* --- Please feel free to request any help you need: kaer.pro@gmail.com Best, Roman. Thank you!
  22. Treacherous by Comicraft, $29.00
    Midnight, Pacific Coast Highway. You're driving home alone at night and your battery's dying. Your headlights have dimmed and you can barely see the road or the signpost up ahead. But there's an eerie green light glimmering in your rear view mirror and that strange warning uttered by the pump attendant at the Devil's Elbow gas station has put the frighteners on you. Is that Satan's face glowering at you through the mist, or something far worse? ⁠The only way to handle this font is with one foot on the gas pedal and one foot on the brake. Originally designed by John Roshell for GAMBIT titles, this sharp font has appeared on vampire & rock magazine covers, Star Wars & Star Trek merch, and the logo for the INHUMANS comic & TV show!
  23. End Zone Express by Hipfonts, $9.00
    Get ready to amp up your game with the ultimate font for sports enthusiasts and athletes alike! Introducing Endzone Express, the breathtakingly bold and stunning sport typeface that will leave you in awe. This font is a powerhouse of strength, exuding a thick and robust presence that commands attention. Its flawless curves and meticulously crafted letterforms make every word you write feel like a championship victory. Whether you're designing team jerseys, creating motivational posters, or crafting sports-themed branding materials, Endzone Express delivers an unbeatable combination of style and intensity. Don't settle for ordinary fonts when you can embrace the boldness of Endzone Express and make your designs stand out from the competition. Let your creativity soar as you score big with this extraordinary font that truly captures the spirit of winning!
  24. Kobely by Partnrz, $15.00
    Kobely is a reproduction of a local broadcaster's real handwriting. My daughter thought her boss's handwriting was so neat and uniform, it would make a great font and asked if I would be willing to create it. I agreed. She had him write out all the basic characters, which he gladly did with both a standard ink pen and a Sharpie¨ marker. I then turned it into a three weight family, perfect for use on post-it notes, shopping and to-do lists - anywhere you need the natural feel of real handwriting. I created it in various weights to spare you from adding a stroke to make it bolder. Adding a stroke can often compromise the small details of a font. Kobely is designed to be readable in even the boldest weight!
  25. AT Move Billiard by André Toet Design, $39.95
    BILLIARD was born from the numerous sketches André Toet did for the design of a series of postage stamps in 2011. It’s a capital monospaced and ‘fun’ alphabet, based on the classic billiard play with two white and one red ball. Actually snooker and pool were derived from this rather old sport! In Europe it used to be a sport played by elderly people, practiced in traditional bars, including the smell of beer and the at that time prevalent smell of cigarettes and cigars. These days billiard, snooker and pool are quite popular once again with young people. Hopefully our new font will get the same attention the ‘old sport’ deserves and who knows it might even be used in a sportive way. Concept/Art Direction/Design: André Toet © 2017
  26. Rig Solid by Jamie Clarke Type, $20.00
    Rig Solid extends your typography toolkit with a range of energetic 3D fonts. Add dynamism to headlines and logos 13 styles across four weights Solid and gradient 3D designs Clean ‘unbreakable’ geometric shapes Rig Solid follows the award-winning design of its big brother, Rig Shaded. Each style can be used individually, making it even easy to achieve eye-catching 3D effects in print and on the web. The striking halftone styles add texture to your typography, while the hardy solid styles give your designs a visual punch and remain prominent when used over photography and patterned backgrounds. The family includes the unshaded style, ‘Bold Solo’, to perfectly compliment the shaded styles or be used on its own. Rig Solid does not require professional design software to use and is compatible with Microsoft Word.
  27. Xekova by Product Type, $18.00
    Xekova Typeface is a modern font with an artistic and elegant touch. This typeface can be used for various purposes such as Films, Titles, Magazines, Posters, Logos, and many more. Experienced designers will love the extra touches that make Xekova unique, the elegant and unique blend of fasteners, subtle curves, sheer shapes, and elegant circular pins to bring your project out of the ordinary. With this extraordinary typeface, your next design will stand out from the rest! What’s Included : - File font - All glyphs Iso Latin 1 - Ligature, Alternate - We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. - PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. - Fonts include Multilingual support Thank you for your purchase!
  28. Architype Catalogue Solid by The Foundry, $50.00
    Architype Crouwel is a collection of typefaces created in collaboration with Wim Crouwel, following his agreement with The Foundry, to recreate his experimental alphabets as digital fonts. Crouwel's most recognized work was for the Van Abbe and Stedelijk museums (1954 –72) where he established his reputation for radical, grid-based design. Architype Catalogue’s soft ‘padded’ letterforms were originally created by Wim Crouwel for the Stedelijk museum’s 1970 exhibition of sculptor Claes Oldenburg.. Crouwel said, ‘When you look at Oldenburg’s work, with all those soft objects, it gets into your system, so you try to integrate that feeling in the design. Claes was very taken with the catalogue's typeface, and asked me if I would do the whole alphabet for him, so I did. I cut it all out in pink paper and pasted it together’.
  29. Seria Pro by Martin Majoor, $49.00
    The multi award-winning Seria (1996) is Martin Majoor’s second comprehensive typeface family and the successor to his popular text letter Scala. Seria explores the proportions of classical text typefaces. Its degree of sophistication is perfect to be used for poetry and other refined literature, its eye-catching details however makes Seria also suitable as a display typeface. The first sketches for Seria emerged in the summer of 1996 on the train from Berlin to Warsaw, to be precise, on July 25 – the date Majoor noted on the napkins of the train’s on-board restaurant, which he used for lack of suitable drawing paper. The italics are almost upright which contributes much to Seria’s delicately proportioned appearance. The Seria family consists of Seria Serif and Seria Sans. Combining the two creates countless possibilities of expression.
  30. Edith by Dominik Krotscheck, $12.00
    Edith is a handmade serif typeface that can be used for long texts. To make it even better suitable, it is equipped with all the major features you’d expect from a traditional text-font, such as case sensitive forms, old style figures (lining figures are accessible via an opentype feature), fractions and good kerning. To keep up the handwritten appearance, two versions of each letter (A-Z & a-z with diacritics) and number are available and substituted automatically if the same ones meet. Edith is also nice to look at in larger sizes and therefore a great fit for any packaging, advertisement or headline. Edith is for you, if you plan on doing childish things, DIY things, traditional things, illustrated things, nautical things, grungy things or any handmade related things.
  31. Fugu by Positype, $25.00
    When Baka and Baka Too did very well commercially (Baka was named the Best Cursive Rough Script in 2005), I shied away from doing rough, handwritten scripts in fear as being seen as a one-trick-pony. A few years have passed and some early sumi-e brush ‘doodles’ kept appealing to me. I initially thought this new font would just fall under the Baka mantle and just become a new sibling, but as brush hit paper over and over again, the letters took on a different personality from Baka. This new font was turning out to be far more expressive, smooth and rough, tasty but sticky. This dichotomy demanded a new name. The rough and smooth texture suggested the name Fugu—oddly delicate while rough and functional.
  32. Boneous by Trustha, $17.00
    Boneous is a display font. Inspired by the shape of the bones. Comes in two font styles, regular and oblique. Boneous comes with 400+ glyphs, which also includes multilingual languages. It's perfect for headlines, branding, and many more.
  33. LTC Francis by Lanston Type Co., $24.95
    Francis is a design previously offered by the Lanston Type Co. in the early 1990s. It is a revival of a 1955 Günther Gerhard Lange design, but with a heavier overall weight. Coming out of retirement, it has been fully reworked and refined with elegant curves and an expanded character set. This font works well at small sizes and larger display sizes for everything from wine labels to personal stationery. This type evokes the elegant sophistcation of the Jazz age and pairs well with a Martini and a fine selection of charcuterie.
  34. Caldina by Artegra, $29.00
    Caldina is a delicious font family that adds a great taste to any given project. From light to bold, it comes with 10 fonts with matching true italics. Each font contains 659 glyphs which offers a great amount of language support including the Greek, Russian and other languages using the Cyrillic alphabet. Each glyph has been designed to perfection and kerned with countless amount of kerning pairs. When it comes to Opentype features it has oldstyle figures, tabular lining, tabular oldstyle, ligatures, subscript and superscript, fractions and language localizations (such as the Polish kreska). It’s great for display purposes but also its high legibility makes it a great text font as well. Although not limited to, it’s perfect for food, beverage and coffee brands as well as the cos- metic brands. Let it be branding, advertising, packaging or posters, Caldina is there to add that special flavor that you’re looking for.
  35. Night Train by FontMesa, $19.95
    Night Train is a new font built from the ground up; while Night Train may resemble an old classic wood type there are a few lines that make this font a little more modern setting it apart from other wood type revivals. If you're a railroad enthusiast you're sure to enjoy the steam locomotive graphic located on the less than and greater than keys on all versions of this font, due to the fine detail of this train illustration the best printing results will be at 600dpi or higher on a laser printer. An alternate K and R are within the Night Train fonts, for Win Type1 these alternates are on the left and right bracket keys, for Truetype and OpenType you may access the alternates by using the Character Map in Windows or Adobe Illustrator, for OpenType you may also find them on the stylistic alternates page of the glyph map in Illustrator. There's something new with Night Train that the sign making people will love, for the first time FontMesa is pleased to offer a block shadowed version in four directions. One fill font is all that is needed for all four open faced fonts, you'll need an application that works in layers in order to use the fill font with the open faced fonts, simply place the fill font in its own layer then move it behind one of the open faced fonts of Night Train. The Night Train name has been on my list to use as a font name for a few years, a friend from years ago used to sail his boat in the Mackinac race from Chicago to Mackinac Island, the name of that boat was the Night Train. Watching the 2010 Olympic four man U.S. bobsled team win gold with their sled also called Night Train has inspired me to complete this font.
  36. Antique by Storm Type Foundry, $26.00
    The concept of the Baroque Roman type face is something which is remote from us. Ungrateful theorists gave Baroque type faces the ill-sounding attribute "Transitional", as if the Baroque Roman type face wilfully diverted from the tradition and at the same time did not manage to mature. This "transition" was originally meant as an intermediate stage between the Aldine/Garamond Roman face of the Renaissance, and its modern counterpart, as represented by Bodoni or Didot. Otherwise there was also a "transition" from a slanted axis of the shadow to a perpendicular one. What a petty detail led to the pejorative designation of Baroque type faces! If a bookseller were to tell his customers that they are about to choose a book which is set in some sort of transitional type face, he would probably go bust. After all, a reader, for his money, would not put up with some typographical experimentation. He wants to read a book without losing his eyesight while doing so. Nevertheless, it was Baroque typography which gave the world the most legible type faces. In those days the craft of punch-cutting was gradually separating itself from that of book-printing, but also from publishing and bookselling. Previously all these activities could be performed by a single person. The punch-cutter, who at that time was already fully occupied with the production of letters, achieved better results than he would have achieved if his creative talents were to be diffused in a printing office or a bookseller's shop. Thus it was possible that for example the printer John Baskerville did not cut a single letter in his entire lifetime, for he used the services of the accomplished punch-cutter John Handy. It became the custom that one type founder supplied type to multiple printing offices, so that the same type faces appeared in various parts of the world. The type face was losing its national character. In the Renaissance period it is still quite easy to distinguish for example a French Roman type face from a Venetian one; in the Baroque period this could be achieved only with great difficulties. Imagination and variety of shapes, which so far have been reserved only to the fine arts, now come into play. Thanks to technological progress, book printers are now able to reproduce hairstrokes and imitate calligraphic type faces. Scripts and elaborate ornaments are no longer the privilege of copper-engravers. Also the appearance of the basic, body design is slowly undergoing a change. The Renaissance canonical stiffness is now replaced with colour and contrast. The page of the book is suddenly darker, its lay-out more varied and its lines more compact. For Baroque type designers made a simple, yet ingenious discovery - they enlarged the x-height and reduced the ascenders to the cap-height. The type face thus became seemingly larger, and hence more legible, but at the same time more economical in composition; the type area was increasing to the detriment of the margins. Paper was expensive, and the aim of all the publishers was, therefore, to sell as many ideas in as small a book block as possible. A narrowed, bold majuscule, designed for use on the title page, appeared for the first time in the Late Baroque period. Also the title page was laid out with the highest possible economy. It comprised as a rule the brief contents of the book and the address of the bookseller, i.e. roughly that which is now placed on the flaps and in the imprint lines. Bold upper-case letters in the first line dramatically give way to the more subtle italics, the third line is highlighted with vermilion; a few words set in lower-case letters are scattered in-between, and then vermilion appears again. Somewhere in the middle there is an ornament, a monogram or an engraving as a kind of climax of the drama, while at the foot of the title-page all this din is quietened by a line with the name of the printer and the year expressed in Roman numerals, set in 8-point body size. Every Baroque title-page could well pass muster as a striking poster. The pride of every book printer was the publication of a type specimen book - a typographical manual. Among these manuals the one published by Fournier stands out - also as regards the selection of the texts for the specimen type matter. It reveals the scope of knowledge and education of the master typographers of that period. The same Fournier established a system of typographical measurement which, revised by Didot, is still used today. Baskerville introduced the smoothing of paper by a hot steel roller, in order that he could print astonishingly sharp letters, etc. ... In other words - Baroque typography deserves anything else but the attribute "transitional". In the first half of the 18th century, besides persons whose names are prominent and well-known up to the present, as was Caslon, there were many type founders who did not manage to publish their manuals or forgot to become famous in some other way. They often imitated the type faces of their more experienced contemporaries, but many of them arrived at a quite strange, even weird originality, which ran completely outside the mainstream of typographical art. The prints from which we have drawn inspiration for these six digital designs come from Paris, Vienna and Prague, from the period around 1750. The transcription of letters in their intact form is our firm principle. Does it mean, therefore, that the task of the digital restorer is to copy meticulously the outline of the letter with all inadequacies of the particular imprint? No. The type face should not to evoke the rustic atmosphere of letterpress after printing, but to analyze the appearance of the punches before they are imprinted. It is also necessary to take account of the size of the type face and to avoid excessive enlargement or reduction. Let us keep in mind that every size requires its own design. The longer we work on the computer where a change in size is child's play, the more we are convinced that the appearance of a letter is tied to its proportions, and therefore, to a fixed size. We are also aware of the fact that the computer is a straightjacket of the type face and that the dictate of mathematical vectors effectively kills any hint of naturalness. That is why we strive to preserve in these six alphabets the numerous anomalies to which later no type designer ever returned due to their obvious eccentricity. Please accept this PostScript study as an attempt (possibly futile, possibly inspirational) to brush up the warm magic of Baroque prints. Hopefully it will give pleasure in today's modern type designer's nihilism.
  37. Divina Proportione by Intellecta Design, $29.00
    Divina Proportione is based from the original studies from Luca Pacioli. Luca Pacioli was born in 1446 or 1447 in Sansepolcro (Tuscany) where he received an abbaco education. Luca Pacioli was born in 1446 or 1447 in Sansepolcro (Tuscany) where he received an abbaco education. [This was education in the vernacular (i.e. the local tongue) rather than Latin and focused on the knowledge required of merchants.] He moved to Venice around 1464 where he continued his own education while working as a tutor to the three sons of a merchant. It was during this period that he wrote his first book -- a treatise on arithmetic for the three boys he was tutoring. Between 1472 and 1475, he became a Franciscan friar. In 1475, he started teaching in Perugia and wrote a comprehensive abbaco textbook in the vernacular for his students during 1477 and 1478. It is thought that he then started teaching university mathematics (rather than abbaco) and he did so in a number of Italian universities, including Perugia, holding the first chair in mathematics in two of them. He also continued to work as a private abbaco tutor of mathematics and was, in fact, instructed to stop teaching at this level in Sansepolcro in 1491. In 1494, his first book to be printed, Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita, was published in Venice. In 1497, he accepted an invitation from Lodovico Sforza ("Il Moro") to work in Milan. There he met, collaborated with, lived with, and taught mathematics to Leonardo da Vinci. In 1499, Pacioli and Leonardo were forced to flee Milan when Louis XII of France seized the city and drove their patron out. Their paths appear to have finally separated around 1506. Pacioli died aged 70 in 1517, most likely in Sansepolcro where it is thought he had spent much of his final years. De divina proportione (written in Milan in 1496–98, published in Venice in 1509). Two versions of the original manuscript are extant, one in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, the other in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire in Geneva. The subject was mathematical and artistic proportion, especially the mathematics of the golden ratio and its application in architecture. Leonardo da Vinci drew the illustrations of the regular solids in De divina proportione while he lived with and took mathematics lessons from Pacioli. Leonardo's drawings are probably the first illustrations of skeletonic solids, an easy distinction between front and back. The work also discusses the use of perspective by painters such as Piero della Francesca, Melozzo da Forlì, and Marco Palmezzano. As a side note, the "M" logo used by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is taken from De divina proportione. “ The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square. ” —De divina proportione
  38. Genoock by Tama Putra, $12.00
    Genoock is a bold handwritten typeface. It is suitable for any design needs, branding, cover title, t-shirts, posters and more. The Genoock typeface includes multi-lingual and currency support, numerals, and punctuations. It comes comes with stylistic alternates.
  39. Tokeh by Hanoded, $15.00
    A Tokeh (or ‘Tokay’) is a nocturnal arboreal gecko, native to Asia and some Pacific Islands. The name comes from the sound it makes. Tokeh font is a cute brush font, which comes with some swashes, alternates and ligatures.
  40. Confas by Krntype Studio, $16.00
    A clean handwritten font. Confas come with stylish swashes, and ligature. This font also come with multilingual support. Confas is suitable for your creative design needs such as product packaging, merchandise, social media design, T-shirts, Logotype, and more.
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