Introducing Rantic Kafis, a classic modern font with a bold and elegant touch. This font features thick strokes and rounded edges, giving it a distinctive and sophisticated look. With its stylistic set options for upper and lowercase letters, Rantic Kafis adds a touch of individuality and creativity to any design. Rantic Kafis is the perfect font to add a classic modern feel to your work. Its thick strokes and rounded edges make it highly legible, ensuring that your designs are easy to read and understand. So if you’re looking for a font that combines the best of classic and modern design, look no further than Rantic Kafis. Download it now and start creating stunning designs that stand out from the crowd! What’s Included : - File font - All glyphs Iso Latin 1 - 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

Brekgu is ideal for projects that require a futuristic, sci-fi, or high-tech atmosphere. This typeface has a unique, modern appearance and includes features such as ligature, alternative, and multilingual support. Brekgu allows you to give your designs a bold, dynamic, and attractive style. The letters’ unusual and futuristic shape will make your project stand out from the crowd. Brekgu, when combined with ligatures and alternates, will aid in the creation of incredibly unique and eye-catching designs. Brekgu is bilingual and adaptable to different languages, allowing you to utilize it for a wide range of worldwide design projects. Don’t pass up the opportunity to use this powerful and stylish font for your creations! What’s Included : - File font - All glyphs Iso Latin 1 - Alternate, Ligature - Simple installations - We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many Adobe apps and Corel Draw so that you can see and access all Glyph variations. - PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. - Fonts include Multilingual support

The simplified letterforms of Sinova™ make it an ideal choice for those settings where you really don't want the type to shout too loudly or draw unnecessary attention to itself. Christian Mengelt has drawn five weights: Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, and Bold, all with complimentary obliques. Sinova is an OpenType family that is unfussy, functional, and legible, with extensive language support (some 48 languages). Thanks to its clear and straightforward design and dynamic rhythm, one of the main characteristics of Sinova is its excellent legibility, irrespective of whether it is used in longer passages as a stylish book script or for text in the digitalised office environment. But Sinova also happily adapts itself to being used as a titling font in combination with Renaissance Antique serif typefaces. For this reason, another potential application for the font family is as a graceful and elegant titling and text script for job printing and in publicity texts. The two complementary stroke widths, light and bold, are perfect for commercial applications.

Stack brings the spirit of industrial chimney lettering from the early twentieth century to the digital age. The typeface is designed to work both horizontally and vertically. Additionally, the fonts can work together in myriad chromatic expressions—providing limitless design possibilities. The family is true to the spirit of masonry lettering without being a direct lift of any specific lettering style from the industrial age. Like some of its masonry predecessors Stack is built as a typeface of 15 courses (horizontal rows) of ‘bricks.’ Based on several years of research a collection of 150+ photographs and roughly two dozen archival engineering drawings were amassed. The value of the historical references is a type family that is a legitimate reflection of masonry lettering styles of the period. In updating Stack for the digital age, the proportions of the base-unit ‘bricks’ and the thickness of ‘mortar’ joints have been optically adjusted to work in both screen-based and print media. Stack would not have been possible without the research and design input from Craig Welsh and Jenna Flickinger of GoWelsh.

Introducing "Lafonsa," a new serif font that combines stylistic typography with unique alphabet lettering and serif typography style. With a wide range of options, you can create stunning letter combinations for lettering. Lafonsa comes with open type features that offer a vast selection of alternates and end swashes to enhance your lettering. It is ideal for various purposes, including Logotype, heading, cover, poster, logos, quotes, product packaging, header, merchandise, social media & greeting cards, and many more. Additionally, Lafonsa supports multi-language use. To access Lafonsa's alternate glyphs, you will need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe InDesign, and Corel Draw. In the zip package, you will receive Lafonsa in otf, ttf, and woff formats, with features that include uppercase and lowercase letters, opentype alternates and ligatures, numbers, punctuation, symbols, and multilanguage support. Overall, Lafonsa is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to create stunning and unique designs, and it is perfect for all your design needs. Its versatility and high-quality design make it a valuable addition to any designer's toolkit.

Mosquito Formal, by Éric de Berranger, takes the original jaunty design of Mosquito and dresses it in a tuxedo. The stressed character strokes, simple, straightforward shapes, relatively large x-height, open counters and hint of Peignot are still there, but the cursive strokes and lively terminals have been replaced with traditional designs. The result is a more serious-and more sophisticated typeface. The idea," says Éric de Berranger, "was to assuage the drawing of Mosquito. To 'calm' it; and eliminate its idiosyncrasies while preserving character structure and general appearance." Although still distinctive, as Éric de Berranger puts it, "Mosquito Formal is more to be read than seen, it is more invisible and thus, more readable than my earlier design." He does, however, use both typefaces in his graphic design projects: Mosquito for headlines and in applications where the lively design is appropriate, and Mosquito Formal for those instances that require a quieter more sophisticated look. Mosquito Formal is available in three weights with complementary italic designs in addition to a suite of small caps and old style figures. "

Introducing Metub, the superhero display font with a unique and powerful serif style that’s sure to make your designs stand out. Each letter is meticulously crafted to convey strength and individuality, making this font the perfect choice for bold and impactful projects. With 52 stylish alternate characters and 32 beautifully designed ligatures, Metub offers endless design possibilities that are sure to elevate your work to new heights. Whether you’re designing posters, logos, or branding materials, Metub is the ideal font for any project that demands a strong and unique aesthetic. And with multilingual support, this font is perfect for projects with a global reach. Give your designs a powerful edge with Metub today. What’s Included : - File font - All glyphs Iso Latin 1 - Alternate, Ligature - Simple installations - We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many Adobe apps and Corel Draw so that you can see and access all Glyph variations. - PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. - Fonts include Multilingual support

Magnirum Serif is a serif typeface with a medieval flair. Drawing inspiration from historic Roman typography and medieval design, Magnirum Serif is a timeless creation that exudes beauty and elegance. While its serifs and ornaments echo the intricacies of ancient manuscripts, the typeface is designed for modern legibility and regular usage. It combines the best of both worlds, offering a unique blend of historic charm and contemporary readability. Add symbol # after any letter to place a crown on top of it. Example: Cro#wn Magnirum Serif is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures, and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, and includes all the characters and symbols you'll ever need. Behind this captivating creation is Mans Greback. Renowned for his skill in marrying historical elements with modern utility, Greback has crafted Magnirum Serif to be a versatile yet nostalgic typeface. His portfolio showcases his ability to bring stories and emotions into the realm of type design.

Brand is a lovely elegant font for branding and logo design. Based on our experience as a graphic designer who works for a lot of companies, we often are requested to design a logo in a unique style but with an elegant shape. So, we try to brainstorming and create this font to make the idea is going out. This is perfect for BRANDING and LOGO DESIGN. You will get classy, elegant, and certainly unique logos with this font. Brand is also included full set of: All uppercase letters multilingual characters numerals punctuation ligatures collection *) ALL LIGATURE CHARACTERS CAN BE ACCESS USING LOWERCASE TYPE (for example: r+a) Wish you enjoy our font and if you have a question, don't hesitate to drop message & I'm happy to help :)

Amelia Amanda calligraphy script that comes with a very charming fancy character, in the form of results but looks modern, made with inspiration to get a beautiful style and match between one and the other letters. Amelia Amanda belongs to a unique font type, feminine , sensual, clean, glamorous, simple and very charming to look at, due to the unique form of letters and alternative styles that are appropriate for many letters. Classic style is very suitable to be applied in various formal forms such as invitations, labels, restaurant menus, logos, fashion, makeup, stationery, novels, magazines, books, pride greeting cards as well as weddings, packaging, labels and also suitable for all forms of advertising . The Amelia Amanda script is very feasible because it is supported by some charming alternative letters.

BEMACK is handwritten made with a brush pen, this font will tear through your text with unmistakable energy, dynamic and spontaneous flow. To help you create stunning custom handwriting displays. BEMACK comes with alternates character, ligature, punctuation, numerals. Also included is a bonus extras swashes, handmade designed to perfectly for headlines and short texts. Use it for magazines, t-shirt, packaging, logos, advertising, quotes, branding, posters, editorials, cover artwork, movies, websites, etc BEMACK is coded with Unicode PUA, Allows full access to all the extra characters without having special software designing. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor / app. Thanks so much for looking and Enjoy it!

Created with love and attention to detail, this font instantly brings out the natural characteristics of your projects, adding a playful and whimsical touch. Whether you're designing websites, SVG graphics, home decor items, branding materials, blogs, logos, invitations, or more, Super Cute is the perfect choice to infuse your creations with charm and character. Super Cute offers a versatile combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, providing endless possibilities for your typographic compositions. It also includes a comprehensive set of numbers and punctuation marks, ensuring your designs are complete and well-balanced. With multilingual support, this font allows you to communicate your message effectively across different languages and cultures. With PUA Encoding, Super Cute unlocks additional special characters and glyphs, allowing you to add extra flair and uniqueness to your designs.

Introducing Merong, a versatile serif font that adds a touch of elegance and sophistication to your design projects. Whether you're creating a print or digital design, Merong is the perfect typeface for capturing attention and delivering your message in style. With its variable font technology, Merong offers a range of styles, from regular and elegant to bold and dramatic. You can easily adjust the weight and width of the font to suit your needs, making it a flexible choice for a variety of projects. Merong is an excellent choice for a variety of design projects, from branding and marketing materials to editorial layouts and web design. It's a font that can adapt to your needs and help you achieve your desired aesthetic. WHAT’S INCLUDED? Numbers Punctuation Ligatures Multilingual support...

Give your voice an eye-catching hand-drawn look thanks to this playful font family. You'll get three styles, along with OpenType features including alternates, ligatures and stylistic sets. Galiba Regular works very well with his small brothers Light and Thin. In addition Galiba Light can be used at smaller size along with the other styles to keep the same line thickness. To achieve a random-like effect, the regular style is packed with 4 different variants of each glyph, that automatically cycle if stylistic alternates are turned on. Also you can choose from 5 stylistic sets to easily change the look of a given string, or pick alternates by hand. Not to mention that we've attentively fine-tuned the kerning that’s crucial for this kind of typeface.

The name ‘Linkus’ makes reference to the internet and its power to unite humanity, as well as to Linkus’ distinctive design, where the whole character is unified by a single, unbroken line – without sacrificing its elegance and readability. Linkus is based on the aesthetic decision of having a single, unsplit line forming every character, with a smooth transition of the different line directions, in order to strenghten the unity of form and create a singular fluxus throughout the glyph. Different from most other futuristic fonts (e.g. Slazer), who have an aggressive look, Linkus has a more sensible, refined aura. This display futuristic typeface is meant to be used whenever the subject is technology, cellphones, electronics, internet, computers or science in general, as Linkus creates a feeling of modernity, cleanness, efficiency and high-tech sophistication.

Archery is a modern handwritten font with handwritten suitable for logo, product packaging, branding, headlines, labels, book covers, posters, quotes and more.This font replaces all lowercase letters, also comes with ligatures and unique and beautiful alternatives as well as international support for most western languages. Fonts include (OTF ). How to access all of the alternate characters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwjMkbB-wQ Archery is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all the extra characters without having special designing software. Mac users can use Font Book , and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favourite text editor/app. How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw Thanks & Happy Designing

2015 First Prize TipoType award. Neftali is a type family designed for continuous reading in long texts & editorial design, created as an interpretation of Pablo Neruda’s “Poema 20”. This work delivers a subtle experimentation of Baroque and Roman styles, rescuing features from some of the most successful chilean typefaces such as “Australis”, “Berenjena” and “Biblioteca”, along with its particular calligraphic details, medium weights, accentuated strokes, and wide curves that seek to project Pablo Neruda’s particular way of reciting. This typeface contains uppercase, lowercase, small caps, oldstyle, and tabular numbers; in addition to a true italic for every weight; and calligraphic details designed to compose his poems. A typography to talk about everything, except love… (Special thanks to: Francisco Gálvez & Patricio Truenos; without the help of the latter, this project wouldn’t have had an ending)

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

Hello Everyone, Introduce our new collection Almond Pancake is a Unique Bold Display Font, Inspired from Modern logos of brands that have very strong characteristics, very suitable for posters,card to kids cute,and guaranteed to add a sweet touch to your next design,packaging, branding, logotype and more. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes. That is Almond Pancake has charming, authentic and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text with a more natural look to your text. You can activate Ligature OpenType panel design more interesting. Almond Pancake is perfect for homeware designs,branding projects, Logo design, Quotes product packaging.

Looking for a font that will make your branding stand out? Do you want to make a touch of elegance and retro for your designs? This font was created for you! Vintage Signature- A Script Font Vintage Signature is a fabulous signature font, carefully handcrafted combined with a little bit retro style to become a classic favorite. Its casual charm makes it appear wonderfully down-to-earth, readable and, ultimately, incredibly versatile. Vintage Signature will look outstanding in any context, whether it’s being used on busy backgrounds or as a standalone headline! Well suited to titles, poster designs, branding, logos, and many more. Our font always includes Multilingual Support to make your branding reach a global audience. Features: Ligatures Stylistic Set PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Natha Studio

Abigale was built with OpenType features and includes beginning and ending swashes, heart / love swashes, numbers, punctuation, alternates, ligatures and it also supports other languages :) Say hello to Abigale - A font that you were meant to find, and is now destined to be with you :) Abigale is a lovingly handwritten script , with an air of grace and flamboyancy. Abigale is special in that one word can be written in a many different ways - thanks to the large selection of extra letters that it has built in. To access all the extra characters , Opentype capable software is recommended - most apps support Opentype features now days. The alternates are accessible by turning on 'Stylistic Alternates' and 'Ligatures' buttons on in Photoshop's Character panel, or via any software with a glyphs panel, e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape.

Are you ready to make your branding stand out? Do you dream of creating headings that stand out and inspire creativity, imagination, modernity, and endless fun? Looking for an elegant and stylish font? We've got what you want. Blimps- A Brush Font Blimps is a fantastic font. A display font that is combined with handcrafted script brush font. Designed primarily as a captivating font to add the right amount of modernity and style, This font is an excellent choice to ensure a great font match for your designs and projects! Well suited to titles, poster designs, branding, logos, and many more. Our font always includes Multilingual Support to make your branding reach a global audience. Features: Ligatures Alternates Stylistic Set PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Din Studio

Kicker FC is a typeface created for the love of sport, it has all the right elements to make for a great sports display font to give your brand and art work the right look and feel in this genre. It has a great variation in weights, stylistic alternates to provide flexibility and to add more customisation a shadow version for each weight to give your typography a custom graphic look and feel. Kicker FC is perfect for use in various sports categories, college sports, baseball, basketball, football and as show in all the poster images and more specifically the name Kicker FC, soccer. Not only is the typeface a perfect fit for sport, it works just as well for beverage, tech and various other industries. Narrow in width provides great eye catching headlines.

My daily challenge is how to get my kids out of bed, feed them breakfast, get them to dress, wash and pack their school bags and drop them off at school before the bell rings. The rest of the day, the challenge is to renovate our house, get my work done, pick up the kids from school (plus all of their friends, who want to come and play) and cook dinner. Of course, the word ‘challenge’ was misused by the internet. Not too long ago, there seemed to be and endless stream of crazy challenges that ended up hurting or even killing a few people. Daily Challenge font is none of the above: it is a clean cut, 100% handmade, all caps font. The only challenge here is how to adapt your design so it fits this font perfectly… ;-)

Opinion varies regarding the role of Claude Garamond (ca. 1480–1561) in the development of the Old Face font Garamond. What is accepted is the influence this font had on other typeface developments from the time of its creation to the present. Garamond, or Garamont, is related to the alphabet of Claude Garamond (1480-1561) as well as to the work of Jean Jannon (1580–1635 or 1658), much of which was attributed to Garamond. In comparison to the earlier Italian font forms, Garamond has finer serifs and a generally more elegant image. The Garamond of Jean Jannon was introduced at the Paris World’s Fair in 1900 as Original Garamond, whereafter many font foundries began to cast similar types. Morris F. Benton’s Garamond appeared in 1936 and is based on the forms of Jean Jannon, which already displayed characteristics of the Transitional style.

Comply Slab is inspired by action and extreme sports, Comply gets it's name from the well known skate trick the “No Comply”. This type family doesn't mess about! With 9 weights from thin to black, Comply Slab will give you some great options to use. This font family will “kill it” in both print and digital, in headlines for editorial, posters, banners, websites, apparel, packaging, logos or magazines just to name a few. If you want to make a statement that gets the message across in a slick way with some cool looking glyphs Comply Slab is the font! There is an alternate R and S so you can choose to go with the cool default sharp glyphs or swap them for a more traditional chamfered corner version. Each of the 9 weights has an italic version to add even more action.

Xunga is a cheerful display typeface. My goal was to design a font able to fit any layout with boldness and playfulness, mixing a sign painter taste in the uppercase and some of my crappy calligraphic reverse contrast explorations with the flat brush for the lowercase. I designed several of widths to fit the page, and though about a different way of expanding the family shifting the horizontal stress axis to move the letter weight in different heights, making a 15 fonts family, suitable for making bold layouts. Xunga has an extended character set for European languages as well as Vietnamese, and shows all its potential with OpenType-savvy applications. Every font includes ligatures, catchwords in discretional ligatures, contextual alternates to avoid conflictive glyph pairs and localized forms to avoid problems with several glyphs and languages.

Abominio is a captivating display typeface featuring an innovative design of recurring chiseled forms. This font aims to capture the spirit of maximalism culture, offering a valuable asset for consumer-oriented designs, allowing them to stand out in a in a sea of competitors. With its bold and experimental appearance, Abominio remains true to the letters of the Latin alphabet. This unique characteristic is well-suited to capture and hold the attention of easily distracted viewers, extending their focus for a few more vital seconds. Designers now have the opportunity to explore their creativity, creating both refined and daring combinations for eye-catching headlines, titles, or graphic design projects that aim to convey strength and artistic innovation. Specifications: - Included: Abominio Regular, Abominio Oblique, Abominio Variable - Multi language support (Central, Eastern, Western European Languages) - OpenType Features Thanks for viewing, Unio.

Altivo is a proper workhorse sans serif. Sixteen OpenType fonts in eight weights (with true Italics) range from Thin to Ultra. Meticulous care was taken to ensure high legibility in text sizes on the screen. The typeface is designed to have wide proportions, generous x-height, loose spacing, ink traps, large apertures and low stroke contrast. Altivo’s ink traps are not only a functional design feature, they also look interesting and lend character to the typeface in headlines. True Italics, small caps and multiple sets of figures, as well as a complete set of lowercase superscript were all included in the family to accommodate high typographic standards. If you need to pair it with a serif font, you can’t go wrong with Chiavettieri, since both typefaces were made with the same basic proportions, and their tabular figures are the same width.

PTL Attention a robust and contemporary sans serif type family with its very own characteristics. Made for work in text as well as display it comes with nine weights in two styles, including small caps, a set of contemporary OpenType features, all standard figure sets and a rich language support. The concept for PTL Attention goes back to the days of Viktor’s thesis Type Attack!. From the beginning there was the idea not only to have a display stencil type like PTL Attack, but also to create a more serious companion. One of the intentions while designing it was also to come to an result that shows not another feel-good, streamlined corporate typeface. A pinch of "anti" should vibrate with it. Nevertheless the main intention was to create a highly legible and useful type family.

Smooth Gracier is a stylish display serif font to express modern, friendly, fun nuances on your designs. The unique geometry details and the contrast sketch lines help to make the font visually interesting. It is suitable to apply for bigger sized-texts due to its dramatic, bold styles. Enjoy the lovely features available in this font. Features: Stylistic Sets Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Smooth Gracier fits for various design projects, such as posters, banners, logos, magazine covers, quotes, headings, printed products, invitations, merchandise, social media, etc. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Thanks for purchasing our fonts. Hopefully, you have a great experience using our font. Feel free to contact us for further information when you have a problem using the font. Thank you. Happy designing.

Ageo is a soft geometric sans serif font family. Contain 8 weights from Thin to Heavy with matching Italics. It's a compromise of bauhaus and modern styles with a soft, minimalist, elegant, warmth, quirky, yet still purposed to be versatile and easy to read. Ageo was created to satisfy reading experience, it's compatible for text and also display, fit for headers, titles, posters, websites, brands, apps and other various design or creative projects. It contains several OpenType features: Standard ligature, figures variation (old style, fraction, numerator, denominator), and also broad latin language support. Ageo has been trusted by large enterprises and is still one of our best selling works. This latest update version 2.0 provides some fixes to the letterforms, spacing, and additional 2 variable font files, also new fonts format to support broad reading experiences.

CA Kometo is an oblique headline typeface that consists of two styles, “Regular” (the Shadow) and “Fill”. Kometo has come to save the world. A superhero typeface featuring the super powers “shadow” and “imperfection”. It comes to save you from a world of boredom. Join Kometo and experience the fun of stacking fonts! Write something with “Fill”, copy paste it to another layer and switch to “Regular“. Maybe you will want to give it a little offset? Or you can also try to use the “Fill” style for body text, but do so at your own risk, spacing and kerning is optimized for the use with the “Regular“ style, so don't be too harsh if the results looks more vivid than text normally does. The character set is well built, supporting Western and Central European languages.

Designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli, Kabrio is a sans serif typeface for the lovers of minimal design, and great curves. Kabrio features four different corner treatments to offer variation in display and logo use: the "alternate" variant features slightly rounded corners, that become even more round in the "soft" variant. "Abarth" features cut corner for a more mechanical, cold look. Each variant comes in seven weights with matching italics, for a grand total of 56 weights to add to your typographic palettes. All Kabrio weights feature an extended character set with accents to cover over forty European languages as well as Russian and Bulgarian Cyrillc. OpenType features include stylistic alternates and a wide arrange of numerals (oldstyle, tabular, tabular oldstyle, superior, inferior, fractions) to allow you maximum flexibility to use Kabrio in number-heavy documents: spreadsheets, tables, timetables.

Edhan martine is a unique and very elegant font for brand and logo designs. Based on our experience as graphic designers working in many companies, we are often asked to design a logo with a unique style but with an elegant shape. So, we tried to brainstorm and come up with this font to get ideas out. It is perfect for BRANDING and LOGO DESIGN. You will get a classy, elegant, and of course unique logo with this font. To make it look even more unique we created 150 ligatures for you, so you can create any amazing design you want. Edhan martine also includes the full set: -uppercase and lowercase -multilingual symbol -number -punctuation -stylish alternates Hope you enjoy our fonts and if you have any questions feel free to message & I'm happy to help :)

Opinion varies regarding the role of Claude Garamond (ca. 1480–1561) in the development of the Old Face font Garamond. What is accepted is the influence this font had on other typeface developments from the time of its creation to the present. Garamond, or Garamont, is related to the alphabet of Claude Garamond (1480–1561) as well as to the work of Jean Jannon (1580–1635 or 1658), much of which was attributed to Garamond. In comparison to the earlier Italian font forms, Garamond has finer serifs and a generally more elegant image. The Garamond of Jean Jannon was introduced at the Paris World’s Fair in 1900 as Original Garamond, whereafter many font foundries began to cast similar types. Garamond Classico is based on the forms of Jean Jannon, which already displayed characteristics of the Transitional style.

I love markets, especially the farmer’s markets with fresh produce and home made cheese. Too bad I need to travel a long way to get to one, as there is only a ‘regular’ market in my hometown - you know, with cheap duvets, ‘local’ fruit like bananas and a guy selling books about the end of times. I thought it would be great to create a font family you could actually use on a market. Hence Market Square. Market Square consists of 4 different fonts (each with its own Italic style), ranging from a fat marker font to a thin, squarish font. Each of them oozes freshness and authenticity and they were designed to complement each other. The cherry on top is the cute doodle font, loaded with fresh produce and seafood - just like you’d see on a Market Square.

New York to London via Europe The hardworking FS Koopman is a crossbred workhorse which draws inspiration from Swiss and Germanic grotesks, American gothics and early British grotesques, but refuses to fit neatly into any of these categories. Its neither one nor the other, but all of the above. Fontsmith designers Andy Lethbridge and Stuart de Rozario decided to take the characteristics they admired from each category and distill them down into one functional family. Neo meets Neue FS Koopman aims to swim against the tide of Helvetica-ish derivatives by bringing some personality and soul to a genre that all too often ends up feeling bland and sterile. FS Koopman subtly embraces the quirkiness and charm often seen in early twentieth century designs but pairs this with the functionality of later pioneers of the genre. It’s a grotesque isn’t it? The term grotesque surfaced around the early 1800s and refers to the early sans serif designs that many initially believed were strange or ‘grotesque’ due to their lack of elegant serifs. Later variations became known as neo-grotesques and this moniker stuck around even after they gained mass popularity. Some American variants became known as gothics. FS Koopman takes cues from all three categories and blends them into one cohesive design.

A very expanded sans serif font in capital letters inspired by the inscription on a bank note Old bank notes tend to have a very typical typography. Usually they carry decorative and elaborately designed markings. For one thing, they must be practically impossible to forge and for another, they should make a respectable and legitimate impression. And in the days of copper and steel engravings, that meant nothing less than creating ornate, shaded or otherwise complicated scripts. Designing the appropriate script was literally in the hands of the engraver. That’s why I noticed this bank note from 1948. It is the first 20 mark bill in the then newly created currency ”Deutsche Mark.“ All other bank notes of the 1948 series show daintier forms of typography with an obvious tendency toward modern face. The 1949 series which followed shortly thereafter reveals the more complicated script as well. For whatever reason, only this 20 mark bill displays this extremely expanded sans serif variation of the otherwise Roman form applied. This peculiarity led me in the year 2010 to create a complete font from the single word ”Banknote.“ Back to those days in the 40’s, the initial edition of DM bank notes was carried out by a special US-American printer who was under pressure of completing on time and whose engravers not only engraved but also designed. So that’s why the bank notes resemble dollars and don’t even look like European currency. That also explains some of the uniquely designed characters when looked at in detail. Especially the almost serif type form on the letters C, G, S and Z, but also L and T owe their look to the ”American touch.“ The ingoFont Banknote 1948 comprises all characters of the Latin typeface according to ISO 8859 for all European languages including Turkish and Baltic languages. In order to maintain the character of the original, the ”creation“ of lower case letters was waived. This factor doesn’t contribute to legibility, but this kind of type is not intended for long texts anyway; rather, it unfolds its entire attraction when used as a display font, for example on posters. Banknote 1948 is also very suitable for distortion and other alien techniques, without too much harm being done to the characteristic forms. With Banknote 1948 ingoFonts discloses a font like scripts which were used in advertising of the 1940’s and 50’s and were popular around the world. But even today the use of this kind of font can be expedient, especially considering how Banknote 1948, for its time of origin, impresses with amazingly modern detail.