YR Qaf is a clean, modern, and highly legible font. Featuring clear, easy-to-read letterforms with a focus on legibility. The font is carefully crafted with balanced proportions and an emphasis on vertical lines, resulting in a harmonious and streamlined appearance. YR Qaf offers a sleek and modern aesthetic, with exceptional legibility and versatility. Its clean lines and balanced proportions make it a perfect choice for a variety of design projects where clarity and readability are essential. YR Qaf is ideal for a wide range of applications, including branding, web design, editorial design, and more. With a comprehensive set of glyphs, including both upper and lowercase letters, numerals, and symbols, this font can adapt to diverse design needs with ease.

"Monalliza" comes with an aesthetic style, and its serif-type tagline is Vintage and elegant. "Monalliza" is also equipped with the latest professional characteristics that present a sleek and attractive identity for your company or project for business purposes. It goes well with modern serifs and scripts that depict or stand firm as a title and brand representative for an elegant look. "Monalliza" also comes with multiple languages, making any country and language easy to use. It also comes with alternative Ligatures and styles to make your designs more attractive. "Monalliza" is suitable for branding projects and various design purposes such as business cards, name tags, and uniforms as a brand enhancement. Advertisements, posters, invitations, branding, logos, magazines, merchandise, presentations, etc.

Present the new and charming Melloner Trio, with an additional swash weight. It is suitable for additional fonts collection because it can be used for any type of design. Melloner has a beautiful script font and is very easy to use, with simple and unique characters. It is very interesting to use Melloner yourself or in combination with Melloner Fun and Melloner Happy which has a handwritten character with a brush. Melloner Fun is a handwritten font with a relaxed and unique sans serif style, while Melloner Happy has a slightly more formal serif style, plus a unique swash and lots of choices to enhance your letter design. So you get everything you need to make your lettering design. Thank you and enjoy :)

The M XiangHe Hei Simplified Chinese typeface merges traditional brush strokes with modern letterforms to carefully balance traditional calligraphy with humanist design. Named for the smooth movements of a flying crane, the M XiangHe Hei typeface is designed to glide across the page, and features strokes that are partly derived from the Kaishu calligraphic style – an everyday script which dates back hundreds of years. Seol Sans features Neue Frutiger for its Latin glyphs, and works harmoniously with Neue Frutiger World and Monotype’s CJK typefaces Tazugane Info (Japanese) and Seol Sans (Korean). M XiangHe Hei is a great choice for global brands using sans serif Latin typefaces looking to maintain their visual identity, and communicate with a consistent tone of voice with Simplified Chinese.

GR Read is a very cool font for headline designs with a bold and bold theme. With a strong display and clean nodes make text in the design become more character and great. Inspired by headline trends in a poster or magazine today. So that with a firm and a very modern style makes your design better! This font is formed from the headline display font of a very careful title. GR Read has about 350 flying machines. Suitable for all graphic design projects, prints, logos, posters, t-shirts, packaging, website, ticket and applies to several types of graphic design. Especially for the use of a title! Very suitable! GR Read is compatible with any software without pain, especially in headlines with GR Read pairing

Introducing our new release: Ohanlon. Ohanlon is a bold display sans with a subtle hint of reverse-contrast personality which will gives dramatic feel to your design. Packed with lots of stylistic alternate characters to let you play with various letter combinations. Go wild and experimental by combining the sans with the block or script-ish alternate letters to elevate your design game, or you can even go formal with the standard letters. Oh and also, the slanted/faux-italic version is available too. Suits best for logotype/branding, packaging design, and many other designs that need a direct punch to the face. Ohanlon is a versatile font, whether you'll go vintage or modern, this font will got your needs properly covered.

Decoral has developed its character from the Art Deco period typography and is reinterpreting it with a modern approach. This typeface is a friendly and flexible family that is fun to use. It’s consisted of 3 weights with over 650 glyphs each. Decoral also comes with special stylistic sets and swash characters that allows the user to be even more creative and playful with the type. These open up many different possibilities that certainly will spice up your design. Decoral will satisfy all your typographic needs, from book jackets to monograms, from packaging to logos, and even wedding invitations—timelessly elegant, with a distinctive flair that exudes Art Deco typography in a fresh, modern way. The wide selection of titling alternates and ligatures make copyfitting a delight.

Mondish is an elegant sans serif family that comes in five weights with matching Italics. Commonly recognized as fashionable font by its design and main purpose, Mondish is actually much more than that. Characteristic by high contrasted stems, gentle calligraphic endings of lowercase letters, slightly condensed Italics and slanted letter axis through the entire family, it leaves an impression as a designer's charming partner for a wide variety of projects. Mondish is equipped with OpenType features such as Stylistic and Contextual Alternates, Oldstyle Figures, Ordinals, Subscript and Superscript, Initial Forms, Denominator, Numerator and Fractions with Standard and Discretionary Ligatures followed with Small Caps. Beside basic and extended Latin character set, Mondish comes with Cyrillic support. Exactly 700 glyphs in total.

Pomarosa is a typographic family that consists of capital roman letters and twisted lower case letters set randomly. Each one of them is characterized by its multiple calibers and widths. Pomarosa was planned to accompany graphic works done with different techniques and materials such as hand made collages. The narrowness of its glyphs involve its audience with abstract imprecision. Its spirit was born between fabric snippets intervened with pencil and painting. Its three members work in group and also in words or phrases with a non-finished look. Regular Pomarosa and Standard Pomarosa have 260 glyphs each. Both of them simulate to have been done by a right-handed person that works with its left hand. Pomarosa dingbats has 26 illustrations useful for frames and textures.

Summer vibes are here with Surfbird! • A playful Display family with large variety options. Four styles comes with seven widths & two graphic fonts. The point of this family is getting more modern moods into a classical cowboy-western typographic. The result is a playful western slab which can be used for any design project. Home decor / mugs / t-shirts / stickers / music or podcast covers / menu's / logo's / posters. It can be playful with "western cut" and smooth styles or more serious with the sharp styles. • The Surfbird has two graphic styles. 82 decor graphic elements to add more fancy style to your design. The first one is a contour and the second is a fill for them, to get full color elements.

Bandung is A Beauty Retro Vintage Ligature font that special crafted with carefully to leverage your design project A new font that we created special for branding needs, with unique characters and awesome ligature characters are ready to add value of your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more beauty and modern. And specially for Bandung font, We prepared any ligature characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. Bandung Beauty Retro Vintage Ligature font ready with: Any options to get creative variations (combination of Ligature) Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Bandung font Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)

The M XiangHe Hei Traditional Chinese typeface merges traditional brush strokes with modern letterforms to carefully balance traditional calligraphy with humanist design. Named for the smooth movements of a flying crane, the M XiangHe Hei typeface is designed to glide across the page, and features strokes that are partly derived from the Kaishu calligraphic style – an everyday script which dates back hundreds of years. Seol Sans features Neue Frutiger for its Latin glyphs, and works harmoniously with Neue Frutiger World and Monotype’s CJK typefaces Tazugane Info (Japanese) and Seol Sans (Korean). M XiangHe Hei is a great choice for global brands using sans serif Latin typefaces looking to maintain their visual identity, and communicate with a consistent tone of voice with Traditional Chinese.¶

The Ruby Duo - a retro inspired font duo with a wide range of sans and script styles. Rugged and simple sans with a cool pair of mono line script. The main thing is the possibility of various combinations of using - from Condensed to Extra Expanded and from Light to Black. You will definitely find the best way to use in your projects with more than 50 styles. The sans has underline small caps alternates to use it with conjunctions. The script also has some alternates to change the script mood. Also, you will find a five graphic fonts with 130 elements total! A lot of vintage badge shapes and more than 100 vector vintage mood icons to use it in your badges or logos. PDF graphic navigation

The M XiangHe Hei Simplified Chinese typeface merges traditional brush strokes with modern letterforms to carefully balance traditional calligraphy with humanist design. Named for the smooth movements of a flying crane, the M XiangHe Hei typeface is designed to glide across the page, and features strokes that are partly derived from the Kaishu calligraphic style – an everyday script which dates back hundreds of years. Seol Sans features Neue Frutiger for its Latin glyphs, and works harmoniously with Neue Frutiger World and Monotype’s CJK typefaces Tazugane Info (Japanese) and Seol Sans (Korean). M XiangHe Hei is a great choice for global brands using sans serif Latin typefaces looking to maintain their visual identity, and communicate with a consistent tone of voice with Simplified Chinese.

Organic Brush, the epitome of green design, seamlessly blends handwritten finesse with organic charm. Its strokes mimic flow of nature, creating an unmistakable authenticity that resonates with eco-conscious consumers. Each letter exudes a raw, unprocessed feel, making Organic Brush the go-to font for brands committed to conveying an earthy aesthetic. With Organic Brush, the typography becomes a celebration of sustainability, mirroring the values of eco-friendly and natural product lines. The font's organic cadence is like a visual symphony of growth, perfectly harmonizing with labels, packaging, and promotional materials, as it weaves a narrative of authenticity and environmental consciousness. Elevate your brand's identity with Organic Brush, where the language of design speaks fluently in the dialect of the earth."

BIG is an elegant condensed display font created for strong and impactful headlines. It comes from a series of hand printed specimens taken from wood type found in Andrew Howard’s Studio in Porto (Portugal). A wooden type that reassembles the industrial victorian style which has now been expanded to 20 cuts, ranging from ExtraLight to Bold, with Italics and a stencil version, covering all your needs for a striking visual effect just with plain type with distinctive features and personality, standing out from the crowded world of display sans serif. The font was engineered with essential OpenType features, that allows the user to compose the headlines in two different heights, with case-sensitive punctuation, symbols and special ligatures such as “the”, “of” and “le”.

Brema is a modern Sans Serif typeface with light weight anatomy. Created for using principally in big sizes, there is perfect solution first of all for web design, but also very well for fashion magazine tittles, luxury perfumes and cosmetics, logotypes, outdoor advertising and other design projects. Opentype Brema comes with 38 beautiful Ligatures and 17 Stylistic Alternates. To get Alternate just add number 2 after character (works with activated Standard Ligatures). Or use Stylistic Alternate option for change all available characters. Ligatures works with activated Discretionary Ligatures option. Note that this features only works with lowercase letters. Multilingual Support You can use Brema for following languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

Perfume - a luxurious display pack. Perfume is a display combo pack of three styles and eight fonts. Perfume fonts are soft and clean and they have a distinguishable character. Perfume Pen is a monoline script with three weights and large x-height. Perfume Pen is equipped with automatic Contextual Alternates that keep the connections smooth. In addition Perfume Pen has Swash, Stylistic and Titling Alternates, boasting over 500 glyphs in total. Perfume Brush is a bold brush script with two weights. Perfume Brush is also equipped with Contextual Alternates to keep connections smooth and Swasha lternates for more imposing character forms. Perfume Sans is a sturdy all caps Sans with three weights. For the best price purchase the whole pack!

Keep Calm is a family of fonts developed from the now famous World War 2 poster that was designed in 1939 but never issued, then rediscovered in 2000. As well as the original Keep Calm font, the medium weight of the poster, new weights are now available – Keep Calm Book (regular weight), Heavy and Light – and each weight comes with a complimentary italic. Version 2.0 (2017) is a comprehensive update which consists of numerous refinements and improvements across all weights. The family now contains a full complement of Latin Extended-A characters, Welsh diacritics and Irish dotted consonants. The four italics have been optically corrected with revised, ‘true italic’ forms of a and f. The crown motif from the top of the Keep Calm poster is located at the plus minus ± and section § keystrokes (Alt 0177 and Alt 0167 on Windows). The lowercase g follows the Gill/Johnston eyeglass model, but also included is an alternative, single-story g at the Alt G keystroke (Alt 0169 on a Windows keyboard), the normal location of the copyright symbol which has been relocated elsewhere in the fonts. An alternative lowercase t, without the curved wedge cutaway, is provided at the Alt T (dagger) keystroke (Alt 0134 on Windows). When I first saw the Keep Calm and Carry On poster, I wrongly assumed the letters to be Gill Sans. Recent research at the National Archive by Dr. Bex Lewis of Manchester Metropolitan University has revealed that the original poster was hand drawn by the illustrator and painter, Ernest Wallcousins. The Gill Sans influence is apparent, in the R particularly, the M’s perfectly pointed vertex is redolent of Johnston’s Underground, and the most anomalous character, the C, resembles the ‘basic lettering’ of engineers that provided the vernacular sources for the Gotham typeface. Developing the Keep Calm typeface has been an exercise in extrapolation; an intriguing challenge to build a whole, high quality font family based on the twelve available capitals of the Keep Calm poster, and on similar lettering from the other two posters in the original series. This has required the creation of new lowercase letters that are believably 1939; that maintain the influence of Gill and Johnston while also hinting at the functional imperative of a wartime drawing office. Wallcousins’s lettering balanced intuitive human qualities and the pure pleasure of drawing elegant contemporary characters, against an underlying geometry of ruled lines, perfect circles, 45° terminals, and a requirement for no-nonsense clarity.

Here is a "Decorative Braille font". The initial design was indeed drawn on a K.I.S.S digital sketchpad, the Windows default drawing tool (Microsoft Paint, classic version). A. Glyph Concept The Braille 2x3 dot matrix is weaved around a diamond-shape. a.1. Each "dot" is represented by a "right-angle isocel triangle". a.2. Braille dots in Diamond Braille a.2.I. "Dots" are outside the diamond for first Braille row (Braille dots 1, 4) and third Braille row (Braille dots 3, 6). a.2.II. "Dots" are inside the diamond for second Braillle row (Braille dots 2, 5). a.3. Diamond lattice Glyphs are connected horizontally (to/bottom diamond's corners) and vertically (left/right corners) to each other (see poster 5). a.4. Special Glyphs - Space: its is either empty ("Empty cell") or a "non Braille shape" { _, ° } depending on your display needs (as explained in b.3.II) - 6 dots: { £, =, û } - 6 empty dots: { ç, ¥ } B. Font user guide b.1. Lowercase glyphs { A..Z } In these glyphs the "dots" are represented as a white right-angle isocel triangle filled with a smaller black triangle. b.2. Uppercase glyphs { a..z } In these glyphs, the "dots" are represented as an empty triangle (this is an "empty dot"). b.3. 'Space' vs 'Empty Cell' b.3.I. 'Space' - 'Space' glyph is an empty shape - '¶' glyph (at the end of each line in Microsoft Word) is also an empty shape b.3.II. 'Empty cell' glyphs: _ (underscore), ° (degree). In these glyphs there are 2 "empty dots" at top and bottom corners of the diamond, which differentiates them from regular Braille glyphs (which dont have a "dot in the middle"). b.4. Diamond Lattice To display text as a 'diamond lattice', replace each 'Space' by an 'Empty cell' (as explained in b.3.II, see poster 5) b.5. Connectors The connector glyphs allow the creation of "circuit like" designs (see poster 1). Here are the connector glyphs: { µ, à, â, ä, ã, è, é, ê, ë, î, ï } b.6. Domino feature Some Glyphs represent numbers 1..6 in a way which is similar than on dominos (see poster 6) C. Posters Poster 1: the "Font Logo", it displays "Diamond Braille" text together with the Connectors feature. Poster 2: a pangram which is published on pangra.me ( "Adept quick jog over frozen blue whisky mix" ). Poster 3: an illustration of the Domino feature. Poster 4: a DiamondBraille version of the Periodic table. Poster 5: illustration of the Diamond lattice using only 6 dots ( û ) and 6 empty dots ( ç ) glyphs.

Handmade Mr Moustache™ is designed for Great Type. · Extra thin letters, condensed and with a handwritten touch, Mr Moustache gives a warm and friendly feeling to your layout. Mix upper- and lowercase letters according to your own liking. Furthermore, choose between a hand-drawn Unicase and an almost Unicase appearance. Use Mr Moustache Display for headlines and anything BIG. Use Mr Moustache Text for small type sizes or large volumes of text. · Mr Moustache is accompanied by frames, ornaments and dingbats in regular and solid, that can be layered for multicolored effects, providing endless design-possibilities. Please download MrMoustacheAccessories.pdf to get a complete overview. If you prefer the document in Indesign, please send an email to office@buerofliegenpilz.at · Mr Moustache offers OpenType features, including contextual alternates and stylistic sets. The font family works best with frame-based layout programs that support full OpenType functionality. · For Mr Moustache Frames please note: The glyph preview in your design application may be a bit confusing due to the size of the "letters". Please download the MrMoustacheAccessories.pdf which shows all possible frame parts. Here you can easily copy and paste all the parts you need. · View other fonts from Georg Herold-Wildfellner: Sofa Serif | Sofa Sans | Mila Script Pro | Pinto | Supernett | Mr Moustache | Aeronaut | Ivory | Weingut · Language Report for MrMoustache / 175 languages supported: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Aymara, Basque, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofan, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Genoese, German, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean, Gwichin, Haitian Creole, Han, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istroromanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jerriais, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Ladin, Latin, Latino Sine, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Makhuwa, Malay, Manx, Marquesan, Meglenoromanian, Meriam Mir, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinhpatha, Nagamese Creole, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Qeqchi, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Lule, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian Lower, Sorbian Upper, Sotho Northern, Sotho Southern, Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapuk, Voro, Walloon, Waraywaray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Wikmungkan, Wiradjuri, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zulu, Zuni

This typeface is extrapolated from the ‘We the People’ calligraphy of the handwritten US Constitution Preamble which employed a style based on German Text and Square Text exemplars from George Bickham’s penmanship copy-books, the most celebrated being The Universal Penman published in 1743. The original Constitution document was transcribed onto parchment by Jacob Shallus, a Pennsylvania Assistant Clerk, over a weekend in 1787. Shallus’s biographer, Arthur Plotnik (The Man Behind the Quill, 1987), notes that he was paid $30, a modest monthly wage at the time. He also suggests that the calligraphic headings, ‘We the People’ and ‘Article’, may have been inserted by Shallus’s 14 year old trainee son, Francis, “The manner in which the ‘Article’ headings are squeezed into the space Shallus allowed for them suggests a second hand—and perhaps not a very experienced one.” The unconventional backslant of the headings would seem to support this contention, and at the end of the document there is perhaps a novice’s inconsistency in the structure of the letter n between that used for ‘done’ and those used for ‘In Witness’. However, one has to admire the elegant swagger of the wavy t, h and l which the K-Type font extends to the b, f and k. Also, the simpler, Schwabacher-style W, an enlarged version of the lowercase w, is a little less flamboyant than the capital W from the German and Square texts in Bickham’s manuals. For designers using OpenType-aware applications, the typeface includes some Alternates, including a Bickham-style W, the letters t, h and n with added flourishes, two simpler forms of the A, and a few roman numerals for numbering articles. Also some ornamental flourishes and a round middle dot/decimal point. Punctuation marks are drawn in square, calligraphic style, but an alternative round period/full stop, for use with currency and numerals, is available at the period centered position (though placed on the baseline), accessed by Shift Option 9 on a Mac, or Alt 0183 on Windows. The full phrase, ‘We the People’, has been placed at the trademark keystroke and can be accessed by Option 2 (or Shift Option 2) on a Mac, or Alt 0153 on Windows. For designers who find the backslant awkward or unpleasant, the licensed typeface also includes two additional fonts which have a vertical aspect that may be more conducive to graphic design layouts. ‘We The People Upright’ and ‘We The People Upright Bold’ both retain the distinctive style, and the heavier weight is only slightly emboldened, just enough to add some punch.

Hi! It took me almost a year to design Ecatherina script. Finally it is available to purchase! Ecatherina script is an opentype font-family (15 fonts: 5 styles for 3 line thickness) with a bonus (editable wedding invitations, menu, quotes, letters, and more) HOW TO GET ACCESS TO ALTERNATES? Absolutely easy, just type a number after any letter: a1, a2, a3 etc Capital letters have 3-4 options and more. So just type E1, E2, E3 etc and find your favourite one! I found this method the most useful when you need to experiment with design very fast. All characters are available through Glyph panel as well, even more each of the alternate letter has it’s own unicode (PUA) so you can copy/paste from Apple Font Book or Windows Character Map. Total amount of glyphs 1436. Compatible with SILHOUETTE & CRICUT DESIGN SPACE WHAT IS INCLUDED BP-Ecatherina OTF & TTF It goes with 5 weights: Thin, Medium, Regular, Bold, UltraBold BP-Ecatherina-Ex1 The only difference between previous font is that thin line is a bit thicker. BP-Ecatherina-Ex2 Even more thicker line. Help.pdf Help file with most common questions. Bonus - Ecatherina.fig with editable wedding invitations (10+ designs 5x7 inches), menu, quotes, letters. Important! You need to install Figma application (it is free) to access files. With Figma application you can import bonus files and edit the text, export as png, pdf, svg and print it. Bonus - help.pdf file with general information how to work with Figma if you are new. It is very easy application and I recommend it to you! It works with MS Word, I included example.docx file so you can understand how to work.

Pure and not-so-simple Maybe it’s the air of purity, openness and transparency that they transmit, but geometric typefaces are more popular than ever among leading brands. Based on near-perfect circles, triangles and squares, geometric letterforms look uncomplicated, even though making them readable is anything but – something the designers of the first wave of geometric fonts discovered nearly a century ago. Many of the world’s most recognisable brands in technology, retail, travel, food, manufacturing and other industries continue to be drawn to the straightforward, honest character that geometric fonts convey. Fontsmith set out in 2015 to develop a typeface in the same tradition, but optimised for the demands of modern brands – online and offline usage, readability and accessibility. And, of course, with the all-important Fontsmith x-factor built in. FS Lucas is the bold and deceptively simple result. Handle with care The letterforms of FS Lucas are round and generous, along the lines of Trajan Column lettering stripped of its serifs. But beware their thorns. Their designer, Stuart de Rozario, who also crafted the award-winning FS Millbank, wanted a contrast between spiky and soft, giving sharp apexes to the more angular letterforms, such as A, M, N, v, w and z. Among his inspirations were the colourful, geometric compositions of Frank Stella, the 1920s art deco poster designs of AM Cassandre, and the triangular cosmic element symbol, which led him to tackle the capital A first, instead of the usual H. The proportions and angles of the triangular form would set the template for many of the other characters. It was this form, and the light-scattering effects of triangular prisms, that lit the path to a name for the typeface: Lucas is derived from lux, the Latin word for light. Recommended reading Early geometric typefaces were accused of putting mathematical integrity before readability. FS Lucas achieves the trick of appearing geometric, while taking the edge off elements that make reading difficult. Perfectly circlular shapes don’t read well. The way around that is to slightly thicken the vertical strokes, and pull out the curves at the corners to compensate; the O and o of FS Lucas are optical illusions. Pointed apexes aren’t as sharp as they look; the flattened tips are an essential design feature. And distinctive details such as the open terminals of the c, e, f, g, j, r and s, and the x-height bar on the i and j, aid legibility, especially on-screen. These and many other features, the product of sketching the letterforms in the first instance by hand rather than mapping them out mechanically by computer, give FS Lucas the built-in humanity and character that make it a better, easier read all-round. Marks of distinction Unlike some of its more buttoned-up geometric bedfellows, FS Lucas can’t contain its natural personality and quirks: the flick of the foot of the l, for example, and the flattish tail on the g and j. The unusual bar on the J improves character recognition, and the G is circular, without a straight stem. There’s a touch of Fontsmith about the t, too, with the curve across the left cross section in the lighter weights, and the ampersand is one of a kind. There’s a lot to like about Lucas. With its 9 weights, perfect proportions and soft but spiky take on the classic geometric font, it’s a typeface that could light up any brand.

Pure and not-so-simple Maybe it’s the air of purity, openness and transparency that they transmit, but geometric typefaces are more popular than ever among leading brands. Based on near-perfect circles, triangles and squares, geometric letterforms look uncomplicated, even though making them readable is anything but – something the designers of the first wave of geometric fonts discovered nearly a century ago. Many of the world’s most recognisable brands in technology, retail, travel, food, manufacturing and other industries continue to be drawn to the straightforward, honest character that geometric fonts convey. Fontsmith set out in 2015 to develop a typeface in the same tradition, but optimised for the demands of modern brands – online and offline usage, readability and accessibility. And, of course, with the all-important Fontsmith x-factor built in. FS Lucas is the bold and deceptively simple result. Handle with care The letterforms of FS Lucas are round and generous, along the lines of Trajan Column lettering stripped of its serifs. But beware their thorns. Their designer, Stuart de Rozario, who also crafted the award-winning FS Millbank, wanted a contrast between spiky and soft, giving sharp apexes to the more angular letterforms, such as A, M, N, v, w and z. Among his inspirations were the colourful, geometric compositions of Frank Stella, the 1920s art deco poster designs of AM Cassandre, and the triangular cosmic element symbol, which led him to tackle the capital A first, instead of the usual H. The proportions and angles of the triangular form would set the template for many of the other characters. It was this form, and the light-scattering effects of triangular prisms, that lit the path to a name for the typeface: Lucas is derived from lux, the Latin word for light. Recommended reading Early geometric typefaces were accused of putting mathematical integrity before readability. FS Lucas achieves the trick of appearing geometric, while taking the edge off elements that make reading difficult. Perfectly circlular shapes don’t read well. The way around that is to slightly thicken the vertical strokes, and pull out the curves at the corners to compensate; the O and o of FS Lucas are optical illusions. Pointed apexes aren’t as sharp as they look; the flattened tips are an essential design feature. And distinctive details such as the open terminals of the c, e, f, g, j, r and s, and the x-height bar on the i and j, aid legibility, especially on-screen. These and many other features, the product of sketching the letterforms in the first instance by hand rather than mapping them out mechanically by computer, give FS Lucas the built-in humanity and character that make it a better, easier read all-round. Marks of distinction Unlike some of its more buttoned-up geometric bedfellows, FS Lucas can’t contain its natural personality and quirks: the flick of the foot of the l, for example, and the flattish tail on the g and j. The unusual bar on the J improves character recognition, and the G is circular, without a straight stem. There’s a touch of Fontsmith about the t, too, with the curve across the left cross section in the lighter weights, and the ampersand is one of a kind. There’s a lot to like about Lucas. With its 9 weights, perfect proportions and soft but spiky take on the classic geometric font, it’s a typeface that could light up any brand.

Quirky teen unicase handwriting with personality.

Photocopied sans serif with some attitude.

Text type with modern display shapes.

Typewriter simulation with extreme inking imperfections.

Designed after a bout with seasickness.

A headline font with medieval feel.

A grotesque with an angular design.

Clean companion included with Deviant Strain.

A friendly family with six weights.

Typewriter simulation with slight inking imperfections.

Typewriter simulation with moderate inking imperfections.

Nevermind is a revived sample of intuitive instant lettering with a decisive cut-out attitude. I use this font often with my illustrations, which resemble a similar approach in directness of style and visual language.

Earlinos is designed with thick style but still looks elegant, and works well for logos, headers, landing pages, packaging and more. Earlinos also comes with multiple language support, ligature and alternate, making it very complete.

AREA 88 is an experimental grunge style font with a unique look. The font is easily recognized with a messy, dirty texture . AREA 88 has all the features usually included in a fully professional font.

Saltine is a handwritten font with a slightly wild feeling, where the thick and thin strokes of the letters are a little erratic. Saltines also comes with OpenType features such as ligatures and stylistic alternates.