The cool, the sans and the light: Mudstone fonts are proudly packed with nice oddities and quirks. These are definitely fonts for getting noticed, in an affirmative, authentic way. Mudstone fonts are all caps, each with at least 2 sets of uppercase letters that will cycle at the command of the contextual alternates feature. There are also stylistic alternates in each font, for that extra something. Critically cool, seriously creative, dangerously unique. Definitely trying? Cool!!

Enstars Is Beautifull Handwritten Font that has a distinctive character that is very thick and elegant to use Enstars is a relaxed and flowing handwritten script font. Incredibly versatile, this font fits a wide pool of designs, elevating them to the highest levels. Add this font to your favorite creative ideas and notice how it makes them come alive! Feature A-Z Character Set Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) Stylistic Alternates Multilingual Ligatures

Calorie Suit is a clean and super sharp comic font. Actually the use of Calorie Suit is quite wide. I'd like to dare you to use this font for massive texts, even though the real force of the font is for one liners or catchwords. Originally drawn in hand, and then cleaned up beyond recognition - but keeping the characteristics of the original sketch. You may notice influences from graffiti here and there too! :)

Osande is a modern sans serif font with neo-Grotesque touch, more homogenous forms with minimal stroke contrast. Osande the font family contains 3 basic forms: italics, obliques, and upright. Each of which has 7 different weights ( Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, and Bold ). Osande can easily be matched to an incredibly large set of projects, so add it to your creative ideas and notice how it makes them stand out! Thank you.

Sweet Aloha is a cool and fashionable handwritten font. It is defined by smooth curves and is perfect for packaging or editorial designs. but also It’s ideal for branding and decorate your projects. Add this chunky lettered font to your designs and notice how it makes them come alive!. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the cute glyphs with ease! It also features a wealth of including ligatures.

“Victoria Underwood” was found within the pages of the 1923 American Type Founders specimen book. It was one of many printing fonts faithfully replicating those used on various makes and models of actual typewriters. The purpose of such type was to allow mass production of letters or notices that could appear personalized rather than shop printed. Antique Typewriter JNL is the digital version of this design, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Kersa is a stylish handwritten brush font. It is a nice choice for creating eye-catching logos, branding, and quotes. It has beautiful and well-balanced characters and as a result, it matches a wide pool of designs. Add it to your most creative ideas and notice how it makes them come alive! You’ll get : Basic Latin A-Z & a-z. Numbers, symbols, and punctuations Swashes & Ligatures Multilingual Support. Accented Characters : ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖØŒŠÙÚÛÜŸÝŽàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöøœšùúûüýÿžß Thank You.

Parula is cool and lively like its sweet warbler namesake. Hand-drawn with lots of unique personality and line variation, Parula lends itself to any creative project requiring youthful energy. With double-letter ligatures and more, Parula has lots of charming options, easily turned on or off. Whether creating a look for a fun family game or the cover of a new children's book, Parula will be noticed. Parula pairs beautifully with Turmeric!

Skidproof Is Beautifull Handwritten Font that has a distinctive character that is very thick and elegant to use Skidproof is a relaxed and flowing handwritten script font. Incredibly versatile, this font fits a wide pool of designs, elevating them to the highest levels. Add this font to your favorite creative ideas and notice how it makes them come alive! Feature A-Z Character Set Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) Stylistic Alternates Multilingual Ligatures

Dramatic Style is a delicate, elegant and flowing handwritten font. It has beautiful and well balanced characters and as a result, it matches a wide pool of designs. Add it to your most creative ideas and notice how it makes them come alive! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease! It features a varying baseline, smooth lines, gorgeous glyphs and stunning alternates.

Beauty Script is a modern interpretation of the classic formal script style. You could notice in it a special feeling due its subtle wavy rhythm to mimic the natural movement of handwritten calligraphy. Because its strong contrast and the fluidity of its traces Beauty Script is ideal to be used as headline in any media related to fashion, beauty, nature, food, pleasure, travel, luxury or wherever you required to express formality and elegance.

Fukushima is a script font that has a distinctive character that is very thick and elegant to use Fukushima is a relaxed and flowing handwritten script font. It's incredibly versatile and this font fits a wide pool of designs, elevating them to the highest levels. Add this font to your favorite creative ideas and notice how it makes them come alive! Features A-Z Character Set Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) Stylistic Alternates Multilingual Support Ligatures

Shooting star is a cool and playful handwritten font. It is defined by smooth curves and is perfect for kids theme or cheerful designs. but also It’s ideal for book, packaging and logo projects. Add this lettered font to your designs and notice how it makes them come alive!. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the cute glyphs with ease! It also features a wealth of including ligatures.

Summering is a fresh, sweet, and friendly handwritten font. Its friendly feel makes this font incredibly versatile, fitting a wide range of contexts. Its distinct and well-rounded letters make this font a masterpiece. Add it to your creative ideas and notice how it makes them stand out! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the awesome glyphs with ease! It also features a wealth of special features including ligatures.

Jerhiyof is a delicate, elegant and flowing handwritten font. It has beautiful and well balanced characters and as a result, it matches a wide pool of designs. Add it to your most creative ideas and notice how it makes them come alive! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease! It features a varying baseline, smooth lines, gorgeous glyphs and stunning alternates.

Massillo is a delicate, elegant and flowing handwritten font. It has beautiful and well balanced characters and as a result, it matches a wide pool of designs. Add it to your most creative ideas and notice how it makes them come alive! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease! It features a varying baseline, smooth lines, gorgeous glyphs and stunning alternates.

Smelly Blood is a bold and quirky display font. Add this font to your creative ideas and notice how it will make them stand out! Smelly Blood is perfect for branding, logo, invitation, stationery, social media post, product packaging, merchandise, blog design, game titles, cute style design, Book/Cover Title and more. What's Included : - Smelly Blood.otf - Multilingual Support (Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese, Spanisch, Swedish, Zulu)

Jugendstil Initials were designed by Heinrich Vogeler around 1905, based on the German blackletter tradition. A similar set of initials by Vogeler, but based on roman letters was released by Rudhardsche Geisserei of Offenbach at about this time. I believe the originals were woodcuts. The backgrounds to the letterforms may be seen as examples of Heimatkunst, an art movement within Germany that drew deliberate inspiration from the rural countryside. Like the Arts and Crafts Movement in England a little earlier, Heimatkunst may be seen, in part, as a romantic rejection of urban industrialization, while at the same time representing a back-to-roots nationalism. Like any river, it was fed by many streams. Jugendstil Initials is an experiment with which I am most pleased. It is far and away the most complex font HiH has produced and I was uncertain whether or not it could be done successfully. To oversimplify, a font is produced by creating outlines of each character, using points along the outline to define the contour. A simple sans-serif letter A with crossbar can be created using as few as 10 points. We decided to make a comparison of the number of points we used to define the uppercase A in various fonts. Cori, Gaiety Girl and Page No 508 all use 12 points. Patent Reclame uses 39 and Publicity Headline uses 43. All the rest of the A’s, except the decorative initials, fall somewhere in between. The initial letters run from 48 points for Schnorr Initials to 255 for Morris Initials Two, with 150 being about average. Then there is a jump to 418 points for Morris Initials One and, finally, to 1626 points for Jugendstil Initials. And this was only after we selectively simplified the designs so our font creation software (Fontographer) could render them. The average was 1678, not including X and Y. There was no X and Y in the original design and we have provided simple stand-ins to fill out the alphabet, without trying to imitate the style of the orginal design. We did a lot of looking to find a compatible lower case. We decided that Morris Gothic from the same period was the best match in color, design and historical context. We felt so strongly about the choice that we decided to produce our Morris Gothic font for the purpose of providing a lower case for Jugendstil Initials. The long s, as well as the ligatures ch and ck are provided. at 181, 123 (leftbrace) and 125 (rightbrace) respectively. This font was a lot of work, but I think it was worth it. I hope you agree.

Initially, letterform was inspired by the gothic style of Romance decorative letters in transitional art in the Middle Ages. The conservative type in the Gothic era, especially in decorative romance, has led to the Victorian style being embedded in several forms as accents related but not forced to be combined. Rounded serif seems conventional combined with historically relevant letterform to create a harmonious blend. The art nouveau style also inspires this typeface. Approach to architectural ornamentation from 1880 to 1915, adopting the dynamic lines and curves typical of the civilization of the time. Continue time travel; we also present a more modern form influenced by the digitalization of art nouveau derivatives, familiarly called the psychedelic style. Paying homage to predecessors, we presented The Onamura font in a Japanese Ukiyo-e style that influenced the fine arts movement that broke old conservative art in Europe. We designed this font carefully with the information about the Middle Ages, Ukiyo-E, & Art Nouveau that greatly influenced art worldwide. In this font family, there are collaboration vibes. Both are the basis of the phenomenal blend of idealism between western and Japanese artists. Consisting of 10 fonts in 10 weights, it features an extended charset of over 850 glyphs, covering multilingual support, including Western European, Central European, and Southeastern European. Complete with advanced open type features like stylistic alternates, discretionary ligatures, ordinals, small caps, fractions, and case-sensitive forms. The elegant and refined details seen in this font provide a new aesthetic input, satisfy contemporary style, and give a range of choices for luxury typographic projects. This font is perfectly suited for high-impact headlines. Advance open-type features are stunning on logos, branding, magazines, website, etc. Supports languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Jju, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Maori, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sami, Northern Sotho, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Taroko, Teso, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Upper Sorbian, Vunjo, Walloon, Welsh, Western Frisian, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu

Have you been looking for a script font? Do you dream of creating headings that stand out and inspire creativity, imagination, modernity, and endless fun? Get ready to transcend to a world of magic, laughter, and butterflies. Your projects will spark delight and engage everyone who sees it! Morning Vintage-A Script Font Morning Vibes is a handcrafted font inspired by designs and illustrations from urban styles. An excellent choice to add the right amount of street and retro vibes. Perfect for social media branding projects, fashion designs, printed quotes, packaging, or even as a stylish text overlay to any background image. Morning Vintage includes Multilingual Support to make your branding reach a global audience. Features: Ligatures Stylistic Set Swashes PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Din Studio

Bison is a sophisticated and strong family of sans serif fonts. Its sturdy uncompromising style is felt through controlled letterforms and modern touches. A balance of hard lines and smooth curves, each font in the family can stand on its own — dynamic and authoritative in its own right. FEATURES Bison includes ten all-caps fonts: Four weights / Italics / Outlines / Numbers & Punctuation / Extensive Language Support Bison Bold - bold and commanding Bison Demibold - the persuasive middleweight Bison Regular - a sturdy midground between light and bolds Bison Light - quiet but confident Bison Outline (Thick and Thin) - edgy and engaging USE Bison works great in any branding, logos, magazines, films. The different weights give you full range to explore a whole host of applications, while the outlined fonts give a real modern feel to any project.

Introducing MosKovi Script, an enchanting and audacious typeface that seamlessly melds the captivating essence of vintage Soviet design with modern-day allure. This font exudes an air of mystery, evoking the clandestine charm of the Cold War era while breathing new life into the world of typography. Each stroke reflects the precision and strength of Soviet engineering, transporting you to a time when secrets were whispered in dimly lit alleys, and espionage thrived beneath the iron curtain. MosKovi Script's elegant curves and sharp edges intertwine like spies engaged in a delicate dance, daring you to uncover its hidden messages. Embark on a journey through history with MosKovi Script, a typographic marvel that captures the courage and resilience of a bygone era while captivating the hearts of modern design enthusiasts worldwide.

Welcoming Arabilla, a Natural Signature Font for this blooming season Arabilla step out with natural gesture and supple line make it looks more elegant in cheerful beauty Arabilla is stunning for wedding designs, engagement invitations, flirty business cards, attractive logos, photo illustrating, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, invitation, stationery, and any projects that need handwriting taste made Arabilla will easy to use complete with numbers and punctuations also more attractive and gentle with more ligatures and alternates. It also fit to combine with Sans, Serif or another straight gentle font to serve tons beauty impression Fly up to give a try your words and see how beautiful and gentle it is Features: A-Z Character Set a-z Characters set Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) Multilingual

Jano Round™ is a sans serif type family with a friendly and synergetic profile. Designed with rounded forms, low contrast and a somewhat techie feel, Jano Round™ is a highly legible typeface suited for any text application and typographic reproduction. Jano Round™ has 18 styles and its a workhorse type system. It covers 290+ languages, including extended latin, cyrillic and greek writing systems. With over 1800 glyphs per style, its Opentype features include alternative shapes, small caps, standard and discretionary ligatures, localized forms in latin and cyrillic, case sensitive forms, numerators and denominators, proportional and tabular figures, slashed zero, fractions and more. The engaging personality and the huge set of features and glyphs makes Jano Round™ an excellent choice for branding, editorial, web and broadcast.

Meet Halagar! a versatile font family that brings a dash of masculine charm to your creative toolbox. With a diverse range of 8 weights, Halagar offers endless possibilities for your design projects. Whether you're crafting a bold brand identity, designing eye-catching packaging, laying out engaging body text, creating striking titles, composing captivating posters, or sharing vibrant social media posts, 'Halagar' has you covered. Its strong and assertive presence adds a touch of confidence to every piece. With Halagar, you're not just getting a font; you're getting a reliable design companion that elevates your work to the next level. Explore the endless potential and let 'Halagar' be your go-to choice for all things branding, packaging, and beyond. Unleash your creativity with 'Halagar' today and make your designs stand out in style!

Some words just scream without any explanation needed. Clever Medicine is one of those types of fonts. It’s a hand-drawn brush typeface that feels like it was made with care and precision, just for you and your personal style. Inspired by the idea of natural medicine as something to help you feel better, this typeface has a mysteriously sweet and engaging quality to it. This typeface also has a pronounced vintage appeal that gives it an unmistakable charm no matter what you use this font for; social media posts, signage, posters, headings for your blog—the possibilities are limitless! So what’s included : Basic Latin Uppercase and Lowercase Numbers, symbols, and punctuations Multilingual Support. PUA Encoded and fully accessible without additional design software Simple Installations works on PC & Mac Thank You and Happy Designing!

Momain Kidz is a delightful and enchanting children's typeface that captures the imagination and playfulness of young minds. Its rounded and bubbly letterforms exude a sense of innocence and joy, instantly transporting us to a world of imagination and wonder. With its slightly irregular shapes and friendly curves, Momain Kidz evokes the spontaneity and creativity of a child's handwriting, making it perfect for children's books, educational materials, and playful designs. The vibrant and cheerful colors of Momain Kidz bring a sense of fun and excitement to any project, while its legibility ensures that young readers can easily engage with the text. Momain Kidz is a whimsical and inviting typeface that sparks curiosity and invites young hearts to embark on exciting adventures in the world of reading and learning.

Hi, Everyone! Want to make your branding bold? Looking for a font that exudes fabulous, style, and adventure? Then, we got the solution for you. Introducing Vilane - A Sans Serif Font Family A package that will delight you. With this family, you will get many options to captivate, engage, and inspire your audience and clients. These fonts can be used for a host of different content needs and projects. Perfect for social media branding projects, fashion designs, printed quotes, packaging, or even as a stylish text overlay to any background image. Our font always includes Multilingual Support to make your branding reach a global audience. Inspire your audience, clients, or guests with this beautiful, statement font. Features: Multilingual Support PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Din Studio

Town is a display collection inspired by art deco and contemporary lettering. The fonts have a classic feel, with contemporary proportions, styling and details. There are eight base weights and nine decorative styles in multiple weights. The variety of styles are designed to create bespoke brand marks, stylish liquor labels, unique restaurant menus, engaging websites and fresh magazine layouts. The fonts are built on the same foundations, so the display and decorative styles can be mixed and matched while maintaining a harmonious look. Several of the styles can also be layered together; add a subtle shadow to your headline or create a full dimensional look with an inline face. The collection is rounded out with two sets of accent fonts, and a set of text weights, with matching italics.

Looking for a font that’ll make your branding radiate elegance? Something that’s versatile, stylish, and eternal? Get ready to transcend to a world of magic, laughter, and butterflies. Your branding will spark delight and engage everyone who sees it! Introducing Angella White-A Brush Font A beautifully handcrafted font combined with brush style that’ll make your guests sing and elevate your projects! Every stroke, and curve was created to entice happiness and elegance. Use it to create standout headings, promote your online sales, Instagram quotes, and even printed materials like business cards, t-shirts, or invitations. Angella White includes Multilingual Options to make your branding globally acceptable. Features: Standard Ligatures Stylistic Sets Multilingual Support PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Din Studio

Hoping to make bold and statement projects? Trying to impress your audiences or costumers? How about a mix of tropical, style, and elegance? Then check this one out. Introducing Safira March- A Serif Font Family This gorgeous font will engage your audience and make your promotions and projects stand out. It comes with 9 different weights fonts. Bring your branding to life and add a touch of modernity and style with Safira March. Use it for headings, logos, business cards, printed quotes, invitations of all sorts, cards, packaging, and your website or social media branding. Our font always includes Multilingual option to make your branding globally recognized. Features: Standard Ligatures Stylistic Sets Multilingual Support (91 languages) PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Din Studio

Your branding missing something that makes people amaze? Looking for an elegant font to attract your audiences or customers? What if we told you, you only need to change one element to engage and convert your clients? Introducing Anthony Hartman - A Modern Script Font Giving you a simple, yet gorgeous solution to your branding. This font is another level script font. It encapsulates the essence of elegance and modernity. With its clean script-type design and curved indentations, this font will take your projects to the next level! Use it for headings, logos, business cards, printed quotes, invitations of all sorts, cards, packaging, and your website or social media branding. Anthony Hartman includes Multilingual Options to make your branding globally acceptable. Features: Ligatures Alternates Swashes Multilingual Support PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation

Du is a self hommage to Uncertain Felttip. Uncertain, made in 2008, is a typeface which reproduced faithfully the style in which I am writing on copy paper, usually using the felt-tip pen. This time, I wrote the new family by the same method but using the tablet PC and the touch pen. Although, as for some characters, Uncertain differs in a form, it is the result of reflecting my hand writing. I wrote all the characters. If it is original, all the characters diverted and composed, for example, characters, such as Aacute and Agrave, are written. Different specification from Uncertain is family composition. Although Uncertain had only 3 weight, 7 weight were designed for Du. This way a user can choose his favorite weight because the variation of weights increased.

Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813) was called the King of Printers; he was a prolific type designer, a masterful engraver of punches and the most widely admired printer of his time. His books and typefaces were created during the 45 years he was the director of the fine press and publishing house of the Duke of Parma in Italy. He produced the best of what are known as modern" style types, basing them on the finest writing of his time. Modern types represented the ultimate typographic development of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They have characteristics quite different from the types that preceded them; such as extreme vertical stress, fine hairlines contrasted by bold main strokes, and very subtle, almost non-existent bracketing of sharply defined hairline serifs. Bodoni saw this style as beautiful and harmonious-the natural result of writing done with a well-cut pen, and the look was fashionable and admired. Other punchcutters, such as the Didot family (1689-1853) in France, and J. E. Walbaum (1768-1839) in Germany made their own versions of the modern faces. Even though some nineteenth century critics turned up their noses and called such types shattering and chilly, today the Bodoni moderns are seen in much the same light as they were in his own time. When used with care, the Bodoni types are both romantic and elegant, with a presence that adds tasteful sparkle to headlines and advertising. This version of Bodoni was done by Morris Fuller Benton for American Typefounders between 1907 and 1911. Although some of the finer details of the original Bodoni types are missing, this family has the high contrast and vertical stress typical of modern types. It works well for headlines, logos, advertising, and text."

Introducing Biondi Sans, a typeface that evokes the elegance and sophistication of early twentieth-century engraved nameplates. Inspired by Morris Fuller Benton’s iconic Copperplate, Biondi Sans boasts clean, geometric letterforms that exude the charm and character of old American architectural lettering. Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, Biondi Sans features small caps and six weight options, including italics, allowing you to create captivating and impactful designs. Whether you’re designing a high-end magazine or a corporate logo, Biondi Sans is the perfect choice for those seeking a classic yet contemporary typeface. Choose Biondi Sans for its timeless appeal and versatility, and elevate your designs with the utmost sophistication and style. Experience the power of Biondi Sans today and see the difference it can make in your designs! Most Latin-based European writing systems are supported, including the following languages. Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aromanian, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean, Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Dholuo, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kurdish (Latin), Latvian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Māori, Moldovan, Montenegrin, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Norwegian, Novial, Occitan, Ossetian (Latin), Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Sami, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Võro, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Wayuu, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Zapotec Zulu and Zuni.

Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813) was called the King of Printers; he was a prolific type designer, a masterful engraver of punches and the most widely admired printer of his time. His books and typefaces were created during the 45 years he was the director of the fine press and publishing house of the Duke of Parma in Italy. He produced the best of what are known as modern" style types, basing them on the finest writing of his time. Modern types represented the ultimate typographic development of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They have characteristics quite different from the types that preceded them; such as extreme vertical stress, fine hairlines contrasted by bold main strokes, and very subtle, almost non-existent bracketing of sharply defined hairline serifs. Bodoni saw this style as beautiful and harmonious-the natural result of writing done with a well-cut pen, and the look was fashionable and admired. Other punchcutters, such as the Didot family (1689-1853) in France, and J. E. Walbaum (1768-1839) in Germany made their own versions of the modern faces. Even though some nineteenth century critics turned up their noses and called such types shattering and chilly, today the Bodoni moderns are seen in much the same light as they were in his own time. When used with care, the Bodoni types are both romantic and elegant, with a presence that adds tasteful sparkle to headlines and advertising. Parma was designed by the monotype Design Team after studying Bodoni's steel punches at the Museo Bodoniana in Parma, Italy. They also referred to specimens from the "Manuale Tipografico," a monumental collection of Bodoni's work published by his widow in 1818.