Monotype Bembo is generally regarded as one of the most handsome revivals of Aldus Manutius' 15th century roman type, but the original had no italic counterpart. The story is told that Stanley Morison commissioned Alfred Fairbank, a renowned calligrapher, to create the first italic for Bembo, which was released as metal fonts in 1929. Alfred Fairbank, however, claimed that he drew the design as an independent project and then sold his drawings to Monotype. According to him, the statement has been made that I was asked to design an italic for the Bembo roman. This is not so. Had the request been made, the italic type produced would have been different." Whichever version you believe, it was obvious that Fairbank's design - while undeniably beautiful - was not harmonious with Bembo roman. A second, more conventional italic was eventually drawn and added to the Bembo family. Fairbank's first design, which was based on the work of sixteenth-century writing master Ludovico degli Arrighi, managed to have a modest life of its own as a standalone font of metal type. It never made the leap into phototype fonts, however, and the face could have been lost, were it not for Robin Nicholas, Monotype Imaging's Head of Typography in the United Kingdom, and Carl Crossgrove, a senior designer for Monotype Imaging in the US. Nicholas and Crossgrove used the original drawings for Fairbank as the starting point for a new digital design, but this was only the beginning. They improved spacing, added subtle kerning and optimized the design for digital imaging. In addition, Nicholas created an alternative set of lowercase letters, fancy and swash capitals and enough alternate characters to personalize virtually any design project. By the time his work was complete, Nicholas and Crossgrove had created a small type family that included Fairbank, a revived version of the earlier metal font, and Fairbank Chancery, a more calligraphic rendition of the design. An additional suite of ornate caps, elegant ligatures, and beginning and ending letters accompanies both fonts, as does a full complement of lowercase swash characters. Now, instead of a failed Bembo italic, Fairbank emerges in its true glory: a sumptuous, elegant design that will lend a note of grace to holiday greetings, invitations, and any application where its Italianate beauty is called for."

Meet Haggis! Inspired by the Insular Half-Uncial and Uncial typefaces that have long been associated with Scotland, Ireland, and their Celtic cousins, Haggis is an unusual creature. Unlike traditional Uncials, he's monoline, rounded, sausagey, and distinctly lighthearted! Use him for posters, signage (especially pub signs!), kids' stuff, and packaging — anyplace a little quasi-Celtic flavor is desired, but with a fun twist. Must we say it? He's a Funcial! Tongue-in-cheek though he may be, Haggis has some great features. He comes in Lean and Overstuffed forms, and has full true small caps, standard(ish) Roman alternates for the more out-there characters, lots of ampersand forms (including a true[ish] "Et" and a Tironian and), fun quasi-Celtic bullets, and lots of ligatures. Try him out today — with some tatties and neeps!

DESCRIPTION With Skill I wanted to create something wild. Something that splashed the letters with life. To do this, I knew I'd have to break the barrier between analog and digital, so I took my best brush and started to play. Throughout the years as a type-designer I've met and become fan of many calligraphers. My belief that only a good calligrapher can make good typography (1) has become even stronger. I'm now absolutely sure that only practice improves the skill, especially in this field. So, with this in mind, I started a font which was a challenge for me because sometimes the gap between paper and screen can be gigantic. Skill is another of my attemps (2) to capture the spirit of the pointed brush, its expressiveness, the passions and fears of the artist. This font is about freedom. Freedom everywhere. Movement, velocity, passion. To achieve this, many alternates and ligatures per glyph were designed. Use it on magazines, posters, book covers, music albums, t-shirts, skates, tattoos. NOTES (1) This is mostly referred to script fonts, though text fonts made by designers with a deep calligraphic background have at least to me, an extra charm. (2) See my fonts Live and Indie. TIPS Thanks to Open-Type, the font gives the user the chance to play and get many wonderful results: In example, using the font with “discretionary ligatures” activated will give more life to the written word. Some letters will jump of the base, while others will ligate or not with the following (typical of gestural calligraphy). Adobe Illustrator is recommended. STYLES Skill is the most complete style. It has all the alternates and ligatures that can be seen in the posters and more! Skill Standard is a variant with no decorative glyphs. It has the basic alphabet and some ligatures for better legibility.

Here is my next Celtic Monograms font family. I used a lot of authentic knots and curves to imitate Insular art style. The term derives from insula, the Latin term for “island” in this period Britain and Ireland shared a largely common style different from that of the rest of Europe. I've drawn sketches set, manually vectorized it and assemble the font family. In an attempt to replicate the intricate patterns found in Celtic art, I endeavored to create a design that embodied the essence of true Celtic knot work. The interweaving lines, which were prominent motifs in Celtic art prior to the arrival of Christian influence around 450, served as the foundation for my creation. Over time, these designs seamlessly integrated into early Christian manuscripts and artwork, incorporating depictions of various elements from everyday life, including animals, plants, and even human figures. In the beginning, the patterns were intricate interwoven cords, called plaits. This particular style is often linked to the Celtic regions, but it was also widely embraced in England and spread throughout Europe through the efforts of Irish and Northumbrian monks. The utilization of the Celtic knot as a tattoo design gained popularity during the 1970s and 1980s in the United States. Consequently, it has proven to be a highly advantageous font choice for various applications such as posters, banners, and sportswear. You can also create a vintage color shift effect. Please note, you should use graphic applications such as Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, but not Microsoft Word. All you need is put Two or Three lines style initial on the top of Back style. I’m happy to present you the Rough, Two lines, Three lines, and Back styles for your design. You’ll get uppercase and numbers set. Thank you!

Artic Fiction This font was inspired from lettering design that i saw online, It was crafted by hand specially to add natural handmade feeling in its brand identity than i make it clean with pentool. If you looking for Script Monoline Font for your authentic design, this font is a great choice for that. Artic Fiction is original hand writting font its perfect for lettering design or event logotype. Opentype features Artic Fiction font is very good looking in logo, labels, t-shirt prints, product packaging, invitations, advertising and others. What includes * Multilingual support (Western European characters). This fonts works with folowing languages: English, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish. Thank you for using this font. LS

The Algerian designer Taouffik Semmad created the fonts in 1997. Taouffik Semmad grew up speaking Algerian-Arabic dialect and French, studied Russian, and is now living in Montreal. This could perhaps explain his current passion, to "find a universal writing", which he admits is a Utopian idea. Created with brush and Chinese ink, the characters of ITC Atmosphere came from Semmad's hand but only after they were fully formed in his mind's eye.

Jh Fares is a modern / simple Kufic style font. The user may notice plenty of white space around the text leading to a highly readable font. The Kufic script is one of the oldest Arabic Handwriting, first appeared in el Koufa - Iraq. The original calligraphy was derived from the Aramaic letters; later it went thru lots of enhancements. Its typical uses include decorative writings for Mosques / palaces, Magazines / Newspapers / Books titles and Greetings.

Nettally is a lovely signature font with a delicate and feminine vibe about it. This typeface gives off a sense of elegance, simplicity, and charm. Please feel free to use this typeface in your own project. This typeface was created with a refined natural touch of handwriting to produce parts and compositions that meet your demands. As a result, this typeface is ideal for crafts, children’s writing, adventure posters, and other similar applications.

Hophus Roghus is a Display Serif font, inspired by vintage brewery logos. This font family comes with a layer system: Regular, Inset and Shadow. You need to unlock the uppercase alternative character for the main course. This font will be suitable for your any design needs. Like branding, logo, sign, header, etc. So final question: what are you waiting for just looking around like that ? Buy this font asap so your urge will be fulfilled.

Introducing, HS Loxy Gold! A Stencil Bold Display Font with the strong touch. It looks heavy and boldy that can be used for all your project needs.This font can be used at any time and on any project. So, HS Loxy Gold Font can't wait to give its touch to all your design projects such as magazine, book, poster design, printing, personal branding, promotional materials, logotype, product packaging, etc. Thank You HS

Rito Regular and Italic is a clean, crisp and modern monospaced font ready to make your work shine. Its distinctive ink-trap inspired chiseled glyphs create a unique flavor that is more pronounced in the italics. Rito is not your typical monospaced boring font - from the outset the goal was to develop an exuberant, dynamic and contemporary mono-spaced font. Ideal for coding, writing and has plenty of attitude to stretch into display formats!

Hesster Mofet is what I got after writing with an old and weathered calligraphic marker on textured paper. The characters were smoothened for a clean result, but since the original sketches had such a nice rough, edgy feel to them, they were also made into a complete font set. A couple of ligatures and a Hannibal Lecter reference were thrown in the mix as well. You can get both versions at a discount.

Alleghieri was developed from several different examples of late Renaissance lettering. While it is based on a style which is clearly intended for quick, easy writing, we've preserved many of the unusual character forms and elaborations to give it a lot of personality. The result is stylish and unique, with a real feel of the Renaissance, but great readability as well. The full version includes a large selection of variant character forms and special characters.

Introducing "Froza" - a dynamic and powerful display font that captures the essence of speed, intensity, and adrenaline in the world of racing. There's some connected letters and some alternates that suitable for any graphic designs. This font support for some multilingual. Also contains uppercase A-Z and lowercase a-z, alternate character, numbers 0-9, and some punctuation. If you need help, just write me! Thanks so much for checking out my shop!

Introducing Monita Signature font is a classy and elegant script. This font was created to look as close to a natural handwritten script, as possible by including some lowercase alternates, ligature and underlines. Comes with regular and italic. Perfect for any awesome projects that need hand writing taste. This is suitable for logos, watermarks on photography, signatures, branding, advertisement, quotes, invitations, stationery, wedding design,album covers, business cards, clothing, magazines, posters, and more!

How many times have you been looking for a handwritten yet not childish font without result? We have a nice solution for you-our brand new PISAK! :) Thanks to extra thin condensed letters PISAK is easy readable and ideal for text writing. Its subtle irregularity makes it warm and friendly good for unoficial designs. If you like the shape of the letters but you need a more official and regular version see our Lalalo font.

With the intention to create a family of modern calligraphy, Vild Scapes offers different feels in different effects. The Normal option cuts back the imperfections created from freehand writing, while Inkless keeps those details. There’s also the Rust option, which imitates letterpress printing effects. In addition, the family comes in three designs: Brush (big paint brush style), Script (small paint brush style), and Marker (brush tip maker style), offering you more possibilities for creativity.

Chevane Dream is a decorative serif font, this font is inspired by starlight. The characteristic of this font is its sharpness and light weight, which makes this font look more elegant and luxurious. Chevane Dream can be used for various projects such as branding & identity, posters, magazines, logos, albums and much more. Chevane Dream also has several features including multilingual support glyphs, alternative glyphs and ligatures, this feature can make your writing look more stylish.

One in the series of fonts celebrating the Halcyon Days of Handlettering. Strongs Draughtsman is a monoline font that evokes the sensibilities of the early twentieth century. Based on a font called "architects' pen strokes" as delineated by Lawrence and Charles Strong in their The Art of Show Card Writing from 1922. Both versions of this font contain the Unicode 1252 (Latin) and Unicode 1250 (Central European) character sets, with localization for Romanian and Moldovan.

Clunic is a Blackletter font in the best traditions of Victorian Gothic revival—that is to say aesthetically marvelous but no historical basis whatsoever. The design combines the perpendicular character of medieval manuscripts with modern legibility and a healthy respect for calligraphic principles. There are alternate large and small forms of some glyphs. Clunic is ideal for use on certificates, themed invitations, posters, headings, initial capitals or sign-writing with an historic theme.

Gregean Brush is a relaxed brush font with a fine grit texture. This font has an irregular treatment between characters to give it a more realistic look. Suitable for use on title designs such as book titles, stationery designs, quotes, branding, logos, clothing, invitations, greeting cards, t-shirts, packaging designs, posters, and others. The Gregean Brush has the texture of a dry brush pen and the Solid is a slightly cleaner version. Thank You! - Gatype

Market Written is a handwriting font, created by the natural handwriting and casual-minimalist design. Crafted with the natural looks of the letterform and dynamic strokes, this font has a bouncy feel that makes it looks more playfully! Market Written is perfect for something with simple words, like menus, cards, quotes, labels, chats, short body text, books, and more. Equipped with stylistic alternates and ligatures. Write your words with Market Written! Thank you.

Maraka is a handwritten font family, drawn with a paint marker on rough paper, then scanned and turned into vector format. Maraka has a lot of alternative letters and is available in three versions: “Regular”, characterized by an unique look obtained by drawing the letters on a rough sheet, "Solid" and "Serif". Maraka is ideal for large headers, straplines and typographic compositions, but it still gives a great dynamic effect when writing wordy paragraphs.

Introducing Hello Rough Hello Rough is the perfect font for all your classical and minimalism designs. The main font file is equipped with ordinary characters. Everything is made with the natural handdrawing. So you can be sure they will work well together! It is suitable for you to use in making t-shirt design, quote, label, packaging, logo type, or long writing. Because we have compiled kerning and matrices that are tailored to your needs.

Geulwoll is a Korean word for letters. HU Geulwoll is a handwritten font that conveys a calm feeling by creating a lyrical and old atmosphere. In order to emphasize the feeling of writing with a marker, each end was made to fall diagonally, a characteristic of the marker. It is a highly readable font with a curve applied to the bent part to save the stroke order. There is 1 weight of HU Geulwoll : Medium

Airbolt is sporty, futuristic, and sharp font. It will make your design looks sporty and also futuristic design. Airbolt is a great fit for retro, futuristic, automotive, and gaming themed designs. Just look how it performs on the preview that I have provided, you will see its capabilities. But it will also work well with other themes. I can’t wait to see what you guys will come up with with using this font!

Brian Miller is a graphic designer who loves hillbilly culture, which is what inspired his popular phrase, 'country fangs!'--used to describe anyone with teeth that - well - just don't quite line up right. Git Cletus an' Jimmy Ray an' we'll hold down a piggy an' make 'er SQUEAL!!!!!--be sure t' put yer teeths in, too! Country Fang includes multiple grit patterns and appropriate "teeth" icons to spiff up any layout on the fly.

Archipad Pro is a geometric sans and slab font family, The combination of modern geometric elements make it clean and readable with the form and matching oblique. Archipad Pro Consist of 9 weight sans and 9 weight of slab, makes more free choice in writing with 36 font styles. 9 Weights Sans and Slab (Thin, Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi Bold, Bold, Extra Bold and Black) Oblique font is available Latin Pro

Monley is a groovy retro font in a bold design, so it fits any retro design project. There's a few connected letters and also alternate characters suitable for any graphic designs such as branding materials, t-shirt, print, business cards, logo, poster, photography, quotes, etc. This font has multilingual support, and besides uppercase A-Z and lowercase a-z, it contains alternate characters, numbers 0-9, and punctuation. If you need help, just write me!

Aliceson - Modern Handlettering Aliceson is the perfect font for all your handlettering designs. The main font file is equipped with ordinary characters. Everything is made with the funny brush. So you can be sure they will work well together! It is suitable for you to use in making t-shirt design, quote, label, packaging, logo type, or long writing. Because we have compiled kerning and matrices that are tailored to your needs.

HiFi is a geometric script whose genesis lies in drive-in movie theaters, vintage auto emblems and radio dials. It embraces the stylistic tenets of retro futurism and proposes that the evolution of design styles, rather than being linear, is a circular process, continually revisiting and reshaping itself. It evokes the 40s & 50s and pre-transistor electronics when you turned your radio on and waited patiently for the tubes to warm up.

»Elita« is a 100% geometric font designed on a 3 by 16 grid that makes it very slim. There are no optical tricks employed, it is purely geometric. The extreme narrow font design gives it high black and white contrast. The font is not made to write long copy, but it is perfect if you want to employ that magic between pure geometric and almost impossible to read. Just look at the samples and enjoy!

Introducing “William Milner” a modern Calligraphy font, created because it was inspired by a famous Calligraphy Writing Expert, we made it by adding digital touches to beautify it so that the result is a beautiful and stunning font. The William Milner font has Alternate characters that you can use to complete your design to make it more beautiful and aesthetic. This font is very suitable for branding, logotype, magazine covers, quotes, wedding invitations, and others.

Escape Signature was created with a brush pen by handwritten technique in natural brushing. Escape Signature is very inspired my own signature writing. Escape Signature has a simple and easy characteristic. This font is perfect for all of designs that use script and signature style. You can use it in taglines, signatures, posters, branding, advertising, invitations, greeting cards, and more. Escape Signature typeface will make your graphic designs stronger and give it more character.

Sugar Medley was originally inspired by piped icing writing on celebratory cakes. It lends itself to any project requiring a ‘controlled messy’, fun feel. It has a total of 885 glyphs, every letter has 5 alternates to create that hand lettered look. Sugar Medley also includes a full set of stylistic alternates which really goes wild with curls and swirls. These are complemented by a total of 38 ornaments including reflections and rotations.

This font is a very new typeface from 2022. It is based on biro pen writings. The name Hanka is the nick of the designer’s daughter. The family has seven weights (straight and oblique), which are OpenType sets with PostScript curves. Features include ligatures (classical and discretionary), number formats (tabular/proportional, lining/old style), fractions, old-style formats, stylistic alternates, and kerning. May you be happy with this set when creating advertisements or artistic content.

ITC Bette is a particularly elegant calligraphic design from the hand of Patty King. Refined and friendly, this vertical script appears to be drawn with a brush held delicately at a right angle to the page. The unconnected letters and flared ascenders create a feeling of spontaneity, while the design's vertical stress produces a calming counterpoint. Many capital letters drop comfortably below the baseline, and terminals echo a flick of the wrist.

Looking for a font which has a modern futuristic looks? Yes, you come to the right place. We have Sandborg to cover your needs. The characteristic of Sanborg is the digital looks of each letter. If you want to write a headline or title about technology or digital content, we suggest you to try this font. We're honored and proud if we can be the part of your special works. Thank you.

Heart Of Mine is a fun and cute handwritten font that allows you to add an adorable touch to your projects. This font is perfect for the Valentine's Day season, but also for any other time of the year when you want to add a little love and warmth to your writing. So what’s included : Basic Latin Uppercase and Lowercase Numbers, symbols, and punctuations Multilingual Support. Simple Installations works on PC & Mac

With a hand-inked look, Panhandler flows like decorative but unfussy cursive writing. The font has automatically substituting glyphs and ligatures to avoid some of the problems other connnecting scripts encounter. It also includes a set of swash capital letters and a decorative swash ending lowercase set. Panhandler is available in the OpenType format (both flavours) and will work with on all standard platforms and software. Advanced features will require OpenType compatible software.