I spend a lot of time following two obsessions: packaging and hand lettering. Alongside a few other minor obsessions, those two have been my major ones for so many years now, I've finally reached the point where I can actually claim them as “obsessions” without getting a dramatic reaction from the little voice in the back of my head. When you spend so much time researching and studying a subject, you become very focused, directionally and objectively. But of course some of the research material you run into turns out to be tangential to whatever your focus happens to be at the time, so you absorb what you can from it, then shelf it — like the celebrity bobblehead that amused you for a while, but is now an almost invisible ornament eating dust and feathers somewhere in your environment. And just like the bobblehead may fall off the shelf one day to remind you of its existence, some of my lettering research material unveiled itself in my head one day for no particular reason. Hand lettering is now mostly perceived as an American art. Someone with my historical knowledge about lettering may be snooty enough to go as far as pointing out the British origins of almost everything American, including lettering — but for the most part, the contemporary perspective associates great lettering with America. The same perspective also associates blackletter, gothics and sans serifs with Germany. So you can imagine my simultaneous surprise and impatience when, in my research for one of my American lettering-based fonts, I ran into a German lettering book from 1953, by an artist called Bentele. It was no use for me because it didn't propel my focus at that particular time, but a few months ago I was marveling at what we take for granted — the sky is blue, blackletter is German, lettering is American — and found myself flipping through the pages of that book again. The lettering in that book is upbeat and casual sign making stuff, but it has a slightly strange and youthful experimentation at its heart. I suppose I find it strange because it deviates a lot from the American stuff I'm used to working with for so long now. To make a long story short, what’s inside that German book served as the semilla, which is Spanish for seed, for the typeface you see all over these pages. With Semilla, my normal routine went out the window. My life for a while was all Bezier all the time. No special analog or digital brushes or pens were used in drawing these forms. They're the product of a true Bezier process, all starting with a point creating a curve to another point, which draws a curve to another point, and so on. It’s a very time-consuming process, but at the end I am satisfied that it can get to pretty much the same results easier and more traditional methods accomplish. And as usual with my fonts, the OpenType is plenty and a lot of fun. Experimenting with substitution and automation is still a great pleasure for me. It is the OpenType that always saves me from the seemingly endless work hours every type designer must inevitably have to face at one point in his career. The artful photos used in this booklet are by French photographer and designer Stéphane Giner. He is very deserving of your patronage, so please keep an eye out for his marvelous work. I hope you like Semilla and enjoy using it. I have a feeling that it marks a transition to a more curious and flexible period in my career, but only time will tell.

In B-movie awesomeness, Air began as Grotesk vs. Grotesque. I was trying to unify the prevailing traits of German and English Grotes(que/k)s in order to make something different but familiar. I am NOT trying to reinvent Helvetica (snore), so get that out of your system. From the onset, I intended this typeface to be a true workhorse that offers infinite options and flexibility for the user. At its core, it is the maturation of the Aaux Next skeleton I developed years ago. I worked out Aaux Next to settle my issues and love for Akzidenz. With Aaux Next, I strove to be mechanical, cold and unforgiving with it. I was single, young, cocky and it fit. Now I'm married, kids, dog and have found that I've turned into a big softy. When I look at Aaux Next (and have for the past few years) I see another typeface trying to eek out. I wanted it to avoid the trappings of robotic sans, quick tricks and compromises. The typeface’s DNA needed to be drawn and not just generated on a screen — so I set aside a year. I love type. I love working with type. I hate when my options for a slanted complement is only oblique or italic. I set out to produce both to balance usage — there are more than enough reasons to prepare both and I want the user to feel free to consciously choose (and have the option to choose) the appropriate typeface for print, web, etc. That flexibility was central to my decision-making process. The Oblique is immediate and aggressive. The Italic was redrawn at a less severe angle with far more movement and, as a result, is far more congenial when paired with the Uprights. Condensed and Compressed. Yep, why not? I know I would use them. There are nine weights currently available. The logical progression of weights and the intended flexibility demanded I explore a number of light weights and their potential uses — this has produced a number of ‘light without being too light’ options that really work based on the size. The result is a robust 81-font superfamily that is functional, professional, and highly legible without compromising its personality. Pair that with over 900 characters per font that includes ligatures, discretionary ligatures, stylistic alternates, fractions, proportional/tabular lining and proportional/tabular oldstyle figures, numerators, denominators, ordinals, superiors, inferiors, small caps, case-sensitive functionality and extensive language support and you have a versatile superfamily well-suited for any project.

Violeta script- a new modern calligraphy font. This font is ideal for branding and to decorate your projects, perfect for wedding invitations or your blog. You can also create a logo or beautiful frames for your home. Or just use for your small business, book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines and more.

Vaudeville JNL started out as the re-drawing of an angular Art Deco font hand-lettered on some old publications for sale online. After completing the basic alphabet, it was realized that it just didn't look good -- so a more traditional letter form was adapted to represent the style and times.

Proudly Present, Mariogalo Font. Mariogalo is a Modern Handwritten font. Mariogalo is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Mariogalo also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank you!

Here's another experiment in minimalism, using just three basic shapes to fashion an alphabet. Use it liberally when you want an air of intrigue, or to send secret messages. This font contains the complete Latin language character set (Unicode 1252) plus support for Central European (Unicode 1250) languages as well.

Introducing by Essentials Studio Proudly Present, Mysthiqa kidsland avenue Is a Modern Script Font kidsland avenue is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email

Introducing the new Fun Handwritten Font by Aestherica Studio. Proudly Present, Pathways Pathways is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Pathways also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email.

Churchward Marianna and Churchward Marianna Shadow are two more OpenType font releases by BluHead Studio, LLC from the exciting and unique library of Joseph Churchward type designs. The round, bulbous letterforms take on individual personalities of their own. These fonts can't wait to express humor, spunk and just plain bold fun!

Sakaboom is a high contrast font with strong and clean shapes. designed to support those of you who have an interest in the design of posters, magazines, invitations and various other designs. also supported for multilingual languages. If you have a problem with our product, just take a DM free updates

Lieur is a minimalist, geometric, sans serif font suitable for logos, label designs, or even just plain body text. It comes with 2 styles, Normal and Italic, and includes Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, and Black weights to give you great possibility to harmonize the look and feel of your text.

Introducing by Timur type Proudly Present, Bloomilife Bloomilife A Handwritten Script Font Bloomilife is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Bloomilife also multilingual support. Embelish your designs with our original fonts. Enjoy the font 😉 Thank you!

Omniface a Bold Textured Calligraphy Font. Omniface is perfect for any tittles, logo, product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Omniface also come with Multi-Lingual Support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email.

Winter Candle is a Modern Handbrushed Font. Winter Candle is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Winter Candle also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank you!

Proudly Present, Holdywood Holdywood is a Calligraphy Elegant Typeface with Swashes Holdywood is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. It support multilingual. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank you!

5 pixel font for games, display and web. 748 glyphs support for over 89 languages. The 5 Cent font is designed for extremely small font size. To be precise, usual height of capital letters in this font is just 5 pixels and height of lowercase chars equals to 4 pixels.

An experimental typeface with at least 3 characters each, uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and punctuation marks. It would be great for experimenting with different typefaces to decide what's the general taste of your logo or designing a poster, music cover, etc. Or just use the typeface with exploring its alternate glyphs, enjoy!

After having finished Pondicherry font, I stayed in the 'Indian Mood' (so to speak) and named this font after another Indian city. Bombay Blue turned out to be a handsome typeface with a flirty air, suburban chic and just enough sleaze to keep everyone happy. Comes with a diacritical pantheon.

A Dancing Fool is not always meant as a positive thing - but in this case it is 100 percent positive and innocent. It's just about someone who is dancing in a foolish way. A good way to describe this font, because it is silly looking, but not in any offensive way!

Introducing by Adante.Creative Proudly Present, Aleanderica Aleanderica A Calligraphy Script Font Aleanderica is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Aleanderica also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email.

Districtside is from Tagging Graffiti with urban lifestyle inspiration. Featuring an extra swash font, you can make your project more attractive. This style is bolder, easier to read, and is perfect for titles, logos, product packaging, branding projects, magazines, social media, and even just to express words above the background.

Skytree is a modern brush script. Skytree comes in two styles with a lot of stylish alternates characters that will make this font suitable for any design project. Feature Uppercase Lowercase Number & Symbol International Glyphs Alternatives Ligatures Swashes If you need anything else just shoot me on email dedukvic@gmail.com

I just finished book 8 of The Expanse (by James S.A. Corey) and the name Takeshi popped up somewhere, so I decided to use it for this font family! Takeshi is a hand made set of fonts: a fat display font, a thinner complementary font and a doodle font. Enjoy!

Proudly Present, Lullapeach A Handwritten Quirky Font Lullapeach is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Lullapeach also come with Multi-Lingual Support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!

Serba is a fun, unique look serif display. With a modern look, it looks perfect when paired with a conventional serif/sans serif. It can be used for mastheads, posters, business identity and just about anything else. The all-inclusive also includes the complete set: All caps Multilingual character Number Punctuation

Introducing by Adante.Creative Proudly Present, Rainther Rainther A Modern Calligraphy Font Rainther is perfect for product packaging, branding project, magazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Rainther also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email.

STRAW The inspiration for this capital alphabet came from those beautiful haystacks you see in summer and the old fashioned Mikado game! We wanted to create a light, fragile and airy typeface with an optical effect. And here it is ... it’s just STRAW ! Concept/Art Direction/Design: André Toet © 2017

Proudly Presenting, Eastlovely a Script Handletter Font Eastlovely is perfect for any titles, logo, product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Eastlovely come with Multi-Lingual Support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email.

Introducing by Adante.Creative Proudly Presenting Vellaming Vellaming - A Handwritten Stylish Font Vellaming is perfect for product packaging, branding projects, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Vellaming has multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email.

Classy look font of Qanoar. a modern serif font family that drawn inspiration from elegant, modern, but classic at the same time. just have a look at this beautiful handcrafted serif typeface. Use it for logo, design, branding, and many more. Complete with ligatures alternates regular italic icon kerning multilingual support

Proudly Present, Whiteland Font. Whiteland is a Modern Handwritten Font. Whiteland is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Whiteland also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank you!

Proudly Presenting, Originthink An Urban Style Font. Originthink is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Originthink also come with Multi-Lingual Support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!

Vaporuz Strikes is more than just a typeface; it's a dynamic fusion of futuristic cyber technology and the bold, distinctive appeal of stencil design. This remarkable font is your key to crafting impactful headlines of all sizes, as well as making waves in editorial design, branding, packaging, logos, and more.

Spektakel is danish for something noisy - just like this font! Comes with 5 different versions of each letter, and these cycles as you type! A great way to make your text all wild and grungy - and still legible! Of course, without making too much noise, Spektakel has got multi language support!

Gelyti is a Beautiful Handwritten Font. Gelyti is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Gelyti also multilingual support. Alternates & Lowercase Ending Swashes. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank you!