❧ Useful links: Luther’s Manuscripts at the UNESCO Memory of the World at Google Arts and Culture Martin Luther font on Kickstarter (with Film about the creation) Each letter of the Martin Luther font is strictly based on original samples found in Martin Luther’s 500 year old handwritten manuscripts. Letters that occur more often for example vowels have two or more different versions stored in the font. (➶ Figure 4) These alternative forms are exchanged automatically by the font as you type, and create a vivid look that comes close to actual handwriting. The font avoids that two identical letters are placed next to each other like, for example the two “o” in the word “look”. ➸ What Historic Sources is the Font based on? Two historic documents were used to base the font on. The notes Luther took before giving his speech in Worms in 1521 and a 6 page letter he wrote immediately after to Emperor Charles V., summarising his speech (➶ Figure 2). Both documents have been added to the UNESCO “Memory of the World” and can be seen at the Google Arts and Culture website. ➸ The Creation of a Handwriting Font The creation of a handwriting font is very different from the creation of a regular font. Harald Geisler has specialised in recreating handwriting in preceding projects with Albert Einstein’s, Sigmund Freud’s and his own handwriting. His experience working with Archives and Museums has gone into this project. First Geisler analyses the movement in the writing to understand how each letter is drawn. This involves partially learning how to write like a person. In this process not the outlines of the sample are reproduced but the original movement path of the handwriting (➶ Figure 3). In a second step width and contrast is added to reproduce Martin Luther’s characteristic impetus and the writing tools used at the time. (Link: Youtube Playlist showcasing the creation of individual letters) How about signs that can’t be found in archives? Some Glyphs can not be found in 500 year old manuscripts, for example the @-sign. Towards the end of the creation one collects a profund amount of details about how a writer moves on paper and addresses certain tasks moving the pen. Keeping this knowledge in mind an improvisation can be based on similar letter forms. For example the @ sign is based on of the movement of a lowercase a and parenthesis. ➸ Features of the Martin Luther font ❶ Extensive Documentation of the creation of the font, including high quality reproduction of the used manuscripts. ❷ Additional texts from Historian Dr. Henning Jürgens and Palaeographer (and Luther handwriting expert) Prof. Ulrich Bubenheimer ❸ Alternating Letters - in handwriting every word looks a bit different. To avoid that two identical letterforms are placed next to each other (for example in the word look) the font actively changes between different versions of letters as you type. ❹ Ligatures - characteristic writing forms when two letters are combined (for example “ct”) (➶ Figure 5) ❺ Terminal Letterforms - renders a special letterform when letter is at the end of a word. (➶ Figure 8) ❻ ‘’’Initial and Medial Letterforms''' - some letterforms are different when placed in the beginning or middle of a word, for example the lowercase s. ❼ Luther Rose - is a seal Luther used to authorise his correspondence. Today it is a widely recognized symbol for Luther. When you enter the numbers of Luthers year of birth and death 14831546 using the Martin Luther PRO font, it will render a stylised version of the Luther Rose. (➶ Figure 7) ❽ Historic letter-forms - letter-forms that are specific to medieval writing around 1500. For example the long-s or h with a loop at the bottom. (➶ Figure 6) ⚑ Multi language support - see the technical information tab for a full list of supported languages. (➶ Figure 11) ➸ The different Styles explained ❋ Martin Luther PRO - this includes all features listed above and is geared towards writing texts that are more readable today. It features alternating letters to create a natural handwriting look as well as two stylistic sets accessible through the OpenType menu. Historic forms are available through the glyph picker. ❋ Martin Luther Historic - this font creates a historically correct reproduction (i.e. with long-s) of Luther’s medieval latin handwriting. It features alternating letters to create a natural handwriting look as well as two stylistic sets accessible through the OpenType menu. ❋ Martin Luther Expert-1 - Dedicated access to the first set of letters only. ❋ Martin Luther Expert-2 - Dedicated access to the second set of letters only. ❈❈❈ Family Pack - recieve all fonts at a discounted price. ❈❈❈ ➸ Kickstarter The creation and development of the Martin Luther font was financed by 500 supporters on ➸Kickstarter.

Fathia Signature is highly legible Monoline Script typeface, get touch of a bold, classic and fun Vintage Script font, With glyphs and opentype features with stylistic alternates. Can be used for various purposes. such as posters, t-shirt, signage, logos, news, badges etc. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions. Fathia Signature is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all the extra characters without having special designing software. Mac users can use Font Book , and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favourite text editor/app

BD Mothers’s main characteristic is the humorous blend of fat serifs, knobby curves and the thin square inner shapes. Perfect for use on posters, CD-jackets, titles in the range of cartoon, games and music.

Porky Mother is a spectacular decorative font with a graffiti style and bubble looks. It will elevate a wide range of design projects to the highest level, be it branding, headings, wedding designs, invitations, signatures, logotype, wall art illustration, apparel, labels, and much more!

Nothing Matter - Stylish Handwritten Font. Simple but stylish handwritten monoline font. Equipped with ligatures and alternatives characters make it more natural. Suitable for wedding invitation designs, quotes, logos and branding. Features: Uppercase, Lowercase, Numeral, Punctuation, Multilingual, Alternates, Ligatures & PUA Encoded. Multilingual contained: Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Breton, Catalan, Chiga, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Portuguese, Quechua, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Uzbek (Latin), Volapük, Vunjo, Zulu. Thanks!

"Heart Mother" is a unique and beautiful handwritten font. This font is equipped with lowercase, uppercase, ligatures, numerals, punctuation, and multilingual support. Suitable for weddings, engagements, stickers, posters, prints, invitations, and others.

Introducing LEATHER NECKS, a font born from the heart of traditional sign painting and American typography LEATHER NECKS offers clean and aged versions, along with captivating features like alternates, ligatures, and swashes. Plus, it embraces the global stage with its multilingual support Features: Leather Necks Main File Has 2 Families: Script and Sans Has 2 Styles: Regular and Aged Instructions (Access special characters, even in Cricut Design) Enjoy Designing! Dharmas Studio

Aether Rain is an elegant modern script family that fits both casual and formal use. Aether Rain includes basic latin alphabets, numerals and punctuation. Aether Rain is equipped with Standard Ligatures that work automatically and it also has Stylistic Alternates (OpenType feature) for each character - and scripts are also PUA encoded so you can access the characters also with Silhouette Studio, Cricut Design Space.

Stone Masher is a bold hand drawn brush script which is purposely made for headline, display or logotype, and signature which need a standout appearing. This font is also suitable to be applied especially in logo, and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual alternates & ligatures PUA encoded

BRATHERS is a Minimalist Elegant Sans Serif Font. An extraordinary style with minimalist and elegant in sans serif, we analyze what any designer or brand owner needs to make their brand stand out. As our focus that analyzes any typeface that helps to leverage any logo design to look more modern and unique. We prepared this font with any unique characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. BRATHERS Minimalist Elegant Sans Serif Font ready with: Regular & Bold Ready Better style of characters with a minimalist elegant curve Preview as an inspiration that you can do with BRATHER font All Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)

Cathedral is a display typeface with regular, semi bold, and bold weights with alternate glyphs for select characters. This font comes with bonus vector graphics that accompany the font. The bonus vector graphics have editable stroke weights, so they can match each type weight, or any other need you have in mind.

Bothering Script is a high-quality calligraphy typeface. This brush font's energetic style and vivid movements instantly gets the attention of its spectator, and the flow has an harmonic rhythm while maintaining activity, sharpness and clarity. Drawn and created by Mans Greback and Toni Studio in 2022, this handwritten lettering has a wild appearance and a strong personality. Use it for a youthful product layout or a fresh logotype. Use underscore _ to make a swash. Example: Wonder_woman Use multiple underscores for different swashes. Example: Cool___ness (Download required.) The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Introducing Heather Flourish font Heather Flourish is a signature font created to impress an elegant and luxurious look Heather Flourish is perfect font for branding & logo projects, such a photography studio, clothing/fashion studio, also suitable for Product Packaging, Title on your article or book cover, Stationary, and many more. this font has a ligature and swash which you can access by typing the letters a-g You can try it first by typing the name you want below, I hope you can create amazing custom personal signature or logo with this font you can buy this font at https://www.myfonts.com/foundry/krntype-studio/ Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email at krntype@gmail.com. Thank you!

A totally off-the-wall sans serif font based on the titling from one of ABC's Movie of the Week series from 1969 called Daughter of the Mind. Turn on Contextual Alternates to automatically alternate between Capitals and Lowercase as you type to really make the font dance!

Business Matter is a Playful Handwritten Font that will make your designs look modern, unique and fun. It’s perfect for labels, quotes, posters, DIY projects, branding, packaging, greeting cards, websites, photos, photography overlays, signs, window art, scrapbooking, tags and so much more!

Mother Love is a lovely romantic script font with lots of authenticities!. It has beautiful and well-balanced characters and as a result, it matches a wide pool of designs. It will turn any design project into a true stand out. 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 amazing glyphs and swashes with ease! It also features a wealth of special features including alternate glyphs and ligatures.

Hustle Faster font is very suitable for type & logotype. This font is very stylish and with 2 different styles so it gets variations and flavors that will appear more retro style and I think this is perfect for the needs of your design projects

Awesome Heather is a casual handwritten font. Perfect for greeting cards, wedding stationery, photographer watermarks logos, modern websites, apparel design and more. Awesome Heather features handwritten ligatures, beginning and end swashes for lowercase letters and heart connections

Anther Brush is a textured brush font, a contemporary approach to design, naturally handmade. It also has alternatives and ligatures that make your design more attractive. Suitable for use in designs such as clothing, invitations, book tittles, stationery designs, quotes, branding, logos, greeting cards, t-shirts, packaging designs, posters and more.

Funky Mother is a curly, yet legible font. Full romantic curves!

Proudly present Mother Bones - 90s Type Grunge Vibes, created by ikiiko. Mother Bones inspired by the handwriting style of the 90s, where the Seattle sound trended with a raw, wild and free style. With spontaneous strokes and unique lines, this font has strong vibes of 90s era. This type is very suitable for making a poster, magazine layout, brand logo, sleeve cover, party flyer, quotes, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image. What's Included? Uppercase & Lowercase Numbers & Punctuation Multilingual Support Works on PC & Mac

Soulmate Matters are the epic combination font duo, wide all caps style of the sans and elegant modern script feel nice balanced. Provide with ligatures in script makes the design letter looks nice. Honestly it works perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirts, Branding and much more. Recommended to use in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop with opentype feature. Ligatures feature is default setting in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop in Uppercase character. So when you want not to use the ligatures. Open glyphs panel : In Adobe Photoshop choose tool Window Character and then please click fi symbol In Adobe Illustrator choose tool Window Type Open Type and then please click fi symbol If you have questions, just send me a message and I’m glad to help. Have a great day, Absonstype

Introducing Billy Hatter. Billy Hatter is quirky handwritten font. It is bouncy, charming and perfect for many design projects or crafting ideas, Billy Hatter perfect for large design project like Tshirt, Advertising, bags, quotes, food , poster, fashion, custom sticker, magazine, and many others.

Keista Heather brings her own unique style to every design project. This fantastic script font is best suited for headers of all sizes, and for blocks of text that have maximum and minimum variations. Whether it's for the web, printing, motion pictures, or anything else – Keista Heather would look spectacular. This font is PUA coded which means you can access all the cute glyphs and swashes with ease! It also has many special features including alternate glyphs and ornaments.

Matter Sculpsit Is A Classic Serif Fonts Inspired By Modern and Ligature Characters. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS : Fonts and alternate : No special software required they may be used in any basic program /website apps that allows standard fonts That's it folks! You can go ahead and get cracking :) Follow My Shop For Upcoming Updates Including Additional Glyphs And Language Support. And Please Message Me If You Want Your Language Included or If There Are Any Features or Glyph Requests, Feel Free to Send me A Message. Have a Good Day !

TOMO Catcher is a sweet and friendly handwritten font. The extra narrow style makes it incredibly fitting to a large pool of designs. The only limit is your imagination!

BETTER FASTER! A handwritten display brush font. Comes with 2 styls, regular & slant. BETTER FASTER font is suitable for branding, logotype, apparel, T-shirt, Hoodie, product packaging, quotes, flyer, poster, book cover, advertising, etc. Whats Include? 1. Opentype support 2. Multilingual support 3. PUA encoded 4. Features: Uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuations, alternate, and ligatures 5. Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator Glyphs panel, or under Stylistic Alternates in the Adobe Photoshop OpenType menu, Adobe InDesign, Corel Draw, even work on Microsoft Word 6. Please message me if you’re unsure of any language support.

Good Faster is a bold script typeface. In a quirky calligraphic style, this flowing font has a rustic look and soft lines. The Good Faster family consists of four styles: Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic, complimenting each other for the greatest design possibilities. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Latter Slant is a font with awesome and classy taste, comes with natural touch, and many ligatures. We hope this font looks classy, readable, elegant, stylish, catchy and absolutely easy to use. Latter Slant is the great choice for watermark on branding, design, wedding, photography, signature, logo design, album cover, business card, quotes, and many other design project. This font is for those who want to show something smooth and modern. You may use this font if you want to attract modern buyers. The font design seems to show that you have a passion in the business and give your love to the products and services you are offered to customers. Because it is an eye-catching signature font, you can use it for a variety of purposes including wedding invitation, signature, logo, branding, poster, and many more.

Soin Sans is a geometric sans-serif typeface inspired by the design of Futura. (All packages including OTF & TTF file format) Soin Sans Pro Version : http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/stawix/soin-sans-pro

Don Sans is a sturdy display sans which evokes the invironment of old-day industrialism, steamers, locomotives and other machinery; dusty back-yard workshops and the glamorous air of backstage life. It has been inspired by various letterings crafted by former graphic workmen who would have had an idea of simple letter construction but did not really wanted to bother with detail sophistication. Hence the result is somewhat quaint and imperfect … if that is something you are willing to enjoy. The unique charme of this typeface lies in its lack of perfection. And yet it embodies a peculiar straight-forward strength and sobriety, a visual stubbornness which is certainly not over-used! Utilize Don-Sans for stationary and ads, for crisp title settings and smart identity graphics; for menus and leaflets, business cards, cutting-edge campaign eye-catchers … whatever your imagination makes of it! Don Sans is a multilingual typeface, it supports every Euro-Latin language.

This is an original typeface designed in the Arts And Crafts style. It is similar to Arts And Crafts GS, but with a more organic hand lettering style true to the Arts and Crafts movement. It is loosely inspired by the decorative lettering of Jessie Marion King, and the Scottish style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh of the Glasgow School, from which Jessie received her training.

Unlike its predecessor, Andes Neue contains a larger character set of 759 glyphs which support 219 Latin-based languages from 212 countries. The font comes in 4 variants that provide a wide stylistic range. Andes Neue is the most similar to the original Andes design. The Alt1 character set bears some similarity to the old Andes's (yet cleaner); Alt2 uses the alternates in the font as default glyphs; and Alt3 is a mixture of the other three variants that offers a balanced set of characters. Andes Neue also includes new accents and glyphs for a wider language support, and a set of small caps (in each variant). All of these features give the font a strong personality that helps make text look more appealing. Andes Neue varied weights work well with both short and mid-length text sections, providing a wide range of choices for any design project.

Andes, designed by Daniel Hernández, is a display typeface that has neo-humanist characteristics. Its different terminals, among other elements, give it a look of mixed typography. Andes is a typeface with 10 Upright weights, 10 Italics & Condensed version, ranging from Ultra Light to Black, each of the same x-height. This typeface contains additional italic glyphs (a, y, z, g) that help to emphasise text or words. Andes is based on the design of Merced and both of them share several features. This type is well-suited for use in retail, magazines, logotypes, books, etc.

Andes, designed by Daniel Hernández, is a display typeface that has neo-humanist characteristics. Its different terminals, among other elements, give it a look of mixed typography. Andes is a typeface with 10 Upright weights ,10 Italics & Condensed version, ranging from Ultra Light to Black, each of the same x-height. This typeface contains additional italic glyphs (a, y, z, g) that help to emphasise text or words. Andes is based on the design of Merced and both of them share several features.

Andes Rounded, designed by Daniel Hernández, is a display typeface that has neo-humanist characteristics. Its different terminals, among other elements, give it a look of mixed typography. Andes is a typeface with 10 Upright weights, 10 Italics & Condensed versions, ranging from Ultra Light to Black, each of the same x-height. This typeface contains additional italic glyphs (a, y, z, g) that help to emphasise text or words. Andes is based on the design of Merced and both of them share several features. This type is well-suited for use in retail, magazines, logotypes, books, etc.