It is 1984 and Ridley Scott’s commercial for Apple tells us, “You’ll see why 1984 won’t be like ‘1984’.” The first Mac comes on the market. The Mac interface includes a font for use in small sizes called Chicago. The first version was designed by Susan Kare. The font’s modern grid-like character was also used for the first iPod screens, which is why this font is also associated with music. Today’s font upgrade, Little Micro Sans, is suited for small-point texts, product labels, lists of ingredients, and small captions in books, magazines, websites or applications. For online use, a variable format is particularly handy as it offers all font styles in a single file, has a faster display time and takes up less memory. Little Micro Sans is a revolution for small sizes. Specimen: http://carontwice.com/files/specimen_Little_Micro_Sans.pdf

Introducing "Blossoming Constellation," a free-spirited handwritten font that gracefully weaves the celestial allure of constellations with the untamed beauty of blossoming flowers. Each letter in this font carries the essence of a wandering spirit, capturing the whimsy and wonder of the universe. With its flowing lines and delicate details, "Blossoming Constellation" invites you to express your creativity with the boundless freedom of a free spirit.

The same procedure as every year? Again Christmas cards and greetings need to be designed... Sick of the usual Christmas imagery? Finally here is the ultimate typographical solution: 4 Christmas Pattern Fonts for display use. Playfull yet straight, Christmassy yet aesthetically pleasing. Pattern is the new sexy! Practical details: - Use in great display sizes only. The bigger – the better! - Fonts gain kind of "transparency" through the patterns – handy for use on top of images. - Characterset is caps only and supports Central, Eastern and Western European languages. - Entertaining 2 min movie explaining the basic concept and making of the Pattern Fonts. - Combine with "non-Christmassy" Pattern Fonts from the Pattern family. - Also available: a blank version in light, regular and bold.

True North is a vintage inspired typeface with 16 styles and a monoline script. True North comes with labels, extras and free banners. Extras include wild animals, catchwords, numbers, symbols, tools, maple leaves and trees. True North is a headline font with alternate capitals. Combine all 16 styles with the script, banners, labels and extras and you get a wonderful vintage design. True North Script is a playful, fully-connected monoline script full of ligatures and alternate forms. Its wide range of international characters and alternate use of the power of OpenType automatically creates the feel of hand-lettering.

While fashions come and go, style is eternal. True to its name, Zeit is an ageless serif font family, distinct yet reassuringly familiar and trustworthy. From magazines to mobile apps, branding to advertising, Zeit covers everything with poise. The font family is equipped with many handy and carefully thought features. Small capitals and small capital figures, old style figures, subscript and superscript figures and fractions are intrinsic to the design. For a bit of flair, look for the swash alternates included in the italics – along with variants of the characters g and y. Look no further, Zeit is rigorously designed from head to toe – as only true quality can stand the test of time.

ITC New Baskerville is one of many contemporary type families based on the work of John Baskerville (1706-1775), a writing master and printer from Birmingham, England, whose types were cut by the punchcutter John Handy. Baskerville produced a masterpiece folio Bible for Cambridge University, and today, his types are considered to be fine representations of eighteenth-century rationalism and neoclassicism. ITC New Baskerville is a late 20th-century interpretation of Baskerville’s style, designed by John Quaranda. It makes an excellent and very readable text face; its sharp, high-contrast forms make it suitable for elegant advertising settings as well. ITC New Baskerville® font field guide including best practices, font pairings and alternatives.

Simple and charming, Soundtrack is a lively all-caps font that brings two versions for each letter. Make your choices by simply typing the upper or lower case keys or switch on the Contextual Alternates feature on any OpenType savvy program to instantly alternate between lettershapes. Versatile, Soundtrack comes in two weights and is suited for a wide range of display applications, doing great also for small chunks of text. Handy dingbats are included in both versions. Pick them using a glyphs palette or character map or just turn on the OpenType ornaments feature for accessing them directly from your keyboard. Let music sound!

A New modern Calligraphy font, with stylish and lovely. It comes with a handy set of opentype stylistic, use the beautiful ligatures, alternates and swashes. You need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign, Microsoft Word 2010. It is perfect for logo, greetings, branding, quotes, prints, invitations and crafting. All lowercase letters include alternates, beginning & end swashes, that makes the font look fabulous! Included in the pack: Angelta Script (OTF) These are all coded with PUA Unicode. 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. Thanks and have a wonderful day :)

A New Calligraphy font, with stylish and lovely. It comes with a handy set of opentype stylistic, use the beautiful ligatures, alternates and swashes. You need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign, Microsoft Word 2010. It is perfect for logo, greetings, branding, quotes, prints, invitations and crafting. All lowercase letters include alternates, beginning & end swashes, that makes the font look fabulous! Included in the pack: Beauty Queen (OTF) These are all coded with PUA Unicode. 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. Thanks and have a wonderful day :)

Sky High script is a beautiful classic calligraphic font to add your design to be sweet, elegant, and perfect. Sky High script comes with more than 380+ glyphs per font file, to get richer in beautifying your design. This font will be appropriate for logo project, wedding invitation card, branding, home design, product packaging, quotation, logo, shirt, book cover, business card, greeting card and all other. It comes with a handy set of Opentype Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures and multiple language support. 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. Don't hesitate to drop me a message @alandyatype@gmail.com if you have any issues or queries

Transitore is a lively hand-drawn font with loads of alternates and ligatures which, managed by advanced OpenType features, help create a convincing handcrafted look. The contextual alternates feature automagically substitute glyphs, providing a cool random effect, while the discretionary ligatures feature bring on witty interlocks and curly elements. Turn on both and multiply the possibilities! But wait; there's more! This font also brings a handy set of swashes for adding that extra special touch. And yet, there are three supplementary fonts: Transitore Color A and Transitore Color B work as stackable layers for easily adding colors, while Transitore Splashes generate irresistible splashes of ink. This family is a smart and complete toolbox that offers endless ways to style your text compositions. Enjoy!

PM Orchid is a soft, flowing Art Nouveau typeface with tons of ligatures and alternates. It comes in two handy styles - clean and printed. PM Orchid Clean has sharp, clean edges with slightly rounded corners. It is designed to be used with projects that require a clean edge like wedding invitations and modern layouts. PM Orchid Printed has the feeling of vintage letterpress printing. It's slightly rough distressed edges allow it to fit in with vintage style designs that have more tactile design elements.