A Geometric Angular Sans & Italic with Pizazz The Huerto Family began as a digitization of a film typeface from LetterGraphics known simply as "Horino Bold". The original specimen included standard Capitals and Lowercase, Numerals and limited punctuation. We've fleshed out the original style and added a true italic with swash alternates to the family. Where the original had a feeling of rugged permanence to it, the italic with swashes adds a fleeting dynamic appeal. Opentype features include: - Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions. - A small collection of Standard Ligatures. - A small set of Stylistic Alternates - Swash Capitals for the Italic style only. Approx. 423 Character Glyph Set: Each style of Huerto comes with a glyphset that includes standard & punctuation, international language support, and additional features. Huerto Italic has a 565 character glyphset due to additional swash and alternates.

BLOCK CAPITALS is a square, geometric, small caps display face that avoids fashionable foibles and exudes the neutral, unpretentious functionality of time-honoured block lettering. The family has three widths (Narrow, Normal and Wide), and the Bold weights are loosely based on well-used squared nets – 3x5, 4x5 and 5x5. However, the typeface escapes its grid origins whenever necessary with slightly modulated stroke weights, sensitive spacing and careful kerning. The aim is to retain the strength and simplicity of strictly geometric characters while introducing barely perceptible refinements that add elegance and usability. That said, letters and numbers line up horizontally without overlapping the capline or baseline, even the tail of the Q does not descend below the Baseline. Diacritics are modesty proportioned, accented characters extending no farther than necessary, allowing the leading on multiple lines of text to be kept to a minimum.

Introducing Handy Quomte Elegant script typeface Handy Quomte is inspired by the classic era typeface in the 1800 era but is combined with today's era and produces a very elegant and charming typeface. The details of the “Handy Quomte” shape are very subtle and flow creating unique and gorgeous curves. Elegant script typefaces like “Handy Quomte” are very easy to apply to any design, especially those with an elegant and smooth concept, apart from that this font is very easy to use in both design and non-design programs because all alternates and glyphs are supported by Unicode (PUA). Handy Quomte contains 675 glyphs with many unique and interesting alternate swash options. In addition, there are alternates cool serif fonts for header text and description (see preview). In the poster preview all the letters are in Handy Quomte.

The Britin is a masculine modern serif. Supported by a ligature font, a unique alternative that makes it suitable for all types of projects such as branding, cover design, web design, packaging, social media, logo design and many more, so what are you waiting for! What's included? Uppercase Characters Lowercase Characters Support 75+ Language So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to comment, or send me my PM or email at khoirtypework@gmail.com Thank you for seeing

Sosa serif is a classic, elegant font with harmonious thin and bold displays, with exclusive alternatives in each letter and has a unique terminal alternate style making this font the perfect unit for your projects, for poster design, logo design, branding, marcendaise, fashion, clothes and much more. What's included? Uppercase Characters Lowercase Characters Alternates Support 75+ Language FEATURES Sosa So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to comment, or send me my PM. Thank you for seeing

Introducing, Denlia - Modern Serif which is unique in every letter and pays attention to good readability. This font is supported by a fairly complete multilingual, interesting alternative font as many as 100 alternative forms. It's a versatile font and works well in a variety of sizes. This font is perfect for branding, designs, logos, invitations, novels, books, magazines, labels, greeting/wedding cards. So what are you waiting for! What's included? Uppercase Characters Lowercase Characters Support 75+ Language 100 Alternative FEATURES Denlia

Gothic Round was first introduced as wood type by the George Nesbitt Co. in 1838. The font is a softened variation of a standard heavy Gothic typeface. The style evokes a much more recent history of the 1960s and 70s and can be seen in such places as donut shops and on children's toys as well as inspiration for such fonts as VAG Rounded. Gothic Round has not previously been available as a digital font until now. The font was digitized by Miguel Sousa from a wide variety of historical sources, including visits to the Cary Collection at RIT (Rochester, NY), WNY Book Arts Center (Buffalo, NY) and the Hamilton Wood Type Museum (Two Rivers, WI). The result is a very solid and contemporary font with a 175 year history. For more information about this release, check out the Hamilton Wood Type Foundry website .

The Republic Gothic series was among the last original wood type designs manufactured by Hamilton Manufacturing Co. It was first shown in Hamilton's New Gothic Faces in Wood Type (c. 1920). The design features a sans-serif style reminiscent of brush-formed letters popular with sign painters of the era. Originally issued in 6 different widths and in both outline and solid versions, this digital release features the "Extended" width known as Hamilton Republic Gothic series 775 & 776. The pair of outline and solid is designed as 'chromatics' that can be printed one over the other to achieve multiple color effects or individually as stylistic alternatives. This release features the first ever digitization of Republic Gothic. The two fonts are carefully aligned and kerned to allow for multicolor overlayment in any digital design program. It features a full Western and Central European Character set.

Introducing Salitia – A brand-new serif with a complete dot swash! Salitia is a modern serif family featuring tightly-spaced serifs reminiscent of the 80s and 90s, making a stylish comeback. We aimed to create the perfect font for you too! With 6 style families (Thin to Black), unique ligatures and beautiful alternates this font suitable for short text and long word such as headlines, logos, UI design, magazine text, product descriptions, and other design needs What's Included? Salitia Main File 175+ Special Alternates and Ligatures Instructions (Access special characters in all apps, even in Cricut Design) Accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word even Canva! PUA Encoded Characters. Fully accessible without additional design software Language Support: Danish, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Portuguese, Romansh, Rombo, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss-German, Uzbek (Latin) Thanks Dharmas Studio

Edgethorn is a beautiful, italic-only transitional serif typeface that was born after I became obsessed with a few small paragraphs of italic text on a type specimen broadside from 1785. Working on this type revival allowed me to delve much more deeply than I ever have before into type history and typeface classification, and I’ve included some type history for you with your download so that you can play around with the smattering of historical characters I included (like the medial s). Although it is based on centuries-old typefaces, Edgethorn is elegant, timeless, and perfect for 21st century projects. Edgethorn includes approximately 525 glyphs — including 64 standard and discretionary ligatures and a handful of contextual alternates and character variants — and supports over 200 languages. The OpenType features can be very easily accessed by using OpenType-savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign.

Introducing Roman Lover Elegant typeface + Bonus Boho Illustrations The Roman Lover Serif typeface is an elegantly themed font that has a dynamic serif style. The details of the shape of the "Roman Lover Serif Elegant typeface" are very smooth and flow to create unique and beautiful curves. Elegant Serif typefaces such as “Roman Lover Serif Elegant typeface” are very easy to apply to any design, especially those with an elegant and smooth concept, besides that this font is very easy to use both in design and non-design programs because everything changes and glyphs are supported by Unicode (PUA). The Roman Lover Serif Elegant typeface contains 573 glyphs with many unique and interesting alternative options. Plus, there's a cool serif font family for header and description text from Thin to Heavy. In the poster preview all the letters are in the Roman Lover Serif Elegant typeface.

Inspired by the elegant, rounded geometry of classic sans-serifs like Harry™ and Cirkulus™, Evcial was designed in 2000 to serve as the logo font for EVCco's website. The composition of each alpha-numeric glyph in Evcial is restricted solely to circular curves and lines of either 90 or 55 degrees, thus lending an air of chic consistency to this sophisticated typeface. Comes packaged in both TrueType and OpenType formats with standard complement of alpha-numeric glyphs, punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, and Western European diacritics.

Magic Love is an amazing hand lettered script font, looking attractive and natural. Every single letters have been carefully crafted to make your text looks beautiful. This font contains over 260 glyphs, including over 57 alternate characters with swashes. It has over 60 extended Latin characters for multilingual support. Magic Love is suitable for invitations, branding, advertising, poster design and more, and is also PUA encoded so all characters are accessible via Character Map, Font Book, or the font management program of your choice.

Griftone is a strong and modernist display typeface designed for use in large size. Inspired by style design that is a currently popular. Griftone have some letters and ligatures with an alternative style to facilitate you in determining the letter that fits your design. Griftone is perfect use for headlines, poster, cover books, t-shirt, logotype and all you needs of every idea that you will pour in this modern era. Griftone was build 520 glyphs with numbers, punctuation, symbol and support +75 languages.

Love and Heart is an amazing hand lettering font with an attractive and natural look. Every single letters has been carefully crafted to make your text looks beautiful. This font contains over 256 glyphs, including over 57 alternate characters with swashes. It has over 60 extended Latin characters for language support. Love and Heart is suitable for invitations, branding, advertising, poster design, and more. It is PUA encoded so all characters are accessible via Character Map, Font Book, or the font management program of your choice.

The history of Able’s connection with the Harry Potter phenomenon is really up in the air. It’s a catch-22 in this business - you either promote your own work and negotiate expensive exclusive licenses, or you work with a promoter and sell your designs to anyone and everyone. It could have been an in-house designer at Rowling’s publisher, Scholastic, or a freelancer who proposed Able for the headings and such. The responsible party licensed it from T26, and JK Rowling’s storytelling made it a star. (I suppose it’s ironic that there’s a whole lot of unwritten history in the typography business.) Able’s rise to fame really is a classic love story between reading and type design. If the books weren’t so popular, Able might still be waiting for some Mexican fast food chain to pick it up for packaging design. The movie deal certainly made the font all the more recognizable, what with its merchandising campaign. Popularity can also cripple a great decorative face. It’s always being recognized as “The Harry Potter Font.” It might just have to wait a few decades for the Potter phenomenon to subside to be freed from the “Chamber of Pigeonholed Fonts.” In the meantime, I’m sure that a lot of fledgling graphic design apprentices are reading their new Potter books, being charmed by the idea of type design when they’re not turning the pages too fast to notice.

ITC Chivalry is a calligraphic hybrid that honors the tradition of combining Roman capitals with italic lowercase letters. Drawn by Missouri lettering artist Rob Leuschke, who used a flat-nib pen on textured watercolor stock and then converted the drawings into a digital font, the design combines an old world" feel with "new world" legibility. A companion set of black letter caps completes the suite of characters. "I've loved drawing letters for as long as I can remember," says Leuschke. "Even in kindergarten, I tried to draw letters like my teacher." After graduating from college, Leuschke worked for a short time at a sign company in St. Louis, and in the early 1980s began working at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City. His talent as a calligrapher and lettering artist eventually brought him back to St. Louis to begin a freelance career. Since then Leuschke has created over 250 fonts, primarily for the greeting card industry, that are now being used on work for his clients all over the world. Leuschke first conceived of the face as just the black letter caps; he later added the Roman letters to give the design more versatility. The Roman caps of ITC Chivalry combined with the lowercase are well suited to blocks of copy, while the more decorative black letter caps are ideal for showcasing short text of just a few words. Both sets of capitals also make great initial letters."

Stay Bright is a modern font duo consisting of a signature style script and elegant serif font. Both fonts includes multilingual support for Western and Central Europe. Is ideal for weddings invitations, baby showers, blog website, instagram, branding, invitations, business cards, and many more. This font also include complete set of alternates and stylistic ends for lowercase characters. Stay Bright Script : It contains one set of opentype stylistic lowercase alternates and one set of opentype stylistic ends. Script version contains 55 LIGATURES. Stay Bright Font Duo contains following characters: AÁĂÂÄÀĀĄÅÃÆBCĆČÇDÐĎĐEÉĚÊËĖÈĒĘFGĢHIÍÎÏÌĪĮJKĶLĹĽĻŁMNŃŇŅŊÑOÓÔÖÒŐŌØÕŒPÞ QRŔŘŖSŚŠŞTŦŤŢUÚÛÜÙŰŪŲŮVWẂŴẄẀXYÝŶŸỲZŹŽŻ aáăâäàāąåãæbcćčçdðďđeéěêëėèēęfgģhiíîïìīįjkķlĺľļłmnńňņŋñoóôöòőōøõœpþqrŕřŗsśšş ßtŧťţuúûüùűūųůvwẃŵẅẁxyýŷÿỳzźžż

Introducing our new font the Dioksiany! Inspired by Sophisticated Fashion Style. Classy, contemporary paired font. It is free-flowing, fashionable, feminine, and friendly. Use the fonts for: logos, branding, wedding invitations, farmhouse decor, farmhouse signs, mugs, shirts, pantry labels, stickers, business cards, greeting cards, posters, social media, planner prints and websites. Dioksiany Includes: Uppercase, lowercase, numeral, punctuation & Symbol Multilingual support Stylistic alternates 55 Discretionary ligatures 10 swash (numeral keys) PUA Encoded Characters Fully accessible without additional design software. If you have any question please do not hesitate to contact me: sizimon.id@gmail.com

Not the usual bold serif, this is a bold serif that is unique, attractive and worth trying to apply to various backgrounds of your work, whether in branding, posters, logos, quotes, films, packaging and others. This serif has a magical curved shape that can be seen when you look at it, guaranteed to attract attention. Mugi Uppercase Lowercase 75+ Language So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to comment, or send me my PM or email at khoirtypework@gmail.com Thank you for seeing

Alathena was inspired by the French art decade between art nouveau to art deco, comes with 2 style, Alternative swash and Modern deco, with some modified ligatures. Available with 6 Weights, Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Bold, Extra Bold with support 75+ language (Latin Pro), and contains OpenType features. - Matching small caps for all weights. - Old Style Figure. - Full "f" Ligature set. - 20+ Optional (discretionary) ligatures. - Over 400+ Swash Characters. - Automatic Fractions. - Automatic Ordinals. - Extended language support for most Latin-based Western and Central European languages, including all the swash and alternate characters.

Macho was designed in 2010 for MAN, Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, as a part of the corporate identity designed by Sabina Era. Macho is based on the idea of modular widths of the 20th-century typesetting systems, as the Olivetti Margherita and the hot-metal Linotype machine. The basic module is 7,5 percent of the body size (75 upm units) and every letter width is up to 20 modules. Every letter has the same width across different weights. Macho includes a large set of boxes and underlines that can be overlapped on the letters.

Lakony Regular, italic and display serif lacony are combined into one into a modern serif, lacony pays attention to high readability and a soft font model so that readers feel comfortable. lakony font also has unique alternates, making it easier for you to design as unique a text as possible. However, this does not leave behind the function of the font itself, namely readability, so this font is suitable for titles, posters, branding, invitation cards and much more. Lakony Regular Lakony Italic Lakony Display Uppercase Lowercase 75+ Language Alternates Font

Introducing, Rolih. Serif typeface with a modern and classic look and feel, this font is made with a variety of unique font alternatives so that it is easy to apply, especially in logos, posters, quotes, invitations, labels, greeting / wedding cards, magazines, books, business cards, fashion, packaging and formal forms or other types of advertising. What's included? Uppercase Characters Lowercase Characters Support 75+ Language FEATURES Rolih (OTF) So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to comment, or send me my PM or email at khoirtypework@gmail.com Thank you for seeing

Carafia is a bold sans serif font. It has its own uniqueness in its small, bound letters, Supported by several alternative and ligature fonts that make it cute, unique, suitable for all types of projects such as branding, logo design, cover design, web design, packaging, social media, and many more what are you waiting for! What's included? Uppercase Characters Lowercase Characters Support 75+ Language So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to comment, or send me my PM or email at khoirtypework@gmail.com Thank you for seeing

Qulio is a bold serif style font. lifting a groovy style with a touch of modern serif so that it becomes a unique font. Qulio fits perfectly into modern vintage style. like logos, quotes, greeting cards, posters, branding. They all come with unique shapes and alternative fonts when combined, so what are you waiting for ! What's included? Uppercase Characters Lowercase Characters Support 75+ Language So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to comment, or send me my PM or email at khoirtypework@gmail.com Thank you for seeing

Platinus Script Pro is the latest example of what has now become a Sudtipos tradition: Adapting conventional calligraphic methods from the last two centuries to produce modern digital scripts for the current one. This time the resulting font explores the evolution of invitation scripts from the classic commercial lettering of the 1930s to the ideas clearly visible in the greeting cards of the 1980s and 1990s. Most base characters are made up of a single stroke, with some of the strokes driven from the top down, and some from the bottom up, putting the emphasis on the casual but precise fluidity of the hand, an emphasis magnified by the expert use of loops and swashes everywhere. The Platinus Script Pro family comes in two weights, each loaded with alternates and Latin-based langauge support, for more than 570 characters per font. Platinus Script Pro is great for product packaging, as well book covers, menus and greeting cards.

»SIGMA« is the name for the Greek voiceless »S«. It is also called the »Lunar Sigma«, in Hellenistic times the letter was simplified to »C«. I thought SIGMA was a nice name for my new, very readable and friendly Sans typeface. »SIGMA« has that classical Sans beauty with friendly touches that make it unique. You will love this font. It is a great everyday workhorse with seven weights from Thin to Bold and all the necessary weights in between. Great for body copy and headlines! With 875 Glyphs it is a truly European font designed for all Central European and Latin using countries. »SIGMA« has a set of Cyrillic that is – besides Russia – also good for Serbia, Macedonia and Ukraine. It has oldstyle- and lining-, tabular- and tabular-oldstyle-figures, many ligatures. »SIGMA« comes in Normal and Oblique, I made it Oblique instead of Italic which would have been too playful for this friendly font. Enjoy!

»SIGMA« is the name for the Greek voiceless »S«. It is also called the »Lunar Sigma«, in Hellenistic times the letter was simplified to »C«. I thought SIGMA was a nice name for my new, very readable and friendly Sans typeface. »SIGMA« has that classical Sans beauty with friendly touches that make it unique. You will love this font. It is a great everyday workhorse with seven weights from Thin to Bold and all the necessary weights in between. Great for body copy and headlines! With 875 Glyphs it is a truly European font designed for all Central European and Latin using countries. »SIGMA« has a set of Cyrillic that is – besides Russia – also good for Serbia, Macedonia and Ukraine. It has oldstyle- and lining-, tabular- and tabular-oldstyle-figures, many ligatures. »SIGMA« comes in Normal and Oblique, I made it Oblique instead of Italic which would have been too playful for this friendly font. Enjoy!

Galano Classic is the display companion of the Galano Grotesque family. Like the Grotesque family, it also pays tribute to the geometric shapes of Futura, Avant Garde, Avenir and the like. However, instead of that family’s modern interpretation of the geometric genre, Galano Classic prefers to stay in the past, a tendency characterized by a moderate x-height and details like the long stretched leg of uppercase “R”, as well as the traditional shaped lowercase “g”, to mention only a few details. Galano Classic, compared to Galano Grotesque, includes lots of redesigned glyphs and consequently adjusted kerning pairs, an extended number of alternative characters, ligatures and opentype features to match a great many design applications. It comes in 10 different weights with matching italics containing 555 glpyhs per font. Although Galano Classic was planned to be the display version of Galano Grotesque, it feels great in small sizes and long text passages, too.

Nemocon is a display font family designed by Carlos Fabian Camargo G. Nemocon It is ideal for making attractive messages. Nemocon has over 2200 glyphs distributed in 6 files OT designed from handmade lettering and usability testing. • Nemocon Script (1382 glyphs): based on the rotation of a flat tip brush. Its letters correspond to the uninterrupted calligraphic logic, as well as similar ingredients as the ones used in font Brush Script by Robert E. Smith, created for the American Type Founders in 1942. • Nemocon Tuscan (375 glyphs): Inspired by representative types of wood from the 19th century, specifically speedball brawny Tuscan capitals with serifs fishtail shaped. • Nemocon Catchwords (115 glyphs) + Nemocon Catchwords Shadow (115 glyphs): categorically inflated words with and without shadows, to accompany, highlight and prioritize. • Nemocon Dingbats (114 glyphs) + Nemocon Containers(150 glyphs): unconventional pictograms consisting warm and comforting thoughts designed to highlight words or phrases which needed multicolored illustrations or drawings in black and white.

Charcuterie is a collection of ten distinct yet related typefaces, and three ornamental typefaces. Used individually or blended with other fonts from this large family, elements of Charcuterie are well suited for headlines, titling, logos, display, packaging, signage, or advertising. The entire collection lends itself to experimentation, acting as a complete and complex toolbox, enabling you to work in extraordinarily varied ways. Each Charcuterie typeface has different, yet complementary features. Engraved features 135 swash alternates and Cursive boasts 275. Frames offers a broad and endless approach to creating frames of any proportion and style. Catchwords features nine different styles for a total of 82 glyphs. 100 Ornaments include a vast array of arrows, brackets, rules, icons, ribbons and more. See what’s included! http://bit.ly/2c5OzoK *NOTE* Basic versions DO NOT include swashes, alternates or ornaments These fonts have been specially coded for access of all the swashes, alternates and ornaments without the need for professional design software! Info and instructions here: http://lauraworthingtontype.com/faqs/

The La Chic family comes loaded with an extended character set of 575 glyphs covering a range of languages and alternate versions of letterforms for display use. La Chic's Ligature feature comes with the standard fi and fl ligatures, as well as ff, ffi and ffl ligatures. La Chic Pro's Stylistic Alternates feature adds a little more flair to the mix with mildly flourished Capitals, scripted so that when typeset in all caps, only the first Capital will be flourished to preserve readability and avoid unsightly collisions. La Chic Pro's Stylistic Alternates feature also includes automatic Initial & Final lowercase letterforms that will automatically swap to avoid any letter collisions as you type. La Chic's Swash Alternates feature takes the flair even further with elegantly flourishing Capitals, also scripted so that when typeset in all caps, only the first Capital will be flourished to preserve readability and avoid unsightly collisions. The complete lowercase is also substituted for a flourishing lowercase set. By enabling BOTH the Stylistic Alternates and Swashes features, automatic Initial & Final lowercase letterforms that will automatically swap to avoid any letter collisions as you type including the flourishing swashes lowercase. But there's still more style and flair yet. All features have Special Titling Swap-Out Ligatures for the following words "and", "of", "at", "from", "by", "and the" when typed in Parenthesis (whether typeset in Capitals or lowercase). All features also include a small batch of Special Long Flourish characters enabled by typing an underscore after each letter (IE: H_, L_, t_ ,and w_). And there's STILL MORE. 51 additional letters not blended into any of the Opentype features are accessible by way of a Glyph map in compatible programs and/or system options to customize your La Chic designs even further.

Introducing, Givani, a font with a retro look but cute impression making this font unique with a consistent thickness, making memories of the 70s era, this font has an interesting alternative as well as several ligatures to complement it. This font is perfect for creating logos, invitations, novels, books, magazines, labels, greeting / wedding cards. So what are you waiting for! What's included? Uppercase Characters Lowercase Characters Support 75+ Language FEATURES Givani (OTF) So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to comment, or send me my PM or email at khoirtypework@gmail.com Thank you for seeing

Introducing, Trimo, the clean and simple Modern Serif. This font has an attractive, clean and simple alternative and several ligatures that enhance it, making your font / logo even more attractive. This font has a thick and thin shape, making this font look unique but doesn't leave an elegant impression. This font is especially suitable for logos, invitations, novels, books, magazines, labels, greeting / wedding cards. So what are you waiting for! What's included? Uppercase Characters Lowercase Characters Support 75+ Language So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to comment, or send me my PM. Thank you for seeing

Qifila is a serif font with a retro feel with the characteristic slopes and angles of the Victorian era, has a unique letter shape for each letter and has alternative fonts and ligatures that can make your work even more attractive. This font is perfect for your creative projects like packaging, logotype, printed quotes, cards, invitations, letterheads, clothing, magazines, covers, etc. Qifila Uppercase Lowercase 75+ Language Alternates & Ligature So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to comment, or send me my PM or email at khoirtypework@gmail.com Thank you for seeing Show Less

Helvetica’s 50-year anniversary celebrations in 2007 were overwhelming and contagious. We saw the movie. Twice. We bought the shirts and the buttons. We dug out the homage books and re-read the hate articles. We mourned the fading non-color of an old black shirt proudly exclaiming that “HELVETICA IS NOT AN ADOBE FONT”. We took part in long conversations discussing the merits of the Swiss classic, that most sacred of typographic dreamboats, outlasting its builder and tenants to go on alone and saturate the world with the fundamental truth of its perfect logarithm. We swooned again over its subtleties (“Ah, that mermaid of an R!”). We rehashed decades-old debates about “Hakzidenz,” “improvement in mind” and “less is more.” We dutifully cursed every single one of Helvetica’s knockoffs. We breathed deeply and closed our eyes on perfect Shakti Gawain-style visualizations of David Carson hack'n'slashing Arial — using a Swiss Army knife, no less — with all the infernal post-brutality of his creative disturbance and disturbed creativity. We then sailed without hesitation into the absurdities of analyzing Helvetica’s role in globalization and upcoming world blandness (China beware! Helvetica will invade you as silently and transparently as a sheet of rice paper!). And at the end of a perfect celebratory day, we positively affirmed à la Shakti, and solemnly whispered the energy of our affirmation unto the universal mind: “We appreciate Helvetica for getting us this far. We are now ready for release and await the arrival of the next head snatcher.” The great hype of Swisspalooza '07 prompted a look at Max Miedinger, the designer of Neue Haas Grotesk (later renamed to Helvetica). Surprisingly, what little biographical information available about Miedinger indicates that he was a typography consultant and type sales rep for the Haas foundry until 1956, after which time he was a freelance graphic designer — rather than the full-time type designer most Helvetica enthusiasts presume him to have been. It was under that freelance capacity that he was commissioned to design the regular and bold weights of Neue Haas Grotesk typeface. His role in designing Helvetica was never really trumpeted until long after the typeface attained global popularity. And, again surprisingly, Miedinger designed two more typefaces that seem to have been lost to the dust of film type history. One is called Pro Arte (1954), a very condensed Playbill-like slab serif that is similar to many of its genre. The other, made in 1964, is much more interesting. Its original name was Horizontal. Here it is, lest it becomes a Haas-been, presented to you in digital form by Canada Type under the name of its original designer, Miedinger, the Helvetica King. The original film face was a simple set of bold, panoramically wide caps and figures that give off a first impression of being an ultra wide Gothic incarnation of Microgramma. Upon a second look, they are clearly more than that. This face is a quirky, very non-Akzidental take on the vernacular, mostly an exercise in geometric modularity, but also includes some unconventional solutions to typical problems (like thinning the midline strokes across the board to minimize clogging in three-storey forms). This digital version introduces four new weights, ranging from Thin to Medium, alongside the bold original. The Miedinger package comes in all popular font formats, and supports Western, Central and Eastern European languages, as well as Esperanto, Maltese, Turkish and Celtic/Welsh. A few counter-less alternates are included in the fonts.

IMPORTANT – Please consider the superior Carrig Pro before making a purchase decision. Carrig started its life in 1998. I was working for a design agency in Cork, Ireland and was given a new brand identity project for a lakeside hotel in County Kerry. While visiting the hotel I made various sketches of the surroundings and upon returning to the studio, it was clear that my strongest ideas for the identity would be based on these freehand drawings. I wanted a classic, rough, hand-drawn typeface to complement this style but at that time, the studio didn’t have anything suitable, so I decided to draw my own. I found a Trajan-esque typeface that I really liked the look of in an old calligraphy workbook. I set about drawing my own version and then digitised it. Once the client had seen and approved my design, I began working on creating a complete all caps typeface to use for the hotel’s stationery. With ‘carrig’ being the Gaelic word for ‘rock’, my new typeface was all the more appropriate as it had the appearance of letterforms that had been carved into stone and weathered by time. With the project completed and the client happy, Carrig then sat in my unused fonts folder for several years... but there was always a nagging feeling at the back of my mind that I should do something more with it. So, in the autumn of 2014, I finally set about doing just that and created the font family you now find at MyFonts. Carrig’s form and structure was influenced by a hybrid of Classic Roman and Garalde typeface designs. The original calligraphic elements from the 1998 version of Carrig have been retained to add personality—as can be seen in the serifs, strokes, spurs, terminals and open bowls. Perhaps its most distinctive trait is a high x-height combined with relatively short ascenders. I wanted Carrig to immediately resonate with the reader and have designed it to be familiar and friendly. I imagine designers might choose Carrig as an alternative to such typefaces as Trajan, Garamond and Baskerville. I see Carrig as primarily a display typeface for titles/headlines in printed materials. I would also love to see it being used for branding, packaging and promotional material and am keen to hear from designers who use it in their own work.