Vary by Olli Meier is a geometric sans serif typeface inspired by Bulgarian Cyrillic. Vary is fun and adaptable and was built with three feelings (variations): classic, modern, and loopy, offering an opportunity for designers to be playful in their creations. The inspiration in Bulgarian Cyrillic is seen mostly in the character “g,” which was inspired by a very uncommon handwritten “?” spotted by the designer in a shop window in Sofia, Bulgaria. When he flipped this design in 180°, the Latin character ‘g’ was born for Vary Another example is the “R” in the modern stylistic set, which was inspired by the handwritten Cyrillic character “?”. Vary is available as a variable font and also comes with 10 preset instances from Hairline to ExtraBlack.

The Coast is a Sans Serif type family inspired by enamel signs from the 1920s. The Coast has a large x-height which gives the font a friendly look and guarantees great performance in very small sizes. The Coast family also works great in huge sizes since it has some very special and highly elaborated characters like the small “e” and “g” which distinguishes it from an ordinary Sans Serif. The family includes real small caps, small capital figures, medieval and monospaced lining figures for information in tables. Coast and Coast Wide both come with a variety of special characters, alternates, mathematical symbols and the unusual ligature “rt”. Also on board: the german capital letter “sharp s” = ẞ. That’s about it.

Introducing Funky Juice by Forberas Club Funky Juice is a Handwritten Script font that will make your designs look classic, Farmhouse, Boho, and Feminine. It is a great font for events, Wedding Project, fashion, apparel projects, signature, album covers, logos, branding, magazines, social media posts, advertisements, but it also works great for other projects. Add it to your fonts’ library, and it will enhance your creativity! Funky Juice is best for: - logos, branding, & Signatures. - Flyers, Album cover, Magazine, & Advertisements. - Website design , design blogs, & fashion. - Quote graphics for social media. - and also it works great for other projects. Whats included : - Character Set - Numerals and Punctuation (OpenType Standard) - Accents (Multilingual characters) If you have any questions, before or after purchase, please feel free to get in touch.

King Sans is a stylish sans serif font family. The mix of modern and vintage elements results in an elegant design. The different weights offer a variety of options to help you find the best typographic color for your project. Lighter weights are ideal for body text, while heavier weights are best for high-impact headlines. The available stylistic Ligature provide a variety of different characters that give your project design or logo an unique shape. 5 Weights (Light, Regular, Semibold, Bold, Black) 2 Styles (Regular and Italic) Basic Latin A-Z and a-z Numerals & Punctuation Stylistic Ligatures Multilingual Support for ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ... Free updates and feature additions Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoy it.

Antique Price Tags JNL is a collection of fifty-two decorative price cards recreating the look and charm of turn-of-the-last-century mercantile shops. The design is a hybrid of the decorative frame and dollar sign of antique price cards spotted in an online auction, and prices modeled from some gummed numerals once made by the Tablet and Ticket Company of Chicago under the brand name “Willson’s Gummed Letters” (after the company’s founder). Also included in the font are blank price cards with only a dollar sign, a cents sign or an empty frame, as well as a solid black frame for creating a backfill color. A companion font is available with the numbers in white on black panel backgrounds.

Cream Opera is a bold sans-serif font family. The combination of simple and geometric elements renders a bold design. It can be used to create almost all types of design projects like print materials and web design. Just use your imagination and your project will become more alive and vivid than ever with one of the Opera fonts. You want to make a greeting card or a package design, or even a brand identity? Feel free to play with all font styles, that will lead you to your next successful project. 10 styles (Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black, Outline, Inline, Stencil, and Western) Oblique font is available Numbers & Punctuation Extensive Language Support Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoy it.

Mira is a playful, decorative Art Nouveau font, released by Roos & Jung Foundry in Offenbach AM, Germany about 1902. The exaggerated serifs and the sharp contrast between the thick and thin strokes gives the page a whimsical “salt and pepper” look that is very distinctive. Mira uses our new encoding. The Euro symbol has been moved to position 128 and the Zcaron/zcaron have been added at positions 142/158 respectively. Otherwise, MIRA has our usual idiosyncratic glyph selection, with the German ch/ck instead of braces, Western European accented letters, lower case “o” and “u” with Hungarian umlaut and our usual Hand-in-Hand symbol. In addition, black-letter-style upper case “H” and “T” characters are included. Download the PDF Type Specimen for locations.

The Helina font pack comes with 9 versions, there are 6 elegant handwritten font styles, 2 sans serif fonts and ornaments. You can use and combine as you like according to your project type. There are open type features such as alternate styles, swash and ligatures. We designed this font to look elegant, classy, ​​easy to read, stylish, attractive and easy to use. Helina Font is a great choice for the design of signature logos, quotes, album covers, business cards and many other design projects. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs with ease! What's Included? 9 OTF font files Uppercase & Lowercase Numbers & Punctuation Ligature, Swashes & Alternate Ornaments Multilingual Support Regular & Italic PUA Encoded

Introducing Bilgres, a hippie-themed font that combines strong and gentle shapes with rounded edges, giving it a unique and playful style. This bold and wide font is perfect for creating eye-catching designs that stand out, whether you're designing posters, album covers, logos, or social media graphics. With extensive multilingual character support, including Latin Pro, Bilgres is versatile and adaptable to all your design needs. If you're looking to create designs that are both hippie and modern, Bilgres is the font for you. Its distinct and playful style will elevate your designs to the next level, making them pop and catch the eye. Don't wait to try out Bilgres – purchase now and start creating stunning, hippie and groovy designs that will leave a lasting impression.

Introducing Qarlient - A Modern Serif Font Qarlient is a powerful modern serif font with freshness, elegance and unique appearance. This font concept includes a wide range of inspirations, from ancient to classical to modern, making it a perfect font for low-key, modern and refined appearance. Ton of beauty and luxury alternates make this serif font very versatile. This gives any branding or logo design looks unique. Qarlient font is perfect for Magazine, Social Media, Poster, Business Card, and Many more that needs Unique touches. FEATURES - Stylistic Alternates - PUA Encode - Uppercase and Lowercase letters - Numbering and Punctuations - Multilingual Support - Works on PC or Mac - Simple Installation - Support Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, also works on Microsoft Word Hope you Like it. Thanks.

Angelliey is a beauty script based on a modern calligraphy with natural hand writing look and feel. It can be used as digital signature as well. It has many alternates and ligatures which contain many swashes that you can play with. This type of font perfectly made 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 and ligatures PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations.

Wanna to make your project spark? Ready to make your branding bold? Looking for a fabulous, stylish, andmodern font? Then, we've got what you want. Rakeny-A Serif Font Family Rakeny is a package that will makes you feeling grateful. With this family you will get many options to maximize your designs with stylish fonts. Rakeny is a package of modern serif fonts style combines with a little bit copperplate to contemporary typeface with a dancing baseline, classic and elegant touch. Can be used for various purposes.such as headings, signature, logos, menus, social media graphics, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, lable, news, posters, badges etc. Features: Multilingual Support PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Din Studio

HU Ketchup is special headline font that has waving strokes like script font. It can be used to stress out something important, and for any artwork that has retro vibe. It also looks good with food packaging, so it has diverse usage. HU Ketchup - это особый шрифт заголовка, который имеет волнистые штрихи, как шрифт скрипта. Его можно использовать, чтобы подчеркнуть что-то важное, а также для любых произведений искусства в стиле ретро. Он также хорошо смотрится с пищевой упаковкой, поэтому имеет разнообразное применение. Το HU Ketchup είναι μια ειδική γραμματοσειρά επικεφαλίδας που έχει κυματοειδείς πινελιές όπως γραμματοσειρά σεναρίου. Μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί για να τονίσει κάτι σημαντικό και για οποιοδήποτε έργο τέχνης έχει ρετρό ατμόσφαιρα. Φαίνεται επίσης καλό με τη συσκευασία τροφίμων, επομένως έχει διαφορετική χρήση.

Midgrow is a font duo package contain a monoline script and serif which looks great to be paired especially for vintage and adventure theme! This font duo 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 : Regular & Script uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual alternates & ligatures PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations.

Santiago is A Modern Chic Stylish font that special crafted with love to make your brand standout. A new font that we created special for branding needs, with unique characters and awesome ligature characters are ready to add value of your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more beauty, chic and modern. And specially for Santiago font, We prepared any ligature characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. Sagitaria Modern chic font ready with: Any options to get creative variations (combination of Ligature) Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Sagitaria font Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)

Black Bone Signature font is a classy, stylish, simple and elegant signature font. Specially designed with the concept of script fonts with natural pen strokes. The impression of soft line will be visible. I keep this font looks stylish, elegant, classy, modern, easy to use, and lots of combination options. This font easy to use and friendly for designer and it is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!. Black Bone Signature font is perfect for use as signature, branding, logos, quotes, card, wedding, social media, watermark, name tag, and many other project. Features: -Upper and Lowercase -Numerals & Symbols -Multilingual Support -Ligatures -Swash Please send a message if you have questions. Thank you !

Introducing, Dustland - a standout bold script with a touch of vintage look and feel. This type of font perfectly made to be applied especially in logo, headline, signage 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 / swashes and ligatures - PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. How to access opentype feature : letterhend.com/tutorials/using-opentype-feature-in-any-software/ Email us to letterhend@gmail.com if you need something! Happy Designing!

Here comes a New font,Introducing Bright Little Star It's Unique Display Font is a Typeface Natural Style and classy style, this font is great for your creative projects such as watermark on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, invitation,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. Bright Little Star a natural Hand Drawn feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes,photos, photography overlays, signs, window art, scrapbooking, tags and so much more! That is has charming, authentic and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text.

Royal Glamor is a modern serif font with a luxurious and elegant feel. With its thin, bold serif lines, this font can convey a professional and profound impression, while still looking friendly and inviting. The “Royal Glamor” font has a clean, regular Typeform, with symmetrical and proportionate parts. This makes them easy to read and suitable for use with a variety of media types, such as brochures, magazines and logo designs. With the right color, this font can provide a strong contrast effect, giving a design an exclusive and luxurious impression. Perfect for projects that require a serious feel, but are still modern and elegant. Features: Multilingual Support If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me follow my Instagram: @fkryall Thank you

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!

Arquitecta. The humanist typography as a rational project. Since the experimentation from the Bauhaus through modern sans history we looked for a new mix to construct a rational geometric typeface with humanist proportions suitable for text layout and continuous reading. Inspired by American & European hand lettering from the first half of the past century, Arquitecta finds his own space as a great alternative for paragraphs in front of classics like Futura, Kabel or Avant Garde. The family contains 8 upright romans and 8 italics with the following features: - European accents, Old Style Numbers, Numerators & Fractions. - Ink traps to avoid press impressing spots & hinting optimized. - Small X-height with accentuated ascenders y descenders. Upgrade Mar 2023: Contours were corrected and the set was extended to the current Latinotype.

Here comes a New font,Introducing REVOLUTA It's All Caps Display Font is a Textured Natural Style and classy style, this font is great for your creative projects such as watermark on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, invitation,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. REVOLUTA a natural Hand Drawn feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes,photos, photography overlays, signs, window art, scrapbooking, tags and so much more! That is has charming, authentic and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text.

Black Pearl is a revival of an ornate calligraphic font possibly created between 1850 and 1870. I spent two years looking for all the letters of this font; once I found them all, I immediately went to work on recreating this old classic. I was not able to find any numbers for the font, so new to this style are numbers, some punctuation and currency symbols. The Truetype and OpenType formats include an extended character set with Central and Eastern European accented letters. Extra characters in this font are left and right pointing hands in place of the less than and greater than keys; a ship’s wheel, located on the asterisk key; and a boat anchor on the bracket keys.

GOOD GOD! You have circumnavigated the globe and chosen wisely...The Grail is FOUND! Oh... no, Zoot set light to our beacon, which I've just remembered is Grail-shaped. But wait, look! There! Carved in the wall... a Legend: "Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Aramathia: He who finds the Grail must face three, maybe four, challenges. First, the path of God; Second, the word of God; Third, the breath of God, and fourth is the Font of God. Only a font that is valiant, pure of spirit and includes international characters, both European AND Cyrillic -- may find the Holy Grail... in the Castle of AARRGGGHHH… That's all it says; the guy carving it must have died before he could finish.

Sansmatica is a clean and modern sans serif typeface. It has 28 fonts that work as a multi-purpose design solution. It consists of regular and condensed fonts that can be used for different cases: regular fonts are perfect for copy while Sansmatica condensed fonts are more specific - they make emotional associations and are perfect when you want your headlines or advertising to be noticeable. Also suite great for greeting cards, posters, branding, name card, stationary, design title, blog header, art quote, typography. Sansmatica has 7 weights with light looking more modern, fashionable and the bold giving a more rugged impression is perfect for headlines, logos, quotes, and more! It is interesting to use bold condensed fonts – both vertical lines and weight draw attention.

In May of this year, I went to Japan with my (then 11 year old) son Sam. It was his dream to visit Japan, probably because of my tall tales, stemming from the time I was a tour guide! Sam really wanted to try all kinds of Japanese delicacies and one day, when walking around Tokyo, we came across a little stall selling Taiyaki. Taiyaki are fish-shaped waffle/cakes with a red bean or sweet potato filling. They are really delicious! This nice ‘oriental looking’ font was made with a broken popsicle stick and Chinese ink. You are now wondering why I always use Chinese ink and not Japanese ink. Well, I have a stash of the Chinese stuff and it’ll last me a lifetime!

Handmade is based on my own handmade lettering, which is inspired by vernacular and ornamental type. It has the naive personality from street hand-painted signs from Brazil and that charm and elegance of vintage ornamental fonts. Each letter has its own style and the font comes with 2 uppercase variations, meaning you can mix them in order to write words without repeating the same character. The font has a handmade warmth feel to it, which is ideal for projects that demand the craftsmanship look or just that modern, grunge, fun type that goes well with tons of different styles. If that was not all, Handmade also comes with an EPS vector set with 16 vector and hand-drawn ornaments! Enjoy!

Introducing NorthBay Grotesk new generation Typeface with 5 Weights. NorthBay Typeface created with the vision of to attract the audience to your brand . The finest details of this typeface are methodically and mathematically created. NorthBay is created with all the tasks of a corporate font and also for the usage in a variety of projects, including branding, logos, titles, headlines, servers, posters, screens, display, digital ads, and everything else. We are putting a lot of effort on this font as a long-term project. The Typeface includes Five Weights. Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold Features: Numerals, extended punctuation & Basic Symbols(200+ Glyphs). Uppercase Letters & Lowercase Letters 24x7 Support Thank you for taking the time to look into the font.

POSSIBLE is both sans and serif, either is possible. The typeface is a sans-serif impersonating a spur serif, or it’s a glyphic with the look and feel of a sans. This clean, contemporary family is inspired by Percy J Smith’s ’Petit Serif’ from 1928, and similarly takes inspiration from Johnston’s Underground, though more recent influences provide geometric and humanist elements that, together with the tiny micro-serifs, improve clarity and legibility. Spur serifs such as Petit Serif, Copperplate and Liberty are often caps-only fonts, but Possible contains a lowercase, as well as a full Latin Extended-A character set. Possible is available in five weights – Thin, Light, Regular, Medium and Bold – each supplied with a corresponding, optically-corrected italic.

Ready to make your branding spark? If you need to create a big, bold logo for your business, work on a poster for an event, or whatever your project may be-then this is the perfect font for you. Peach Daisy-A Sans Serif Font Peach Daisy is a new modern sans serif font. This font was carefully crafted and inspired by luxury fashion in the world. It creates a luxurious, rich, exclusive and elegant look in design. It’s thin brush strokes and imperfect baseline give it a fun and stylish. So beautiful on invitation like greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, lettering and more. Features: Ligatures Alternates Swashes PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Natha Studio

Lifeform is a modern display font created as a result of my experiments on the forms of letters. While working on the font, I had ambivalent feelings, on the one hand I liked the individual curved lines, on the other hand they seemed very strange, alien and illogical. It was like looking into a microscope and seeing something strange. I wanted to develop and study these forms as something new, because I had never seen anything similar before. The result is a contrasting font that has both curves and sharp, and smooth lines that resemble some kind of organic matter. The font is well suited for large headlines, posters and covers. Its strange design catches the eye and will not leave the viewer indifferent.

Beauville Script is a handmade pen font with a touch of comfortable elegance, inspired by the script headings of the 40s and 50s. Beauville is an upright, condensed and soft vintage script with a modern and contemporary twist. Its main characteristics are the bouncy baseline, round forms and bumpy stems. These qualities give Beauville it’s casual, friendly look and makes reference to traditional fluent handwriting. Beauville font is equipped with contextual and stylistic alternatives, swash alternatives and ligatures to create more authentic and varied connections between the letters. It has a Central European language support to fit your design. Beauville Script works perfectly in greeting cards, invitations, weddings, posters, magazines, fashion world, branding & logos, packaging, etc. It is friendly and lovable, fresh and fun to work with.

Algeon Handdrawn Display Font: An Artistic Touch in Every Letter, where uniqueness and artistic touch meet in every character. This hand-drawn display font brings warmth and intelligence to your projects. Each letter in Algeon is designed with an artistic hand, giving it a unique and authentic feel. Algeon brings elements of hand-drawn beauty into every design, creating a relaxed and memorable look. Algeon is the perfect choice for projects that want a hand feels full of character. Whether you are designing posters, greeting cards, or other creative elements, these fonts add a special touch to any work of art. Do not miss this opportunity! Get the Handrawn Algeon Display Font now and bring artistic uniqueness to every letter.

I’m here for you with my new colored font Curled Corner! Alphabet made of letters with curled corner. It’s looks like negative space style icons. Colorful gradient note paper. Modern clean vector origami font for your stickers, crypto app, nft identity, and tags. All the letters in this font are colored brightly and vividly with corner overlay. --- *You can use color fonts in PS since CC 2017, AI since CC 2018, ID since CC 2019, QuarkXPress since 2018, Pixelmator, Sketch, Affinity Designer Since macOS 10.14 Mojave, Paint.NET Windows only.* *Please note that the Canva doesn't support color fonts!* --- What's included? * Colored and B&W styles * A-Z & Numbers * BONUS icon (ligature) set If you have any questions or issues, please contact me: kaer.pro@gmail.com Best, Roman.

Courteous is absolute elegance. It's semi-condensed serif font with straight and consistent shape in every letter that will give a taste of professional feels to any design. Adding ligature will make it more stylish and modish, very suitable for fashion or beauty projects. Courteous also have the bold version that will looks more gentle. FEATURES: Regular and Bold Version Uppercase and Lowercase are the same 35 Ligature that only works with lowercase, so you can access regular letter by using only uppercase. Ligature: od ai ad ap ed eb ab ib ob ud id ub ou rt yl al le an lu ur gn ha ri ce ho ry ev in ro um ox ve as on Numbers, symbols, and punctuation Multi language support

HS Wamda is based on some modern style of Naskh calligraphy which supports Arabic, Persian and Latin with a Sans Serif with subtle round on stems and corners. The typeface has been optimized for corporate identity work, editorial design, book, magazine and modern projects when a contemporary and simple look with a similarity between Arabic and Latin is requested. It features a small number of ligatures. Its proportions allow high impact on the tightly set lines of big and small text alike. This font consists of five weights (Thin, Light, Regular, Mediums and bold). It can constitute a striking addition to the library of Arabic and Latin contemporary fonts models that meet the purposes of various designs for all tastes.

"Street of Exodus" is a monoline font with a graffiti theme and a slight shadow effect to add depth and decoration to the font. It is perfect for a wide range of urban or street-themed design projects, such as streetwear design, logo design, car/motosport decals, skateboard decals, and other similar designs. With its edgy and bold appearance, "Street of Exodus" brings a sense of energy and attitude to your designs. The font's monoline style and slight shadow effect create a 3D effect that adds visual interest and makes your designs stand out. Whether you're looking to create a strong and impactful design or add a touch of urban style to your projects, "Street of Exodus" is the font for you.

Leathery and Loopy Letterer of Legend, Richard Starkings has pointed his Apple Pencil at Procreate on his iPad and proceeded to raise the bar on lower case for this scandalous series of squiggles we had to call Rendered in the style of ShoutOut, this jaunty new Comicraft offering features both upper and lower case and recreates a pen lettering style of which we honestly thought Old Man Starkings was no longer capable! Suitable for jolly journal entries, hand-written notes to loved ones and sundry laundry lists, SCOUNDREL does more than Shout, and it does it quite quietly too! Scoundrel includes four weights (Regular, Italic, Bold & Bold Italic) with upper and lower case alphabets plus Western and Central European international characters.

Lab Sans Pro is a geometric sans-serif typeface with a technological and minimalist look and is suitable for use in large sizes. It has eight versatile weights, (from Thin to Black) including true italics for each one, and a wide range of stylish alternate characters to improve its use in different graphic contexts. The name of this typeface was inspired by an experiment, mixing a structure with calligraphic influences and completely geometrical and structured drawings. Lab Sans Pro has a wide range of OpenType® features such as: small caps, old style/titling and small caps figures, fractions, superior and inferior scripts, scientific components and ligatures. Versatile but original, precise but lively, Lab Sans Pro is a carefully crafted technological typeface designed by Tiponautas.

This antique-aged version of Monkton can be used to imitate old letterpress printed documents such as old English text. The rough edges resemble ink spread on paper to give an old look. The inspiration for this typeface family came from my childhood experiences at Monkton, amidst an historic part of the South West of England. Studies of the original incised capitals of the Trajan column in Rome were analysed and polished for this modern version. The lower case letterforms and numerals were then created in sympathy, taking their proportions from the incised letters of local gravestones. Its name honours not only the area where the original alphabet was conceived and drawn, but also the people responsible for fostering my initial interest in letters.