​​​​​​​In the past, in Argentina, it was common to attend to calligraphy classes during the first years of high school. That experience left a mark on me that over the years mixed up with my practice as a type designer. “Caligrafía Inglesa” is, basically, the spanish translation for the copperplate calligraphic style. This was the initial idea that led the spirit of the project, but from the beginning it started to develop a typographic personality of its own. The new Inglesa font comes in 6 weights –from a skinny monolinear to an elegant black– with a companion set of roman caps. The harmony in both styles transmits as a result, a strong english spirit but with a fresh latin spice, assuring the perfect combination for any elegant design. Inglesa Script includes a vast amount of alternates, endings and swashes, allowing the designers to create infinite combinations making any design unique. The Inglesa family supports a wide range of Latin alphabet-based languages.

Hello everyone, this time we would like to introduce a sweet calligraphy font that we just made with passion and enthusiastic, this font comes with a touch of lovely font. Introducing this sweet calligraphy font called "alisha | Sweet Calligraphy Font", this lovely font comes with uppercase letters, lowercase letters, multilingual support, numbers and punctuation. This sweet calligraphy font is suitable for you to use as quotes, instagram posts, invitations, magazines, cards, product packaging, headers and whatever your imagination. This is the file you get on the download page: - alisha.otf - alisha.ttf note : to use alternative end text is just block end letters and select alternative letters on glyphs option. it may be used in almost any program by using your Operating System’s utilities (CharacterMap for Windows and Font Book for Mac.), as well as Illustrator, Photoshop CC 2017 and several other applications. we hope you enjoy this font. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to drop me a message :) Thank you, Best regards alphArt

Pop Manta delivers the perfect punch when impact is needed. Useful on everything from boxes of bubble gum to pro wrestling posters. Pop Manta has been described as "Morris Fuller Benton meets Roy Lichtenstein". Benton's 1903 neo-grotesque letter shapes set to a Pop Art beat. With over 650 glyphs, characters, symbols and ornaments, Pop Manta is a complete design kit in one font. A full range of accents and extras allows Pop Manta to speak well over 70 languages. Including: Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Sami, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Croatian (Latin), Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, Afar, Azerbaijani, Belarusian (Latin), Chichewa, Croatian (Latin), Gikuyu, Greenlandic, Guarani, Igo/Igbo, Kuskokwim, Luba (Ciluba), Malay, isiNdebele, Oromo, Pilipino/Tagalog, Setswana, Sidamo, Somali, Sotho (Northern and Southern), Swazi, XiTsonga, Tuareg, Uzbek (Latin), Vietnamese, Welsh, isiXhosa, Yoruba, and isiZulu.

Experience the elegance and beauty of La Villette, a captivating handwriting script font that adds a touch of sophistication to your designs. With its flowing calligraphy writing style, La Villette offers a seamless and graceful look, making it ideal for logos, labels, magazines, books, greeting cards, packaging, and more. The combination of uppercase and lowercase letters in La Villette creates a harmonious balance, allowing you to achieve a natural and handcrafted feel. Express your creativity and bring a personal touch to your projects with this versatile font. La Villette caters to a global audience with its multilingual support, ensuring that your message resonates with diverse communities. From numbers to punctuation, this font provides a comprehensive set of characters to enhance the legibility and versatility of your designs. Unlock endless possibilities with ligatures, which effortlessly connect letters and bring a seamless flow to your typography. Additionally, La Villette features PUA (Private Use Area) Encoding, granting you access to special characters and glyphs, further expanding your design options.

Rihanna is a modern calligraphy design, including Regular. This font is casual and beautiful with swash. Can be used for various purposes. such as logos, product packaging, wedding invitations, branding, headlines, signage, labels, signatures, book covers, posters, quotes, and more Rihanna includes a change of the OpenType language style, binding and international support for most Western languages. To activate the OpenType Stylistic alternative, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or newer versions. Rihanna is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all additional characters without having to design special software. Mac users can use the Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy one of the additional characters to insert into your favorite text editor / application. If you need help or have questions, please let me know. I am happy to help :) Thank you & Congratulations on Designing!

LTC Goudy Initials has been a best-seller since it was reformatted to font format by P22 in 2005. We decided that while it works very well at medium sizes, when it was used extra large, the outlines were not as true to Frederic Goudy’s 1917 drawings as they could be. We decided to redraw from the ground up—and here we have the NEW LTC Goudy Initials! Meticulously redrawn by Miranda Roth, these ornaments referenced original proofs of large sizes of Cloister Initials. In our quest for artwork for this project, we even arranged a quickly sold out recasting of the 120 point size and have produced a limited edition letterpress print from this casting This new digital version features two additional layers to allow for quick colorizing of the central letter and/or the floriated background. Registered users of the previous version of LTC Goudy Initials may upgrade to the set at a discount.

Reikna is a classy bold serif font with beautiful alternate characters and also ligature which makes it easy for you to create a logo for your personal branding and your business beautifully. Reikna is perfect for many different projects such as logos and branding, invitations, stationery, wedding invite designs, social media posts, advertisements, printed quotes, product packaging, product designs, labels, photography, watermark, special events and more. I highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe InDesign, or CorelDraw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. This font is encoded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy one of the extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor / application. We hope you enjoy the font and have fun! Thank You.

Envisage is a distinctive new grotesk design by Alex Kaczun. Characterized by distinct details throughout as particularly visable in the capitals A, H and N. There is a more organic and natural feel to the overall design as in the sutle curves introduced in many of the lower case letter forms, specifically the a, h, m and n. And, especially evident in the warm overall curves within the l‘case g. In addition, incorporating flexibility in form and function, Alex has also included alternate letter forms in this OpenType font; allowing the graphic designer a choice in the overall look and feel. Envisage has impact and zeal. It's a wonderful choice for a distinctively unique headline treatment, and works equally well in text in a large range of point sizes. Use this friendlier sans serif as an alternate to Futura and Gill Sans. We think you will like what you see. The large Pro font character set supports most Central European and many Eastern European languages.

Introducing the new font lesthary - Sweet Handwritten Calligraphy. This font suitable for use in a variety of design fields, such as event advertisements, product promotions, book titles, activity titles, logos, adventure, and others. This font can when paired with serif font types will make your design project more beautiful and perfect. Features: - Uppercase - Lowercase - Number & punctuations - Multilingual - Ligatures, swashes and alternates character - PUA encoded I highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType featuresand Glyphs panels such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe InDesign, or CorelDraw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. This font is encoded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access toall additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy one of the extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor / application. I hope you enjoy the font, thank you.

The Carrigallen family of fonts has roots in Megalithic and Celtic Ireland. It has six weights—Light, Regular and Bold and their corresponding italics. The distinctiveness of the Carrigallen family, is in it's sculpted, spiral nature, inspired by the graphics at the entrance stones and kerbstones at the Newgrange passage graves in Ireland. This is where it derives it’s decorative nature and suitability, as a very distinct Display font. Exceptionally suited for Logos and Headlines, it can increase the corporate presentation of a company as its main identifying feature—and with high memorability! The three separately designed letterforms—differing in line weight—are held in place by the white space within and without the character giving a distinctive twenty first century flavour! It is this dynamic that makes the font unique! Carrigallen Display is a modern font. It draws from its nomadic influences allowing it to be culturally representative of all languages.

Mollen Crispy - Sweet Handwritten Introducing the new font Mollen Crispy - Sweet Handwritten. This font suitable for use in a variety of design fields, such as event advertisements, product promotions, book titles, activity titles, logos, adventure, and others. This font can when paired with serif font types will make your design project more beautiful and perfect. Features: - Uppercase - Lowercase - Number & punctuations - Multilingual - Ligatures - PUA encoded I highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType featuresand Glyphs panels such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe InDesign, or CorelDraw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. This font is encoded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access toall additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy one of the extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor / application. I hope you enjoy the font, thank you.

Creative greetings... Introducing the Northy fifty font which has a modern looking design. In this font there are additional arches at each foot of the letter so that it looks more elegant. Northy fifty has Alternate and Ligature that you can use in both modern and contemporary designs, and are suitable for use in a variety of fashion media, posters, modeling magazines, typography, promotions and other digital media. FEATURES; -Uppercase and lowercase letters. -Support Foreign, Numbers and Punctuation. -Alternative, Ligature -Regular & Italic. -Works on PC. -Simple installation. -Accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop. Adobe InDesign, it even works in Microsoft Word. -Fully accessible without additional design software. Northy fifty is coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having to design any special software. Mac users can use the Font book, and Windows users can use the Character map to view and copy any extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor/app. Thanks for visiting, have a nice day ;)

Two is better than one, right? With Breaker Rockin, you will not have problems in terms of lack font options. It is a versatile font duo that brings your design result vintage looks. The display font comes all in uppercase characters makes this font easy to read, while the script font shows bold and curvy strokes. You can mix and match this harmonious font duo to make gorgeous result in your design. Even more, this font duo has fascinating features that allows you maximize your design. Features: Stylistic Sets Ligatures Multilingual Supports Numerals and Punctuations PUA Encoded It can be used for many design projects, such as poster, logo, book cover, branding, heading, printed product, merchandise, quotes, social media campaign, etc. Learn more about how to use it by seeing the font preview. Thank you for purchasing our fonts. Please don’t hesitate to contact us, if you have any further question or issues. We’re happy to help. Happy Designing.

The “DARKONES” font is a unique combination of blackletter and dynamic serif styles, making it perfect for magazine designs, tattoo art, socoal media ads and clothing. It features a total of 756 characters, including swashes, special ligatures, and alternative characters. This font is designed to support PUA unicode and is multilingual, allowing it to be used for various projects in different languages. Its distinct and bold appearance makes it an excellent choice for designs that require a strong and edgy look. Overall, the “DARKONES” font is a versatile and expressive typeface that can add character and personality to any project it is used for. Language Support : Latin, Basic, Western European, Central European, South European,Vietnamese. In order to use the beautiful swashes, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw. but if your software doesn’t have Glyphs panel, you can install additional swashes font files.

Handmade, expressive, lively, organic— …words typically used to describe a script font or a casual sans. Spry Roman opens up new possibilities. It’s origin is handwritten letters created using a pointed nib on slightly toothy paper. While based on a Roman form, the letters are designed to break out of the mold and dance along the baseline. Spry Roman Pro is a fully featured opentype font. Among the 964 glyphs are loads of alternate characters and swash letters; a full set of small caps; simple fractions; case sensitive punctuation; and a variety of ornaments, border elements, and flourishes. It also includes a full dose of language support for not only main characters, but also for alternates and small caps. Ligatures have been kept to a minimum to allow users the option of tracking text. **Please note that the Pro version has all the glyphs of the others combined. The smaller versions are for those who don't have opentype savvy apps like Adobe Illustrator.

Darling Harbour! Can used for various purpose such as titles, brands, logos, product packaging, posters, invitations, greeting cards, news, blogs, everything including personal charm etc. Darling Harbour features Open type feature, including initial and terminal letters, ligatures and International support for most Western Languages is included. 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. How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: http://youtu.be/iptSFA7feQ0nn Darling Harbour 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 favorite text editor/app.

Bugaki is a modern display serif font with beautiful characters which makes it easy for you to create a logo for your personal branding and your business beautifully. Bugaki is perfect for many different projects such as logos and branding, invitations, stationery, wedding invite designs, social media posts, advertisements, printed quotes, product packaging, product designs, labels, photography, watermark, special events and more. I highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe InDesign, or CorelDraw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. This font is encoded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy one of the extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor / application. We hope you enjoy the font and have fun! Thank You.

A fresh new decorative display face bubbling with life & spontaneity, Jabberwub belongs to a rare genus of creature fonts that time forgotócasual animated. A fun & bouncy eye-catcher that crosses into the land of the zany, dancing a whacky line between discord & rhyme, Jabberwub packs tons of fun into a state-of-the-art OpenType font loaded with 270 extra glyphs, including stylistic alternates, discretionary ligatures, word ligatures and capitalized ligatures, allowing creative typographers to achieve a custom hand-lettered look without all the mess & spilt glue of a manual paste-up job. Just like using rub-down type but it never cracks or splits, and it never runs out. The moment you start using Jabberwub you'll be laffing! Jabberwub is ideal for whatever zany stuff springs to mind. It takes an outline with no problem-o, and you can squish & squoosh it as the occasion takes your fancy. Optimal results are achieved by hand setting each individual glyph. Available in OpenType only.

Brecksville is a condensed grotesk typeface that takes inspiration from early German designs of the mid-19th century. It was designed as part of my current research into grotesk typefaces and different letterforms, as part of my dissertation research, “Perfected Letters: German Grotesk in the Nineteenth Century”, which focuses on the role of German design in typography. The Brecksville font family provides a wide range of weights, ranging from light to bold for both its rounded display style and more rugged sharp style. Both its styles feature the same horizontal proportions and metrics so they can freely be combined with no spacing issues. Brecksville's visually punchy condensed style and sharp edges, allows it to stand out on the screen – at almost any size. Its black composition also brings out the details needed in magazine and tabloid headlines, while maintaining readability throughout. The rounded display version is ideal for posters and other uses where you want something eye catching but not too hard on the eyes.

The font family KK30/45 is available in 3 weights: Light, Regular, and Bold. Type Designer: Kuncho Kunev The name of family - KK30/45 is from the first letters of the designer's name (K)uncho (K)unev and from the main angles of the slanted stems - 30° and 45°. Release date: December, 2001 HermesSOFT Ltd. The design of КК30/45 incorporates a geometric variety of shapes, and have been originally designed in such a way that all slanted stems are 30° and 45°, The very high x-height and low bottom parts allow typesetting with almost 100% leading. КК30/45 is a display face suited best to sizes 16-18 point and above. There are included also all Cyrillic vowels with accents that are really necessary for the professional typesetting in Cyrillic languages. Supported Languages: Western Europe (Greek not included), Central/Eastern Europe, Baltic, Turkish, Romanian, Cyrillic. Supported Code Pages: Macintosh and Windows, any for above languages. Opentype features includes kern, fractions, ordinals, superscripts.

Homage to 70s phototype typography in 3 styles The AW Conqueror typeface family is a nod to the spirit of phototype typefaces and transfer lettering from the early 70’s. Founded by Ed Rondthaler, Photo-lettering catalogs swarmed with more daring typefaces than the others. Both transfer letter and phototitling have liberated the principle of letter-to-letter spacing, previously impossible with metal type. Phototype allowed operators to position millimeters, on the fly, letter after letter: words, sentences according to the specifications of the art director. AW Conqueror superfamily AW Conqueror Didot is part of a larger family, who include 4 others subfamilies with great potential: They’re but based on same structure, with some connection between them (width for example), to offer a great & easy titling toolbox to any designers, from skilful to beginner. Each of the members try their best to be different from the others because of their features. They should work harmoniously in contrast. Club des directeurs artistiques Prix 2010 European Design Awards 2011

Bedfore Script is a romantic typeface. vintage script font that is thick, elegant & fun. very suitable for various purposes and wants. Like logo, label, wedding invitation, brand, t-shirt, letterhead, nameplate, news, book covers, magazine, oster, badge, etc. Bedfore Script features OpenType stylistic alternates, ligatures and International support for most Western Languages is included. 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. Bedfore Script 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. If you need help or have any questions, please let me know or via email "lettersams@gmail.com" I'm happy to help :) Thanks & Happy Designing!

Garlandia was inspired by Retro style in combination with a Handwriting style. Garlandia Script has many alternative swash and features like stylistic alternates, stylistic set, ligature and swashes so you can mix and match as you wish. Garlandia comes with open type features such as alternative styles, style sets and great features for logos, posters, badges, book covers, t-shirt designs, handwritten quotes, product packaging, headers, posters, merchandise, social media & greeting cards. To activate the OpenType Stylistic alternative, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or newer versions. Garlandia is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows to attach to your favorite text editor / application. If you need help or have questions, let me know or via email "lettersams@gmail.com" I am happy to help :) Thank you!

When we think of a child's font, random scribbles often come to mind, but I thought, why not make a child's font fun, spontaneous, and at the same time simple and readable. This is how the Arbus font was born. This font is perfect for anyone looking for a light, free-style font that will last a long time. In addition, the font has a number of undeniable advantages: The Arbus font is perfectly balanced, which allows you to use it both in headings and for large amounts of text. Thus, you can completely design your products with one font family. The Arbus font family has nine font weights. The font supports all European languages ​​and of course the Latin alphabet. Works on PC & Mac This beautiful Arbus font can be installed on any operating system, it can also be used in professional programs like Figma or Addobe Crative Cloud, as well as in other simpler software like Canva.

Introducing the new font Making Signature Font. This font suitable for use in a variety of design fields, such as event advertisements, vintage design, product promotions, mug design, book titles, activity titles, logos, and others. This font can when paired with serif font types will make your design project more beautiful and perfect. Features: - Uppercase - Lowercase - Number & punctuations - Multilingual Accents - StylisticSet - Stylistic Alternate - Swashes ligatures - 72 Standard ligatures - PUA encoded I highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType featuresand Glyphs panels such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, or CorelDraw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. This font is encoded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access toall additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy one of the extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor/ application. I hope you enjoy the font, thank you.

Kyoda Ascher is a classy bold serif font with beautiful alternate characters and also ligature which makes it easy for you to create a logo for your personal branding and your business beautifully. Kyoda Ascher is perfect for many different projects such as logos and branding, invitations, stationery, wedding invite designs, social media posts, advertisements, printed quotes, product packaging, product designs, labels, photography, watermark, special events and more. I highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe InDesign, or CorelDraw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. This font is encoded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy one of the extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor / application. We hope you enjoy the font and have fun! Thank You.

The Data Error AOE Family was one of my earliest typefaces, at a time when I had become obsessed with all forms of "digital/techology" typestyles. It's been awhile since the early 2000's, but I've had a hankering for awhile now to revisit this typeface, giving it a more expansive language character set and fill it out with some Opentype features. Inspired by some old printouts of BASIC programs and an Atari 1050 Disk Drive manual with pin printer examples, comes the familiar yet oddly restricted style with this Data Error family. This family comes complete with Regular and Bold versions with their respective Oblique versions. Odd pin printer restrictions inherent in this typeface are: no characters extend below baseline or above ascender line, (except international accents). A nostalgic typeface for computer programmers everywhere, strong and legible at any size, Data Error is perfect for so many purposes, get it today!

The P22 Mystic font knows all. Aside from allowing for type design in a faux eastern script, this font peers into the world of the spirits for guidance and enlightenment. Sure it has small caps and ligatures as OpenType features, but it also has a special “oracle” feature which will answer your most mystifying questions. The design itself was based on an actual Ouija board. Somehow the spirits became embedded into the font itself and now when a question is typed, an answer is revealed—provided the Contextual Alternates feature is enabled. It is not known how the otherworldly harbinger was able to integrate into OpenType scripting, but who are we mere mortals to question this power? Ask and ye shall be amazed! Only the Opentype Pro version will offer the “Magic Eight-Ball” feature. It also contains the small caps and old style figures as found in both TT and PS versions of the fonts.

High Summer Cyrillic playful script font is a pretty hand-drawn monoline font that will look gorgeous on all your designs, wedding stationery, love stories, branding materials, monoline logos, pretty teenage stickers, business and wedding cards, calligraphy Insta quotes, elegant fashion sketches, calligraphy love monograms and much more. High Summer playful script font contains the Cyrillic glyphs too. High Summer playful script font contains a full set of uppercase and lowercase letters and can be used to create a handwritten calligraphy look. Multilingual Support for 31 languages: Latin glyphs for Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh, Zulu. And Cyrillic glyphs support Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, and Russian languages. (Does font support more Cyrillic languages just type a message in the text box below and see if all characters you’ll need are there.) Works perfectly on the Canva platform. For Cricut & Silhouette recommended. Thanks!

Espinosa Nova is a revival based on the types used by Antonio de Espinosa, the most important Mexican printer of the sixteenth century and very probably the first punchcutter anywhere in the American continent (1551). In 2010, its main fonts were awarded two certificates of excellence: one by TDC2 (Type Directors Club Typeface Design Competition), one by Tipos Latinos (Biennial of Latin American Typography). According to Robert Bringhurst, it is “an unusually intelligent family of type, reaching back to one of the most exciting moments in typographic history and reaching forward to the typographic future”. All of the fonts intended for setting text include small caps, five sets of figures (oldstyle and lining, both proportional and tabular, plus tabular small caps), many f and long s ligatures, and capital sharp S (U+1E9E). In addition, the Capitular fonts allow to create interesting effects by overlapping layers. This family feels very comfortable in books, but it can be used everywhere a touch of classic & elegance is required.

Roller Poster is named after Alfred Roller. In 1902, Roller created a poster to advertise the 16th exhibit of Austrian Artists and Sculptures Association, representing the Vienna Secession movement. The exhibit was to take place in Vienna during January & February 1903. The location is not mentioned because everyone in Vienna knew it would be held at the exhibit hall in the Secession Building at Friedrichstraþe 12, a few blocks south of the Opernring, near the Naschmarkt. Designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich in 1897, the buiilding has been restored and stands today as one finest of the many fine examples of Art Nouveau architecture in Vienna (see vienna_secession_bldg.jpg). Because of its dome, it is called “the golden cabbage.” The poster itself is unique. The word “secession” is in one type style and takes up two-thirds of the elongated poster. At the bottom of the poster are the details in a different lettering style. It is this second style at the bottom that is the basis for the font Roller Poster. In keeping with our regular naming conventions, we were going to call it Roller Gezeichnete (hand-drawn), but the wonderful play on both words and the shape of the three S’s in secession was too compelling. In November 1965 there was an exhibit of Jugendstil and Expressionist art at the University of California. Alfred Roller’s Secession Poster was part of that exhibit. Wes Wilson was designing promotional material at Contact Printing in San Francisco. Among their clients was a rock promoter named Bill Graham, staging dance-concerts at Fillmore Auditorium. Wilson saw the catalog from the UC exhibit and Roller’s lettering. Wilson adapted Roller’s letter forms to his own fluid style. The result was the poster for the August 12-13, 1966 Jefferson Airplane/Grateful Dead concert at Fillmore put on by Graham (BG23-1). Wilson continued to use Roller’s letter forms on most of the posters he did for Graham through May 1967, when he stopped working for Graham. The posters were extremely successful and the lettering style along with Roller’s letter forms were picked up by other artists, including Bonnie MacLean, Clifford Charles Seeley, James Gardner, and others. The Secession poster and the Fillmore posters have inspired a number of fonts in addition to ours. Among them are JONAH BLACK (& WHITE) by Rececca Alaccari, LOVE SOLID by Leslie Carbarga and MOJO by Jim Parkinson. Each is different and yet each clearly shows its bloodlines. Our font differs in two ways: 1) the general differences in the interpretation of the letter forms and 2) the modification of the basic letter form to incorporate the diacriticals within the implied frame of the letter, after the manner of the original design by Roller. We borrowed Carbarga’s solution to the slashed O and used it, in a modified form, for other characters as well to accomplish the same purpose. We recommend that you buy ours and at least one of the other three. According to Alaccari, a version called URBAN was released by Franklin Lettering in the 70’s (and is shown on page 51 of The Solotype Catalog). For comparison of our font to original design, see image files roller_poster_2s.jpg of original poster and roller_poster_2sx.jpg showing reconstruction using our font for the lower portion (recontructed area indicated by blue bar). Please note the consistency of character width. In the lower case, 23 of the basic 26 letters are 1/2 EM Square wide. The ‘i’ is an eighth narrower, while the ‘m’& ‘w’ are one quarter wider. All the Upper Case letters are 1/8 EM wider than the lower case. This is to make it easier to fill a geometrical shape like a rectangle, allowing you to capture a little of the flavor of Wes Wilson’s Fillmore West poster using only a word processor. We have also included a number of shapes for use as spacers and endcaps. If you have a drawing program that allows you to edit an ‘envelope’ around the letters to distort their shape, you can really get creative. I used Corel Draw for the gallary images, but there are other programs that can accomplish the same thing. The image file “roller_poster_keys.jpg” shows the complete character set with the keystrokes required for each character (see “HiH_Font_readme.txt” for instruction on inserting the non-keyboard characters). The file “roller_poster_widths.jpg” shows the exact width of each character in EM units (based on 1000 units per EM square). You will notice that the font is set wide for readability. However, most programs will allow you to tighten up on the character spacing after the manner of Roller & Wilson. In MS Word, for example, go to the FORMAT menu > FONT > CHARACTER SPACING. Go to the second Drop-Down Menu, labeled ‘Spacing’ and select "condensed' and then set the amount that you want to condense ‘by’ (key on the little arrows); two points (2.0) is a godd place to start. Let your motto be EXPLORE & EXPERIMENT. Art Nouveau has always been one of my favorite movements in art -- I grew up in a home with a couple of Mucha prints hanging on the living room wall. Perhaps because of that and because I lived through the sixties, I have enjoyed researching and designing this font more than any other I have worked on. Let’s face it (pardon the pun), Roller Poster is a FUN font. You owe it to yourself to have fun using it.

The font Speech Bubbles offers a convenient way to integrate text and image. While the font can be used to design comics, it also gives the typographer a tool to make text speak – to give words conversational dynamics and to emphasize visually the sound of the message. The font includes a total of seventy outlines and seventy bubble backgrounds selected from a survey of historic forms. What follows is a discussion of my process researching and developing the font, as well as a few user suggestions. My work on the Speech Bubbles font began with historic research. My first resource was a close friend who is a successful German comic artist. I had previously worked with him to transform his lettering art into an OpenType font. This allowed his publishing house to easily translate cartoons from German to other languages without the need to use another font, like Helvetica rounded. My friend showed me the most exciting, outstanding and graphically appealing speech bubbles from his library. I looked at early strips from Schulz (Peanuts), Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobes), Hergé (TinTin), Franquin, as well as Walt Disney. The most inspiring was the early Krazy Kat and Ignatz (around 1915) from George Herriman. I also studied 1980’s classics Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen, Frank Miller’s Ronin and Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vandetta. Contemporary work was also a part of my research—like Liniers from Macanudo and work of Ralf König. With this overview in mind I began to work from scratch. I tried to distill the typical essence of each author’s or era’s speech bubbles style into my font. In the end I limited my work down to the seventy strongest images. An important aspect of the design process was examining each artist’s speech bubble outlines. In some cases they are carefully inked, as in most of the 80’s work. In others, such as with Herriman, they are fast drawn with a rough impetus. The form can be dynamic and round (Schultz) with a variable stroke width, or straight inked with no form contrast (Hergé). Since most outlines also carry the character of the tool that they are made with, I chose to separate the outline from the speech bubble fill-in or background. 
This technical decision offers interesting creative possibilities. For example, the font user can apply a slight offset from fill-in to outline, as it is typical to early comic strips, in which there are often print misalignments. Also, rather than work in the classic white background with black outline, one can work with colors. Many tonal outcomes are possible by contrasting the fill-in and outline color. The Speech Bubbles font offers a dynamic and quick way to flavor information while conveying a message. How is something said? Loudly? With a tint of shyness? Does a rather small message take up a lot of space? The font’s extensive survey of historic comic designs in an assembly that is useful for both pure comic purposes or more complex typographic projects. Use Speech Bubbles to give your message the right impact in your poster, ad or composition.

Coriander is the work of British designer Timothy Donaldson. It started out as a doodle one afternoon Donaldson was bored and uninspired. He wrote the word Coriander" and was then distracted by the sun beating through an adjacent window. He taped the writing paper up on the window as a shade. He took it down a few months later, folded it up, and stuck it in his pocket. When the piece of paper fell out of his pocket a week later, he was inspied to draw the rest of the characters, two alphabets in his sketchbook. The final digitized characters were created by Donaldson using a Wacom tablet and later refined on the screen."