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  1. Mayfest by pentagonistudio, $17.00
    Mayfest Is An Elegant Display serif Inspired By Luxury and Elegant Character. FAQ's : Where are the OTF's? They are included in a download link( in a text file) in your main download file. 1 user 2 computers installation (Desktop License) You may NOT use for broadcast or Cinema/Motion Picture. You may NOT resell this font in any platform without further permission from designer. Do NOT embed font files in app/game/e-pub (for desktop license) You may NOT use the fonts in templates for sale/free. ( web/print/app ) For other license use please contact us. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS : Fonts and alternate : No special software required they may be used in any basic program /website apps that allows standard fonts That's it folks! You can go ahead and get cracking :) Follow My Shop For Upcoming Updates Including Additional Glyphs And Language Support. And Please Message Me If You Want Your Language Included or If There Are Any Features or Glyph Requests, Feel Free to Send me A Message. Have a Good Day !
  2. Galvantur Grand by Ivangard Studios, $10.00
    Galvantur Grand is an uppercase-only display font, intended to be used for attention demanding titles and headers, or generally any form of text that needs to take center stage. An offshoot of the Galvantur font, Galvantur Grand takes things one step further towards the extreme, to really give your design projects that special flair. Characterized by the double lines and negative space between them, this powerful font can make any form of text stand out strongly. The multiple styles included can further help customize your designs and projects, to get the perfect feeling you're going for. Comes in 7 different styles - Regular, Oblique, Light, Light Oblique, Outlines, Light Outlines and Oblique Outlines. To get an idea of the various styles, please check out the images or use the preview field to type in text. Galvantur Grand supports Latin and Cyrillic based languages. IMPORTANT: This is an uppercase-only font. Typing out lowercase characters will look exactly like typing out uppercase ones. Furthermore, it is recommended that this font is used with bigger sized text.
  3. Lanche by pentagonistudio, $19.00
    Lanche Is An Modern Elegant Serif Font Inspired By Elegant Serif Typeface FAQ's : Where are the OTF's? They are included in a download link( in a text file) in your main download file. 1 user 2 computers installation (Desktop License) You may NOT use for broadcast or Cinema/Motion Picture. You may NOT resell this font in any platform without further permission from designer. Do NOT embed font files in app/game/e-pub (for desktop license) You may NOT use the fonts in templates for sale/free. ( web/print/app ) For other license use please contact us. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS : Fonts and alternate : No special software required they may be used in any basic program /website apps that allows standard fonts That's it folks! You can go ahead and get cracking :) Follow My Shop For Upcoming Updates Including Additional Glyphs And Language Support. And Please Message Me If You Want Your Language Included or If There Are Any Features or Glyph Requests, Feel Free to Send me A Message. Have a Good Day !
  4. Campana Script by Mans Greback, $79.00
    Campana Script is your go-to for classical elegance. Picture walking into an old bookstore and discovering a handwritten love letter tucked inside a dusty novel. This font brings that level of intimacy and nostalgia to your designs. Designed with heavy lines and intricate swashes, Campana Script suits formal applications like wedding invitations, certificates, and classic logotypes. Use underscore _ to make a swash. Example: Deco_rative Use multiple underscores to make different underlines. Example: Candy__shop Campana Script is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures, and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, and includes all the characters and symbols you'll ever need. Behind this exquisite creation is Mans Greback. Known for pushing the boundaries of type design, Greback has ventured into the intricate intricacies of aesthetic diversity with Campana Script. His portfolio is a testament to his versatility and daring, turning simple alphabets into powerful visual narratives.
  5. Afrobeat Light by Resistenza, $39.00
    Inspiration The pounding tribal rhythms of Afrobeat music is expressed through this psychedelic brand new font, Afrobeat. Every letter becomes art as every letter is elegantly placed side by side, like music notes, creating music for the eyes. Afrobeat is a musical style performed by many African artists such as Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Antibalas and many more, which is a fusion of jazz,funk, and psychedelic rock, originating from the 60s and was based on the political movements of Nigeria. The Font This font is perfect for when you want to use eye-catching big texts for anything from posters and flyers for concerts, events, parties, to CD covers, advertisements, and art, but it´s especially striking for printed projects. Afrobeat Light thinks green Think green. With Afrobeat light you save up to more than 35% of your ink toner. Being green in no longer a luxury, but an an essential. By using Afrobeat light you openly demonstrate that your company integrates the 3 Ps into its operations: People, Planet. Profit. Go ahead - be green! Check out also the original ‘Afrobeat’
  6. Decking by Din Studio, $29.00
    Are you trying to find a font to get your brand globally accepted? Worry no more as Decking is the key to unlock the door. Decking is a racing-themed script font to give you artistic, firm impressions due to the balance between solid designs and unique strokes on the edges of each character. The font’s thickness is able to show you the power to any title or header you make. In addition, Decking is still suitable to apply to smaller-sized texts owing to its good legibility. The available features in this font are: Stylistic Sets Ligatures Swashes Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Decking fits best for various designs, such as posters, banners, logos, book covers, headings, printed products, merchandise, social media, and more. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Enjoy your experience with this font and feel free to contact us for further product information or trouble complaints. Thank you and wish you good luck with your designs.
  7. Meisuer by Craft Supply Co, $20.00
    Introducing Meisuer – Handwritten Font A Delightfully Cute and Fun Script Meisuer – Handwritten Font is more than just a font; it’s a charming and whimsical script cursive typeface that brings a cheerful and playful vibe to your designs. Irresistibly Cute Meisuer is undeniably cute; each character exudes cuteness with its endearing strokes and whimsical swirls. It’s perfect for creating designs that radiate positivity and cuteness, making it impossible to resist. Infusing Playfulness Furthermore, this font effortlessly injects playfulness into your projects. Whether it’s greeting cards, invitations, or children’s books, Meisuer adds a touch of joy and lightheartedness that takes your design to the next level. Versatile Cheerfulness Meisuer’s versatility shines in various design applications. Its friendly appearance appeals to all age groups, making it a go-to choice for cheerful projects that need to reach a wide audience. In Conclusion In conclusion, Meisuer – Handwritten Font is your ultimate tool for creating designs that are cute, fun, and filled with cheerful vibes. Embrace the whimsical charm of Meisuer, and infuse your projects with a delightful playfulness that captivates hearts and brings smiles to faces.
  8. Reborn by Sensatype Studio, $15.00
    Reborn is a modern and chic font for brand and logo design with ligature that easy to use for beginner and ready to use on any software that support Opentype Feature. This is based on our experience as a font creator, so many users with dummy and never use Opentype feature before. So, we try to brainstorming and create this font to make the idea is going out. This is perfect for BRANDING and LOGO DESIGN. You will get chic, unique, and certainly font for graphic design. To make it look more unique, here we prepared some ligatures: KA KC KE KG KO KS KU KY RA RC RE RG RO RS RU RY QA QC QE QG QO QS QU QY LA LC LE LG LO LS LU LY Include Fancy Style in some Uppercase and Lowercase, Just try it!!! Reborn is also included full set of: uppercase and lowercase letters multilingual symbols numerals punctuation ligatures Wish you enjoy our font and if you have a question, don't hesitate to drop message & I'm happy to help :)
  9. Galliso by Dora Typefoundry, $18.00
    Galliso is a serif font with a classic yet modern style with subtle curves and a beautiful binding, consisting of regular and italic versions with four types. allowing for a very sophisticated and contemporary typographical approach and the unique look of this font also features ligatures and multi-language support. This font is perfectly made to apply especially to logos, and many other formal forms Galliso provides a distinct, creative, and expressive message for branding, advertising, packaging, headlines, magazines, websites and more. Features: All Caps Font with different uppercase and lowercase Number & Symbol Supported Languages Alternates and Ligatures PUA Encoded What is included: Galliso Regular +Outline Galliso Italic+Outline We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. This type of family has become the work of true love, making it as easy and fun as possible.I really hope you enjoy it! Thank you Enjoy the font and go get creative :)
  10. Bushing by Hackberry Font Foundry, $13.95
    Bushing is a quick serif experiment going for open light display type. For years I have always stopped and really liked what I saw with fonts like the original Cushing from the turn of the 20th century. This time the desire for a font was stirred by Felici's article in CreativePro on fonts from the beginning of the 20th century, especially his captures of Cushing No. 2 and the version commissioned for Norwood press from ATF. I'm not interested in historically accurate reconstructions. My desire is for the general feel I get when I see a font. As a result, Bushing has little to do with Cushing (other than the last six letters). But it is a Serif font with small serifs and a huge x-height with a very open feel. I like it. I hope you do also. I made it into a limited display version of OpenType Pro. I added small caps and oldstyle figures, as I can hardly work without them. But ligatures seemed silly for this one.
  11. Mina by Resistenza, $39.00
    Go back to a time when the Mediterranean coastline was truly glamorous, when stylish women and men in wire-framed glasses listened to Domenico Modugno songs on the radio while sipping wine in sidewalk cafes. A relaxing summer’s day, a gentle sea breeze, taking the time to write a postcard to your loved ones in your best handwriting. The 1950’s may have come and gone, but the elegance and simplicity of that classic style has not, Mina keeps the feel of calligraphy, the long connections between letters is elastic, the clean, thin lines, it is a relaxed cursive ideal for logotypes, titles, and lettering. There are eleven Mina font styles and many loops to choose from to customize any letter. Bring the seaside glamour of a bygone era to your projects of today with Mina. Ranging from light to heavy, Mina Calligraphic, and Mina Shadow, this family of fonts work perfectly separately but you can also achieve beautiful results when combining them. Check out also Mina Chic We recommend to combine Mina with: PestoFresco Turquoise
  12. Ares by Adam Jagosz, $15.00
    Ares is a crisp all-caps display typeface suitable for sci-fi logos and titles. It owes its peculiar futuristic vibe to angular, top-heavy letters that hang from the cap-height instead of sitting on the baseline. The typeface consists of six subfamilies available in 10 weights, as well as as two variable fonts of three axes: Weight [wght], ranging from 1 to 1000, Mid-height [MHGT], ranginf from 0 to 1000, Tracking [TRAK], ranging from 0 to -40. The mid-height axis affects the typeface's waistline, including crossbars, and divides the fonts into three subfamilies: Ares Lo, Ares, and Ares Hi. These three families are solid-stroked, and the other three families are their stencil-stylized counterparts: Ares Broken Hi, Ares Broken, and Ares Broken Lo. The tracking axis is only available in the variable versions, and proportionally affects the kerning, thus helping set the type more tightly without effort. Ares supports a wide range of Latin-based orthographies, including not only European, but also Vietnamese as well as major African languages like Hausa, Fula or Ewe.
  13. Entendre by Wordshape, $30.00
    Entendre is a stately, commanding and handsome sans serif typeface family that pulls reference from Trajan capitals, the history of English calligraphy, and a variety of other sources to summon a sense of warmth, consideration, trust and authority. Entendre spans 22 weights and styles including Regular and Condensed versions. The large x-height and refined characteristics of the family lend the family a sober and sophisticated appearance that is suitable for both print design and on-screen use. Entendre includes Central and Eastern European language support as well as Western European language support, including Greek and Cyrillic. Entendre’s generous x-height and medium-length ascenders and descenders offer pronounced readability, making the family useful for text typesetting both in print and on screen. Within, humanist elements are tempered with monumental construction, making the heavier weights go-tos for display design work. All of the Entendre family of typefaces feature Western, Eastern and Central European language support alongside nuanced Greek and Cyrillic. Entendre pairs well with our rounded sans serif family Elpy, sharing similar proportions and spacing.
  14. Melodi by Diego Berakha, $20.00
    Melodi is the result of years of working with hand made types on my designs. Every time I draw the letters and words that I need for every design piece. One day I decided to go serious and make a real type of it and “Melodi” is the result of this work. It’s a calligraphic font, built using a regular stroke, and carefully crafted to have nice joins between all the letters. It has some playful but stylish capitals that brings lot of personality to the font. It work super nice either in lowercase writing as in all-caps texts. It looks specially good on lists of words or small sentences. Melodi is a playful but very versatile font, it can be used in lots of different scenarios. From creating a logo, writing the tittles of a catalogue or use it in a poster combined with other types (it work really well as counter point of more classical types) to motion graphics animations or advertising work. It can be cute but it also can do hard work!
  15. Kunire Grotesk by IbraCreative, $17.00
    Kunire Grotesk – A Modern Grostesk Sans Serif Font Kunire Grotesk is a contemporary sans-serif font that seamlessly blends classic grotesque design elements with a modern twist. Exhibiting a refined balance between simplicity and intricacy, Kunire Grotesk features clean lines, geometric shapes, and a distinctive grotesque aesthetic that exudes a sense of sophistication. The font’s letterforms are characterized by their sharp, angular terminals and well-defined strokes, lending a crisp and professional appearance to any text. With a versatile range of weights and styles, Kunire Grotesk caters to diverse design needs, from editorial layouts to branding and digital applications, making it a go-to choice for those seeking a harmonious fusion of timeless elegance and contemporary flair in their typographic endeavors. Kunire Grotesk is perfect for branding projects, logo, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, invitation, stationery, game, fashion and any projects. Fonts include multilingual support for; Afrikaans, Albanian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.
  16. Sathiya by Rotterlab Studio, $10.00
    Sathiya is a modern calligraphy font with sophisticated messy ink accents. It is perfect for branding, packaging design. Sathiya includes full set of lovely uppercase and lowercase letters, multilingual symbols, numerals, punctuation and ligatures. All lowercase letters include beautiful and unique (each letter has own "unpatterned" ending) beginning and ending swashes. Also, includes following multilingual symbols 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. The swashes are called alternative style. For example, letter "a" with beginning and ending swashes are alternative style for "a". In order to access you need them you need to open Glyphs panel. Photoshop has a glyph panel where you can find alternates and ligatures Select the Nagatha Christie font and go to Window Glyphs and double-click on the glyph you want to use. To open from Illustrator, please, follow: Window --Types --Glyphs. -Photoshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw -Illustrator http://youtu.be/iptSFA7feQ0nn Thanks and have a wonderful day.
  17. Zierde Grotesk by Lewis McGuffie Type, $35.00
    Zierde is a take on early advertising, small-copy grotesks of the late 19th/early 20th century, and is largely inspired by Miller & Richard’s own range of Grotesques. More importantly, Zierde is accompanied by a large set of ornaments (+200) which hark back to the look-and-feel of the early-modernist arts and crafts movement. The ornaments in, and presentation of, Zierde owe much credit to J.G Schelter & Giesecke’s 1913 type specimen book ‘Die Zierde’. The strong functional uppercase sans-serifs alongside luscious, beautiful patterns in ‘Die Zierde’ make for beautiful combinations. This early-modernist use of grotesk alongside ornament looks bizarre in the eyes of us used to seeing sans-serifs in more formal, sterile settings. The face itself retains some historical flourishes such as the eccentric leaning angle of the italics, the long cross-bar on the ‘G’, the gammy-leg of the ‘R’, a strange ampersand and some irregular terminals across the weights. Zierde is display face meant for headlines, titles, short-copy, labels and logos. It comes in caps and small caps, Latin and Cyrillic.
  18. Bodoni Poster by Linotype, $29.99
    Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) was called the King of Printers and the Bodoni font owes its creation in 1767 to his masterful cutting techniques. Predecessors in a similar style were the typefaces of Pierre Simon Fournier (1712–1768) and the Didot family (1689–1836). The Bodoni font distinguishes itself through the strength of its characters and embodies the rational thinking of the Enlightenment. The new typefaces displaced the Old Face and Transitional styles and was the most popular typeface until the mid-19th century. Bodoni’s influence on typography was dominant until the end of the 19th century and even today inspires new creations. Working with this font requires care, as the strong emphasis of the vertical strokes and the marked contrast between the fine and thick lines lessens Bodoni’s legibility, and the font is therefore better in larger print with generous spacing. Chauncey H. Griffith’s Poster Bodoni displays characteristics of the advertisement fonts of the first half of the 20th century. The font was most often used for posters and signs, eventually including neon signs.
  19. Cralic coob by Popskraft, $12.00
    The Cralic Coob font is an excellent selection when you want to infuse your designs with a playful and whimsical charm. This adorable and quirky display font adds a delightful and lighthearted element to any creative endeavor. It offers a wide range of applications, making it a versatile choice for various projects. Whether you're working on branding projects, crafting unique logos, designing wedding materials, creating eye-catching social media posts, producing captivating advertisements, or even developing product packaging and labels, the Cralic Coob font is your ideal companion. This font's handwritten style adds a personal and charming touch to photography projects, while it also elevates the elegance of invitations and stationery. With its ability to convey a sense of childlike wonder and cheerfulness, the Cralic Coob font is your go-to choice for infusing character and whimsy into your creative work. Its versatility and distinctive aesthetic make it a valuable asset for designers seeking to add that extra touch of playfulness and individuality to their projects. See other fonts from Cralic family https://www.myfonts.com/collections/cralic-font-popskraft
  20. Backstroke by Eclectotype, $50.00
    Normal and upright italic script fonts line a well-trodden path; left-leaning fonts (or "rightalics" as they're confusingly called), on the other hand, are a rarity. Here at Eclectotype Fonts we don't like to do things too conventionally, so here's Backstroke, a laid back script with a unique voice. With contextual alternates for start and end forms of certain characters, swash versions of L, Q and Z (surely the most used initial caps!), and a handful of stylistic sets, Backstroke is a restrained script. Stylistic sets are: 1. the start forms of i, j, m, n, and p are used always instead of only at word starts. 2. lower case ascenders get a whole lot loopier. 3. alternate versions of G, N and Y. 4. swash L, Q and Z. 5. swaps the default Polish script lslash for a more familiar version While fonts that lean the wrong way may be a bit more difficult to fit into your layouts than boring old regular italics, they will reward you with their individuality. Why not give it a go?
  21. DT Partel by Dragon Tongue Foundry, $9.00
    DT Portal: This stylised, partially serifed font, made with a slightly rounded square form, may have been inspired initially by old cathode ray tubes and computer screens. Although not intended to be purely a ‘tech’ font, it can have a strong tech feel to it. More suited to being a headline font than body text. It also appears to have a monospaced look to it, since most letters, (other than letters like ‘i, l and t’), do have the same width. There is some automatic contextual shape adjustment happening in places, to avoid taking up too much space, so contextual ligatures should be turned on. As is the case with most of my fonts, when given the choice, ‘metric’ spacing should be used in preference to ‘optical’. Initially this font was going to be called ‘DT Portal’, because its form was similar to that of a window or doorway. But due to other fonts already having that name, I chose to rename it as ‘DT Partel’, for no reason other than it is only a very small change visually.
  22. Cherry by Fenotype, $19.00
    Cherry is a bold and smooth display family with connecting script “Brush” and supporting thin marker caps “Sans”. In addition there is “Extras” which is a set of strokes and ornaments designed to go with the fonts. Cherry Print is the same set with rugged outlines and eroded print texture. Cherry Brush has clear and smooth letter shapes with lot’s of character. It’s great for Logo, Poster, Headlines, Packaging or any Display use. Cherry Brush is equipped with plenty of contextual alternates and ligatures that keep the connections smooth. This feature is set in Standard Ligatures and it’s on by default. Cherry Brush is designed so that you can also use it to writ ALL CAPS. For more flashy initials try Swash feature. Cherry Brush is PUA encoded so you can access extra characters in most graphic design softwares. Cherry Sans is an all caps thin marker font with two size of letters (uppercase & lowercase). Cherry Sans is clean and legible. It’s designed to work with Cherry Brush but works just fine on its own too.
  23. View Roman Black - Personal use only
  24. As of my last update in early 2023, PassCaps is not a widely recognized or established font within the vast landscape of typography. Given this, we'll approach it from a conceptual standpoint, imagin...
  25. Ganymede3D, ah, the font that decided it was too cool for the 2D world and literally popped out of the page to prove its point. This is not just a font; it's an adventure in typography that decided t...
  26. Oh, diving into the Blade Runner Movie Font is like stepping into a neon-lit alleyway in a dystopian future—absolutely exhilarating! This font is like a visual echo of the iconic 1982 sci-fi film dir...
  27. Jambetica is a distinctive font that captures the creative spirit of its creator, embodied by the playful yet purposeful name "Jambo!" Reflecting a blend of modernity and personality, Jambetica isn't...
  28. Web Serveroff, a meticulously crafted typeface designed by Sergiy Tkachenko, stands as a testament to the designer's keen eye for detail and understanding of typography's power. This font finds its r...
  29. As of my last update in April 2023, KonQa isn't a widely recognized font name in the mainstream typography scene. However, let's dive into what makes a font like KonQa intriguing, based on its unique...
  30. LT Highlight, a font created by LyonsType, emerges as a contemporary and versatile typeface, designed to capture the attention and imagination of its viewers. This font distinguishes itself through i...
  31. East Anglia is a distinctive font creation by Bill Roach, a designer who clearly has a nuanced understanding of typeface design and a keen eye for merging traditional influences with a contemporary f...
  32. The font "ButterFly" crafted by the prolific German typeface designer Manfred Klein, is a vibrant and artistic exploration of typography, characterized by its playful and whimsical nature. Manfred Kl...
  33. Oh, okay, picture this: BattleLines by Blambot Fonts, it's like the ultimate secret weapon for your design arsenal, especially if you're about to embark on a project that's screaming for that punchy,...
  34. The "Grunt Reaper" is a distinctive font created by the renowned typeface designer known as PizzaDude. It stands out for its unique blend of playful irregularity and bold assertiveness, a hallmark of...
  35. Oh, let me take you on a little journey through the cosmos of typography, where the star of our expedition is none other than the Voyager Grotesque! Dreamt up and meticulously crafted by the talented...
  36. The "id-Cinema-LightOT" font, designed by Inoue Masaru, is a charming and versatile typeface that offers a unique blend of elegance and whimsy, making it perfect for a wide range of creative endeavor...
  37. Sure thing! Imagine if the fonts in your computer decided to throw a costume party. Amongst the sea of letters dressed in their serif and sans-serif finery, one font stands out for its audacity and f...
  38. This free pocket calculator font looks very clean and useful. I really like how it supports numbers, symbols, and many special characters, which makes it perfect for calculator apps, math tools, or d...
  39. Leather by Canada Type, $24.95
    Over the past few years, every designer has seen the surprising outbreak of blackletter types in marketing campaigns for major sports clothing manufacturers, a few phone companies, soft drink makers, and more recently on entertainment and music products. In such campaigns, blackletter type combined with photos of usual daily activity simply adds a level of strength and mystique to things we see and do on a regular basis. But we couldn't help noticing that the typography was very odd in such campaigns, where the type overpowers all the other design elements. This is because almost all blackletter fonts ever made express too much strength and time-stamp themselves in a definite manner, thereby eliminating themselves as possible type choices for a variety of common contemporary design approaches, such as minimal, geometric, modular, etc. So extending the idea of using blackletter in modern design was a bit of a wild goose chase for us. But we finally found the face that completes the equation no other blackletter could fit into: Leather is a digitization and major expansion of Imre Reiner's forgotten but excellent 1933 Gotika design, which was very much ahead of its time. In its own time this design saw very little use because it caused problems to printers, where the thin serifs and inner bars were too fragile and broke off too easily when used in metal. But now, more than seventy years later, it seems like it was made for current technologies, and it is nothing short of being the perfect candidate for using blackletter in grid-based settings. Leather has three features usually not found in other blackletter fonts: - Grid-based geometric strokes and curves: In the early 1930s, blackletter design had already begun interacting back with the modern sans serif it birthed at the turn of the century. This design is one of the very few manifestations of such interaction. - Fragile, Boboni-like serifs, sprout from mostly expected places in the minuscules, but are sprinkled very aesthetically on some of the majuscules. The overall result is magnificently modern. - The usual complexity of blackletter uppercase's inner bars is rendered simple, geometric and very visually appealing. The contrast between the inner bars and thick outer strokes creates a surprising circuitry-like effect on some of the letters (D, O, Q), wonderfully plays with the idea of fragile balances on some others (M, N and P), and boldly introduces new concepts on others (B, F, K, L, R). Our research seems to suggest that the original numerals used with this design in the 1930s were adopted from a previous Imre Reiner typeface. They didn't really fit with the idea of this font, so we created brand new numerals for Leather. We also expanded the character set to cover all Western Latin-based languages, and scattered plenty of alternates and ligatures throughout the map. The name, Leather, was derived from a humorous attempt at naming a font. Initially we wanted to call it Black Leather (blackletter...blackleather), but the closer we came to finishing it, the more respect we developed for its attempt to introduce a plausible convergence between two entirely different type categories. Sadly for the art, this idea of convergence didn't go much further back then, due to technological limitations and the eventual war a few years later. We're hoping this revival would encourage people to look at blackletter under a new light in these modern times of multiple design influences.
  40. Miedinger by Canada Type, $24.95
    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.
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