Who is not totally captured when looking at those marvelously handmade old manuscripts, where letters, borders and elements were so masterfully realized with some touch of Gold leaf (or Silver in some cases) that was making of an ordinary book a piece of art? The name of the pack “Illuminated” comes, like the ancient art used for the old manuscripts, from the latin word “Illuminare” (to light up) and it’s symbol of great value, preciousness and beauty skilfully created with patience and love from artists for centuries. What we at Fontscafe wanted to give you was the opportunity to get a whole “ready to use” set of fonts that could, in a modern and revised form, give that “Illuminated” feeling to our “Digital Era”. A set of new tools to make your art shining!

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.

“In some way I was Mr Mamoulian, and someone else was writing and drawing this stuff. He kept sending me these pages. I had to sign my name and pass them off as my own. I had no choice. He was holding my aged mother hostage, you see. I told him when the pages were due and he somehow got them to me. Sometimes he left them in secret locations. I don't remember them at all.” -- Brian Bolland Mr. Mamoulian has four weights with automatic alternating uppercase letters, Crossbar I Technology, and European, Vietnamese & Cyrillic language support.

TOMO Pillo! a blocky style fat face with attitude. Bold, heavy and fun! all at the same time! You will only need this font to make your designs stand out fresh!

Vallerine - Display Font is a versatile, bold and unique serif font. Combination between high contrast and Brutalism style, Vallerine has a unique style with stylistic, alternates, ligatures and supports multilingual languages.

Glamori is a hand-brushed calligraphy font. It feels bold and charming. This handwritten font is the perfect fit for all of your logos, branding, social media, and crafty DIY projects.

A bold condensed caps-only cross-stitch font, based on an embroidery pattern from the middle of the 20th century. Use it in large sizes for advertising, posters, greeting cards, etc.

Killega is a bold and modern serif font. Elegantly crafted to become a top choice, this font has the potential to bring each of your creative ideas to the highest level!

Never Settle is a bold and powerful handwritten font with a cool vibe. It will turn any design idea into a true standout! NEVER SETTLE to give the best to you!

Based on the classic “Columbian” from the William H. Page Wood Type Company (circa 1870), Cherrywood JNL is a bold slab serif type design available in both regular and oblique versions.

Another of my hand drawn originals now digitized. It started out as a very bold, decorative initial capital letter - a 'font within a font' - but got extended to the full alphabet.

The bold serif hand lettering found in the title and credits of the 1961 film “Judgement at Nuremberg” inspired Legal Brief JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Sangki is a cool and bold serif font. Masterfully designed to become a true favorite, this font has the potential to bring each of your creative ideas to the highest level!

A bold typeface with very very extensive cap height, and short descenders. Poster 1492 is suitable for headlines, titles, newspapers, magazines, and advertisements. Poster 1492 is an OpenType/TTF Unicode font.

AZ Declan was inspired from a need to develop a san serif typeface with a scrawled scratchy feel to it. This font was designed for use as a fun bold headline.

A decorative, maze-like multi-line typeface in two weights. Lower case is narrow, upper case is wide, the two can be mixed to give a variety of bold, dynamic effects.

Introducing of our new product the name is Relocation is Rough Brush horror font Bold handmade with ligature and Multilanguage support. Best for halloween poster, horror poster, childrenbook, cartoon, comic etc

Weely Honey is a funny, bold and cute display font with a unique twist. Get inspired by its unique feel, and turn to add a lovely charm to any crafts project

Dabi is a bold sans serif type family of three weights plus matching italics. It is suitable for logos, titles, posters, etc. Made from a compilation of all his design projects.

Appetite is a bold sans font with a lot of sweet ligature glyphs. Specially designed for logotype, packaging & editorial design projects. Look at the new Appetite version — Appetite Pro — Release 2016!

Lord Spirit is an assertive and bold brushed handwritten font. It is suitable for complementing any branding, product packaging, invitation, quote, t-shirt, label, poster, logo that you wish to develop.

JoyRider is an 8-font family consisting of 4 weights with italics. Its bold appearance is strongly influenced by motor racing and the fast car modification culture, hence the name JoyRider.

TAN KULTURE is a bold display type. Simple in a good way and efficient with tight kernings making it a nice choice if you want a retro look in your design.

Inspired by hand lettering on the 1950s packaging for E-Z Letter stencils, Stencil Merchandise JNL is a bold sans serif stencil, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Quibble Rough is a quirky, individual, original font with a rough, chiselled quality. It makes a bold design statement at display sizes and also works well in short blocks of text.

Planta is a bold sans serif with inverted contrast. It was inspired by brutalist architecture. One weight only, 4 widths and more than 350 glyphs. Planta supports most latin based languages.

Pearl River is a bold and elegant script font. Whether you're designing a logo, or poster or working on crafting projects, Pearl River can take your creativity to a new height.

Down With the King is a very bold all caps font best used for large titles, headers and logo work. The lower case letters have rounded edges for a softer feel.

Dina Stencil is geometric sans serif stencil typeface, an addition to Dina family. Dina Stencil consists of two styles (weights)—regular and bold. The typeface recommended for use in display sizes.

Really excited to introduce Caustin Bolar is a bold brush script and will be perfect for all your designs project. Uppercase Lowercase Number & Symbol International Glyphs Ligature Hope you enjoy it.

Mleyoth is a bold and detailed blackletter font. Masterfully designed to become a true favorite, this font has the potential to bring each of your creative ideas to the highest level!

Jh Flynn is modern tall sans serif typeface; a variable type including eight weights: light / regular / medium / bold and the italics; Ideal for headlines, logo design, signage and short text paragraphs.

Rudolph is a bold serif headline typeface with strong contrast in the stroke and the sharp edges. It is very expressive and suitable for food packaging, product branding, magazines, and invitations.

Designed at ParaType in 1997 by Tagir Safayev for advertising and display typography. Based on Block of H. Berthold, 1908 by Heinz Hoffmann. A bold sans of a typical German pattern.