Gérard Mariscalchi is a self-made designer. Born in Southern France of a Spanish mother and an Italian father, he has worked as a mechanic, salesman, pilot, college teacher – even a poet (with poetry being the worst-paying of these professions, he reports.) “Throughout all this, the backbone of my career has always been design,” Mariscalchi says. “I’ve been drawing since I was five, but it wasn’t until I was twenty-four that I learned that my hobby could also help me earn a living.” It was about this same time that Mariscalchi fell in love with type. He studied the designs of masters like Excoffon, Usherwood and Frutiger, as well as the work of calligraphers and type designers such as Plantin, Cochin and Dürer. With such an eclectic background, it’s no surprise that Mariscalchi’s typeface designs are inspired by many sources. Baylac and Evita reflect the style of the art nouveau and art deco periods, while Marnie was created as an homage to the great Lithuanian calligrapher Villu Toots. However, the touch of French elegance and distinction Mariscalchi brings to his work is all his own. Baylac Who says thirteen is an unlucky number? Three capitals and ten lowercase letters from a poster by L. Baylac, a relatively obscure Art Nouveau designer, served as the foundation for this typeface. The finished design has lush curves that give the face drama without diminishing its versatility. On the practical side, Baylac’s condensed proportions make it perfect for those situations where there’s a lot to say and not much room in which to say it Evita Mariscalchi based the design of Evita on hand lettering he found in a restaurant menu, and considers this typeface one of his most difficult design challenges. “The main problem was to render the big weight difference between the thin and the thick strokes without creating printing problems at small point sizes,” he says. Unlike most scripts, Evita is upright, with the design characteristics of a serif typeface. Mariscalchi named the face for a close friend. The end result is a charming design that is light, airy, and slightly sassy. Marnie Based on Art Nouveau calligraphic lettering, Marnie is elegant, inviting, and absolutely charming. Mariscalchi paid special attention to letter shapes and proportions to guarantee high levels of character legibility. He also kept weight transition in character strokes to modest levels, enabling the face to be used at relatively small sizes – an unusual asset for a formal script. Marnie’s capital letters are expansive designs with flowing swash strokes that wrap affectionately around adjoining lowercase letters. The design easily captures the spontaneous qualities of hand-rendered brush lettering.

AwanZaman has a three-phase story, beginning with Dr Mamoun Sakkal’s two Arabic styles and culminating with Juliet Shen’s Latin extension. AwanZaman started as simply Awan, a commission for a modern, clean, monoline typeface for writing headlines and story titles in a forward-thinking Kuwaiti newspaper. Awan was based on the geometric forms of Kufic script, while in phase two, a second typeface (Zaman) was designed to add enough calligraphic Naskh details to make it easy to read in demanding newspaper settings. Together these two phases give the typeface a warm, familiar, and progressive look, as well as an explanatory two-part name — AwanZaman. Since most editorials use typical Naskh headline fonts with an exaggerated baseline, Awan’s rational forms immediately distinguish it as a modern and progressive voice in the crowded field of Arabic editorial typefaces. As the companion Arabic typeface, Zaman has the same basic proportions and forms as Awan, but with many cursive, energetic, and playful details. And since modern monoline fonts are increasingly being used to set extended texts, more features were borrowed from Naskh calligraphy to expand the typeface’s use from headlines into text setting. When using the AwanZaman Arabic family, Awan (geometric Kufic forms) is the starting point. To add the sweeping, energetic personality of Zaman (calligraphic Naskh forms), simply activate an alternate character through the option of 20 stylistic sets available in any OpenType-savvy software. The two typefaces function as one file — the AwanZaman Arabic family — allowing users to combine features from both designs to transform the appearance of text from geometric and formal to playful and informal. The third phase of AwanZaman’s development introduced a companion Latin typeface designed by Juliet Shen to fulfil the persistent need in the Arabic fonts market for modern and geometric bilingual type families. Due to the Arabic’s monolinear strokes, AwanZaman Latin was destined to be a sans serif with a tall x-height, larger counters, and corresponding stem thickness to harmonise with the Arabic’s overall text colour and page presence. But it needed much more. One of AwanZaman’s chief assets is making the two languages look on a par when typeset side by side. Arabic and English readers will have a different sense of what that entails, but this type family defers to the Arabic — graceful and artistic with a good mix of straight stems and curved forms. Latin in general doesn’t aesthetically flow the way Arabic does, yet the tone of the Latin needed to mirror both the Arabic’s more squarish curves and formal personality of Awan and the undulating and more playful shapes of Zaman without looking outlandish. That need was met by creating some novel Latin characters, which are accessed through four stylistic sets the same way as AwanZaman Arabic. The alternates are not just clever in the way they look and how they echo the Arabic aesthetic, but also in harmonising the disparate languages and serving designers well when needing a balanced, bilingual text face with a warm and lively voice. AwanZaman is a clever, seven-weight powerhouse that makes extensive use of OpenType’s stylistic sets (20 in the Arabic and four in the Latin) so writers and designers can make the most of everything from a single glyph in display sizes down to dense text in paragraphs. As AwanZaman Arabic has no italic, neither does the Latin; contextual distinction normally handled by italics is achieved by exploiting the family’s seven weights. AwanZaman’s intricate OpenType programming supports Persian and Urdu, with features such as the returning tail of Barri Yeh treated properly. From its inception in geometry to its melding of two worlds with novel forms, AwanZaman is a personal labor by designers Dr Mamoun Sakkal and Juliet Shen, and embodies the TypeTogether ideals of serving the global community with innovative and stylish typeface solutions. The complete AwanZaman Arabic and Latin families, along with our entire catalogue, have been optimised for today’s varied screen uses.

Larisch is a hand-lettered design by the Austrian calligrapher and teacher, Rudolf von Larisch. The original was used for the title page of the 1903 edition of Beispiele Kunstlerischer Schrift (Examples of Artistic Writing). Larisch is an attractive, casual set of caps of even strokes with rounded terminals. Except for the terminals, it is similar in style to Kunstler Grotesk. The numerals are lining or ranging figures, meaning they line up with the baseline, unlike old-style text figures. All are of equal width for setting up columns of numbers. The letters are well formed and easy to read, as you would expect from a writing master. Ligatures includes CH (123), CK (125), FT (135), LA (137), LO (167), OO (172), CO (177) and TT (181. An alternative O with underscore is provided at position 111. Friendly, but not fancy -- a very useful all-cap font.

Even though the name seems not to tell much, Indecise shows a clean and coherent design. The shapes of the characters reference the Latin typefaces that were promoted by great figures like Enric Crous-Vidal and José Mendoza y Almeida in the 50s. Indecise uses the body of incise typefaces and gets rid of the subtle terminals for the strokes. It is a high-contrast sans divided into 5 elegant subfamilies, which use different widths. From the condensed version to the extended one, the family includes 50 fonts counting upright and italic. This collection of widths make for many possible combinations of styles. Indecise is a humanist typeface, it puts geometry apart and embraces the calligraphic gesture. This helps to suggest the movement of the strokes while avoiding to create text with a static appearance. Thin and thick strokes come together and define a smooth rhythm for reading.

Kashi is the Persian word for tile. This font is inspired from building decorations of 16th and 17th centuries in Iran. It is extremely legible even in very small size. Kasha design fulfills the following needs: A Explicitly crafted for use in electronic media fulfills the demands of electronic communication. B Suitability for multiple applications. Gives the widest potential acceptability. C Extreme legibility not only in small sizes, but also when the type is filtered or skewed, e.g., in Photoshop or Illustrator. Nima’s simplified forms may be artificial obliqued in InDesign or Illustrator, without any loss in quality for the effected text. D An attractive typographic image. Kasha was developed for multiple languages and writing conventions. Kashi supports Arabic, Persian and Urdu. It also includes proportional and tabular numerals for the supported languages. E The highest degree of calligraphic grace and the clarity of geometric typography.

New York vibes FS Irwin was born in New York while Senior Designer, Fernando Mello, was studying an intensive 5 week typeface design course at the Cooper Union. His brief was to design a perfectly clear typeface that could communicate well, without loud or overtly mannered design features. Fernando was influenced by the subway font in New York: ‘It is very in your face and clear, always in bold. It doesn’t shout much but at the same time is very present and unique. The design is completely different but it was this spirit I wanted to capture for FS Irwin.’ And the vibe of the city: ‘In a similar way to London, New York is so mixed and so cosmopolitan. I was amazed by the different styles and identities I saw there, and tried to encapsulate this essence to create something new, relevant and very now.’ Incisive quality Rather than focusing on quirks or distinctive characteristics, the key to FS Irwin is the quality of its design and spirit of simplicity. The design, proportions and details are usable and authentic and it is suitable for countless situations, without running the risk of being instantaneously noticeable. Families like this can be used on nearly anything, from more playful designs to serious corporate IDs. ‘Extensively tested and precisely drawn text-oriented typefaces are what I enjoy designing the most. There is a beauty and a different approach, a different way of making them interesting, sellable and usable rather than adding flicks or unexpected details.’ Inscriptions and calligraphy FS Irwin’s origin lies in Fernando’s studies in inscriptional lettering and writing-calligraphic exercises at the Cooper Union. Mello started the process by digitising his explorations and adapting them into a more workable sans serif structure. The traditional forms of writing which gave the basis to Latin type as we know it today were the perfect place to start. This influence can be seen in the proportion of the capitals and in slight writing-calligraphic details in the lowercase, such as the slightly angled, chiselled spurs and their open terminals.

Bodoni Terracina is a legible, fun-formal script face, with lots of curls. Sometimes script faces are hard to read. Sometimes being formal means that there’s no personality and there’s no fun. Enter Terracina: one of the masterpieces of font design. Some of the most personable italics ever carved. Includes powerful new features for: • Dates • Pricings • Addresses Not is only Terracina formal but fun, it’s also fun to use! In a program like Adobe Indesign or Illustrator, just highlight a word and see lots of fun options. Bodoni himself etched these symbols, and his fun-loving personality shines through. As a semi-script, it can go together with many script fonts, but it is more readable. When you need something equal parts elegant and whimsical, Terracina strikes a perfect balance to let the fun shine through, such as for holiday designs or fairytales. Terracina is a subheads font, but Bodoni also used it for paragraphs. So Terracina works well doing subhead paragraphs, especially when contrasting with the mood of the first font. And because of the swash variety, it works well for setting German and other European languages. CAL Bodoni Terracina is a member of our Origins Series. Origin Fonts are designed to be true to the original designer's intentions and fonts. Our Bodoni origin fonts ARE Bodoni fonts, not imitations or interpretations. They were drawn by Bodoni, our team just expanded it for modern use. For Terracina, Bodoni's original weight is the "Quasi-Lite" option, all other weights have been meticulously matched by the CAL Origins Team.

Dancin' is yet another unusual typeface from American designer David Sagorski. Based on his own style of handwriting, Dancin' is an inventive, carefree typeface ornamented with dots and unusual strokes.

Font with hexagonal dots for small texts, names, logotypes, titles, headers, topics etc. Big size of this font can be used for texts on posters, t-shirts and other surfaces.

Al Seg45 is a very dense alphanumeric display with 45 segments. Thirty-two inner segments, the outer segments have been split as well, making twelve segments, and a central dot.

The dots forming this font are all hand positioned for maximum randomness! Great for display purposes or for logo work. Includes upper and lowercase, numbers, punctuation and Western European diacritics.

Bodoni Classic Stencil is another of my personal additions to the Bodoni Classic Family that Giambattista would have never made. In his days people had enough skill and the neccessary time to put beautiful handlettering on parcels and cases. No need for stencils! Today we do not need them either since shipping has gone barcode crazy, but for some reason stencil-letters are very much in fashion. Bodoni letters lend themselves perfectly to be stenciled so I just did the whole alphabet; not just the capitals. Yours, Gert Wiescher

A concertina is a kind of musical instrument, not unlike an accordeon. I just liked the name; I have to admit I’m not a particular fan of accordeon music… Concertina is a beautiful handmade script font. A little rough, but elegant as well. It was made with a small Japanese brush pen on coarse paper. Concertina comes with double letter ligatures and end-letter alternates. To access the end-letter alternates, type the letter you want + space (and make sure to tick the ‘ligatures’ box in your OT environment).

Dirty Baker’s Dozen, was released in 1998 and has since become the gold standard in raunchy stencil fonts. This version of Dirty Baker’s Dozen is pants-full of handy symbols, fractions, accents and what not. Need numeric ordinals? Probably not, but if you do, Dirty Baker’s Dozen will be there with boots on and numeric ordinals a-blazing. Two new styles were introduced in 2009: Scorch & Spraypaint. When you're using Scorch or Spraypaint styles in an OpenType savvy application, common letter pairs will be automatically replaced by custom pairs for a more realistic, filthy effect.

Frank Flowers are fonts with flowery embellishments. They are useful for all kinds of celebrations, but they also have lots of impact. There are only uppercase letters even on the lowercase keys. Uppercase and lowercase look different, so you can mix them. You can even mix the two sets, it'll look great. I had a lot of fun doing these fonts and I want you to have some fun as well. That's why I sell them very, very cheap, even cheaper if you buy the pair! -Your typedesigner for unusual solutions Gert Wiescher

Becka Script was designed by David Harris in 1985 and is a wide running typeface with varying stroke contrasts. This font looks as though written with a broad tipped pen and its slight slant to the right makes clear its similarity to callipgraphy fonts. Becka Script is reminiscent of the 1950s and its strong strokes make it best for headlines or shorter texts.

Luxury Modish is Modern Calligraphy font presentation from Ergibi Studio. Inspired by beautiful writing that has a luxurious feel with additional swash lines This font includes uppercase, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, symbols, swash and multilingual support. Luxury Modish is perfect for branding, photography, invitations, quotes, watermarks, advertisements, product designs, social media posts, stationery, labels, and more! I hope you enjoy this font. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to drop me a message :) Thank You, Ergibi Studio

Linotype Agogo is part of the Take Type Library, chosen from the contestants of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. Designed by British artist Ed Bugg, the font is reminiscent of the elegant 1920s and 1930s. It is a calligraphy font with five weights, one regular and four swash. The regular weight alone is clear and legible enough even for longer texts, although when used with swash characters, the texts should be shorter or headlines.

Sahitya Script is a stylish calligraphy font that features a varying baseline, smooth line, classic and elegant touch. It can be used for various purposes such as headings, signature, logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, labels, news, posters, badges etc. Sahitya Script is built with OpenType features and includes start and end. It comes with OpenType Stylistice set, Initial, swashes, ligatures and everything to add a touch to your design and also supports other languages :)

M Ellan HK is a soft yet robust typeface that strikes an appropriate balance between vertical and horizontal strokes (豎、橫). Finials of strokes are sharp but gentle, alluding to the appeal of calligraphy. It is elegant as well as contemporary. M Ellan Light features similar thickness in vertical and horizontal strokes (豎、橫) that together make it lucid and appealing, while thickness of strokes in M Ellan Bold are accordingly adjusted to maintain its friendly and graceful character.

Hello dears! I fulfilled my old dream and drew (wrote it to whom as you like :) a font in the Modern Calligraphy style. Also I added Ligatures and Swashes, have fun :) Orchard Trees will look beautiful on holiday invitations, wedding invites and stationery, logos, and more. Test it out below to see how it could look for your next project! Includes: Uppercase and lowercase Numbers and punctuation Foreign language support Check out my blog: https://www.instagram.com/zloillev pinterest.com/dmitriychirkov7

Proudly Present Boniface is sweet, bouncy and swirly calligraphy script. Meanwhile, this script is still maintaining its elegance. Boniface is PUA-Encoded, with many swirly extra glyphs to give many options in designing. Barbie is such a fabulous font for any elegant projects, such as wedding invitation, branding, logo, lettering, crafting, and so on. +Can be used in any software, like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, SIlhouette Studio, even Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and others. +Multilingual glyphs. Thank You

Hi...Thank for your visit :) Effendi Modern Calligraphy Fonts are font designs that are made for various vector designs, printing such as digital wedding invitations, blogs, online shops, social media, while printing can be used in the field of product clothing, accessories, bags, pins, logos, business cards, watermarks and many others ... Effendi is equipped with complete alternates and very beautiful ligature, so it can make your product look elegant and attractive, and also Multilingual support!!! Happy design ...

Meetha Script is modern calligraphy script font. This is a beautiful script font with italic style. Made gently and danced to give the character of modern writing that is sweet, simple, stylish and firm. With a style like this, this font will be suitable in use for logo's, branding projects, homeware designs, product packaging, mugs, quotes, posters, shopping bags, logo's, t-shirts, book covers, name card, invitation cards, greeting cards, and all your other lovely projects.

Denalova is a modern calligraphy font with a handwritten, sophisticated flow. It is perfect for branding, wedding invites and cards. Denalova includes full set of uppercase and lowercase letters, multi-lingual symbols, numerals, punctuation and ligatures. It also includes: short lowercase, beginning and ending swashes, lowercase ending swashes, long lowercase beginning and ending swashes. The font has smooth texture, so would be perfect for all types of printing techniques, as well as embroidery, laser cut, gold foil, and more.

Mirabella script- a new handmade calligraphy font. This font is ideal for branding and decorate your any project, are perfect for wedding invitation or your blog. Also with their help, you can create a logo or beautiful frame for your home. Or just use for your small business, book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines and more. Also for you, I have prepared many alternatives that will help you make your project more unique. Following international symbols support: ÀÁÂÃÄÅĄÇĆÈÉÊËĘÌÍÎÏÐÑŃŁÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜŚŠŸÝŹŻŽßàáâãäåçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýÿąćęłńśšźżž

Own Friday is handwritten calligraphy font. This another collection of script is perfect for your next personal branding project, excellent for your business. Own Friday have a smooth edges, so this font gives an authentic handcrafted feel style. Own Friday is perfect choice for people looking for clean, modern, minimalist, elegant, beauty design styles. Suitable for almost any graphic designs such as logo, branding materials, business cards, gift cards, t-shirt, cover, thumbnail, print, poster, photography, quotes .etc

Guthenberg Bold Script is a bold calligraphy script with dramatic movement and strong style for your latest project that needs a handlettering look. It's perfect for branding projects, logo, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, labels, photography, watermarks, invitations, stationery and any projects that need handwriting style. Guthenberg comes with uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuations and many variations of each character, including OpenType alternates and common ligatures to let you customize your designs.

Foda Display typeface for Latin and Arabic is a modern calligraphy and one of FoDa foundry new creations, that is suited for branding, logos, packaging, advertising, social media designs, posters, wedding invitations and more... Foda Display comes in two weights : Regular and italic with a basic character set of more than 750 glyphs that cover many OTF features like: -multilingual support for many Latin-based scripts and Arabic. -Alternates -Ligatures -Kerning -currency support and many other OpenType features.

Designed primarily for display use, Tangient is serviceable down to the larger text sizes. It presents an idiosyncratic profile, with a tight fit, clearly proportionally spaced, yet having the texture of a monospaced design. Its shapes leap out from the page, where well behaved characters would make a more subdued statement. The calligraphy from which Tangient GD was electronically "cut" originally appeared in a series of personal greeting cards prepared by the Zafaranas in celebration of the New Year.

Merciful Heart - A lovely Calligraphy Font with lovely alternate swashes and doodle heart bonus. I made this font especially for you craft designer, this font will perfect for adding a lovely touch to your design and with a pretty good thickness, this font will be great for those of you who use Cricut or Silhouette. How To Access Alternate Swashes? You can read this article: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/special-characters.html Follow Instagram: @sronstudio Thank You!

Archipelago International // Modern Calligraphy is a stylish script font that features a varying baseline, smooth line, modern, and depth of love. For those of you who need a touch of love and modernity for your designs or branding, it can be used for various purposes such as headings, weddings, invitations, signatures, logos, branding, letterhead, signage, labels, news, posters, badges, etc. Each Font Has: Stylish modern handwritten script Beautiful Swash (Ending tail) Beautiful Titling (Beginning tail) Special Ligatures Multilingual Support

Wildcats Typeface is a vintage sexy calligraphy style. Wildcats inspired from vintage labels, signage and packages. Wildcats is good for logotype, tattoo typograph, signage, wedding invitation card design and any more. Wildcats have 453 Glyphs and many alternative character so you can mix and match like a you want, also you can get ornament pack on EPS file. 17 Mutilingual Support (Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese, Spanisch, Swedish, Zulu)

Geshana is a Modern Calligraphy Font. Perfect font for your wedding ceremony. Combine Geshana stylistic set to create amazing script font for wedding! Fall in love with its incredibly versatile style and use it to create spectacular designs! Geshana is perfect for branding, logo, invitation, quotes, wedding invitation, cricut font, silhouette font, product packaging, merchandise, game titles, cute style design, Book/Cover Title and more. What's Included : - Ligatures - Multilingual Support --- Hope you enjoy with our font! Attype Studio

Beautiful Summit is a modern calligraphy font with handwritten. It is full of hearts and glyphs, suitable for branding, wedding invitations, and other romantic projects. Beautiful Summit includes a full set of lovely uppercase and lowercase letters, multilingual symbols, numerals, punctuation and ligatures. Beautiful Summit coming with open type features like stylistic set 01- stylistic set 02 and support PUA Encoded font files for use with software that doesn't support OpenType features such as Silhouette, Inkscape, etc.

French Armoire is a subtle, modern calligraphy font that will give a casual chic look to your designs. It supports Central, Eastern, Western European, Baltic, Turkish and Greek languages and it is delivered in OpenType format. French Armoire has over a 1000 glyphs, with a variety of opentype features in Latin and Greek alphabet: Stylistic alternates, contextual (positional) alternates, swashes, 2 stylistic sets of initial and terminal forms and standard ligatures. The font is fully unicode-mapped (PUA encoded).

Beautiful Heart is a calligraphy script font and is perfect for logos, invitations, stationery, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, labels, photography, watermark, special events or anything. Beautiful Heart comes with full set of uppercase and lowercase letters, multilingual symbols, numerals, punctuation. - Ligature - Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Sets, and Swashes - Natural brush touch - PUA Encoded open - Support for MAC or PC - Simple installation for Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Photoshop, or Procreate (New Updated)

Qanthorely Castigra an elegant and unique calligraphy font. Carefully designed to work together in harmony that makes it perfect for wedding media, book covers, greeting cards, logos, branding, business cards and certificates, even for any design work that requires unique, formal or luxury. Try Qanthorely Castigra, enjoy the richness of OpenType features and let her fun and elegant excitement make you happy and enhance your creativity! You can use this font very easily. Included Multilingual Support And Special Ligatures

Introducing Pure and Lovely is pretty calligraphy font, this font is inspired by an organic handwritten. Pure and Lovely font has OpenType features such as ligature, alternate, stylistic alternate 1 (SS01) for initial or beginning swash, and stylistic alternate 2 (SS02) for the terminal form or ending swash, you can customize to make more pretty and elegant looks. Let's use this font in your project design for logo, branding, invitations, greeting card, headline, title, magazine, signature and etc.

Breattogis modern calligraphy font with contemporary, sophisticated accents. It is perfect for branding, wedding invites, tagline, cards, maybe for label and logo. Breattogis includes full set of gorgeous uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, a large range of punctuation and ligatures. It expresses beauty of handwriting. What you get, darling? In order to use the beautiful ligatures, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw.