African fonts are characterised by design considerations that differ from those of Europe and the Americas. At one extreme we have a relaxed and casual approach to life that values the quality of each moment in life far more than people do in the west. In this approach each element of the font, while being part of a community, nevertheless stands on its own and has its own "character". An African font that characterises this approach is Ubuvila (the word means relaxedness or relaxation in Zulu). There is no strict adherence to a design format in Ubuvila nor are the characters constrained by resting on the same baseline. They wander up and down in the sentence and find a comfortable resting place.

Hadigen is a very Beautiful, elegant and unique handwritten font. Expertly designed to be a true favourite, this font has the potential to take your creative ideas to the highest level! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all the glyphs and sweeps easily! Hadigen is attractive because it is sleek, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read, thanks to its many luxurious letter connections. I also offer a decent number of style alternatives for all letters. Classic style is very suitable to be applied in various formal forms such as invitations, labels, restaurant menus, logos, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, magazines, books, greeting/wedding cards, packaging, labels or all kinds of advertisements. for your purposes. . . . . . . Thanks & Congratulations on the Design.

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

Takox is a display typeface based on a synthesis of righteousness extreme, futuristic spirit leads us to a way of plotting the words in a new way and in line with trends and technology synthesis century. Extreme music. Takox is provided with style forms to small caps, in both Regular and Italic. What was the inspiration for designing the font? Takox is the result of my own research in finding straight shapes of great simplicity. What are its main characteristics and features? Display font witn straight shapes of great simplicity. Usage recommendations: This letter design is ideal for use 3D extrusions, ideal to represent natural forms of cristals, metal or mechanical things. Fits indiustriales representations and aerospace, also for extreme music and avant garde.

Taking the concept of a monoline version of Shàngó — as exemplified in Shàngó Gothic — to its extreme, resulted in the latest addition to the popular Shàngó family of typefaces: Shango Sans. This is a minimalist face, still maintaining the elegant classic letterforms of Professor F.H. Ernst Schneidler's original design, but without obvious contrast in the stroke widths, and of course, without serifs. An extensive set of ligatures and alternate letterforms, along with powerful OpenType features, give Shàngó Sans a great deal of versatility. This elegant, modern typeface supports dozens of languages that use the Latin alphabet as well as modern (monotonic) Greek and most languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet. Shàngó Sans is a member of the extended Shàngó family (Classic, Chiseled, Sans, Gothic).

FF Bauer Grotesk is a revival of the metal type Friedrich Bauer Grotesk, released between 1933 and 1934 by the foundry Trennert & Sohn in Hamburg Altona, Germany. The geometric construction of the typeface, infused with the art déco zeitgeist of that era, is closely related to such famous German designs as Futura, Erbar, Kabel and Super Grotesk that debuted a few years earlier. However, Bauer Grotesk stands out for not being so dogmatic with the geometry, lending the design a warmer, more homogenous feeling. The oval “O” is a good example of that, as well as characteristic shapes like the capital M or the unconventionally differing endings of “c” and “s” which make for a less constructed look. Watch the FF Bauer Grotesk introduction video on Vimeo

Senlot Serif is a follow-up to the technical yet elegant sans serif Senlot . In this serif edition, the original’s calligraphic tension shines through, with a moderate amount of contrast. Moreover, you can use Senlot Serif to set large amounts of text or for titling. It has a special calligraphic tension, and lends itself to luxury and design work of high quality. There’s a full set of small capitals and titling capitals and a real italic. Including thin to heavy, there are nine weights and three widths. Also included are a full set of OpenType features, super and subscript, old style numbers, and expanded Latin with support for more than 72 languages. For your next luxury campaign, the new rich text is Senlot Serif.

Here comes a New font,Introducing Alltoz it is Weird Typeface Font is a Authentic Natural Style and classy style, this font is great for your creative projects such as watermark on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, invitation,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. Alltoz a natural Hand Drawn feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes,photos, photography overlays, signs, window art, scrapbooking, tags and so much more! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of Ligatures glypsh.

Vallentino is a stylish and elegant handwritten font, which looks like a signature, this font is deliberately made with unique ligatures and alternatives. Vallentino is perfect for signatures, branding, logos, business cards, posters, invitations, greeting cards, news, product packaging, blog posters, all including personal charms etc. This font is also equipped with unique and interesting ligatures, by using these ligatures you can give a real handlettered style: ab ah ak al am an ar at ch ck cr eb el em en er es et ff ht il im in it ll mm ng nn nt of oh oi ol on or oo od ou ow oy sh ss st th tt ut wh Th ft Multiple Language Support: ŠÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏŸŽÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöøùúûüýÿŒœš Thank you for your purchase!

Moho Script introduces a decorative modern geometric of Japanese, sometimes german flavor for an unconventional script. It breaks the mold of the usual fonts to create a new visual impact of absolute contemporaneity with a retro touch. Moho Script, as all typefaces of this extended family, comes in five weights and an inline style, and it's been provided with a complete set of glyphs for languages ​​of the Eastern and Western Europe. With the OpenType feature Swash you can make words with letter "t" that overlap to achieve what no meet in others typefaces. Moho Script is a perfect font for headlines display, menus, deals, logos, labels, outdoor advertising and publishing design, great for architecture, fashion, music, aviation and social affairs.

Well, if you found this page via Google and what you're looking for is NOT a Slam Bang display and logo font (made famous by the logo of our sister company's flagship comic book title, HIP FLASK), but in fact a small metal bottle suitable for brandy, whiskey or the spirit of your choice, then we deeply apologize. If you've read this far, then we'd like to point you to eBay where you'll find a wide selection of the items you're looking for. While you're there you might also like to consider how difficult it is for HIP FLASK fans to find back issues of our comic amongst all those pewter and stainless steel christmas gifts for your golfing friends and fellow alcoholics.

After inventing a new metal typecasting procedure that allowed for the production of more detailed typefaces, the famous German typefoundry D. Stempel AG developed Kuenstler Script in 1902 - 1903. Originally called Kunstlerschreibschrift (artistic handwriting), this design was based on English copperplate script styles from the late 1800s. In 1957, Hans Bohn added the heavy Kuenstler Script Black weight to the family. Like intricate handwriting put to paper with a feather and an inkwell, Kuenstler Script makes almost any text look distinguished and elegant. Kuenstler Script is a joining script; and because of its fine hairlines and small x-height, it is best used at sizes above 12 pt. The typeface works well in advertising work and on invitations, greetings cards, business cards, and certificates.

Liebfraumilch is a vivid handwriting script that relies on the OpenType features Contextual Alternates, Discretionary Ligatures and Stylistic Alternates, which are available only in OpenType-aware applications such as the Adobe Creative Suite or Quark Xpress. Liebfraumilch or Liebfrau(en)milch is a style of semi-sweet white German wine which may be produced in the regions Rheinhessen, Palatinate, Rheingau and Nahe. The name is a German word literally meaning "Beloved lady's milk". The original German spelling of the word is Liebfrauenmilch, given to the wine produced from the vineyards of the Liebfrauenkirche or Church of Our Lady in the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Worms since the 18th century. The spelling Liebfraumilch is more common on labels of exported wine. (Wikipedia)

Grange Rough is an inky, distressed version of Grange that mimics the effects of vintage hot-metal type on rougher paper. Grange is the Device interpretation of the classic “Grot” thick/thin sans style. Unlike the traditional models on which it is based, Grange takes a rational, consistent approach across wide range of weights and widths for contemporary use. The font includes alternative curved and straighter versions of key characters, most obviously the lower-case ‘g' and capital ‘R', allowing the font to take on either a sharper or warmer, more playful appearance. These can be toggled on or off using the ‘Alts' feature in Illustrator, or ‘Stylistc Sets’ in Indesign. Contains proportional, lining and tabular numerals. Perfect for both headline and text.

Niccolo Niccoli (1364-1437) was a wealthy bibliophile and an acclaimed scribe, in Florence (Italy). He was one of the most important Italian calligrapher in this early time of rediscovering Roman script. Of rare accomplishment was his adaptation of the so called Italian humanistic minuscule script. We were inspired from his late work to create this present Font. We have added a lot of accented and other characters (U/V, I/J...) who was not existing in the original and replacing "long s" by a small "s" for a modern use. The OTF encoding was used for intelligent alternates, permitting to use different forms of the same lower case or capital in a single word, reproducing easily the charming variety of a real manual scripture.

Introducing, Blink Twice, a unique sans with styled lowercase! Blink Twice is a modern and stylish font based sans that have unique looks. This font contains uppercase and lowercase that have different form. You can use the lowercase and uppercase in the same word that will make your text more stand out! And the best of this font is the italic version as the alternates which mean you can combine it all without worrying about the kerning! You can use this font for the magazine, poster, and suitable for headline. This font also support multi language. What you will get: All Caps Font with different uppercase and lowercase Italic version as the alternates (E H I N M e h i n m). Well Kerned.

Roy Carkton is a luxurious and thick lettered serif font. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease! Add it confidently to your favorite creations and let yourself be amazed by the outcome generated. With its striking contrasts and ultra-fine details, along with bold strokes that look luxurious and voluptuous curves, it creates a beautiful and powerful statement for any typographic composition, Features : 2 weight style uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual PUA encoded alternates & ligatures Roy Carkton luxurious serif really helps you create unlimited variations for your creative needs in creating your project titles: such as fashion, magazines, logos, branding, photography, invitations, wedding invitations, quotes, blog headers, posters, advertisements, postcards, books, websites web, etc.

Makozin is a humanist typeface with a stylish appearance. Designed with a more fluid approach, makozin has more movement and curvature within stems, an angled stress and visible modulation. Together these features give a strong presence of the hand providing a comfortable read. Makozin's aesthetic dimensions both serve and enhance the design, making it the perfect tool for communicating in magazines; both in their print and online form, with attention grabbing headlines and easy to read body copy that follows. The true italics of this typeface are a real show stealer, they instantly create a sense of atmosphere, style and authority, complementing the uprights perfectly. Full details include 10 weights including italics, manually edited kerning and a range of OpenType features.

Chayton is the font style handmade dancing and then live trace to have unique, the writing style is very natural. Chayton works great in any branding, logos, magazines, films. The different weights give you a full range of whole hosts of applications, while the outlined fonts give a real modern feel to any project. Chayton also comes with extra Extruded and Outline Font versions. as a function to create an extrusion effect for this font. The Features of this fonts is; Standart ligatures, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic sets, PUA Unicode (Private Use Areas), OpenType features can be accessed by using OpenType smart programs such as Adobe Photo Shop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Corel Draw and Microsoft Office.. can also be accessed through the character map.

Glitter, flashing cameras and fame – now you know how to deal with this stuff! Freshness and brightness is what defines the Blushes fontfamily, which is created for beauty and fashion industries. Blushes is a vibrant part of you that emphasizes your character. Glamorous makeup and trendy clothes are now harmoniously enhanced with our fonts which follow every trend of both industries. Blushes can do it all: create edgy prints on T-shirts, use it for beauty products packaging design and fashion magazines layouts as well as advertising brochures. Blushes works perfectly in the contemporary digital environment. For instance, it is great for an edgy designer clothes on-line store’s website layout, as well as for a beauty products manufacturer’s app

Mandalli is a fun and friendly display font. A little bit quirky, this font looks incredibly adept on a wide variety of contexts! It will look amazing in stationery, logos, social media post and any project that requires a unique look! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease! Honestly it works perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirts and much more. Font Features : • Regular version • Character set A-Z in uppercase and lowercase • Ligatures in lowercase • Numerals & Punctuation • Accented Characters • Multiple Languages Supported Recommended to use in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop with opentype feature. If you have questions, just send me a message and I'm glad to help. Best Regards, Supersemar Letter

Freckle Face Pro draws its inspiration from Pillbury's “Funny Face” drink mix packages. I loved these drink mixes when I was a kid, not only because of the great flavors, but also the fun packaging. Who knew the love affair would renew itself later by finding myself loving the lettering too! An rough-hewn appearance, frolicking baseline, and fun but legible letterforms makes this font a real crown pleaser. The SmallCaps and extensive figure sets give Freckle Face Pro a more diverse design voice, ranging from lightly comic to borderline insane. Opentype features include: - SmallCaps. - Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions. - Tabular, Proportional, and Oldstyle figure sets (along with SmallCaps versions of the figures). - Stylistic Alternates for Caps to SmallCaps conversion.

Hard Rain is named after the torrential thunderstorms that occur in the subtropical regions on the east coast of southern Africa -- the land of the Zulu. During the two-month long rainy season the steamy downpour usually lasts for a few days, and is then followed by the welcoming sun. The diagonal stripes represent the heavy drops of water that drench everything they touch. The resulting font has something of a grunge look to it. As with other grunge fonts, Hard Rain is best used for posters and display work. However, the crisp edges mean that it can be very readable even if used at a small size. Unlike most grunge fonts, Hard Rain has a full character set and this greatly extends its usability.

Voggiet is a beautiful, high-contrast serif font with a distinctive look. the Voggiet font also combines organic details with strong geometric shapes. Voggiet font has a unique and organic character. With a range of different styles, you can change the feel of your designs from more organic to more standard. The typeface also offers many options, such as modern (fancy) Alternates and Ligatures. This elegant font is a must have in your collection and is perfect for your fancy design projects. Examples include fashion, logo design, branding design, wedding design, product packaging design, advertising, products, labels, photography, social media, and other products. This font is also PUA encoded, which means you can easily access all the glyphs and strokes.

Years ago, I developed an interest in the Japanese art of dwarfed potted trees, bonsai. I bought some books on the subject from Brooklyn Botanic Garden. In one -- Handbook on Bonsai: Special Techniques (seventh printing, February 1976) -- the type was bad. Old worn lead type, I suspect, spread wide in the tops of characters and disappearing on the bottoms. Two decades later, I came across my Brooklyn Botanic Garden collection and was struck again by this interesting type. Inspired, I made a typeface. Didn't take me long to decide on a name for it, either: a name with a double-meaning, based both on its look and its inspiration. Bonsai, the typeface, has two styles, a roman and a true italic.

Phlebodium - geometric sans serif typeface, 16 fonts Phlebodium is a modern geometric sans serif font family. Nostalgic, soft and playful font in 80s 90s 2000s techno rave style. BONUS: vector cannabis / hemp leaf, sunflower, mushroom / fungus, meat, unicorn, heart, pizza, hot dog, sun, phlebodium, clover, dog, cat, bear, sun character mascot illustrations and t-shirt designs Phlebodium type family available in 16 styles. 8 Italics 4 weights: Thin, Regular, Medium and Bold 2 widths: Normal and Condensed This bold typeface is ideal for use in display sizes. Perfect for headlines and logos, text blocks, any type of graphic design, printing, t-shirts, posters, branding, web and applications, social media and many more Phlebodium typeface contains 4 weights, normal, condensed and italic styles

Mestika is a resinous spice, in Arabic means gum, the name is Mestika cause the mestika has a mixture of sharp edges and cursive connections, that mixture gives the typeface an edge to stand out, a low contrast sharp design with 9 weights making it works well with text and headlines. The design is a collaboration with the Iranian designer Kamyab Jafari, The typeface is a modern design, and has a wide range of ligatures and features for better justifications. The typeface comes with 9 weights, and works in variable axes, the typeface now supports only Arabic-based languages, but in the near future, it would support Latin-based languages, the Typeface is based on Naskh calligraphy, something in between the Iranian and the Arabic styles.

Shablon is a Stencil style serif typeface. The family consists of 6 fonts: Shablon Regular, Shablon Italic, Shablon Condensed Regular, Shablon Condensed Italic, Shablon Extended Regular, Shablon Extended Italic. Every font includes uppercase and lowercase letters. You can use Shablon for graphic designs that call for a rough-and-ready look, a military look, or even to create real stencils for signs and marking boxes or luggage. Shablon continues the design of Shablon CYR, created in 1994 by Zhivko Stankulov. A number of shortcomings in the construction of the glyphs have been eliminated, and the typeface as a whole has been updated. Shablon is available with active support and upgradeability. Licensees will receive all new versions of the font free of charge.

The German poet, painter, calligrapher and type designer Emil Rudolf Weiß originally created this eponymous typeface for the Bauer Foundry of Frankfurt. Long known and loved by metal type enthusiasts under the name "Weiss Antiqua," this design was inspired by typefaces from the Italian Renaissance while still distinctly reflecting the artistic and poetic personality of its twentieth-century designer. Weiss has tall ascenders, sharp apex points, and a low-slung midsection on the caps. The italic moves like a classical ballerina. Weiss is one of the earliest contemporary serif types to have italics based on the chancery style of writing. The Weiss family works well for warmly legible text typography; and it's also an original choice for refined headline and display graphics."

WOMEN FANTASY - A modern serif font family with a unique and classy style. It looks amazing on any screen size and is easy to read in text size. Fantasi Women is a display font created primarily for headlines, titles and other short text and is perfect for advertising, vintage moodboards, branding, logo types, packaging, titles, editorial designs, and modern and vintage designs. This font will add a fun and friendly touch to any of your projects! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all the glyphs and sweeps easily and more. Have fun using Fantasy Women. I really hope you enjoy it! Feel free to follow, like and share. Thank you so much for checking out my shop!

Introducing Niraloka – a Serif Vintage Display Typeface. This typeface has many alternatives with swashes that can make your lettering/logotype more attractive. This font is suitable for logos and various other formal forms, such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting/wedding cards, packaging, fashion, makeup, stationery, novels, labels, or advertising. This font is PUA encoded, which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease! Feature: uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual support ligature alternative swashes PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports the OpenType feature and the Glyphs pane like many Adobe and Corel Draw applications, so that you can view and access all variations of Glyphs. Please read the READ ME file to enable the feature.

The techno sound of the 1990s, a personal computer, font creation software, and some inspiration all came together to inspire the F2F (Face2Face) font series. Alessio Leonardi and his friends had the demand to create new unusual typefaces, which would be used in the leading German techno magazine of the day, Frontpage. Even typeset as small as 6-points, in nearly undecipherable layouts, it was a pleasure for the kids to read and try to decrypt the messages. Letterforms in F2F Metamorfosi are parts of other characters that have been rotated to take on new meaning. For instance, an upside down V has become an A, a German ß has become the B, and a left parenthesis has become the C, etc.

Hijabella, a natural handwriting font, weaves an organic elegance into the realm of digital typography. With fluid strokes and a graceful rhythm, this font emulates the authenticity of hand-scripted messages. Each letter carries a unique charm, reflecting the imperfections and nuances found in real handwriting. The subtle variations in line thickness and the gentle slant of characters create an inviting and personal touch, reminiscent of pen meeting paper. Whether used for invitations, heartfelt notes, or creative projects, Hijabella’s natural flow captures the essence of a handwritten message, adding warmth and sincerity to the digital medium. Its versatile and effortless aesthetic makes it a perfect choice for those seeking a font that seamlessly blends the convenience of technology with the personal touch of genuine penmanship.

STRAIGHT EDGE – Sans Serif Modern Font Combination STRAIGHT EDGE is a Modern Classic Font Combination STRAIGHT EDGE Regular, STRAIGHT EDGE Extrude, STRAIGHT EDGE Shadow, STRAIGHT EDGE Outline, STRAIGHT EDGE other). STRAIGHT EDGE has more than 637 Glyphs This Font Template contains strong, cool, catchy and easy to use. FEATURES - Ligatures - Stylistic Alternates - Full Uppercase letters - Numbering and Punctuations - Multilingual Support - Works on PC or Mac - Simple Installation - Support Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, also works on Microsoft Word USE STRAIGHT EDGE works great in any branding, logos, magazines, films, apparel, poster, and of course your board. The different weights give you full range to explore a whole host of applications, while the outlined fonts give a real modern feel to any project.

Lucifer Sans is a modern sans serif font rooted in Scandinavian geometry and minimalism, mixed with a healthy dose of black metal and irreverent attitude. Harsh vertical cuts and angles throughout the font creates a very strict and hard look, that can either be amplified or loosened up through its stylistic sets. Lucifer Sans family contains 162 font, 9 different weights and width, plus italics. In addition there are 3 different stylistic sets. This creates substantially diverse set of characters for contrasting against another and makes it a versatile font for different formats. Style 01 takes on an almost hand drawn style, while Style 02 enhances the geometric aspects of the font further. Style 03 uses only the rounded letter 01 without the hand drawn variations.

Bitstream Cooper was designed at Bitstream in 1986 by means of adding light, medium, and bold styles, with the corresponding italics, to the existing black ones. Based on Cooper Black, 1919, by Oswald Bruce Cooper, which was firstly released as a hand composition font in 1922 by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler of Chicago and later spread by ATF. Cooper Black is an extra bold face based on Cooper Old Style. Bitstream Cooper is an old style face with rounded serifs and tilted back ovals. For use both in text (normal weights) and in advertising and display typography (heavy weights). Cyrillic version was developed for ParaType in 2000 by Manvel Shmavonyan and based on TM Oswald face of TypeMarket, 1996, by Victoria Grigorenko.

A hand-drawn stencil font for video games and film titles with a grungy urban design. This all-caps display font offers a simple way to replicate the look of hand-drawn or sprayed on stencil lettering. An industrial style that's used for it's quick real-world applications found on everything from roadworks, storage containers and military vehicles; with an urban visual language uniquely suited to video games, film titles and album covers. See above for more usage ideas. This font family includes uppercase-only characters, plus all punctuation, numerals and language support. Contents: ReRun includes 4 styles: - Rough - Clean - Outline - Light Recreate the textured look in these visuals using our infinite textures for Adobe Illustrator. Available to download from our website.

In 1805, December second, the Napoleonic French army won the famous battle of Austerlitz, against Autrichian and Russian armies. Napoleon was a great general, but his hand-writing was not legible at all, so he employed a few secretaries who wrote the official mail. This font was created, inspired from letters written by one of these professional secretaries and scribes in the months before the battle. We propose it as a typical example of the French Hand from this period. The font contains numerous ligatures and alternative characters so as to look as close as possible to real handwriting. The standard full set is complete with accented or specific characters for West (Including Celtic) and Central European, Baltic, Romanian, Hungarian and Turkish languages.

Here comes a New font,Introducing Tenuity it is Weird Typeface Font is a Authentic Natural Style and classy style, this font is great for your creative projects such as watermark on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, invitation,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. Tenuity a natural Hand Drawn feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes,photos, photography overlays, signs, window art, scrapbooking, tags and so much more! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of ligatures and Alternate glypsh.

Newspeak is a display typeface based upon Soviet architectural forms from the Stalinist period (spanning the 1930s—'50s). Stalinist architecture is now considered unsightly and without aesthetic merit, yet it has a strange beauty, hinting at an unrealised utopia (while its function was to buttress a brutal dictatorship). Inspiration was also drawn from the Cyrillic alphabet which, to kids growing up in Western Europe in the '70s and '80s, was a cipher for an alternative way of living – Cyrillic letterforms represented the exotic, familiarity-twice-removed universe of Eastern Bloc states. When you visited a communist country you were confronted with unfamiliar typography that reinforced your sense of alienation and unease that there existed a real, if imperfect, working alternative to consumerism.