Legible and dynamic shape, tons of OpenType options, different scripts – that’s Mato Sans. Difficult small size, long text in Vietnamese, huge heading in Russian or table full of figures to create? It’s not a problem with this family. There are over 2000 glyphs in every weight with such features: superscript and subscript characters, tabular lining and old style figures, small caps, fractions, arrows or even case sensitive parenthesis. Mato Sans was designed for use in Latin as well as in Cyrillic script. Every font contains an extended set of Cyrillic characters including special, local glyphs for Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian.

Why you little Numbskull! Nitwit! Visigoth! Dimwitted Jackass! Interplanetary Goat! Highwayman! Sea-gherkin! Jellyfish! KnowNothing! Filibuster! Cachinnating cockatoo! Artichoke! Two-timing Troglodyte! Bald-headed budgerigar! Odd-toed Ungulate! Autocrat! Carpetseller! Duck-billed platypus! Dunderheaded coconut! Ectoplasm! Steamroller! Iconoclast! Kleptomaniac! Raggle taggle ruminant! Orangutang! Rapscallion! Ten thousand thundering typhoons! Whippersnapper! Billions of billious barbecued blue blistering barnacles -- you-you... YOU BLOCKHEAD! With its sturdy stance and over 100 friendly interlocking letter pairs, this font was made famous in the logo and branding for the video game CLASH OF CLANS, and infamous in the logo and branding for the Image comic THE BEEF.

Sliced Delight - a modern serif typeface combining classical elegance and contemporary flair. The Sliced Delight typeface is available in 9 weights ranging from Thin to Black, each featuring three optical variations - Display, Title, and Heading - for 27 styles. The Sliced Delight typeface's unique design features give it a bold and dynamic look while maintaining legibility and readability. In addition, the optical variations allow for versatility in usage. Whether you're designing a print publication, a website, or a brand identity, the Sliced Delight typeface is a versatile and eye-catching choice that will make your content stand out.

Bluesmate is a new another modern script font built in 878 glyphs. It has opentype features with PUA encode. of course this is a smart font works with poluler design software like Photoshop, Coreldraw X version, Illustrator, Microsoft Office, ect. This Modern Calligraphic typeface welcomes you to use it for various desing need such as logo, card, wedding invitation, headings, signatures, t-shirt, letterhead, cutting sticker, hot stamping, signage, labels, posters and more. It's craft friendly!!!! OPENTYPE TECHNOLOGY: - Stylistic alternate - Contextual alternates - Standard Ligatures - Discretionary Ligatures - Contextual Ligatures - Initial form - Medial form - Terminal form - Swashes - Numerals - Punctuations

Soigka Display is a modern font with a unique font. This customizable font will look great on a variety of design ideas such as, inding styles, high contrast and light weight fonts perfect for feminine logo signs, fashion & editorial design heads, branding projects, Clothing Branding, packaging, magazine titles, advertisements, T -shirts, postcards, valentines, posters, invitations, weddings, branding projects, social media posts, magazines, book covers and more! This 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.

The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast is a 70's concept album/rock opera by Deep Purple's Roger Glover. The music video to Love Is All, featuring a lute playing frog in a cape, must be one of the best videos ever made. At least, I believe so. When working on this font, the song popped up in my head (it is still there), so I decided to name this cute, cartoonish font after the album. Butterfly Ball is a fun and happy typeface with rounded glyphs and an uneven baseline. Of course it comes with a hallucinatory range of diacritics.

Hello Font Lovers... Orlando Smith is another lovely modern calligraphy typefaces, which is combining the style of classic calligraphy with an modern style. combines from copperplate to contemporary typeface with a dancing baseline, modern and elegant touch. including initial and terminal letters, alternates, and ligatures. Can be used for various purposes.such as headings, logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, lable, news, posters, badges etc. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Corel Draw, and More!!! Thank you for your purchase...

Blize Queen - Display Serif Font. Blize Queen is bold, groovy, clean and unique with display fell. Blize Queen is very versatile serif font that works great in large and small sizes. Helps to create layout display design in 60s or 70s design projects. Blize Queen is a display serif font with beautiful ligatures, tons of alternative glyphs and multilingual support. Come with open type feature with a lot of alternates, its help you to make great lettering. Blize Queen best uses for heading headlines, cover, poster, logos, quotes, product packaging, merchandise, social media & greeting cards and many more.

Introducing, Ardiland - a stylish serif with beautiful binders and substitutes! Ardiland is a modern serif font to apply to many graphic or editorial design projects. A classy, ​​unique high contrast, and light binding style for your upcoming projects. for feminine logo signs, fashion & editorial design heads, branding projects, Apparel Branding, packaging, magazine titles, advertisements, T-shirts, postcards and other special occasions. Here's what's included: Alternatives & Ligatures Numbers & punctuation Character with accent Support Multiple Languages PUA encoded 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

Vista Nordic is a minimal and Modern font family. Made for text display purposes, Nordic brings a contemporary and Robust appearance to your design projects with a bold style, making this font suitable as the Prior heading and common text on a website or layout design. The Nordic family includes 18 fonts in a variety of weights and types. 18 fonts 2 font styles Upper / lowercase glyphs Multilingual Webfonts included Free updates and feature additions If you have any questions about licensing, need help with a typeface, or would like to request a new feature, contact us at hello@vistatype.com. Thank you!

Base Neue is the reincarnation of the basic typography (adaptation) of modern civilization. InkTrap is applied and many variations that can be used for this typeface, from very narrow media to extra-large publications. Weights from thin to black and then there are widths from Super Condensed to Super Expanded, which of course are all used in various media, from heading or titles to body text. Base Neue provides a total of 108 styles consisting of 782 glyphs per style. 95 different languages are supported, and it also has access to alternative letters and interesting ligatures.

Bekinder is a modern serif font with a unique font. This customizable font will look great on a variety of design ideas such as, inding styles, high contrast and light weight fonts perfect for feminine logo signs, fashion & editorial design heads, branding projects, Clothing Branding, packaging, magazine titles, advertisements, t -shirts, postcards, valentines, posters, invitations, weddings, branding projects, social media posts, magazines, book covers and more. This 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.

Ermou is a display monospace font. The typeface has a distinct geometry using sharp angled corners as a tribute to writing and carvings of Ancient Greece. The name is derived from Ermou Street (Οδός Ερμού) or “Street of Hermes” named after the Ancient Greek messenger God and "the bringer of good luck" Hermes (Ἑρμῆς). The famous street was one of the first roads designed in modern Athens, Greece. Today Ermou is Athens’ commercial heart and top ten most expensive retail streets in the world. Ermou is great for team sports, display work, invitations, writing, architecture, fashion, posters, titles and headings.

This typeface was designed to be used as the page heading font for MyFonts. Originally only the letters needed to make up the required phrases were drawn. Then amazingly enough, people started asking where they could get the font, so I decided to complete the character set, and named it Softie. This name was chosen because the round and rather bulbous shapes that make up the letters reminded me of marshmallows. Softie, almost good enough to eat. The Bold version, called Softie Bloated, was added in late 2003. Rumor has it that the name came to Steve after Thanksgiving dinner.

he Storia Lettering Serif style is absolutely perfect for editorial headings. The full font type upright and italic makes it easy for you to use the 2 styles in many projects. This font is complete with symbols and is multilingual. This font style is bold, bold, and sleek, featuring Swash,n Ligature and Stylistic Alt & Stylistic Set features. making it perfect for editorial, web, posters, t-shirts and magazine covers. . etc. Including: Storia Lettering & Italics Uppercase Letters, Numbers, Punctuation & Symbols. Multilingual Support More about this source text Source text is needed to get additional translation information Send feedback Side panel

Glancias Display is a contemporary typeface for article headings. In order to create a style that merges serif and sans serif and to attemp a minimalistic final appearance, Glancias Displas removed the serifs while remaining the high-contrast strokes which are usually found in a serif font. By removing serifs and cutting stroke ends vertically and horizontally, the font has been built in a modern, sleek, neutral and also concise look. Over 400 glyphs in total including upper and lowercase characters, figures, ligatures and signs are available. Glancias Display covers Latin based languages of North and South America and most of Western Europe.

View Night is this amazing typeface handmade script font we created in freestyle for those of you who do work and crafts. It's perfect for any type of work you're working various purposes such as logos, wedding invitations, headings, t-shirts, letterheads, signage, labels, news, posters, badges etc. OpenType features with alternative styles, ligatures, and multiple language support. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternative, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later. How to access all alternative characters, using the Windows Character Map with Photoshop:

Lancar is a sans serif font family with lovely curving forms ideal for headings and text. The curves provide your project an exquisite and harmonious design, great for making your project look gorgeous. This font also comes with four families to help you with your job. With this typeface, you can make your project stand out. of course, your various design projects will be perfect and extraordinary if you use this font because this font is equipped with a font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your extraordinary projects.

Muctar is a bold brush signature script. It can be used for various purposes such as headings, logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, labels, posters, badges and more. Muctar features Contextual Alternates, Standart ligatures, Stylistic Alternates and Stylistic sets. Languages supported: Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Estonian,French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, English, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh. Basically, all European languages that are based on latin alphabet. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7.

Introducing Agiska a Modern Serif Font Inspired by modern style combine with bold typography style. Come with an open type feature with a lot of alternates and end swash, which helps you to make great lettering. Agiska is best used for Logotype, headings, covers, posters, logos, quotes, product packaging, header, merchandise, social media & greeting cards, and many more. This font also supports multi-language. To access the alternate glyphs, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign, and Corel Draw. Thank you for your purchase! Hope you enjoy our font

Have you been looking for a graffiti font? Do you dream of creating headings that stand out and inspire modern and artistic? Introducing Streetlife - A Grafiti Font Make your graffiti text dance with this wonderful, rhythmic font that captures motion and is bound to call attention wherever you use it. This font is perfect for logos, printed quotes, cards, packaging, website or social media branding, and many more! Our font always includes Multilingual Support to make your branding reach a global audience. Features: Standart Ligatures Stylistic Set Multilingual Support PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Din Studio

LACOSTE Foliage is a modern serif font with a unique font. This customizable font will look great on a variety of design ideas such as, inding styles, high contrast and light weight fonts perfect for feminine logo signs, fashion & editorial design heads, branding projects, Clothing Branding, packaging, magazine titles, advertisements, T -shirts, postcards, valentines, posters, invitations, weddings, branding projects, social media posts, magazines, book covers and more ! This 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.

Princess Berlianty is a new modern calligraphy monoline script font. It has a classic and elegant touch and can be used for various purposes such as headings, logos, invitations, t-shirt designs, greeting cards, posters, labels, book covers, brochures ,quotes, headlines, titles, thumbnails, and any other creative design. Features : - Uppercase & Lowercase - Numerals - Punctuations (OpenType Standard) - Accents (Multilingual characters) - Ligatures - Works on PC & Mac - Simple installations - Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even works on Microsoft Word. don't wait anymore, put it in your shopping basket :) and follow me, because there will be many promos!

Hype Runner is a bold and stylish brush font that is perfect for sports and anything that requires strength and power. With its unique style and edgy look, Hype Runner is ideal for a wide range of design projects, including headings, flyers, greeting cards, product packaging, book covers, printed quotes, logotypes, and album covers. This font features alternate glyphs, ligatures, and support for Latin Multilingual, giving you plenty of design options to create unique and eye-catching designs. Whether you're creating designs for sports or simply want a strong and impactful font, Hype Runner is a great choice.

Miegha is a serif typeface inspired by the beauty of classic serif and calligraphy styles, Both upright and italic fonts blend with modern appeal and unique binding, high contrast and light weight font perfect for feminine logo signs, fashion heads & editorial designs, branding projects , Apparel Branding, packaging, magazine titles, advertisements, T-shirts, postcards and more. Here's what's included: · Alternates & Ligatures · Numbers & punctuation · Characters with accents · Supports Multiple Languages · PUA Encoded 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!

Hello Font Lovers... Beauties Script is another lovely modern calligraphy typefaces, which is combining the style of classic calligraphy with an modern style. combines from copperplate to contemporary typeface with a dancing baseline, modern and elegant touch. including initial and terminal letters, alternates, and ligatures. Can be used for various purposes.such as headings, logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, lable, news, posters, badges etc. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Corel Draw, and More!!! Thank you for your purchase...

Mexiland is a display script and serif font duo with a unique vintage aesthetic. it has charming retro characteristics, but still maintains a timeless and universal appeal. Mexiland is perfect use for a logotype, typography design, product packaging, quotes, t-shirt design, label poster, headings, letterhead, cutting sticker, hot stamping, signage, and anything that need vintage vibe. Combine them to give your designs an extraordinary look! Feature : - A lot of Alternates ( With a Total of 700+ Glyphs ) - Multilingual Language - Works on PC & Mac - Simple installations - Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even works on Microsoft Word.

Introducing - Modern elegant serif font branding. Rhiffiral is a modern serif font to apply to many graphic design projects or a classy editorial, a unique high contrast and light binding style for your upcoming projects. for feminine logo signs, fashion & editorial design heads, branding projects, Apparel Branding, packaging, titles magazines, advertisements, T-shirts, postcards and other special occasions. Here's what's included: · Alternates & Ligatures · Numbers & punctuation · Characters with accents · Supports Multiple Languages · PUA Encoded 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.

Introducing, Lunette Typeface. It's strong and classy with an elegant touch of typeface. A unique modern font that is a mix of old and new. Lunette boasts 3 stunning styles, with beautiful upper and lower case letters, numbers, and punctuation marks. Lunette Typeface is perfectly suitable for a layout design for quotes or body copy, best used as a display for headings, logos, branding, magazines, product packaging, invitations: logotypes, and much more. Don't wait to add this font to your collection and explore the uniqueness of this typeface! Features : All Uppercase and Lowercase Number & Symbol Supported Languages Ligatures PUA Encoded

MARIAMNE is an original design by Alex Kaczun. It is an elegant, modern and traditional interpretation based on and modeled after his successful "Contax Pro" and "New Age Gothic" typeface series. As such, it has generous proportions with clean, crisp lines—ideally suited for easy reading and long lines of copy. Alex felt that the skeleton for "Contax" was perfectly suited to transform the design into a modern version of 'old-style', somewhat reminiscent of German Black Letter. Numerous modifications where made to the body proportions, stems and shapes. True 'old-style' serifs and unusual 'cross-strokes' where added for a touch of distinction. The 'cross-strokes' where added at exactly visual mid-point on the overall heights. This gives the typeface a romantic, female-like quality to the overall design. Strong, yet delicate. Visually stimulating in appearance and function. The result is a truly unique transitional and modern design. Unlike other typefaces, MARIAMNE incorporates uniform stems throughout the capitals, lower case and figures. This gives the design a uniform appearance in overall color and strength. There is a perfect visual balance between inter-letter spacing, stem weights and proportions. The accents are equally large, bold and command attention. This font includes a large 'Pro' character set, which supports most Central European and many Eastern European languages. As a result, the design is ideally suited for display copy as well as text composition. In the near future, Alex plans to expand the typeface series to include a light and heavy weight, along with true italics.

Introducing “Balbek” – A modern “condensed” sans serif ligature typeface. Designed by graphic designer Martin Katibi. The balbek font is an eye catching heavy and condensed sans serif type face. The inspiration for this font were other condensed sans serif such as Gabo Drive and Impact. The Balbek font is great for use on headlines, advertisements, product packaging, newspapers and posters. Balbek fully supports multilingual characters, it also come with a full set of alternative uppercase letters, ligature and small cap. All these features will make your next project standout. The font comes in eight styles, which are Regular, Cut, Outline and Soft. Each of these font styles comes with an oblique version. If you are looking for something modern and eye catching for you next project, Balbek is the font for you. WHAT YOU GET: Balbek Regular.otf Balbek Oblique.otf Balbek Cut.otf Balbek Cut Oblique.otf Balbek Outline.otf Balbek Outline Oblique.otf Balbek Soft.otf Balbek Soft Oblique.otf BALBEK INCLUDES A FULL SET OF: Uppercase and lowercase letters. Numbers. Punctuation. Ligatures. Alternates. Small Caps. Multilingual symbols. Here is a short list of some of the unique ligatures: AB AD Æ AF AH AK AL AM AN AP EH EK EM ET FT HE LH LK LM MB MD ME MM MP NE NN Œ TE TH TT TU THE Th ZH ZK ZM æ ? fj ? ? ft ? œ tt ty We hope you enjoy using the Balbek Font.

Amherst is a family of blackletter-inspired typefaces. This family, created by British designer Richard Yeend in 2002, is unique in that it mains the feel of blackletter/medieval type without relying directly on historical forms. Amherst is split into two different sub-families, Amherst and Amherst Gothic. Amherst is very geometric interpretation of Fraktur. Fraktur was a style of German type very popular in central Europe from 1517 until the early 20th Century. Its letters appear "broken" at certain angles and joints. Still, we recommend using it primarily for display purposes. Amherst is available in three weights: Regular, Bold, and Heavy. Amherst Gothic is very loosely inspired by late medieval letterforms, often called Texturas or Gothics. However, the letterforms of Amherst Gothic seem just as inspired by the Art Deco movements of the 1920s and by contemporary sans serif type design as anything else. Nevertheless, certain letters in this typeface do appear more "gothic" than others, especially A, D, M, Y, d, r, and x. Amherst Gothic is made up of three fonts, Amherst Gothic Split, Amherst Gothic Split Alternate, and Amherst Gothic Italic. Amherst Gothic Split has in-lined characters, and appears very ornamented. The alternate characters in Amherst Gothic Split Alternate are quite medieval in their appearance. Amherst Gothic Italic is the least medieval-looking of the set; its characters are very round, and more geometric. All six styles of the Amherst Family are OpenType format fonts, and include old style figures.

Delagio Script is a calligraphic font that combines cursive elegance with a funky, innovative edge. This retro-inspired font is both creative and heavy, making it perfect for designs that require a unique and playful touch. Delagio Script is ideal for projects that seek to convey a sense of fun, humor, and originality. The creation of Delagio Script traces back to a lucky discovery of a vintage magicians' promotional posters. The unique blend of whimsy and elegance in Delagio's lettering were captivating enough to form the base of a typeface that embodied the distinctive charm of entertaining calligraphy strokes. Thus, Delagio Script was born, encapsulating the spirit of serendipity and the magic of a forgotten world. Use underscores _ to make swashes under words. Example: Magician_ The Delagio Script font family features four styles that cater to a wide range of design needs: Thin, Regular, Bold, and their respective Italics. These distinct options allow you to create eye-catching compositions that capture the essence of innovation while remaining rooted in vintage aesthetics. Equipped with advanced OpenType functionality, Delagio Script ensures top-notch quality and provides you with full control and customizability. The font includes stylistic alternates, ligatures, and other features to make your designs truly unique and engaging. Offering extensive lingual support, Delagio Script covers all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia, and includes all the characters and symbols required for your creative projects, such as punctuation and numbers.

ITC Werkstatt is a result of the combined talents of Alphabet Soup's Paul Crome and Satwinder Sehmi, along with Ilene Strizver and Colin Brignall. It is inspired by the work of Rudolph Koch, the renowned German calligrapher, punchcutter, and type designer of the first third of this century, without being based directly on any of Koch's typefaces. Werkstatt has obvious affinities with the heavy, woodcut look of Koch's popular Neuland, but also with display faces like Wallau and even the light, delicate Koch Antiqua. Brignall began by drawing formal letters with a 55mm cap height, which Sehmi reinterpreted using a pen with a broad-edge nib. “Not an easy process,” says Brignall, “since one of the features of Koch's style is that while it was calligraphic in spirit, most of the time his counter shapes did not bear any resemblance to the external shapes, as they would in normal calligraphy. This meant that Sehmi could not complete a whole character in one go, but had to create the outside and inside shapes separately and then ink in the center of the letters.” The process was repeated, only without entirely filling in the outlines, for the Engraved version. Crome handled the scanning and digitization, maintaining the hand-made feel while creating usable digital outlines. “The collaboration of artisans with particular skills,” says Brignall, “in a modern-day, computer-aided studio environment, seems very much in step with the 'workshop' ethos that Rudolph Koch encouraged and promoted so much.”

The famous roman type cut in Venice by Nicolas Jenson, and used in 1470 for his printing of the tract, De Evangelica Praeparatione, Eusebius, has usually been declared the seminal and definitive representative of a class of types known as Venetian Old Style. The Jenson type is thought to have been the primary model for types that immediately followed. Subsequent 15th-century Venetian Old Style types, cut by other punchcutters in Venice and elsewhere in Italy, are also worthy of study, but have been largely neglected by 20th-century type designers. There were many versions of Venetian Old Style types produced in the final quarter of the quattrocento. The exact number is unknown, but numerous printed examples survive, though the actual types, matrices, and punches are long gone. All these types are not, however, conspicuously Jensonian in character. Each shows a liberal amount of individuality, inconsistency, and eccentricity. My fascination with these historical types began in the 1970s and eventually led to the production of my first text typeface, Iowan Old Style (Bitstream, 1991). Sometime in the early 1990s, I started doodling letters for another Venetian typeface. The letters were pieced together from sections of circles and squares. The n, a standard lowercase control character in a text typeface, came first. Its most unusual feature was its head serif, a bisected quadrant of a circle. My aim was to see if its sharp beak would work with blunt, rectangular, foot serifs. Next, I wanted to see if I could construct a set of capital letters by following a similar design system. Rectangular serifs, or what we today call "slab serifs," were common in early roman printing types, particularly text types cut in Italy before 1500. Slab serifs are evident on both lowercase and uppercase characters in roman types of the Incunabula period, but they are seen mainly at the feet of the lowercase letters. The head serifs on lowercase letters of early roman types were usually angled. They were not arched, like mine. Oddly, there seems to be no actual historical precedent for my approach. Another characteristic of my arched serif is that the side opposite the arch is flat, not concave. Arched, concave serifs were used extensively in early italic types, a genre which first appeared more than a quarter century after roman types. Their forms followed humanistic cursive writing, common in Italy since before movable type was used there. Initially, italic characters were all lowercase, set with upright capitals (a practice I much admire and would like to see revived). Sloped italic capitals were not introduced until the middle of the sixteenth century, and they have very little to do with the evolution of humanist scripts. In contrast to the cursive writing on which italic types were based, formal book hands used by humanist scholars to transcribe classical texts served as a source of inspiration for the lowercase letters of the first roman types cut in Italy. While book hands were not as informal as cursive scripts, they still had features which could be said to be more calligraphic than geometric in detail. Over time, though, the copied vestiges of calligraphy virtually disappeared from roman fonts, and type became more rational. This profound change in the way type developed was also due in part to popular interest in the classical inscriptions of Roman antiquity. Imperial Roman letters, or majuscules, became models for the capital letters in nearly all early roman printing types. So it was, that the first letters in my typeface arose from pondering how shapes of lowercase letters and capital letters relate to one another in terms of classical ideals and geometric proportions, two pinnacles in a range of artistic notions which emerged during the Italian Renaissance. Indeed, such ideas are interesting to explore, but in the field of type design they often lead to dead ends. It is generally acknowledged, for instance, that pure geometry, as a strict approach to type design, has limitations. No roman alphabet, based solely on the circle and square, has ever been ideal for continuous reading. This much, I knew from the start. In the course of developing my typeface for text, innumerable compromises were made. Even though the finished letterforms retain a measure of geometric structure, they were modified again and again to improve their performance en masse. Each modification caused further deviation from my original scheme, and gave every font a slightly different direction. In the lower case letters especially, I made countless variations, and diverged significantly from my original plan. For example, not all the arcs remained radial, and they were designed to vary from font to font. Such variety added to the individuality of each style. The counters of many letters are described by intersecting arcs or angled facets, and the bowls are not round. In the capitals, angular bracketing was used practically everywhere stems and serifs meet, accentuating the terseness of the characters. As a result of all my tinkering, the entire family took on a kind of rich, familiar, coarseness - akin to roman types of the late 1400s. In his book, Printing Types D. B. Updike wrote: "Almost all Italian roman fonts in the last half of the fifteenth century had an air of "security" and generous ease extremely agreeable to the eye. Indeed, there is nothing better than fine Italian roman type in the whole history of typography." It does seem a shame that only in the 20th century have revivals of these beautiful types found acceptance in the English language. For four centuries (circa 1500 - circa 1900) Venetian Old Style faces were definitely not in favor in any living language. Recently, though, reinterpretations of early Italian printing types have been returning with a vengeance. The name Vendetta, which as an Italian sound I like, struck me as being a word that could be taken to signifiy a comeback of types designed in the Venetian style. In closing, I should add that a large measure of Vendetta's overall character comes from a synthesis of ideas, old and new. Hallmarks of roman type design from the Incunabula period are blended with contemporary concerns for the optimal display of letterforms on computer screens. Vendetta is thus not a historical revival. It is instead an indirect but personal digital homage to the roman types of punchcutters whose work was influenced by the example Jenson set in 1470. John Downer.

I've been learning to read Cyrillic and Greek letters lately, mainly because I've been playing the game GeoGuessr. (If you haven't played it, I highly recommend! It plops you down somewhere in the world in Google Street View, and you have to figure out where you are.) Cyrillic shows up in so many more places than Russia! You can see it in Bulgaria, Mongolia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kyrgyzstan, and more. Because of that, I made sure to include a fun double-uppercase version of those alphabet sets in Sleepy Bear. They're styled the same way as the Latin characters: all uppercase height, with some lowercase-styled letters thrown in at that same height for a fun look for all ages. I've also made two weights of Sleepy Bear: a plump and smooth regular weight, and a lighter weight that's built to stack on top of the regular (though you can use it on its own). Just type out a word in Sleepy Bear, copy it, and then change the copy to Sleepy Bear Light. You'll get a great outline look in seconds! All characters are extensively cleaned up, with smooth curves and rounded ends. Sleepy Bear is great for all print projects, and also cuts out of all materials like a dream. It's a cute and quirky monoline font family that's great for all of your family's designs. Each font contains over 850 glyphs, and includes: - Latin and extended Latin characters to support over 100 languages; - Cyrillic and Greek double-uppercase alphabet sets; - 18 fractions; - Punctuation galore; - 38 double-letter ligatures for variety (including international pairs like KK and II); - And a half-dozen alternates for even more variety!

Who doesn't want or need an expansive contemporary extended sans that has a sense of style and swagger… what if it had a lowercase, small caps and various numeral options… how could you say no? This was the foundational argument I made for myself when I drew the initial alphabet on my birthday last year (something I do each year, draw a new font, kind of a fun OCD thing). I wanted to see a wide, utilitarian sans that had more to it than just a basic character set and didn't resemble standard geometric models. As I continued sketching, the letterforms were being influenced more by my 'lettering tendencies' than the normal mechanical trappings of drawing flat, wide letters. The letters have retained aspects of letters created by hand — stresses, modulation, naturally ending terminals. Truncation and quick clipping of strokes became antithetical to the letterforms I drew, so I continued this once I brought the design into the computer. I kept it precise and dependable, but made every attempt to keep a conscientiously crafted typeface and not let it devolve into a grid-based drone. As such, it works just as well looking back in time as much as it does assuming a lead role in a sci-fi movie. Halogen does deliver and opts not to take a short cut and provide an anemic offering of glyphs — a modern typeface offered today must provide more than just the basics and this one does — lowercase, smallcaps, old style numerals, tabular forms, stylistic and titling alternates, fractions, case-sensitive features, and even an alternate uppercase ordinal set is included. So go make cool print and digital things with it, now.

Aye, me lovelies, this be Scurvy Dog, a grand font! The letters were etched into a dead man's chest with a blunt rapier, pickled in brine and covered in spew. Ye could be using this crafty penmanship for yer logs or writing yer dear ol' mothers a letter.