Before Bodoni, there was Didot. With the publication by Francois Ambroise Didot of Paris in 1784 of his prospectus for Tasso’s La Gerusalemme Liberata, the rococo typographical style of Fournier de Jeune was replaced with a spartan, neo-classical style that John Baskerville pioneered. The typeface Didot used for this work was of Didot’s own creation and is considered by both G. Dowding and P. Meggs to be the first modern face. Three years later, Bodoni of Parma is using a very similar face. Just as Bodoni’s typeface evolved over time, so did that of the Didot family. The eldest son of Francois Ambroise Didot, Pierre, ran the printing office; and Firmin ran the typefoundry. Pierre used the flattened, wove paper, again pioneered by Baskerville, to permit a more accurate impression and allow the use of more delicate letterforms. Firmin took full advantage of the improved paper by further refining the typeface introduced by his father. The printing of Racine’s Oeuvres in 1801 (seen in our gallery image #2) shows the symbiotic results of their efforts, especially in the marked increase in the sharpness of the serifs when compared to their owns works of only six years earlier. It has been suggested that one reason Bodoni achieved greater popularity than Didot is the thinner hairlines of Didot were more fragile when cast in metal type and thus more expensive for printers to use than Bodoni. This ceased to be a problem with the advent of phototypesetting, opening the door for a renewed interest in the work of the Didot family and especially that of Firmin Didot. Although further refinements in the Didot typeface were to come (notably the lower case ‘g’ shown in 1819), we have chosen 1801 as the nominal basis for our presentation of HiH Firmin Didot. We like the thick-thin circumflex that replaced the evenly-stroked version of 1795, possible only with the flatter wove paper. We like the unusual coat-hanger cedilla. We like the organic, leaf-like tail of the ‘Q.’ We like the strange, little number ‘2’ and the wonderfully assertive ‘4.’ And we like the distinctive and delightful awkwardness of the double-v (w). Please note that we have provided alternative versions of the upper and lower case w that are slightly more conventional than the original designs. Personally, I find the moderns (often called Didones) hard on the eyes in extended blocks of text. That does not stop me from enjoying their cold, crisp clarity. They represent the Age of Reason and the power of man’s intellect, while reflecting also its limitations. In the title pages set by Bodoni, Bulmer and Didot, I see the spare beauty of a winter landscape. That appeals to a New Englander like myself. Another aspect that appeals to me is setting a page in HiH Firmin Didot and watching people try to figure out what typeface it is. It looks a lot like Bodoni, but it isn't!

Introducing Nur Hidayah Arabic Calligraphic Font this is an Arabic display style font that weaves intellect with imagination in a harmonious flow of letterforms. Nur Hidayah Arabic Calligraphic Font demonstrates a mysterious beauty of Arabic typography which is found to be essential for narrative content titling. The font is also suitable for branding and visual advertising. in the Arabic Language, Nur Hidayah refers to the Holy Enlightment. It also indicates the person who’s allready get a clear bright enlightment in their spiritual journey. The font features a unique writing style with a solid geometric structure which suits titling and creative heading. Nur Hidayah Arabic Calligraphic Font consists of three (3) style; Regular, dotted and Bold.

Introducing Franklin Notes Font! Franklin Notes is a quirky handwritten font display. This font is suitable for handwriting logos, T-shirts, merchandise, quotes, social media posts, advertising, and a lot more! Franklin Notes comes with an accent language and ligatures. Thank You!

Introducing Mistress Benedict Font Duo - a pair of hand brushed fonts attentively designed to work together, helping to produce beautiful typography! This pack of two fonts works so well together and can be used for so many projects, from food packaging to a simple quote that you upload to Instagram. Use them on your t-shirts, mugs, cushions, handmade card designs, anything you like! What do you get? Benedict Font has a neat, handwritten style to it and it's tall ascenders gives that added elegance. With it also being hand brushed Benedict is perfect for all hand lettering typographic designs and works well for short advertising headlines and sub-headers. Benedict has a full set of uppercase and lowercase alternates giving you a different style - it's like two fonts in one! Mistress Benedict Brush includes ligatures, discretionary ligatures and a full set of alternate characters. It also has international character support. Mistress Benedict Caps was hand brushed with the same brush pen and is the perfect companion for Benedict. It's an all caps font where the alternates are actually the lowercase letters. It looks gorgeous on it's own too! Like the brush version, Mistress Benedict also supports international languages. Well, there it is! I really hope that you enjoy using this font duo and please ask if you have any questions. Jo

Introducing Slight, an elegant, full-featured script font with tons of alternate characters and OpenType features. Hand-lettered with a heavy right slant, Slight is particularly well-suited for invitations, branding, and editorial design. Slight comes with more than 1000 glyphs! Specific OpenType features include contextual alternates, stylistic alternates, initial and final forms, multiple alternate glyphs for many letters (accessed through the glyphs panel), multilingual support (including multiple currency symbols), ligatures, standard numbers, and six ampersand styles. Perhaps the most fun thing about Slight is that it includes multiple versions of all ascending and descending letters, making it lots of fun to play with in your layouts and compositions. The OpenType features can be very easily accessed by using OpenType-savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. (To access these awesome features in Microsoft Word, you'll need to get comfortable with the advanced tab of Word's font menu. If you need help with this, ask me!) Files included: Slight-Regular.otf Mail support : julie@upupcreative.com --- Find inspiration (and sneak peeks at my next font-in-progress) on - Instagram: http://instagram.com/julieatupupcreative - Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/upupcreative - Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/upupcreative - My website: http://upupcreative.com --- PLEASE ENJOY! I can't wait to see what you make with Slight! Feel free to use the #upupcreative and #slightscriptfont tags to show me what you've been up to!

Display Chamfer is a display font not intended for text use. It was designed specifically for display, headline, logotype, branding, and similar applications. It has caps, lowercase and numbers.

This font was inspired by Claude Garamond antique. The original set of letters from 16th century is enlarged by several characters that were not in use in that time.

River Jade a fresh signature font with lots of ligatures for that handwritten feel. And it comes with bonus clipart which will make designing so much easier and fun.

SpaceMace is a pixel-font designed for print work... or not! It features 950 glyphs, from Basic Latin to Greek and Cyrillic, with ligatures, swashes and much, much more!

Delirian Script & Ornaments Delirian is elegant script with contemporary mood and perfect forms, inspired by immortal classic calligraphy. Not too thin and not too thick, good balanced and variable, born for luxury and beauty. In my examples I show how this script can be used. It's great for logotypes, branding, wedding invitations, romantic cards, alcohol labels, packaging, spelling of names and others. Delirian Script comes with beautiful Uppercase and Lowercase letters, numbers and punctuation. In addition to the main character set, there are 158 alternates characters, 36 ligatures and 10 lengths of end-swashes. You also get Ornament set of 26 elements which harmoniously complements original script. Multilingual Support Script support Western European characters and works with following languages: English, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish. OpenType Stylistic Alternates works on the principle of simple combinations with activated Standard Ligatures option in OpenType panel (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator). To get alternate just add for example number 2 (two) after any letter. Every Uppercase has 1-2 variations and Lowercase about 3-4 alternate characters. For example: A2 A3 - Uppercase; a2 a3 a4 - Lowercase; a.1 a.2 - Lowercase with underline. _1 _2 _3 - End-swashes Ligatures works with activated Discretionary Ligatures option in OpenType panel. This special features don't work in Microsoft Word.

Newcomen is a highly versatile titling face that includes 87 OpenType alternates and 38 ligatures. Newcomen titling, in its default form, evokes the Victorian era and is named for the British inventor of a steam engine for pumping water. Newcomen's flexibility is remarkable; the family includes four weights, and OpenType style sets are included that can alter the appearance of the face to either appear more dark and gothic, classical, include dots in the counters, and swash and "boxy" sets. Individual characters can also be selected and mixed and matched in OpenType capable applications for distinctive custom designs. A few design ideas are to use the gothic alternates for Halloween, the dots for a steampunk appearance, or the traditional alternates for a unique classical look.

Astrotype is an excellent choice for use in astronomical or astrological literature – books, journals, magazines, etc. It can be used effectively both within the text and in accompanying graphics. Using all weights also opens up a number of illustrative possibilities, for instance on posters or tarot cards. Clarity, homogeneity and pure simplicity give Astrotype its unique character. Based on the same elements and with consistant proportions, the characters display a natural elegance and harmony. The type really stands out through the ease with which it can be integrated into text and the many creative possibilities of combinations of different weights. For instance, try placing Astrotype N dot over Astrotype P dot and using different colors – perfect for onscreen buttons, icons or decorations.

Bile is a Classy serif typeface Unique alternate , multilingual support with perfect kerning. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo , classy editorial design, women's magazine, fashion brand , cosmetic brand, fashion promotion , modern advertising design, invitation card, art quote, home decoration , book/cover titles, special events, and much more. This elegant font needs to be in your collection and is perfect for your next luxury design project. Bile Features: · Uppercase & Lowercase · Alternates & Ligatures · Numerals & Punctuation · Accented characters · Multilingual Support · Unicode PUA Encoded If you want the SVG version please contact me. While using this product, if you encounter any problem or spot something we may have missed, please don't hesitate to drop us a message. We'd love to hear your feedbacks in order to further fine-tune our products. Thanks and have a wonderful day .

My goal was to make a design that might fit in anywhere,” says Jim Ford about his Quire Sans™ typeface. “I wanted it to be highly functional and sexy at the same time.” With one foot comfortably in the realm of oldstyle design and traditional book typography, and the other in evolving electronic media, the Quire Sans family does, indeed, fit in just about anywhere. As for sexy, someone once quotably wrote, “A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.” Yes, Quire Sans is sexy, performing confidently in virtually any setting. 2014-06-26 00:00:00.000 57.9900 F43063-S193385 42831 Neue Frutiger World Monotype https://www.myfonts.com/collections/neue-frutiger-world-font-monotype-imaging https://cdn.myfonts.net/cdn-cgi/image/width=417,height=208,fit=contain,format=auto/images/pim/10000/279026_ed8c8093fe1ac59ebe9e3ee1d9262c8e.png Neue Frutiger World is designed for global use with an impressive range of 10 weights, from Ultra Light to Extra Black, with matching italics. It embodies the same warmth and clarity as Adrian Frutiger’s original design, but allows brands to maintain their visual identity, and communicate with a consistent tone of voice, regardless of the language. Neue Frutiger World supports more than 150 languages and scripts including Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai and Vietnamese. “Before Neue Frutiger World it was not an easy task for western brands to find families in Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and Vietnamese which match with their Latin,” says Monotype type director Akira Kobayashi, who led the Neue Frutiger World project. “They may find a type with closer expression, but there was no guarantee if the bold version in the non-Latin family matches the bold in their Latin. Neue Frutiger World offers a better solution.” In addition to Neue Frutiger World’s linguistic versatility, it works hard across environments – suited to branding and corporate identity, advertising, signage, wayfinding, print, and digital environments. The Neue Frutiger World fonts can be paired with Monotype’s CJK fonts: M XiangHe Hei (Chinese), Tazugane Gothic (Japanese), Tazugane Info (Japanese), and Seol Sans (Korean). These were all designed to address brands’ needs to expand into Asian cultures and solve for global typographic challenges.

The idea was to find common intersections between the humanistic and the neo-grotesque model of sans. This variable font offers everything from the world of sans serif in one place – a broad range of weights, adjustable contrast, and a lot of alternative glyphs. As a bonus, you can choose the “cold” or “warm” impact of the text. The Cosan Cold variant has closed apertures and minimal tension in the manner of Helvetica, and the Cosan Warm is open, more dynamic, and airy. Cosan is very suitable for a parallel bilingual setting, as both types are equivalent in their proportions and text color. Like Yin and Yang, each has a piece of the other in him. The Warm version is not totally dynamic, nor is the Cold version totally rigid.

Our Pardner font finds its inspiration from the title screens of the 1965 film “West and Soda”, an animated Italian film that was a parody on American Westerns. Director Bruno Bozetto claimed in an interview that he was in fact the originator of the Spaghetti Western, not Sergio Leone. This offbeat and animated serif typeface has characters of varying width and weighting incorporated into opentype scripting as well as numerous alternates to give a lot of fun and frolicking play in typesetting. You can type with just as much diversity as the titling themselves. Opentype features include: - 6 Stylistic Alternate Sets. - A collection of ligatures as well as programming to automatically alternates between Caps and Lowercase. - Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions. - 731 characters of pure joy.

Stanzer is an interpretation of wood type combined with the idea of modern stencils. Instead of cutting every letter, we are presenting an example of how a modern stencil typeface could look like, as we have come to the conclusion that almost every letter works without cutting it. Stanzer is a Unicase typeface, available in three OpenType weights: Black, Shadow and Block. Stanzer first started as part of our diploma 2010 (it was called Stanley at that time). The basic idea behind this typeface is that it is fully stencil usable, and, unlike other stencil fonts, does not require any bridges (except for the O and Q). Almost every letter can be sprayed without inserting planks. However, Stanzer also offers the display weight Block, which is only suitable for print or online usage.

Rig Solid extends your typography toolkit with a range of energetic 3D fonts. Add dynamism to headlines and logos 13 styles across four weights Solid and gradient 3D designs Clean ‘unbreakable’ geometric shapes Rig Solid follows the award-winning design of its big brother, Rig Shaded. Each style can be used individually, making it even easy to achieve eye-catching 3D effects in print and on the web. The striking halftone styles add texture to your typography, while the hardy solid styles give your designs a visual punch and remain prominent when used over photography and patterned backgrounds. The family includes the unshaded style, ‘Bold Solo’, to perfectly compliment the shaded styles or be used on its own. Rig Solid does not require professional design software to use and is compatible with Microsoft Word.

WildSong was inspired by the exuberant flight and beautiful song of birds. While most brush scripts take their cue from mid-twentieth century samples, WildSong is a fresh, contemporary alternative. WildSong reflects a dynamic interplay between dark and light, creating a sense of drama while hinting at a calligraphic background. Words suggest a baseline, yet are not bound by it. Letters interweave in a seemingly random dance, sometimes connecting smoothly, then breaking that connection as a calligraphic scribe does intuitively. Exuberant swash alternatives to uppercase letters, as well as ligatures can be accessed through both the type and glyph palettes. The font contains over 235 characters - (upper and lower case characters, punctuation, numerals, symbols and accented characters are present). It has all the accented characters used in the major European languages.

Brim Combined packs all of the character of the popular layered typeface, Brim Narrow, into three eye-catching font styles. Inspired by antique wood type from the 1800s, Brim is warm and tactile. Its innovative styles produce both striking headlines and sophisticated titles, making it perfect for posters, packaging and logotypes. Brim Combined makes it even easier to achieve punchy headlines on the web. This flattened version of Brim does not require professional design software to use and is compatible with Microsoft Word. • Combined 1 features Brim’s elegant, handmade line work • Combined 2 includes a drop shade with an outline • Combined 3 has an offset shade and a reversed-out face Brim is an all-caps typeface with Western European, Central European and South Eastern European language support.

Like the graceful movement of a ribbon, Quiverleaf® CF glides effortlessly from letter to letter. Five weights – from a delicate, yearning thin to a hearty extra bold – combine with striking italics and wide language support for a well-rounded and expressive typeface. Quiverleaf's versatile design allows for both beautiful text and airy headlines. Quiverleaf® CF pairs well with itself at contrasting sizes and weights; it can also be used effectively alongside both sans typefaces like Greycliff® CF, and simple humanist designs like Artifex Hand CF. Quiverleaf is also available in an Arabic version, Quiverleaf Arabic CF, which pairs perfectly with the original Quiverleaf for multi-script visual design. All typefaces from Connary Fagen include free updates, including new features, and free technical support.

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.

“There is just something magical about type design,” says Sebastian Lester. “If you draw a successful typeface it can travel the world, taking a part of you with it.” If this is true, his Soho® Gothic family has taken him far and wide. Understated, modern and exceptionally versatile, the family has been put to good use in just about every application imaginable. A good choice for virtually any type of project, The Soho Gothic family performs equally well as the backbone of a global brand as it would in an edgy fashion magazine. Versatile, extensive, customizable, and multilingual – the Soho Gothic typeface family has it all.With the same proportions as Soho, its slab serif cousin, Soho Gothic ranges across seven weights, from a willowy hairline to a brawny ultra – each with a complementary italic.Lester took care to ensure that the Soho and Soho Gothic designs work in perfect harmony. According to him, “The typefaces were developed alongside each other so that I could consider every aspect of each design and be certain that they would be absolutely compatible.”Soho Gothic is a more understated and more subtle design than Soho. Features that give the design its distinctive tone are the flat, crisp apexes of the diagonal characters like the A and V, and the marked horizontal stress in the a, g and s. “I wanted the family as a whole to radiate effortless modernity,” recalls Lester, “to be a master communicator that works in all conditions and at all sizes.” A collection of alternate and “semi-slab” characters were also part of Lester’s plan. “I like to develop alternate characters for all my type designs,” he says. “I believe they give graphic designers greater flexibility and make a typeface more valuable.” Soho Gothic is available as OpenType® Pro fonts that have an extended character set which supports most Central European and many Eastern European languages. If you’re looking to complete your designs, consider pairing it with Bembo® Book,Joanna® Nova,Neue Frutiger®,PMN Caecilia®,or ITC Stone® Serif.

In The Sun is a SVG font made from pencil handwriting and doodles. The SVG format allows for the texture of the pencil to be captured in a realistic way. In The Sun looks best at smaller sizes and will also look great in all caps texts. Use In The Sun in designs such as postcards and notes, posters, logotypes, social media posts, branding and packaging. In The Sun includes: In The Sun handwritten font In The Sun Extras font, with underlines, circles, arrows, and small floral illustrations in: SVG format and Vector format, with the texture preserved Software requirements for the SVG font: Photoshop CC2017+ // Illustrator CC2018+ No SVG support? No problem! I have also included a OTF vector version of the font

Wanna make your branding spark? Do you sometimes have an appetite for a bit more wholesome typography? Looking for a gorgeous and stylish font? If you need to create a big, bold logo for your business, work on a poster for an event, or whatever your project may be-then we've got what you want. Beach Vibes - A Display Brush Font Beach Vibes is an awesome font. A display font that is accompanied by a fabulous handcrafted script brush font that works together in perfect harmony. This font made all in uppercase that easy on the eyes and nice to look while it’s also easy to read Designed primarily as a captivating font to add the right amount of modernity and style, Great choice for your logo, book cover, poster, t-shirt, branding, and advertisement needs. Our font always includes Multilingual Support to make your branding reach a global audience. Features: Ligatures Alternates PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Din Studio

South Wind Font is a handlettered font with 107 ligatures, lot of alternate characters and multilingual support. Is ideal for blog website, instagram, branding, invitations, business cards, weddings and many more. Ligatures list: ab ae al am an ar as at ax ay bb bl cc ch cl ct dd ee ef el en ep er es et ff ft gh ia ic ie il in it iu kt ll of ok ol om on oo op ot ov rr sh sl sm ss st th ts tt Af Ap As Be Dl Em Es Et Eu Ft If Is It Kt Ml Mr Ms Mt Ph Pl Pt Se Sh Sl St Us outh all alt arr ass can cus ell esl etl ett ill obl old oll oth out sim ted South Wind font also include multilingual support for Western and Central Europe. South Wind Font is a set of 542 glyphs, Upper and Lowercase characters with 107 ligatures, numerals, lot of punctuation glyphs, 3 alternates for each lowercase character and 2 alternates for each uppercase character. For access to Stylistic Alternates is required software with glyphs panel like Photoshop, llustrator, Inkscape etc. No special software is required to use Ligatures.

Tin Roof is a unique and original Jukebox font based on the 1958 hand lettered movie poster from "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". The slightly modulated baseline and shaky letters give the font both a silly and sinister aspect. Perfect for any dramatic, spooky or sultry subject, Tin Roof has all the allure of a hot southern night! Jukebox fonts are available in OpenType format and downloadable packages contain both .otf and .ttf versions of the font. They are compatible on both Mac and Windows. All fonts contain basic OpenType features as well as support for Latin-based and most Eastern European languages.

Extra bold, extremely black! Siah font comes with 2 weights and provides a modern and clean sans serif Arabic/Persian type experience for headlines and headings! Siah means "Black" in Persian. This font also supports basic Latin. The complete font family is a great choice for all graphic designers, typographers and visual artists. Shahab Siavash, the designer has done more than 30 fonts and got featured on Behance, Microsoft, McGill University research website, Hackernoon, Fontself, FontsInUse,... Astaneh text and headline font which is one of his latest designs, already got professional typographers, lay-out and book designers' attention as well as some of the most recognizable publications in Arabic/Persian communities.

BeachBar is a modern bold script with a sunny mood. It is inspired by, well, Beach bars, the summer and the sea, the hot afternoons with a cocktail in your hand and the sound of splashing waves. Beachbar turns our love for summer into a dynamic and vivacious font that comes in three different styles to choose from: BeachBar (connecting small letters, disconnected basic caps, ideal for text), BeachBar Alt (all letters are disconnected) and last but not least BeachBar Script (connecting letters, script-like caps and a bold set of swash capitals for more eye-catching designs). All three styles come in six weights making the font versatile and useful both for web and print; think websites, posters, menus, logotypes, cards, signage, packaging and whatnot. BeachBar is friendly, sturdy and it makes a statement, but most of all, it is fun to play with.

Superb is a new typeface based on real brush pen script and also influenced by lettering shapes from the sixties and seventies. The font includes various swashes with volume and curls.. Superb’s letters got high contrast and some psychedelic curves. This font includes negative figures and a full alphabet set with cut out shapes. Take a look at the Superb Video https://vimeo.com/94062611 It’s designed with high contrast and enhanced legibility regardless its artistic look. Superb’s original letterforms are a beautiful piece of art and elegance no matter you observe them as separate symbols or as words, text paragraphs etc. Their appropriate use could be found therefore in many different aspects – from decorative greeting card, fresh packaging or expressive headline, to artistic t-shirt design, poster or distinguished brand name. Superb has a lot more to show when you access its OpenType features.

Looking for perfectly paired branding fonts? Check out our new baby "brand stylist". Not boring display font combined with a sassy script font can become your casual logo designing font. If you have questions, just send us a message and we’re happy to help:) Happy designing, Gulya