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.

Tooting Sans is a well-crafted, contemporary humanist sans. Designed for the needs of editorial, advertising and signage, Tooting Sans is not only suitable for setting large amounts of text at small sizes, it also has a presence and robustness for powerful headlines. Tooting Sans has slightly condensed letters with clean lines, open forms and predominantly straight terminals, although some vertical strokes have angled terminals for variation. This helps to keep the flow of the copy alive whilst being economical with space and legible in both text and headline usage. Released as an OpenType font, Tooting Sans expands upon the standard sans serif character set to include Greek and Cyrillic glyphs, small caps, oldstyle figures, proportional figures, ligatures and improved support for Latin-based languages.

Best Street is a new variant of handcrafted script typeface. present to you to complete your collection of script fonts.This typeface has been enriched with additional alternative characters for up to 403 glyphs. Hope it helps to capture the soul of any design. Finally, there are no words to say other than "Succeed and enjoy." Best Street is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all additional characters without having to design any special software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any additional characters for pasting into your favorite text editor / application. How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwjMkbB-wQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw

Meet Greenleaf, a display family that blends elegant art deco details, extensive linguistic support, and technically innovative features to create a bold impression that’s ideal for branding, signage, packaging, invitations, and so much more. Greenleaf’s “Pro” fonts support over three hundred sixty languages to reach the broadest possible audience. Meanwhile, its decorative companions expand the family’s expressive potential. They effortlessly create banners, chains, frames, and patterns — and include chromatic fonts which can be set in two colors without layers or special design software. Download the user guide to see Greenleaf’s many features and discover how the fonts actively help you take advantage of all they have to offer. Enjoy! Greenleaf is a trademark of Charles Gibbons / Oddsorts and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

Introducing Anttisol, a handwritten brush font with a natural, rough, dry, and fast stroke. This font is perfect for signature logos, handwritten quotes, weddings, product packaging, fashion magazines, photography, merchandise, branding projects, poster, social media post, book covers, and advertising. You can create more easily with alternatives to each letter and make it as if you wrote it yourself. Anttisol contains upper and lowercase characters, numerals, ligatures, alternates, and a large range of punctuation. More information about how to access alternate glyphs, you can see on this link : http://goo.gl/ZT7PqK ) If you have any questions at all, feel free to send me a private message, I’m always more than happy to help you along :) Thank you! Happy creating. Enjoy!

We are proud to present to you our new Latin+Cyrillic font Fedorro! Fedorro typeface is a classy example of a modern Ukrainian style of type design. It is inspired by traditional fonts of the past, but with a strong modern twist to its appearance. The main feature of this font are round and playful letters combined with a relatively tiny negative space, making it unique like no other: many typeface elements were borrowed from historical exemplars of Ukrainian handwritten letters and redesigned with modern trends in mind. Fedorro is perfect for all the situations when you need the text to pop and catch the viewer's eye: posters, books and magazine covers, headlines, banners and ads, logotypes, corporate branding, lables, ads etc.

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

CROSS CHECK is the brush display typeface with simple brush textured and all caps style looks and feel nice balanced. Honestly it works perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirts and much more for branding and anything designs. Recommended to use in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop with opentype feature. Ligatures feature is default setting in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop in Uppercase character. So when you want not to use the ligatures. Open glyphs panel : In Adobe Photoshop choose tool Window Character and then please click fi symbol In Adobe Illustrator choose tool Window Type Open Type and then please click fi symbol If you have questions, just send me a message and I’m glad to help. Have a great day, Absonstype

There's something satisfying about tweaking to perfection a typeface based on the particular style of lettering applied to a particular kind of paper by a particular human hand. One day, in pursuit of this curious sense of satisfaction, I sat down with a porous pad of lined note paper and printed out the alphabet with a ballpoint pen. I found particularly interesting the bulbous ends of the strokes where the ink soaked in. I couldn't help myself: I drew out the rest of the character set, scanned, hand-traced, and -- as with all 3IP font designs -- manipulated every glyph to an obsessive degree. Named it Cedar Street, after a favorite address of mine. Full release has a single medium weight with a thorough character set.

Vodka - a display pack with an edge. Vodka is a display combo pack of four styles and six fonts. Vodka fonts are clean but soft. Vodka's core is two weights of a Brush Script and a Monoline Script with similar characters. Vodka Sans is a bold sans with very soft features. Vodka Sans lowercase letters are a bit condensed version of uppercase. Vodka Slab is a rounded bold display type. Vodka Brush and Pen are equipped with automatic Contextual Alternates and Standard Ligatures that help to keep the flow smooth. For more expressive letters there’s Swash Alternates for every standard letter. Vodka fonts are designed to play together but can easily be used as themselves too. For the best price purchase the whole pack!

Cherry Rush - It's fun, it's cute, it's smooth, and it's mighty splash. A mixed-case font (Uppercase and lowercase) with lots of combination possibilities, make greats fun display! It's good to make a logotype, sticker, fun kids sign, and other lettering project. This fun is perfect combination uppercase and lowercase. This font contains all uppercase, lowercase, numbers and basic punctuation also a fun 40 ligatures. (If you're having trouble finding the basic punctuation, you can access it in the Glyphs panel) Please let me know in the comments what you think or if you have any issues or queries , If you have any questions about licensing, need help with a typeface, or would like to request a new feature, drop me a message.

FEELING DEPRESSED is the brush display typeface with simple brush textured and all caps style looks and feel nice balanced. Honestly it works perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirts and much more for branding and anything designs. Recommended to use in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop with opentype feature. Ligatures feature is default setting in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop in Uppercase character. So when you want not to use the ligatures. Open glyphs panel : In Adobe Photoshop choose tool Window Character and then please click fi symbol In Adobe Illustrator choose tool Window Type Open Type and then please click fi symbol If you have questions, just send me a message and I’m glad to help. Have a great day, Absonstype

Introducing Jenthill - a lovely font family which includes 4 font styles: - a wonderful script typeface Jenthill - Jenthill Light - a delicate version of Jenthill - 2 uppercase fonts Jetnthill Caps and Jenthill Light Caps which are perfect for headings. Each font consists of about 380 glyphs and includes basic punctuation, numbers, roman typeface and international characters, so the font can be used with most of the European languages. Each font in this family is amazing in itself and perfectly combined with each other. So, if you are looking for a font that simulates the soft-edged handwriting, the Jenthill is just for you! Every letter of this font has been carefully crafted to look wonderful and helps you to add a little fancy to your work.

Falling is an exquisite handwritten font, masterfully designed to become a true favorite. It maintains its classy calligraphic influences while feeling contemporary and fresh. Fall in love with it and bring your projects to the highest levels! Provide Ligatures and alternates with special character make the design letters looks incredible. Honestly it works perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirt and much more. Font Features : Regular Version Character set A-Z in Uppercase and Lowercase Ligatures in lowercase and special Alternate option Numerals and Punctuation Accented Characters Multiple Languange Supported Recomended to use in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop with opentype feature. If you have any questions, just send me a message and I'm glad to help. Best Regards Supersemar Letter

Monsterio is a futuristic modern slab serif style with Uppercase and Lowercase feel nice balanced. Provide alternates font in lowercase with wider style make the design letter looks incridible. Honestly it works perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirts and much more. Font Features : Regular and Italic version Character set A-Z in uppercase and lowercase Alternates in Lowercase Numerals & Punctuation Accented Characters Multiple Languages Supported Format File: OTF Recommended to use in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop with opentype feature. How to access Alternate Characters? Open glyphs panel : In Adobe Photoshop choose tool Window glyphs In Adobe Illustrator choose tool Type glyphs If you have questions, just send me a message and I'm glad to help. Have a great day, Haksen Std

Rukishy font is the most appropriate choice to enhance the visual appeal of your branding projects. With an attractive Script font style, this font presents an impressive design touch, creating an unforgettable charm. What makes Rukishy so unique is its wide range of features. With a complete family that includes regular, shadow, slant, and shadow slant, you have everything you need to express your creativity optimally. Not only that but some ligatures and alternates add a unique touch to each character, helping you create truly original designs. The ability to support multiple languages makes Rukishy a universal choice that allows you to reach a global audience. With its ease of use and flexibility, this font becomes a valuable asset in your design world.

Introducing Glaudia Script, a smooth, elegant typeface with ligature and alternatives to authentic handwriting nuances. Glaudia Script comes with Regular, and looks great on business cards, envelopes, logos, signage, greeting cards, wedding materials, packaging, and more! Simple for a polished contemporary style. No special software is needed to use Glaudia Script, although the Fly Panel or Character Map is very helpful in accessing alternative glyphs. To activate 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 newer versions. There are several additional ways to access alternatives / swashes, using Character Maps (Windows), Nexus Fonts (Windows), Font Books (Mac) or software programs such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac).

From tablet to table – from freehand to font – Average Handwriting was designed originally in freehand on paper then onto a tablet with the help of an appropriate app to give it a ‘wet brush’ feel – this was transferred to paper then tweaked PS and only then imported into a font design programme – this is how we work to keep the original flourishes and a freehand feel to the font. Thus, a well-ordered handwriting with both elements of freehand and precision. It looks especially good in lower-case text situations, delivering an original look - there again you may be looking for a new display font for some large graphic projects such as posters, Average Handwriting also works well in these situations, again, delivering an original look.

Billstone Signature is a modern signature font in relatively thick weight. Its main character relates to the name given which is similar to a signature in the interconnected letters. Besides, there is no prominent thick line differences on the letter. To improve legibility, use this font for bigger-sized texts. Features: Ligatures Stylistic Set Swashes Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Billstone signature fits for any design projects, such as posters, banners, logos, book covers, invitations, quotes, headings, printed products, merchandise, social media, etc. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Feel free to contact us for further product information or trouble complaints. Thank you and happy designing. Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Din Studio

Petunia Monogram is a beautiful extension to Eliza Gwendalyn's Petunia font family, originally published by Great Lakes Lettering! The letter forms in this uppercase-only font are angelic and more refined, with sweeping, elegantly thin swashes and flourishes. Petunia Monogram contains three variations of each uppercase letter, a larger version and two smaller ones, each with different swash flourishes. With the help of the OpenType ligature feature, you can create beautiful three-letter monograms. There are also 20 whimsical crest graphics and flourishes that you can use to build single letter crests. Petunia Monogram is perfect for wedding and personal stationary, invitations, and much more! See our "How-To" poster to learn how easy it is to make beautiful monograms and initialed crests!

Desirable Brush Texture is a brush version of desirable solid released in 2019. With a classic style and an elegant touch, inspired by Italian women's handwriting and ancient manuscripts. These two fonts are carefully designed to work together in harmony making them perfect for wedding media, book covers, greeting cards, logos, branding, business cards and certificates, even for any design work that requires classic, formal or extravagant. Try Desirable Brush Texture, enjoy the richness of the features and let her fun and elegant excitement make you happy and enhance your creativity! You can use this font very easily. Multilingual Support And Special Ligatures If you are interested in the solid version, visit the link - https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/alcode/desirable-calligraphy/

Ramadhan Amazing is Arabic-style font. Designed with digital flat pen and gothic typography technique that gives the letters an elegant look. Equipped with an Arabic character display. This font is very useful for designing all kinds of graphic designs related to Islamic Content. Ramadhan Amazing font is suitable for branding, logotype, apparel, T-shirt, Hoodie, product packaging, quotes, flyers, posters, book covers, advertising, etc. What's Included? - Open support type - Multilingual support - PUA encoded - Features: uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation, multilingual, alternative, and stylish set. - Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator Glyphs panel, or under Stylistic - Alternative in OpenType menu Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Corel Draw, even works in Microsoft Word Please message me if you have any questions. We are happy to help you.

Bandung is A Beauty Retro Vintage Ligature font that special crafted with carefully to leverage your design project A new font that we created special for branding needs, with unique characters and awesome ligature characters are ready to add value of your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more beauty and modern. And specially for Bandung font, We prepared any ligature characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. Bandung Beauty Retro Vintage Ligature font ready with: Any options to get creative variations (combination of Ligature) Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Bandung font Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)

Get some beach holiday vibe so needed during a crazy year in the city! BEACHCLUB fonts are inspired by tropical islands hand-painted signs. Bring the summer beach parties feeling with sunshine, music and strong cocktails. We crafted digital versions of woodcrafted letters as if it was made for a beach bar in Hawaii. Then the time, sea and sand did the rest. Use our fonts to bring this fun and relaxed energy to your graphics! Key Features: BEACHCLUB fonts will be a great help and perfect fit for various posters, banners, typography and illustrations. Fonts can be used for both personal and commercial projects. Credits: BEACHCLUB clean and BEACHCLUB grunge are designed by Royalclub. For purchasing the full kit (brushes/frames) proceed to www.royalclub.sh/royalclub-supplies

Fadhillah Signature is an elegant handwritten unique flow font with a natural and organic look. fadhillah Signature is perfect for branding projects, logos, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, labels, photography, watermarks, invitations, stationery and any project that requires a handwritten feel.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 a later version. and there are additional ways to access alternatives, using the Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac). If you need any help or suggestions please contact me via email "chaidirgata@gmail.com" Thank you for your purchase!.

Frink Rio Modren Grotesk Font Family It has evolved to converge wider and more trendy design needs. By designing the thin style vertical stem value as 10pt, the contrast between individual styles is ensured. Great care has been taken to ensure that the characteristics of individual Glyphs are well reflected in the each style. Extended Cyrillic language support will help make this font family more universal. And the support of various OpenType Features will respond to the designer's coverage in a variety of ways. OpenType Features Ligatures - fi, fl Small Caps (from lowercases) Ordinals (1st. 2nd. 3rd, 4~9th) Oldstyle Figures Tabular Figures Fractions Scientific Inferiors Superscrpt (lowercases. numbers) Check in advance how the apps you are using support these OpenType Features.

Illuminated Initials font family has Regular and Colored styles and inspired by medieval initials. It's all you need to precisely imitate dark-ages style text. Use this font as a decorative element at the beginning of a paragraph or section, other part of the paragraph should be in regular black letter font. You’ll get Drop Caps & Numbers set. --- *You can use color fonts in PS CC 2017+, AI CC 2018+, ID CC 2019+, macOS 10.14 Mojave+ * *Please note that the Canva & Corel doesn't support color fonts!* *Please download this test file with only A letter ( https://www.dropbox.com/s/fbt3wpu2j3t0ymv/IlluminatedInitials-Test.otf?dl=0 ) to check your app & system.* --- Please feel free to request any help you need: kaer.pro@gmail.com Best, Roman.

Elegant, graceful and timeless. Astorica is a versatile font family with timeless classic appeal, has alternatives & ligatures, multilingual support, (And we think this is our best work so far!) Each letter has been hand-drawn and made with great care. Weight variations provide a variety of options that will help you find the best typographic character for your project. All 6 weights are perfect for big screen use and high impact headlines. The binding and style alternatives available offer a number of different options that give your logo or business card a unique look. FEATURE 6 loads of Astorica High contrast 41 ligatures per capital letter weight and 30 Ligatures per lower case weight 10 alternate glyphs per weight Comprehensive language support Stay sweet, Sweetest Thing

Ample is a display type family, optical mono linear and a bit squarish in nature. It has a smooth curve instead of sharp angles formed by the junction of two strokes, which is a prominent feature of its design. It is designed to be a little eye-catching yet legible. It has clear and distinguishable letterforms, which helps to elaborate and emphasise the message. It is graphically strong and commands viewer’s attention. The overall appearance of type is suitable in setting it as heading, title, headline, etc. The type family consists of six weights viz. Thin, ExLight, Light, Regular, Medium and Bold. Considering the nature of this type family, italics have been excluded. Ample is designed by Aakash Soneri in a period between 2013 and 2014.

Medieval Knots font family has Regular and Colored styles. It inspired by Celtic knots initials and lines. It's all you need to precisely imitate medieval style text. Use this font as a decorative element at the beginning of a paragraph or section, other part of the paragraph should be in regular black letter font. You’ll get Drop Caps & Numbers set. --- *You can use color fonts in PS CC 2017+, AI CC 2018+, ID CC 2019+, macOS 10.14 Mojave+ * *Please note that the Canva & Corel doesn't support color fonts!* *Please download this test file with only A letter ( https://www.dropbox.com/s/w6n0zmga231xng1/MedievalKnots-Test.otf?dl=0 ) to check your app & system.* --- Please feel free to request any help you need: kaer.pro@gmail.com Best, Roman. Thank you!

The beauty of a classic is that it never really goes out of style. The pure, simple elements which define its greatness only strengthen and solidify with time and exposure--elements like those that inspired Ranelte, the new sans serif from insigne design. While it pays homage to the enduring DIN series of the early-20th century, the new Ranelte is far from outdated. The classic style happily connects with its more modern side, incorporating a more pronounced curve than many of its contemporaries do. This accentuated curve helps pad the type against being cold or overly technical, especially with its inherent semi-modular form and geographic feel. In short, you end up with a good vibe at the intersection of high-tech and friendly. A versatile typeface, Ranelte is designed for headline use as well as print and web copy. Within this family’s three widths and eight weights (along with italics), the letter proportions remain easily readable through their tendency toward equalisation, while still avoiding strict monospacing. The typeface also features sophisticated typographical help in the form of OpenType features. Included in the set are case-sensitive types, fractions, super- and subscript characters, and stylistic alternates. It comes using a comprehensive array of old style and lining figures. All features comprehensively cover the Latin-based languages. Thinking about it again, a classic may never go out of style, but that doesn’t mean you can’t improve on it. A little adjustment can have a beauty all its own. So discover the tuning of Ranelte, and enjoy all the new things you can do with a classic.

Homelessfonts is an initiative by the Arrels foundation to support, raise awareness and bring some dignity to the life of homeless people in Barcelona Spain. Each of the fonts was carefully digitized from the handwriting of different homeless people who agreed to participate in this initiative. Please Note: these fonts include only the latin alphabet; no accented characters, no numbers or punctuation. MyFonts is pleased to donate all revenue from the sales of Homelessfonts to the Arrels foundation in support of their mission to provide the homeless people in Barcelona with a path to independence with accommodations, food, social and health care. Gemma was born in Madrid 37 years ago. After spending many years in the capital, she decided to start over again and moved to Barcelona. A series of misfortunes and wrong decisions left her on the street. Gemma is a calm, emotional person who likes to take her time to do things and, if there’s one thing the street can offer, it’s time. The street lets you listen carefully, watch without being seen. Being in the street isn’t pleasant at all. Seeing people who’ve just showered go past makes you miss even more things that many take for granted. Breakfast, a clean smell, paying for a metro ticket. Being homeless is much more than having nowhere to sleep. Life in the street is hard, says Gemma, but she also sees the positive side. “It’s the best way to get to know human beings.” She likes to see the street as if it were a school. A school she has been in and out of for too long.

Quinoa is display typeface by Catharsis Fonts that unites the seemingly opposed concepts of clean geometric architecture and organic humanist warmth. While it is designed for display and editorial purposes, its accessible forms make for comfortable reading even at small text sizes. Its exuberant adaptive "f", "j", "Q" and refreshing titling alternates bring display text to life. Quinoa covers multilingual Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Armenian. The Quinoa family spans four stylistic cuts (Quinoa, Quinoa Titling, Quinoa Round, and Quinoa Text) with matching hand-slanted obliques, each of which comes in nine weights. The Titling cut offers a number of alternate capital letter designs with lowercase-inspired forms for a refreshing unicase look, and the Round cut additionally removes the spurs from arched letters like n. The text cut introduces true diagonals and a two-storey "a" for a more sober, reading-friendly look. A host of other OpenType features including ligatures, contextual alternates, small caps, figure sets, and character variants are built into all cuts. Furthermore, the small caps of Quinoa, Quinoa Titling, and Quinoa Text are available as dedicated font files under the names "Quinoa SC", "Quinoa Unicase" and "Quinoa Text SC" for ease of use. Acknowledgements: I am thankful to the TypeDrawers and the Typografie.info communities for great feedback and support. In particular, Thorsten Daum has been tremendously helpful with suggestions and quality control. Thanks to Craig Eliason and Jan Willem Wennekes for their help with the Latin, Alexander L. Stetsiuk for Cyrillic, Ofir Shavit and Jonathan N. Washington for Hebrew, Khaled Hosny for Arabic, and Hrant H. Papazian for Armenian.

For much of the world, the last half of December encompasses the beginning of winter and the a season of gift-giving, marked by Hanukkah and Christmas. It is generally accepted that the tradition of giving of gifts at this time was begun by The Three Wisemen. As described in The Gospel According to Matthew, the wisemen, led by a star from a distant land to the east, found the baby Jesus. First, they worshipped him and then, "they presented him with gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh." (Matthew 2:11). Thus began the tradition of celebrating the birth of Christ with the giving of gifts. There is a parallel tradition in the Jewish faith of the giving of gelt or gold at Hanakkuh to help support poor students, in keeping with the rich history of scholarship that is fundamental to the rabbinic system. Inevitably, in our secular culture, there has been a blending and a secularization of these traditions. The reasons have gotton lost in the “gimme.” What is often overlooked is what Paul realized when he told Timothy, “Neglect not the gift that is in thee.” The most importent gift is the gift inside of us, the gift of sacrificial love for others. When we let that gift be diminished in our minds amid the clutter of modern day material seeking, we can recall the prophesy of Micah over 2800 years ago, But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel: whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." (Micah 5:2 KJV) Never underestimate the impact you have on others. Words of kindness can change people’s lives. The Talmud says that the highest form of wisdom is kindness. Be wise this holiday season. The font BETHLEHEM STAR was originally designed for the church to which I belong, The Star Bethlehem Church of Ansonia, Connecticut, USA and is based on the typeface Accent with the permission of URW++ of Hamburg, Germany. You might choose BETHLEHEM STAR for your personal greetings as well as for flyers and programs at your church this holiday season. Like most display fonts, it is most effective at 18 points and larger. Like most script fonts, it is most effective when set with both upper and lower case. All caps with this font is like eating two pieces of pecan pie — too much of a good thing.

ITC Johnston is the result of the combined talents of Dave Farey and Richard Dawson, based on the work of Edward Johnston. In developing ITC Johnston, says London type designer Dave Farey, he did “lots of research on not only the face but the man.” Edward Johnston was something of an eccentric, “famous for sitting in a deck chair and carrying toast in his pockets.” (The deck chair was his preferred furniture in his own living room; the toast was so that he’d always have sustenance near at hand.) Johnston was also almost single-handedly responsible, early in this century, for the revival in Britain of the Renaissance calligraphic tradition of the chancery italic. His book Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering (with its peculiar extraneous comma in the title) is a classic on its subject, and his influence on his contemporaries was tremendous. He is perhaps best remembered, however, for the alphabet that he designed in 1916 for the London Underground Railway (now London Transport), which was based on his original “block letter” model. Johnston’s letters were constructed very carefully, based on his study of historical writing techniques at the British Museum. His capital letters took their form from the best classical Roman inscriptions. “He had serious rules for his sans serif style,” says Farey, “particularly the height-to-weight ratio of 1:7 for the construction of line weight, and therefore horizontals and verticals were to be the same thickness. Johnston’s O’s and C’s and G’s and even his S’s were constructions of perfect circles. This was a bit of a problem as far as text sizes were concerned, or in reality sizes smaller than half an inch. It also precluded any other weight but medium ‘ any weight lighter or heavier than his 1:7 relationship.” Johnston was famously slow at any project he undertook, says Farey. “He did eventually, under protest, create a bolder weight, in capitals only ‘ which took twenty years to complete.” Farey and his colleague Richard Dawson have based ITC Johnston on Edward Johnston’s original block letters, expanding them into a three-weight type family. Johnston himself never called his Underground lettering a typeface, according to Farey. It was an alphabet meant for signage and other display purposes, designed to be legible at a glance rather than readable in passages of text. Farey and Dawson’s adaptation retains the sparkling starkness of Johnston’s letters while combining comfortably into text. Johnston’s block letter bears an obvious resemblance to Gill Sans, the highly successful type family developed by Monotype in the 1920s. The young Eric Gill had studied under Johnston at the London College of Printing, worked on the Underground project with him, and followed many of the same principles in developing his own sans serif typeface. The Johnston letters gave a characteristic look to London’s transport system after the First World War, but it was Gill Sans that became the emblematic letter form of British graphic design for decades. (Johnston’s sans serif continued in use in the Underground until the early ‘80s, when a revised and modernized version, with a tighter fit and a larger x-height, was designed by the London design firm Banks and Miles.) Farey and Dawson, working from their studio in London’s Clerkenwell, wanted to create a type family that was neither a museum piece nor a bastardization, and that would “provide an alternative of the same school” to the omnipresent Gill Sans. “These alphabets,” says Farey, referring to the Johnston letters, “have never been developed as contemporary styles.” He and Dawson not only devised three weights of ITC Johnston but gave it a full set of small capitals in each weight ‘ something that neither the original Johnston face nor the Gill faces have ‘ as well as old-style figures and several alternate characters.

In Adrian Frutiger, the discipline of a mathematically exact mind is joined with an unmistakable artistic sense. His independent work possesses the controllable language of letterforms. Personal and intensive, this work is the manifestation of his expressive will. Frutiger's precise sense of outline reveals itself two- or three-dimensionally in wood, stone, or bronze, on printing plates and in the form of reliefs. However, even his independent work can be understood as objectivized signs; in their symbolism, they are embedded in the fundamental questions of human existance. They might have developed in the spirit of playfulness, but their nature is always conceptual, directed towards a complex, yet harmonic, whole. Following function, form also necessarily follows the content of the language. The entire spiritual world becomes readable through letters. Essentially, Adrian Frutiger attempts to fathom the basic, central truth which defines our lives: change, growth, division - beginning and end. In a virtual synthesis, he seems to close the circle in which the world reflects itself in symbolic forms. Frutiger Stones is for Adrian Frutiger the example of his formal artistic sensibility par excellence. Searching for the fundamental elements in nature, he has discovered the pebble, rounded and polished over innumerable years by gently flowing water. And out of this, he has created his complete system, a ruralistic typeface of letters and symbols. It depicts animals and plants, as well as astrological and mythical signs. Because of its unique aura, Frutiger Stones is particularly well-suited to different purposes - in headlines and prominent pictograms, as symbol faces, illustrations, and more.