Once I had a young, very eager and interested designer in my employ. We got into talking about where our letterforms come from and the habits in perception we are used to. He did not quite believe me. So I said, let's try to design a typeface where everything is just the opposite of what we are used to. We really had a hard time, our habits crept up on us all the time. But after a couple of weeks we finally finished this typeface and wanted to call it crazytype, but my young apprentice ­ who did most of the manual labor ­ said Contype sounded crazier. So it became Contype and it's really crazy, with a small asian touch to it. Yours very crazy Gert Wiescher

Compendium is a sequel to my Burgues font from 2007. Actually it is more like a prequel to Burgues. Before Louis Madarasz awed the American Southeast with his disciplined corners and wild hairlines, Platt Rogers Spencer, up in Ohio, had laid down a style all his own, a style that would eventually become the groundwork for the veering calligraphic method that was later defined and developed by Madarasz. After I wrote the above paragraph, I was so surprised by it, particularly by the first two sentences, that I stopped and had to think about it for a week. Why a sequel/prequel? Am I subconsciously joining the ranks of typeface-as-brand designers? Are the tools I build finally taking control of me? Am I having to resort to “milking it” now? Not exactly. Even though the current trend of extending older popular typefaces can play tricks with a type designer’s mind, and maybe even send him into strange directions of planning, my purpose is not the extension of something popular. My purpose is presenting a more comprehensive picture as I keep coming to terms with my obsession with 19th century American penmanship. Those who already know my work probably have an idea about how obsessive I can be about presenting a complete and detailed image of the past through today’s eyes. So it is not hard to understand my need to expand on the Burgues concept in order to reach a fuller picture of how American calligraphy evolved in the 19th century. Burgues was really all about Madarasz, so much so that it bypasses the genius of those who came before him. Compendium seeks to put Madarasz’s work in a better chronological perspective, to show the rounds that led to the sharps, so to speak. And it is nearly criminal to ignore Spencer’s work, simply because it had a much wider influence on the scope of calligraphy in general. While Madarasz’s work managed to survive only through a handful of his students, Spencer’s work was disseminated throughout America by his children after he died in 1867. The Spencer sons were taught by their father and were great calligraphers themselves. They would pass the elegant Spencerian method on to thousands of American penmen and sign painters. Though Compendium has a naturally more normalized, Spencerian flow, its elegance, expressiveness, movement and precision are no less adventurous than Burgues. Nearing 700 glyphs, its character set contains plenty of variation in each letter, and many ornaments for letter beginnings, endings, and some that can even serve to envelope entire words with swashy calligraphic wonder. Those who love to explore typefaces in detail will be rewarded, thanks to OpenType. I am so in love with the technology now that it’s becoming harder for me to let go of a typeface and call it finished. You probably have noticed by now that my fascination with old calligraphy has not excluded my being influenced by modern design trends. This booklet is an example of this fusion of influences. I am living 150 years after the Spencers, so different contextualization and usage perspectives are inevitable. Here the photography of Gonzalo Aguilar join the digital branchings of Compendium to form visuals that dance and wave like the arms of humanity have been doing since time eternal. I hope you like Compendium and find it useful. I'm all Spencered out for now, but at one point, for history’s sake, I will make this a trilogy. When the hairline-and-swash bug visits me again, you will be the first to know. The PDF specimen was designed with the wonderful photography of Gonzalo Aguilar from Mexico. Please download it here http://new.myfonts.com/artwork?id=47049&subdir=original

Trajan The original template for this one-weight, all-caps font was the inscription on Trajan’s Column, carved in AD 113 to celebrate the emperor Trajan’s victory in the Dacian Wars. College student Jason Smith copied the stone lettering from the cast on display in London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. In Roman times, the signmaker would paint letters onto stone with a wide brush for the stone mason to chisel out later. The signwriter would end each stroke with a flick of his brush, which the mason would also carve into the stone. Ecce (as they would have said in Rome): the serif was born. Hand-crafted “I first drew this typeface when I was 17,” says Jason. “I drew it with a very sharp 9H pencil on polydraw film. “Then, using a Rotring pen, I inked the letters in and scraped back the serifs so they were perfectly sharp. These letters were then reduced on a PMT camera. I’d designed my first typeface, although it wasn’t digitised till much later.” Digitised Years after Jason had drawn the original typeface, its transfer into digital form made further refinements necessary. The serifs and weights needed thickening slightly, creating a crisp, new version whose delicate elegance is best appreciated in larger sizes. A classically-inspired font, timeless and perfectly-proportioned, to reflect the refinement of premium brands.

Kisba Nova – A character actor that turns heads. Spiky serifs, soft ball terminals. All eyes on Kisba Nova: enter a typeface designed to arouse attention. Kisba Nova is that one guest who joins a party, and a murmur goes through the crowd. Kisba Nova is pure charisma. Opposites attract: Kisba Nova combines sharp wedge serifs and spiky spurs with round and soft ball terminals. Infuse this with a neoclassical stroke contrast and you get a thrilling typeface driven by visual extremes. Sure: Kisba Nova is a diva. But it’s a pro, after all. That’s why it comes in two optical sizes: Headline and Text. This makes sure it looks gorgeous in any situation. The Kisba Nova Headline subfamily is flaunts the trademark flamboyant looks and extravagant letters like f and k. They bring you all of the excitement of the showbiz in large applications—use it for sizes of 24 Pt. and more. The extraordinarily designed, thin and monolinear diacritics, punctuation marks, and symbols of Kisba Nova Headline add to this modern and elegant character. Kisba Nova Headline consists of seven weights from Thin to Black, offering plenty of possibilities to set headlines and titles. With about 600 characters per weight, it contains enough functionality for the demands of a skilled typographer. OpenType features, such as a large set of ligatures, extended language support, case-sensitive forms, different sets of figures, and arrows, enable sensational designs both in web & print layouts. The Kisba Nova Text subfamily comes with decreased contrast, more generous letter proportions, and wider spacing. Instead of employing flashy thin and monolinear diacritics, punctuation marks, and symbols, Kisba Nova Text aims for a more even texture on the page. It retains the true, elegant Kisba DNA while allowing you to set legible copy in sizes between 9 and 18 Pt. Nothing will distract your reader–Kisba Nova Text aims to please. Kisba Nova Text consists of seven weights from Thin to Black, offering plenty of possibilities to set body copy and subheadlines. With about 600 characters per weight, it contains enough functionality for the demands of a skilled typographer. OpenType features, such as a large set of ligatures, extended language support, case-sensitive forms, different sets of figures, and arrows, enable sensational designs both in web & print layouts. Kisba Nova celebrates the dual nature of softness and sharpness in a single typeface. It’s a character actor that turns heads.

Space Mode is a multi-weighted typeface, sent back in time from the distant future. Forward-looking typeface designers often predict a reductive future where Latin letterforms have become increasingly modularized and simplified, or random bits have mysteriously gone missing. Thankfully, this is not the case, and typography has instead flourished and evolved. New forms have appeared, and some revived from historical references. A more complex drawing model has arisen that seems to add new curves in a effort to tame the strange diagonals that appear in the final quarter of the alphabet.

Allow me to introduce Pinky Love Font. A carefully crafted collection of fonts combining informal, romantic, sweet, lovely design elements and hand-drawn typographic design elements. Pinky Love Font has many alternative characters, including multiple language support. You can use this font for your work very easily. Because there are many features in it. Contains a full set of upper and lower case letters, punctuation marks, numbers, and multilingual support.

The design process of OkayPaint began as hand-painted letters on paper. Thus, a variety of distressed paint effects can still be seen in the details, from splatters to dry-brush. This makes for a textured, artistic look. Use OkayPaint to create eye catching designs - perfect for grunge, surf, any casual cool setting. OkayPaint is extended, containing the West European diacritics & ligatures, making it also suitable for multilingual environments & publications.

Heavyrust is All Aggressive with Brush style font special for your Display Design, which puts a bold on your projects and will inspire you to create something strong and aggressive. Heavyrust will help you to create special and touching typographical designs for bold or strong projects, It is perfect for headings, flyers, greeting cards, product packaging, book cover, printed quotes, logotype, apparel design, album covers. Features: Multilanguage Ligatures Alternates Punctuation

Named for the Zulu traditional spear, Assegai evokes the long, slim outline of the weapon, and the strength of the Zulu warrior. The font combines the irregular shapes of tribal African art with the simple, clean elegance of contemporary design. It is especially useful for headings, subheading, for shorter passages and also works as a body font since it has both upper and lower case and is striking and readable.

Roxborough CF is a dramatic serif, influenced by calligraphy and hand lettering. Built around a distinctive single-storey 'a' and full of rich detail, Roxborough pairs well with its expressive italics, lending an artful touch to text across print and digital. Roxborough CF pairs nicely with simple, bold headline typefaces, like Greycliff CF and Articulat CF. All typefaces from Connary Fagen include free updates, including new features, and free technical support.

A serif font with shadow - done with a steady, but yet shaky hand. Make some catchy headlines with Tied To A Stick. Throw in some different colors for the stroke, the letters and the shadow and make it really look like something homemade! I would use this font for for my next handmade craft project - and I advice you to do the same! :) Comes with ligatures which substitutes double letters!

Havoks is a Hand-lettered font inspired by the vintage 70's sign board, music, shop and movies, it has a rough stroke outline and then we fill it. Havoks includes opentype features Ligatures. It support multilingual more than 100+ language. This font is good for logo design, Movie Titles, Books Titles and any awesome project you create. Make a stunning work with Havoks Rough sans font. Cheers, Maulana Creative

A 1918 poster issued during World War I from the YWCA encouraged women to pitch in to the war effort by joining the “United War Work Campaign”. The Art Nouveau hand lettering of that poster was a slight throwback to the “Western” or “Victorian” style of typography because of the characters having split serifs. This is now available as Village Hall JNL, in both regular and oblique versions

Bazoka font is a display style that mimics the look of hand-drawn graffiti lettering. The letters are rounded and bubbly in shape, with a bold appearance. This style is perfect for informal or urban-themed designs, such as posters, flyers, and street art. Overall, graffiti bubble font is a fun and energetic way to add personality to your design. and this font include 3 styles regular, outline and extrude.

Introducing Gosthel, a dry Brush typeface, carefully hand-brushed. Comes with natural and organic flowing brush pen, make the letters look cool and classy. Gosthel has a unique style and charming characteristics from the brush texture. Gosthel is a good choice for many different projects such as logos & branding, invitation, stationery, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, special events or anything.

Activity is an energetic hand styled script. It is beautiful for wedding card design, logotype, website headers, fashion design and much more. It includes multi-lingual and swash characters. There it is! I really hope you enjoy it - comments and likes are always welcome and accepted. More importantly, don't hesitate to send a message if you have a problem or question. Now just read this, go there and make it happen :)

We Love Nature Stems Two is a picture font consisting of 52 all new high quality, hand drawn illustrations with clean outlines and a minimum of vector points. Due to the overwhelming success of our flower font We Love Nature Stems, we have created this brand new set of original illustrations. We loved creating these beautiful new flowers and hope that you will love designing with them. Enjoy!

De Sandey is a hand brushed font, with natural authentic brush, and also provided some alternate, ligatures and Swashes Extra. Brand new stylish textured fonts and Make it easy for made logotype Handlettering Style. It will be great for Logotypes, Posters, Digital Lettering Arts, Clean Design, Branding Design, Sign, Merchandise and Social Media Posts. This font contain of Uppercase, Lowercase, Number, Symbol, Punctuation, also support multilingual and already PUA encoded.

This typeface is patterned after the lettering produced by the Marsh Stencil Making Machine, which was an indispensable part of industrial shipping departments in the mid-twentieth century. The font is unicase, but includes a “this side up” pointing hand at the section mark position, and a recycle symbol at the German double-s position. Both versions of the font include 1252 Latin, 1250 CE (with localization for Romanian and Moldovan).

A rough-and-ready hand-brushed script, with edgy lines and awesome character! It includes opentype features - stylistic alternates for the lowercase letters, and a comprehensive set of natural looking Ligatures to add to the realistic nature of the typeface. Lucky Fellas font family includes a complimentary textured titling sans serif font, and some super sexy swashes and splatters font to add some finishing touches to your designs.

Do It Yourself JNL was modeled after self-adhesive vinyl letters and numbers manufactured by Duro Art Industries of Chicago - formerly the Duro Decal Company. The hand-drawn look of the original lettering was retained by Jeff Levine to stay true to the design, and the rectangles that border each glyph represent the pieces of self-adhesive vinyl onto which the characters were silk screened. Limited character set.

Kelsy Fantastic is a charming and cute new hand-lettered font duo - perfect for casual type in greeting cards, illustrations, quotes, quaint branding, book covers, children's books, packaging and so much more. Suitable for short and sweet quotes, as well as longer meaningful paragraphs. Designed and kerned with care and love to make using it a breeze. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions! Happy creating!

Balkan is a casual hand lettered script font focused to readability. Include multilingual support for Western and Central Europe. Is ideal for posters, webdesign, invitations, baby showers, blog website, instagram, branding, business cards, and many more. Balkan font also include complete set of alternates for lowercase and uppercase characters. Balkan Font contains multilingual support: AÁĂÂÄÀĀĄÅÃÆBCĆČÇDÐĎĐEÉĚÊËĖÈĒĘFGĢHIÍÎÏÌĪĮJKĶLĹĽĻŁMNŃŇŅŊÑOÓÔÖÒŐŌØÕŒPÞ QRŔŘŖSŚŠŞTŦŤŢUÚÛÜÙŰŪŲŮVWẂŴẄẀXYÝŶŸỲZŹŽŻ aáăâäàāąåãæbcćčçdðďđeéěêëėèēęfgģhiíîïìīįjkķlĺľļłmnńňņŋñoóôöòőōøõœpþqrŕřŗsśšş ßtŧťţuúûüùűūųůvwẃŵẅẁxyýŷÿỳzźžż If you have any questions or suggestions don't hesitate to contact me. Ivan

Bravely- Handwritten Font is an handwritten script font based on the expression of real handwriting, lets you transform type into an exciting and beautiful piece of work. The irregular, hand-lettered look adds a real human touch to things and comes along with a lot of loving details. Combine all font-styles the way you want, add some ornamental swashes or banners and even a single word becomes magnificent.

Introducing a new romantic and modern script font called "Shanela", a lovely and sweet swirly letter font. Comes with open type features with a lot of alternates and end swashes to help you to make great lettering. Shanela is best used for headings, wedding events, birthday, greeting cards, logotype, branding, elegant logos, posters, packaging, stationery, website, covers, quotes, merchandise, social media, any project requiring a handwriting, and many more.

Blanc is a functional humanist sans typeface with a marked personality and great style that make it ideal for use in headlines. Blanc is an ode to neutrality: a geometric face characterised by low contrast between thick and thin strokes with calligraphic features that emphasise specific glyphs. 
 Blanc comes with 8 weights and an inline version that make it well-suited for headings and subheadings, corporate designs, advertising, publishing, etc.

Inspired by architecture and hand-lettered posters of the 1940s, JY Koliba makes a statement that is very 21st century. With an ultra-light weight plus an elegant book and bold, Koliba was designed to be flexible. Fine-tuned with a full Latin glyph complement, and Windows kerning support for designer Jure Stojan’s Slovenian mother tongue, Koliba is set to be one of the foundry’s best-loved sans serifs.

Radiance Autumn is organic hand drawn with stylish style. This type of font perfectly made to be applied especially in cartoon or child theme which is need a standout font, and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : Uppercase & lowercase Numbers and punctuation Alternates & Ligatures Multilingual PUA encoded

Call the lettering French Clarendon Condensed, call it circus lettering, wanted poster type or Old West letters, the style of this typeface is one of the most recognizable and evokes all of the above images and more. Tent Show JNL was re-drawn from examples of a vintage set of wood type, and contains all of the eccentricities that are present in these hand-routed classic letter forms.

A condensed loose brush style. This font has a breezy elegance and casual sophistication, yet in a different context or color, it could be seen as nervous and urban. A weird dichotomy. Set in smallish text blocks, it has a surprisingly even color. This is due to a balace that has been struck between keeping the roughness and idiosyncracies of a hand-drawn face but ensuring an overall regularity.

Here’s a new take on the hand-lettered alphabet Oswald Bruce Cooper used in ads for the Packard Motor Company, later converted into a metal typeface by the Barnhard Brothers & Spindler foundry. This version has smoother outlines and an increased x-height, but retains all of the elegant charm of the original. Both versions of this font include the complete Unicode Latin 1252 and Central European 1250 character sets.

Freeland is a casual brush typeface, with a rich, inky texture, and just a bit of a masculine, edgy vibe. It’s modern, bold, and lively, but not too whimsical. Features plenty of ligatures and stylistic alternates for a realistic, hand-lettered look. Uppercase letters can be used alone, as a cohesive group, or they can be paired with their lowercase cousins, for lettering that dances effortlessly across your design.

Suchow was developed from a hand lettered storybook title by Willy Pogany. It's designed to give the feel of the Far East, with character shapes reminiscent of oriental brush lettering. The look of the characters is typical of lettering often used around the turn of the century for oriental-themed advertising and decoration, but not seen very often in contemporary use. The full version includes an expanded character set.

WORKSHOP Marker is a handwritten font with a casual and modern look. You can use the alternates and ligatures to give your design a realistic, hand painted look. If you find a single repeating glyph, you can change that by toggling between Stylistic Alternates. There are Cyrillic glyphs and more then 100 playful Dingbats in the same style. WORKSHOP Marker is the perfect choice for all imaginative, playful and beautiful things.

HT Profumeria is a monoline and connected font with a thin line and a unique tail. Its simple and retro look is the best script for branding and packaging, but it may also be useful for headlines, publishing and advertising. Holiday Type Project offers retro hand drawing scripts. Inspired by retro script on shopfront lettering, wall paint advertisements in Italy around 1950s. Check out the script fonts from Holiday Type!

Designed by designer Tingnian Liu in 2015/10, Comic Book is a hand-drawn typeface specially designed for comic. Comic Book supports English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German. It is a distinct choice for your comic book editorial challenge. Instead of adding rounded end to standard comic-type typefaces, Comic Book‘s squared ends were perfectly complementing the whole rounded style. It gives audience a cheerful feeling and makes them laugh.

Helttox is a casual hand brush script so it has a nice texture and flow. Helttox has many alternatives to make it look like real handwriting; four sets of lowercase and two sets of uppercase. suitable for design projects; logos, branding, posters, quotes, beautiful wedding invitations, beautiful stationery art, eye-catching social media posts, and cute greeting cards and other designs. It is unique, very natural and attractive

We really enjoy going for long walks in the park in autumn, and the beautiful colours and shapes of the fallen leaves inspired us to create this font. We Love Nature Autumn Leaves is a picture font consisting of 52 highly detailed, hand drawn illustrations. The illustrations can be used on their own to create beautiful designs, or in combination with other illustrations in the We Love Nature font collection.

The name says it all. Signpost is a display font purpose-designed for directional, informational and publicity signage, as well as posters, public notices and advertisments. It comes complete with a choice of 'pointing hands' symbols and quartrefoil borders of the kind used on traditional British street signs. It is essentially a drop shadow version of my Red Top font family, which has a similar range of applications.

Mohan is a Bold Minimalist Elegant Fancy typeface font with tons of alternative characters, ornaments, multilingual support and unique ligatures. It's a very versatile font that works great in large and small sizes. Perfectly fit for your logo, headings, branding, magazine, cover album, book cover, movie, apparel design, quotes, invitations, flyer, poster, greeting cards, product packaging, printed quotes, or simply as a stylish text overlays to any background image.