Around the turn of the twentieth-century, Steel and copper plate engraving was the most sophisticated and expensive method for producing business cards, stationery, and formal announcements. In engraved printing, the image is incised, or engraved into a hard, flat plate. Ink is applied to the plate, and then wiped off; leaving only the ink that is trapped below the surface in the incised areas. When the paper is pressed against the flat plate, the ink is drawn out of these areas and transferred to the paper. The results are twofold: printing which sits above the surface of the paper, and the reproduction very delicate lines and shapes. For business and formal printing, engraved printing was, and is, considered the best. The problem is that not everybody can afford the best. Type foundries, in the early 1900s, figured that if they could produce a typeface for traditional printing, which had appearance of engraving, they would be able to satisfy the needs of those forced to live with modest printing budgets. Engravers faces were born. Fredric Goudy’s Copperplate Gothic was one of the most popular. Plate Gothic is a version of this style updated for digital technology. It has all the charm and charisma as the metal type and yet is perfect for today's needs.

Delightful is a whimsical and cheerful handwritten font family of varying weights and widths. This typeface is like if Comic Sans had a cousin who studied abroad one summer and now wears scarves to look more grown up, even though inside she's still the same, sweet marshmallow she always was. The letters were inspired by my handwriting on a good day - slowed down, legible, and intentionally drawn. I even threw in some of my favorite doodles as alt characters because the set wouldn't be complete without them. And the name was inspired purely by how it feels when I see it - and by my word of the year, delight. Delightful is ideal for anyone who wants to include a bit more warmth and a personal touch with their messaging. It's friendly and non-threatening, and will enhance personal projects or professional ones alike - whether you're a designer, an Instagram influencer, or you need to create some flyers for the local Mom 'n Pop Shop. There are two versions of this font. The original style is slightly more rounded and gets chubbier as you increase its boldness, and the stretched style is like a condensed version, except it's been stretched taller rather than squished narrower. I hope you delight in it as much as I do!

You are on the page of the old display version of the TT Squares Condensed typeface. In 2020, we released an entirely new, completely redesigned, and significantly expanded version of the typeface called TT Octosquares. In addition to 73 styles, TT Octosquares has 3-axis variable version, stylistic alternates, ligatures, old-style figures and many other useful OpenType features. Before you buy the old display version of the font, we suggest that you pay attention to the new superfamily TT Octosquares and study it in more detail. - We've expanded the TT Squares font family and created a narrow version of the typeface. Just as its older brother, TT Squares Condensed fits perfectly for any engineering, military, and technological theme. The family is ideal for implementation in interior design, packaging design, creation of uniforms with inscriptions, and for logos and headlines. Fonts belonging to the TT Squares font family look manly and have a strong character that instantly tunes in the spectators and makes them perceive the information seriously. If we were to compare fonts to people’s professions, TT Squares Condensed would most definitely be a first-class technical engineer whose talented hands are adorned with calluses and machinery oil spots. TT Squares Condensed is optimized or web and mobile applications.

Scandinavia Brush is a wild calligraphy font by Mans Greback, inspired by the untamed beauty of Nordic nature. It captures a rugged essence, with each stroke reflecting the raw energy and grace of natural environments. This brush-painted typeface is perfect for logos, handwritten designs, and tattoo art with its active and streetwise feel. Designed with a professional touch and high-quality craftsmanship, Scandinavia Brush comes in six versatile styles: Regular, Upright, Bold, Italic, and the combinations Bold Italic and Bold Upright. The range of styles allows you to create unique, expressive designs that capture the spirit of adventure, speed, and beauty. Use underscores _ anywhere in a word to make an underline swash. Example: Nord___ic Bru_sh Ideal for designer and art projects, or high-end handcrafted products, Scandinavia Brush brings a bold, authentic, and captivating touch to your creative endeavors. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures, and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers. Mans Greback is a Swedish typeface designer with a passion for creating unique and versatile fonts. With an extensive background in design and typography, Mans has built a reputation for his meticulous attention to detail and prolific craftsmanship. His many fonts are widely used by designers around the world, making his work synonymous with creativity and innovation.

Rahere Roman Display is an elegant design with flared stems and subtle old style features, influenced by Berthold Wolpe’s wonderful Albertus font and (to a lesser extent) fonts based on Roman square capitals. It’s a classic design for the modern age, appealing to serious typographers, graphic designers and anyone looking for a beautiful, multipurpose font that also offers value for money. Originally conceived as a display companion for the Rahere Sans typeface family, Rahere Roman harmonizes perfectly with its sans counterpart: use it for headings, sub-headings or pull-out quotes. Want an eye-catching introduction? The small caps have been sized to optically align with the x-height of Rahere Sans or start a paragraph with a swash drop cap. There are also ornaments and devices on hand to spice things up. Of course, Rahere Roman Display works beautifully as a standalone font too. Although predominantly a display font, with a quick flick of its lowercase switch, Rahere Roman transforms effortlessly into a readable text font. Like a Swiss Army Knife, this is a hugely versatile font, capable of conveying different messages from classic and romantic to historical and modern. It’s suitable for a wide range of applications including: branding, posters, advertising, packaging, labels, signage, wedding stationery, museums, art galleries and book covers. Weighing in at well over 2,000 glyphs, Rahere Roman contains a myriad of alternative characters (mostly capitals) including two sets of small caps that allow certain letter combinations - such as RO, LA, LI, TY, etc. - to mimic ligatures. The advantage of this is that if letter spacing is increased or decreased, the letter combinations aren’t fixed and can move too, which helps the space between letters to remain even. However, for lovers of ligatures there is still a bucketload of goodies to play with, including the obligatory ‘OO’ ligature. If that’s not enough, the font also contains start & end swashes, alternative numerals, seven ampersands, ornaments and devices. .ss01 - Initial swash capitals .ss06 - Superior small capitals (aligned to the cap height) .ss07 - Small capitals (sitting on the baseline)

Original Foundry: TypeType Original typeface name: TT Cottons Pinatas Cottons is a friendly hand-drawn typeface with condensed proportions. Each separate style of Pinatas Cottons was drawn by using different instruments. For instance, the black style was painted with a real brush, and the thin one was created with a pen. We tried to keep this analog feeling of hand drawing while we digitalized each style of the typeface. Pinatas Cottons is your ideal design helper.

Here comes a New font, Introducing WORTHLESS It's Weird Display Font is a Natural Style and Authentic classy style, this font is great for your creative projects such as watermark on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, invitation,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. WORTHLESS a natural Hand Drawn feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details.

Kanna Aoki had fairy tales in mind when she designed MVB Greymantle. She drew dots with a felt pen to build up the forms, giving them their particular rough character. The “Extras” font contains a set of whimsical illustrations, including a portrait of Greymantle—her 18-pound cat, a set of curly initial caps, and border parts.  MVB Greymantle has been spotted on numerous children's books, in magazines, in salad dressing advertisements, and on food packaging.

Dyans Font Family is a type of font that is inspired by vintage handwriting art that is often used in signwood, signpainting and others, usually this font is very suitable for manual hand lettering or hand painting art. This font uses the open type feature so you can explore alternative types in certain letters. Enjoyed This font conssist of: Stylistic Set Alternate Character Multilingual Support Math Symbol Numeral & Punctuation Hope your enjoy using this font Thank You.

NYC Graffiti is translated into a lively comic letter-style that is highly engaging. GhostKid was inspired by a few graffiti murals tagged "iRAK", the four letters that ended up inspiring this uber-black typeface. GhostKid has now been expanded to a Pro version to include a Small Caps set, Unlimited Fractionals, Superiors & Inferiors, and Ordinals. GhostKid Pro achieves a wider appeal and a new sense of personality, taking its comic display typestyle to a whole new level.

Introducing Mayaglyph, a modern typeface inspired by the hieroglyphics left behind by the Ancient Mayan civilization. Every character in Mayaglyph is manually created with hand-drawn markings for consistency and balanced visuals, including diacritic marks, symbols, and more! Each character in Mayaglyph is distinctly imperfect in its own way, just as if it was taken right off an ancient stone. Also included is a 'solid' background version, which is ideal for creating beautiful multi-layer designs.

Unveil the artistry of the written word with Corymbus, a script font that captures the beauty of handwriting. The interplay between thick and thin lines creates a visual feast for the eyes. The whimsical irregularity mirrors the fluidity of natural handwriting. The distinctive hallmark of this font lies in its swinging endings-each letter playfully extends beyond its baseline, creating a sense of rhythm. Corymbus fits in headlines, logos, print media, editorial layouts, and many more.

Galdana font family is a Roman serifs typeface, whose most relevant characteristic is the slanted angle of its true italic, at seventeen degrees. Its design was inspired by one of the most prominent American calligraphers of the last century, the book designer Oscar Ogg. Galdana contains 18 styles: starting from thin to ending in a fat typeface. This family is completed with multilingual support and a set of OpenType features such as stylistic alternates, swashes, and ligatures.

Introducing, Mauritania Script. This hand-made font is well crafted with a dancing baseline that makes this font perfect for delivering an extremely fearless message in your design without losing the natural impression. Mauritania Script is very suitable for various types of design needs such as branding materials, t-shirt, food-packaging, business cards, logos, posters, and more. This font comes with a complete set of lowercase alternates, numerals, a large range of punctuation ligatures, and Special European Characters.

Meet Hai California, a handwritten font with a fancy script and a small-caps companion, this passionate pair of hand-drawn marker fonts is for logos + branding ,website design + website accents - think travel blogs, fashion blogs, & more, Clean print design, like magazines + flyers, header elements that need handwritten touch, quote graphics for social media. Hai California comes with stylistic alternate, ligatures, swashes, and multilingual support. Follow us for more great fonts. A Million Thanks Colllab Studio

Tacit is the first typeface to be the creative outcome of a PhD thesis in graphic design. The work's main study had the aim of documenting design processes in an effort to externalise the tacit (experiential) knowledge of graphic designers. Initially the task was only to design several glyphs but the work resulted in a full typeface. Tacit is an elegant sans serif with a distinctive character and is legible at small and large point sizes.

Archipelago International // Modern Calligraphy is a stylish script font that features a varying baseline, smooth line, modern, and depth of love. For those of you who need a touch of love and modernity for your designs or branding, it can be used for various purposes such as headings, weddings, invitations, signatures, logos, branding, letterhead, signage, labels, news, posters, badges, etc. Each Font Has: Stylish modern handwritten script Beautiful Swash (Ending tail) Beautiful Titling (Beginning tail) Special Ligatures Multilingual Support

Stuph Light is a collection of drawings pulled from one of the many sketch books Steve Zafarana is always doodling in. Because they are in a font, the drawings can be used in font format or opened and manipulated in vector programs like Freehand or Illustrator. Stuph Light continues to inflict upon an unsuspecting public Steves’ cockeyed outlook on the world that was started with ITC Fontoonies, ITC Gargoonies and ITC Backyard Beasties. Will this lunacy ever end?

ITC Stylus is the work of American designer Dennis Pasternak, who based its forms on those of freehand architectural lettering from historical and contemporary sources. Pasternak points out that while the typeface emulates hand lettering, no pencil drawings or scanned art were used in its creation. The letters bounce slightly across the baseline, giving the typeface the look of true handwriting. ITC Stylus emanates warmth when used for extended text and a fresh quality in display sizes.

Hey Guys! I’m happy to present my new typeface hand-drawn by chalk on a blackboard. This font is perfect for a school signboard, advertising of a coffee shop, retro logos, handwritten posters, bar identity, etc. What's included? * Uppercase and lowercase * Multilingual support * Numbers * Symbols * Punctuation I hope you enjoy this font. Follow my shop to receive updates of products and the very hottest news! If you have any question or issue, please contact me: kaer.pro@gmail.com Thank you!

Treppenwitz (literally: ‘Staircase Wit’) is a German word describing a conversational remark that only occurs to someone after the opportunity to make it has passed. I love words like this: they can sum up a whole sentence or a complex train of thought. Treppenwitz font is hand brushed. It’s a little uneven, a little shaky, but will look good on product packaging and book covers. Comes with loads of diacritics and double letter ligatures as well.

The other day, a couple of kids at work (I work as a kindergarten teacher!) played this game where they were detectives. Not the usual detective, but someone who worked for cookies and biscuits! They called themselves The Biscuit Kids, and I knew instantly that I had to make a font with that name! My Biscuit Kids font is a playful comic book font, but also suitable for anything that needs a fresh extra spicy attention!

The inspiration source for Diamas Monogram is a vintage publication called “Bibliotheque D.M.C: Alphabets et Monogrammes 2nd Series”. This wonderful design is representative of the diamond shape monograms that dominated monogramming at the time. This monogram style is now digitally recreated and revived for modern use in Diamas Monogram, with two letter monograms and a selection of additional frame styles for a final classy touch! A PDF guidebook for MFC Diamas Monogram is included in the font package.

Caendr is handbrush font, hand-drawn typeface. It has a elegant, classy look and cool. It’s a great font for fashion, apparel projects, signature, album cover, logo, branding, magazine, social media, & advertisements, but also works great for other projects. Highlight : Standard glyphs (Uppercase, Lowercase, Numeral & Punction) Work on PC or Mac PUA Encoded Support No special software is required, The fonts can be opened and used in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even work on Microsoft Word.

Spotted for sale online, a partial set of antique tin stencils from France had a distinctively handmade look about them. Many of the characters were inconsistently wider than others, some characters were missing and one was damaged. Despite the obvious flaws, the image of these stencils served as the model for a digital font revival once the characters took on a more uniform appearance. French Stencil Serif JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.

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The free-form Art Nouveau hand lettering for the 1905 song "Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May" was the design model for Funky Nouveau JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions. Since the 1960s hippie counterculture embraced elements of the Art Nouveau period in their art and design, it seemed only fitting to use the term "Funky Nouveau" in the fontís name as an homage to both eras.

Iquory is a charming, slightly rugged hand-drawn font. With bouncing letters and unpredictable curves, it could very easily give your text that feeling of randomness you are looking for! While the uppercase is very steady - the lowercase just screams for a party - so what are you waiting for? Oh, I almost forgot - the font comes with some nice ligatures for a handful of double letters! You will need to use OpenType supporting applications to use the autoligatures.

Soma is inspired by the Soma cube and the work of MC Escher. The font uses geometric patterns to create “impossible” glyphs. Some can be easily imagined; others bend the mind. Many alternate versions of glyphs have been provided for additional design possibilities. This is my 2nd most popular font at Dafont with over 50,000 downloads. The original set was 26 basic characters (A-Z), repeated for uppercase and lowercase. Now the set is almost 300 glyphs.

Onyon is a bizarre typeface with vertical stems that thicken in the middle and narrow at the ends. It was created as an experiment to see what a typeface would look like if the vertical stems were diamond or rhombus shaped. The letters are angular with unusual triangular serifs and they have no curves. It is a harsh, cruel typeface that will make your eyes water if you use it at small point sizes for text.

KhaoSans is a Rounded typeface. The latin was inspired from Thai woodtype used as headline in old day Thai newspaper. The refined curve with some sharp end add uniquely beautiful touch to the typeface. In Thai language, ‘Khao’ (ข่าว) means ‘news’ and ‘Sans’ (สาร) means ‘message’. The font comes in 8 weights, ranging from a delicate ExtraLight to Black, with 3 widths (Normal, Wide, and Expanded). Matching italics are provided, resulting in a total of 48 styles family.

Batchelder Ruff is a "battered" version of the typeface used for titling in the catalogs and advertising of the Batchelder Tile Company in Pasadena, California in the 1920s. The original source characters were smoother, but they were also handlettered, so that every character was different. This digitized version contains uniform characters, but its "rough" quality preserves the hand-drawn look. It is designed primarily as a headline font, and thus is best used in All-Caps in larger sizes.

Yalindha is lovely script font with swash on ending word. This font perfect for valentine & wedding theme design. Combine it with Tallove ending swash & Alternates Character to make perfect design for yor projects. Yalindha perfect for valentine promotion, wedding invitation, branding, logo, invitation, stationery, social media post, product packaging, merchandise, blog design, game titles, cute style design, Book/Cover Title and more. What's Included : - Yalindha Font - Multilingual Support --- Hope you enjoy with our font! Attype Studio

Here comes a New font, Introducing SANTOS It's Sans Display Font is a Textured Natural Style and Authentic Classy Style, this font is great for your creative projects such as watermark on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, invitation,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. SANTOS is a vintage natural Hand Drawn feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details.

Roughwell Family is a rough hand-drawn display font with a retro stamp character. As a result, carefully crafted styles develop. The imperfections keep it casual but it is still legible. It can be easily matched to an incredibly wide range of projects, so give it a try and see how it boosts your creative ideas! It's ideal for headlines, flyers, posters, greeting cards, product packaging, book covers, printed quotes, logotype, and album covers, among other applications.

Experience the timeless allure of Timesky, a serif font that effortlessly blends classic elegance with a modern sensibility. The generous spacing between characters ensures that your text breathes, This ample spacing not only enhances legibility but also lends a feeling of modernity to your design. On the other hand, the inline style brings a sense of depth and dimension to the font, creating a captivating visual. Timesky fits in headlines, branding materials, print media, and many more.

Safety is influenced by works from the Machine Age which had its greatest period between the two world wars and celebrated the triumphs of the late Industrial Age including mass production, skyscrapers, radio & phonographs, hydroelectric power and streamlined styling in industrial design. It is based on an Art Deco display style lettering known most popularly as Broadway or Manhattan but, having existed in a multitude of incarnations from showcard lettering to neon signs for a century.

A lament is a sad song, and the music of the cowboys of the Old West had their fair share of them. However, a vintage piece of sheet music from the early part of the 20th century with the title "The Dying Cowboy" brought at least one positive trait to its mournful song. The title lettering was drawn in a fashion that emulated lettering made with quick strokes of a paintbrush, and became the inspiration for Cowboy Lament JNL.

Blackpine is handbrush font, hand-drawn typeface. It has a elegant, classy look and cool. It’s a great font for fashion, apparel projects, signature, album cover, logo, branding, magazine, social media, & advertisements, but also works great for other projects. Highlight : Standard glyphs (Uppercase, Lowercase, Numeral & Punction) Work on PC or Mac PUA Encoded Support No special software is required, The fonts can be opened and used in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even work on Microsoft Word.

“I Don't like No Cheap Man” is a piece of early 1900s sheet music featuring its title hand lettered in a condensed slab serif design. The influences of the Art Nouveau era are clearly found in the many eccentric character shapes within the various letters of the original artwork. Recreated in digital type, Tightwad JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions – and its font name is a variant of the “Cheap Man” portion of the song’s title.