Almost a half of a millennium after being mistaken for the original 4th century Gothic alphabet and falsely labeled "barbaric" by the European Renaissance, the blackletter alphabet was still flourishing exclusively in early 20th century Germany, not only as an ode to Gutenberg and the country's rich printing history, but also as a continuous evolution, taking on new shapes and textures influenced by almost every other form of alphabet available. Blackletter would continue to go strong in Germany until just before the second World War, when it died a political death at the height of its hybridization. For almost 50 years after the war, blackletter was very rarely used in a prominent manner, but it continued to be seen sparely in a variety of settings, almost as a subliminal reminder of western civilization's first printed letters; on certificates and official documents of all kinds, religious publications, holiday cards and posters, to name a few. In the early 21st century, blackletter type has been appearing sporadically on visible media, but as of late 2005, it is not known how long the renewed interest will last, or even whether or not it will catch on at all. The last few years before World War II were arguably the most fascinating and creative in modern blackletter design. During those years, and as demonstrated with the grid-based Leather font, the geometric sans serif was influencing the blackletter forms, taking them away from their previous Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) hybridizations. Blackhaus is a digitization and elaborate expansion of a typeface called Kursachsen Auszeichnung, designed in 1937 by Peterpaul Weiss for the Schriftguss foundry in Dresden. This is one of very few designs from that time attempting to infuse more Bauhaus than Jugendstil into the Blackletter forms. This is why we used a concatenation of the words blackletter and Bauhaus to name this face. The result of injecting Bauhaus elements into blackletter turned out to be a typeface that is very legible and usable in modern settings, while at the same time harking back to the historical forms of early printing. The original 1937 design was just one typeface of basic letters and numbers. After digitizing and expanding it, we developed a lighter version, then added a few alternates to both weights. The Rough style came as a mechanically-grunged afterthought, due to current user demand for such treatment. Having the flexibility of 2 weights and many alternates of a blackletter typeface is not a very common find in digital fonts. More specifically, having the flexibility of 2 weights and alternates of a 20th century blackletter typeface is almost unheard of in digital fonts. So the Blackhaus family can be quite useful and versatile in an imaginative designer's hands.

This is a cute story about a mother and her son. :) About a decade ago my own mother got very interested in my work. She used to say my letters had so many swirls and dazzling swashes, and suggested my job seemed to be very fun. She wondered if she could ever try to make her own alphabet... Well, she is a civil engineer and a maths teacher, and appeared to be a little tired of exact sciences... I remember answering this, while she was listening with her typical tender look: -"Mamá... While type-design may be a really enjoyable thing to do, it also involves having a great eye and knowledge about the history of letters: nice curves and shapes require a meticulous study and, like it happens in many fields, practice makes perfect"-. Well, she raised her eyebrows at me. -"and so what?"- She didn't have any experience neither in the field of art nor in the field of graphic design so, I told her that if she really wanted to get into this she should borrow some of my calligraphic books from my beloved shelves in my office. So... she did. Some weeks after that, she came to me with many sketches made with pencils and markers: some letters where very nice and unique while others naturally needed some work. I remember she added ball terminals to all of her letters (even if they didn't need them) because that was one of the rules she imposed. After some back and forth, we had the basis for what would be today, ten years later, the seed of this lovely font Girasol. Her proposal was nice, something I was not accustomed to do, that’s why many years later I decided to watch it with fresh new eyes and finished it. While she was in charge of making the lowercase letters, I helped with the uppercase and also added my hallmark in the alternates, already seen in others of my expressive fonts. The result is an upright decorative font that follows the behavior of the copperplate nib with a naive touch that makes it really cute and useful for a wide range of products. Many alternates per glyph make Girasol a very fun to use font which will delight you. Above posters are a proof of that! This font is a gift for my mother, Susana, who, in spite of her exacts academic background, taught me that beauty can also be found in the imperfect. 1 NOTES (1) In my fonts I'm always in seek of the perfect curve. When I designed Erotica and Dream Script, I read about Fibonacci’s spirals!

British type designer John Critchley created this script FontFont in 1993. The family has 7 weights, and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, editorial and publishing as well as poster and billboards. FF Child's Play provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures and alternate characters. It comes with a complete range of figure set options – oldstyle and lining figures, each in tabular and proportional widths.

Hiyagh Ahey Script & Sans font with original handwriting style, looks very natural and beautiful. It is suitable for boutique brand, photography, magazine, quote, business card, logo, poster and many more. There are two types of fonts: script and sans, script is equipped with opentype features such as ligature, contextual alternates and multilingual support. Opentype Feature : Standard Ligature. Contextual Alternates. Multilingual & Punctuation. PUA Encoded. I hope you enjoy and thank you.

The 1907 Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type specimen catalog called this unique typeface simply "Umbra". Since that name is already taken, it now has another. Due to the highly ornate nature of this face, the font has a limited character set (all accented characters, but no math operators or fractions). The Opentype version of this font supports Unicode 1250 (Central European) languages, as well as Unicode 1252 (Latin) languages.

Here's a retooling of the Art Deco classic Novel Gothic, designed by Morris Fuller Benton and Charles H. Becker for American Type Founders in 1929. We've added a little sparkle to this classic with a reflected-highlight treatment, to help create attractive and commanding headlines. Both versions include the complete Latin 1252, Central European 1250 and Turkish 1254 character sets, as well as localization for Moldovan and Romanian.

Introducing Truly Hook by Javanice Studio a Truly Hook is A Handwritting Font a Truly Hook is perfect for branding project, apparel, labels, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, and any type of advertising purpose or just used to express words above the background. This font includes a Truly Hook also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email.

Etalage Script was drawn for the first time in the year 2000, based on a early 20th century lettering stencil with what farmer Boelema at Lalleweer stenciled his grainsacks. Eventually the script letter was developed as a typeface with a wink to the ‘lost’ display types for the ‘display window’ of graphic designer Ariënne Boelens, who in exchange made the website www.lalleweer.nl. What originated the Ariënne should be evident now.

Noeri is Western typeface. inspiration come from cowboy era and I want to Presenting the letterform style of that era. The Typeface comes with Stylistic Set Exellent typeface to use for covering your Project, like Branding, Movie Title, Headline Letter, Bookcover or Book Content, Magazine cover, Poster, Quotes Lettering, Logos, and more your project design. - Unique glyphs - Multilingual Characters Support - UPPERCASE - Lowercase - Numeric - Symbol - Punctuation Character - Stylistic Set inumocca type Studio

NATRON is rounded and condensed sans serif typeface, designed for tight-fitting text. Supports Latin and Cyrillic codepages for Western, East and Central European, and Baltic countries. The NATRON family has two weights, medium and bold, and a collection of thematic adapted pictograms (for food product packaging and textile industry). This typeface has been designed for all type of visual communication projects and especially for labels and packaging and accompanying declarations.

The Rouged is a display script. This typeface has bold monoline which make it looks stand out, and the unique swashes make you easy to create a nice logotype or cool lettering. This font perfectly made to be applied especially in logo, 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.

Finnish type designer Sami Kortemäki created this display and script FontFont in 2001. The family has 7 weights, ranging from Light to Regular and is ideally suited for festive occasions, film and tv, music and nightlife, poster and billboards as well as software and gaming. FF Nelio provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures, alternate characters, case-sensitive forms, and stylistic alternates. It comes with proportional oldstyle figures.

William Jameson is a monoline signature handwritten font. Its distinct and well rounded letters make this font a masterpiece. Fall in love with its incredibly versatile style and use it to create spectacular designs! William Jameson is made using opentype technology which makes the connection between letters more fluid, there are 3 types of tails in each letter that will automatically change according to the letters in front of it.

Titanium is a geek-ed out, über-technoid specimen of plasma-type. Designed by Steve Matteson, this typeface is the perfect display font for your star cruiser or the weekend interplanetary lander. Like its namesake, Titanium is the strongest design for its weight capable of withstanding the jump to lightspeed without paradoxical distortions. Titanium is now available for use on home world computing devices to capture the essence of galactic travels.

German type designers Steffen Sauerteig, Kai Vermehr and Svend Smital created this display FontFont in 2003. The family has 5 weights, ranging from Regular to Bold and is ideally suited for logo, branding and creative industries, music and nightlife, small text, software and gaming as well as web and screen design. FF Screenstar provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures. It comes with tabular lining and proportional lining figures.

IC Grand Melton is a powerful display typeface inspired by vintage type with carefully crafted. This typeface is perfect for people looking for vintage aesthetics. Suitable for any graphic designs such as branding materials, shirts, print, logos, poster, t-shirt, quotes .etc We hope you enjoy the font, please feel free to comment if you have any thoughts or feedback. Thanks for purchasing and have fun! Regards, Ironbird Creative

Kesto is an elegant Art Nouveau style typeface. The idea for the Kesto came from the early Nouveau type designs. Kesto is designed with creative letters, which makes it perfect for creating nostalgic and retro designs such as: posters, magazines, logos and much more. Kesto also has a variable version, which makes it easy to manually adjust the weight and slant. I hope you enjoy using the Kesto typeface.

Kuunari Rounded is the rounded version of Kuunari. it is a structured square sans type family of 42 fonts. It has three widths and seven weights in both upright and italic versions. The base form is a round-cornered rectangle, and this form constructs the glyphs throughout the fonts. Kuunari Rounded is a straightforward sans serif. It doesn't make any fuss about itself; it just does the job proudly and confidently.

De Arloy Typeface was inspired by art nouveau style from 1890-1910 which combining classic typography with awesome features bring classic touch on this decade :), it works well with normal size text but it works even better for large displays or short words. this is suit for : wine packaging, labeling, logo, classic shop, coffee shop, movie title, etc De Arloy Features Uppercase Lowercase Numerals & Punctuations Open Type featuring Ligatures

Uno font family comes in two weights and two styles. Generally, rounded fonts seem funny and pretty. This feature is valid for also Uno Font Family but although the characters of Uno Font Family are rounded, they seem masculine and serious. It is legible in small type sizes. With its decorative view, you can get matchless products in typographic works, t-shirt prints, posters, logos and every kind of graphic works.

Our Ultra Pro is an ultra bold slab typeface with nods to wood type styles like Clarendon and Egyptian. Its powerful and dramatic letterforms are both serious in form but friendly in appearance yet it is still easily legible. Perfect for power headlines and titling for impact, the SmallCaps and extensive figure sets only work to further expand the usefulness of the typeface across a wider gamut of design options.

Thanks for checking out Hexagraph Font! This is my first font and type face in foundry world. Hexagraph inspired by geometrical form of hexagon shape, produces a series of letters that have a sci-fi - technological impression. This font is very unique in that it is entirely an extension of the hexagon shape. You can use this font for magazine cover, game support graphic elements, tech product advertisements, or whatever.

Hi guys! How are you guys? I bet it's great! Introducing our latest product, we call this product the Non Blok font Non Blok hight is a display type font With a unique and firm touch Non Blok hight font is great to use on: fashion magazines, logos, photography, landing pages, flyers, social media and so on What's included - multilingual support - alternatives - ligatures Thank you, best regards Liarttyype

Introducing " Gyro Serif Display ", Gyro Serif Display is designed with a conical stem to create a unique style and easy to read. Which are all equipped with plenty of language support and open type features. Gyro Serif Display was made to function especially well at large sizes. Gyro Serif Display is a very versatile font, covering a wide variety of projects, from bold magazine imagery, to branding, poster design, and more.

Aesthetic Moment serif font with medium contrast. Inspired by classic fashion. Carefully designed with a short ascender to give a solid look, also the sharp serif makes the letters look more strong. Aesthetic Moment is a display-type which perfect for a headline, sub-headline, and short body text for magazine, books, fashion, quotes, hipster t-shirt, signboards, logo, and etc. A great choice for a brave concept!

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!

Notebook BH Black was inspired by the block lettering we used to draw on our school binders. Notebook is a unicase design, with the lowercase drawn to the cap height, and each "case" having a distinctly different flavor. The fun and seemingly unlimited combinations of the upper and lowercase forms make it difficult to stop typing innocuous phrases and, if you're mobile, can even make boring lectures tolerable!

Starless Shutters is my slightly rough handmade all-caps headline font. With its crunchy outline, the font is suitable for most things that needs an organic look. That could be organic products, children's books or toys, book covers or poster. I have added 4 slightly different versions of each letter, and they automatically cycles as you type - or you can manually choose the ones that suits you the best.

Sheet music for the song “The Little Thing You Used to Do” (from the 1935 motion picture “Go into your Dance” starring Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler) had its title set in what closely resembled Bank Gothic Condensed. [Bank Gothic was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders circa 1930.] This reinterpreted version is now known as Stenographer JNL, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Mivron is a stand-out type of sans-serif block text especially suited for headlines and display work. There's a wide range of accented characters making this font appropriate for a wide variety of languages. The zip contains OTF and TTF versions - only install one version of a font on the same machine, either the OTF or TTF, but not both as that could cause various conflicts and erratic behaviour.

Artigo is an old style inspired typeface system for text. It was inspired by the handwriting aspect of the first roman types but it intends to be a contemporary interpretation. Its abilities are in small text with personality. The italics capture a lot of its dynamic feeling even more expressive on the display version that stands as the most handwritten one. It gives text a lot of personality and great readability.

The front page of a late-1940s sales catalog for the [now defunct] Duro Decal Company of Chicago had its company name hand-lettered in a tall, condensed chamfered sans serif type design. Although chamfered lettering had been popular for decades, the way the "R" was shaped gave the letters a bit of an Art Deco influence, and this influence was carried through in the creation of Durable JNL.

Inspired by the magic in the clouds, this part paintbrush, part san serif, Nimba is a hybrid display typeface that brings swiftness and joy to any project. Ideal for projects that require a sans type without sacrificing personality. This family contains true italic members, providing a stronger sense of motion and speed. Elegant, yet Vivid, this typeface will make your project stand out from the sans dominated design world.

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.

Jolly is a cheery, little display typeface that is suitable for headlines and informal body-copy. Being slightly slanted to the right, jolly has a fairly positive straightforward appearance which makes it pleasant to read. Its various Open Type features, such as swashy alternates for the capitals, ligatures and stylistic alternates as well as the small caps and the extended language support make it versatile and open for different applications.

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.

German type designers Erik Spiekermann and Ole Schäfer created this sans FontFont in 2001. The family contains 3 weights: Regular, Condensed, and Expanded and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, film and tv as well as logo, branding and creative industries. FF Govan provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures, alternate characters, case-sensitive forms, super- and subscript characters, and stylistic alternates. It comes with proportional lining figures.

Introducing Jorell Lieven by Javanice Studio Jorell Lieven is A Playful Handwritten Font Jorell Lieven is perfect for branding project, apparel, labels, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, and any type of advertising purpose or just used to express words above the background. This font includes, Jorell Lieven also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email.

An ever so slightly off kilter sans-serif, Good Grief started as a digitization of a film typeface called Carmel by LetterGraphics. From there, this fun and friendly typeface was taken from its limited character set and fleshed out to a fully functional typeface. With the legibility of a text typeface, yet the personality of a display type, Good Grief - why haven't you gotten this fantastic font yet?

Cygnito Mono Pro™ is a monospaced type design built with 3 shapes: circle (rounded), squircle (semi rounded) and octagonal structure. This pro version come with 4 styles with 3 weights each. Inspired by industrial design and modernism. This font built with modular architecture that’s ideal for programming applications and technology-driven design projects. It’s also well suited to design projects centered on mathematics, science, computers, and UI/UX applications.