Helvetica’s 50-year anniversary celebrations in 2007 were overwhelming and contagious. We saw the movie. Twice. We bought the shirts and the buttons. We dug out the homage books and re-read the hate articles. We mourned the fading non-color of an old black shirt proudly exclaiming that “HELVETICA IS NOT AN ADOBE FONT”. We took part in long conversations discussing the merits of the Swiss classic, that most sacred of typographic dreamboats, outlasting its builder and tenants to go on alone and saturate the world with the fundamental truth of its perfect logarithm. We swooned again over its subtleties (“Ah, that mermaid of an R!”). We rehashed decades-old debates about “Hakzidenz,” “improvement in mind” and “less is more.” We dutifully cursed every single one of Helvetica’s knockoffs. We breathed deeply and closed our eyes on perfect Shakti Gawain-style visualizations of David Carson hack'n'slashing Arial — using a Swiss Army knife, no less — with all the infernal post-brutality of his creative disturbance and disturbed creativity. We then sailed without hesitation into the absurdities of analyzing Helvetica’s role in globalization and upcoming world blandness (China beware! Helvetica will invade you as silently and transparently as a sheet of rice paper!). And at the end of a perfect celebratory day, we positively affirmed à la Shakti, and solemnly whispered the energy of our affirmation unto the universal mind: “We appreciate Helvetica for getting us this far. We are now ready for release and await the arrival of the next head snatcher.” The great hype of Swisspalooza '07 prompted a look at Max Miedinger, the designer of Neue Haas Grotesk (later renamed to Helvetica). Surprisingly, what little biographical information available about Miedinger indicates that he was a typography consultant and type sales rep for the Haas foundry until 1956, after which time he was a freelance graphic designer — rather than the full-time type designer most Helvetica enthusiasts presume him to have been. It was under that freelance capacity that he was commissioned to design the regular and bold weights of Neue Haas Grotesk typeface. His role in designing Helvetica was never really trumpeted until long after the typeface attained global popularity. And, again surprisingly, Miedinger designed two more typefaces that seem to have been lost to the dust of film type history. One is called Pro Arte (1954), a very condensed Playbill-like slab serif that is similar to many of its genre. The other, made in 1964, is much more interesting. Its original name was Horizontal. Here it is, lest it becomes a Haas-been, presented to you in digital form by Canada Type under the name of its original designer, Miedinger, the Helvetica King. The original film face was a simple set of bold, panoramically wide caps and figures that give off a first impression of being an ultra wide Gothic incarnation of Microgramma. Upon a second look, they are clearly more than that. This face is a quirky, very non-Akzidental take on the vernacular, mostly an exercise in geometric modularity, but also includes some unconventional solutions to typical problems (like thinning the midline strokes across the board to minimize clogging in three-storey forms). This digital version introduces four new weights, ranging from Thin to Medium, alongside the bold original. The Miedinger package comes in all popular font formats, and supports Western, Central and Eastern European languages, as well as Esperanto, Maltese, Turkish and Celtic/Welsh. A few counter-less alternates are included in the fonts.

New from Black Studio, presenting Brākė is a typeface that is feminine, adaptable, contemporary aesthetic and creates endless variations for your creative needs. Its striking contrasts and subtle details, together with its sumptuous strokes and voluptuous curves, create a beautiful and powerful statement for any typographic composition, blending glamor with a contemporary aesthetic. Brākė really helps you create unlimited variations for your creative needs in making your project titles: such as Books, fashion, magazines, logos, branding, photography, invitations, wedding invitations, quotes, blog headers, posters, advertisements, postcards, books, websites, etc. WHAT IS INCLUDED • Brākė – Regular • Brākė – Oblique • Brākė – Outline This type of family has become the work of true love, making it as easy and fun as possible. I can't wait to see what you do with Brākė! Feel free to use the #Black Studio tag and the #Brākė font to show what you've been up to, I really hope you enjoy it! Thank You!

A unicase typeface inspired by Latin American wrestling. Versus is a type system designed for use with short and block text. The font, based on well-known typefaces found on boxing posters, combines Latin American elements and wrestling; it is this mixture of widths and weights and different styles which helps give your designs a unique flavour and personality. Versus is a unicase sans serif font well-suited for display use; its orthogonal terminals and short ascenders and descenders make it ideal for block of texts. By mixing different weights, you can have a wide range of design options—short text, isolated words, logos, titles, branding design, posters, etc. The Versus family comes in 9 weights—from a lightweight and condensed Extra Light to an expanded and heavy Ultra. Its character set supports over 200 different languages. The font also includes a large number of stylistic alternates and a complete ligature set which give your compositions a strong identity and personality.

New from Black Studio, presenting bentoga is a typeface that is feminine, adaptable, contemporary aesthetic and creates endless variations for your creative needs. Its striking contrasts and subtle details, together with its sumptuous strokes and voluptuous curves, create a beautiful and powerful statement for any typographic composition, blending glamor with a contemporary aesthetic. Bentoga really helps you create unlimited variations for your creative needs in making your project titles: such as Books, fashion, magazines, logos, branding, photography, invitations, wedding invitations, quotes, blog headers, posters, advertisements, postcards, books, websites, etc. WHAT IS INCLUDED • Bentoga – Regular • Bentoga – Italic This type of family has become the work of true love, making it as easy and fun as possible. I can't wait to see what you do with Bentoga! Feel free to use the #Black Studio tag and the #Bentoga font to show what you've been up to, I really hope you enjoy it! Thank You!

CA Recape is a weird and beautiful vintage script family with two styles. It’s an excellent choice for creating logotypes, headlines, signs, poster and any design that requires a custom-made feeling. The basic inspiration for CA Recape comes from American 50s lettering. But instead of reviving one special style, it is a kind of “Best of”-Remix. It takes the weirdest and most beautiful letterforms of a weird and beautiful time and merges them into one font. The outcome is a charming bastard. Guess what it looks like: Weird and beautiful. CA Recape is packed with a lot of OpenType features like underlining swashes, Stylistic, Discretionary, Titling and Contextual Alternates and Ligatures for use in OpenType savvy programs. It also comes with some nice Ornaments. Derived from the original typeface, Cape Arcona Type Foundry also offers a Raw style that has the distressed look of a poorly printed raw font. See the specimen PDF in the Gallery for all OpenType features and instructions.

Mandelia was created by Alex Kaczun, an American type designer, in 2010. The typeface was named in honor of Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, for his “shining example of the incredible strength of the human spirit to persevere in the face of adversity for the pursuit of freedom”. Mandelia is a strong, bold and wide-bodied serif typeface design, reminiscent of the great African landscape with its diverse animal life. It’s easy to see the influence of the 'Rhino' sharp serifs and ‘Elephant’ size stems and proportions. The font commands attention and respect. Great for headlines that pack a punch, logos, posters, and signage. And because it was well designed, it can even be used in body copy at various point sizes. Mandelia is available in Opentype format for both Mac and PC, and comes complete with true drawn small caps, old style figures and Unicode Latin 1252 and Central European 1250 character sets. It has everything you need to get the job done.

Cute and sweet script font, this is Bashington. The expression of a sweet personality delightfully presented by Bashington, lets you transform type into an exciting and beautiful piece of work. It works perfectly for weddings, food, e-commerce brands, trend blogs, boutiques or any business that wants to appear upscale and sweet. Features: Uppercase & Lowercase Standard Ligatures Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) Multilingual characters (AÀÁÂÃÄÅÇEÈÉÊËIÌÍÎÏNÑOØÒÓÔÕÖUÙÜÚÛÝŸÆŒß) PUA Encoded

Corona was designed by C.H. Griffith and appeared with Mergenthaler Linotype in 1941. It is a part of Griffith’s Legibility Group’, on which he began working in 1922 and which contains typefaces especially well-suited to newsprint. Corona is based on forms of the Ionic type, perhaps the first style designed specifically for newspapers. The font is relatively small but gives an impression of strength and modernity.

LP Cervo is a typeface designed by German type designer Peter Langpeter. LP has been running his own design studio since 1995, working as a typeface and logo designer, as a calligrapher, cartographer and illustrator. During this time LP created a large number of excellent new typeface designs. With its styles Grotesk, Lapidar, Semiserif and Serif the LP Cervo is well suited for various design possibilities

Dutch type designer Just van Rossum created this script FontFont in 1990. The font is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, festive occasions, editorial and publishing as well as poster and billboards. FF Justlefthand provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures, small capitals, alternate characters, case-sensitive forms, fractions, and super- and subscript characters. It comes with tabular oldstyle and proportional oldstyle figures.

Brasílica is a robust design, with wide proportions, that assimilates influences both from old style and modern types. This wide shapes, as well as the moderate contrast and sturdy serifs make it suitable to different conditions of printing. The sharp corners, as well as the abrupt connections and terminals are remarkable features of this typeface, that renders a sturdy and crisp texture, with a distinct aspect.

Airo is a monospace type family with inverted contrast. The distinct shapes and detailing give Airo a strong typographic voice. The family comes in six carefully selected weights, from Light to Extra Bold, making it a versatile typographic tool. The family works best as a display typeface for creating a strong visual impact, but you can use the lighter weights for medium length text as well.

Whitehella is a cute and modern handwritten font with an incredibly friendly feel. It features gorgeous swashes and ligatures that make this script incredibly versatile. Whether you’re looking for fonts for Instagram or calligraphy scripts for DIY projects, Whitehella will turn any creative idea into a true piece of art! Featured : Accents (Multilingual characters) PUA encoded Numerals and Punctuation (OpenType Standard) Full Support Dita Type

Air Leving this is an elegant font This is an elegant font, with alternatives that you can use as needed, this font is also very suitable to be used as a logo or product icon, it adds to your creative experience and will look much different from the others, suitable for all types of elegant and minimalist themed designs. Include : numeric alternate Latin Thank you very much

Rikna is compact, solid and gently condensed slab serif font family that comes in 14 styles. Imagined as family with ability to be used as main project font, Rikna’s visual flow of characters in composed paragraph reveals its high legibility in all sizes. With distinctive serifs, Rikna contains display characteristics with recommend the font for use in bigger sizes as well. Contains Fractions as Open Type Feature.

Roman Ionic is a unique revival of a typeface that was once popular and used in many late 19th century and early 20th century music publishing houses, such as Durand et fils. It displays a happy marriage between the beautiful features of the Clarendon type and the legibility of the Scotch roman class and is thus aimed to work for titling and body text.

StapleTXT is a transformation from the monospaced typewriter font Staple mono into a text type. The 'mono' skeleton was used as much as possible but some characters were slightly altered in order to obtain more regularity without losing its specific typewriter atmosphere: little variation in character widths. The font has lining figures and works very well as text system in combination with the Staple mono.

MRK Amentus is an elegant and modern sans serif font inspired by mixing humanistic and Grotesk styles. Horizontal oblique lines are the main visual style for this type. It gives an aesthetic dynamic look that is perfect for modern elegant brandings and for headlines. This font is suitable for various purposes such as movies, posters, logos, labels, packaging, branding, editorial design, and any modern purposes.

A good typography created with love for you, can be used in logos, posters, postcards, graphic arts in general. Good vibes is created from a brush stroke from there its effect finished brush type. Good vibes for you. Thank you! Good Vibes includes several extras to speed up your creative process by opening the glyphs in any vectorization program, Adobe Illustrator, Freehand, Corel Draw and others.

Carolina is a part of the 1990 program Type before Gutenberg, which included the work of twelve contemporary font designers and represented styles from across the ages. Linotype offers a package including all these fonts on its web page, www.fonts.de. Gottfried Pott designed his Carolina in the tradition of the Carolingian Minuskel. The rhythmic flow of the font gives text a light and elegant feel.

About Native-Txt It is combine of transitional and contemporary type style, with variable stress angle and more stroke contrast. Native-txt has vary styles and most have a large x-height with bracketed serif and square terminal also a litle open aperture. Native-Txt comes up with a true italic with calligraphic latin style, this is a very contrasting and perfectly elegant. Thank you _xdCreative

Don't be afraid to taste something sugar free - most times you will be surprised how good it tastes! My Sugar Free font may not look as very much at first glance - but play around with the Regular and Italic versions (and notice the 4 different versions of each letter, that automatically cycles as you type!) and you will see how lively the font is!

Inspired by strange classic typography, Gogles has its own unique style. This font is best suited for headlines of all sizes, as well as for blocks of text that have maximum and minimum variations. The Gogles style applies to all types of graphic designs on the web, print, moving images and more, and is perfect for t-shirts and other items such as posters and logos.

Otari is vibrant and contemporary, but serious and built to last. Its character shines in display type, but doesn’t interfere at text sizes. Otari aims to capture the essence of Wellington, New Zealand in a single typeface. The contrast of a colorful art scene and the conservative colonial British aesthetic, which is still evident in the capital city, laid the groundwork for this design.

Designed for ParaType in 1999-2003 by Manvel Shmavonyan. This is a low-contrast serif typeface with large x-height and small square cove serifs. For use for text and display typography. Due to its open letterforms and big number of styles the face is a good companion to open humanist Sans. Hybrid design was awarded special prize at Kyrillitsa'99 international type design competition.

Matryoshka is a display layering type family which is inspired by the Russian wooden doll. The family contains eight different weights from XXS (thin) to XXL (fat) + Pregnant (all in one). The design is based on an elaborate and complex grid, so each font fits perfectly into the other. With the Matryoshka family the typographer can create millions of new solutions. Play with it!

Introducing Broiter, 2 font mono weight family with plenty of alternative long stemmed characters. These 2 fonts make it effortless to create hand made lettering, and perfectly suitable for made to be applied 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.

Dutch type designer Max Kisman created this display FontFont in 1991. The family contains 4 weights: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, logo, branding and creative industries, poster and billboards, software and gaming as well as sports. FF Rosetta provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures and case-sensitive forms. It comes with proportional lining figures.

Spanish type designers Andreu Balius and Joan Carles Pérez Casasín created this display FontFont in 1997. The family has 6 weights, ranging from Regular to Extra Bold and is ideally suited for festive occasions, editorial and publishing as well as poster and billboards. FF FontSoup provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures, alternate characters, and case-sensitive forms. It comes with proportional lining figures.

Introducing ANGRY BRUSH - a very bitter display brush font made for all your resentful ramblings. Available only in upper case (shout mode) and with 17 different unique variations of every single character so it always looks fresh, with no duplicated letters in sight. You can either manually choose your preferred character, or let the contextual alternates rotate through each stylistic set whilst you type.

Proudly present Glorando Typeface, created by Story type, A serif modern and classic typeface that has its own unique style & modern look. This typeface is perfect for an elegant & luxury logo, book or movie title design, fashion brand, magazine, clothes, lettering, quotes, and so much more. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

Billguva is a new beautiful & unique typeface from Bagerich Type Foundry, designed by Reza Rasenda & Riska Candra Dewi. The capitals have a set of unique alternates that can be used to give more personality when needed. Create unique & beautiful logotype, use it as an elegant solution for your next magazine layout, or choose Billguva for any graphics that require a sleek look with a elegant flair.

NATRON Rough is the textured version of NATRON (rounded and condensed sans serif), in two weights, medium and bold. It features stylistic alternates and ligatures. Both fonts support Latin and Cyrillic codepages for Western, East and Central European, and Baltic countries. Designed for tight-fitting text, NATRON Rough is great for display, branding, labels, packaging, advertising, food, sports, titles, and any other type of visual communication projects.

The pattern for this face was designed by Will Bradley in 1894 for the cover of Inland Printer magazine, and was licensed the following year to American Type Founders. Its classic lines and condensed footprint make this typeface a natural for elegant and inviting headlines. All versions of this font include the Unicode 1250 Central European character set in addition to the standard Unicode 1252 Latin set.

Dutch type designer Just van Rossum created this display FontFont in 1992. The font is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, festive occasions, editorial and publishing as well as poster and billboards. FF Karton provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures. It comes with proportional lining figures. As well as Latin-based languages, the typeface family also supports the Greek writing system.

Slovakian type designer Peter Bil'ak created this display FontFont in 1995. The family contains 3 weights: Extra Light, Regular, and Extra Bold and is ideally suited for festive occasions, logo, branding and creative industries, music and nightlife as well as sports. FF Atlanta provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures and case-sensitive forms. It comes with proportional oldstyle and proportional lining figures.

Hera Big is a type family in eight weights & 16 fonts. The family explores the motion and fluidity of the ball serif, in an evolution from its previous identity as a counterpart to the slab serif. Informed by great fat-faces from Figgins to Lubalin, but never deferring to precedent by default, Hera is a fresh mix of originality and organic form, never sacrificing function for beauty.

British type designer Neville Brody created this display and sans FontFont in 1992. The family contains 2 weights: Regular and Condensed and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, music and nightlife, poster and billboards, software and gaming as well as sports. FF Gothic provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures and stylistic alternates. It comes with tabular lining and proportional lining figures.

Fason is a decorative font family. Designed for use in the fashion industry, fashion magazines, branding and packaging. Fason is also perfect for wedding invitations, greeting cards and posters. It is also suitable for use in online activities. Fason contains basic and alternative stylistic sets, decorative swash initials & final forms, many useful Open Type features, as well as discretionary ligatures to decorate your design.

German type designer Ingrid Liche created this script FontFont in 1995. The family has 5 weights, ranging from Light to Black and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, editorial and publishing as well as logo, branding and creative industries. FF Clair provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures, alternate characters, and case-sensitive forms. It comes with proportional oldstyle and proportional lining figures.