Out of a lifelong inner struggle, Philip Bouwsma unleashes a masterpiece that reconciles classic calligraphy with type in a way never before attempted. Maestro takes its cue from the Italian chancery cursive of the early sixteenth century. By this time type ruled the publishing world, but official court documents were still presented in calligraphy, in a new formal style of the high Renaissance that was integrated with Roman letters and matched the refined order of type. The copybooks of Arrighi and others, printed from engraved wood blocks, spread the Italian cancellaresca across Europe, but the medium was too clumsy and the size too small to show what was really happening in the stroke. Arrighi and others also made metal fonts that pushed type in the direction of calligraphy, but again the medium did not support the superb artistry of these masters or sustain the vitality in their work. As the elegant sensitive moving stroke of the broad pen was reduced to a static outline, the human quality, the variety and the excitement of a living act were lost. Because the high level of skill could not be reproduced, the broad pen was largely replaced by the pointed tool. The modern italic handwriting revival is based on a simplified model and does not approach the level of this formal calligraphy with its relationship to the Roman forms. Maestro is the font that Arrighi and his colleagues would have made if they had had digital technology. Like the calligraphic system of the papal chancery on which it is modelled, it was not drawn as a single finished alphabet, but evolved from a confluence of script and Roman; the script is formalized by the Roman to stand proudly in a world of type. Maestro came together on screen over the course of several years, through many versions ranging widely in style, formality, width, slant, weight and other parameters. On one end of the spectrum, looking back to tradition it embodies the formal harmony of the Roman capitals and the minuscule which became the lower case. On the other it is a flowing script letter drawing on the spirit of later pointed pen and engravers scripts. As its original designers intended, it works with simple Roman capitals and serifs or swash capitals and baroque flourishes. The broad pen supplies weight and substance to the stroke which carries energy through tension in balanced s-curves. Above all it is meant to convey the life and motion of formal calligraphy as a worthy counterbalance to the stolid gravity of metal type. The Maestro family consists of forty fonts distributed over two weights. The OpenType version compresses the family considerably down to two fonts, regular and bold, each containing the entire character set of twenty fonts, for a total of more than 3350 characters per font. These include a wide variety of stylistic alternates, ligatures, beginning and ending letters, flourishes, borders, rules, and other extras. The Pro version also includes extended linguistic support for Latin-based scripts (Western, Central and Eastern European, Baltic, Turkish, Welsh/Celtic, Maltese) as well as Greek. For more thoughts on Maestro, its background and character sets, please read the PDF accompanying the family.

Beautiful Moonlight is handwritten stylish copperplate calligraphy fonts, combines from copperplate to contemporary typeface with a dancing baseline, classic and elegant touch. Can be used for various purposes. such as headings, signature, logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, lable, news, posters, badges etc.

Landerful Signature is a stylish calligraphy typeface with characters that dance along the baseline. It will add a luxury spark to any design project that you wish to create! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all glyphs and swashes with ease!

Honey badeta font duo Script is a modern calligraphy design, including Regular. This font is casual and beautiful with swash. Can be used for various purposes. such as logos, product packaging, wedding invitations, branding, headlines, signage, labels, signatures, book covers, posters, quotes, and more.

Shepila is a beautiful, modern and elegant calligraphy script. And is perfect for weddings, fashion, brands, blogs, boutiques or any business that wants to appear upscale and pretty. Features: Uppercase & Lowercase Standard Ligatures Contextual Alternates Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) Multilingual characters (AÀÁÂÃÄÅÇEÈÉÊËIÌÍÎÏNÑOØÒÓÔÕÖUÙÜÚÛÝŸÆŒß) PUA Encoded

Introducing the latest styles Brittensy script is a modern calligraphy design, including Regular. This font is enough with a sweep. Can be used for various purposes. such as logos, product packaging, wedding invitations, brand imagery, titles, signs, labels, signatures, book covers, posters, quotes, and more.

Dichigan is a modern, beauty calligraphy font, and will work 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 Contextual Alternates Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) Multilingual characters PUA Encoded

ITC Kick is the work of California designer Patty King, a bold and energetic brush script. The marked contrast of stroke weight lends the forms dynamism. ITC Kick is a stylish, graceful calligraphy font which will lend headlines a sense of modernity and sophistication.

Mustafa Script is handwritten stylish copperplate calligraphy fonts, combines from copperplate to contemporary typeface with a dancing baseline, classic and elegant touch. Can be used for various purposes. such as headings, signature, logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, lable, news, posters, badges etc.

Austhind is a script font with stylish hand brush style. The Austhind font made with digital brush pen strokes that making this font look authentic and unique concept. This font is perfect for fashion brand, wedding invitation, business card, logo brand, signature, and then calligraphy.

Gustav it is a Calligraphy chick font with exquisite accents. It is perfect for branding, wedding invitations and invitation cards and many more What's inside: Gustav Script Multilingual support Cricut support If you have any questions, please contact me directly or in instagram @supfonts

Freshtea Healthy feels equally charming and elegant. This stunning script font is a stylish homage to classic calligraphy. It will elevate a wide range of design projects to the highest level, be it branding, headings, wedding designs, invitations, signatures, logos, labels, and much more!

Southand is a handmade calligraphy font that is made with a touch of love in every character. This font is perfect for logos, branding, business cards, watermarks, posters and more. Southand comes with a full set of Uppercase, Lowercase, Numerals, Punctuation, and multilingual support.

FM Christmas 3.0 consists of 26 hand-lettered Christmas greetings. All the words and phrases are original and handwritten - a high quality calligraphy for your holiday projects. Check our portfolio for the rest of our Christmas collection and more holiday related hand-lettered fonts.

Shauqy is a font with a modern Calligraphy look and energetic. With extra attention to quick strokes and sharp details, is ready and perfectly fit for your logo designs, music projects & social media posts, event poster, brand imagery, product packaging, handwritten quotes, merchandise, etc.

FM Christmas 2.0 consists of 26 hand-lettered Christmas greetings. All the words and phrases are original and handwritten - a high quality calligraphy for your holiday projects. Check our portfolio for the rest of our Christmas collection and more holiday related hand-lettered fonts.

Lecheet is a handwritten script font. It has an authentic modern calligraphy look and feels bold which makes it perfect for digital branding and design. Use this font for logos, social media, wedding decorations, invitations, home decor, websites, blogs, instagram, business cards, branding and more!

Latisha Script is a modern calligraphy design including Regular. This font is casual and pretty with EXTRAS. Can be used for various purposes. such as logos, product packaging, wedding invitations, branding, headlines, signage, labels, signatures, book covers, posters, quotes, and many more. Thank you, enjoy.

Introducing of our new product the name is Almeida Girly Script Font. Almeida inspired by modern calligraphy style this font is a fun theme very good for display, tshirt design, craft, quote sign, logotype and etc FEATURES : Uppercase Lowercase Number Punctuation Multilingual PUA Encode Opentype

MonsterHand is our first Ruling Pen made face. This tool is usually used in calligraphy for expressive lettering. Giuseppe Salerno’s hand has been converted into this crazy typeface. This font includes also a set of icons. Check out also Modern Love Slanted Turquoise Nautica

A decorative face of freestyle flowing letterforms, it is stylized a little under wide brush calligraphy. Its letterforms are characterized with one-side serifs. For use in book heading, advertising and display matter. The face designed by Natalya Vasilyeva and licensed by ParaType in 2007.

Beauty Flowers - A romantic calligraphy script font. This font will delight you with its romantic charm, elegance, lightness and a variety of alternative substitutes that will help you make your design project unique. This font also includes swashes that will perfectly complement your design.

Emilyne is a sweet hand-lettered calligraphy font. It includes swashes and alternates which can be used to give your design looks beautiful and elegant. It’s perfect for logos, product packaging, wedding invitations, branding, headlines, signage, labels, signature, book covers, posters, quotes and many more.

Charlingstone is a Modern Calligraphy font with a unique alternative. This font is perfect for, wedding stationery, logos, modern websites, and more. Charlingstone has a total of 237 glyphs, this font also has ligature and language support. Charlingstone is made in a bold, upright style.

Melathy is a script calligraphy font. It looks stunning on wedding invitations, thank you cards, quotes, greeting cards, logos, business cards and every other design which needs a handwritten touch. Add it to your most creative ideas and notice how it makes them come alive!

This condensed type is based on Roman calligraphy and (through having several alternates on both upper and lower case, plus some non-standard ligatures) your text may look like it’s written or handmade. You can combine this font with Ecstasy, also available on MyFonts.

Square Lemon feels equally charming and elegant. This stunning handwritten font is a stylish homage to classic calligraphy. It will elevate a wide range of design projects to the highest level, be it branding, headings, wedding designs, invitations, signatures, logos, labels, and much more!

FM Christmas 1.0 consists of 26 hand-lettered Christmas greetings. All the words and phrases are original and handwritten - a high quality calligraphy for your holiday projects. Check our portfolio for the rest of our Christmas collection and more holiday related hand-lettered fonts.

Silver Dagger is a contemporary script-inspired font that combines the elegance of graceful handwriting with clean, modern, incisive calligraphy. It will enhance the appearance of advertisements, invitations, headlines and posters. It contains a full character set and is professionally letter-spaced and kerned.

Designed for ParaType (ParaGraph) in 1989 by Elvira Slysh. Based on Slogan of Ludwig & Mayer type foundry, 1959, by Helmut Matheis. An informal flowing script simulating pointed brush calligraphy. A style of medium weight and coherent lowercase. For use in advertising and display typography.

Stefano is a meld of traditional Roman typeface design and calligraphic hand lettering. It is bold yet refined; elegant yet forceful. Stefano will enhance the urbane and elevate the prosaic.

Are you looking for a font reflecting ancient times, antiques, knights and suchlike? Consider Stiletto, a beautiful, calligraphic-like design with special forms that evoke pleasant memories of old times.

Nippon is a handdrawn cartoon font with an oriental touch. I based it on my earlier typeface, Morganhand, making it more angular, and added some calligraphic impression in the glyphs.

Brigattin is a calligraphy script font that comes with beautiful alternative characters. a mixture of copper calligraphy with handleting style. Designed to bring style elegance. Brigattin Script attracts such a subtle, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very readable typeface. The classic style is perfect to apply in various formal forms such as invitations, labels, menus, Logos, fashion, make up, stationery, letterpress, romantic novels, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, labels. Brigattin has 494 glyphs. including multiple language support. With OpenType features with stylish alternatives, ligatures and characters, allowing you to mix and match pairs of letters to fit your design, as well as a touch of ornament to make this font look elegant.

Meet the new slick calligraphy font - Selestyna. This gorgeous script is for those who need some elegance and style for their designs and is perfect for wedding invitations, saving date cards, feminine branding, and other necessities. This font is modern with a love style, but still authentic. Selestyna includes the complete set of Basic Uppercase and Lowercase Characters, Numbers, and Punctuation. It also contains binders and many stylistic alternatives to perfectly recreate natural calligraphy (check the preview to see all of them). If you have any questions regarding my products, feel free to write a message or contact me via email Cooldesignlab@gmail.com. Thank you very much for visiting my shop! ~ Cooldesignlab

Introducing my new font Alpenable is another lovely modern calligraphy typefaces, which is combining the style of classic calligraphy with an modern style. So beautiful on invitation like greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more ! Alpenable come with 418 glyphs. The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates etc. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer.

GoGipsy is a script font based on Coto Mendoza's modern calligraphy works created with the technical assistance of Luciano Vergara. GoGipsy is inspired by a magical journey—full of love, art and nature—through the Mexican Caribbean. GoGipsy tries to capture such incredible blend through gestures and calligraphy strokes, conveying freedom, expressiveness, strength and spontaneity. The family consists of four versions: regular, italic, drop and italic drop plus a set of ornaments based on the visual appealing Mexican textile art and embroidery full of colour and beauty. GoGipsy's baseline emphasises movement and rhythm. Have fun with OpenType features, swashes, ligatures and a wide array of initials. Go Gipsy! Each journey, new inspiration...

Distory Script Is a calligraphy Vintage script font that comes with beautiful alternate characters. copper plate mix calligraphy with handlettering style. Designed to convey stylish elegance. Pagoda attracts like a typeface that is smooth, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read. Distory Script comes with a Clean and Aged version, beautiful upper and lower case, binding and loved by many finishes. It has Multilingual support (Western European characters) and works with the following languages: English, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish. In my example I show how this script can be used. It's perfect for logos, wedding invitations, alcohol labels, romantic cards, and more. Thanks You.

Reivant is a script font, so this beautiful and unique script font is a model of modern calligraphy typography combined with calligraphy writing style. Reivant Grunge is a script font, so it's made with a different touch, namely it has a cracked texture and the style is the same as Reivant Regular. The Features of this fonts is: Contextual Alternates Standart ligatures Discretionary ligatures Swash Alternates Stylistic Alternates Stylistic sets Can be used for various purposes. such as headings, logos, wedding invitations, t-shirts, letterheads, signage, labels, news, posters, badges etc. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternative, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X

Script Maleryan Script - Modern Calligraphy Maleryan is a beautiful modern calligraphy script based on manual hand writing. The natural flow with the swashes make this font looks even more prettier. This type of font perfectly made to be applied especially in wedding invitation, 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 multilingual swash and ligature alternates PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. How to access opentype feature : letterhend.com/tutorials/using-opentype-feature-in-any-software/