Foreign Skies is that hastily written brush font you're going to need, if you're looking for an authentic brush font. I am aware that Foreign Skies doesn't always meet the criteria of a professional signletteres demands of "perfect strokes" - but that is the basic idea! It is super legible, even at small sizes, but at the same time it is uneven, bouncy, clumsy and rough!

Pack your bag, Reisebüro is about to take you on a romp to the most wunderbar destinations around the globe. This quirky and playful display font is inspired by hand painted lettering. Pick a city from the list in the travel agency’s window and book your flight—your glass of champagne will be waiting for you in First Class. 4 Styles included: Regular Oblique Thin Thin Italic

Linoma is a handmade font duo consisting of a sans and a stencil version. Its rough and textured appearance derives from the linocutting technique. Use Linoma Stencil as headline or display font and Linoma Sans when you need text settings in smaller sizes. Linoma is suitable for packaging, books, magazines, products and branding projects. It supports most of Central European and Easter European languages.

Costa Mala feels playfully nostalgic and delivers an incredible vintage aesthetic.this font will look outstanding in both formal and non-formal designs. It will add charm and create a unique atmosphere in your design project. This font includes two styles: regular and outline, and also has alternatives that you can use to play with font dynamics. This font is easy to use and has OpenType features.

Halavah Twist JNL is a casual serif font designed by Jeffrey N. Levine and modeled after an early-1960s display font that was quite popular in its day. This new interpretation takes on an entirely different look from the original, creating a modern-yet-retro design. Light, playful and fun-loving, Halavah Twist JNL is perfect for any project that exudes a bubbly warmth and enthusiasm.

Introducing our new product the name Monumental Modern Display Serif Font. Modern Serif font that feels beautiful classy, elegant, and modern. This font is perfectly suited for a wide variety of projects, such as signature, stationery, logo, wedding, typography quotes, magazine or book covers, website headers, clothing, branding, packaging design, and more. Also for fashion-related branding or editorial design and displays both masculine and feminine qualities.

Prop-a-ganda offers retro-flavored fonts inspired by lettering on retro propaganda posters, retro advertising posters, retro packages all the world over. This is perfect font for your retrospective project. PAG October, there is a extremely strong transition of line wight, it is eye-catching and unique. This is a retrospective font with friendly and cute look which works well for your posters, packages, and logos.

Sefilya Script is a beautiful script font with many alternative styles, this font looks natural, elegant and perfect for any extraordinary project.Sefilya Script is suitable for various products such as invitations, product packaging, quotes, product design, crafting, labels, photography, watermarks, logos & branding.Everything can be accessed using software that supports Opentype, such as Adobe Indesign, Adobe CS Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop CC, and Corel Draw.etc. Thank you :)

Leave it to Ray Larabie to come up with an interesting typeface that looks as if it were printed straight out a store's register. Stella Roberts Fonts presents Transaction SRF, the perfect font for emulating cash register receipts and adding machine tapes. The net profits from my font sales help defer medical expenses for my siblings, who both suffer with Cystic Fibrosis and diabetes. Thank you.

Lastero this amazing handwritten font duo is light and elegant, will emphasize your personality in any project and will charm you with its signature. This font includes alternates for Uppercase and Lowercase, also a lot ligatures for lower case make your signature with them. You can use it to create logos, branding, t-shirts, book covers, stationery, marketing, blogs, magazines, cosmetics, signage, and more.

Haunted Gallery is a fun horror typeface with classic letterform. You can play around with the ligatures.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. Features : Uppercase & lowercase Numbers and punctuation Alternates & Ligatures Multilingual PUA encoded

This font was inspired by the hand-written 1648 Munster peace treatise signed by French King Louis XIV and German emperor Ferdinand II. It is a Cancellaresca font style, meticulously written and almost legible. It contains Western (including Celtic) and Northern European, Icelandic, Baltic, Eastern, Central European and Turkish diacritics. The numerous alternates and ligatures made the font looking like a real various hand.

Titling Gothic FB is an immense series of nearly fifty styles inspired by that century-old favorite ATF Railroad Gothic. Led by the Los Angeles Times and Gentleman’s Quarterly, U.S. publications are using David Berlow’s series to unify the structure of headlines from its wide spectrum of options. Titling Gothic FB started as a relative of Berlow’s Rhode family, but took its own direction; FB 2005

Heroism Theory - Cute Handwritten Font with sharp and beautiful letters that create fonts that are modern, trendy and elegant. Came with opentype features such stylistic alternates, stylistic sets & ligatures good for logotype, poster, badge, book cover, tshirt design, packaging and any more. Features : • Character Set A-Z • Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) • Accents (Multilingual characters) • Ligature • Alternate There it is! I really hope you enjoy it

Working at American Type Founders from a Bruce Foundry recutting, Morris Fuller Benton worked out the dramatics of the English Fat Face, and in 1928 produced Ultra Bodoni, a headline spectacular. Using Benton’s 1933 Ultra Bodoni Extra Condensed, Richard Lipton digitized Bodoni FB Bold Condensed, then took compression even further and designed Bodoni FB Bold Compressed, a real technical tour de force; FB 1992

Insigne is pleased to release Nanumunga, inspired by the carefree antics of tropical fish. Designers will find this typeface is useful whenever a relaxed and lighthearted typeface is required. Nanumunga is a versatile face. The font includes small caps and a shadow alternate for titling. Some potential uses are advertising for children's products, tropical destinations, or just whenever you need a slightly different "cartoon" look.

Hi...Thank for your visit :) Toddler a handmade fonts are font designs that are made for various vector designs, printing such as digital wedding invitations, blogs, online shops, social media, while printing can be used in the field of product clothing, accessories, bags, pins, logos, business cards, watermarks and many others ... so it can make your product look elegant and attractive, and also Multilingual support!!! Happy design ...

Introducing our new product the name Breakwater Modern Classy Font. Modern Serif font that feels beautiful classy, elegant, and modern. This font is perfectly suited for a wide variety of projects, such as signature, stationery, logo, wedding, typography quotes, magazine or book covers, website headers, clothing, branding, packaging design, and more. Also for fashion-related branding or editorial design and displays both masculine and feminine qualities.

Another one of those "perfect for a headline that needs an organic and handdrawn look" fonts. Snushane has a lot of character and likes to play with it's organic typographic muscles. I've added 5 different versions of each letter that automatically cycles as you type - and that goes for the Regular, Outline and Inside versions. All of these versions have multilingual support as well!

The “XXII Totenkult” is inspired by the classical letterforms of old roman/renaissance typefaces and an ode to the decay. This is an allCapitals-font and the lowercase glyphs contain a variation of the uppercase. With activated “calt”-feature every second lowercase will be replaced by an alternate, this will give the font a more natural look. Detailed information here: XXII Totenkult on Behance.

Octangle, a well-shaped font that gives a retro power as a display typeface. It’s quirkiness makes it looks funky to enhance your design. The groovy touch to the Octangle font, makes it a fun typeface to explore with! Octangle is very suitable for a variety design, such as posters, Invitations, greeting cards, logo, and many more. Embrace your design with Octangle to make your work pinnacle!

Minou is a French cat’s name. There are more: you could name your cat Léo, Fripouille, Orion, Orphée or Tigrou, but I kind of like Minou. Minou font is a very cute, handmade affair, that started from some doodles I had drawn. Use it for children’s book covers, pyjama party posters, toy packaging and inspirational quotes. I am sure it’ll do the job purrfectly!

Introducing a new serif typeface: Synopsist. Elegant, simple, classic yet distinctive. Perfect for posters, leaflets, books, magazines, presentations as well as logos and blog posts. The font also has two additional styles with special decoration of the letters (note that these styles are only for uppercase). The font includes 367 glyphs in total. Font is Latin multilingual and have uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers and basic punctuations.

meritorious is a script font with a bold vintage style. come with two versions (regular and extruded). This font is inspired by the manual lettering style that is suitable for your design needs such as book cover, logotype, branding, letterhead, poster, product packaging, label, invitation, and more. meritorious comes with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation and there are variations on each character including OpenType alternatives, common ligatures. Thanks

Introducing Laguna Font Collection. Inspired from American motor inn signs and vintage restaurant signs in 50s-70s. Laguna comes with open type features such stylistic alternates, stylistic sets, contextual alternates & ligatures. Also available in variable font format. Laguna Font Collection is best uses for headings, Logo type, quotes, apparel design, invitations, flyer, poster, greeting cards, product packaging, book cover, printed quotes, cover album, movie, etc

Mothiva Serif is a balanced, smooth, elegant and stylish serif font. He has a beautiful character. It fits perfectly with invitation card designs, company logos, movie titles, movie names, business cards, book titles, brand names and various other designs. Mothiva Serif is a subtle serif font that exudes sophistication and elegance. Its stylish alternations and ligatures make this font the perfect partner for any project.

Tabby is display font inspired by connection about human and cat. It has 3 font style, It's super easy to use 3D effect with Tabby family font. Three style Font: Regular, Display & Shadow Tabby perfectly match for any product like book cover, t-shirt, branding, promotion, social media post, quotes, crafting, photography and more. What's included: - Multilingual Support --- Hope you enjoy with our font! Attype Studio

Introducing our new product the name Brogadier Elegant Serif Font. Modern Serif font that feels beautiful classy, elegant, and modern. This font is perfectly suited for a wide variety of projects, such as signature, stationery, logo, wedding, typography quotes, magazine or book covers, website headers, clothing, branding, packaging design, and more. Also for fashion-related branding or editorial design and displays both masculine and feminine qualities.

LP Horizont Caps is another new font creation from German designer Peter Langpeter (lp-design.de). 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. LP Horizont Caps is a very futuristic looking, sharp and elegant sans serif.

URW Urban follows the trend of pattern fonts. Each character has been provided with an individual pattern created with a special stamp technique. To create a vivid typeface, there is a stylistic alternate for nearly every character. In this way the grotesque has a modern, unconventional look. URW Urban reflects a metropolitan lifestyle and is perfect for themes like party, music, sport and film.

Tact Slab is geometrically slab serif font, black and condensed looks glyphs, with an alternative glyph set to improve its use in different graphic contexts. Tact Slab is compatible with the sans serif font Tact. It is suitable for use in the fields of science, art, architecture, urban planning, techniques, electronics, advertising, futuristic themes, sport, film, computers, phones, video games, magazines... Contains all Latin and Cyrillic glyphs.

Hello! Introducing Quartell - modern display typeface family. Font looks amazing as alone words and as full text blocks. Also it good for bright captions and unforgettable logos It have supporting for many languages as: Czech, Danish and Norwegian, Deutsch, English, Espanol, French, Italiano, Magyar, Nederlands, Polish, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Russian and other based on extended latin. Thank you for purchasing and happy designing :)

Please note! If you need OTF versions of the fonts, just email us at commercial@typetype.org TT Rationalist useful links: Specimen | Graphic presentation | Customization options We thought, "What if we provide the user with a collection of matching fonts, each of which would still be unique?"—and so we started developing TT Rationalist. For those familiar with the bestsellers TT Norms® Pro and TT Commons Pro, the new font will be intuitive to use. It has similar proportions, characteristics and functionality, but yet it is an independent and original font family. Unlike the geometric sans serifs TT Norms® Pro and TT Commons Pro, TT Rationalist is a slab serif typeface. It is functional and original. Slabs are characterized by massive rectangular serifs, but in TT Rationalist they are trapezoidal and refined, which makes them look modern. Speaking of modernity, when creating the typeface, we wanted to avoid the excessive historicism that can be seen in many slab serif fonts. We have been particularly careful working on the Black style, which in the first sketches had something in common with the Wild West posters. When we balanced out the excessive contrast caused by visual compensation, the font stopped evoking retro associations. Now TT Rationalist Black is perfect for headlines, especially on posters and posters, and works great with Light styles in TT Norms® Pro and TT Commons Pro. The new typeface works well for both headings and text arrays. It looks especially aesthetically pleasing in printed production (books, magazines, brochures). The TT Rationalist typeface consists of 22 two styles: 10 upright, 10 real Italics and two variable fonts, each with over 950 glyphs. It supports over 200 languages and contains 27 OpenType features. In addition to the standard ones, there are Small Capitals for Latin and Cyrillic languages, alternative versions of the ampersand and the letter g. The italics have two stylistic sets allowing to switch the design of style-forming characters (k, v, w, y, z) between italic and classical forms. TT Rationalist font field guide including best practices, font pairings and alternatives. FOLLOW US: Instagram | Facebook | Website

Merside - Premium Serif Font Merside - Premium Serif Font is a stunning typeface that exudes sophistication and elegance. The font's clean and crisp lines make it a versatile choice for various design projects, from high-end branding to classic book covers and posters. The font was crafted with the utmost care and attention to detail, resulting in a timeless typeface that will elevate any design. Merside - Premium Serif Font is the perfect choice for designers who want to convey a sense of luxury and exclusivity in their work. The font's classic serif style adds a touch of refinement, while the clean lines give it a modern twist. Whether you are designing a logo for a luxury brand, creating marketing materials for a high-end fashion label, or designing a product packaging, Merside will add a touch of elegance and sophistication to your project. One of the standout features of Merside - Premium Serif Font is its OpenType features, which include alternates and ligatures. These features give designers more creative freedom, allowing them to customize the font and create unique and eye-catching designs. The font also includes uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as number, punctuation, and symbol glyphs. Additionally, Merside supports multiple languages, making it an excellent choice for global brands. The font is compatible with a wide range of design software and platforms. You can easily install and use Merside - Premium Serif Font on your computer or device, making it a convenient and accessible choice for designers. If you are looking for a premium serif font that will make your design stand out, Merside - Premium Serif Font is an excellent choice. With its elegant and refined style, it is perfect for creating luxury branding, elegant design, and high-end fashion. This font will give your project a timeless and classic look that will never go out of style. In summary, Merside - Premium Serif Font is a stunning and versatile font that is perfect for designers who want to create high-end and sophisticated designs. With its classic serif style, OpenType features, and multilanguage support, it is a font that will elevate any design project.

Bradley Texting: a clear, friendly and easily legible calligraphy font, also suited to electronic devices With Bradley Texting, Richard Bradley has published another calligraphic typeface that recalls the style of Bradley Hand and Bradley Type. In this case, however, Bradley has advanced the style with clearer forms for display on electronic instruments and on other formats. Two other font families paved the way to the newly introduced Bradley Texting. In the mid-1990s, Bradley published Bradley Hand, with its rough contours. Since these coarse forms do not cut a good figure in the larger font sizes, Bradley Type followed, with smooth letters. During the development of Bradley Type, the idea for a further font came about ? one in the style of the two other calligraphic typefaces, but with simpler, easily legible forms and suited to electronic devices like mobile phones or tablets. The letters for Bradley Texting began with a marker on paper. Looking back, Bradley describes one of the biggest challenges as having the calm required to draw the relaxed-looking letters repeatedly while still making them fit the general style.The somewhat narrow and dynamically designed letters have round line ends, like those left by a felt-tipped pen. As a hand-written print font, the individual letters are not connected to one another. Nonetheless, they demonstrate the influence of a written font, such as the extended ends and the flowing transitions. Clear forms with open counters and a large x-height guarantee Bradley Texting good legibility in the smaller font sizes. Bradley Texting is also effective under more challenging conditions, such as on mobile phones, e-book readers or tablets; the fonts friendly and lively character comes through. With Regular, Semibold and Bold, Bradley Texting is adequately equipped for use as a headline or text font in various sizes. The selection of characters covers the Western European languages and German typographers will be happy to note the presence of the upper-case ß. Use the dynamic and clear forms of Bradley Texting anywhere you need a friendly character with a personal accent. Bradley Texting is persuasive in the print realm, in advertisements or on posters, as well as on electronic devices.

How can Teutonia be called “Art Nouveau” with all those straight lines? It seems like a contradiction. In fact, however, Art Nouveau embraces a rather wide variety of stylistic approaches. Five well-known examples in the field of architecture serve to illustrate the range of diversity in Art Nouveau: Saarinen’s Helsinki Railroad Station, Hoffman’s Palais Stocklet in Brussels, Lechner’s Museum of Applied Arts on Budapest, Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art and Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Only the last fits comfortably within the common perception of Art Nouveau. Whereas Gaudi would avoid the straight line as much as possible, Macintosh seemed to employ it as much as possible. The uniting factor is that they all represent “new art” -- an attempt to look things differently than the previous generation. Even when they draw on the past -- e.g. Lechner in the use of traditional Hungarian folk art -- the totality of the expression in new. Teutonia clearly shows its blackletter roots in the ‘D’ and the ‘M.’ Roos & Junge of Offenbach am Main in Germany produced Teutonia in a "back-to-basics" effort that has seen many quite similar attempts in the field of topography. In 1883, Baltimore Type Foundry released its Geometric series. In 1910, Geza Farago in Budapest used a similar letter design on a Tungsram light bulb poster. In 1919 Theo van Doesburg, a founder with Mondrian and others of the De Stijl movement, designed an alphabet using rectangles only -- no diagonals. In 1923 Joost Schmidt at Bauhaus in Weimer took the same approach for a Constructivist exhibit poster. The 1996 Agfatype Collection catalog lists a Geometric in light, bold and italic that is very close to the old Baltimore version. Even though none of these designs took the world by storm, they all made a contribution to our understanding of letterforms and how we use them. Teutonia is compact and surprisingly readable at 12 points in print, but does not do as well on the screen. Extra leading is suggested. Four ligatures are supplied: ch, ck, sch and tz. The numerals are tabular.

Introducing Pastrami on Rye—the comic-style font that is anything but conventional. With its rough-hewn appearance and constructed style, this font adds a unique edge to any design project. Unlike other comic-style fonts that are based on pen and ink, Pastrami on Rye is inspired by cut paper and fabric. The result is a bold, organic look that is both playful and professional. One of the standout features of this font is the serifed “I” in the capital position. This adds a touch of elegance to the font and is perfect for personal pronouns or acronyms. But that’s not all—if you’re using an OpenType savvy application, you can enjoy the benefit of automatic shuffling of letters and numerals. This means your designs will have a more natural, hand-drawn effect without any additional effort on your part. Pastrami on Rye is a font that works well in any application that supports OpenType standard ligatures. Whether you’re designing a logo, creating a comic book, or adding a unique touch to a marketing campaign, this font is sure to stand out. Why settle for a boring, generic font when you can add the organic, bold look of Pastrami on Rye to your designs? Try it today and see the difference for yourself! Most Latin-based European writing systems are supported, including the following languages. Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aromanian, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean, Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Dholuo, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kurdish (Latin), Latvian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Māori, Moldovan, Montenegrin, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Norwegian, Novial, Occitan, Ossetian (Latin), Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Sami, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Võro, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Wayuu, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Zapotec Zulu and Zuni.

Introducing "Mate" - a modern mecha font that pushes the boundaries of typographic design. Inspired by the sleek aesthetics of mecha machinery, this font combines hexagonal formations with a futuristic and cyberpunk visual language, giving your projects a bold and captivating edge. The "Mate" font captures the essence of the future with its hexagonal shapes meticulously integrated into each character. The geometric precision and interconnectedness of these forms create a visually striking and dynamic appearance. The carefully crafted letterforms evoke a sense of advanced technology and mechanical elegance, making them perfect for projects seeking a contemporary and cutting-edge look. With its cyberpunk-inspired design, "Mate" transports your audience into a world where technology and imagination intertwine. The font's sleek lines, sharp angles, and futuristic elements capture the essence of a dystopian future, adding an air of intrigue and sophistication to your designs. The unique hexagonal feels of "Mate" create a sense of interconnectedness and harmony within the letterforms. Each character seamlessly integrates into the next, forming a unified and visually captivating composition. Whether used in titles, logos, or headlines, this font demands attention and conveys a sense of progress and innovation. Unleash the power of "Mate" in your design projects to evoke the spirit of mecha aesthetics. Whether you're working on sci-fi book covers, gaming interfaces, futuristic posters, or branding for technology-driven companies, this font will effortlessly infuse your creations with a modern, cyberpunk-inspired charm. With "Mate," you have the perfect tool to unleash your creativity and redefine the boundaries of typographic expression. Let this modern mecha font propel your designs into a realm where imagination meets technology, and the future is brought to life in stunning visual form. This font is perfect for Logo designs, Gaming branding, Technology magazines, Sci-fi book covers, Cyberpunk posters, Futuristic product packaging, Robotics company branding, Virtual reality interfaces, Futuristic event invitations, Mecha-inspired apparel branding, Tech-themed websites, Dystopian novel covers, Futuristic movie titles, Cybernetic-themed party invitations, Gaming convention banners and many more! Mate features: A full set of uppercase Numbers and punctuation Multilingual language support PUA Encoded Characters OpenType Features Cyber Mecha Style +298 Total Glyphs

Blue Goblet is a series of fonts and ornaments by Cory Godbey and Jeremy Dooley. This best selling series has now been extended to include a new member, Blue Goblet Serif. Blue Goblet Serif comes with a variety of weights and also an outline version. Blue Goblet is hand-lettered by the artist, Cory Godbey, and is organic, spontaneous and exuberant. Characters bounce and dance above and below the baseline and x-height, making this a whimsical and fun script. Not only is Blue Goblet Serif a excellent choice, it also is a member of a wide family of different fonts. You can use it side by side with the original Blue Goblet, and there are a wide range of ornaments available, totaling over 350 illustrations! These illustrations include frames, florals and other text ornaments that can be inserted into your text and resized at will. This makes the Blue Goblet series a great pick when you want a type system that works very well together for a very unique and consistent look. The Blue Goblet series continues to grow and be expanded, making it a valuable investment. Blue Goblet Serif also includes auto replacing ligatures that make it appear that the script was drawn by the artists own hand, just for you! Blue Goblet Serif also includes a wide variety of alternates that can be accessed in any OpenType enabled application. Blue Goblet includes over 150 OpenType glyphs, and is loaded with features including an even more unique alternate alphabet. Included are swash alternates, style sets, old style figures and small caps. Please see the informative PDF brochure to see these features in action. OpenType enabled applications such as the Adobe suite or Quark can take full advantage of the automatic replacing ligatures and alternates. This family also includes the glyphs to support a wide range of languages. Blue Goblet Serif is great choice for display and short blocks of display text, children's books, packaging, or other unique applications. Fill in the counter spaces with color for a unique look, or alternate the different weights. Use Blue Goblet whenever you want to inject a sense of fun and whimsy to your designs. Give the Blue Goblet series a try today!

Laima is the brush-formed stencil from Bogidar Mascareñas that will create an ovation for branding, album art, upscale venues, and packaging. If wide appeal, attention to detail, or international reach is necessary for your brand, consider Laima’s high-calibre design as your personal ambassador. The general font user is accustomed to stencil typefaces that have a brute look to them — industrial, mechanical, restrictive, or even militarised. Stencils are commonly used because they serve a function, like spray-painting over template letters, giving the reader a warning that must be heeded for safety, or a command to follow immediately. Wooden crates and grunge art are the medium and black or red paint are the norm. Laima, instead, creates a stencil from the world of calligraphy to turn all this on its head. Laima’s 12 stencil styles (six roman and six italic) use the junctures of calligraphic strokes as an opportunity to achieve an uncommon stencil effect, shifting to create unexpected shapes and the illusion of twisted, disconnected overlaps. Inspired by “Arte Nueva de Escribir”, an engravings book published by Francisco Palomares in 1776, Laima progressed well beyond its beginning as a Type and Media Master’s project at KABK, The Hague (NL). It sometimes required completely new character shapes to accommodate the space needed for clear diacritic marks, and was further enhanced with flourishes and alternates for liveliness and variety in individual or branded work. Laima’s italic begins with swashes and uses OpenType features to automatically turn them off with more than two successive capital letters. Use one swashed character for a drop cap, two for ligatured fun, turn them on or off at your discretion, or change the ascender length and swash shape to suit your creative need. With two styles of numerals and stylistic sets for final forms, Laima’s 12 styles and hundreds of Latin-based languages can turn simple words into an occasion that would immediately benefit high-class brands and special uses. Set that article title, release that new product, code your best-looking UI yet, letterpress that business card, and print that gourmet label. Whatever is next, Laima is the unexpected stencil partner to introduce it to an expectant world.