Compendium is a sequel to my Burgues font from 2007. Actually it is more like a prequel to Burgues. Before Louis Madarasz awed the American Southeast with his disciplined corners and wild hairlines, Platt Rogers Spencer, up in Ohio, had laid down a style all his own, a style that would eventually become the groundwork for the veering calligraphic method that was later defined and developed by Madarasz. After I wrote the above paragraph, I was so surprised by it, particularly by the first two sentences, that I stopped and had to think about it for a week. Why a sequel/prequel? Am I subconsciously joining the ranks of typeface-as-brand designers? Are the tools I build finally taking control of me? Am I having to resort to “milking it” now? Not exactly. Even though the current trend of extending older popular typefaces can play tricks with a type designer’s mind, and maybe even send him into strange directions of planning, my purpose is not the extension of something popular. My purpose is presenting a more comprehensive picture as I keep coming to terms with my obsession with 19th century American penmanship. Those who already know my work probably have an idea about how obsessive I can be about presenting a complete and detailed image of the past through today’s eyes. So it is not hard to understand my need to expand on the Burgues concept in order to reach a fuller picture of how American calligraphy evolved in the 19th century. Burgues was really all about Madarasz, so much so that it bypasses the genius of those who came before him. Compendium seeks to put Madarasz’s work in a better chronological perspective, to show the rounds that led to the sharps, so to speak. And it is nearly criminal to ignore Spencer’s work, simply because it had a much wider influence on the scope of calligraphy in general. While Madarasz’s work managed to survive only through a handful of his students, Spencer’s work was disseminated throughout America by his children after he died in 1867. The Spencer sons were taught by their father and were great calligraphers themselves. They would pass the elegant Spencerian method on to thousands of American penmen and sign painters. Though Compendium has a naturally more normalized, Spencerian flow, its elegance, expressiveness, movement and precision are no less adventurous than Burgues. Nearing 700 glyphs, its character set contains plenty of variation in each letter, and many ornaments for letter beginnings, endings, and some that can even serve to envelope entire words with swashy calligraphic wonder. Those who love to explore typefaces in detail will be rewarded, thanks to OpenType. I am so in love with the technology now that it’s becoming harder for me to let go of a typeface and call it finished. You probably have noticed by now that my fascination with old calligraphy has not excluded my being influenced by modern design trends. This booklet is an example of this fusion of influences. I am living 150 years after the Spencers, so different contextualization and usage perspectives are inevitable. Here the photography of Gonzalo Aguilar join the digital branchings of Compendium to form visuals that dance and wave like the arms of humanity have been doing since time eternal. I hope you like Compendium and find it useful. I'm all Spencered out for now, but at one point, for history’s sake, I will make this a trilogy. When the hairline-and-swash bug visits me again, you will be the first to know. The PDF specimen was designed with the wonderful photography of Gonzalo Aguilar from Mexico. Please download it here http://new.myfonts.com/artwork?id=47049&subdir=original

The Eskapade font family is the result of Alisa Nowak’s research into Roman and German blackletter forms, mainly Fraktur letters. The idea was to adapt these broken forms into a contemporary family instead of creating a faithful revival of a historical typeface. On one hand, the ten normal Eskapade styles are conceived for continuous text in books and magazines with good legibility in smaller sizes. On the other hand, the six angled Eskapade Fraktur styles capture the reader’s attention in headlines with its mixture of round and straight forms as seen in ‘e’, ‘g’, and ‘o’. Eskapade works exceptionally well for branding, logotypes, and visual identities, for editorials like magazines, fanzines, or posters, and for packaging. Eskapade roman adopts a humanist structure, but is more condensed than other oldstyle serifs. The reason behind this stems from the goal of closely resembling the Fraktur style to create harmony in mixed text settings. Legibility is enhanced by its low contrast between thick and thin strokes and its tall x-height. Eskapade offers an airy and light typographic colour with its smooth design. Eskapade italic is based on the Cancellaresca script and shows some particularities in its condensed and round forms. This structure also provided the base for Eskapade Fraktur italic. Eskapade Fraktur is more contrasted and slightly bolder than the usual darkness of a regular weight. The innovative Eskapade Fraktur italic, equally based on the Cancellaresca script previously mentioned, is secondarily influenced by the Sütterlin forms — an unique script practiced in Germany in the vanishingly short period between 1915 and 1941. The new ornaments are also hybrid Sütterlin forms to fit with the smooth roman styles. Although there are many Fraktur-style typefaces available today, they usually lack italics, and their italics are usually slanted uprights rather than proper italics. This motivated extensive experimentation with the italic Fraktur shapes and resulted in Eskapade Fraktur’s unusual and interesting solutions. In addition to standard capitals, it offers a second set of more decorative capitals with double-stroke lines to intensify creative application and encourage experimental use. The Thin and Black Fraktur styles are meant for display sizes (headlines, posters, branding, and signage). A typeface with this much tension needs to keep a good harmony between strokes and counters, so Eskapade Black has amplified inktraps and a more dynamic structure seen in the contrast between straight and round forms. These qualities make the family bolder and more enticing, especially with the included uppercase alternates. The Fraktur’s black weights are strident, refusing to let the white of the paper win the tug-of-war. It also won’t give away its secrets: Is it modern or historic, edgy or amicable, beguiling ornamentation or brutish presentation? That all depends on how the radically expanded Eskapade family is used, but its 16 fonts certainly aren’t tame.

Maximo Nexa is a dynamic, contemporary sans serif font family consisting of 8 meticulously designed fonts. With its clean lines and sporty geometry, Maximo Nexa offers a harmonious aesthetic that seamlessly blends into various design contexts. Whether you're working on branding, editorial projects, signage, or larger applications, Maximo Nexa is your perfect companion.

Introducing Pink Shark, a fun and simple handwriting fonts. Perfect for DIY projects, labels, quotes, greeting cards, posters, wall art, branding, packaging, websites, photos, photography overlays, window art, signs, scrap booking, tags and so more! Pink Shark consists of a Regular and a cute 'Wrap' version and will make your project stand out!

Introducing Angela Love Script Angela Love Script is modern script that is perfect for photography, branding, signature. It is beautiful and classy for all your projects. This font has given PUA code (specially coded fonts) so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer.

Blaze Stanley is a casual, fun handwritten font, created by using a brush pen. Clean and a little bit quirky, this font is the perfect fit for all of your logos, branding, social media, and crafty DIY projects. Featured : Accents (Multilingual characters) PUA encoded Numerals and Punctuation (OpenType Standard) Full Support Dita Type

Silence Rocken Handwritten Font is perfect for logo, branding, invitation, tittle, wedding invitations, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, labels, photography, watermark, special events, magazine, web design, etc. What's Included : Silence Rocken ( otf, ttf ) Ligatures Multilingual support If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me. Thank you!

Hella Bertta Script A new fresh an modern hand lettered font with decorative characters and a dancing baseline. So beautiful on invitation like handicraft, greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more design concepts. Features : Ligatures Stylistic sets Basic Latin A-Z and a-z Numbers International Symbols included Punctuation Ligature

Artshow is the updated and rounded version of "Galeria", a slab font inspired by monospaced typefaces, organic architecture, and contemporary art galleries. The union between pronounced curved and straight shapes results in a typography with strong character. This font family comes with 18 styles and is ideal for editorial design, branding and posters.

Mashiny is a handwritten font with unique curves and an elegant inky flow. Features : uppercase, lowercase, symbol, number, ligature, and also support multi language. Mashiny is perfect for photography, watermark, social media posts, advertisements, logos & branding, invitation, product designs, label, stationery, wedding designs, product packaging, special events or anything that need handwriting taste.

Reinkey is a neat and clean brushed display font. It has alternate characters, which will give you convenience when choosing a character for each design project. It is suitable for logotypes, banners, brochures, branding and more. It is PUA encoding which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease.

Diallome is a stylish signature font that has an elegant flow, this font will look very luxurious on wedding invitations, fashion logos, brand logos, thank you cards, business cards, watermarks, and any other design that wants to have a handwritten touch. Diallome Features - Uppercase and Lowercase - Numerical and Punctuation - PUA Encoded - Multilingual Language

Richela is a Beautiful Lovely Modern Script Font. Richela is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Richela also multilingual support. Alternates & Lowercase Ending Swashes. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank you!

Puertofino is made as if it resembles a ballpoint pen so it looks thick and thin, Puertofino can also be used as a signature font. Puertofino has ligatures, alternates, and supports 68 Multilingual. Puertofino is a casual script font that suitable for various project, like branding, invitation, merchandise, website, advertisement, magazine, and more

Qairen is a classic typeface with a unique style and modern look. It is perfect for elegant and luxury logos, book or movie title design, fashion brands, magazines, 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!

Proudly Presenting, Ganghoods a Gothic Fraktur Handwritten Font. Ganghoods is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Ganghoods also come with Multi-Lingual Support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!

Palmaton is a new modern & stylish handwritten font. It's perfect for logo, branding, invitation, tittle, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, special events, magazine, web design, etc. What's Included : Ligature Multilingual support If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me at : mfikryalif@fmail.com

Proudly Presenting, Stonefloral A Handwritten Font. Stonefloral is perfect for any titles, logo, product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Stonefloral also come with Multi-Lingual Support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!

Abrupt is a textured brush font, a contemporary approach to design, naturally handmade and with underscores. It also has alternatives and ligatures that make your design more attractive.Suitable for use in title design such as clothing, invitations, tittle books, stationery designs, quotes, branding, logos, greeting cards, t-shirts, packaging designs, posters and more.

Bankai a Handdrawn Japanese Font. Bankai is perfect for any tittles, logo, product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Bankai also come with Multi-Lingual Support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!

This font is a hand-made typeface with Greek Character support. With cute doodles icons in PUA encoding, this typeface can be a mighty companion to your next graphic design project. From “hand-written” quotes to product packaging, merchandise, and branding projects, this font is so versatile that it can cover them all.

Kidszones is a cute and fun display and decorative font. Its cool, playful & childish look makes it a fantastic choice for fashion, signature, album covers logos, branding, magazines, social media posts, advertisement, and many more. Use this display font to add that special cool touch to any design idea you can think of!

The font collection is called "Hittedal", it is a display font for logotype. These collections contain bold script and sans serif font. This script font includes some alternates and ligatures. The Hittedal matches apply in some designs such as the logo, poster, label, badge, packaging, t-shirt, branding, quotes and more custom design.

Anzura is a decorative font that can be used for book title, logo brand, poster and many more. The looks is vintage classic yet clean, with a little decoration on each letter. We have two styles, Anzura Regular and Anzura Shadow. Both are beautiful! Enjoy in cooking something creative with Anzura font! :)

Salsa Billa is new, fresh, funny, interesting, cute calligraphy font. It includes hearts and cute cords as alternatives. It is suitable for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more! Salsa Billa is coded with Unicode PUA, which provides full access to all additional characters without having special design software.

Dragon Scribble Graffiti is a display font with Curved graffiti style. It will elevate a wide range of design projects to the highest level, be it branding, headings, wedding designs, tittle, signatures, logos, labels, movie, video, magazine, logotype, crafting, packaging, advertising and much more! thank you very much, and have a nice day.

The Hungry font. It has a bold and smooth style and is perfect for making any design stand out. Best suitable for branding, packaging, print titles, tshirt design, food design, and similar projects. more than 50 stylistic alternates and some natural ligatures to make this font very classy and look so beauty.

Losta Riecha is a stylish and luxurious serif font inspired by fashion trends and includes discretionary ligatures and stylistic alternates. Perfectly match the contemporary design theme for many projects such as logotypes, corporate branding, poster design, business cards, headline cover, and more. FONT FEATURES 301 Glyphs Additional Accents 68 Languages Kerning Ligatures Alternates

Mazette is a modern display typeface with a distinctive elegant look. Inspired by the refined forms of a nineteenth century Didot, Mazette offers the freedom to break contours in the manner that a stencil font would. Its sharp construction logic and great readability make it an ideal display font for publishing or branding.

Bakrie is a bold and incredibly unique display font. Masterfully designed to become a true favorite, this font has the potential to bring each of your creative ideas to the highest level! suitable for use in many design forms, for example Headline, Magazines, Postcards, Logos, DIY Projects, Brand, Apparel, Quotes, and much more.

Arabhella is a cute and fun display and decorative font. Its cool, playful & childish look makes it a fantastic choice for fashion, signature, album covers logos, branding, magazines, social media posts, advertisement, and many more. Use this display font to add that special cool touch to any design idea you can think of!

Alvardo is a retro and vintage bold script font. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and stylistic alternates with ease! It is looking great on product, headlines, magazines, logos, poster, branding and many more!. Use this font to bring your design back to the oldies!

Brushstroke is a unique textured brush font, because this brush font is made digitally. contemporary approach to design, and has underlines and also has several ligatures. Suitable for use in title designs such as tittle books, stationery designs, quotes, branding, logos, clothing, invitations, greeting cards, t-shirts, packaging designs, posters and more.

Homeplate Rough is a classic serif display font. The font is designed for use in vintage themes and works particularly well in bar, steakhouse, rodeo and country music themes. The font was originally developed for use in branding in baseball teams. The font is an all capitals font and includes 128 characters.

Ornamental Heritage is a classic hand-drawn style font modified with various ornaments to make it look attractive and look modern and elegant. Ornamental Heritage can be used for company brands, logos, movie titles, drink bottles, drinking glasses and so on. Ornamental Heritage also includes punctuation, quotation marks, numbers, symbols and more.

Caupako is a display font. Inspired by the shape of the axe. Nostalgia on the legendary old action film. A young man armed with a deadly axe. Comes in two font styles, regular and oblique. Caupako comes with 400+ glyphs, which also include multilingual languages. It's perfect for headlines, branding, and many more.

Fastbrag was inspired by the vintage sign painting culture in the early 1900s. We talk about visuals from the building-sized messages, billboards, storefronts, windows, doors, and menus. A shot to deliver the heritage and historical vibes of storytelling, and branding. To give a strong persona and character to your graphic design projects.

Heifin is a beautiful bold typeface designed by Daily Studio. Contain unique upper and lowercase best for any purpose, especially to make a title, logo, and branding. This font will make your projects looks more stunning and amazing. Use your creativity to mix and match with other font to create a masterpiece.

Proudly Presenting, Youth Richfield a Textured Handwritten Font. Youth Richfield is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Youth Richfield also come with MultiLingual Support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!