Moonless is a charming handmade font duo, designed for texts, with a matching display font for titles in four different styles. The text font has true-drawn small caps available as an OpenType feature. In case you have no access to OpenType features, there is "Moonless SC" - the small caps version of the font. Moonless is perfect for children's books, poetry, invitations and design magazines. Moonless for texts comes in four different weights: light regular semi bold bold Moonless SC the small caps version of Moonless Moonless SC Regular is free! :) The display font comes in four styles: regular ("night") engraved ("shine") with dots ("stars") outline ("space") The font name was inspired by one simple word from Farid Attar's poem "The Conference Of The Birds".

Stayola is a beautiful calligraphic typeface. This script font has strong contrasts and wonderful flow. Its feminine twists and swirls makes for a lettering with a charming style and quirky personality. The Stayola family consists of eight distinct font styles: The weights Light, Bold, Black, each as the cute Heart style and the decorative Swash variation. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from North Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

A no-nonsense modern sans serif design, the ITC Conduit type family embodies an earnest vernacular spirit. Its designer, Mark Van Bronkhorst, explains: “It’s the kind of lettering you might find on boilers, assembly diagrams, and desiccant packets,” he explains. “It’s plain, grid-based, visually incompetent, yet legible and direct.” Brilliantly assembled from a typographic kit of parts, ITC Conduit's letterforms project a coolness, without feeling austere or unapproachable. It's an excellent choice for publication, packaging, or even wayfinding design systems. The ITC Conduit collection is available in 14 styles, with weights from extra light to black—all with matching italic designs. An easy, efficient way to bolster your go-to typographic arsenal, add it to your type library today!

Jacques Pro Display is a Brand New Elegant Typeface with a powerful font family. It has a dependable and uncompromising style, with controlled letterforms and modern touches. It looks amazing in logos, magazines, and movies. Mackenzie Font would be perfect for branding, headlines, Captions, paragraphs, and posters. The various weights allow you to experiment with a wide range of applications. It's created to make an impression without sacrificing its beauty and readability. It's shown a clean, minimalist, warmth, quirky, yet still purposed to be versatile The Typeface includes Eight Weights - Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold Numerals and extended punctuation (200+ Glyphs). Expert kerning and quality crafting. Thank you for taking the time to look into the font.

In December 2013 two new weights - Thin & Ultra (with Italics) were added to the set, Small Caps included! The intention was to make a technical-looking sans with a warmer feel to it, balanced between hard geometric shapes and friendly curves with slightly narrower endings. It should be useful in a wide range of tasks, whether combining the eight weights with distinct italics for editorial design, setting multiple pages of text, making financial reports, or using the highly contrasted lights and blacks for display and packaging design. Argumentum has a character set to support Western and Central European languages, and an extended set for monetary symbols. Each weight includes small caps, ligatures, proportional lining and oldstyle numbers, tabular figures, fractions and scientific superior/inferior figures.

I present to you Dubbo, a new retro serif! Dubbo is a fashionable font that is both retro and bold. Its thick curves give it a 70s groovy vibe, while the serifs bring it back to traditional. Dubbo fits right in with those retro mood boards and vintage logos. It includes a distinct lower and uppercase, as well as numbers, punctuation, and multilingual letters. The Ligature and Alternate fonts are sure to come in handy for whatever your imagination can conjure up! 5 Weights (Light, Regular, Semibold, Bold, Black) Basic Latin A-Z and a-z Numerals & Punctuation Stylistic Alternates & Ligatures Multilingual Support for ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ... Free updates and feature additions Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoy it.

The eight rules of Graphite Club: You do not talk about Graphite Club… You do NOT talk about Graphite Club. If someone types "Stop" taps out “Limp,” the Graphite is over. Only two -- Waitasecond! EVERYBODY wants to talk about Graphite Club! It's the font for rough and tough typesetting that looks as etchy and sketchy, sleek and sexy as Brad Pitt on an off day. It's Light as a featherweight, it's as Regular as wetwork and as Bold as Brass Knuckles. And don't let anyone tell you this font is not special. It's as beautiful and unique as a snowflake. And so are you. Features six weights with alternate uppercase alphabets, language support for Western & Central Europe, Automatic alternates, Stylistic Alternates & Crossbar I Technology™

Typeface designer and Letraset type director Colin Brignall created the font Romic. The character of the strokes as well as the serif forms give the font its calligraphic look. The placement of the serifs, on the upper left and lower right of a character, also distinguishes this typeface and allows the figures to be set very close to one another. The dots on the i and j do not hang in the air, rather, they are connected to the rest of the letter with a light, serif-like stroke. The elegant and lively Romic font is legible even in smaller point sizes. It is best used in middle length texts and headlines and wherever an individual and sophisticated image is the goal.

Leenyx is a geometric display font family and works best in display applications, such as posters, signage, logos and label. The Leenyx family comes in 2 versions: Leenyx AX and Leenyx BX. Leenyx AX has lines of even width and no serifs. Leenyx BX has lines of even width with slight curve on the ends of the strokes. Each Leenyx font version has two weights: regular and bold, each available in italic, making a total of eight styles for. Each style has a full upper and lower-case, accents, punctuation and a selection of monetary symbols.

Say hello to the Editor's Note Family, an editorial serif display that includes 16 fonts, regular and italic, from Hairline weight to Bold, and still has all the clean lines, tight curves, and trendy minimalist vibes! I've been loving the clean, editorial type trend happening in design right now (let's be real, there's always a place for timeless editorial type). Editor's Note is a stunningly crisp upper and lowercase typeface that looks incredible in both large settings as a display text (think big headers, pretty quotes, calls to action, etc.). I've been loving combining the regular and italic, especially in big, bold quotes.

Introducing the incredible, multicolored Colarino family. They are a unique family with perfect color transitions. Modern color combination was used. Letters do not just have a banal linear gradient, here the colors are randomly mixed in a different order, which resembles a watercolor paint or a complex vector mesh. Some variants resemble a sunset, others a sea wave and a cote d'azur. Color in the letters is complemented by transparency, which allows them to perfectly fit into both light and dark backgrounds - the letters take on the background color and do not look superfluous. Unique multi-colored design. Perfect for trending covers and headlines. Looks great in advertising and attracts attention. Very original and versatile family. This font family is based on the Regular font Pacardo - which means that if necessary you can combine these two families and they will be absolutely stylistically identical and complement each other. Check the quality before purchasing and try the FREE DEMO version of the font to make sure your software supports color fonts. P.s. Have suggestions for color combinations? Write me an email with the subject "Colarino Color" on: ld.luxfont@gmail.com Features: · Free Demo font to check it works. · Uppercase and lowercase the same size but different colors. · Transparency in letters. · Mega high-quality coloring of letters. · Kerning. IMPORTANT: - Multicolor version of this font will show up only in apps that are compatible with color fonts, like Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.0.1 and above, Illustrator CC 2018. Learn more about color fonts & their support in third-party apps on www.colorfonts.wtf -Don't worry about what you can't see the preview of the font in the tab "Individual Styles" - all fonts are working and have passed technical inspection, but not displayed, they just because the website MyFonts is not yet able to show a preview of colored fonts. Then if you have software with support colored fonts - you can be sure that after installing fonts into the system you will be able to use them like every other classic font. Question/answer: How to install a font? The procedure for installing the font in the system has not changed. Install the font as you would install the other classic fonts. How can I change the font color to my color? · Adobe Illustrator: Convert text to outline and easily change color to your taste as if you were repainting a simple vector shape. · Adobe Photoshop: You can easily repaint text layer with Layer effects and color overlay. ld.luxfont@gmail.com

TT Runs useful links: Specimen PDF | Graphic presentation | Customization options TT Runs Version 2.0—an Unusual Wide-Proportioned Sans Serif! An update that expands the font's capabilities. TT Runs is a font designed for the sports industry. Before starting the development, we researched the identities of various Olympic venues and analyzed current sports brands. We put in maximum effort to design a unique yet elegant modern font well-suited for the sports sector. TT Runs has wide and unusual proportions that are different from traditional ones. It is because of the reversed contrast, which refers to the distinction between the upper and lower parts of letters. The uppercase letters have distinctive inverted proportions, particularly noticeable in characters like K, C, S, and R. This design choice gives the font an original personality and makes the letters look stylish and suitable for both athletic and casual sportswear. While updating the font, we kept its distinctive characteristics and preserved the graphical look of the majority of the characters. However, we thoroughly redesigned the outlines and italic font styles and updated the font's technical aspects entirely. As a result, TT Runs has become more convenient to use, and its range of applications has significantly broadened. - More projects and countries! The set of each font style has expanded from 791 to 917 characters. We added new languages and characters of the expanded Latin and Cyrillic writing systems. - Perfect italics! The new italic font styles are flawless from both graphical and technical points of view. The updated variable font. We have united the roman and italic font styles. You can now change the font on the axes of slope and weight, choosing the suitable values. - The new set of OpenType features! We added the updated numerators with currency symbols, numbers in filled circles, and localization features for the Dutch, Catalan, Turkish, Serbian, Bashkir, Chuvash, Bulgarian, and Romanian languages. TT Runs is an expressive font. It looks aesthetically pleasing on both athletic and casual clothing and is well-suited for printing on any material. Due to its proportions, the font is an ideal choice for headings, offering excellent readability and an elegant appearance in bigger blocks of text. Created with the sports industry in mind, this font brings a touch of style to any modern project. FOLLOW US: Instagram | Facebook | Website TT Runs OpenType features: aalt, ccmp, locl, subs, sinf, sups, numr, dnom, frac, ordn, tnum, onum, lnum, pnum, case, dlig, liga, salt, ss01, ss02, ss03, ss04, ss05, ss06, ss07, ss08, ss09, ss10, ss11, ss12, calt. TT Runs language support: English, Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Moldavian (lat), Montenegrin (lat), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian (lat), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss German, Valencian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh (lat), Turkish, Uzbek (lat), Acehnese, Banjar, Betawi, Bislama, Boholano, Cebuano, Chamorro, Fijian, Filipino, Hiri Motu, Ilocano, Indonesian, Javanese, Khasi, Malay, Marshallese, Minangkabau, Nauruan, Nias, Palauan, Rohingya, Salar, Samoan, Sasak, Sundanese, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Uyghur, Afar, Asu, Aymara, Bemba, Bena, Chichewa, Chiga, Embu, Gikuyu, Gusii, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kongo, Luba-Kasai, Luganda, Luo, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Mauritian Creole, Meru, Morisyen, Ndebele, Nyankole, Oromo, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sena, Seychellois Creole, Shambala, Shona, Soga, Somali, Sotho, Swahili, Swazi, Taita, Teso, Tsonga, Tswana, Vunjo, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu, Ganda, Maori, Alsatian, Aragonese, Arumanian, Asturian, Belarusian (lat), Bosnian (lat), Breton, Bulgarian (lat), Colognian, Cornish, Corsican, Esperanto, Faroese, Frisian, Friulian, Gaelic, Gagauz (lat), Galician, Interlingua, Judaeo-Spanish, Karaim (lat), Kashubian, Ladin, Leonese, Manx, Occitan, Rheto-Romance, Romansh, Scots, Silesian, Sorbian, Vastese, Volapük, Võro, Walloon, Walser, Welsh, Karakalpak (lat), Kurdish (lat), Talysh (lat), Tsakhur (Azerbaijan), Turkmen (lat), Zaza, Aleut (lat), Cree, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Innu-aimun, Lakota, Karachay-Balkar (lat), Karelian, Livvi-Karelian, Ludic, Tatar, Vepsian, Guarani, Nahuatl, Quechua, Russian, Belarusian (cyr), Bosnian (cyr), Bulgarian (cyr), Macedonian, Serbian (cyr), Ukrainian, Gagauz (cyr), Moldavian (cyr), Kazakh (cyr), Kirghiz, Tadzhik, Turkmen (cyr), Uzbek (cyr), Azerbaijan, Lezgian, Abazin, Agul, Archi, Avar, Dargwa, Ingush, Kabardian, Kabardino-Cherkess, Karachay-Balkar (cyr), Khvarshi, Kumyk, Lak, Nogai, Rutul, Tabasaran, Tsakhur, Buryat, Komi-Permyak, Komi-Yazva, Komi-Zyrian, Shor, Siberian Tatar, Tofalar, Touva, Bashkir, Chechen (cyr), Chuvash, Erzya, Kryashen Tatar, Mordvin-moksha, Tatar Volgaic, Uighur, Rusyn, Karaim (cyr), Montenegrin (cyr), Romani (cyr), Dungan, Karakalpak (cyr), Shughni, Mongolian, Adyghe, Kalmyk, Talysh (cyr) .

Concinnitas (Latin for 'neatness') is a very neat print handwriting script. It's a light weight very easy to read, yet elegant handwritten font.

Inspired by the typefaces used for company insignia on aircraft in the 1930's and 1940's, Streamliner is light, friendly and open.

RiptCure is a futuristic, but usable typeface for everything from logotypes to magazine headlines. Several weights are included, including an interesting Ultra Light.

Sketchetik is a hand-drawn font in four styles: light, regular, bold and black. It is recommended for use as a display typeface.

Metric Navy PRO is a lightweight monoline developed for short texts and loose phrases in versions: thin, light, normal, regular, bold and black.

Happy Cloud is a fun, tall handwritten font created by Cultivated Mind. This font features five font weights (Light/Regular/Bold/Black/Heavy).

I always admired the beauty of Gothic letters, but lamented their low readability. The revivals of Gothic faces are beautiful, but they revive everything, including the traits that prevent readability. Blackletters are fine in ads and titles, but can’t be used in long texts (like books on Middle Ages, Medieval romances etc) where they would be the perfect historical choice. And I wanted to change this scenario. With Giureska, instead of taking one particular face to revive, I chose the best traits from many Gothic faces, i.e. the forms that were pleasant to look and easy to read. For the ‘small caps’, I studied uncial scripts and made a similar selection, adapting everything to make a unified font. With three weights, true italics and the uncials, Giureska can endure a variety of projects, bringing the appeal of Middle Ages much beyond the cover.

Melissa Hella is a beautiful, modern script font that's perfect for wedding invitations, t-shirts, branding, and other romantic projects. The font includes OpenType features with alternative styles, ligatures, and multiple language support. To activate the OpenType Stylistic alternative, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or a later version. There are additional ways to alternate / swash, using the Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program like PopChar (for Windows and Mac). How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: http://youtu.be/iptSFA7feQ0 How to use a style font set in Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions: https://youtu.be/x1A_ilsBsGs

Maithe is an incredibly sweet and delicious handwritten script with a lovely feel. Whether it’s Valentine’s Day or Christmas, this the ultimate font for turning any romantic crafts idea into a stunning piece of art! Maithe works both on Mac & PC and it simple to install. This family contains Swashes , Titling, and Ligatures. Multilingual Support (ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡). Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, CorelDraw, even work on Microsoft Word. To access the alternate glyphs, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign, and CorelDraw. More information about how to access alternate glyphs, check out this link (http://goo.gl/ZT7PqK) To stay up to date for my latest releases, follow me and let’s be friends because there will be many promos.

LOVE angelo is a beautiful Font Duo that's perfect for branding, wedding invitations, and other romantic projects. Font Features: -Lowercase beginning and end swash -lowercase swash up and down -ligature -1 multilingual Serif font. All the features and special characters of this font are included in one file. So that it is easily accessible by using programs or software that support opentype such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photosop, and Adobe Indesign). This font is also very easy to use as it is compatible for all software even for supported non-opentypes. Are you wondering how to find out a special feature or character? Dont worry. You will get a guide with the file if you download this font. Please send a message if you have any questions or concerns, and feel free to say hi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slex_studio/

Pagoda 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. Pagoda 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. Products include: Clean & Aged Script Versions (TTF) Alternative Upper & Lowercase Styles fastener Recommended for use in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Special features do not work in Microsoft Word.

Introducing Pinky Lava font, a beautiful typeface that features love-shaped holes in some of its letters. This font comes in both italic and display versions, giving you more flexibility in your design projects. With its multilingual support, Pinky Lava is perfect for creating designs in various languages. This font adds a touch of playfulness and romance to any project, making it ideal for creating natural handwritten logos and designs with love and Valentine's Day themes. Whether you're designing a greeting card, wedding invitation, or love-themed poster, Pinky Lava is sure to impress with its unique love-shaped holes and its playful yet professional vibe What's Included : - Pinky Lava Family Font - Multilingual Support Thank you for purchasing premium fonts from Attype Studio. Follow and explore our work on Pinterest & Instagram. If you have any question, don’t hesitate to contact us.

The Nightfall is a romantic typefaces. bold, elegant & fun vintage script font. Can be used for various purposes.such as logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, news, posters, badges etc. The Nightfall features 300+ glyphs and 100+ alternate characters, ligatures, swash and multiple language support. View all glyphs here: http://s28.postimg.org/7osts7ezx/All_Glyphs.jpg To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. How to get access alternate glyphs from open type fonts: http://youtu.be/iptSFA7feQ0 There are additional ways to access alternates/swashes, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac). How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw

The font is based on an alphabet from a mid1920s art deco book. The original seemed to have tapering strokes but it was too small to be sure; I made all strokes parallel & orthogonal and slightly modified the original in a number of other ways to bring it into the 21st Century. The designers of the original were Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring. Nocturne has all the elegance of the Deco fonts of the 1930s. It recalls the romantic, sophisticated Zeitgeist of the early 20th century, that nostalgic time "between the wars". Nocturne comes in two styles: Nocturne Regular, which uses the Art Deco convention of small x height, and long ascenders. This style is perfect for headers, posters, labels etc. Nocturne Book, which, with its higher x height and slightly wider characters, is extremely legible and suitable for small size text.

Hi there! I'm happy to present you my new font! Adrim is a modern symbols and lines display font. Each uppercase character have a unique pattern with moon, stars and leaves. Here are also clear font option. It is perfect to use in any vintage logos, branding, flyers, product packaging, romantic stationery, ecology posters, astrology blog design, holiday invitations. What you will get: * Pattern and Clean styles * Uppercase and lowercase * Numbers * Symbols * Ligatures * Punctuation * Multilingual support If Adrim font family is not ok, please check out Avery https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/kaer/avery/ I hope you enjoy this font. Follow my shop to receive updates of products and the very hottest news! If you have any question or issue, please contact me: kaer.pro@gmail.com Please request to add additional characters and glyphs if you need! Thank you!

Saverny Script This is a Vintage calligraphy script font that comes with beautiful alternative characters. copper plate mixed calligraphy with handttering style. Designed to convey stylish elegance. Saverny Script has a smooth, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple, and easy to read typeface. Saverny Script comes with a Clean and Aged version, beautiful upper and lower case, binding and favored by many finishes. It has Multilingual support (West 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. Products include: Clean & Aged Script Version Alternative Uppercase & Lowercase Font Style Binders Recommended for use in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Custom features don't work in Microsoft Word.

Inspired by a biography of Coco Chanel and trying to capture the quintessential mood of classical fashion elegance, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini designed Coco Gothic looking for the effect that the first geometric sans typefaces (like Futura, Kabel or the italian eponyms like Semplicità) had when printed on paper. The crisp modernist shapes acquired in printing charme and warmth through a slight rounding of the corners that is translated digitally in the design of Coco Gothic. This signature touch is enhanced by the inclusion of light humanist touches to the proportions of the letters, resulting in the unique mix that makes Coco Gothic one of our best sellers, with a look that is both contemporary and vintage. After six years from the original project (that has spawned in the meanwhile successful families like Cocogoose and Coco Sharp), we went back to the design to completely redraw and expand the original family, creating with a Pro version that has better on-screen readability, a wider weight range, variable type versions and more language coverage (with Coco Gothic Arabic adding a new script to the latin, greek and Cyrillic of the original). Coco Gothic Pro comes in three subfamilies, each with seven weights with matching italics and featuring an extended character set with open type support for small caps, ligatures, alternates, European languages, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets. The original, body-text optimised Coco Gothic and Coco Gothic Alternate subfamilies have been kept for compatibility with the previous version, while a new Coco Gothic Display subfamily has been developed with a complete redesign aimed at display usage, featuring tighter spacing and optimised letterforms. A distinguishing feature of Coco Gothic Pro is the inclusion of ten alternate historical sets that allow you to use the typeface as a true “typographic time machine”, selecting period letterforms that range from art deco and nouveau, to modernism and to eighties’ minimalism. Equipped with such an array of historical variants, Coco Gothic Pro becomes an encyclopedia of styles from the last century, ready to transform itself and adapt to the mood of your text.

Introducing the Swoley family of cool 3D color fonts - where the letters are like a liquid flowing into glyphs, creating an amazing fluid visual effect. This unique type family combines realism and modernity, adding amazing details to your projects. Pairs perfectly with Volufont. Features: - Real Plastic effect - Kerning IMPORTANT: - Check the glyphs in the font before buying! - SVG fonts contain raster letters.

Holand Century is classified as a contemporary display grotesque font. It features sharp and dynamic strokes, a strong contrast between thick and thin lines, and delicate pointed grotesque elements. Its extensive set of styles, versatile usage, and support for various languages make it a valuable tool for designers looking to create clean, elegant, and visually striking typography for a wide range of applications.

ITC Johnston is the result of the combined talents of Dave Farey and Richard Dawson, based on the work of Edward Johnston. In developing ITC Johnston, says London type designer Dave Farey, he did “lots of research on not only the face but the man.” Edward Johnston was something of an eccentric, “famous for sitting in a deck chair and carrying toast in his pockets.” (The deck chair was his preferred furniture in his own living room; the toast was so that he’d always have sustenance near at hand.) Johnston was also almost single-handedly responsible, early in this century, for the revival in Britain of the Renaissance calligraphic tradition of the chancery italic. His book Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering (with its peculiar extraneous comma in the title) is a classic on its subject, and his influence on his contemporaries was tremendous. He is perhaps best remembered, however, for the alphabet that he designed in 1916 for the London Underground Railway (now London Transport), which was based on his original “block letter” model. Johnston’s letters were constructed very carefully, based on his study of historical writing techniques at the British Museum. His capital letters took their form from the best classical Roman inscriptions. “He had serious rules for his sans serif style,” says Farey, “particularly the height-to-weight ratio of 1:7 for the construction of line weight, and therefore horizontals and verticals were to be the same thickness. Johnston’s O’s and C’s and G’s and even his S’s were constructions of perfect circles. This was a bit of a problem as far as text sizes were concerned, or in reality sizes smaller than half an inch. It also precluded any other weight but medium ‘ any weight lighter or heavier than his 1:7 relationship.” Johnston was famously slow at any project he undertook, says Farey. “He did eventually, under protest, create a bolder weight, in capitals only ‘ which took twenty years to complete.” Farey and his colleague Richard Dawson have based ITC Johnston on Edward Johnston’s original block letters, expanding them into a three-weight type family. Johnston himself never called his Underground lettering a typeface, according to Farey. It was an alphabet meant for signage and other display purposes, designed to be legible at a glance rather than readable in passages of text. Farey and Dawson’s adaptation retains the sparkling starkness of Johnston’s letters while combining comfortably into text. Johnston’s block letter bears an obvious resemblance to Gill Sans, the highly successful type family developed by Monotype in the 1920s. The young Eric Gill had studied under Johnston at the London College of Printing, worked on the Underground project with him, and followed many of the same principles in developing his own sans serif typeface. The Johnston letters gave a characteristic look to London’s transport system after the First World War, but it was Gill Sans that became the emblematic letter form of British graphic design for decades. (Johnston’s sans serif continued in use in the Underground until the early ‘80s, when a revised and modernized version, with a tighter fit and a larger x-height, was designed by the London design firm Banks and Miles.) Farey and Dawson, working from their studio in London’s Clerkenwell, wanted to create a type family that was neither a museum piece nor a bastardization, and that would “provide an alternative of the same school” to the omnipresent Gill Sans. “These alphabets,” says Farey, referring to the Johnston letters, “have never been developed as contemporary styles.” He and Dawson not only devised three weights of ITC Johnston but gave it a full set of small capitals in each weight ‘ something that neither the original Johnston face nor the Gill faces have ‘ as well as old-style figures and several alternate characters.