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  1. Cairoli Classic by Italiantype, $39.00
    Cairoli was originally cast by Italian foundry Nebiolo in 1928, as a license of a design by Wagner & Schmidt, known as Neue moderne Grotesk. Its solid grotesque design (later developed as Aurora by Weber and Akzidenz-Grotesk by Haas) was extremely successful: it anticipated the versatility of sans serif superfamilies thanks to its range of weights and widths, while still retaining some eccentricities from end-of the century lead and wood type. In 2020 the Italiantype team directed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Mario De Libero decided to produce a revival of Cairoli, extending the original weight and width range and developing both a faithful Classic version and a Now variant. The Cairoli Classic family keeps the original low x-height range, very display-oriented, and normalizes the design while emphasizing the original peculiarities like the hook cuts in curved letters, the high-waisted uppercase R and the squared ovals of the letterforms. Cairoli Now is developed with an higher x-height, more suited for text and digital use, and adds to the original design deeper ink-traps and round punctuation, while slightly correcting the curves for a more contemporary look. Born as an exercise in subtlety and love for lost letterforms, Cairoli stands, like its lead ancestor from a century ago, at the crossroads between artsy craftsmanship and industrial needs. Its deviations from the norm are small enough to give it personality without affecting readability, and the expanded weight and width range make it into a workhorse superfamily with open type features (alternates, stylistic sets, positional numbers) and coverage of over two hundred languages using the latin extended alphabet.
  2. Pacific Script by Scholtz Fonts, $19.95
    Pacific Script is a font inspired by an alphabet created by Howard Trafton in the 1930s. However, I felt it needed some changes to bring it to the cutting edge of 21st century font design. Though designed as a display font, it works very successfully in longer passages of text, however, it should not be used in font sizes less than about 15 point. Small x height in contrast to extravagant caps gives the font a very dramatic feel. Though it has cursive qualities, the characters in this font do not connect, making it slightly more legible and less like handwriting. The inclusion of 26 alternate upper case characters give the user the freedom to create a hand crafted design. Language support includes all European character sets.
  3. Pomarosa by Andinistas, $29.95
    Pomarosa is a typographic family that consists of capital roman letters and twisted lower case letters set randomly. Each one of them is characterized by its multiple calibers and widths. Pomarosa was planned to accompany graphic works done with different techniques and materials such as hand made collages. The narrowness of its glyphs involve its audience with abstract imprecision. Its spirit was born between fabric snippets intervened with pencil and painting. Its three members work in group and also in words or phrases with a non-finished look. Regular Pomarosa and Standard Pomarosa have 260 glyphs each. Both of them simulate to have been done by a right-handed person that works with its left hand. Pomarosa dingbats has 26 illustrations useful for frames and textures.
  4. Iliad by Scholtz Fonts, $19.00
    Iliad was designed to bridge the gap between traditional serif faces and modern humanist fonts. It uses a gentle, traditional, partial serif combined with a subtle curving of many of the "corners" in the characters. The combination of these two elements makes it decidedly contemporary yet it retains the readability that is associated with more traditional typefaces. The contemporary look is enhanced by a gentle tapering and shortening of the terminals and by less dramatic shifts in stroke width than is found in traditional typefaces. The lowering of the midline provides just a hint of "moderne". It has carefully crafted spacing and kerning, making it easy to use in any display setting. It also includes all punctuation, symbols, special characters and diacritical marks.
  5. Wudoo Mono by Vishnu Sathyan, $19.00
    A font inspired by the classic typewriter fonts of yesteryear. With its unique design and vintage feel, Wudoo Mono is perfect for adding a touch of nostalgia to your next design project. Its monospace style ensures that your text is always neatly aligned, while its simple and legible design makes it easy to read.
  6. Jesus Saves by Breauhare, $13.94
    Jesus Saves is a font based on the familiar old logo that has “JESUS” hidden within a maze-like set of multi-branched vertical bars. The characters appear to be an alien, cryptic language at first sight, perhaps even a Japanese, Chinese, or Korean language, thanks to the unusual figures created by the combinations of various letters. It is a teaser for the eyes, as well as a visual feast of De Stijl-type art. It is an attention-getting font that is cool to look at, an eye puzzle that is enticing to decipher. It’s a great font to use for striking logos (see Gallery Images) by the judicious use of ligatures, where in word settings ligatures may be used at the beginnings of words, the middle or the endings of words. Jesus Heals is the missing spaces from the Jesus Saves font, sort of like a doughnut hole font! If you use this font to fill in the spaces in the Jesus Saves font, it becomes whole, or healed, thus the name. Jesus Lives is a raised block/3D or three dimensional version of Jesus Heals. For color combinations in apps that support layering, Jesus Lives synchs and has perfect kerning register with Jesus Heals, as Jesus Heals has with Jesus Saves. The digitization was done by fontmeister John Bomparte.
  7. Syntachron by Mofr24, $11.00
    Syntachron is an extraordinary monospaced font that stands out with its futuristic and mecha-inspired design. What sets this font apart is its unique ability to combine simplicity, modernity, and boldness, resulting in a visually captivating typeface. It is the perfect choice for those seeking to create impactful posters, eye-catching marketing materials, captivating logos, attention-grabbing headlines, and engaging book and magazine layouts. One of the distinguishing features of Syntachron is its compatibility with the Cyrillic alphabet, offering versatility and style for a wide range of design projects. Whether you're working on international branding campaigns or multi-language publications, this font seamlessly integrates with the Cyrillic characters, ensuring consistency and cohesiveness across different languages. In terms of typeface pairing, Syntachron harmonizes exceptionally well with related families and typefaces that share its sleek aesthetics and futuristic vibe. It complements and enhances other fonts, enabling designers to create stunning combinations that amplify the impact of their designs. Beyond its striking appearance, Syntachron excels in its functional aspects. The font comes in a variety of styles, allowing for versatility in design choices. Its monospaced nature ensures consistent character widths, making it ideal for code snippets, technical documentation, and typewriter-style layouts. Furthermore, Syntachron offers a comprehensive character set with special features, enabling the seamless creation of diverse and engaging designs. The design concept behind Syntachron was to capture the essence of a futuristic world and merge it with the mechanical elements of mecha-inspired aesthetics. The result is a font that exudes a sense of cutting-edge technology and boldness, empowering designers to create visually striking and impactful designs that captivate their audience. Syntachron was meticulously created to fulfill the need for a font that seamlessly merges modern simplicity with futuristic design elements. Its purpose is to provide designers with a versatile tool that sparks creativity and enables them to craft stunning visual experiences. With its sleek aesthetics, support for the Cyrillic alphabet, and functional aspects, Syntachron is an indispensable asset for any design project seeking to embrace the future.
  8. Zeviero by Putracetol, $22.00
    Zeviero - Stylish Serif Font. Introducing the new Zeviero !! Zeviero inspired by Elegant and Luxury typography. Zeviero is a Stylish & Beautiful serif typeface. Zeviero Font is a very versatile font. you can use this font to various design Zeviero is perfect for a professional touch which makes it to form unique & elegant typography designs. Zeviero is perfect for headings, flyer, greeting cards, product packaging, book cover, printed quotes, logotype, apparel design, album covers, etc. The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates, and Ligature. 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. Zeviero is also support multi language.
  9. Point by Ndiscover, $29.00
    Point™ aims to be an epitome of the Geometric Style. Inspired by intemporal classics such as Futura, Avant Garde or Avenir, passing through more contemporary approaches of the same style; ignited by the overarching narrative of the Modernity (Perfect Geometric Shapes) and careful design decisions, Point™ is a font that references the past as well as projects itself to the contemporaneity. With a total of 10 weights, with respective hand adjusted obliques, Point™ has a total of 20 styles with Extended Latin support as well as Cyrillic, all with the most needed Opentype features, such as fractions, tabular and oldstyle figures, alternates, case sensitive forms, etc. Point™ has a superb versatility and can be used in almost every circumstance, try it for yourself and see what point Point™ makes.
  10. Di Mare by Ksenia Belobrova, $49.00
    Di Mare is a layered script inspired by Italian restaurant and cafe signs. It’s about delicious food and the joyful atmosphere of traveling: freedom, sea, fresh wind and warm sun. This font family has three styles: Regular, Line, Shadow. You can combine and overlay them to get different effects. Di Mare works well for menu, packaging, clothes, signs, magazines, and as a starting point for lettering and logos. Di Mare is designed with hundreds of contextual alternates and ligatures. It makes all connections look natural and harmonious. Di Mare supports most European languages, has small capitals, numbers, fractions, currency and mathematical signs. All contextual alternates are built into the “Liga” feature that is turned on by default. However, when your work with typeface, please make sure that “Liga” is turned on.
  11. Polygraph by PintassilgoPrints, $29.00
    Inspired on posters by the extraordinary polish artist Leszek Żebrowski, Polygraph is a highly unusual face. Packed with eccentric alternates, it is an all-caps font with four exchangeable variations for each letter. These alternates are programmed to cycle when the font is used in OpenType-savvy programs, creating a random effect on glyphs distribution. The resulting pieces are truly outstanding, with an audacious handmade twist. To achieve this, just turn on the contextual alternates feature and play – you can easily try different glyphs sequences by adding spaces before words. When you need a more well-behaved look, but still with a subtle hand-drawn flair, turn off the contextual alternates and set text in uppercase. Polygraph comes in two weights, for added flexibility. But be warned: it’s quite addictive!
  12. Rogik by holyline design, $19.00
    Rogik by Holyline, Rogik is a expressive serif font family, This font very elegant, unique , has a strong and sharp character. This font comes in nine weight with italic so there are a total of 18 fonts and support variable for upright and italic. It's very unique, playful, elegant and very easy to combine with your design style. Rogik also inspire by metal, pop, punk and street ware, fashion brand. Rogik perfect for headline, sub headline ,custom logo, packaging, quote, merchandise, sticker, badges, social media posts, label, album cover and anything for your creativity. Rogik is perfect font if you want something new with your project, you can play the 18 fonts style, and you can pairing this font with the weight, its very satisfy. So happy creating!
  13. Mollis Gothic by Quatype, $25.00
    Mollis Gothic is inspired by medieval gothic calligraphy. The gothic calligraphy is classical and traditional, I want to add something modern to it. So the letters are simplified as lines and without the handwriting feel, just like a sans font. Meanwhile, the gothic calligraphy visual look remained. It expands the usage area because of the modern feel of this font, such as the package, titles, logo, poster design, etc. In September 2021, we created the thin weight. Although Mollis Gothic Thin is from the font family, the kerning set and capital letters’ height are not as same as the regular weight for suiting the thin font’s usage situation.
  14. Book Worm by me55enjah, $14.00
    Introducing Book Worm! A simple, fun and easy-to-read typeface. Base on hand lettering with paintbrush, this typeface inspired by kids storybook. This typeface add more fun in reading a book with this easy-to-read & playful characters. Including simple ligatures, number & punctuation, this typeface can be use for quotes, title, and also body text. This font just fills you with joy when you design with it. It's so fun and cutesy it is ideal for all child like designs and especially for birthday invites! We love this happy-go-lucky typeface and can't wait to see what you do with Book Worm!
  15. Competition by sportsfonts, $15.00
    Competition is a state of the art sports typeface. A large width range, slant angles from –12 to 12, and an adjustable inline make it extremely versatile. It’s devided into 5 subfamilies, from the sizes S, M, L & XL with decreasing inline weights to Solid without an inline at all. (By the way: S doesn’t mean it doesn’t look good in large sizes!) Choose from 105 predefined styles, or 1 variable font with axes for width, slant and inline weight (which is included in the family package). Competition embraces the Latin S character set and therefore supports 400+ Latin-based languages. Go for Gold!
  16. Gerucht 2.0 by Rumors Foundry, $11.00
    Gerücht Typeface is a family of digital fonts designed in 2019 by Gabriele Bellanca for Rumors Foundry in three different weights and their corresponding slanted versions. All rights reserved. Gerücht (in English rumor) is the name of the font-family: today the name of a font is part of the graphic design itself, unlike in the past, where it usually consisted of a simple retrospective description (such as in the case of Gothic Condensed No.2) of its characteristics. It's a "one-word advertising slogan", writes Tobias Frere-Jones, which serves to build an idea and a charm to associate with that type of character.
  17. Maszeh by Din Studio, $29.00
    It’s time to see our impressive font, Maszeh. It is a firm font to escalate your design level higher. In line with the racing theme, this font creates brave strong impressions on your designs and is aimed to be used in any larger-sized texts such as titles than the body texts. Enjoy other incredible features available on this font. Features: Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Use Maszeh for any design projects such as posters, banners, logos, book covers, headings, printed products, merchandise, social media, and so on. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Get it now. Happy designing.
  18. Lancea by Asenbayu, $15.00
    Lancea is a fancy sharp serif font. Inspired by medieval roman writing combined with the sharpness of a lance, Lancea is packaged in a font that has sharpness in each letter with an elegant shape that has a strong appeal. Lancea also gives it a sophisticated feel with a sleek and clean serif shape. Lancea typography can help you complete various projects such as luxury brand logos, journals, business cards, headline, products, social media posts, web, etc. There is a decorative alternative style feature for uppercase letters. If you are involved in a project that requires fancy and professional writing, Lancea is perfect to assist you in completing it. Thank you!
  19. Loose by Zeptonn, $20.00
    Loose is a hand-drawn font with a slightly sloppy yet relaxed look. All glyphs have been handcrafted by illustrative designer Zeptonn. It contains lots of Open Type goodness to ensure you'll be able to give your entire text that random and handcrafted feeling. It's great for setting fun text for headers, posters or cards. Or hey, you could use it as a nice alternative for something that starts with "Comic" and ends with "Sans"! The typeface contains nice takes on traditional standard ligatures, a few discretionary ligatures and even provides contextual and stylistic alternates. This is all provided to ensure your text can have that awesome loose feeling!
  20. Hocus Pocus by Anastasia Kuznetsova, $14.00
    I present my funny font with "Hocus Pocus"cutouts This is a playful font in the style of a cut-out "all capital letters". Lowercase letters are filled with letters (A, O, B, etc.), and uppercase keys have ordinary black letters. :) Great for sweet greeting cards and invitations, for playful branding and quotes, for unusual packaging and much more! This font is unique and simple:) Font Features • character set A-Z, A-Z; • 1 languages (English); • numbers It is recommended to use it in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop Made with love ♡ Thank you for stopping by, and I wish you a creative day!
  21. Winter Soda by Gassstype, $23.00
    Winter Soda - is Modern Hand Written font with a natural feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the magical glyphs with ease! It also features a wealth of special features including ligatures glyphs . Inspired by Food Logo style and combination with Cute Craft style. that will fulfill your design needs for quotes,sporty theme, logotype, wordmark, etc. This has many opentype features and support multi language.
  22. Briquete Signature by Ferry Ardana Putra, $12.00
    Briquete is natural handwritten script font manufactured by Ardana Creative, which support OpenType features and includes, numeral, punctuation, and it also supports multi-languages. This typeface is very catchy and natural because it was made using brush pen. This font is perfect for branding projects, wedding designs, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, invitation, quotes, etc. Briquete features: A full set of upper & lowercase characters Numbers & punctuations Multilingual language support PUA Encoded Characters Briquete includes: Briquete.otf Briquete.ttf Briquete.woff For more information about accessing alternative, you can see this link: http://adobe.ly/1m1fn4Y Feel free to give me a message if you have a problem or question. Thank you!
  23. Svarajka by Ilhamtaro, $19.00
    SVARAJKA is a classic script font inspired by the old copper plate font with a slight oversimplification of the case so it's less decorative. In addition to being classic, this font is also elegant, so it does not rule out the possibility for a simple and elegant modern design, and it will also be very beautiful for writing letters or as a font for weddings such as invitations or names of the bride and groom. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. Guides to access all alternates glyphs : http://adobe.ly/1m1fn4Y Cheers!
  24. Barosa by NREY, $19.00
    Hi, friends! Introducing new typeface - Barosa. It is a new display font with 2 styles and cool characters. Typeface designed as monolite, all descending and ascending elements has same size as most characters. Barosa has multilingual support includes cyrillic. Many ligatures make your typography most variable. Barosa Typeface was inspired by ethnic slavonic style which combining classic typography with awesome features bring classic touch on this culture. It works well with normal size text and for large displays or short words. You may combine uppercase and smallcase in the text body, as alternates symbols. The Barosa typeface is suitable for : product packaging, labeling, logo, classic shop, ethnic shop, titles, etc
  25. Qixohe by Twinletter, $18.00
    Qixohe is an elegant blend of tradition and modern style. With its strong Black letter characters, this font brings an irreplaceable classic element to your projects. It's the perfect choice for creating striking titles, memorable logos, or memorable prints. Qixohe's special features include alternative ligatures and characters that allow you to express your creativity to the fullest. With Qixohe, you can create a design like no other, one that will be remembered by all who see it. Whether for graphic design, branding, or printmaking projects, Qixohe will provide the character and notoriety you're looking for. So, grab Qixohe now and give your designs an unforgettable bold and elegant touch.
  26. Laca by Nova Type Foundry, $30.00
    Laca is a semi-sans serif inspired by retro Portuguese packaging of soaps. Laca is the Portuguese word for hairspray. The starting point was to design a typeface that would bring a familiar feeling of closeness and warmth but giving it a modern look ensuring it works well on modern platforms. It’s a lively typeface that brings texture and personality to the text. Perfect for branding and for all communications. There is an upright italic version available through the stylistic set that brings even more friendliness to the font. The result is a versatile typeface that has many OpenType features that brings stylistic alternates to the designer.
  27. Lumios Typewriter by My Creative Land, $19.99
    Lumios Typewriter is a slab serif font that was inspired by, as you may guess, an old typewriter letters. The family has 4 unique styles: New, Used, Old and texturized Tape. All fonts benefit from OpenType features such as stylistic alternates that enhance a natural look of this font family. As well as Latin-based language support, it also offers a basic Cyrillic one. It is ideally suited for websites, packaging, editorial and branding design needs as well as for posters, greeting cards, billboards etc. Lumios Typewriter is a perfect companion to Lumios Marker, sharing the same soft curves and clean letter edges (excluding theTape style).
  28. Mocha Mattari by Dharma Type, $19.99
    Mocha Mattari is a distressed font designed based on Bebas Neue released as a free font in 2010. The Original Bebas Neue has an inordinate level of popularity and it has often been used as a web font in recent years. This Mocha Mattari was made by damaging the original and tweaked by hand work. Basically, Mocha Mattari does not have lowercases but alternative Uppercases. Exceptionally “g, m, oz, fl, lb” for “gram, milli, ounce, fluid, pound” can be available by opentype dlig or salt features.
  29. Arca by PintassilgoPrints, $20.00
    A charming font inspired by the Brazilian beloved album for children by Vinicius de Moraes, author of the bossa nova classic 'Garota de Ipanema' (Girl from Ipanema) with his partner Tom Jobim. The font has a cheerful cutout look, as does the original album cover designed by Elifas Andreato in 1980. Arca font is loaded with alternates for a nice natural look and has yet quite cool interlocks. Its complementary font brings handsome graphic elements to add some bossa here and there. Now let's dance!
  30. HT Fera Text by Hype Type, $34.00
    Transitional serif font inspired by the italian’s lettering tradition, in particular by the street sign letters you can find around Florence. All elements are designed to be elegant and easy-to-read, even in a long blocks of text. -- The HT Fera Text is freely inspired by the typographical tradition of Florence's municipality and its streets. Letters shape, contrasts, junctions, stems, teardrops, they are all the result of careful research carried out on the Dante's streets, redesigned in a contemporary mood. -- hype-type.com / kidstudio.it
  31. Another Shabby by Zetafonts, $39.00
    Another Shabby is a script typeface family. Its shapes are defined by rough, wide brushstrokes, slightly rounded in corners to mimic the feel of a real handwritten casual script.
  32. Wolvins by Sipanji21, $10.00
    Wolvins is a funny, bold and cute display font with a unique twist. Get inspired by its unique feel, and turn add a lovely charm to any crafts project!
  33. Capstone by Rivet Designworks, $10.00
    Capstone is a display typeface influenced by the bold angular features of stone architecture, especially that of cathedrals and archways. It works well for short bold titles or brands.
  34. Haruka by Letterara, $10.00
    Haruka is a unique and bold handwritten font that is inspired by Japanese artistry. It will add an authentic and dynamic touch to a big variety of design projects.
  35. Solida by Graviton, $4.00
    Solida font family has been designed for Graviton Font Foundry by Pablo Balcells in 2012. It is display typeface with a geometric angular look. Solida consists of 10 styles.
  36. Celestial Writing by Deniart Systems, $10.00
    A magical alphabet used by secret societies in times past. It was based on the Hebrew alphabet. NOTE: this font comes with a comprehensive interpretation guide in pdf format.
  37. Dreamland by Monotype, $29.00
    Dreamland is a bold, top-heavy style inspired by mid-20th century poster lettering. It has a lower case and is quite informal. Featured in: Best Fonts for Logos
  38. Pershal by insigne, $29.00
    Pershal is something of an oddball, and that's the point. Dynamic and fast, Pershal attracts interest. Its architecture evokes growth and progress. Inspired by the futuristic styles of the 1990s, Pershal started on an aircraft ride as a sketch on a napkin. I set the concept aside for almost a decade before I went back to play with the typeface. Pershal is planned to complement applications in consumer finance, technology firms or biotechnology. As such, it has a complete set of both tabular and proportional figures. For the lowercase, Pershal features a distinctive shape that emphasizes its x-height. Its horizontal movement is highlighted by some of its other features, such as its crossbars. To emphasize growth, acceleration and inventiveness, crossbars and other elements are cut at a dynamic angle. It's a sans serif without a lot of contrast. Another unique feature of this typeface is the vast number of OpenType alternates. If you prefer a more conventional appearance to your sans, with stylistic alternates, you have that option. Altogether, there are more than seven separate sets of stylistic alternates and about 250 alternates for characters. This enables you to mix-and-match and create your own personal typeface. For branding, this makes it very useful. For your next project that requires a dynamic and technological appearance, give Pershal a shot.
  39. Quarpa by Pasternak, $9.00
    Name: Quarpa Styles: 6 styles Glyphs: 394 Year: 2021 This lofty font features a compact structure as well as a unique combination of rounded corners and square contours. The collection includes six styles: Extra Light, Light, and Semi Light that will ensure elegance; Regular, Medium, Semi Bold and Bold suitable for a solid design. Each of them also has Italic variation. It’s an ideal option for outstanding corporate images, logos, promos, or video presentations. Quarpa has proper kerning, multi-lingual support, and ligatures. Languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Jju, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Maori, Meru, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Taroko, Teso, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkmen, Upper Sorbian, Vunjo, Walloon, Walser, Xhosa, Zulu
  40. RePublic by Suitcase Type Foundry, $75.00
    In 1955 the Czech State Department of Culture, which was then in charge of all the publishing houses, organised a competition amongst printing houses and generally all book businesses for the design of a newspaper typeface. The motivation for this contest was obvious: the situation in the printing presses was appalling, with very little quality fonts existing and financial resources being too scarce to permit the purchase of type abroad. The conditions to be met by the typeface were strictly defined, and far more constrained than the ones applied to regular typefaces designed for books. A number of parameters needed to be considered, including the pressure of the printing presses and the quality of the thin newspaper ink that would have smothered any delicate strokes. Rough drafts of type designs for the competition were submitted by Vratislav Hejzl, Stanislav Marso, Frantisek Novak, Frantisek Panek, Jiri Petr, Jindrich Posekany, and the team of Stanislav Duda, Karel Misek and Josef Tyfa. The committee published its comments and corrections of the designs, and asked the designers to draw the final drafts. The winner was unambiguous — the members of the committee unanimously agreed to award Stanislav Marso’s design the first prize. His typeface was cast by Grafotechna (a state-owned enterprise) for setting with line-composing machines and also in larger sizes for hand-setting. Regular, bold, and bold condensed cuts were produced, and the face was named Public. In 2003 we decided to digitise the typeface. Drawings of the regular and italic cuts at the size of approximatively 3,5 cicero (43 pt) were used as templates for scanning. Those originals covered the complete set of caps except for the U, the lowercase, numerals, and sloped ampersand. The bold and condensed bold cuts were found in an original specimen book of the Rude Pravo newspaper printing press. These specimens included a dot, acute, colon, semicolon, hyphens, exclamation and question marks, asterisk, parentheses, square brackets, cross, section sign, and ampersand. After the regular cut was drafted, we began to modify it. All the uppercase letters were fine-tuned, the crossbar of the A was raised, E, F, and H were narrowed, L and R were significantly broadened, and the angle of the leg and arm of the K were adjusted. The vertex of the M now rests on the baseline, making the glyph broader. The apex of the N is narrower, resulting in a more regular glyph. The tail of Q was made more decorative; the uppercase S lost its implied serifs. The lowercase ascenders and descenders were slightly extended. Corrections on the lower case a were more significant, its waist being lowered in order to improve its colour and light. The top of the f was redrawn, the loop of lowercase g now has a squarer character. The diagonals of the lowercase k were harmonised with the uppercase K. The t has a more open and longer terminal, and the tail of the y matches its overall construction. Numerals are generally better proportioned. Italics have been thoroughly redrawn, and in general their slope is lessened by approximatively 2–3 degrees. The italic upper case is more consistent with the regular cut. Unlike the original, the tail of the K is not curved, and the Z is not calligraphic. The italic lower case is even further removed from the original. This concerns specifically the bottom finials of the c and e, the top of the f, the descender of the j, the serif of the k, a heavier ear on the r, a more open t, a broader v and w, a different x, and, again, a non-calligraphic z. Originally the bold cut conformed even more to the superellipse shape than the regular one, since all the glyphs had to be fitted to the same width. We have redrawn the bold cut to provide a better match with the regular. This means its shapes have become generally broader, also noticeably darker. Medium and Semibold weights were also interpolated, with a colour similar to the original bold cut. The condensed variants’ width is 85 percent of the original. The design of the Bold Condensed weights was optimised for the setting of headlines, while the lighter ones are suited for normal condensed settings. All the OpenType fonts include small caps, numerals, fractions, ligatures, and expert glyphs, conforming to the Suitcase Standard set. Over half a century of consistent quality ensures perfect legibility even in adverse printing conditions and on poor quality paper. RePublic is an exquisite newspaper and magazine type, which is equally well suited as a contemporary book face.
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