A sign of something better When designer Stuart de Rozario surveyed the fonts used in signage on London’s public transport systems, he reached a dead end. They seemed staid, sterile, lacking in personality, and ill-suited to use by modern brands. He was pointed in another direction entirely. ‘The driving force behind my thoughts was to design something more current and fresh without compromising legibility and clarity. A font with both personality and function, that’s versatile and large and small sizes, and effortless to read, but which also says something new.’ Speed reading Late for a meeting and can’t find your way? Trying to catch a flight? Lost in a hospital? Reading signs is a different business to reading a book or a newspaper. Text on signs needs to be deciphered quickly and effortlessly. So the legibility criteria for signage letterforms are different to those for normal reading, too. Throughout FS Millbank’s uppercase and lowercase alphabets, characters have been given features for extra definition, including: wide ink traps on the A, K, M, V, W, X and Y; a serifed i, accentuated spurs on the a, d, l u; and different x-height shapes on the b, g, p and q. Distinctive forms and generous, open internal shapes all help the quick reading of sign text, and wide, open terminals and counters allow similar letter shapes to be distinguished easily when viewed at different angles. Running down a corridor, maybe... Positive/negative Standard type tends to glow on the kind of dark backgrounds often used for signage, and look heavier than its true weight. To correct the imbalance caused by this optical trick, special weights of the typeface have to be drawn for these ‘negative’, light-on-dark applications. These are lighter than their comparable positive weights to overcome the ‘glow’ effect. After extensive tests of the negative weights, at all sizes, we achieved the right optical balance. Glowing, glowing, gone. Icons This wouldn’t be a signage typeface without its own set of icons, or symbols, to help people find what they’re looking for. So, to sit alongside the positive and negative fonts, we’ve created a comprehensive set of 172 icons, covering a wide range of applications from transport and user interface to information and directional. Designed within the typeface capital height, they sit on the baseline and are spaced centrally.

FP Quality is a extended stencil typeface with a slightly and rounded outline and classic shapes. The font contains only Uppercase, and is available in two versions.

Lead Paint is a font designed by Ethan Dunham that is very rough and grungy looking. It was created using ink and a piece of shredded wood.

A silk screened sign promoting a mattress sale that was spotted on Flickr features Art Deco-influenced sans serif lettering that is the basis for Innerspring JNL.

Revorioum has a classical bold contemporary typeface with a dynamic and flexibility touch, it is equipped with lots of opentype features making it easy to play with.

Amstello is a cute and fun handwritten display font. This original look will appeal to a wide range of crafty ideas, from letterheads and titles to stationery.

A remaster of Neo Grotesk family - Arbeit. It employs improved letterform balance and contrast throughout. All weights feature a set of new alternates under the style 'Contrast'.

Valiante is a bold contemporary sans serif font. It is ideal for headlines, titles, branding, small blocks of text or wherever a fresh new look is desired.

Sweet Charlie is a fun, quirky and authentic font that will easily embody any romantic craft idea. It will turn any creative idea into a true standout.

Price Tag is a bold, graphic alphabet inspired by labels and vintage price tags. A touch of grunginess makes this alphabet look extra cool in larger sizes.

Super Hand is a handwriting font. It includes the full West European diacritics and a full set of ligatures, making it suitable for multilingual environments and publications.

Cold Army is a stencil display font. Strong and delicate it makes a statement when used. Use this font for your designs and explore its endless possibilities.

Birds is a collection of 174 raptors, woodland birds, farm birds, designs. Birds Two is a collection of 174 wetland birds, tropical birds, and arctic bird designs.

Love Castle is a fun and playful display font. This cute font will look truly outstanding in a wide of contexts from letterheads and titles, to logos.

Paint Kicks is a family of handmade typeface, with a rugged paint style. The font carries the spirit of street culture, with its rough and attractive forms

Weird Garden is a cool, quirky and spooky display font. This font was particularly crafted for those who need a beautiful and refreshing look to their designs.

»Breezy« is a brush script with very expressive strokes and surprising connections. »Breezy« is a great script if you really want to have that crude, rough feeling.

Chicory is a beautiful new calligraphic typeface with a touch of elegance. The narrow chancery style is perfect for formal invitations, newsletter mastheads, menus and greeting cards.

Picaflor soft, is a continuation of "Picaflor" now in a rounded version, especially for titles, it contains different styles from Thin-Black, in addition to multiple languages

Charming Beauty is a fun and charming beautiful display font. It’s simple and friendly style makes this design incredibly versatile, fitting a wide variety of creative ideas.

AstroBats is a fun set of ornaments with a 'Retro Sci-Fi' theme. Think of those 1950s Japanese tinplate robots, think ray guns, think spaceships! Have fun!

Uertas font brings a modern calligraphy feel. It's perfect for freestyle urban typography, modern logotypes, product branding, or just a quote that you want to stand out.

A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, regular, slab serifs, a very useful design for display, upper and lower case.

Little Malio 8-Bit is a sci-fi, technological display font. It can be used to a variety of designs, related to the gaming or digital world.

Honey Painting is a font inspired from both Honey and Painting, same imagination if a user do painting with Honey, this font now is giving this option.

Super head Club is a font made with line. The shape of the letters is a sans-serif style round and bold. Works perfectly for vintage artworks.

XComputerBugs is a pictorial font of insects, mostly butterflies and moths. A few are based on actual species, but most are fanciful and meant only for decoration.

Arabic and English font, designed according to font standards, based on quarters and a half circles. The font will add a wonderful touch to your visual works.

Luben is a quirky serif font in five weights. The high x height gives it excellent readability and the curves give it a kind of retro feel.

Aldous Vertical is a headline typeface designed by Walter Huxley in 1935. The Aldous Vertical font is a monoline all-capitals design, good for logos and titling.

Grunt Grotesk is a modern Ukrainian sans-serif typeface with a number of distinct characteristics, which make it unboring but still great in the massive text blocks.

Marie Jeanne is a handmade font created with a casual feel that works well at larger sizes in headers or titles. Also works great in branding applications.

A funky balloon type in three variants, Highlight, Shadow and plain old Vanilla. Guaranteed to bring a sense of playful fun to packaging, comic magazines, and merchandise.

Just Style is a fun and playful display font. This cute font will look truly outstanding in a wide of contexts from letterheads and titles, to logos.

Party Invite JNL is a thin, condensed Art Deco sans based on lettering from a letterpress holiday stock cut (the predecessor to clip art) from the 1940s.

Dark Misery is a simple yet spooky display font. This original look will appeal to a wide range of crafty ideas, from letterheads and titles to stationery.

Inspired by the Techno sound of the 1990s, Alexander Branczyk designed a series of new, wild and controversial fonts which mark a complete departure from typographic traditions.

This fun, swirly unicase font features two styles- a thicker uppercase and a thin lowercase. Use them separately or mix-and-match for the look you want.

It is a redesign of "Loyola". This family contains Light, Regular, Bold, ExtraBold, Black, also a set of shadows and dingbats, special for short titles and children.