A tessellation is a shape that can be used to completely fill the plane—simple examples are isosceles triangles, squares, and hexagons. Tessellation patterns are eye-catching and visually appealing, which is the reason that they have long been popular in a variety of decorative situations. These Tessie fonts have two family members, a solid style that must have different colors when used and an outline style. They can be used separately or they can be used in layers with the outline style on top of the solid style. For rows to align properly, leading must be the same as point size. Shapes that tessellate and also resemble real-world objects are often called Escher-like tessellations. This typeface contains Escher-like tessellations of birds. A number of years ago I decided to see how many of the 28 Heesch types of tessellations I could use to make birds standing on the backs of other birds. I found standing bird patterns for all 17 of the types that had either translated or glided edges. The TessieStandingBirds typefaces contain the standing-bird shapes that I discovered. At first glance they seem to be quite similar, but small differences matter in how they fit together. Most of the patterns require more than one character. The sample file here shows how pieces fit together to give tessellating patterns. (Earlier tessellation fonts from IngrimayneType, the TessieDingies fonts, lack a black or filled version so cannot do colored patterns.)

Tokyo Olive was designed as an homage to nostalgic display types and advertisements in the mid-late 80s. The mid-late 80s was the era of the post-modernism and fancy-decorative design especially in Japan In other words, it was the mixture of superficial form-operation and girly taste. This curious design movement vanished without a trace in the 90s, but it had its moments. Tokyo Olive has voluminous and simple geometric skeleton (for post-modern) with rounded and craft-style stencil joints (for fancy decoration). We added a classic open style as a little spice. The mixture of those essences makes new impression we have never seen before. Tokyo Olive family consists of 5 styles for stacking color font. Please use Photoshop or Illustrator, or your favorite graphic design apps that can handle layers. Layers are the printing plates of wood type. You should be able to change text color for each layer. Tokyo Olive "Standard" style is the base of this font family. You can add open effect by stacking "Fill" layers over the Standard layer. Instruction 1. Type your text as you like. 2. Set font-name "Tokyo Olive" and font-style "Standard". 3. Set color of "Standard" layer. 4. Duplicate the "Standard" layer to make "Fill" layer. 5. Set font-style "Half Fill" or "Full Fill" and new color of upper layer. Tokyo Olive Standard, Half Open, and Full Open style can be used solely.

Night Visions: An Unsettling Hand-Drawn Brush Script Font Night Visions is a hand-drawn script font with a loose style typical of late night horror and thriller movie posters. It’s designed to look as though ink has been laid with the nervous flick of the artists brush, giving a random, imperfect, but elegant result. This font comes with the flowing script of the regular version or a complete set of non-script alternatives. Added to which there are additional character alternatives and special ligatures to experiment with for a truly hand-made look. Each version comes with a full set of uppercase and lowercase characters along with numerals, punctuation and language support. I recommend this font for anyone about to design a header or title that needs an authentically hand-made look. It’s the perfect choice for movie titles or posters, album covers, comic books, t-shirts or editorials. It’s a font that rewards experimentation and offers many options for your designs. Check out the visuals for usage ideas.

Kermel serif is a hand made font ideal for your graphic project. Usage recommendations: Title, short text, children's book, poster, book cover, brochure, label, magazine

Asmiyati Script Font - A Handwritting script with a unique character! It's perfect for logos, name card, magazine layouts, invitations, headers, or even large-scale artwork.

Whiteboard Modern is a hand-drawn face resembling the flowing motion and freedom of writing in an open space, such as a dry-erase board.

Andorra Script is a hand written font - it is very legible, quite elegant (in an informal way) and useful. Andorra Script comes with all diacritics.

Psyche is a swash font, hand drawn and tweaked and kerned to within an inch of its life. Perfect for fancy, funky initials and phrases.

Mystere is a new, hand-drawn font. This is currently a limited set designed for display usage. The font has a crude, yet stylish feel.

Kumachi is an ultra condensed font with a stamp style, and is perfect for logos, name cards, magazines layouts, headers or oven large scale artwork.

The word "Signs" hand-lettered on the cover of a 1930s instructional book on sign and poster lettering was the basis for Poster Inline JNL.

Talking Five is a hand-drawn sans serif font family. Friendly and soft impression. Best for school activity, text-book for kids, poster and toys.

With this font, you sure have the flow! Standard hand writing easy to apply in your designs and layouts. UPPERCASE 
lowercase 
Numerals 
Punctuation 198 characters

The hand lettered title credits for the 1950 French film “Lady Paname” inspired French Cinema JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The Azola font family is elegant, hand lettered & charming. Azola features extended characters, and contains West European diacritics & ligatures. Highly suitable for international environments & publications.

FG Rakel is a small old looking handwriting connected script font. I have found it useful on greeting cards and scrapbook journaling among other things.

My Recipes is a sweet font duo designed with an authentic hand drawn flavour. Combine it with it's lovely graphics and get the perfect recipe!

Handegypt resulted from playfully hand-rendering Egyptian style fonts from memory. Its playful nature is ideally suited for whimsical designs and anything aimed at children.

The hand punched lettering of an antique French shipping stencil was the inspiration for French Shipping Stencil JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.

Scripty Style is a handwritten signature font. It has a natural handwritten style and is perfect for logos, branding, business cards, watermarks, and much more!

How cute can you get? Cattapilla's open type version has extra ligatures and stylistic alternates, perfect for scrapbooking, greeting cards, announcements or any creative project.

Baby Fun is inspired by the playfulness of hand lettering. This font can be used for comic design, children's books, preschool name tag and more.

Dondolare is simple hand-drawn font family. Squarish looking and ready for typography cooking, comes in 2 weights with support for extended Latin character set.

A semi-heavy face slightly condensed, inspired by the Germanic & European type fonts. Applications include captions, packaging, invitations, cards, posters, ads, book jackets, and manuals.

Cohoba is a chunky condensed sans serif. Cohoba is loud and proud. It comes with a handful of discretionary ligatures. Cohoba is fun and versatile.

Sheepdog is a whimsical handwriting font originally created for use in greeting cards and to combat the propagation of ! Use it to your hearts content.

Condensed serif font. Great for tight-fitting headlines and other condensed titling situations such as headlines, ads, invitations, captions, packaging, bulletins, posters, and greeting cards.

Zumbo is a capital letter font, hand designed. The letters can be freely combined: with or without decoration. 2022 by German typeface designer Joachim Frank.

The Simple Serif fonts are designed as hand-lettered serif fonts. They are casual and informal and are ideal for use in conveying these qualities.

The rounded hand lettering for the circa-1920s sheet music title "I'm On My Way Back Home" inspired the font design for Lettering Pen JNL.

Reinert is a casual script font inspired by a few words in a magazine ad layout from the mid-1930s hand-lettered by Allen Reinert.

Monthly Goals A Playful Font It is perfect for headings, flyer, greeting cards, product packaging, book cover, printed quotes, logotype, apparel design, album covers, etc.

Morgain is a decorative vintage font with "celtic spirit". Morgain Is an experimental font, specific shapes and forms gives it a little hand-painted effect.

This caps only hand lettering could have come from an architect. Speedy written on a 45 degree slope with a bold felt pen or brush.

The Fottina Script is a calligraphic script font that comes with beautiful alternative characters. a mixture of copper calligraphy with a zipper style. Designed to bring the elegance of style. The Fottina Script attracts good, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read fonts. The classic style is very suitable to be applied in various formal forms such as invitations, labels, menus, logos, fashion, make up, stationery, letterpress, romantic novels, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, labels. The Fottina Script has 450 flying machines. including multiple language support. With OpenType features with alternative styles, binders and characters, it allows you to mix and match pairs of letters to suit your design, as well as a touch of ornament to make this font look elegant. 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 newer. (Windows), Letter Books (Mac) or software programs such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac). How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwjMkbB-wQ How to use the font style set in Microsoft Word 2010 or later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVJlZQ3EZU0 There are additional ways to access alternatives / swash, use Character Map (Windows), Nexus Fonts (Windows) Font Book (Mac) or software programs 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 Thank you for your visit.

Gladista is a calligraphy script font that comes with lovely alternates character. a mixture of from copperplate calligraphy with handlettering style. Designed to convey style elegance. Gladista is attractive like a smooth, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and highly legible typeface. Its classic style is perfect to be applied in any type of formal pieces such invitations, labels, menus, Logos, fashion, make up, stationery, letterpress, romantic novels, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, labels. Gladista features 360+ glyphs and 155 alternative characters. including multiple language support. With OpenType features with stylistic alternates, ligatures and swash characters, that allows you to mix and match pairs of letters to fit your design, and also a touch of ornament makes this font look elegant. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions. (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac). How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwjMkbB-wQ How to use stylistic sets fonts in Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVJlZQ3EZU0 There are additional ways to access alternates / swashes, using the Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows) Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac). How to access all the alternative characters, using the Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw If you need help or advice, please contact me by e-mail.

Big News! Tenez has been selected for the Tipos Latinos Biennial 2016 and Typographica’s Favorite Typefaces of 2015! Tenez is a Grand Slam display didone typeface from Plau. We designed it for a branding project, further developing the resulting logotype into a typeface we felt could solve many designers’ needs. Its origins are rooted in pointed nib calligraphy which can be seen in contemporary Didot and Bodoni inspired typefaces. But Tenez’s shapes are organic (these modern typefaces were originally cut by hand after all) – in fact that was the challenge we set from the start: to make a typeface as organic in construction as possible. This echoes some of late 19th century typefaces and advertising, yet we thought of it for contemporary uses. One of the several unique features of Tenez is its unusual Thin weight, in which the contrast between thin strokes and the black area left by the serifs makes for a typewriter-like personality. The italics provide a perfect counterpoint to the roman weights. Tenez was unapologetically conceived as a display typeface meant to be used large as in magazine openings, drop caps or everywhere there’s a need for elegant impact. The family includes support for almost all Latin languages available, figure sets for almost every conceivable occasion (tables, text, you name it), alternates for the quirky beautiful R (sometimes simpler is better, but not always!) and Q (with a nice big tail for that article opener). Tenez pairs really well with our no-frills sans-serif Motiva Sans and our cute vertical connected script Primot.