Introducing a new collection of retro display fonts. Blastvader is a reverse contrast retro display font. The glyphs have a fat rounded shape. It's ideal for headlines, flyers, posters, greeting cards, product packaging, book covers, logotypes, and album covers, among other things. Ensuring carefully crafted styles result from the use of this font. The alternates in this font can add more fun to your projects. Its imperfections keep it casual while still providing legibility. Features: Total 209 Glyph Uppercase Numerals & Punctuation Alternates Multilanguage Supports 60+ Latin based languages

The Ink Brush Font is a captivating addition to the world of typography. This versatile typeface offers two distinctive versions, adding a dynamic element to your creative projects. The textured version brings a sense of artistic spontaneity with its handmade appearance, while the solid version delivers clarity and precision. Whether you’re aiming for a rustic, handcrafted feel or a sleek, professional look, the Ink Brush Font has you covered. It’s perfect for a wide array of design applications, from branding and packaging to invitations and artistic endeavors, infusing your work with character and style.

Meuthia is a beautiful and classy signature font. This is a beautiful combination of timeless elegance and authentic calligraphy. It features an incredibly classic style, while still keeping a friendly feel. Fall in love with its authentic feel and use it to create gorgeous wedding invitations, beautiful stationary art, eye-catching social media posts, and cute greeting cards. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the amazing glyphs and swashes with ease! It also features a wealth of special features including alternate glyphs and ligatures.

This font is specially made for use in your various works. We created this font with its own uniqueness, such as the feel of writing with a brushpen, a simple yet elegant style, and beauty of brushpen handwriting. Besides being able to stand alone, you can combine this font with various other typefaces, such as Serif, Sans Serif, and Script. This font is ready for you to use to make your products and services look more unique because of the basic concept of making this font is "unique".

Hilda is an ode to countryside. This typeface is inspired by the peace that comes with escaping the city and drinking a cup of coffee while listening to the chirping of birds. The name comes from a cartoon series “Hilda” based on comic series by Luke Pearson. I describe it with 2 words - elegant and playful. It is an all caps, display font that can be used for titles and short texts. Hilda is multilingual and if it gains enough recognition I am willing to add more weights and styles!

-This font has been basically designed for poster display in black weight and big size (mostly for capital letters). The rest of the family is a derivative work of it. I can’t guarantee if it works well on small size print. -Future updates may follow in the near future or on request. Please feel free to contact me via rolandhuse@aol.com about the following: -This family does not contain all the language extensions, but I am willing to create any extensions (including Cyrillic) on request; - Discovering kerning problems while using; Or any other question.

Asgaria is a serif font family with an elegant and classy look. Each letter is designed with natural and beautiful curves. These fonts are tailor-made for luxury themed projects, from bold magazine images, to wedding invitations, branding, poster designs, logos, business cards and more. If you're involved in a project that requires beautiful, professional writing, this font is perfect to help you get it done. The Asgaria font features open, ligature and alternative types that are packaged in 2 fonts: Regular, and Italic. Asgaria fonts include uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation marks and multilingual support.

BachelorScript is the preliminary design for GraduateScript, released in june 2013. You can clearly see the resemblance between the two, but while Bachelor is frisky and authentic, Graduate is more polished and staged. GraduateOrnaments was originally designed to complement GraduateScript, but it can be used just as well in combination with BachelorScript. BachelorScript has a casual look and feel and comes in two weights: regular and bold. It offers multiple language support, five numeral styles, real fractions and ligatures for double letters. Various glyphs to mark, underline, circle or cross-out words are also included.

Talbot Type Klamp 105 is an elegant and streamlined, geometric sans-serif. A legible text font, its narrow proportions mean it’s economical with space; while at larger sizes it makes a confident, modern display face. Klamp 105 is available in a comprehensive family of seven weights, featuring an extended character set to include old style numerals, as well as accented characters for Central European languages. It is also available with some character variations as Klamp 205, most notably featuring a traditional, double-storey lower case a and g.

Introducing Bittergrace, a romantic modern script with a twist of fun! The natural hand writing script is suitable for you who needs a typeface for headline, logotype, apparel, invitation, branding, packaging, advertising and others. This typeface comes with uppercase, lowercase, punctuations, symbols and numerals, stylistic alternate set, ligatures, and mor and also has multilingual support. It also already PUA Encoded. We hope you enjoy the font, please feel free to comment if you have any thoughts or feedback. Or simply send me a PM or email at letterhend@gmail.com Thanks for purchasing and have fun!

Bhoory Halloween Font is a bold font that will help you create powerful text or logos and designs for your Halloween-themed projects. Use it to create invitations, flyers, and posters, or use the font as a headline or just a decoration. You can use this font to depict Halloween in an artistic or spooky way while showing your creative talents. Of course with this font your various design projects will be perfect and amazing, get a beautiful title and start using our font for your special project.

Philliper is a signature bold script font, masterfully designed to become a true favorite. It maintains its modern classy influences while feeling contemporary and fresh. Fall in love with it and bring your projects to the highest levels! Philliper is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Fonts featured : Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers, Symbols, Accents, Stylistic, Swash, and Ligatures also Multilingual Support Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank you!

Summer South is a blend of 2 handwritten fonts with sans having a distinctive style and classy style, this font is suitable for your creative projects such as watermarks on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, photography, invitations, watermarks, advertisements, product designs, tools write, wedding designs, labels, product packaging, special events or anything that requires a handwritten flavor with a blend of sans. Summer South comes with 2 Signature and Sans Styles and has beautiful swash bonuses: uppercase, lowercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation, binders, alternative letters and multilingual support

Introducing our new font Killarney. A bold and heavy display font that inspired by the vintage/classic letterforms used in old-advertisements. Mouse-crafted with high attention to details; clean lines, sharp edges and tempting curves. Its square and blocky letterforms make Killarney a great for headlines and space killer. Packed with 500+ glyphs, Killarney composed of slanted version, standard upper/lower case characters, numerals, punctuations, some multilingual letters, alternate characters, stylistic sets, ligatures, etc. This font is a must have item for your designing arsenal. Go get yours now while it's hot. :D

Galaktik is a fresh embodiment of the monospace font. Born out of creative ideation, it attempts to pay homage to a long history of display fonts while exhibiting contemporary, playful accents. This balance of geometric shapes and creative expression allows Galaktik to feel both familiar and yet unique. Features Numerals Punctuations Special Characters Galaktik's freshness fits modern typographic schemes, futuristic logos, and even command-line consoles. The limits are boundless. Thank you for your purchase! Feel free to reach out for any issues or if need any assistance.

Jus Hangin was inspired by the lettering on the cover of the 1999 Counting Crows album, “This Desert Life”. It was one of those child-like lettering styles that was just begging to be fleshed out and made into a typeface that was as wild and carefree as the lettering inspiration. With an open spacing format, and an exuberant baseline bounce, Jus Hangin is fun to typeset with, while alternates and double letter ligatures keep things from getting repetitive. You’ll find Jus Hangin is ready and waiting to announce your festivities.

Rincon is a serif font with 201 glyphs including ligatures and alternatives. It was designed by Rachel Kick in Los Angeles, California. Inspired by beautiful serif while maintaining a friendly and approachable feel, Rincon is perfect for branding, display, or marketing. Rincon has the ability to hold it's own as a single word headline, or in a paragraph form. It also works well with simple sans serif or script font compliments. The ligatures increase its legibility and adjust each character to work perfectly with the character next to it.

Vernata, an enchanting and elegant serif font, captivates with its timeless sophistication and refined charm. Each letter is meticulously crafted, embodying a perfect balance of curves and straight lines that exude a sense of grace and luxury. The delicate serifs add a touch of classic flair, while the overall design maintains a modern sensibility. The spacing and proportions of Vernata are expertly calibrated, ensuring readability and an effortless flow of text. Whether used for invitations, branding, or editorial design, Vernata brings a magical allure to any project, seamlessly blending tradition with contemporary aesthetics.

Talbot Type Klamp 205 is an elegant and streamlined, geometric sans-serif. A legible text font, its narrow proportions mean it’s economical with space; while at larger sizes it makes a confident, modern display face. Klamp 205 is available in a comprehensive family of seven weights, featuring an extended character set to include old style numerals, as well as accented characters for Central European languages. It is also available with some character variations as Klamp 105, most notably featuring a more modern, single-storey lower case a and g.

Vicentina has been created starting from gothic cursive calligraphy, widely used in Italy during XIV century. The ductus of Vicentina has been derived from the documents redacted by Master Domenico Dominici from Vicenza, while most of the inspiration comes from books preserved in the archives of Orvieto Cathedral (Archivi dell'Opera del Duomo di Orvieto). As a result, Vicentina takes form with an elegant, but fast and simplified ductus respect to gothic graphs, rich in ligatures and with over 400 OpenType glyphs, in perfect harmony with the rules of readability of a modern typeface.

Demona the Gunter is the result of a journey towards self-discovery and part of an ongoing process of exploration. A font featuring a more evolved design while maintaining a charmingly simple style. The extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes gives Demona the Gunter a harmonious and stylish look. It comes in 6 weights with matching regular and italic fonts and includes alternate and ligature versions. The entire character set supports many Latin based languages. Demona the Gunter is perfect for editorial design, movie titles, branding, magazines, logos, headers and more

Crostini was designed as a fun-filled, vigorous brush script, originally intended for restaurant logos and menus. As it evolved, I realized that it was more versatile than I'd thought - great for feminine, girly media as well as for more “in your face” marketing. While the characters are bold and dramatic, they are also feminine and rounded. Crostini contains all the accented characters used in the major European languages. Use Crostini for invitations, scrap-booking, advertising media, fashion media, restaurant media, food media, greeting cards - it’s great fun!

Proza Display is the eye-catching counterpart of Proza, consisting of 12 styles (6 weights + italics). Together, Proza and Proza Display form a large family of 24 styles, which are all equipped with plenty of language support and opentype features. Proza Display was made to function especially well at large sizes, drawing the reader's attention with its beautiful and slightly eccentric shapes. Its large character set (support for 200+ languages) and opentype features make sure that Proza Display doesn't let you down, while its classy design helps you to make a visual impact.

While Bellas Artes, Koziupa and Paul's "other" look at intertwined classicism in calligraphy, can be compared to the repeated patterns of standardized dance steps, Tanguera is more like dancers engaged in a free form of the classic Argentine dance. Whether the embrace is open or closed, the walk parallel or crossed, it is still classical tango, with leader and follower blending together, sometimes in relaxed softness, sometimes in alert sharpness, yet never losing the clearest of communication. Tanguera provides essential rhythm to any packaging design that calls for clean and classical personalization.

Heartwave is a handcraft display typeface that's inspired by old signs, 70's posters, and mixed with modern trend design. Build manually by hands, and reform into clean Typeface. Natural stroke from original hand-lettering. It can be used for just Title or even writing. In this font, you will get : Over 276 glyphs, 49 ligatures in 3 OpenType features, Support for 67 languages. Get HEARTWAVE now! It will best use for any design requirement, many fonts will come with a unique concept. Thank you! Best Regards, PUDJI PANGESTOE STUDIOS

Between the most rigid geometric letterforms and the most expressive calligraphy works there are, undoubtedly, countless combinatory possibilities. Ingeo is just one of them. Located very close to a geometric approach it shows, however, a clear willingness to accommodate in its structure the calligraphic traits of our alphabet. In Ingeo geometry grows from the inside, meaning that all its counters are based on geometric shapes. Around them, contours are later defined. The solid mass resulting from that interaction is modulated in specific areas in a way that evokes the way a writing hand finishes a letter and starts the following one. Ingeo seeks to accommodate calligraphic features in its geometric structure without any complexes, in the same way a computer engineer writes a song or a poet admires the orbits of planets and satellites. In this vast and unmapped realm between seemingly opposing concepts is where Ingeo finds its playground. There, that interaction is pushed to its limits and the resulting letterforms are later confronted with typographical conventions to assess whether they survive. Ingeo comes with 695 glyphs in its character set with support for more than 270 languages. Among these glyphs you can find 5 stylistic sets, 19 useful science-related icons as well as 7 different designs for ampersands.

This is a digital revival by Cristóbal Henestrosa based on an experimental typeface named Charter, designed – yet never fully accomplished – by the prominent William Addison Dwiggins. It is an upright italic, unconnected script typeface, whose main features are a pronounced contrast, condensed forms and exaggerated ascenders. While Dwiggins worked on this project from 1937 to 1955, he only completed the lowercase and a few other characters. However, it was used to set a specimen in 1942 and a short novel in 1946. The sources that Cristóbal used for Mon Nicolette were the original sketches by WAD as well as printing trails kept at the Boston Public Library, and a copy of the 1946 edition of The Song-Story of Aucassin and Nicolette. This gorgeous typeface can be used successfully in headlines, subheads and short passages of text from 12 points onwards, in applications such as fashion magazines, soft news, advertising, poetry, albums, and book covers. This project started ten years ago, while Cristóbal was studying the Type@Cooper Extended Program at New York City. A previous version was selected to be part of the Biennial Tipos Latinos 2018, and now Mon Nicolette is finally ready for commercial distribution with Sudtipos… and we are very proud of it! Festina lente.

Wild Flowers is a unique and modern bold serif font that seamlessly blends traditional elements with contemporary style. Its bold and confident lines give it a strong presence, while the decorative serifs add a touch of elegance and sophistication. This font is perfect for a wide range of design projects, including branding, editorial, packaging, and headlines. Its versatility allows it to work well in both print and digital mediums, making it an ideal choice for both body text and larger display uses. One of the key benefits of "Wild Flowers" is its legibility. The clear, well-defined letterforms make it easy to read, even at smaller sizes, while its boldness and character make it ideal for designers looking to make an impact with their typography. In summary, "Wild Flowers" is a modern and unique serif font that will add a touch of sophistication and style to any design. Its blend of traditional and modern styles makes it a versatile font that will work well in a wide range of projects, and its legibility ensures that it will be easy to read no matter the application. What are you getting? - Special Ligatures & Alternates - Numbers & Punctuation - Multilingual Support Works onMac PC & Mobile - Simple Installations

Florako is a mesmerizing serif font designed with an elegant and modern touch. With its lightweight, this typeface exudes a sense of delicacy and refinement, adding a touch of sophistication to your creative projects. The slender letterforms with precise lines and graceful curves embodies the perfect balance between elegance and modernity. The clean and refined serifs lend a classic touch to the font, while the contemporary styling infuses it with a fresh and current vibe. This harmonious fusion creates a captivating aesthetic that is both timeless and on-trend. The light weight of Florako adds to its graceful and delicate appearance, making it ideal for projects that require a subtle and refined typography while maintaining its legibility. You can also enjoy the available features here. Features: Alternates Ligatures Stylistic Sets Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Florako fits in headlines, logos, posters, titles, invitations, branding materials, print media, editorial layouts, website headers, and many more. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Thanks for purchasing our fonts. Hopefully, you have a great time using our font. Feel free to contact us anytime for further information or when you have trouble with the font. Thanks a lot and happy designing.

John Seddon (1644-1700), was a famous english writing master, the leading calligrapher of his time, and master of Sir John Johnson’s Free Writing School in Priest’s Court, Foster Lane. His portrait was drawn by William Faithorne and was engraved by John Sturt as the frontispiece for his copy-books, such as ‘The Ingenious youth’s companion’ of c.1690 and 'The pen-man’s paradise' of c.1695. These were engraved after his work by others. Your extra-rare book - "The Pen-mans Paradise Both pleasent & Profitable OR Examples of all ye usuall hands of this Kingdome. Adorn'd with variety of ffigures an Flourishes done by Command of hand. Each ffigure being one continued & entire Track of the pen most where of may be struck as well Reverse (or to answer bothwayes) as Forward", London (1965). - YES (that is the title of the book) was the starting point to these new extra accurated works of Iza W, a series of revivals of the penmanship Seddon’s artworks, animal and human kingdon inspired penmanship forms in the Bestiario font. On the other hand, his highly ornamented animal kingdon inspired capitals and alphabets in the Seddon Penmans Paradise Capitals typeface. The “SeddonsFleurons” completes the collection. Fantastic choice to elaborated barocque/renaissance inspired and historical accurated layouts.

Geometric Precision Let’s step into the world of Campeno, a Geometric Sans Serif font that embodies precision and order. This font is the epitome of geometric perfection, making it an ideal choice for various editorial applications. Editorial Excellence Campeno’s geometric form is what sets it apart and makes it a top choice for editorial needs. Whether you’re working on magazines, long-form text, or other editorial projects, its geometric precision enhances readability and offers editorial excellence. Versatile Typography What makes Campeno even more exceptional is its versatility. It seamlessly adapts to diverse design contexts, ensuring that it can be used for a wide range of projects, from magazines to websites and beyond. Engaging Readability Beyond its geometric aesthetics, Campeno excels in providing engaging readability. It guides the reader through the content, focusing on the message while maintaining a visually appealing design. In Conclusion In summary, Campeno – Geometric Sans Serif is the font that brings precision and clarity to your editorial projects. Its geometric form ensures that your content is not only engaging but also visually appealing, catering to a broad readership while maintaining a high standard of clarity. Whether you’re working on magazines, websites, or other editorial endeavors, Campeno stands out as a font that combines aesthetics with functionality, offering editorial excellence for your projects.

Pocketknife is a simple grid-based titling font on it’s surface, but it has a surprisingly prolific set of features under the surface. The most notable of these features is an abundant set of ligatures that give Pocketknife it’s unique look. There are very few kerning pairs contained within Pocketwatch, and these ligatures fill in most gaps that could be created by letters with more empty space, such as L and T, and also give a more playful look to an otherwise sharp-edged typeface. Pocketknife also contains with 2 full sets of alternate characters, one pairing with the uppercase set and one pairing with the lowercase—available as OpenType stylistic alternates or individually in the Glyphs panel. Pocketknife Regular is designed to be used on it’s own, while the Inline and Base fonts are designed to be used as a simple layered combination. The Base font is nearly identical to Regular, but contains a few specially adjusted characters that better accommodate the Inline style. Pocketknife Outline is a combination of the Inline/Base styles, to be used individually. Pocketknife is sharp, but playful. Simple, but sophisticated. Sporty, technical, and aggressive, yet elegant and fun. Pocketknife, while simple at first glance, is a deceivingly versatile typeface.

Aldero™ strives to be as useful to any design environment as Alder trees are to the forest. Wildlife and insects feed on Alder leaves and seeds. The tree also provides shelter for animals in winter while its shades keep streams from getting too hot in summer. The trunks and branches are excellent habitats for lichens and mosses. The nitrogen-rich leaves help fertilize the soil where they landed. Alder’s utilitarian nature inspires us to create Aldero™, a handy, versatile, go-to type family for all professional designers. To achieve what we set out to do, we gave Aldero™ the two-in-one looks, doubled the sets of ligatures, and loaded it with plenty more of Opentype features. We put in long hours, months after months, until we are proud of the outcome. And we truly believe that you will enjoy working with this typeface as much as we do. With five weights, ten styles, and 1,100+ glyphs per style, this versatile typeface comes with virtually two looks. The standard glyph set is perfect for formal, corporate design, while the stylistic alternate set elicits a fun, friendly, and casual feel. You can use each style separately or mix and match them to achieve your design aesthetic. Thanks to these options, a wide range of design possibilities are at your fingertips. In addition to the two large sets of ligatures (for both the standard and the stylistic glyph sets), we also pack tons of Opentype features into Aldero™ to improve your user experience while working with this typeface. To activate the case-sensitive features, for example, highlight the phrase with the type tool, then hit the “All Caps” button; or select each mark, punctuations, or symbols with the type tool, then choose the case-sensitive option from the Opentype popup window. Hope you enjoy working with Aldero™ as much as we do! To find out more about Aldero™ Opentype features and type specimen, please visit https://r9typedesign.com/aldero-features

Designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini with Francesco Canovaro as a development and reinvention of Tarif by Andrea Tartarelli, Ambra Sans is a humanist sans typeface family, drawn around a lively, expressive skeleton but developed with a contemporary, post-digital sensibility that implies low contrast and tall x-height. In designing Ambra Sans, the authors wanted to research the elusive natural signature of handmade humanist letter shapes, in the effort of preserving it while still developing all the capabilities of type as a technical tool in the digital age. Like a frail insect preserved in amber, humanist design is the "ghost in the machine" of this font, that aims at seducing the viewers with its soft, welcoming text flow, firmly opposing the rigid, formal tone of most sans serif fonts. Born to provide a useful tool to graphic designers with branding and editorial needs, Ambra Sans develops around two subfamilies with slight but fundamental differences. The display family offers a taller x-height, optimizing readability and spacing in headings and display use, while offering a single story lowercase g to provide more consistent branding usage. The text family, on the other side, goes for a smaller x-height to give more traditional proportion to the text and removes the slight tapering in the stems to provide better rendering on screen in small formats. Both subfamilies of Ambra Sans develop around a wide range of seven weights with corresponding true italics, with Ambra Display sporting an extra heavy weight for maximum versatility. In total the family counts 30 fonts, each with over 600 glyphs for a wide language coverage. Open type features and glyph alternates further enrich the usage possibility of this typeface that wants to offer contemporary designer an alternative, unexpectedly human approach to contemporary sans type, softly preserving the spirit of handmade calligraphy while encasing its frail nature in a transparent, strong and powerful design language.

You stand, poised at the brink. If you do not choose the right, the best typeface, this may be one of the greatest disasters in your history. The whole root and core and brain on which and around which your project is built seems about to perish into an ignominious end. But I do not for a moment fail to believe that Winsel shall prevail for you. This bold new face, founded from the tested mind of insigne design, will in the moment of need wield for you the full might of its ancestors. The entire strength of the British Empire’s vernacular poster lettering spanning the 1920’s to the 1950’s drives the very heart of every feature and weight this font has to offer. Winsel’s expanded design is sharp and angular, based on pointed brush strokes. Its thick, sturdy appearance will draw and direct your reader’s mind to the weight and importance of your messages and titling. Within the font’s full forces work a range of styles to achieve victory in the contest ahead: thick weights that are compact and muscular for carrying a heavier load and lighter, finer weights to lead you through your more sensitive operations. It stands equipped with OpenType features, ready to support most European Latin-based languages and providing features such as Small Caps and Titling Caps in all nine of its weights. Well-honed for the task ahead, Winsel has been crafted to ride out the storm of mediocrity and to outlive the merits of inconsequence, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. There has never been in all the world such an opportunity for you. With Winsel, you shall go on till the end. You shall write on the beaches. You shall write on the landing grounds. You shall write with growing confidence and growing strength in print or on the air. Every morn has brought forth a noble chance. Your chance this day is Winsel.

I spend a lot of time following two obsessions: packaging and hand lettering. Alongside a few other minor obsessions, those two have been my major ones for so many years now, I've finally reached the point where I can actually claim them as “obsessions” without getting a dramatic reaction from the little voice in the back of my head. When you spend so much time researching and studying a subject, you become very focused, directionally and objectively. But of course some of the research material you run into turns out to be tangential to whatever your focus happens to be at the time, so you absorb what you can from it, then shelf it — like the celebrity bobblehead that amused you for a while, but is now an almost invisible ornament eating dust and feathers somewhere in your environment. And just like the bobblehead may fall off the shelf one day to remind you of its existence, some of my lettering research material unveiled itself in my head one day for no particular reason. Hand lettering is now mostly perceived as an American art. Someone with my historical knowledge about lettering may be snooty enough to go as far as pointing out the British origins of almost everything American, including lettering — but for the most part, the contemporary perspective associates great lettering with America. The same perspective also associates blackletter, gothics and sans serifs with Germany. So you can imagine my simultaneous surprise and impatience when, in my research for one of my American lettering-based fonts, I ran into a German lettering book from 1953, by an artist called Bentele. It was no use for me because it didn't propel my focus at that particular time, but a few months ago I was marveling at what we take for granted — the sky is blue, blackletter is German, lettering is American — and found myself flipping through the pages of that book again. The lettering in that book is upbeat and casual sign making stuff, but it has a slightly strange and youthful experimentation at its heart. I suppose I find it strange because it deviates a lot from the American stuff I'm used to working with for so long now. To make a long story short, what’s inside that German book served as the semilla, which is Spanish for seed, for the typeface you see all over these pages. With Semilla, my normal routine went out the window. My life for a while was all Bezier all the time. No special analog or digital brushes or pens were used in drawing these forms. They're the product of a true Bezier process, all starting with a point creating a curve to another point, which draws a curve to another point, and so on. It’s a very time-consuming process, but at the end I am satisfied that it can get to pretty much the same results easier and more traditional methods accomplish. And as usual with my fonts, the OpenType is plenty and a lot of fun. Experimenting with substitution and automation is still a great pleasure for me. It is the OpenType that always saves me from the seemingly endless work hours every type designer must inevitably have to face at one point in his career. The artful photos used in this booklet are by French photographer and designer Stéphane Giner. He is very deserving of your patronage, so please keep an eye out for his marvelous work. I hope you like Semilla and enjoy using it. I have a feeling that it marks a transition to a more curious and flexible period in my career, but only time will tell.

The letters in the Linotype Aspect Family fonts seem to be experiments in the handcrafting of letters with just a few basic geometric forms. For instance, the bowls of the letters C, D, and G in Linotype Aspect Intro are all made up of narrow half circles. Features like this make Linotype Aspect Intro perfectly suited for headlines and short passages of text. Its quirkiness is sure to lend a smile to the faces of your readers. For shorter headlines with larger point sizes, try setting your text in Linotype Aspect Regular, the second member of the Linotype Aspect family. Linotype Aspect Regular uses the same basic letterforms as Linotype Aspect Intro, but reverses them out in white, and places them over bulbous black shapes. The Linotype Aspect family was developed by German designs Hans-Jürgen Ellenberger in 1999.

Acton is a deceptively simple, grid-based design. Though derived from a 2 by 3 arrangement of blocks, it uses white spaces to allow for more complex shapes – for example as the R – where the underlying 3 by 5 arrangement is apparent. It also departs from this strict grid-based logic for characters such as the the T, L, f and r, whose cross-bars are shorter than they would otherwise be in order to promote optical evenness. No elegant solution could be found for the V, which in geometric fonts can appear very similar to the U, lacking as it does the cross-bar that can differentiate a square A from the capital form of the n. However, the resultant diagonal retroactively proved useful on the lower-case e and a, characters that otherwise would have more uninteresting design solutions.

Patzcuaro is a summer resort by a lake of the same name. It is situated 370 km west of Ciudad de Mexico and a visitor from Europe, on seeing it, will be reminded of the Austrian Rust or the South Bohemian Trebon. The town's colonial architecture is protected as a historical monument, the reddish-brown tint of the footings of the buildings, their white facades and even the type of lettering with red initials is prescribed - and these regulations are also complied with as far as cars are concerned. This colour scheme is splendid in combination with the rich gamut of greys of the stone window jambs, vaults, lintels and pillars. Joking apart, even the local petrol station is 16th-century in appearance. Patzcuaro Regular is a cosy, welcoming type face which is good for use on labels.