I have always had a keen interest in forging; I used to be a silversmith, and I love working with metal. Some time ago I forged my first axe (a skeggøx or bearded axe), sharpened it and fitted it with a handmade ash handle. It isn’t perfect, but it is my first ever forged axe and I’m pretty proud of it. All of this went through my head when I started drawing the glyphs for this font. And to be honest, I couldn’t find a more suitable name for it! Bladesmith is a handmade font, forged in fire (haha). It was actually made with an old sharpie. It is a rough and ready font, quite suited for headlines, book covers and posters.

Once upon a time, in the days BC (that's Before Computers) there lived a very talented group of men and women whose job it was to render ads by hand. So skillful were these people that some say it was possible to actually identify the typefaces that the layout artists were emulating. Their renderings were swift and slick, no time for detail as it was necessary to do a whole bunch of variations, usually within ridiculous deadlines. Their only tools: bullet-tip markers and bond paper - often mistakes resulted but no time to re-do and white paint was totally unacceptable - just let the slipups be. Here's a simulation of their craft, we don't really know what typeface this was supposed to represent… any ideas?

Usage recommendations: Captions, fliers, packaging, cards, posters, ads, book jackets, manuals, menus, bulletins, magazines, greetings, announcements.

Usage recommendations: Captions, fliers, packaging, cards, posters, ads, book jackets, manuals, menus, bulletins, magazines, greetings, announcements.

The concepts of this font come from the Palmer’s Penmanship guides and manual from XIX century.

Usage recommendations: Captions, fliers, packaging, cards, posters, ads, book jackets, manuals, menus, bulletins, magazines, greetings, announcements.

ITC Freddo is the work of New York designer James Montalbano and was inspired by a sign lettering manual from the 1930s. Montalbano liked the character shapes illustrated in this manual but found many of the proportions odd. So he reinterpreted them to produce capitals and lower case letters which, according to today's standards, better complement one another.

Handprint was inspired by a set of old metal alphabet stamps, with a few modifications. Stamped in a sketchy manner, these metal stamps made the basis for a very interesting alphabet and font.

Introducing our first death metal font! We called it Black Dread! This brutal death metal font is can be used for logos or branding and your metal band name without having to pay for expensive logo-making services. Just by buying this font, you can immediately make your own band or brand logo name. Combine it with the death metal ornaments and make your own death metal design with ease! This black metal typeface is perfect for logotypes, t-shirts, vintage badges, branding, packaging, posters, clothing brands, posters, horror movies, album covers, and many more! ——— Black Dread features: A full set of uppercase Numbers and punctuation Multilingual language support PUA Encoded Characters OpenType Features +313 Total Glyphs +Death Metal Ornaments included! ——— Black Dread includes: Black Dread Regular Black Dread Outline ——— ⚠️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. There are additional ways to access alternates/swashes, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac), or a software program such as Pop Char (for Windows and Mac).

Brougham keeps its legibility with a strong presence. Usage recommendations: Captions, packaging, cards, posters, ads, book jackets and manuals.

a naive fancy font inspired in metal paperclips

LD Abe Lincoln font is based on actual documents containing President Lincoln's own handwriting. Enjoy this font rooted in history.

HandsOn font was developed in the late 90s. Font shape looks like manual drawing. Suitable for decoration of children's books.

Usage recommendations: Captions, fliers, packaging, cards, posters, ads, book jackets, manuals, menus, bulletins, magazines, greetings, announcements. Not suitable for MSWord.

Bouteilles is French for bottles. No fancy name this time, just bottles. You’re probably wondering why I chose this name… Well, I was taking out the glass (in Holland we recycle just about everything, glass, paper, plastic, metal, garden and kitchen waste, etc.), which included a number of French wine bottles. As I was throwing them into the underground container one block from where I live, I realised that the word Bouteilles actually sounds great and it would be a nice name for a font! Yes, it is that simple! Bouteilles is a nice brush font I made with my trusted Chinese ink and a really worn brush I found. It comes with all the diacritics you need plus two sets of alternates, which you can play with!

Sheldrake JNL is the second in a series of display fonts modeled from actual water-applied decals that were manufactured by the Duro Decal Company of Chicago (now Duro Art Industries). The font's name derives from the actual phone exchange for Duro, back in the days when a telephone listing had a name-number assignment for recognition. In this case, their number began as "SH(eldrake)-3".

Introducing Night Crow . A display deathmetal font. This font is inspired by underground and metal music band logostyle. There are alternate directions of the thorns (right and left), alternate is in lowercase. I purposely made the spines a little so that the font can still be read. Night Crow is suitable for death metal music, underground, hardcore music, blackletter, death metal logo design, clothing, logos, music covers, posters or other designs with the theme deathmetal.

Thunder Inferno is a gothic black metal typeface with sharp serifs. Rooted in the aesthetics of heavy metal and the occult, this typeface is a harbinger of darkness and intensity. Evocative of Halloween and gothic grandeur, Thunder Inferno also captures a march toward darkness. It serves as a rebellious voice for skate culture and alternative lifestyles. Crafted exclusively in uppercase, this font is a growl in typographic form, a visual cacophony that grabs your attention and refuses to let go. Capitalize the first and last letters of any word for symmetrical heavy metal style. Example: Heavy metaL Enclose any word in < > ( ) [ ] { } to give it wings. Example: [HawkstylE]

Press Run JNL is a reinterpretation of the classic typeface Cheltenham Condensed taken from actual screen captures of vintage newspaper headlines.

Tabloid Press JNL is one of a number of classic typefaces re-drawn from screen captures of actual vintage newspaper headlines.

Designed from actual images of wood type, this font brings the look and charm of hand-set typography to the digital desktop.

A semi-serif font in vogue in the 1970s. Usage recommendations include captions, packaging, cards, posters, ads, book jackets, manuals, and menus.

This font was actually designed by trying to teach my helper-monkey, Philip, to cut Helvetica out of a piece of cardboard.

Monkey Rhumble is an exclusive piece made with a touch of darkness, featuring a heavy and death metal feel to compliment your design. Monkey Rhumble is very easy to use in any variation or writing combination with extra custom bracket, also perfect for metal band logos, merchandise, clothing, apparel, or anything else that calls for a metal feel. Here is tutorial how to use it : https://youtu.be/ezNu7hCqV-w Recomended Software to use: Corel Draw Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator

Houseplants are commonly grown for decorative purposes, positive psychological effects, keeping fresh or health reasons such as indoor air purification. Actually, just like this font has a positive effect on your artwork! This font comes with a heavy load of diacritics! On top of that, it has contextual alternates, which means your text cycles through 6 different versions of each letter! Hard to tell that this is actually a font!

A page from an old manual for sign painters yielded the hand-lettered alphabet that served as a model for Claim Check JNL.

Valimo RMX is a destroyed hard-to-read typeface. It's suitable for creating text "textures" where you don't necessarily need any actual content.

Try new Echophonic today! It's hi-fidelity sound you can actually see! Another miracle of modern science in several weights by Rocket Type.

Morexbomb is an exclusive piece made with a touch of cold darkness, featuring a heavy and death metal feel to compliment your design. Morexbomb is very easy to use in any variation or writing combination with extra custom bracket, also perfect for metal band logos, merchandise, clothing, apparel, or anything else that calls for a metal feel. Here is tutorial how to use it : https://youtu.be/Qi5tgAc2MMw Recomended Software to use : Corel Draw Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Clip Studio Paint

BobTag was written on paper taped to a wall for extra grungyness. Looks like it was actually written on an irregular surface. Caps only.

A brush font that keeps its legibility without sacrificing its free-spirit. Usage recommendations: Captions, packaging, cards, posters, ads, book jackets, manuals, and menus.

Komentator is a monoline vintage script typeface which is created based on manual hand lettering with many features such as, stylistic set alternate, swashes.

A classic sans grotesk wood type design, Final Edition JNL was modeled from actual headlines found in online examples of an old daily newspaper.

The Brushability is a brush-written font family that contains 9 fonts, all united by a brushy look. All fonts compliment each other perfectly and can be used either together or with many other brush-looking fonts on the market. The script contains a lot of alternates, swashes, ligatures, arrows etc. while the Extras font has quite a few design elements with the same brush look - such as arrows, frames and swashes - to add more personality to the design. The 5 sans serif fonts (ranging from Light to Black) also contain alternate glyphs for certain letters - just to make your design process even more fun. All fonts, as usual, are fully unicode mapped so you can use them in any application. Just be aware that if your application doesn’t support OpenType features, you’ll have to choose the glyphs you need manually.

An industrial-weight typeface inspired by graphics laser-cut from sheet metal.

Orlando is a quirky display face inspired by Art Nouveau metal types.

A light chancery script font influenced by both the hand-held pen and the typefounder’s machinery. The curves are reminiscent of the beak of the avocet, a wading bird. This font was originally engraved in metal and copper matrices made for casting into hot metal type for letterpress printing.

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.