It's a very happy day when we stumble upon beautiful alphabets that were never digitized. It is even a happier day when the beautiful alphabet finds its way to us through friends and people who like our work. Some two months ago, the forms of this gorgeous font were pointed to us by a friend who saw it in an old Dover Publications specimen book showcasing historical alphabets. It was there under the name Vanessa, with nothing else to go by. We looked and researched for further information but found nothing else. So this gem comes to you like a coal that winked its way out of the ashes because it wanted to shine again. Flirt is very authentic art deco with a noticeable element of artistic pride, swashy delicate majuscules and very aristocratic, fashionable and flirty minuscules. The majuscules can be used as every other capitals usually are, or as initial caps. The minuscules can very nicely stand on their own quite independently from the caps whenever desired. These letters are quite similar to the hand lettering used on of the kind of theater posters, specifically burlesque and opera entertainment, which are now considered very retro-chic and fashionable to see hanging on walls in home or office. The initial specimen we worked from showed a single basic art deco alphabet with numerals which seemed as they belonged to another font. That alphabet became the base Flirt font, the numerals were redrawn to fit much better with the minuscules, and the character set was greatly expanded to include punctuation, accented characters, and many many alternates, especially for the majuscules. Majuscules with a descending right vertical stroke were a common artistic touch in the high days of theater posters, so we thought they would be great additions to the character set. These alternates can be found all over the font. So to maximize the design fun, have a character map or glyphs palette handy when you use Flirt. After the base font was finished, we thought it would be a good idea to give it a bold treatment unlike anything seen out there, and the farthest thing from the mechanical bolds seen everywhere now. This bolding treatment consisted of thickening the lowercase's vertical strokes inwards, but leaving the horizontal stroke weight as is, and thickening only the thicker vertical strokes of the uppercase. The result is quite the visual feat. We encourage you to test both the regular and bold weights and see for yourself.

There is plenty of lyric and literature about looking over one's shoulder in contemplation. What would you have done differently if you knew then what you know now? This is the kind of question that comes out of nowhere. When it does and whether its context is personal or professional make very little difference. It's a question that can cause emotions to rise and passions to run hot. It can trigger priority shifts and identity crises. It's never easy to answer. Three years ago, I published a font called Semilla. My aim with that was to distill the work of Bentele, a lettering artist from early 1950s Germany. Picking such an obscure figure back then was my way of pondering the meaning and efficiency of objectivity in a world where real human events and existences are inevitably filtered through decades of unavoidably subjective written, printed and oral history. And maybe to pat myself on the back for surviving surprises mild and pleasant. Having been fortunate enough to follow my professional whims for quite some time now, I took another, longer look at my idea of distilling Bentele's work again. I suppose the concepts of established history and objectivity can become quite malleable when personal experience is added to the mix. I say that because there I was, three years later, second-guessing myself and opining that Bentele's work can be distilled differently, in a manner more suited to current cultural angles. So I embarked on that mission, and Bowling Script is the result. I realize that it's difficult to reconcile this soft and happy calligraphic outcome with the introspection I've blathered about so far, but it is what is. I guess even self-created first world problems need to be resolved somehow, and the resolution can happen in mysterious ways. Bowling Script is what people who like my work would expect from me. It's yet another script loaded with all kinds of alternation, swashing and over-the-top stuff. All of that is in here. These days I think I just do all that stuff without even blinking. But there are two additional twists. The more noticeable one is ornamental: The stroke endings in the main font are of the typical sharp and curly variety found in sign painting, while the other font complements that with ball endings, sometimes with an added-on-afterwards impression rather than an extension of the actual stroke. In the philosophical terms I was mumbling earlier, this is the equivalent of alternate realities in a world of historical reduxes that by their very nature can never properly translate original fact. The second twist has to do with the disruption of angular rhythm in calligraphic alphabets. Of course, this is the kind of lettering where the very concept of rhythm can be quite flexible, but it still counts for something, and experimenting with angular white space in a project of a very dense footprint was irresistible. After playing for a bit, I decided that it would interesting to include the option of using optically back-slanted forms in the fonts. Most scripts out there, including mine, have a rhythm sonically comparable to four-to-the-floor club beats. So the weirdly angled stuff here is your chance to do the occasional drumroll. Everyone knows we need one of those sometimes. Bowling Script and Bowling Script Balls fonts comes with 1600 characters and features extended Latin-based language support. There are also a basic version of both fonts without all the alternates and extra OpenType features. Bowling family ships in cross-platform OpenType format. We also want to present “Mute”, a visual essay narated by Tomás García and Valentín Muro, about digital life created specially to introduce Bowling Script.

Beauty Style is a luxurious font collection that includes both a signature script and a sans serif typeface. Beauty Style scripts come in four weights including 12 alternates and 56 ligatures. Programming has been added to the scripts for flow and elegance. Use Beauty Style for sophisticated designing. Fonts designed by Cindy Kinash. See font details below. SANS FEATURES: All caps letters Condensed Sans OpenType Common ff fi fl ffi ffl ligatures Available in Extended Latin Pro (Standard) or American (US) version. SCRIPT FEATURES: Signature style OpenType Common ff fi fl ffi ffl ligatures Available in Extended Latin Pro (Standard) or American (US) version. 12 alternates and 56 ligatures Programmed ligature feature for optimization. Every time you type specific pairs, ligatures are programmed to pop up to avoid letter pair collisions. Programming ligatures gives the script a more elegant and pretty flow. Make sure to turn on the feature in your preferred program that supports ligatures. FREE WORDS FEATURES: 52 free words useful for beauty and sales promoting. Keyword examples include you, sale, and beautiful. Intended use for beauty, fashion, newsletters, websites, magazines, sales, commercials and packaging. VERSIONS: American and Extended Latin Pro AMERICAN (US) Shorter version 12 alternates and 56 ligatures (scripts only) Common ff fi fl ffi ffl ligatures OpenType Includes the common alphabet, numbers, American symbols and punctuation. EXTENDED LATIN PRO (Standard) Extended version of the American. 12 alternates and 56 ligatures (scripts only) Common ff fi fl ffi ffl ligatures OpenType Includes characters for Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Feroese, Finnish Scots, French, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greek Transliterated, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Nynorsk Bokmal Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh. TIPS: Try the OpenType ligatures by turning on the feature in your preferred program that supports ligatures. FONT LAYERING — Layer the script over the sans to give a cool retro effect. There are so many fun and creative possibilities. FONT CONNECTING — Interconnect the sans and script letters together creating TYPE ART. All you need to do is convert the font into an object and have fun! (Watch the upcoming tutorials on the cultivatedmindtype Instagram) SANS — When sans text is small, widen the text tracking for legibility and style variety. Sans is diverse and can work as tight or loose tracking. Use Beauty and Style for type art, beauty marketing, fashion, apparel, product design, music, websites, promotions and film. Last tip…Always have fun when creating. This isn’t a race. Creating should always be enjoyed. TUTORIALS: For more Beauty Style font tips including font layering, vlogs and tutorials, check out @cultivatedmindtype on Instagram.

Useful links Font Specimen SFT Schrifted Sans: The Story of Font Development Article Contacts Follow us on Instagram to know all about our future projects and updates. If you want to customize SFT Schrifted Sans, need font files or have any other questions, please reach out to us at info@schrifteria.xyz. About SFT Schrifted Sans SFT Schrifted Sans is a functional geometric sans-serif typeface with a Nordic character. It can serve as a stylish text font and as an eccentric headline one. With multiple subfamilies (wide geometric and compact neo-grotesque) and numerous alternatives, SFT Schrifted Sans can be customized for various projects and transformed beyond recognition. SFT Schrifted Sans has wide language support: 200+ Latin and 60+ Cyrillic languages, including specific localized forms (for example, for Bulgarian and Serbian languages). Visit the font page for more information. Language support Latin: Abenaki, Afaan-Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese-Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir-(Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape-Verdean-Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Guadeloupean-Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian-Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese-(Latin), Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala-Lagaw-Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak-(Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish-(Latin), Ladinlatinlatino-sine-Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low-Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam-Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese-Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Onĕipŏt, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami-(Inari-Sami), Sami (Lule-Sami), Sami (Northern-Sami), Sami (Southern-Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish-Gaelic, Serbian-(Latin), Seri, Seychellois-Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio-(Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower-Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper-Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho-(Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok-Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen-(Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Vietnamese, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni. Cyrillic: Russian, Belarusian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Cyrillic), Bulgarian (Cyrillic), Kazakh (Cyrillic), Kirghiz, Macedonian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Tadzhik, Ukrainian, Chechen (Cyrillic), Bashkir, Chuvash, Tatar Volgaic, Mongolian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Avar, Dargwa, Ingush, Kabardino-Cherkess, Kumyk, Lak, Lezgian, Ossetian, Tabasaran, Buryat, Komi-Zyrian, Touva, Mordvin-moksha, Udmurt, Adyghe, Dungan, Rusyn, Oroch, Enets, Chulym, Aleut (Cyrillic), Karaim, Udege, Nganasan, Ulch, Akhvakh, Ket, Karata (Karata-Tukita), Kildin Sámi, Yukagir, Karakalpak, Archi, Saami, Uighur (Cyrillic), Nanai, Koryak, Tsez, Soyot-Tsaatan, Tindi, Veps, Andi, Turkmen (Cyrillic), Karelian, Godoberi, Besermyan, Chukchi, Even (Lamut), Gagauz, Altaic, Moldavian (Cyrillic).