The 1920 edition of “How to Paint Signs and Sho’ Cards” by E. C. Matthews offered a number of examples of then-modern lettering styles for sign painters and show card writers. A bold display alphabet made with a round lettering nib is now available as Show Card Pen JNL, in both regular and oblique versions.

We saw a few letters of this in a catalog, and liked it so well we drew it up and made it as a film font for photolettering. Due to a surplus of interesting types in our shop this one never made it into our catalog, so we can¹t tell you anything about its popularity.

Introducing NewModern: Sawdust's inaugural typeface release, now making a comeback from our exclusive archives through the esteemed MyFonts foundry. Originally crafted for the renowned 'HypeForType' type foundry, this font represents a seamless blend of tradition and innovation. With a fresh perspective on the classic Didone genre, often referred to as 'Modern,' NewModern encapsulates the essence of contemporary design.

ArchiType Rounded is not just the rounded version of the ArchiType font. The aim was to get a slightly different balance between the squareness and the roundness of the original font. Now with rounded endings, resulting in a smoother appearance. Every glyph is redesigned, around 70 glyphs have been added and kerning has been vastly improved.

Chella is a friendly display type family of 8 weights and matching italics. Chella has soft forms combined with some sharp edges. It includes swash capitals, end swashes for lowercases and a few options for ascenders and descenders. Chella is a great choice for package design, children's books and where ever you’ll need a playful and friendly font.

Semper is slightly angular since it is in part based on callygraphic lettering. That is not as evident as in the italic of Jenson Classico. On the contrary, the text looks even and harmonious, which makes the typeface easy to use. The name is Latin meaning always, but you knew that already. Semper was released in 1993.

Jeff Levine acquired a set of original water-applied decals made by the Duro Decal Company of Chicago (now Duro Art Industries) and painstakingly recreated one of the classic hand-drawn typefaces from the Duro line. Named after the street where the company is located, Juneway JNL is an authentic reproduction for the computer-based designer.

The sans serif type style for the specialty font Nameplate JNL was given a serif treatment and is now Hotel District JNL complete with a full character set. Originally inspired by two Art Deco-era metal door signs saying "Men" and "Ladies", the thin lettering lends itself well to period pieces as well as contemporary design work.

Criss Cross is a scratchy, scribbly, rough-n-tough kinda font. The idea comes from the many notes I wrote in my horrible handwriting. When I want to stress things, it sort of looks like Criss Cross. So... Now you can write notes and stress things too! And guess what? It comes with a bunch of alternates, so enjoy!

In the December, 1947 issue of Modern Screen magazine, a feature article showcased actress Deborah Kerr with the title “Imported”. The typography used for the headline of the article was a hand lettered, extra-bold, sans serif stencil design. This lettering became the inspiration for Imported Goods JNL, which is now available in both regular and oblique versions.

A quirky and unusual Art Deco monoline typeface can be found within the pages of the Esterbrook Drawlet Pen instruction book [circa the 1940s]. Drawlet was the direct competitor to Speedball Lettering pen nibs. This unusual type design of varying width and character shapes is now available digitally as Oddly Deco JNL, in both regular and oblique versions.

Magnox Display is a family of geometric and expanded display fonts. It brings impact and strength to titles and can be combined with many other sans serif types. It has smallcaps glyphs, alternates and rounded variation and their oblique versions. In 1.1 version you now have a variable version that has two axes: inclination and rounded edges.

Logotype Frenzy is a display typographer’s guilty pleasure. It’s one of the very few fonts ever made that can take intense abuse and still look natural. It comes with over 1000 characters, including a lot of alternates and extended language support. In OpenType savvy applications, some letter combinations are automatically replaced with ligatures for a more natural look.

Hiroshige was designed in 1986 by Cynthia Hollandsworth (now Batty) of AlphaOmega Typography, Inc. The typeface was originally commissioned for a book of woodblock prints by the great nineteenth-century Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige, whose work influenced many Impressionist artists. The typeface has a gentle calligraphic flair that creates an interesting page of text as well as elegant headlines.

Here's a stencil version of another Nick's Fonts typeface based on Chic, a Morris Fuller Benton creation for American Type Founders from the 1920s. Stylish and sophisticated as always, and now with an arts-and-crafts flair. Both versions of this font include the Unicode Latin 1252 and 1250 Central European character sets, with localization for Moldovan and Romanian.

The sheet music for the 1914 Word War I comic novelty song "When the War Breaks Out in Mexico I'm Going to Go to Montreal" had one of those overly-worded song titles popular during this period (13!), along with interesting sans serif hand lettering. It now debuts digitally as Conscription JNL in both regular and oblique versions.

Ovidius is a formal script with solid structure. Characters present a look and feel of an ancient pen to very rough paper. The Ovidius family designed by Thaddeus Szumilas is now part of GroupType, a foundry specializing in period and revival typeface designs. These designs have not only important historical design roots, they possess great contemporary appeal.

In an 1896 specimen catalog for American Type Founders there is a design called Geometric Gothic. The lettering style looks as if it’s ahead of its time; foreseeing the 1980s. With its squared characters, some pointed overhangs and modified character shapes, this type design is now available as Squared Off JNL, in both regular and oblique versions.

A June 18, 1929 issue of the Hollywood trade paper “The Film Daily” ran an ad for a film called “The Power House”. The film’s title was hand lettered in an extra bold sans serif design with strong Art Deco influences. This is now available digitally as Deco Power JNL in both regular and oblique versions.

Printing Set JNL by Jeff Levine comes from a toy rubber stamp printing set imported from Japan in the 1950s and 1960s that's been revived, but is now imported from China. The font has a serif letter so typical of import toys of the day, but actually reads quite nicely in short headlines and specialty ad copy.

The Bipolar family of fonts is a synthetic blend of digital grid and historical blackletter forms, combining readability and ornamentation into a single modern interpretation. If you feel like you recognize this font style, you may have seen it as the menu font in the popular RockBand series of games. This trendy neo-medieval revival is hot!

Who doesn’t like Spaghetti & Cheese? Well, my son doesn’t like it, because he hates cheese, but he seems to be one of the few. Spaghetti & Cheese is also a handmade font: slightly slanted, slightly eroded, yet very legible and clear. It was made with a Japanese ‘Shake & Write’ marker pen. Comes with a generous topping of diacritics.

Imagine being printer in the early nineteenth century, your stock isn’t the finest, your lead characters are worn out: Voilá Kandidat Rough. But wait, Kandidat isn’t the usual scan-an-old-book,-put-the-glyphs-in-a-font-and-you’re-done-font. Kandidat Rough has a variety of whopping 14 alternates for most characters. Our algorithm changes the letters automatically. All you have to do is turn on Contextual Alternates in your layout app. The algorithm is the best we’ve seen so far, and it’s so good that even same words appear in different forms. And should by coincidence words have the same glyphs, just assign a different Style Set to the first letter, and all other letters in the word will change as well (well, it depends a bit on your software). The mechanism isn’t perfect and maybe we stretched OpenType capabilities a bit over the top, but we yet haven’t seen any better routine for switching letters on the fly. Is it worth to mention that Kandidat Rough not only speaks English, but also German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Croatian, Turkish and most likely some other languages? Maybe. To be sure whether your language is supported, this is the typeset of all letters: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝĆČĐĞ݌ފŸŽ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöøùúûüýÿćčđğıœşšž Apart from that we also included the following punctuation and currency symbols: !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;?@[\]_{|}¡©«®°±¶·»¿×–—‘’‚“”„†•…‹›⁄≠☞ €¢$£¥ This sums up to nearly 3000 glyphs per font, and we have three of them: Regular, Italic and Bold. All neatly kerned. All in all a great repertoire for even the most demanding book or advert jobs with a look of old times. And now imagine you are sick of the rugged print experience Kandidat Rough delivers: go for Kandidat. This is our Scotch-ish ancestor the Rough version was made from. A sturdy, friendly, round, warm friend from the beginning of the nineteenth century. A bit dark, maybe. You will like it. Kandidat has the aforementioned type set plus complete Baltics, Eastern Europe and Cyrillic. Plus a couple of gimmicks like fleurons, stars, circled numbers, arrows, and, and, and… Kandidat Regular additionally has small caps for Latin based scripts (not Cyrillic). The spick and span Kandidat font set also consists of Regular, Italic and Bold cuts. The bold cut is on the very bold side and can nicely be used for headings, whereas Italic is a great companion for Regular. It took us some time and trouble to finish this project, but after all we are very proud of our little feat and hope you will enjoy Kandidat as much as we do. Enjoy!

Welcome to the winter wonderland of typography, where the letters are as crisp and chilly as the winter breeze! Introducing Snowa, the perfect typeface for your holiday projects. Whether you’re designing a greeting card, creating an advertisement for a winter resort, or simply adding some frosty flair to your designs, Snowa is the perfect choice. With its snow-capped letterforms, Snowa captures the essence of the winter season. The elegant curves of each letter are topped with a layer of shimmering snow, making your text stand out like a snowflake in a blizzard. It’s perfect for creating a festive and inviting atmosphere for your audience. But that’s not all—Snowa comes with a snowless version as well as independent layers for constructing your own layered snow effects. You can customize your designs to suit your needs and create the perfect snowy effect. Whether you want a light dusting of snow or a heavy blizzard, Snowa has you covered. So don’t let your designs be as dull as a snowless winter day. Add some winter magic with Snowa. Let the snowy letters create a wonderland of typography, and let your imagination take you to a winter wonderland of your own. With Snowa, your designs will be as cool as ice and as dazzling as freshly fallen snow. Happy Holidays! Most Latin-based European writing systems are supported, including the following languages. Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aromanian, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean, Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Dholuo, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kurdish (Latin), Latvian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Māori, Moldovan, Montenegrin, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Norwegian, Novial, Occitan, Ossetian (Latin), Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Sami, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Võro, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Wayuu, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Zapotec Zulu and Zuni.

Stonetype is a typeface that was used by stonemasons in the 70s & 80s of the last century. When I was starting as a stonemason, these were the first characters I had to draw, by hand, back then on grave monuments and memorial plaques. The idea was born to digitize all the material, to be saved for eternity. By digitizing all and fine tuning, plus the addition of some main characters, Stonetype has now grown into a user-friendly typeface that can, now still, be used by stonemasons, to improve their creation process times. But Stonetype can also easily be used in modern and contemporary designs. Stonetype is the perfect fit for graphic design, editorial design, magazines, posters, logotypes, brands and corporate design. Stonetype is designed by Coert De Decker in 2019 and published by Kustomtype Font Foundry.

Welcome to Mexury, a font that transports you to the future with an alluring modern and futuristic twist. Are you looking for the perfect solution for modern, futuristic, sci-fi, and future-themed projects? Mexury is the right choice. Mexury is a font designed to create a unique and sophisticated atmosphere. Each letter has a unique design, exuding a dazzling future and presenting an elegant look. With Mexury, your project will be in the spotlight and create an unforgettable impression. The main benefit of Mexury is its ability to deliver stunning styles. Each letter carries great visual uniqueness, giving your project a modern, stylish, and futuristic look. Inspired designs will steal the show and capture your audience’s imagination. Apart from that, Mexury also supports multilingualism, allowing you to display text in multiple languages without any restrictions. This flexibility ensures that you can easily reach a global audience and convey your message with consistent clarity across cultural contexts. Take your projects to the next level with Mexury. Let this font be the catalyst for the creation of eye-catching visuals and set the scene for a future full of innovation. Explore Mexury’s limitless potential and let your creativity flourish. With this font, you’re ready to enter the futuristic and stunning world of design. Choose Mexury and let this font be the perfect choice for your vibrant, modern, futuristic, sci-fi, and future projects.

Introducing The Kallman Font, a captivating display brush typeface that effortlessly commands attention. With its bold and dynamic strokes, this font adds a striking impact to your design projects. Perfect for eye-catching headlines, posters, logos, and more, The Kallman Font infuses your creations with a powerful and contemporary vibe.

Here's a fun font that is quirky, jumpy and uneven. It's also unpredictable, but not more than your text will be clear and legible...but in a fun way! :) I've added several lowercase versions that automatically cycles as you type. A great way to make your text random and lively

Mireille is a typographic homage to french culture. Your journey through gourmet food, classical music, opera and wine tours over 100 romantic alternates and ligatures that allow you to add outstanding elegance to your typography. Take care: you might have a crush on this typeface – La vie, c’est beau! www.typethis.studio

Insecticide Infused with a laid-back charm, our casual handwriting captures the essence of relaxed authenticity. Effortlessly stylish, each stroke exudes approachable warmth, making it the perfect choice to connect with your audience on a personal level. Embrace a brand identity that feels as comfortable as your favorite pair of jeans

Introducing MBF Avturo, a square, condensed, modern, minimalist typeface that redefines versatility. Clean lines and a sleek design make it an eye-catcher, while its three weights – light, regular, and bold – offer a spectrum of possibilities for your creative endeavors. Elevate your projects with MBF Avturo’s contemporary charm and minimalist sophistication.

Danilla Signature Modern script is very suitable for your design project because it is very elegant and you you can apply it on business cards, posters, branding names, logos, your products and others. It's a handwritten font. This font includes all upper and lower case standard characters, punctuation, numerals and ligatures.

What's the hurry? Take your time! Take the first step with your Slow Foot and something (good) will show! :) A fun font with contextual alternates that leaves you with 6 different versions of each letter. That's really nice when you want to spice up the variation of letters as you write.

Chinese Shangai Inspired by China & Japan Calligraphy. Each characters carefully crafted with delight full technique and visual touch to make your design works have oriental and stylish looks. Chinese Sahnagi Perfectly fit for your Chinese / Japanese projects, Logo, Branding, Restaurant, Asia Town decoration, anytime you need an instant vibe of it.

Beauties Bright allows you to make handwriting that looks fresher, both quickly and easily. Beauties Bright includes Stylistic Alternates for lowercase and uppercase characters. It is suitable for a variety of texts in your writing and also includes more than 20 swashes that allow your handwritten text to look more amazing.

Aryzena is handwritten, textured, artistic brush script. This font also has swash characters that make your design more attractive and natural, giving your text an authentic and laid-back characteristic. This font works well in designs for clothing, tittle books, quotes, branding, logos, packaging designs, posters, invitation, mural and more!

Introducing Shutter is a handwritten brush that is written casually and quickly. Letters are made with brushes on Procreate. Then crafted carefully drawn into vector format. That is why Shutter has charming, authentic and relaxed characteristic more natural look to your text with a more natural look to your text.

A Splashy font inspired by all things liquid and wet, the goal was to create a fun and realistic representation of water in the form of a letter. Water parks, Juice bars, your backyard pool party or your box of fresh squeezed orange juice, any time you need a good splash.