Out of a lifelong inner struggle, Philip Bouwsma unleashes a masterpiece that reconciles classic calligraphy with type in a way never before attempted. Maestro takes its cue from the Italian chancery cursive of the early sixteenth century. By this time type ruled the publishing world, but official court documents were still presented in calligraphy, in a new formal style of the high Renaissance that was integrated with Roman letters and matched the refined order of type. The copybooks of Arrighi and others, printed from engraved wood blocks, spread the Italian cancellaresca across Europe, but the medium was too clumsy and the size too small to show what was really happening in the stroke. Arrighi and others also made metal fonts that pushed type in the direction of calligraphy, but again the medium did not support the superb artistry of these masters or sustain the vitality in their work. As the elegant sensitive moving stroke of the broad pen was reduced to a static outline, the human quality, the variety and the excitement of a living act were lost. Because the high level of skill could not be reproduced, the broad pen was largely replaced by the pointed tool. The modern italic handwriting revival is based on a simplified model and does not approach the level of this formal calligraphy with its relationship to the Roman forms. Maestro is the font that Arrighi and his colleagues would have made if they had had digital technology. Like the calligraphic system of the papal chancery on which it is modelled, it was not drawn as a single finished alphabet, but evolved from a confluence of script and Roman; the script is formalized by the Roman to stand proudly in a world of type. Maestro came together on screen over the course of several years, through many versions ranging widely in style, formality, width, slant, weight and other parameters. On one end of the spectrum, looking back to tradition it embodies the formal harmony of the Roman capitals and the minuscule which became the lower case. On the other it is a flowing script letter drawing on the spirit of later pointed pen and engravers scripts. As its original designers intended, it works with simple Roman capitals and serifs or swash capitals and baroque flourishes. The broad pen supplies weight and substance to the stroke which carries energy through tension in balanced s-curves. Above all it is meant to convey the life and motion of formal calligraphy as a worthy counterbalance to the stolid gravity of metal type. The Maestro family consists of forty fonts distributed over two weights. The OpenType version compresses the family considerably down to two fonts, regular and bold, each containing the entire character set of twenty fonts, for a total of more than 3350 characters per font. These include a wide variety of stylistic alternates, ligatures, beginning and ending letters, flourishes, borders, rules, and other extras. The Pro version also includes extended linguistic support for Latin-based scripts (Western, Central and Eastern European, Baltic, Turkish, Welsh/Celtic, Maltese) as well as Greek. For more thoughts on Maestro, its background and character sets, please read the PDF accompanying the family.

PB Roman Uncial Vc is a font face designed for imitate Roman uncial writing style found in manuscripts from 4th to 5th century. All characters are handwritten by use ink and reed pen (calamus), scanned, digitized and optimized for best quality without lost its handwritten visual appearance. Character set support codepages: 1250 Central (Eastern) European, 1252 Western (ANSI), 1254 Turkish, 1257 Baltic. Include also additional characters for Cornish, Danish, Dutch and Welsh language, spaces (M/1, M/2, M/3, M/4, M/6, thin, hair, zero width space etc.), historical characters (overlined Roman numerals, abbreviations, I-longa, historical ligatures for "nomina sacra" and "notae communes") and wide range of ancient punctuation. OpenType TrueType TTF (.ttf) font file include installed OpenType features: Access All Alternates, Localized Forms, Fractions, Alternative Fractions, Ordinals, Superscript, Tabular Figures, Proportional Figures, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set 1, Historical Forms, Historical Ligatures. Include also kerning as single 'kern' table for maximum possible backwards compatibility with older software. Historical ligatures for "nomina sacra" and "notae communes" are mapped to Private Use Area codepoints.

PB Roman Uncial IIc is a font face designed for imitate Roman uncial writing style found in manuscripts from 1st to 2nd century. All characters are handwritten by use ink and reed pen (calamus), scanned, digitized and optimized for best quality without lost its handwritten visual appearance. Character set support codepages: 1250 Central (Eastern) European, 1252 Western (ANSI), 1254 Turkish, 1257 Baltic. Include also additional characters for Cornish, Danish, Dutch and Welsh language, spaces (M/1, M/2, M/3, M/4, M/6, thin, hair, zero width space etc.), historical characters (overlined Roman numerals, I-longa, historical ligatures for "nomina sacra" and "notae communes") and wide range of ancient punctuation. OpenType TrueType TTF (.ttf) font file include installed OpenType features: Access All Alternates, Localized Forms, Fractions, Alternative Fractions, Ordinals, Superscript, Tabular Figures, Proportional Figures, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set 1, Historical Forms, Historical Ligatures. Include also kerning as single 'kern' table for maximum possible backwards compatibility with older software. Historical ligatures for "nomina sacra" and "notae communes" are mapped to Private Use Area codepoints.

Interlaken™ is a modern display & branding typeface allowing to design creative logotypes, posters and headlines with ease. It is an uppercase family of six OpenType fonts and one 2-axis variable font, packed with features such as stylistic alternates and tons of original ligatures. The family’s purpose is to make the creative process of designing logotype a blast. It has a wide set of OpenType features crafted especially to make your life easier, allowing you to accomplish your projects in less time. Interlaken has a powerful and very modern character, it comes in three width variants, making it a good fit in various design scenarios. Its cutout details make it look unique and create an impression of inner shadows when set on a dark background. Interlaken is a great typographic tool for such industries as sports, fitness, modern technology, fashion and gaming. It works perfect as a pairing typeface with Rothorn, Conthey and Conthey Inline and Axalp Grotesk.

Introducing 'Gradation" is a realistic signature font style. Gradation font is perfect for you to make a realistic signature, it's so easy to use and you can combine it with the swashes to make your signature more real & natural. Gradation will be perfect for different projects such as logos & branding, wedding invitation designs, social media posts, advertisements, website & landing page, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, and watermark. Gradation has a modern shape and comes with a monoline stroke that will make your signature look clean and luxurious. How to use this font: Just open your Opentype features ( Minimum Compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS 6 and Adobe Illustrator CS 6 ) in Adobe photoshop go to Window - Glyphs and all the alternates will appear while using the script font to use the ligatures and swashes. As you type, your text will look like a natural signature or handwriting. What are you waiting for? Download now Gradation font and make your own Signature logo!

Is your project missing something that makes people going madly in love? Looking for a gorgeous font to engage and captivate your audience? What if we told you that we have a solution to maximize your designs? Introducing Lost Monday-A Monoline Font This is a different level font. A modern and stylish handcrafted monoline font that’ll make your audience swoon and enhance your projects. Every stroke and curve was created to capture the essence of simple but style. With stylish and passion edged into every curve and twist of this brush font - you’ll be sure to boost your sales and make the best impressions. Use it for headings, logos, business cards, printed quotes, invitations of all sorts, cards, packaging, and your website or social media branding. Lost Monday includes Multilingual Options to make your branding globally acceptable. Features: Beautiful Ligatures Stylistic Sets Multilingual Support PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Din Studio

Brave Brothers is a stylish modern font that's perfect for use in fashion-related design projects. Its elegant thin font makes it ideal for branding and logo design, while low legibility height makes it perfect for use in websites, advertising, and other types of communications. Brave Brothers Modern Font is perfect for adding a touch of luxury and elegance to your designs. This stylish font was created with care to be perfect for use in modern fashion logos, websites, and marketing materials. Brave Brothers is a stylish modern font that's perfect for use in fashion-related design projects. Its elegant thin font makes it ideal for branding and logo design, while low legibility height makes it perfect for use in websites, advertising, and other types of communications. Brave Brothers Modern Font is perfect for adding a touch of luxury and elegance to your designs. This stylish font was created with care to be perfect for use in modern fashion logos, websites, and marketing materials.

Looking for a serif font that will make your brand stand out? Introducing Wylie Voigen – A Modern Serif Font. A mix of culture and style, Wylie Voigen is excellent for showing what makes your business unique. Wylie Voigen allows you to make stunning web pages, apps, ads, merchandise, printed cards, and anything else your business needs. What you’ll get: Multilingual & Ligature Support Full sets of Punctuation and Numerals Compatible with: Adobe Suite Microsoft Office KeyNote Pages Software Requirements: The fonts that you’ll receive in the pack are widely supported by most software. In order to get the full functionality of the selection of standard ligatures (custom created letters) in the script font, any software that can read OpenType fonts will work. We hope you enjoy this font and that it makes your branding sparkle! Feel free to reach out to us if you’d like more information or if you have any concerns.

A practical font family - Geometric forms make this elegant font family a great companion for invitations and signs, indoor and outdoor.

Metzada is a vivid choice when you want to effortlessly make your designs stand out with a remarkable sharp crafted typography.

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

Geometric forms with subtle curves make this elegant font family a great companion for titles, invitations and signs, indoor and outdoor.

Cocoro is a rounded textured font. Cocoro is extended, containing West European diacritics & ligatures, making it suitable for multilingual environments & publications.

This downloadable font has fun written all over it. Its versatile style makes it useful for all sorts of whimsical themes.

BooRush is a display font with a childish touch. The bold shape makes this font very suitable for any playful heading!

Hazilim is a vivid choice when you want to effortlessly make your designs stand out with a remarkable wild crafted handwriting.

Story font is an experiment to convert the script-style calligraphy into bitmap format. Made alongside Tale fonts, with different design.

Naratif is a condensed display based on an early 1900 sans-serifs and gothic faces and it has 7 weights including italic. Great for anything big and for not so small text or display. With a wide range of latin support, and OpenType features such as Small Caps, Fractions, Alternates Character, Inferior and Arrows.

Presenting Mango Lover - a whimsical and organically handwritten sans serif font that dances with a playful charm. But that's not all; Mango Lover comes with its own Shadow version to add depth and character to your text. With a delightful array of ligatures and alternate characters, this font becomes a creative playground for your projects .

Our font of the original was only ten point, so we had to use our imagination to a great extent. As specialists in Victorian typography, we have found that many people do not like the "center alignment" idea, used on several old time faces, but we have been faithful to the original. So there!

Clairveaux is based on samples of an ornate 12th century calligraphic style. It has some interesting features, including small caps which combine some characteristics of both traditional upper and lower cae character forms. It's ornate enough to look decorative, but not overwhelmingly complex, and looks remarkably attractive when used for titles in a large size.

Ornata F is the sixth of a series of old ornaments that I am trying to save from oblivion. I am completely redesigning the ornaments from scratch. These ornaments have been designed around 1910, I could not find out by whom. This set is perfect to design flowery frames. Your digitizing typedesigning savior, Gert Wiescher

ITC Tiepolo font is from the design team at AlphaOmega Typography and named after Italian artist Dominic Tiepolo. The designers describe it as a sans serif with serifs" and it has also been referred to as a calligraphic design. Similar to Asian calligraphy, ITC Tiepolo font has personality yet does not detract from the text."

Umpire Serif is a heavy sans-serif immersed in Victorian grandeur, exuding a kingly confidence that commands respect. Every letter carved is a testament to its solid and heavy foundation, echoing the decorative prowess of a bygone era. With its bold demeanor, the typeface effortlessly portrays nobility and pride. It's not merely decorative; it's regal.

Red began as an experiment, and turned into a larger project. Most super-black type designs are constructed of extremely simple and geometric elements. Most of them do not include a lowercase alphabet. Red is designed to be simultaneously more human, as black as possible, and as readable as possible. VIew the full specimen here.

Allektra is a humanist sans serif with a modern feel. It is not as whimsical as many of my fonts, but there are many special dingbats for bullets, and so on. It has oldstyle numbers and the small caps versions have lining numbers and small caps numbers. The Fat version is especially interesting and useful.

March may be a good time to use this typeface. PattyDay is a caps-only typeface in which the letters are decorated with shamrocks or clovers. Some but not all of the lower-case letters are different from the upper-case letters. If you want a version of this face without the shamrocks, try Ingone.

My beautiful mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2011. Our family's resolution was to love my mom through this time- to stay by her side and remind her each day that she is not alone and that she is loved as she walks this difficult road. This font was made in her honor.

In the 19th century typefaces with star-like serifs developed from the medieval type styles, retaining the sharp corners and peaks of some of the blackletter types but losing the flourishes on the upper-case letters. Asterx is in that tradition of star-footed typefaces, though it is not modeled on any particular one.

HF Rainbug is a natural brush font with all camps characters complete with alternates for each character. Not only that, this font also multilingual support. This font is suitable for various design themes that you will design, and can be adjusted easily to get a natural feel because alternates are available for each character. **Uppercase

"It is quite delicious" - a quote by an English speaking kid, aged 3 in the kindergarten in which I work. Not only is that a very fine way of expressing your self (and remarkable at the age of 3!) But "Quite Delicious" also appear in the song "Why can't I be you" by The Cure.

ITC Snap is the work of American designer David Sagorski and represents both the creativity and humor of the native Kansan. It clealy displays the influence of cartoon graphics of the 1960s and 70s, but does not need to be limited to period or animated graphics. ITC Snap is ideal for headlines which demand attention.

Picking up a concept of Fritz Richter, Circensis is the realization of an adorned diplay font which had not been hitherto available, neither as a hot-metal font nor digitally. It is a great and legible font for circus and variety ads and posters, as well as for films, cafés, ice-cream parlors etc.

Ayaha was inspired by brush lettering and has a friendly look. This beautiful script font is not conneted, that way you can letter spacing more or less without resulting in weird design. Ayaha, with alternate stylistic sets to add value to your projects. Good for branding, magazine, header, poster, logotype, packaging and so on.