Getone is an exotic font, based on the Sereno font made by the same designer. It has a modern touch which makes it to stand out, all the glyphs are designed "out of the box" to combine each other in harmonious way. Getone is coming in ten styles : thin, ultra light, light, regular, bold and italics. Is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, festive occasions, editorial and publishing, logo, branding and creative industries, poster and billboards as well as web and screen design.

Hello Aluyeaholics! Introducing Salks, the Typeface That Brings Joy to Your Designs! Salks is a playful and joyful display typeface that will add a touch of happiness to your creative projects. With Salks' 140+ playful ligatures, four weight options, quick access features, and careful attention to detail, you'll have the perfect tool to instantly uplift any project and unlock unlimited creative possibilities. Experience the happiness that Salks brings to your creative world with this delightful display typeface that guarantees smiles all around.

Reksano was inspired by retro vintage arcades, toys, and games back in the 90s era. Embracing the retro-futurism trend with the mindset from the past, predicting how the future will look from the human eye's perspective. The bold, and tall form of construction makes the Reksano a no-doubt game-changer for your graphic design visual journey. Perfectly fit for logo, branding, gaming, esport design, poster, music video, album artwork, cover, book, packaging, merchandise, apparel, fashion, and many more.

Gopher Mono is a reverse contrast, monospace sans serif typeface ranging in weight from thin to black with italics. The design provides a unique look to the monospaced genre by using a contrast where the vertical strokes are a little thinner with horizontal strokes thicker. While monospaced fonts are typically used for smaller body text, the slightly unusual quirks of a reverse contrast design make it interesting enough to also use for display treatments so style and function are blended.

My kids like to read Donald Duck magazine. They have boxes full of old editions that we bought second hand. Most of the comics are well-used, but there are some in near mint condition. I thought it would be nice to create a font that mimics the lettering found in comics. Mint condition is a very nice, very friendly handmade comic book font that comes with extensive language support (including Vietnamese and Cyrillic), plus two sets of alternate glyphs.

We don't mean to gloat, but we have to say that it gives us immense, malicious pleasure and joy to supplant other popular germanesque letterforms with this, remarkably superior font. This successful addition to our DEAD cool POOL of ACHTUNG BABY alphabets will, no doubt, make you feel that your own library of teutonic fonts is now severely lacking. We're that mercenary, we're Mercs with Mouths, you might say. Wait, did we say that we DON'T mean to gloat? Actually, we do.

Stem Text is a workhorse typeface, a geometric sans-serif with a semi-closed aperture and a large x-height. The design of Stem Text allows to use it in body text sizes as well as in headlines. Stem Text is fully compatible with Stem , so the styles of Stem can be used as display styles together with Stem Text in text setting. Design -- Alexandra Korolkova with the assistance of Maria Selezeneva and Isabella Chaeva. Released by ParaType in 2015.

Prop-a-ganda offers retro-flavored fonts inspired by lettering on retro propaganda posters, retro advertising posters, retro packages all the world over. This is perfect font for your retrospective project. Each letters of PAG Transformacio go into a rectangular box. When we type words with this font, we feel like putting building blocks or stamping the paper delightfully. It is a fundamental pleasure of typography. PAG Transformacio will be the best solution for posters, titles and anywhere you need retrospective lettering.

Archopada is a modern, humanist, strong statement typeface with clean lines. Inspired by classic geometric and fun typefaces. This font perfect for adding a title to your portfolio or website, magazine, branding, id card or you can use for body text in long paragraph. This set includes 6 weight humanist with oblique. If you need fun taste, We also prepared rounded style plus 6 weight and oblique style. Archopada consists of upper and lowercase, numerals, ligatures plus some stylistic alternative characters.

Toony Line is a comic font that feels like a delightful throwback to the golden age of cartoons. Funny and loony, the font channels playful tunes while its sharp, sans-serif characters dance on the page with a joy reminiscent of our favorite animated classics. There's a hint of Mickey's magic, a dash of Disney dreaminess, and the unapologetic boldness of comic strips and street art. But what sets Toony Line apart is its intricate overlapping effect, made possible by sophisticated OpenType.

Magazine Grotesque is a sans-serif font specially designed for headlines and titles. Its unique features make it different from the traditional Grotesk typefaces. For example, outstroke extending beyond body in 'a' and 'e' letters or closed aperture in 'c', creating an unusual rhythm. Magazine Grotesque is the perfect choice for logos, titles, headlines and short blocks of text. As you would expect from Latinotype, this face comes with a standard set of 487 characters that support over 200 Latin-based languages.

Sick to death of buying an entire dingbat font just for the ONE symbol you really want? Are you a closet Goth? Do you think Halloween should be a national holiday? If so, then you need Crania, the all skull font. No poorly drawn bats, no gay pumpkins, no goofy looking Frankenstein monsters or grinning mummies, no lame-ass puns carved into headstones... JUST SKULLS. Crania contains 52 different skulls and a PDF guide so you know what the hell you're doing.

ZT Voltra is a stylish and charismatic serif type family that brings modern and vintage feels that allow you to make a visual journey from thinnest body slab to a very thick expanded display serif. ZT Voltra works in modern digital interfaces on mobile and web platforms also suitable in humanist serif touch for prints and any design projects. Twelve weights with seven expanded widths cover everything from an airy thin to a good looking heavyweight and support for 100+ languages.

Casthago is a transitional, humanist serif typeface family, comes with some contrast in the stroke and medium curve braketed serif that creates a very classic and traditional feel. Casthago designed for body text, creating a steady and readable rhythm, made for immersive reading. Some Character comes with alternate style 'a,h,m,n' that inspirated by Carolingian manuscript that was popular in medieval European period. Casthago consists of 16 styles from Extralight to black including italic styles and 2 variable fonts addition.

Tahiti Sans is a playful, all caps display sans available in 2 versions. At first glance it appears to be the offspring of a rather uniform font and a wacky one. The variations of letterforms as well as random angles are minimal. They’re tall by nature so squeezing text into tight spaces should be easy. Characters are slightly jumbled in a childlike manner and misaligned with varying degrees of spacing. Use it for youth sports, social media, toy packaging or advertising.

Ceramika is a modern tribute to Old Style typefaces. This design is inspired by the letterforms of the serif faces found in history books from the beginning of the 20th-century. Its sturdiness and generous X-Height makes it bold and compact; while the high-contrast strokes and recognisable shapes makes it extremely readable. All this makes Ceramika a really versatile font, perfect for logos, headlines and even body copy. It comes in 6 different weights and 2 styles — Standard and Italic.

Micheliya has a font script that is provided with great tenderness to be presented with a variety of stunning character models. Micheliya combines a new design that features free, warm, modern features. taste. The diversity of weights provides a variety of choices that will help you find the best design colors for your project. Lighter weights are perfect for heavier body text ideal for high impact headers. Alternative styles available provide different characters that give your logo or business card a unique display.

Heirloom grew from an interest of soft and friendly forms from the 1970s, with respect to the time's chill vibes and natural earthy roots. Its refined approachable characteristics allow it to be very readable carry a modern relaxed attitude. Available in 3 weights: Light, Regular and Bold. Any weight can be used as a display type, logotype and/or headlines, and lighter weights would work in bodies of text. The font pairs well with natural, historical or vintage graphic elements.

Machine Killer Font is a modern Blackletter style font that is perfect for your Display or Body text designs. It adds a bold touch to your projects and will inspire you to create something unique and modern. Funky Gloom Font is ideal for headings, flyers, greeting cards, product packaging, book covers, printed quotes, logotype, apparel design, and album covers, and it is perfect for headings, flyers, greeting cards, product packaging, book covers, printed quotes, logotype, apparel design, and album covers.

vastra is a slim, futuristic, bauhaus inspired typeface. It has plenty of those pesky foreign glyphs and various alternates of the standard alphabet. It’s available in 5 different weights from light to Heavy and is complimented by 5 italicized versions of the 5 different weights too. I wanted this font to look like background set typography in a 70’s sci-fi movie. D A N G E R You can buy it in singles, pairs or the whole damn brood.

Bloery is a neo grotesque font modified with extended proportion. Comes with a modern look, this font suitable for display and body text. Bloery is a good choice for editorial design, branding, app design and web design. Comes with 7 weights from Thin to Bold with each matching Italic. Contain several OpenType features: Stylistic Alternates and Figures Variation (fraction, tabular lining, numerator, denominator). Each style includes 540+ glyphs supporting all western, eastern and central european languages (over 200 languages supported).

Meutas is a sans serif font family which geometric and humanist make a blend. Make it more attractive and dynamic. Meutas is designed for display and body text. Maximizes thickness while maintaining balance in each form. This makes it especially suitable for all kinds of creative projects. Meutas comes with 10 weights and a matching oblique, making it 20 styles. Some alternative glyphs will be an attractive choice. Makes every project you work on easier, and will certainly be awesome!

MT Crisiant is a new, minimalistic, elegant, and professional font. This font is suitable for making, titles, taglines, logos, and products to be printed. MT Crisiant is a sans serif typeface that is a blend of geometric and humanist. Make it more interesting and dynamic. MT Crisiant is designed for display and body text. Maximizes thickness while maintaining balance in each shape. This makes it perfect for all kinds of creative projects. The MT Crisiant comes with 18 weights and tilts to match.

It’s stronger than the Thing AND the Hulk! It can bench press 500 pound gorillas and send them scurrying into the corner. RIPPED BAM BOOM is a font that can tear through the alphabet faster than you can say “A to Z” and will work your chest, shoulders and triceps and help YOUR characters gain upper-body strength and muscle mass! Features alternate uppercase characters, Western & Central Europe, Vietnamese & Cyrillic support, Crossbar I Technology™ and 18 Chinese Sound Effects

Marble is part of Asterisk Type Collection by URW Type Foundry. Marble is a modern sans serif with a distinct character and comes in 108 styles plus Variable Fonts. It grew from the desire to create full bodied letters in contrast to the economy of most sans serif faces. Designed for corporate and publishing use it is rounded and approachable, its three styles (Condensed, Normal and Wide) range from slender elegance to warmth and playfulness without ever being informal. Designed by Alessia Mazzarella and Vaibhav Singh, Marble derives its character from the generous roundness of the x-heights which is balanced by the striking horizontal or vertical cuts to the terminals. The result is a readable font that encourages the eye to move from one shape to the next and that offers a range of possibilities for digital and print. The Marble family has nine weights in Latin for each variant. Eminently versatile, it’s ideal for establishing hierarchies of information with a wealth of choices for headlines, subheadings, captions and body copy styles that are all in harmony with each other. The Wide style allows headlines to be set with width and presence.

BRONKEY Typeface is a sans serif font that has a bold, sporty feel to it. It comes in several styles, including regular, italic, outline, square, and rough, providing a versatile range of options for designers. The font has a high body, making it stand out when used in large sizes, such as for headlines or titles. It contains 700 glyphs, including ligatures and alternates, allowing for greater flexibility and creativity in designing. Additionally, it supports PUA codes and is multilingual, making it accessible to a broad range of users. Overall, BRONKEY Typeface is an excellent choice for those looking for a modern, bold font with a range of styles and features. Its sporty feel and high body make it a great choice for projects related to sports, fitness, or any project that requires a dynamic, attention-grabbing font. Language Support : Latin, Basic, Western European, Central European, South European,Vietnamese. In order to use the beautiful swashes, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw. but if your software doesn't have Glyphs panel, you can install additional swashes font files.

Bastia is a classy, bold upper and lowercase typeface that looks incredible in both large and small settings. Best used as a display for headings and logos, Bastia's clean lines and smooth curves give any project an extra touch of class. See how it looks when used for body text in the 11th sample image above. I also love combining Bastia and clean sans serifs for minimal logos (see the "Lucky Finch" sample logo). This download also includes a special outline version of the serif, so you can layer text or add some flair to your logos and display type. There are also alternates available for "k" and "s" that give each letter some extra curves (available via the special characters panel One thing to note about Bastia is the letter spacing. It was intentionally spaced for clean reading if you wanted to use it for body type, so I recommend setting the spacing a little tighter for display use (around -10 to -20 should do!). Includes: Bastia Bold (uppercase & lowercase) Bastia Bold Outline (uppercase & lowercase) Numbers & punctuation Foreign language support Alternates for "k" and "s" – available via the special characters panel

Monggirella script font is a pretty calligraphic script font with flourishes, that will look gorgeous on all your designs, wedding invitations, love stories, branding materials, logos, business and wedding cards, calligraphy Insta quotes elegant fashion sketches, calligraphy love monograms and much more. Monggirella script font contains the Cyrillic glyphs too. Monggirella script font contains a full set of uppercase and lowercase letters and can be used to create a handwritten calligraphy look. Some letters include the flourishes and you can receive them by typing numbers after letters. Please use the glyphs map to choose the letters with flourishes Multilingual Support for 31 languages: Latin glyphs for Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bosnian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh, Zulu. Cyrillic glyphs support for Russian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian languages. (Does font support more Cyrillic languages just type a message in the text box below and see if all characters you’ll need are there.) Please note, sometimes the text box may not display the flourishes, but they are definitely available! :)

SoftMaker revives John Schaedler’s popular Tabasco typeface with this release. SoftMaker’s Tabasco comes in regular and bold styles, and the famous bi-line variant (sometimes called “Paprika”) is also available again under the name Tabasco Twin.

Mixtra is a versatile and complete type family designed by Bo Berndal. The three Mixtra family branches are Roman, Sansserif and Slabserif, each with a full set of weights. The Roman also has a Small Caps font. Combining the three family members is a good starting point for creating a coherent typographical design. Mixtra works well in magazines and all sorts of print in need of a strong visual identity. "Mixtra is a multiface", says Bo Berndal. "With or without serifs, or with powerful slabserifs, you can pick the version that best suits the design and printing technique you have chosen."

Mixtra is a versatile and complete type family designed by Bo Berndal. The three Mixtra family branches are Roman, Sansserif and Slabserif, each with a full set of weights. The Roman also has a Small Caps font. Combining the three family members is a good starting point for creating a coherent typographical design. Mixtra works well in magazines and all sorts of print in need of a strong visual identity. "Mixtra is a multiface", says Bo Berndal. "With or without serifs, or with powerful slabserifs, you can pick the version that best suits the design and printing technique you have chosen."

Mixtra is a versatile and complete type family designed by Bo Berndal. The three Mixtra family branches are Roman, Sansserif and Slabserif, each with a full set of weights. The Roman also has a Small Caps font. Combining the three family members is a good starting point for creating a coherent typographical design. Mixtra works well in magazines and all sorts of print in need of a strong visual identity. "Mixtra is a multiface", says Bo Berndal. "With or without serifs, or with powerful slabserifs, you can pick the version that best suits the design and printing technique you have chosen."

A charming confidant. Italic, but without the slant. Campuni is a sans-serif typeface that can be described as an “upright italic”: its letters are modeled on the handwritten forms of italics—but without the slant. This gives Campuni a contemporary, charming, and trustworthy character. As with most modern sans-serif typefaces, Campuni’s design is based on low-contrast, almost monolinear strokes with a neat and clear appearance. This is where Campuni’s steep and tapered joints come in: with a bit of contrast, they provide the perfect foundation for a steady rhythm between characters—just like you’d find in meticulous handwriting. Careful spacing ensures that this rhythmic character is preserved on the page and on screen, making for a pleasant reading experience. It’s not just the letterforms that gain from Campuni’s calligraphic heritage, though. This typeface is packed with calligraphy-style swash capitals and end swashes on lowercase letters, as well as discretionary ligatures. These are available via OpenType, allowing you to spice up your logo or headline with a hint of calligraphy in a breeze. Despite its flawless legibility in body text, Campuni is definitely eye-catching in display sizes. (Decrease letterspacing for some additional punch.) Besides logo design, Campuni is a great choice for branding, advertising, packaging, corporate design, or even signage and wayfinding. The range of topics that Campuni excels in varies from food, leisure, retail, e-commerce, music, and travel to games, toys, childcare, and family-themed events. Campuni has got an Extended Latin character set, seven sets of figures, case-sensitive forms, arrows, and a few other advanced typographic features—622 glyphs in total. Its eight weights span from Thin to Black.

Introducing Bubble Brown, an exciting and playful bubble display font that will add a touch of whimsy to your designs. This font features a unique alternate ligature style that combines bubbles and letters, creating a fun and engaging visual experience. With its lively appearance, Bubble Brown is perfect for various design projects, especially those aimed at children, toys, games, or anything that requires a cheerful and vibrant aesthetic. This font is carefully crafted with 710 characters, ensuring versatility and multilingual support. Whether you're designing in English, French, Spanish, German, or any other language, Bubble Brown has got you covered. The font includes special characters, punctuation marks, numerals, and a wide range of glyphs, allowing you to express your creativity without limitations. One of the standout features of Bubble Brown is its support for PUA Unicode. This means that you can access the font's extensive character set through private use area codes, giving you even more freedom to customize and personalize your designs. Let your imagination run wild as you combine different characters and ligatures to create captivating typographic compositions. Bubble Brown will bring joy and excitement to any project it graces. Whether you're designing posters, logos, packaging, websites, or any other creative endeavor, this bubble display font is bound to make a lasting impression. Its alternate ligature style adds a touch of uniqueness and flair, setting your designs apart from the crowd. So why wait? Get your hands on Bubble Brown today and unlock a world of creativity, fun, and boundless possibilities. Let this font take your designs to new heights and bring smiles to the faces of your audience.

Remember clear summer days as a kid? Remember open fields that you explored? Sun shining? Simple breezes sweeping past your face as you ran far and free? The feeling was uncomplicated and enjoyable. It was natural. That’s Verao, the simple spirit of summer. Alive and vibrant, Verao takes a turn away from the cold structure of today’s rigid creations and embraces the movement back to the value of things handmade. This artisan creation represents the rare, soul-invested fusion of the craftsman’s tools, materials, and hand movements, which shapes the solid--but beautifully defined--parts, pieces that, when put together, breathe a measure of life into everyday paragraphs and other bodies of text. Verao’s hand-written brush script, with its characters’ imperfect elegance and handmade quality, keeps your work looking organic. Write a word in more than a hundred different ways thanks to the large number of extra letters it offers. Two sets of lowercase alternative letters without connectors are included as is a set of swashed endings. Verao contains stylistic substitutions and ligatures, too, that you can combine however you like. Whichever way you design, the elements continue to appear balanced and separate and will undoubtedly add more personality to your design. So stop switching out cogs in your rigid set of fonts. Take time again to play with a natural face that’s both easy and energetic. Verao’s great temperament makes it a joy to design with. Let this spirit of summer take you away from the mundane. There’s a good chance Verao will lead you where you need to go. Production assistance from Lucas Azevedo.

The joy of pure geometry, revisited. Geometric typefaces are a staple in every typographer’s toolbox since the 1920s. It was a time when iconic faces such as Futura, Erbar, and Kabel appeared on the scene and turned the world of type upside-down. Inspired by those early giants as well as later epigones with a legacy of their own (such as 1970’s Avant Garde Gothic), Flink is the Identity Letters take on this genre, characterized by a clean and focused appearance. With neat shapes and the look of pure geometry, Flink adapts to a vast range of applications and topics, from the fine print in contract to website body copy to logo design to billboard-size slogans. Its x-height is considerably larger than in classic geometric sans-serif fonts; its proportions are harmonized as opposed to strictly constructed. This makes for a more contemporary look, setting it apart from the classics. To further reduce the rigidity of a purely geometric composition, you can replace some letters with more humanist alternates, such as a, g, j, etc. This font family comes along in 8 weights from Thin to Black. Each weight consists of an Upright and Italic version. There are more than 750 characters per style, including two stylistic sets that offer variations to the look and feel of Flink, making it even more versatile. Plenty of additional Open Type Features like ligatures, case sensitive forms, old-style figures, and symbols make Flink a valuable tool for the discerning typographer. Flink is the reimagination of a classic genre, designed to suit the needs of our time. ––––– Please note: There is an upgraded Version available: Flink Neue

Every year, more and more text is read directly on a computer screen in office applications, or from freshly printed sheets from a copier or laser printer. Clear, legible text faces are more imperative to office communication than ever before. Yet every worker desires a small bit of personality in the corporate world. Most office environments are only equipped with a few basic fonts that are truly optimized for use in text, with laser printers, and on screen. The Linotype Office Alliance fonts guarantee data clarity. All of the font weights within the individual family have the same character measurements; individual letters or words may have their styles changed without line wrap being affected! All numbers, mathematical signs, and currency symbols are tabular; they share the same set character width, ensuring that nothing stands in the way of clear graph, chart, and table design. In addition to being extremely open and legible, the characters in this collection's fonts also share the same capital letter height and the same x-height. The production and reading of financial reports is duly streamlined with the Linotype Office Alliance fonts. The Neuzeit Office family is designed after the model of the original sans serif family Neuzeit S, which was produced by D. Stempel AG and the Linotype Design Studio in 1966. Neuzeit S itself was a redesign of D. Stempel AG's DIN Neuzeit, created by Wilhelm Pischner between 1928 and 1939. Intended to represent its own time, DIN Neuzeit must have struck a harmonious chord. DIN Neuzeit is a constructed, geometric sans serif. It was born during the 1920s, a time of design experimentation and standardization, whose ethos has been made famous by the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements in art, architecture, and design. Upon its redesign as Neuzeit S in the 1960s, other developments in sans serif letter design were taken into account. Neuzeit S looks less geometric, and more gothic, or industrial. Separating it from typefaces like Futura, it has a double-storey a, instead of a less legible, single-storey variant. Unlike more popular grotesque sans serifs like Helvetica, Neuzeit S and especially the redesigned Neuzeit Office contain more open, legible letterforms. Neuzeit Office preserves the characteristic number forms that have been associated with its design for years. After four decades, Neuzeit has been retooled once again, and it is more a child of its age than ever before. Akira Kobayashi, Linotype's Type Director, created the revised and updated Neuzeit Office in 2006. His greatest change was to retool the design to make its performance in text far more optimal. Additionally, he created companion oblique to help emphasize text. The other three families in the Office Alliance system include Metro Office, Times Europa Office and Trump Mediaeval Office.Some weights of the Neuzeit Office are availabla as soft rounded versions. "

Once, Blackletter was a calligraphy style. Full of ligatures, with letters bumping into each other to create an unapologetic picket-fence pattern. Some even claimed that the regularity improved legibility! But then Blackletter was cast into metal, and only a handful of established ligatures survived, while most interletter connections were disentangled. Everyone since followed suit, and hundreds of years later, digital Blackletter fonts were modelled mostly on the metal fonts that prevailed rather than the original handwriting. Up until now! AJ Quadrata is an authentic revival of the textura quadrata hand, and its major inspiration is a 15th-century Latin manuscript of the Bible from Zwolle, the Netherlands. The typeface is delivered in two flavors. The default cut is a modern take on textura quadrata that can be useful for today and tomorrow. The standard ligatures feature employs nearly all letters. The tittle of i retains its original, hasty squiggle form (except for the Turkish localization). Discretionary ligatures include medieval ligatures da, de, do, pa, pe, po (and their mixed-case counterparts!). Stylistic sets allow to use historic letter variants such as long s and rotunda r, closed-counter a, and alternate capitals. AJ Quadrata Medieval is perfect for setting Latin. Default forms of capital F, H and O are swapped with the alternates. The squiggles above i only appear for disamibiguation nearby m, n or u, as in original manuscripts. Discretionary ligatures and historic variants are promoted to the standard ligatures feature to make room in the discretionary ligatures feature for a variety of scribal abbreviations. Dedicated stylistic sets include medieval punctuation and justification alternates — glyphs with elongated terminals used for lengthening lines that end up too short. The Rubrum styles can be layered and colored to create the illuminated effect on the capital letters. Besides a faithful rendition of extended Latin including Vietnamese, numerous synthetic additions are included: polytonic Greek, Armenian, and Cyrillic (with Bulgarian and Serbian/Macedonian localizations). Both flavors of the typeface can be considered a starting point that can be further customized using OpenType features, including Stylistic Sets (some features differ between AJ Quadrata and AJ Quadrata Medieval): ss01 Alt E ss02 Descending F / Roman F ss03 Uncial H / Roman H ss04 Angular O / Round O ss05 Contextual closed-counter a ss06 Diamond-dot i j / Always dotted i, j ss07 Contextual rotunda r / No r rotunda ss08 Contextual long s / No long s ss09 Dotless y ss10 Serbian Cyrillic ss11 Alt Cyrillic de ss12 Alt Cyrillic zhe ss13 Alt Cyrillic sha ss14-ss17 [reserved for future use] ss18 Scribal punctuation ss19 Alt linking hyphen ss20 Justification alternates

‘Krul’ is a typographic interpretation of the lettering style created by Dutch letter painter Jan Willem Joseph Visser at the end of the 1940s, which decorated the traditional brown bars of Amsterdam. In the beginning, these letters were strongly associated with the pubs connected to the Amstel brewery, given that Visser was the company’s official painter. As the years passed, the style became increasingly popular, and various business owners in Amsterdam and other Dutch and Belgian cities also commissioned its use. In the 1970s and 1980s, Leo Beukeboom, another talented letter painter, continued and expanded this lettering tradition while employed under the Heineken brand. Much of his work can still be found in the Jordaan and De Pijp neighborhoods in Amsterdam. The Amsterdamse Krulletter, or Amsterdam’s curly letter, is strongly inspired by the calligraphic works of the 17th century Dutch writing masters, of which Jan van den Velde was a central figure. However, distinct characteristics of this style, for example, its unusual and beautiful ‘g’, originate from a model that was published by Johannes Heuvelman in 1659, which J. W. J. Visser referenced. Typographic circles have somehow overlooked the Amsterdamse Krulletter and its heritage. The Dutch calligraphic hands preceded and influenced the formal English penmanship which has inspired numerous typefaces in the Copperplate style. In contrast, the models from van den Velde, Heuvelman, and Jean de la Chambre, among others, are a missing chapter in Dutch typographic history, and had never been turned into typefaces until now. Conscious of the cultural and identity issues that arise in reviving a unique style, and concerned about the speed with which the lettering style was disappearing, Ramiro Espinoza focused the project of designing ‘Krul’ on digitally recreating the calligraphic complexity of these beautiful letters. Created through several years of research, ‘Krul’ is not a direct digitization of the Amsterdamse Krulletter, but instead, an interpretation that incorporates numerous alternative characters absent in the original model, and improves upon details where necessary, resulting in an optimal performance on the printed page. The typeface is presented in Open Type format, with an abundance of intricate ligatures, fleurons, and swashes, which permit the creation of numerous calligraphic effects. The very high contrast and rhythm of the strokes in this typeface make it especially suited for media applications conveying a sense of elegance and sophistication. Designers of feminine magazines, advertisements, and corporate identities within the fragrance and fashion industries will find in this typeface to be an extremely useful and appropriate resource.The great Amsterdamse Krulletter is finally back, and we are proud to make it available to you.