The Vtg Stencil series of fonts from astype are based on real world stencils. The Germany No.1 design was derived from authentic antique German stencil-plates. » pdf specimen « Surprisingly these stencil-plates offer a high contrast Didot design very similar to the French stencils produced and sold till today. The production time of these stencils is in the range of the German imperial period (1871‒1918). Of course the usage period was even longer. The font styles PAINT and SKETCH include 4 additional variations of base glyphs and figures. An extensive random function will mix the glyphs as you type - on proper OpenType-savvy apps like Adobe InDesign only. All styles offer an extended Latin character set.

Apnea is a layerable type family consisting of fifty weights. It is an all caps font with a few lowercase alternatives (a, e, i, m, n, t, w, and y) thrown in for a more casual feel. The base letterforms are inspired by a painted sign I found in the garage of an old house I moved into years ago. All the hand-drawn elements were done directly in FontLab to keep them loose and playful without getting distorted or grungy. At its core Apnea consists of eight base weights (Base, Drop Shadow, Halftone, Inline Fill, Outline, Outline 3D, Shading and Shadow) that when combined, can make up the rest of the family. Have fun, experiment and play!

Main Street is a revival of the old font Soutache, the original version of this decorative alphabet was created in 1873 by Julius Herriet, a type designer active during the period marked by the Western expansion. Main Street with its split serifs and ornate scrollwork reflects the romantic splendor of the old west from fancy garb and Cowboy Saddles to Ice Cream Parlors and painted window signage. Main Street goes one step further by creating a base fill font which can be placed behind the regular Main Street font giving this font more of an inline appearance. You will need an application that allows layering of your fonts in order to take advantage of FontMesa Fill fonts.

Zombie Punks - The Retro Horror Video Font Introducing the first in a range of new font designs inspired by 80s VHS covers and the nostalgic video rental store experience. Starting off with a classic horror flavour, Zombie Punks is a grungy, hand-drawn brush font supplied in two styles with additional underlines and paint spills. The perfect choice for use on movie posters and trailers, album covers, books and much more. This all-caps design features punctuation, numerals and language support along with an alternative set of characters ensuring that you’ll never have to repeat your e’s or t’s for a more convincing and natural hand-made look. Check out the visuals for more details and cool usage examples.

Qi is a display sans-serif inspired, in part, by the art deco typefaces sometimes seen on old signs along rural American backroads. Unlike these signs, Qi is new, fresh, a little bit quirky, and not at all in need of repair or a fresh coat of paint. The family is comprised of six distinct fonts with more on the way. With an entire set of Central and Western European (and, of course, American) glyphs, plus a bunch of alternates and ligatures, Qi could be the perfect display face for your next sign, poster, newsletter, headline or, well, most anything else. Hey, the lowercase alone makes these fonts well worth the price.

Vinho De Amora is a truly vintage serif font. Drawn by Mans Greback between 2019 and 2021, this font is created with inspiration from wine cellars, painted typography and genuine quality produce. It has a distinct sharp character, steady legs and a bold and wide appearance. The Vinho De Amora family consists of three styles: Black, White and Stencil; each one geometrically consistent and complimenting, perfect for stacking on top of each other to create more variations. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality. It has extensive lingual support, covering all European Latin-based languages. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Take a midnight stroll if you dare through the shadowy terrace of terror, in Nightmare Street! A bloodcurdling design supplied in two styles with additional underlines and paint spills, Nightmare Street is an 80s inspired horror font straight from the video store. It’s the perfect choice when you want a hand-made look for your movie posters and trailers, album covers, books and Halloween promos. This font includes complete uppercase and lowercase characters plus punctuation, numerals and language support. It also comes with a full set of alternatives ensuring that you’ll never have to repeat your e’s or t’s for a more convincing and authentic hand-drawn look. Check out the visuals for more details and usage examples.

Blang Cod Brush is a handwritten script font, based on free-flowing, friendly, and organic signature style expressions. hand painted with love. Blang Cod is available with alternative ligatures and characters in the Open Type Feature. Perfect for branding projects, logos, product packaging, posters, invitations, greeting cards, news, blogs, everything including personal charm. Blang Cod Brush is coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without special design software. Mac users can use Font Book , and Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor/app. Thanks a lot for viewing and let me know if you have any questions.

Inspired by the vintage brush typography, we proudly present Hadnich. the versatile script font. Carefully designed with the taste of old school sign painting which has the neat letterforms, attractive move and combined in modern form. Complete your font library with this cool brush font. Works perfectly for logo, signage, apparel, labels, poster, and many more! Make sure you get more variants of typographic design with a ton of alternates characters that you can access easily! There are stylistic sets 01-14, ligatures, swashes also accented characters, packed in a total of 350++ glyphs! Worth every penny. Uppercase Lowercase Numbers & symbols Stylistic sets 01-14 Ligatures Multilingual characters Thank you for watching. Keep it real!

Emily Bonza Script is a sweet calligraphy writing while maintaining its elegance. This will increase your design stand out! Emily Bonza Script is the perfect typeface for all your types of projects, such as advertising, branding, graphic design, quotes, wedding designs, logos for online or offline businesses, photography, and more. Make your business more beautiful! Emily Bonza Script: - Multilingual - Alternative - PUA encoded - Ligature - Very easy to use in any software (Include Hints) - Does not require special software installation. Compatible with Windows and Mac OS. Supported by Microsoft Word, Paint, Adobe, Corel draw, Cricut and other applications. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me via email. Thank you so much for finding and enjoying it!

Blangkist Script is a handwritten script font, based on the expression of the signature style that flows freely, friendly and organic. hand painted with love. Blangkist Script contains ligatures and alternates characters in Open Type Features. Perfect for brand projects, logos, product packaging, posters, invitations, greeting cards, news, blogs, everything including personal charm. Blangkist Script is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all the extra characters without having special designing software. Mac users can use Font Book , and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor/app. Thanks so much for looking and please let me know if you have any questions.

Auster, A Sans with Flair! Auster packs sensational personality in its fine-tuned forms. Confident and quirky, yet comfortable to read, this distinctive san serif family stands out from the crowd. The curves cinch and strokes flair in unconventional places making Auster an unashamed rebel sure to turn heads. Originally designed during the TipoBrda Workshop in Slovenia. Resistenza spent 3 years developing this 2 style (roman & Italic), 20 weight family. The subtle reverse contrast characters were first painted with a flat brush, then polished in pencil on tracing paper before being carefully digitized, to include language support and all the opentype features you expect in a quality contemporary font. More About Opentype Features: https://bit.ly/opentype-rsz

Hand-lettered font, based on the designer's own handwriting. Perfect for indy comics or for lending almost anything a personal touch.

Manwriting is an extensive typeface with hundreds of ligatures used to simulate human handwriting. Perfect for forging papers and love-letters!

Kustom Style is a urban hand-lettered tattoo / graffiti font inspired by West Coast culture and old Venice Beach Skate Culture.

Mories is an elegant display serif with unique letter shapes to complete any designs, especially in fashion, branding, and for logos.

Spur Stencil JNL gets its inspiration from the single word "stencils" lettered on a vintage package of Glass Wax Christmas stencils.

This adorable, blocky font features monster elements and fur on each letter. Great for Halloween or just fun projects for kids.

Tribal Council JNL is a variant of Fun and Games JNL with a linocut look that emulates jungle or tribal lettering.

Hi! Introducing handcrafted high detailed font BITE HARD. It has four variations to help you easy recolor and combine lettering compositions

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Modsten-Bold is a modernistic stencil design with two sets of capital letters. Modsten-plain was added to complete the family.

Savage Initials are just that: wild, spontaneus capital letters that are meant to be extraordinary embellishments. Your wild designer, Gert Wiescher

Introducing a calligraphic script font named Squidink. This smooth font is perfect for lettering, has lots of ligatures and multilingual support.

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'Zarathustra' family is black lettered gothic font with multi-language support. It was inspired by middle age cathedrals and its sculptures.

Nathan Classic is a sweet and unique design. This font is very suitable for products, logos, invitation letters and many others.

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Playful JNL takes its name from the obviously playful lettering found on the title of a piece of 1940s sheet music.

Another charming handlettered gem based on the work of lettering artist Samuel Welo, from the 1927 edition of his Studio Handbook.

Cayenne is an all-caps hand-lettered font in three weights, two dotted versions and an outline and an inline font.

Tiny little snowflakes highlight this sketched-style font. Give your lettering a slightly funky hand drawn look with this cool font.

Although this font has the feel of quick all-caps draftsman's or carpenter's lettering, it also has a vintage signage look.

Hi! Introducing a simple minimalistic font named "One Thin Line". Because almost all letters and characters are made of one line.

Rough Marker is an uppercase handwritten typefaces. It comes with 2 letter-variations, swashes & lines and a variety of bonus symbols.

Geistig is a set of 26 individual letter monogram designs. Geistig works great for monograms, drop caps, and unique display settings.

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❧ Useful links: Luther’s Manuscripts at the UNESCO Memory of the World at Google Arts and Culture Martin Luther font on Kickstarter (with Film about the creation) Each letter of the Martin Luther font is strictly based on original samples found in Martin Luther’s 500 year old handwritten manuscripts. Letters that occur more often for example vowels have two or more different versions stored in the font. (➶ Figure 4) These alternative forms are exchanged automatically by the font as you type, and create a vivid look that comes close to actual handwriting. The font avoids that two identical letters are placed next to each other like, for example the two “o” in the word “look”. ➸ What Historic Sources is the Font based on? Two historic documents were used to base the font on. The notes Luther took before giving his speech in Worms in 1521 and a 6 page letter he wrote immediately after to Emperor Charles V., summarising his speech (➶ Figure 2). Both documents have been added to the UNESCO “Memory of the World” and can be seen at the Google Arts and Culture website. ➸ The Creation of a Handwriting Font The creation of a handwriting font is very different from the creation of a regular font. Harald Geisler has specialised in recreating handwriting in preceding projects with Albert Einstein’s, Sigmund Freud’s and his own handwriting. His experience working with Archives and Museums has gone into this project. First Geisler analyses the movement in the writing to understand how each letter is drawn. This involves partially learning how to write like a person. In this process not the outlines of the sample are reproduced but the original movement path of the handwriting (➶ Figure 3). In a second step width and contrast is added to reproduce Martin Luther’s characteristic impetus and the writing tools used at the time. (Link: Youtube Playlist showcasing the creation of individual letters) How about signs that can’t be found in archives? Some Glyphs can not be found in 500 year old manuscripts, for example the @-sign. Towards the end of the creation one collects a profund amount of details about how a writer moves on paper and addresses certain tasks moving the pen. Keeping this knowledge in mind an improvisation can be based on similar letter forms. For example the @ sign is based on of the movement of a lowercase a and parenthesis. ➸ Features of the Martin Luther font ❶ Extensive Documentation of the creation of the font, including high quality reproduction of the used manuscripts. ❷ Additional texts from Historian Dr. Henning Jürgens and Palaeographer (and Luther handwriting expert) Prof. Ulrich Bubenheimer ❸ Alternating Letters - in handwriting every word looks a bit different. To avoid that two identical letterforms are placed next to each other (for example in the word look) the font actively changes between different versions of letters as you type. ❹ Ligatures - characteristic writing forms when two letters are combined (for example “ct”) (➶ Figure 5) ❺ Terminal Letterforms - renders a special letterform when letter is at the end of a word. (➶ Figure 8) ❻ ‘’’Initial and Medial Letterforms''' - some letterforms are different when placed in the beginning or middle of a word, for example the lowercase s. ❼ Luther Rose - is a seal Luther used to authorise his correspondence. Today it is a widely recognized symbol for Luther. When you enter the numbers of Luthers year of birth and death 14831546 using the Martin Luther PRO font, it will render a stylised version of the Luther Rose. (➶ Figure 7) ❽ Historic letter-forms - letter-forms that are specific to medieval writing around 1500. For example the long-s or h with a loop at the bottom. (➶ Figure 6) ⚑ Multi language support - see the technical information tab for a full list of supported languages. (➶ Figure 11) ➸ The different Styles explained ❋ Martin Luther PRO - this includes all features listed above and is geared towards writing texts that are more readable today. It features alternating letters to create a natural handwriting look as well as two stylistic sets accessible through the OpenType menu. Historic forms are available through the glyph picker. ❋ Martin Luther Historic - this font creates a historically correct reproduction (i.e. with long-s) of Luther’s medieval latin handwriting. It features alternating letters to create a natural handwriting look as well as two stylistic sets accessible through the OpenType menu. ❋ Martin Luther Expert-1 - Dedicated access to the first set of letters only. ❋ Martin Luther Expert-2 - Dedicated access to the second set of letters only. ❈❈❈ Family Pack - recieve all fonts at a discounted price. ❈❈❈ ➸ Kickstarter The creation and development of the Martin Luther font was financed by 500 supporters on ➸Kickstarter.