For much of the world, the last half of December encompasses the beginning of winter and the a season of gift-giving, marked by Hanukkah and Christmas. It is generally accepted that the tradition of giving of gifts at this time was begun by The Three Wisemen. As described in The Gospel According to Matthew, the wisemen, led by a star from a distant land to the east, found the baby Jesus. First, they worshipped him and then, "they presented him with gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh." (Matthew 2:11). Thus began the tradition of celebrating the birth of Christ with the giving of gifts. There is a parallel tradition in the Jewish faith of the giving of gelt or gold at Hanakkuh to help support poor students, in keeping with the rich history of scholarship that is fundamental to the rabbinic system. Inevitably, in our secular culture, there has been a blending and a secularization of these traditions. The reasons have gotton lost in the “gimme.” What is often overlooked is what Paul realized when he told Timothy, “Neglect not the gift that is in thee.” The most importent gift is the gift inside of us, the gift of sacrificial love for others. When we let that gift be diminished in our minds amid the clutter of modern day material seeking, we can recall the prophesy of Micah over 2800 years ago, But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel: whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." (Micah 5:2 KJV) Never underestimate the impact you have on others. Words of kindness can change people’s lives. The Talmud says that the highest form of wisdom is kindness. Be wise this holiday season. The font BETHLEHEM STAR was originally designed for the church to which I belong, The Star Bethlehem Church of Ansonia, Connecticut, USA and is based on the typeface Accent with the permission of URW++ of Hamburg, Germany. You might choose BETHLEHEM STAR for your personal greetings as well as for flyers and programs at your church this holiday season. Like most display fonts, it is most effective at 18 points and larger. Like most script fonts, it is most effective when set with both upper and lower case. All caps with this font is like eating two pieces of pecan pie — too much of a good thing.

Maestrale is a paradigm-breaking new take on calligraphy, built around a compact, serif-style core and outrageously long, flamboyant extenders. At large sizes, its confident, charismatic lettershapes are ideally suited for branding and decorative uses, whereas longer texts at smaller sizes naturally weave themselves into a flowing texture. The font comprises 1299 glyphs, including many stylistic alternates, ligatures, small capitals, and initial, terminal, and linking forms, and offers extensive OpenType programming to support them. The calligraphic form of Maestrale is complemented by a matching text font (Maestrale Text) with short extenders, available in three cuts (a serif-style Roman, an upright Cursive, and a tilted Italic). Maestrale is all about the lowercase; its capitals are deliberately understated so as not to steal the limelight. In fact, the font works very well when set exclusively in lowercase. Maestrale�s small capitals are fitted into the core space of the lowercase, allowing them to be freely interspersed with lowercase characters. Alternately, an OpenType feature is available to replace a and e in small-caps text with their lowercase equivalents for a fresh unicase look. Since alternates and ligatures play such an important role, Maestrale offers three different modes of use. The most straightforward approach is simply to start typing using Maestrale Pro � the extensive OpenType programming will ensure that collisions between extenders are avoided and attractive ligatures are substituted for common glyph combinations. A more interactive approach is provided by the font Maestrale Manual, which allows the user to manually select alternate forms and ligatures even in typographically unsavvy applications, such as PowerPoint (as long as standard ligatures are supported). Stylistic alternates are simply represented as ligatures of their base forms with one or more instances of the rarely-used by easily-accessed characters "~" (ASCII tilde) and "`" (spacing grave accent); linking forms are built with �_� (underscore), multi-character ligatures with "|" (pipe), and initial and terminal forms with the �less than� and �greater than� characters. For instance, the Maestrale wordmark in the posters above was simply typeset with the string (`ma`est|r_a```l```e)| in Maestrale Manual (The parentheses represent �less than� and �greater than� characters here.) Feel free to type this string into the test line below and see what happens! Make sure Standard Ligatures are enabled. An instruction sheet listing all alternate forms and their accessibility is available from the Gallery tab on this page. The third mode of usage is aimed at professional designers, who make use of sophisticated software with extensive OpenType support. These power users are advised to use the font Maestrale Pro again, where all glyphs are accessible as stylistic alternates. Maestrale Text is a less extravagant but more versatile variation on the design of Maestrale, replacing Maestrale�s swashes with efficiently compact extenders. It is intended to serve as a perfectly matching text companion to Maestrale calligraphy, but constitutes a full-fledged typeface in its own right. It is equally at home at display sizes as it is in pull quotes, titles, and high-impact blocks of text. Maestrale Text comes in three complementary faces: A serif-style Roman, an upright Cursive, and a tilted Italic. Maestrale is the Italian word for �masterful�. It is also the traditional Italian name for the northwesterly mediterranean wind, better known by its French name, Mistral. Acknowledgements: I am grateful to the helpful souls on the Typophile forums for extensive feedback and encouragement on Maestrale, and to the TypeDrawers forum for feedback on Maestrale Text. This font is dedicated to Simone.

Melancholia is a subtle and beautiful sans-serif inspired by calligraphic letterforms. The name describes a feeling of deep sadness, an intense sensitivity to the world. The design of Melancholia is an attempt to introduce some of that wistfulness into the sans-serif form, a typographic classification that is often characterised by an austere functionality. Melancholia includes a set of true italics influenced by old-style serif italics, such as those found in Claude Garamond’s eponymous typeface, as well as a set of stylistic alternates and calligraphic-style swash characters.

Motorix is a typeface of alternatives. A versatile and highly flavorful constructivist design in three weights with corresponding italics, and hundreds of variant forms. Motorix’ interchangeable letterforms yield a multitude of combinations that elicit electronic rhythms and at times take on humanistic forms. The name Motorix is a pseudo-feminized variant (the ‘-ix’ suffix being derived from ‘-trix’) of the German word ‘motorik’, which refers to both electronic music and human motor skills. The typeface lives up to its energetic name, synthesizing precise rhythms and alphabetic waveforms into a uniquely upbeat and spunky typeface.

Festivo Clean is the clean version of the popular fonts Festivo Letters and Festivo lowercase Font Families. Festivo fonts are easy to use. After copying the text layer you created with Ctrl + C, the layers overlap with Ctrl + F or Ctrl + B paste command. You can achieve infinite color options by applying the desired color to the layers. The Festivo Clean family also includes three-dimensional fonts. In this version, the language support is increased. Festivo Clean would be a great choice for packaging designs, banners, posters and all other graphic designs.

Valentiqu is a feminine modern handwritten font, carefully handcrafted to become a true favorite. Its casual charm makes it appear wonderfully down-to-earth, readable and, ultimately, incredibly versatile. Valentiqu will look outstanding in any context, whether it’s being used on busy backgrounds or as a standalone headline! Comes with a full uppercase, lowercase, numbers and punctuation + standard multilingual support. It’s great for branding, logo designs, lettering, logotype, craft, posters, packaging and much more. We recommend using Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Tutorial how to Install & use Alternate / Special Character : https://hanscostudio.com/tutorial/ Enjoy!

Introducing, Righton - a luxurious font duo that brings a classy and luxury look. It contains two fonts, script and serif, which perfectly pair. They work great if you need a typeface for headlines, logotypes, apparel, invitations, branding, packaging, advertising etc. This typeface is comes in uppercase, lowercase, punctuation, symbols, numerals, stylistic set alternate, ligatures, and also has Multi-Lingual support. We hope you enjoy the font, please feel free to comment if you have any thoughts or feedback. Or simply send me a PM or email me at letterhend@gmail.com

Proudly Presenting, Butter Tropical a Handwritten Font Duo Original and Script. Both Fonts come with Multi-Lingual Support to fulfill your need. We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. Butter Tropical is perfect for any tittle, logo, product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!

Introducing Metanoia - Display font Metanoia is creative and elegant font with multilingual support. It's a very versatile font that works great in large and small sizes. This font is perfect for branding projects, home-ware designs, product packaging, magazine headers - or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image. FEATURES Uppercase, numeral, punctuation & Symbol Multilingual support No special software is required to type out the standard characters of the Typeface. Canva friendly Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! Mock ups and backgrounds used are not included. Thank you! Enjoy!

Rellita Display is a serif font with a luxurious, elegant, modern, unique and classy look. This font was specially created for luxury themed projects, branding projects, Magazine, Social Media, Branding, Logos, website headers or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image. and Many more need a Luxury touch. . Rellita Display includes full set: Swash Ligature stand discretionary Ligatures uppercase and lowercase multilingual character number punctuation If there's anything else you're not sure about, feel free to message me :) That's it! Have fun using Rellita Serif! Display!!

DSType proudly introduces BRAGA, an exuberant baroque typeface, named after a portuguese city, also known as the baroque capital of Portugal. Our latest typographic extravaganza comes with a multitude of fonts designed to work like layers, allowing to insert color, lines, gradients, patterns, baroque, floral swashes, and many other graphic elements. Starting with Braga Base, you can add any of the twenty-three available styles, to create colorful typographic designs. Be sure you check our detailed specimen, showing all the features and how to use this type system.

Distinctive with a sense of humor, Laughing Gull is a fun interlocking font that will fill your project with swirling energy, but won’t snatch your lunch. Handsome straight up, or switch on discretionary ligatures to find a fresh array of interlocks. Most of the ligatures are for lower case, some for upper/lower, and a few are for all-caps. Play around by turning some on and others off and feel free to mix up upper/lower whenever you need a laugh. Laughing Gull posters also feature Atlantic Fonts' Digby and Atlantic Doodles.

NarrowPath is a family of 18 condensed and ultra-condensed sans-serif typefaces. The family was derived from the font family NarrowWay by adding true lower-case letters. Some alternative letters forms can be reached with the OpenType feature of stylistic sets. The character spacing in most of the styles is quite loose and it can be tightened with an application's character spacing if needed. These typefaces are display faces that can be useful for squeezing tall lettering into tight spaces. Uses may include packaging, signage, and titles.

Hermit was born like a modern and personal reinterpretation of Gothic-style alphabets, where improvisation and personal taste have led the design towards a new aesthetic mix between gothic and modern typefaces, creating new glyphs with tweaked strokes to achieve a good level of legibility. Hermit is a modern gothic font designed for brave designers and for epic designs, available in three weights and variable fonts. It is good to use for Branding and Editorial projects with texts not too small, Advertising, Packaging, Labeling, and Book or Magazine titles.

Hercílio is a typographic family without condensed serif, modern and geometric inspired by the architectural forms of the Hercílio Luz Bridge in Florianopolis | Brazi Comprising eleven (11), weights of which ten (10) business are: Five weights Romans: Light, Normal, Regular, Medium and Bold Five Italics weights: Light, Normal, Regular, Medium and Bold And a weight (FREE) Hercílio Decorative Comprising 430 glyphs in each source, brings support for 56 languages (Latin and West, Central and East European) still has features Open Type, ligatures and tabular figures. http://www.cort9.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Specimen_Hercilio.pdf

Four fonts entirely of decorative initials of which the uppercase basic letters of RMU Initials One are occupied by Walthari initials, the lowercase ones by Eckmann initials, both released first by Rudhard’sche Gießerei, Offenbach, Germany, about 1900. RMU Initials Two consists of Jubilaeumsinitialen in the uppercases and Augsburger Initialen in the lowercases. RMU Initials Three comes with floral ornaments, whereby the lowercase initials can be colorized by yourself due to non-joining elements. RMU Initials Four consists of hand drawn initials by Rudolf Koch and letters of a former Klingspor font called Queen.

PT Octava™ was designed at ParaType in 2001 by Vladimir Yefimov. The first (Cyrillic only) version named Scriptura Russica (1996) consisting of three styles (book, italic, bold) was commissioned by the Russian Bible Society. Lately the Latin letters and bold italic were added. Inspired by Lectura, 1969, by Dick Dooijes and Stone Print, 1991, by Sumner Stone. In spite of large x-height the typeface is both space saving and quite legible at small sizes. Expert fonts including small caps (book) and old style figures are available.

Galih Ratna A Lovely Calligraphy Font Galih Ratna is perfect for any titles, logo, product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Galih Ratna also come with beginning and ending swash, stylistic set and Multi-Lingual Support. We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!

Castor is a woodtype and letterpress hybrid based on grotesque letterforms. It’s a vintage decorative bold distressed display with 3 options for each letter; Uppercase, lowercase, and alternates. Castor comes complete with 4 styles plus catchwords, unique ‘catchword dividers’ (horizontal rules), ornaments, as well as a free set of extras! (grunge, dividers and bullets) The catchwords, ornaments, and dividers are designed to compliment the font family giving it a ton of diversity, and the designer unlimited creative options. Opentype features include alternate letters and numbers, double letter ligatures for realism, subscript numbers,and superscript numbers.

Introducing by Balpirick Studio. Dancing Matilda is a Modern Handwritten Script Font that's perfect for adding a personal touch to your design projects! With its natural, organic feel and unique character. Crafted with care and attention to detail, this font is incredibly versatile and can be used for a range of design projects, including logos, branding, invitations, and more. Its modern, handwritten style gives it a unique character that's sure to make an impact. - also multilingual support Enjoy the font! Feel free to comment or feedback! Thank you!

Savage Garden - 3 Quirky Playful Fonts are a delightful trio of typefaces that exude a sense of whimsy and playfulness with their unique and irregular letterforms. This font family includes three distinct versions: clean/regular, decorative, and block/fill, allowing for creative versatility. The fun and playful vibe of this font makes it a perfect choice for child-related themes or baby-oriented designs. It's well-suited for logos, printing materials, branding, quotes, posters, greeting cards, birthday cards, invitations, children's books, and more, adding a touch of joy and creativity to your projects.

Brilliant Sambo Featuring Slab Serif totality and elegance. One of my most recent first releases, naturally drawn with pinpoint accuracy. Sambo Brilliant has the perfect amount of simplicity and subtlety for your next project. It perfectly represents the retro and vintage aesthetic. I recommend this font for your next logo, invitation, and home decor project that needs a succinct alternative combination touch! Sambo Brilliant appears with strong characters available: Get inspired by the image above and feel free to share with me what you get by using this font.

Introducing Mattcool! A vintage styles monoline font with a natural flow. It's the perfect choice for personal branding projects, handwritten quotes, homeware designs, product packaging or simply as a modern & stylish text overlay to any background image. Mattcool is available in three styles script Regular, Bold, and Rough and two styles on Sans. Mattcool also comes with uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuations in script and sans version and so many variations on each characters include opentype alternates, common ligatures and also additional swash to let you customise your designs.

Funta Script is a typeface or font design that can be used to style text. It is characterized by tails and is slightly cursive, often giving the appearance of playful or relaxed text. Funta Script is widely used for design projects such as invitations, greeting cards, posters, headers or just used to express words over the background. Displayed fonts: Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers, Symbols, Accents, Styles, Swashes and Ligatures also Multilingual Support Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me a PM or email. Thank You!