Although less prevalent today, a cover charge was added to better class night clubs of the 1930s and 1940s to discourage patronage by people of questionable social graces. The general idea was that the lower strata of society (meaning the "average Joe" or "hoi polloi") would balk at paying an extra fee just for entrance to a place of good entertainment and fine dining.

Diogenes is an elegant and crisp text typeface. While the skeletons of the individual characters are distinct and strong, the serifs are fine and sharp. This is especially true for the capitals with their comparatively strong horizontal strokes. The graceful appearance of Diogenes makes it an ideal choice for books, newspapers, and magazines, both at small text sizes and display sizes. See also this minisite.

Don't be afraid to taste something sugar free - most times you will be surprised how good it tastes! My Sugar Free font may not look as very much at first glance - but play around with the Regular and Italic versions (and notice the 4 different versions of each letter, that automatically cycles as you type!) and you will see how lively the font is!

Arethusa is a versatile font after the 'transitional' style – a style that has been evolving for 250 years. The balanced design of familiar letter forms blends form with function to create highly readable text. Twelve fonts organised in three sub-families provide a range of weights and styles. The standard character set covers many roman-based languages. For extended language support, see Arethusa Pro.

The roots of Nouveau Handlettered JNL go back to the sheet music cover for the 1917 song "(Someday) Somebody's Gonna Get You". This simple style of sans serif titling has the casual, imperfect charm of the pen and ink lettering so prevalent in the decades before metal type and other technical advancements made the craft almost obsolete. The typeface is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Gush Kettle is a distinct note font made manually with a pen contains 50+ ligatures with two alternative. Gush Kettle is great for branding, posters, logos, invitation, writing and headings. Feature Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Symbol International Glyphs Multilingual support Alternative Ligature Thanks so much for checking out my shop and feel free to drop us a message any time and follow my shop for upcoming updates

He's a man of character; a Man for All Seasons. He upholds the values of Truth, Justice and the American Way and he's never averse to a slice of Ma's homemade apple pie. He's not a man of yesteryear, nor a man caught in the here and now. He's a human being of great honor, a citizen of the world -- a Man of Tomorrow!

“The Film Daily” issue for August 30, 1927 ran an ad for Tiffany Pictures in which all of the main text was hand lettered in a sans serif style displaying the beginnings of the Art Deco movement. With their rounded terminals, the characters were designed using a round nib lettering pen. Redrawn digitally as Silent Cinema JNL, it is now available in both regular and oblique versions.

DicSans is a square sans-serif typeface, inspired by Aldo Novarese’s Eurostile, it was meant as a sort of contemporary "open" Eurostile. It is a semi-custom font, designed and expanded according to costumers’ requests, since 2004 up to 2013. For this reason it has many glyph variants (up to three variants per lowercase glyphs and numbers, special smallcaps etc.) and wide language coverage.

A number of pieces of antique sheet music utilizing the same Roman typeface were the inspirational basis for Musical Score JNL. This antique design closely resembles pen lettering and its hand-made charm due to the rounded stroke ends and varying character widths. Informal, yet attractive - the character design evokes the feeling of the turn of the previous century and simplicity of life at that time.

Frozen Memory is a heavy-boned cartoon display font. Even though it was completely made by hand (using a roller ball pen and some quality paper), it has a clean look, crisp lines and generous curves. Frozen Memory comes in three distinct styles, helping you to create versatile designs. Frozen Memory urges you to eat more ice-cream, but just beware of that brain freeze!

ITC Veljovic was designed by Jovica Veljovic and displays an obvious calligraphic heritage. The designer was strongly influenced by German designer Hermann Zapf and Israeli designer Henri Friedlander. ITC Veljovic exhibits a crisp precision, as if the letters were cut in stone rather than drawn with pen and ink. In 2014 Veljovic revised this family and ITC New Veljovic was released with many more weights and styles

The overall look of this font shows the very deep psyche in the work, the ink hand and the pen have a soul moving in a rhythm. We named it 'Jakarta.' It is a stylish modern calligraphy font with casual chic flair. It is perfect for branding, wedding invites and cards. All lowercase letters include beginning and ending swashes, giving realistic hand-lettered style.

Introducing **Sumatra Font** - **The Beauty Handwritten Script** **Sumatra** is create using digital pen art, we also try a couple of letter to mix and match it, we try to make it flow as smooth as possible and express the rapid handwriting type we can use this for for branding name, signature, wedding designs, social media post, advertisements, and more projects that express beauties and luxurious ---

Introducing, Lava Cookies - A quirky display typeface. The unusual quirky style make this font looks great and standout for tittle, branding, logo, packaging, etc. Features : uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual alternates & ligatures PUA encoded 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 Thank You!

Well, here it is :) A beautiful hand made font for all you swash lovers! Featherly is a hand drawn, elegant, modern calligraphic font perfect for wedding design projects, invitations, greeting cards, signatures, watermarks, logos, handwriting and more. The font includes foreign language glyphs so please do take a look at the other screenshots to see what's included in this font and what you can do with it.

Roughen is a fast handwriting typeface. It was drawn and created by Måns Grebäck between 2017 and 2020. Roughen has a rugged and active style, designed with a wet calligraphy pen. It contains multiple alphabets, automatically applied with contextual alternates to simulate the variation of handwriting, or manually with stylistic alternates. The font is multilingual and contain all characters you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Chesna grotesk is a geometric form-based sans serif typeface. It has 20 weights 10 uprights and 10 italics. Bringing a new approach to the classic grotesque design, Chesna was inspired by typefaces such as Avenir, Futura and Circular. Each weight includes extended language support, fractions, tabular numbers, arrows, alternative characters and ligatures. (Please see the pdf specimen for more information.) PDF Specimen, Horizontype.com

Tiva is a light and breezy casual script reminiscent of handwriting and packed with contextual and stylistic alternates. This easy and friendly style adds a personal touch to any project. See what’s included! http://bit.ly/2c5Nn4K This font has been specially coded for access of all the swashes, alternates and ornaments without the need for professional design software! Info and instructions here: http://lauraworthingtontype.com/faqs/

Introducing MOLARUD Font – a captivating display typeface that effortlessly captures the authenticity of handwriting! Elevate your projects with the artistic touch of MOLARUD, a seamless fusion of style and individuality. Explore MOLARUD today to see your creative visions come to life! What’s Included : File font All glyphs Iso Latin 1 Alternate, Ligature Simple installations PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. Fonts include Multilingual support

Like its cousin Quickpen, Quickbrush is an unfussy, confidently jotted script, with lots of rich texture to recreate the skips and jumps that appear in brush pen lettering. Contextual alternates for lowercase letters mimic starting and ending marks, to make each word look truly written by hand. It’s a typeface you’ll reach for again and again, for any project that needs a casual, handwritten touch.

Bugleboy started as a digitized version of "Wood Grotesk," a 1970s film typeface by LetterGraphics. It started with a bare bones character set which we added swash alternates for Capitals, Stylistic Alternates for a Unicase look, and crafted a Sans version without serifs. The Sans style lacks swashes but keeps Stylistic Alternate Unicase forms. See the last graphic for a comprehensive character map preview.

Lingkari Heart is a new vintage handwritten font. This font is perfect to be applied especially in logos, packaging, headlines, posters, t-shirt/apparel, greeting cards, wedding invitations, and other project. As you can see at the previews, this font has unique swashes that allows you to create beautiful lettering in a snap. Lingkari Heart has many stylistic set alternates that you can choose from.

For the font design project, I had decided to make a typeface which would reflect the style architectural of Zaha Hadid. My purpose was the presentation of a font to her as Zaha Hadid was alive during my project process. But nearly at the end of the project we unfortunately received the death news of her. Her life wasn't long enough to see the project completed.

Habbly is a handwritten brush pen font with smooth ligatures and alternates which makes it look more realistic and natural. The font has a slight bold feeling. In order to get the most out of this typeface be sure to use a program that has opentype capabilities. Suitable for wedding invitations, coffee packages, badges, logos, apparel, stationery, magazines, letterpress, film, books and many others.

Osgard is a powerful luxurious Typeface, adopting the fluid curvaceous elements of Romanesque typography and combining them with the Gothic style of Blackletter. Forging the two creates a far softer, more versatile, fashion-based typeface; with beautifully distinct qualities. 1000 swashes, pre-made Conjunction Ligatures, Stylistic Alternates, Discretionary Ligatures, Contextual Alternates and all the OpenType features you need, make it perfect for any application.

Meet our brand new font “Modern Society“ - a classy font with a modern flair and a sleek ball pen flow. “Modern Society“ has adorable beginning and ending lowercase swashes to add a charming touch to any design. With all uppercase and lowercase letters, symbols, numerals, punctuation, and ligatures. “Modern Society“ works great for wedding designs, logos, stationery, signatures, quotes, cards, display text, and so much more.

This font is influenced by Walbaum. However, I did not just trace the design, but sort of had the image in my head while I drew the letters. This font is balanced by not being entirely Walbaum, but still basically is. I've named it "NoraPen." Nora comes from the name of the main character in Ibsen's "A Doll's House," and Pen means a cage for livestock.

All three fonts - Dropout, Rough Diamond and Thorny, evolved from experimenting with a cubic template devised as the basis for a retro display type series titled ‘Flashback’. I experimented with numerous shapes initially to see which forms lent themselves best to the negative spaces forming the characters. Although many interesting variants are possible within this context, these three were resolved best out of the several options tried.

Rustika is a rather rough Oldstyle typeface. The roughness is seen in larger points only. In smaller points it is not easy to see that I tried to imitate characters cut with a chisel. The characters themselves follow otherwise totally the classic models. The name, in this spelling taken from Esperanto, refers to the rustic nature of the characters. Rustika was released in 1995.

Something bold, rounded, bubbly and cute is here! Yes, we have Wooles. As you can see, Wooles is a font with playful and fun style. The look of the font is cute yet firm. It suits perfectly for comic book, cartoon movie, school, children book, birthday card and another fun creative arts! We hope and be honored if Wooles can be the part of your happy moment. :)

Quickpen is casual and carefree, designed to recreate the look of confident, quickly jotted script with a felt tip pen or brush. In OpenType, ligatures and contextual alternates for lowercase letters add a natural hand-written look, while swashes lend a bit more finesse. The perfect script for any design that doesn’t take itself too seriously. For a fuller brush texture, check out Quickpen’s cousin, Quickbrush.

Combining handcraft serif and simple script, Love Struck is an authentic typeface that gracefully marries a delicate and refined aesthetic with a hint of rustic charm. Features : Uppercase & lowercase Numbers and punctuation Multilingual PUA encoded 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.

In 1994, John Benson designed Alexa, Caliban and Balzano, three typefaces with a similar style. Characteristic of all of them is their calligraphic touch and the likeness to handwriting. Alexa shows a hint of a broad tipped pen style and its legible figures are reserved yet lively. Alexa is best for short and midsized texts as well as headlines and gives texts a personal, classic look.

This typeface is inspired from the old display fonts that used to decorate the world around us, but just because we don't see such beautiful signage these days, doesn't mean we should lose the great typefaces used. Foreman is a condensed serif display typeface, with hard geometric lines inspired from fonts used in the 1930s and 1940s, and very much used by the American Art Deco movement.

Sincery Bartlow is a gorgeous handwritten font, created with the help of a brush pen. It's sweet and round characters make a very versatile font, suitable to a wide variety of projects. Get inspired by Sincery Bartlow’s authenticity, and write breathtaking wedding invitations, logos, birthday invitations, greeting cards, and so much more. Featured : Accents (Multilingual characters) PUA encoded Numerals and Punctuation (OpenType Standard) Full Support Dita Type

Quartiel is a casual handwritten brush font. Written by hand using a dry brush pen. With fast movements. But, keeping the height of each letter the same. Comes in two styles, regular and slanted also include swash as a sweetener. Suitable for all creative projects, especially in headlines, branding, advertising, packaging, and more. And will give a natural, and authentic touch to each of your projects.

Incorporating a certain Gallic ‘je ne sais quoi’ Galerie is a chic & stylish sans serif, though you'll notice some short tails with angled terminals acting rather like serifs, lending a sophisticated characteristic to its balanced proportions. Galerie’s large x-height makes it a very legible font family, available in 4 weights: Thin, Light, Medium and Bold. See also the condensed sister family Galerie 2.

Cold Cuts is an assorted spread of delicious fonts pre cooked to perfection. This 10 weight font family is $30 for a limited time it is the perfect way to stock your font fridge. Cold Cuts a lean upright font family with a lowercase caps option to give you bonus typesetting choices. A sleek modern vintage style which has a wide variety of display uses. Bon Appétit!

Nina™ Family is a new condensed sans serif typeface designed to be as readable as possible at small sizes, whilst squeezing in as many characters per inch as feasibly possible. Nina Family typeface was designed for Microsoft by world renowned type designer Matthew Carter, and hand-instructed by leading hinting expert, Tom Rickner. Character Set: Latin-1, WGL Pan-European (Eastern Europe, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish).