The Janson font was based on the matrices made for the typeface in the 17th century. It originated from the Dutch typeface designer Anton Janson and was cut by Nicholas Kis. The strong main strokes and fine hair strokes were influenced by the art of copper engraving. In 1983, Prof. Horst Heiderhoff led the expansion of the Janson into a font family with various stroke contrasts and gave it the name Janson Text.

When master letterer Hugh Gordon and his student, Ross F. George developed a set of lettering pens between June 16, 1913 and Sept. 1, 1914, they had no idea that their invention (which they named Speed-Ball®) would still be in use nearly a hundred years later. The C. Howard Hunt pen company [originally of Camden, New Jersey] became the original (and sole) distributor of these pens. By 1915 an instructional booklet entitled "Modern Pen Lettering" was produced, and it was copiously illustrated with examples of layouts, lettering techniques and an assortment of alphabets for the user to learn. Nouveau Poster JNL is Jeff Levine's interpretation of a sanserif design found within the pages of this vintage publication.

Gladstone is a charming script typeface inspired by pen lettering techniques.

The Quill font is based on classic Renaissance broad-pen calligraphy.

The Fishface font contains a collection of pen-drawn, ornamental Pi characters.

This font was based on calligraphic letters I made with pen size 2B.

Introducing Vibrant Victory, a stunning and captivating font that will inject a burst of energy into your designs. With its bold, thick lines and playful geometric shapes, this typeface exudes a sense of joy and excitement. Its carefully crafted design captures the essence of modern aesthetics while maintaining a unique and charming appeal. Whether you're creating eye-catching headlines, vibrant logos, or engaging posters, Vibrant Victory is the perfect choice to convey a sense of dynamism and positivity.

Our Original Surfer Pro is an offbeat sans serif font bursting at the seams with lively personality. Inspired by a vintage advertisement for the "California Cliffs Caravan Park", this font exudes all of the fun of a summer vacation anytime of the year. The letterforms are clear and cleanly legible, while nothing is formal or uptight about this font. The SmallCaps and extensive figure sets offer Original Surfer Pro an even wider range of design options.

Aloha Brush This font is a supercharged, street-wise brush font bursting with energy. With extra feel as a real brush would! Letters are made with brushes on paper. Then scanned and carefully drawn into vector format. Thas 2 styles of regular and italic variations with a more natural look to your text. Aloha Brush is very suitable for use in various media such as; packaging, logos, labels, posters, shirt designs, bulletins, typography, and many other media.

Linotype Read My Hand is part of the Take Type Library, selected from contestants in Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. It is the digitalized handwriting of its Dutch designer, Leon Hulst. As is common of handwriting fonts, the forms of the letters seem spontaneous and individual. Read My Hand is a dynamic font suitable for texts with point sizes larger than 12 and particularly good for documents which should have a personal touch.

Introducing Boxtoon, a lively comic font with a bold, modern-retro twist. Bursting with fun, it seamlessly blends the nostalgia of classic cartoons with a contemporary edge. Boasting 16 versatile styles, this multilingual marvel supports Cyrillic characters. Perfect for dynamic displays, comics, posters, book covers, and playful designs like t-shirts, games, and digital crafts. Embrace the whimsical charm that Boxtoon brings to kid's books and beyond—an all-in-one font for your creative adventures! **Uppercase

Oddsorts’ Ciao Bella family pairs the funky elegance of a hand-drawn copperplate script with a bouquet of ornament fonts. Ciao Bella’s expansive range of alternate opening and closing forms, word-connecting ribbons, and swash characters use the power of OpenType to create a genuinely hand-lettered look. Bursting with over 2,000 characters, the Ciao script mates broad linguistic support with expressive possibilities galore in an easy-to-use software experience. But then there are the ornaments! What’s truly innovative about Ciao Bella’s ornaments is that most of the characters come in pairs that can be set in multiple colors without any stacking, layering, or aligning. They work in any application that supports kerning — even most word processors. See the slideshow and Gallery link above to see how they work. Ciao Bella marries the best of the old world — the warm, classic feel of ink on paper — and the new — the amazing capabilities of “smart” OpenType fonts — in a union that’s sure to delight.

Hand drawn felt pen font. Vector grunge style design for your posters or prints.

This font was written with a calligraphic pen, loosely based on old-school calligraphy.

Norwich is a grungy version of the font Tenison and provides real blobby pen handwriting.

Mister Dorky is a grungy, jumpy and warm handwritten font made with an inky pen!

This is Resalaty added Arabic features with a pen handwriting style, for more fun text

Notebug looks like there was a bug playing around with an inky pen. Notebook with a bug = Notebug! Made with a hefty inky pen and quick strokes. You got 3 layers to play around with: Regular (the outline) Fill (The "inside" of the Regular version and Layer (best used as a background layer for Regular)

Goma Mono is a display monospaced rounded sans serif font built in ten styles. This family, with five weights, covers a wide variety of character due to the large difference in thickness. The typeface can be used perfectly in display sizes and logos. Goma Mono is released with 414 glyphs and includes Open Type features.

Fresh Sugar takes the classic bubble font style and adds a groovy flair, creating a unique and eye-catching visual language. The rounded, plump letters bring a sense of joy and playfulness to any design, captures the essence of freshness with its vibrant and lively aesthetics. It's like a burst of creativity and positivity in every letterform. Ideal for a range of design projects including posters, social media graphics, packaging, and more. Fresh Sugar adds a touch of sweetness to any creative endeavor.

Make Wish is a Handwritten Funny Font. Unleash a burst of laughter and lightheartedness with "Make Wish," a delightful handwritten font that adds a touch of humor and playfulness to your designs. There's some connected letters and some alternates that suitable for any graphic designs. This font support for some multilingual. Also contains uppercase A-Z and lowercase a-z, alternate character, numbers 0-9, and some punctuation. If you need help, just write me! Thanks so much for checking out my shop!

Prospector JNL is based on a lettering example found in an old Speedball-pen lettering handbook.

Fabrice is a font based on my handwriting, which has been reworked to be turned into a font. I write differently with each pen I use, and this font corresponds to my handwriting while using a pen I refill myself with special inks. It contains a wide range of characters, and will be readable anywhere, yet different!

A quirky and unusual Art Deco monoline typeface can be found within the pages of the Esterbrook Drawlet Pen instruction book [circa the 1940s]. Drawlet was the direct competitor to Speedball Lettering pen nibs. This unusual type design of varying width and character shapes is now available digitally as Oddly Deco JNL, in both regular and oblique versions.

At first glance, the lettering style of Technopen JNL seems to emulate the computer-age fonts of the 1980s. In actuality, this font is derived from an alphabet sample found in an instructional booklet for the Esterbrook Drawlet Pens. The Drawlet line was Esterbrook's answer to the iconic Speedball pen points sold through their chief competitor, the Hunt Pen Manufacturing Company. So, what seems to be late 20th Century typography is actually from vintage source material. In fact, the entire contents of the instructional booklet were copyright 1929! A few minor changes were made to the original A-Z alphabet and additional characters were added. The name Technopen is a shortening of the term 'technical pen', which is both a nod to the techno age of the 80s and the technical instruments of the past utilized for drawing and lettering.

An elegant yet down-to-earth script based on the pen lettering of the writer, Christopher Stocks.

Suomi Script is a typeface with a twist (pun intended): it has more than 1600 ligatures with two or more glyphs connected to make it look like an odd hand-written script polished by ITC. With Open Type savvy programs this font automatically replaces single characters with the ligatures. Some hand kerning is needed here and there.

Thystle is a "font for all seasons". It has six styles ranging from fine to in-your-face, from delicate mono-weight pen strokes to fully calligraphic lines, from delicate, narrow characters to bold, powerful statements. Characteristically, all the styles abound with Anton Scholtz's energetic "creative common" style - extravagant capitals, clear characters, and bursting-with-life swashes. Three Thystle styles are calligraphic. You can use: - Regular for invitations, poems, greeting cards and body text - Black for swing tags, music media, menus and sub-headings - Fat for posters, book covers and headings Three Thystle styles are monolinear. You can use: - Mono1, which is both delicate and condensed in width, for invitations, poems, greeting cards and body text - Mono2, which is of medium weight and condensed in width, for swing tags, music media, menus and sub-headings - Mono3, which is heavier and of standard width, for posters, book covers and headings. Opentype features include alternative upper case characters, as well as a number of ligatures. (These can be used in applications that access OpenType features.) Thystle contains over 283 characters - (upper and lower case characters, punctuation, numerals, symbols and accented characters for both Text and Display caps). It has all the accented characters used in the major European languages.

A 1960 edition of the Speedball® Pen lettering instruction book yielded the model for China Doll JNL.

A free-spirited hand-script font. Very similar to pre-computer hand-written letttering with a ruling pen.

Joyosa is an elaborate script written with a broad pen; it gives the impression of a flowing ribbon.

Get over the trauma of seeing that icky dog carcass in the alley this morning, you know, the one with the tire tread on the burst stomach? The city might be afraid of you, but now you can see its true typeface. Yes, when the gutters between YOUR comic book panels are full of blood, we here at ComicBookFonts.com recommend DaveGibbonsJournal for all your psychotic ramblings. Don't pose precariously on the precipice of a building without it. Artwork by Dave Gibbons from Elephantmen #25

Experience the vibrant energy of Orange Blast, a playful handwritten display font that can make your designs pop! With its bold and dynamic strokes, this font is perfect for adding a playful yet professional touch to any project. Whether you’re designing logos, posters, or social media graphics, Orange Blast delivers a burst of creativity that captivates and engages your audience. Orange Blast features : Standard Latin Numbers, symbols, and punctuations Multilingual Support. Fully accessible without additional design software Simple Installations Works on PC & Mac Thank You.

Meet "Roseka," the font that's here to infuse your designs with a burst of energy and creativity. This playful and funky typeface adds a dash of retro charm, making it the perfect choice for a wide array of projects. Whether you're working on posters, social media graphics, or even reimagining vintage aesthetics, Its whimsical letterforms give your text a unique personality, making it ideal for advertisements, branding, packaging, invitations, and more. Unleash your creativity without limits – Roseka is the creative spark your projects need.

STONES is a supercharged, street-wise brush font bursting with energy. With extra attention to quick strokes and sharp details, STONES is guaranteed to deliver an unapologetically loud & fast-paced message; ideal for logos, apparel, quotes, product packaging, or anything which needs a typographic turbo-boost. What you get : Numeral and Punctuation International Language Works on PC & Mac Simple installations Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even works on Microsoft Word. Thank you for your purchase! Hope you enjoy with our font!

NorPen Script is a handwritten Text Font made with an arabic calligraphy pen (my favorite pens) witch can be used with any word processing program for text and display use, print and web projects, apps and ePub, Comic Books, graphic identities, branding, editorial, advertising, scrapbooking, cards and invitations … or even just for fun! It comes with 2 weights: Regular and Italic.

Letterpress Extras JNL gathers more re-drawn images from the rich trove of vintage letterpress cuts. There's plenty of pointing hands and decorative ornaments, a few cartoons and some assorted miscellany. Also included are images of dip pen nibs from an old catalog and a decorative border set. To access the pen points, use the shift key and type any numeral key.

Plymouth is a pen-drawn calligraphic font of narrow proportions featuring plain capitals and an alternate range with swashes.

In the July 24, 1915 issue of “Dry Goods Reporter” is a demonstration of hand lettering rendered with the use of a “speed pen”. Two suggested examples cited in the accompanying article were the Payzant pen and the then-new Speedball pen. An ornate Art Nouveau serif alphabet is displayed, with some examples having delicate floral elements entwining the letters. The initial alphabet was auto-traced, then cleaned-up and modified to recreate the core design of the basic (unadorned) letters. The numerals, punctuation and all additional characters were then made from scratch. Nouveau Rose JNL is the finished result, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.