Park Avenue Park Avenue was designed by R.E. Smith in 1933 for American Type Founders. Park Avenue is an elegant and light script with freely drawn capitals. Park Avenues pen-drawn quality is particularly evident in the lowercase. The ascenders and descenders of this script font are long; the ascenders are bent-over at the top. Park Avenue has a small 'x' height with tall ascenders, giving the face a refined, elegant appearance. The full elegance and lightness of Park Avenue are only apparent when combining upper and lowercase. It would be worthwhile trying this script in display sizes, for personal messages, invitations, business cards and greetings cards.

I wouldn't recommend that you use this font for massive text, or text written in CAPS ... but then again, go ahead and try - I even kerned all the capital letters ... just in case that you would do something so crazy! :) Dynamique is a kind of a "straight out of the highway" grid-font. But then again, not ... if you use the lowercase alone, you have this almost monospaced font - try starting every word with a capital letter, and let it end with the alternate ligature, your words suddenly got even more power! If you want to go lightspeed - then use the same technique, but only with the italic version!

Meet Boronia, Studioways' latest typeface release! This six weight family was developed with the single idea of redefining the simple sans serif to pair with any style of font family. It is meant to blend with a variety of media, from editorial to bridal and fashion. The Boronia family weights range from an ultra sexy thin to a voluptuous bold, each with a companion italic, making it the 'perfect type' for all tastes. Each font supports the standard Western European character set. So scoop up this great sans serif font, BORONIA, and start making your work shine! Buy them individually or get a great deal on the family pack!

HAPPY FRIDAY is a font that looks ahead to the long weekend. This typeface is cute and clean, but with an undercurrent of sickening sweetness. The font turns up the volume on your social media posts, making them stand out from the crowd. Along with HAPPY FRIDAY MIX, an adorable set of dingbats made up of doodles and swashes, this font pair is perfect for your marketing collaterals and your at-home DIY projects. MIX HAPPY FRIDAY comes with the following glyphs: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 !@#$%^&*()`~♥✿•· ÷×+−±≈=≠≥≤[]<>:;’”,.\|/?{}“”‘’-–—_ …‚„©®™‹›«»°¹²³ªº¡¿₱¢€£¥½¼¾¶§№† ÁÀÂÄÃÅĂĀĄÆĆĈČÇÐĐÉÈÊËĖĒĘĜĤIÍÌÎÏĪĮĴŁŃÑŇ ÓÒÔÖÕŌŐØŒŔŘŚŜŠŞȘŤȚÚÙÛÜŮŬŪŰŲẂẀŴÝŶŸŹẐŽŻÞẞ áàâäãåăāąæćĉčçðđéèêëėēęĝĥıíìîïīįĵłńñň óòôöõōőøœŕřśŝšşșťțúùûüůŭūűųẃẁŵýŷÿźẑžżþß MIX HAPPY FRIDAY MIX (Dingbats) comes with the following glyphs: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 !@#$%^&*()

Freehouse is a reinterpretation of the well-remembered Watney’s logo, a brewery and pub chain infamous for its poor quality beer and brutalist decor. In Design Research Unit’s corporate guidelines from 1966 the font is described as Clarendon Bold Expanded — however, this is not the case. Clarendon has square serifs, whereas the Watney’s font is rounder and friendlier. A fixture of the British high street landscape for decades, this digitisation adds a full international character set, numbers, punctuation and many other characters that did not exist in the original. A distressed version that evokes rough print on a wet beermat has also been developed.

This font comes from the romance of 20th century tube signs that will likely disappear forever. But let's not be upset — the Neonlife font embodies not only the warmth and comfort of neon signs, but also the energy of a modern style. And welcome to New Neon Life! The font family contains 6 sizes to help you choose the best size for different occasions. Neonlife is a unique solution for cool typography, branding, headings, in short, everything that makes our world unique and special. Although this font is not designed for large amounts of text, all characters are perfectly balanced and can be used like any regular font.

Introducing Lubeck Display, new generation Typeface with 3 Weights. Lubeck Typeface created with the vision of to attract the audience to your brand . The finest details of this typeface are methodically and mathematically created. Lubeck is created with all the tasks of a corporate font and also for the usage in a variety of projects, including branding, logos, titles, headlines, servers, screens, display, digital ads, and everything else. We are putting a lot of effort on this font as a long-term project. The Typeface includes Three Weights. Light, Regular and Medium Features: Numerals, extended punctuation & Basic Symbols(200+ Glyphs). Expert kerning and quality crafting. Uppercase Letters & Lowercase Letters.

"Hoax Vandal" is a graffiti font designed with a monoline style, featuring consistent line thickness throughout the characters. Fonts in the monoline category maintain uniformity in stroke width, creating a clean and sleek appearance. In the context of graffiti, this style often provides a smooth and fluid look to the text, giving it a modern and artistic vibe. This font, "Hoax Vandal," with its monoline design, is suitable for various design projects where a graffiti-inspired typographic style with a clean and consistent appearance is desired.

Developed for use in our design drawings by the renowned museum exhibit design firm André & Associates Interpretation & Design, the André Drafting font is being made available publicly for the first time. Based on the hand drafting lettering of our Senior Designer Andrew Farrell, this neat and tidy font will add a personal touch to CAD drawings, concept sketches and more. This font contains a full character set and is available in regular weight. Visit our website at www.aaid.ca for examples of our exhibit design work.

An update and extension to the popular September family. An authoritative and robust design for headline and shorter texts in the lighter weights, this modern family has all the necessary weight and presence for corporate and academic use, company brochures, branding, sport packaging, television idents, posters, packaging and film titles. This all-new version includes: Six extra weights in both upright and italic, bringing the full family to nine weights Extended character set Old style numbers Numerators and denominators Superior and inferior numbers Alternate glyphs

Introducing Levo Dope Slab Serif Font a typeface that exudes boldness and confidence. With its thick, heavy serifs and rectangular shape, this font is the perfect choice for any design that needs to make a strong impact. Transport your audience to the American West with the vintage charm of the Western slab serif font. Whether you're creating posters, advertisements, or signage, this font will capture attention and convey a sense of stability and strength. Also come with FREE illustrations and editable logo to make better design.

In Holland we eat pancakes with black syrup and I always thought that this ‘suikerstroop’ was the same as molasses. Turns out that’s not the case; syrup is made from sugar, but molasses is a by-product of the sugar refining industry. To celebrate the fact that I learned something new, I named this font family Black Molasses. Black Molasses was made using various cheap brushes and Chinese Ink. It comes in a ‘fat’ version and a ‘light’ version that work together really well.

Myster is a truly random font — each lowercase letter has three alternatives, that interchange in the set. This makes Myster look alive, hand-crafted, painted for a special occasion, rather than a font selected from a regular type case… Of course, the mystical character of the font defines the scope of its usage — film, gaming and publishing industries. However Myster’s field of application goes beyond them. This font is able to create a desired atmosphere in packaging, children books, magazines, as well as in advertising.

Euphoria Party is a psychedelic style font. This font is inspired by vintage albums and posters from 1960s music bands. The classic, fun and groovy impression is very visible. But in this font I combine several variations such as the ligature. It makes this font even more unique and different. Euphoria Party is also great for any kind of display purpose from album, cover,poster, label, tshirt, apparel, signage, quote, logo, greeting card,logotype and many more. This font is also support multi language.

Introducing our newest font called Manche. is a sans serif font with a geometric feel, The younger brother of Counte, made with the same �blueprint� but this font is developed more from the previous experience of designing Madani fonts. Equipped with 3 types of Width and 9 Weight as well Oblique resulting in 54 font family. This font is designed for the needs of digital printing, text, display and others so that it provides many options for various functions. Available in many languages and opentype features.

Heirley Script, it is that the smooth fonts brush that has a different style. This is the perfect choice for personal branding project. Can be used for various purposes.such as headings, logos, wedding invitations, t-shirts, letterhead, lable, news, posters, badges etc. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign and CorelDraw X6-X7. The Features of this fonts is; Standart ligatures Stylistic Alternates Stylistic sets PUA Unicode (Private Use Areas) THANK YOU

Manolo was a Ludwig & Mayer in-house design from the beginning of the 20th century. Though more formal than many others, the design keeps its Art Nouveau air. This beautiful font was completely redrawn and redesigned with giving the numerals more style. Two stippled border elements were added which you can reach by typing [alt] + P and [alt] + p. Like most fonts of this era, RMU Manolo comes with a long s too. RMU Manolo encompasses most European languages, Central and West, plus Turkish.

This decorative font is based on Cyrillic Vyaz of XV-XVI centuries. This type of letters were used as display faces in sacred texts. In Vyaz, the letters are characteristically fitted to each other so the letter sequences look as one solid ornamental frieze. The font is rich in discretionary ligatures which help to accentuate the style of Vyaz. In addition to letters and standard characters there is a number of monograms and Christian symbols. These and other features are available in OTF format.

The Toriga typeface was named after the Portuguese grape variant known as Touriga Nacional. This fun typeface boasts the features of a well-balanced, versatile, modern sans which is highly legible as a text font and with a clean, elegant look as a display font at larger sizes. The rounded terminals give it a friendly, approachable look. Comprising 6 weights with equivalent italics, this font family is perfect for your more playful designs. It was created to be enjoyed, so enjoy creating with it!

This script font was inspired by a few manuscripts and letters written by French representatives or ministers after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. It is an attempt to offer a typical handwritten script from this period. This font can be used variously as website titles, in the design of posters, fliers and greeting cards, as well as for menus, certificates and letters as a very decorative, elegant and unusual font. This font supports large sizes as well as small ones, remaining clear and easy to read.

Spooky Season is a bewitching and delightful Halloween Display font that brings a playful and cute twist to the spookiest time of the year. With its charming and quirky design, this font captures the essence of Halloween with friendly ghosts, adorable pumpkins, and mischievous bats. Whether youre creating party invitations, spooky decorations, or fun social media graphics, Spooky Season will add a touch of enchantment to your designs. Embrace the magic of Halloween with this cute and versatile font thats perfect for all your ghoulishly delightful projects.

I started making this font with a few days left at work before my 4 weeks vacation. I managed to finish the font on the day my vacation started - but with no stress. Now I can look forward to 4 good weeks at the summerhouse, and look back at the release of this laid back, handmade and somewhat quirky font. Personally I’d use it for anything that needs an organic handmade look - perhaps packaging, posters, flyers or maybe even clothes or toys for kids!

The hands in this font are the pointing, counting, threatening, signaling, demonstrating and playing hands I use in my own design projects. I have drawn them all with a felt-tip marker, scanned and digitized for use in a font. This picture font is more user-friendly than having single ps-files. I usually convert the letter to paths once I have decided which one to use, because I might want to fill the lines or background with different colors. Yours very handy, Gert Wiescher.

This modern display typeface expands the Absentia collection with an impactful option for headlines, titles and logos. Graced with the geometric DNA of its distinctive lineage, the new addition emerges as a refreshing alternative for large size typesetting. Absentia Display borrows design attributes from the Sans and Slab families, in the form of slanted finials (‘a’, ‘e’, ‘C’) and one-sided serifs (‘b’, ‘F’, ‘H’). But in contrast to its relatives' measured restraint, it distinguishes itself with uninhibited boldness. Featuring stencil face breaks, basic glyph components are either abridged or completely omitted, as the shoulder of lowercase ‘m’ or the diagonal stroke of capital ‘W’. Modular letterforms set this typeface apart with a stylish appearance; round diacritic dots (‘i’, ‘Ü’) and curved transitions (‘E’, ‘L’) breathe a lighthearted attitude. Designers can scale up and go loud with Absentia Display, available in ten weights with matching italics and two variable fonts. From the refined Hairline to the robust Black, this versatile family serves a wide range of needs and styles.

This design is one of the true gems to come out of the 1930s typeface era. Even though the face was originally designed to counter the invasion of European sans-serifs, it remains faithful to the principles found in its creator's poster work. Lucian Bernhard's lettering creation for American Type Founders is to this day a favorite among font connoisseurs worldwide. It has a unique personality. This deluxe version is packed with extras including the original oldstyle figures, alternates, and ligatures. A number of styles and alternate characters have been added to the family such as heavy italics, extra heavy italics, and capital figures. And an easier-to-identify "flagged" figure one and the new euro symbol are now located in each individual style. Bernhard Gothic is also available in the OpenType Std format. Lining and oldstyle figures, stylistic alternates, and additional discretionary ligatures are now combined in each style. These advanced features currently work in Adobe Creative Suite InDesign, Creative Suite Illustrator, and Quark XPress 7. Check for OpenType advanced feature support in other applications as it gradually becomes available with upgrades.

A fairy tale, is a folklore genre that takes the form of a short story. Story tale, is a new type family for wonderous, romantic, magical and playful narratives brought to you by Resitenza. The 1970s were wild and whimsical times. Book covers from this time were iconic, innovative and enduring; bold colour and stylised pattern dominated. Story Tales forms were inspired by 70s books covers, and aims to encapsulate the zeitgeist of the time, but the typeface is by no means constrained to revivals of this era. There are nods to 60's flower power & psychedelia, chromatic type and decorative queues from the 1800s and the spirit of post-war era children's almanacks. It is also perfectly suited to inspiring curiosity, imagination and fantasy in today's audiences. Each of Story Tales 8 styles (4 upright and 4 italics) stack on top of one another giving the designer broad aesthetic range. This layering of styles and the ornamental illumination allows striking multi-coloured typography for your book covers, editorial and poster designs.

This typeface was inspired by the rough surroundings of a modern city and reflects the contradicting nature of an emerging global youth culture. Ever since its first release—back in late 1999— it is constantly on our ‘most wanted’ list and has been part of numerous product campaigns. Music, mobile telephony, food and beverages, politics, you name it. Coca-Cola used it, José Cuervo used it for about 3 years. The new ‘Pro’ version goes one step ahead. You may now capture the essence of the younger generation in every major European language. PF Fuel has been extended with the full array of Cyrillic characters as well as matching frames for this extra stamped look. Furthermore there more alternate characters than ever. Create a custom look, when same characters sit close, or one next to the other. You may find these useful—alternate characters either in the lowercase positions, or access them through the ‘stylistic alternates’ OpenType Pro feature. If you need some extra fuel, this is where to get it!

The design of the Newspoint typeface is based on the tradition of the American sans serif faces of the last century. This form expression was greatly influenced by the News Gothic type which was created by Morris Fuller Benton in 1908, and has, once again, become very popular. When the development of sans serif types such as Futura and Kabel by Renner and Koch began in 1925, the design of American sans serif types receded somewhat into the background. In the 1950’s, however, they experienced a renaissance which continues to this day. Thanks to its clean design and the relatively large x-height, the Newspoint is well suited for informative texts in newspapers, magazines, and brochures. In packaging design, as well, the Newspoint can display its strength in small print. Newspoint was developed as a customer-specific variation of the News Gothic. In contrast to the News Gothic, however, the face appears to be softer and more appealing thanks to the changed interpunctions. If so desired, the alternative characters give the typeface expanded individuality and a richness of design options.

Bernyck is a vintage fonts inspired by bold advertisers hand lettering styles, popular in the late 1940s through the early 1950s. It has the same charm as his brother “Cinefile”, but, this time, connected and with more alternates. The Bernyck family is integrated by Bernyck and Bernyck Extrude to interact together. To this we add a beautiful set of 131 ornaments, Bernyck Ornaments and of course, Bernyck Ornaments Extrude. The Open Type features include a full international character compliment, standard and contextual alternates, swatches, stylistic sets, initial forms, standard and discretionary ligatures. All this makes the text lively and bouncy, without the monotony of obviously repeated letterforms. A total of 634 glyphs to offer you many more options for your designs! Bernyck, like all our fonts, was carefully designed, controlled and tested in both aspects: readability and technical aspects. We take care of the kerning pairs, hinting and the precise programming of the Open Type functions; as well as the final touch of each glyph. Bernyck adapts well to titles, packages, invitations, greeting cards, magazines and book covers, children's material, fashion, logos and, posters and wherever you need a fun and sympathetic display font.

Innova. A new grotesque for the 21st century. More open. More squarish. More legible. After the many grotesques which have been designed over the years, is it still possible to improve this genre? Innova is a new design — a contribution to the tradition of grotesque typefaces. It is an attempt to improve both this genre’s legibility and versatility. Innova consists of two families: Innova and Innova Alt. The Innova family has rectangular dots. The Innova Alt family has round dots — making its personality a little friendlier. Innova is well suited for both text and display use — for graphic design, corporate identity design, magazines, newspapers, books, reports, editorials, web, advertising, signage, etc. Innova includes 16 uprights and 16 matching italics. It includes small caps, arbitrary fractions, and extensive language support. It includes nine numerical styles: lining and oldstyle figures (proportional and tabular), small cap figures, superiors, inferiors, numerators, and denominators. Innova embodies the renewal needed for the traditional grotesques. It is a grotesque which is fit for the 21st century. In order to see whether you agree with this, please try the free Innova Alt Demi. For more information about Innova, download the PDF Specimen Manual.

Charlot is a decorative display font with dozens of beautiful ligatures and ornaments. The vast selection of ligatures and stylistic alternates makes this font extremely customizable. Charlot is perfect for unique branding and title treatments, personal monograms, and vintage-inspired layouts. Charlot has over 150 ligatures in Latin and Greek consisting of: the complete Latin alphabet (with all accent marks), the complete Modern Greek alphabet, 60 ligatures, 33 stylistic alternates, 15 decorative ornaments, borders, and frames, numerals and math symbols, extensive punctuation and diacritical markings. The OpenType ligatures are the fun part. To get the most out of Charlot, use software that supports Open Type fonts (Adobe programs, Corel Draw, Affinity Designer, etc). This type family has tons of built-in OpenType ligatures and alternates, which are what make it so customizable and decorative. You can always access the ligatures, alternates, and dingbats through your software's glyphs panel. For a complete preview of all the ligatures, please look at the 4th image in this product listing. Languages Charlot includes the Latin and Greek alphabets with all accent markings. The most common languages it supports are: English, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

"Humanista" is the name of a multilingual chancery script font by Bertram Kaiser. The idea in this long-term project was to blend the boundaries between analogue calligraphic handwriting and designing a font digitally, while using all technical possibilities of modern type design. All glyphs were originally written with a broadnib and then carefully vectorized, creating a human charme inside the font. In this design you will find influences from great calligraphy masters like Hermann Zapf or Werner Schneider. The pro version comes along with a big variety of alternate glyphs, initial and terminal forms, swash capitals and ligatures, which gives you the possibility of designing individual text layouts. Inside the font you will also find a set of italic roman capitals plus fitting numerals and interpunction, which can be treated like a font itself. You can activate them through the Open-Type menue (stylistic-set 4) or set manually via the glyphs window (ADOBE applications). When using the feature "swashletters" make sure to also activate the feature "contextual alternates" to get an appealing textdesign with alternating swashletters. This font can be used for display sizes as well as for smaller textsizes like on Invitationcards or in magazines.

Oscar Niemeyer is one of the greatest architects of our time—his unique way of mixing straight lines and abstract curves gives rise to an unmistakable and characteristic style. This typeface is my own tribute to Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. The design process started when my wife and I visited Brazil while she was running a series of workshops on calligraphy. In my spare time, I would walk through the streets of beautiful cities like Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo, enjoying the local architecture and urban life. I had also the opportunity to attend to some of the workshops during which I was able to observe the organic of calligraphy and people. Then, I started to draw some shapes that reflected everything about this beautiful place: Niemeyer’s architecture and work and, in his own words ‘the curves on the body of the beloved woman’. This versatile typeface comes in 8 weights with matching italics, alternative characters, oldstyle figures and much more! Niemeyer is well-suited for logotypes, advertising, publishing, branding and corporate use. Special thanks to everyone in the Latinotype Team (especially to César Araya) for their support, help with corrections and digital editing.

Darkness Awakening is a chilling display font designed to send shivers down your spine. This uppercase font features eerie details that give it an air of horror and mystery, making it the perfect choice for spine-tingling design projects. Each letter in Darkness Awakening is meticulously crafted with the appearance of brush strokes, evoking a sense of handcrafted artistry. The brush details add a touch of unpredictability and chaos, giving the font a haunted and unsettling vibe. While the font is uppercase, it is not bold, allowing the horror theme and brush details to take center stage. For the best legibility you can use this font in the bigger text sizes. Enjoy the available features here. Features: Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Darkness Awakening fits in headlines, logos, movie posters, flyers, invitations, branding materials, print media, editorial layouts, headers, and any horror-themed projects. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Thanks for purchasing our fonts. Hopefully, you have a great time using our font. Feel free to contact us anytime for further information or when you have trouble with the font. Thanks a lot and happy designing.

Hickory is the revival of an old unnamed font dating back to 1852 and was sold through a few different type foundries including Bruce, MacKellar Smiths & Jordan and James Conner's Sons. By the year 1900 this font disappeared from the major type foundries, now with the digital age of type we're proud to revive this old classic font that hasn't been used in over one hundred years. The original font was only available as an uppercase with punctuation and an ampersand. Today the character set has been updated to include a new lowercase, numbers and accented characters for Eastern, Central and Western European countries. Three fill fonts have been created for the Hickory font making it easier for you to add different colors, textures and patterns to the letters. You will need an application that works in layers such as Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator in order to use the fill fonts, some fill fonts may look good as a stand alone font, the Hickory fill fonts however do not look good used apart from the Hickory main font. I hope you enjoy this old font as much as I did making it.

Basic Commercial is a font based on historical designs from the hot metal typeface era. It first appeared around 1900, and was created by type designers whose names have not been recorded but whose skills cannot be overlooked. This typeface's design has been popular among groups and movements as diverse as the Bauhaus, Dadaism, and the masters of Swiss/International-Style typography. It influenced for a variety of later grotesque fonts, such as Helvetica and Univers. Basic Commercial was distributed for many years in the United States under the name Standard Series. The typeface worked its way into many aspects of daily life and culture; for instance, it became the face chosen for use in the New York City subway system's signage. The Basic Commercial's font family members have a clear and objective design. Their forms exhibit almost nothing unusual, but remain both lively and legible nonetheless. Perhaps for this reason, Basic Commercial's design has been popular with graphic designers for decades. To read more about the history of typefaces like Basic Commercial, visit our font feature, The Sans Serif Typefaces. In addition several weights of this typefamily are available as soft rounded versions."

Tombo Brush is an interesting font that combines brush font’s artistic and organic characteristics with even line edges which are clear and firm. Furthermore, the capital letters express more modern, simple impressions by following the brush script font’s characteristics of the soft and smooth brush wipes, yet the even smooth lines on the edges show clearer, firmer nuances. Bright and contrast colors can show interesting, dynamic nuances on designs with this font. The even edge lines will ease the application of colors and show clearer visual effects separated from the background. You can apply this font for big text sizes for a legibility reason and also enjoy the available features here. Features: Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Tombo Brush fits best for various design projects, such as brandings, quotes, printed products, merchandise, social media, etc. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Thanks for purchasing our fonts. Hopefully, you have a great time using our font. Feel free to contact us anytime for further information or when you have trouble with the font. Thanks a lot and happy designing.

Discover the captivating charm of SP Vincent, a masterfully crafted display font developed in 2023 by Studio Pulp. Inspired by the iconic character Vincent Vega, the central figure in the film classic "Pulp Fiction" (1994), this typeface exudes a powerful and refined aesthetic, befitting a leading role. SP Vincent, with meticulous attention to detail and craftsmanship, showcases versatility that seamlessly complements a variety of design projects, especially excelling in the creation of impressive titles. The three well-balanced weights provide you with the flexibility to unleash your creativity, while the clear, open shapes optimize readability. Anchored in a sleek grid design, SP Vincent embodies modern minimalism and accessible elegance. Whether you are engaged in web design, graphic design, or print materials, this font adds a timeless class to your creations. Be inspired by the seamless blend of functionality and aesthetics in SP Vincent. Specifically designed to meet the demands of 2023, this font brings a contemporary flair to your projects while remaining faithful to Studio Pulp's commitment to quality and innovation. Transform your typographic landscape with SP Vincent and leave a lasting impression reminiscent of the unforgettable moments from "Pulp Fiction."

Buffet Script is based on fantastic calligraphy by Alf Becker, arguably the greatest American sign lettering artist of all time. The Alf Becker series of nameless alphabets published by Sign of the Times magazine in 1941 has attracted letter digitizers for a few years now, so it’s really a wonder that a few of those alphabets are still in the non-digital realm. It is understandable, though, that the basis for Buffet Script was not digitally attempted until now. The page presenting this alphabet shows a jungle of letters running into each others and swashes intertwining. The massive amount of work involved in digitizing such lettering, where scanning is nowhere near being an option, is quite obvious at a mere glance. If anyone was going to commit this particular alphabet to a digital form, it would have to be redrawn stroke by stroke and curve by curve on the computer. And don't we love a challenge! But seriously, the challenge was not the main attraction. In a way, the Becker approach to lettering is so far from digital that the imagination is almost forced to work out possibilities and letter combinations to solve problems presented by the scant showings in that magazine. After a few imaginative visualizations, the digital potential becomes clear in the mind, and the eye and hand follow. The result with Whomp (another Alf Becker-inspired work) was an enormous font with a lot of alternates and ligatures. With Buffet Script the imaginative process was no different, but the result particularly shines here, because this is some of the most fascinating flowing calligraphy ever seen. Calligraphy is where the accountability of all the little extra touches, such as alternates and swashes and ligatures, is raised to a higher level than in most other type categories. Buffet Script’s OpenType programming contains discretionary ligatures, stylistic and contextual alternates, interacting with each other to allow the composition of just the right word or sentence. This font is best used where lush elegance is one of the design’s requirements.