Fadilla Script is perfect for branding, wedding invitations, magazines, mugs, business cards, quotes, posters, and many more that you can use on your big project will be very beautiful. Fadilla Script is equipped with OpenType feature and has many glyphs, giving you the chance to choose letters to your liking, having lots of variations and choices for each letter, so you can customize your design choices. Fadilla Script also support other languages. You need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Photoshop CS / Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Illustrator CS / Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw and many more programs that support OpenType. If you don't have a program that supports OpenType, you can access all the alternate glyphs using Font Book (Mac) or Character Map (Windows) If you have any question, don't hesitate to contact me by email.

Wonderkids Script Inspired by Retro style and combination with Hand Lettering style. It is made with personality in every curve. I hope this will inspire your work. It is perfectly paired with marker fonts , and includes a super handy set of bonus Swash. Ideal for logos, handwritten quotes, product packaging, header, poster, merchandise, social media & greeting cards. Features Basic Latin A-Z and a-z Numbers Symbols Stylistic Set Ligature PUA Encode Multi-language Support To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. There are additional ways to access alternates, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac). If you have any question, don't hesitate to contact me by email masinong.studio@gmail.com :)

Hi there! I'm happy to present you my new font! Adrim is a modern symbols and lines display font. Each uppercase character have a unique pattern with moon, stars and leaves. Here are also clear font option. It is perfect to use in any vintage logos, branding, flyers, product packaging, romantic stationery, ecology posters, astrology blog design, holiday invitations. What you will get: * Pattern and Clean styles * Uppercase and lowercase * Numbers * Symbols * Ligatures * Punctuation * Multilingual support If Adrim font family is not ok, please check out Avery https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/kaer/avery/ I hope you enjoy this font. Follow my shop to receive updates of products and the very hottest news! If you have any question or issue, please contact me: kaer.pro@gmail.com Please request to add additional characters and glyphs if you need! Thank you!

The Duero is one of the major rivers of the Iberian Peninsula, flowing from its source across northern-central Spain and Portugal to its outlet at Porto. The "Duero viñatero", is an area of the Duero Valley where its famous wines are produced. "Duero", a new script font designed by Olcar Alcaide. Its slight bounce and intentional irregularity gives your words a wonderful flow. The thick and thin strokes in this typeface combine balance and harmony. "Duero" has OpenType features such as Stylistics and Contextual alternates, Swashes, Ligatures, that allow you to mix and match pairs of letters and a Central European language support to fit your design. This will help your creativity and make it easier to make the impressive and elegant typographic work.  "Duero" looks good on food packaging, logo design, business-cards, fashion, magazines, menus, book covers and much more!

I am happy to introduce my new handwritten script font Sweet Tooth. This font is bouncy and cheerful. It will look perfect for branding, package and menu design. Hand-drawn script font Sweet Tooth contains 2 sets of uppercase and 3 sets of lowercase letters and a big set of ligatures helping to imitate handwriting. Multilingual support is included. No special software is required to use Sweet Tooth font, it is PUA encoded. For designers who do have OpenType capable software: you can access alternates by turning on 'Ligatures' buttons on in Photoshop's Character panel or via any software with a glyphs panel, e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape. Features: 2 sets of Uppercase 3 sets of Lowercase Numerals & Punctuation Ligatures Multilingual support I hope you love it and if you have any question, feel free to contact me! Thanks! Lena (instagram @almaz_dolzhe)

Vtg Stencil Germany No.101 is modeled after historic stencil plates from Bavaria. The design is a blackletter chancery, a romantic reprise of a style that was common in German writing offices from the 14th to the 16th century. The flourishes stylistically quote the Baroque period. A talented mind, perhaps around 1890, has transformed the textura shapes into a modular stencil system. Many elements are repeated throughout the glyph set - see for example the initial swashes on the letters A, B, U etc. Overall, this decorative blackletter doesn’t look like a stencil design. Maybe it was originally used by a sign painter, and all the typical stencil bridges would have been painted over in the final work. If you’re looking for a decorative blackletter font with a unique touch and a romantic feel, you will love Germany No.101.

zt. Bolkit Serif is a typeface with two types of styles, one with an elegant and smooth arch shape, while the other has a type of firmness and the character presents a strong character in it. Being a letter whose concept is very interested in simplicity, the lines present in the elegant and firm zt. Bolkit make you feel it too. zt. Bolkit also comes with two widths that all have two weights (Thin and Bold) Containing characters that include uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, 52 ligatures, 25 alternatives and symbols that will make your designs cooler in the future. Do not forget also this supports more than 60 languages derived from Latin, namely Western, Central and Southeastern European languages. I hope you have a blast using zt.Bolkit Thanks for use this font ~ Khaiuns X zelowtype

Evertone Family is a modern calligraphy font with a current handwriting style. This font is perfect for branding, wedding invites, magazines, mugs, business cards, quotes, posters, and more. Evertone Family is equipped with 300 glyphs, meaning you will be able to choose the letters according to your likes. There are lots of variation and options for each letter, so you can customize on your design choices. To access the variety of OpenType features you can use applications such as Adobe Photoshop CS / Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Illustrator CS / Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw. If you do not have a program that supports OpenType, you can access all the alternate glyphs using Font Book (Mac) or Character Map (Windows). If you have any question, do not hesitate to contact me by email ijemrealmad54@gmail.com Thanks and happy designing :)

Magoat – Modern Clean Bold Font is the perfect choice to infuse a contemporary and bold touch into your graphic design projects. With its distinctive All Caps style, Magoat has the ability to capture attention with clarity and courage. Each character is designed with precision, showcasing the cleanliness and modernity that define this font. With its bold shapes, Magoat is well-suited for titles, logos, and other design elements that require a strong and clear presence. Despite its bold appearance, the clarity of each letter is maintained, ensuring that your message is conveyed with precision and readability. With Magoat, your design projects will gain a fresh, contemporary, and professional touch, bringing a clean and bold look to various visual platforms. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me Follow my Instagram: @fkryall Thank you

Un Jour Merveilleux means "a Wonderful Day" in French. This font is a Modern Calligraphy script with stylistic alternates for all the lowercase letters and numbers for a natural flow and rhythm. Smaller and larger alternates are set to switch between each other within the Contextual Alternates OpenType rule, so make sure to enable this feature while setting text with this font. Alternatively you may select and replace characters from the Glyphs window manually. There are PUA encoded ligatures for the double letters bb, ht, li, ll, lt, on, oo, rr, ss and tt. The font set covers Eastern, Central and Western European accented Latin Languages. Hope you like this font and it will add a beautiful fresh touch to your new project! Roland Image credits: Photo by Plush Design Studio on Unsplash Coffee on Table: Kelly Lockett @kellylock

Introducing Elegant Serif Font Allogist is a new elegant serif font that will add a touch of luxury and sharp diamond dots add a slick yet legible Persian style. This versatile font is Perfect for editorial projects, magazine headers, Logo designs, Clothing Branding, product packaging, and showcases masculine and feminine qualities. Allogist is equipped with uppercase, lowercase, numbers and full punctuation + Multi language support and PUA-encode. To activate the OpenType Stylistic alternative, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or a later version. Features: • 3 Font weight • Uppercase & Lowercase letters • Alternative & Ligature Styles • Numbers & Punctuation • Characters with accents • Supports Multiple Languages This type of family has become a work of true love, making it as easy and enjoyable as possible. I really hope you enjoy it!

Looking for a font that will make your branding stand out? Do you sometimes have an appetite for a bit more wholesome typography? Looking for a fabulous, stylish, and adventure font? We've got what you want. Motion Taste-A Handwritten Font Motion Taste is designed elegantly to be easily meld inside your designs. Inspired by the recent trend to brings charming curves and satisfying looks. Discover the beauty in your own imagination while this font gives you a quick kickstart to what it can be. Well suited to invitation, poster designs, branding, logos, and many more. Our font always includes Multilingual Support to make your branding reach a global audience. Inspire your audience, clients, or guests with this beautiful, statement font. Features: Ligatures Stylistic Sets PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Nathatype

Sugela is a Classy New Beautiful Serif Font The serifs that we made specifically for the needs of elegant branding, with additional ligatures and alternates in a more feminine and unique form will be ready to add value to your brand. It's great to take advantage of designers or product owners who need a solution to make their designs look more classy and modern. This font is specially designed for fashion-themed projects, perfectly suitable for creating elegant, chic, lifestyle designs such as logos, titles, magazines, and more. Sugela serif font is ready with: - Any option to get creative variations with unique letters - Preview as inspiration what you can do with Sugela font - Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Hope you enjoy our fonts and if you have any questions feel free to message me & I'm happy to help :)

Filson Soft is the rounded version of the popular Filson Pro . At first sight, the main feature of Filson Soft are the distinctive letters ‘K’, ‘Q’ and especially ‘R’ that make the font family very elegant. With its rounded terminaisons, this font family is also perfect for original titles and will give you future creations a nicely friendly aspect. But with all these originals features, Filson Soft is highly legible and quite versatile. Its large x-height, even performs nicely in small sizes. Filson Soft comes in 8 weights - Thin, Light, Book, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black, Heavy with a professional range of Opentype functions such as lining and oldstyle figures, stylistic alternates, case sensitive forms, localized forms, stylistic set, arrows and f-ligatures. For better typographic control, Filson Soft also includes an OpenType class kerning with thousands of kerning pairs.

Sweet Pattern, just as sweet as flowers, flawless as you! A perfect font for your minimal yet beautiful website, social media branding, Pinterest banners, printed invitations, and more! Sweet Pattern fonts, like a fragrance, speak your heart, your audience’s, clients and guests and people around you! What you’ll get: Multilingual & Ligature Support Full sets of Punctuation and Numerals Compatible with: Adobe Suite Microsoft Office KeyNote Pages Software Requirements: The fonts that you’ll receive in the pack are widely supported by most software. In order to get the full functionality of the selection of standard ligatures (custom created letters) in the script font, any software that can read OpenType fonts will work. We hope you enjoy this font and that it makes your branding sparkle! Feel free to reach out to us if you’d like more information or if you have any concerns.

Introducing Hirokawa - A Japanese Font Konnichiwa! Hirokawa is a handcrafted, elegant font, containing the beautiful Japanese culture within. Use this font on your work, websites, social media, presentations, printed materials and many more! Inspire your audience, clients, or guests with this stylish Japanese font. What you’ll get: Multilingual & Ligature Support Full sets of Punctuation and Numerals Compatible with: Adobe Suite Microsoft Office KeyNote Pages Software Requirements: The fonts that you’ll receive in the pack are widely supported by most software. In order to get the full functionality of the selection of standard ligatures (custom created letters) in the script font, any software that can read OpenType fonts will work. We hope you enjoy this font and that it makes your branding sparkle! Feel free to reach out to us if you’d like more information or if you have any concerns.

Introducing my Marioline Barnard Script, a passionatly crafted fancy script. Marioline Barnard script fully meets my expectations for a script that gives you luxurious vibes as much as casual vibes, elegant but simple, strong but light vibes. Marioline Barnard comes with beautiful uppercase and lowercase alternates (up to 11 level alternates, ligatures include), and swashes. Marioline Barnard has Multilingual support (Western European characters) and works with following languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norweigan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Filipino, and Malay. Marioline Barnard is modern script font, every single letters has been carefully crafted to make your text looks beautiful. With modern script style this font will perfect for many different project, example: invitations, greeting cards, posters, name card, quotes, blog header, branding, logo, book cover, fashion, apparel, letter, logotypes, wedding invitations, product labels, and clothing product, stationery and more. Thank you.

I set out to design a contemporary font that is condensed with thick and thin strokes. The highly structured forms of this condensed font was made more interesting and softer by giving it a slightly calligraphic tone and by adding round corners. Atto's express purpose is to be both utilitarian, compact and technical but with a friendly face. The name "atto" was adopted since it refers to the measurement of "smallness" or detail. You will no doubt discover all the many pleasant nuances within Atto. Adopted in 1964, "atto" comes from the Danish "atten", meaning eighteen. Atto - (symbol a) a SI prefix to an unit and means that it is 10 to the power- 18 times this unit. Examples are one attosecond or one attometer/attometre. Atto is available in for Mac and Windows in Postscript, Truetype and Opentype.

Here comes our new font Break Parquet this is a Unique Display Font that is written casually and quickly.this a Authentic Style and classy style This font are handmade with unique font . Then crafted carefully drawn into vector format.this font is great for your creative projects such as watermar.k on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, photography, invitation, watermark,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. That is a natural handwritten feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes. That is why Break Parquet is strong characteristic more natural look to your text with a more modern look to your text.

Geronimo is a rough poster script done in the spirit of brush calligraphy experiments conducted by American calligrapher and historian, Professor Alexander Nesbitt. This particular approach to brush script uses a pointed brush. Although Nesbitt considered the pointed brush corruptive and not at all suited to present day western letter forms, he put forth that with enough control of the brush (keeping it upright, maintaining stroke evenness, etc) even an unexperienced letterer can easily draw current day letters, though the result will always show characteristics of the letterer's own handwriting. Geronimo is a great choice for entertainment design, like book covers, film poster and packaging, and CD inserts. It also is a great overall display design for anything that seeks to depict adventure or an environment with a rough human element. Many alternates are sprinkled throughout the font.

German designer Rosemarie Kloos-Rau created Wiesbaden Swing in 1992 for Linotype. This light, informal typeface is based on her own handwriting, and the strokes have a feeling of spontaneity and energetic flair. Characters like the D, O, W, g, n and y really do swing with unbridled confidence and joy. Kloos-Rau says about her typeface: “From the experience with my design company I recognized the need for fonts with personality. Wiesbaden Swing is my contemporary contribution to the field of calligraphy, a headline font which offers a fresh and unconventional approach to typography.” This family has both regular and bold weights, and a set of Dingbats. The Dingbats are light-hearted and zippy symbols for holidays, children’s products, menus, and more. Wiesbaden Swing will add zest to packaging, catalogs, menus, websites, greeting cards, and magazine layouts.

Step into the groove with Daily Shine, the ultimate funky retro font that will transport you straight back to the '70s era. Whether you're looking to infuse nostalgic flair into your logo or seek a fresh burst of inspiration for your design ventures, Daily Shine is your go-to choice. With its stylish swash alternates, Daily Shine adds a touch of extra style to your project, creating a dynamic and eye-catching look. Plus, its multilingual support ensures versatility for various language needs. From captivating headings and expressive logotypes to spirited quotes, apparel designs, inviting invitations, lively flyers, dynamic posters, heartfelt greeting cards, captivating product packaging, captivating book covers, empowering printed quotes and even mesmerizing album covers and movie posters, Daily Shine is your versatile companion for any creative endeavor. Get ready to shine bright and groove on with Daily Shine font!

I’d been thinking for a while about making a serif font with ball terminals: big fun round ends to the letters anywhere I can squeeze them in. So I made Breakfast Pastry! I started with a hand-drawn set of basic letters, then went hog-wild making alternates and ligatures galore with fun swirls, curls, and even more balls! I’ve cleaned the letters up significantly to make them smooth and easy for any cutting or printing you may want to do, but I’ve also left in some of the hand-drawn character so that the letters are warmer and not too formal. Then I took the first font, and made a second solid version without the cutouts. After that I thought: I tend to make plumper fonts ... why not make an even thinner version? So I did! All three versions have the same character set (over 700 glyphs total), which means they all have the same extras and alternates. All three fonts have over 300 extended Latin characters for language support, as well as over 200 bonus items: alternate letters, letters with swashes, two-letter ligatures, small caps, catchwords, and even some bonus ornaments and elements to make the fonts even more flexible. (After all, if one swash on a letter is good, two or three might be great!)

While sketching for a music project logo, Donald DBXL Beekman looked at several wood type alphabets as a starting poing. One of these was No.120, patented in 1880 by William Hamilton Page. With its distinct diagonally cut serifs and round shapes cut off at top and bottom, it bore just the right feel for the project. DBXL digitized the alphabet, adding all characters needed for a full set. During this process all shapes were widened, tweaked and streamlined to enhance consistency and rhythm along the whole font. VLNL Bonen is an all-caps display font with a very specific western cowboy or circus look. For instance burger or barbecue grill restaurants would do well with this one. We can easily see it shine on a festival flyer or poster as well, and not just country & western festivals. VLNL Bonen is suitable for any ‘big’ use that needs to stand out of the crowd. Bonen is the Dutch word for beans, a world wide source of nutrition and proteins it comes in a multitude of shapes, colours and sizes. Beans are also the most eaten foods in a cowboy’s diet along the trail. Available in abundance and easily preserved and transported, many recipes on the cattle drives in the American Wild West used beans. Think of chili, mashed beans with biscuits and bean soups. “Keep them doggies movin’, cowboy!”

Haigrast Script is the light and thin handwritten font that brings a touch of fashion and fun to any project. Designed by Mans Greback in 2023, this signature script font is the perfect choice for designers looking to add a touch of personality to their work. With its cute and feminine design, Haigrast Script is ideal for wedding invitations, fashion logos, and other creative projects that require a fast, active and wild style. This font is perfect for those who want to make a bold statement in their design work. Whether you're creating a fashion magazine cover, a social media post, or a wedding invitation, Haigrast Script is the perfect choice for designers who want to make a lasting impression. Use underscore _ to make an underline swash. Example: Love_letter Use multiple underscores different underlines. Hand__________writer The Haigrast Script family consists of four high-quality fonts: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

ION A is a part of the ION superfamily, which consists of 3 families: condensed (ION A), normal (ION B) and wide (ION C), each having a compelling range of 10 weights. Styles Thin to Black have 436 glyphs supporting more than 70 Latin-based languages and the three heaviest weights, named U1, U2 and U3 have 94 basic glyphs. ION glyphs are based on the classic 7-segment display, but for readability and aesthetic reasons, some alphabetic characters don't follow this matrix strictly. In case you like things in order, don't worry, there's a stylistic set that replaces all characters with their strict alternatives. The special characters, such as #, @ or % are composed of special segments, but are designed to fit seamlessly within the whole character set. ION was designed with the needs of contemporary graphic design in mind. There are alternative characters, discretionary ligatures, slashed zero, superior & inferior numbers, fractions, ordinals and three handy stylistic sets. The ten styles of ION A are accompanied with a special 11th style called Cells, allowing you to design a special underlying layer of black or outlined cells. This way you can create various containers and boxes for your text, highlight what's important or go wild and draw a space invader, using the cells as building blocks. Learn more about the OpenType features and Cells at www.urtd.net/ion.

Factually Handwriting is a stunning signature-style font that conveys a sense of expressive hand-lettering with a genuine touch. Its effortless strokes and wild curves make it perfect for adding a personal touch to your projects. Designed with a focus on authenticity, Factually Handwriting captures the beauty of natural handwriting, and consists of eight styles, including Regular, Italic, Bold, Alternate, Alternate Italic. Each style of Factually Handwriting offers a unique aesthetic, giving you the freedom to experiment with different looks and create truly personalized designs. This font is perfect for everything from logos and branding to social media posts and invitations. With its natural charm and expressive strokes, Factually Handwriting adds a touch of warmth and personality to any project. Use undercore _ anywhere in a to make a swash. Example: Hand_Signature Use multiple underscores to make different swashes. Example: Candy___Bars Use * to make flowers! Beautiful*Spring Blue***Roses The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

I’m happy to present you the Bohemian initials font family. Regular and Colored styles (Uppercase & Numbers) based on Codex Gigas originated in medieval Bohemia. The manuscript has been dated 1230. The elaborate initials are at the beginning of the main texts and their principal divisions. The painter was aiming to achieve a plastic depiction of the trailing vines of the initials, and he painted with solid colours. He used only four of the primary colours cinnabar red, blue, green and yellow, brightly toned, as well as white accents and contours. The trailing vines of the initial letters are painted in a decorative, advanced Romanesque style, already bordering on naturalism. The plant taken as the starting point is the acanthus, a thistle-like plant which grows wild in the Mediterranean countries. The decoration of the Devil’s Bible is not the work of an amateur. Scholars have concurred: it is book illuminations created in Northeast France and Southern England in the so-called Channel style which provided the starting point for the coiled trailing-vine shapes in the initials of the Devil’s Bible. --- You can use color fonts in PS CC 2017+, AI CC 2018+, ID CC 2019+, macOS 10.14 Mojave+ Please note that the Canva & Corel & Affinity doesn't support color fonts! --- Please feel free to request any help you need: kaer.pro@gmail.com Thank you!

ION C is a part of the ION superfamily, which consists of 3 families: condensed (ION A), normal (ION B) and wide (ION C), each having a compelling range of 10 weights. Styles Thin to Black have 436 glyphs supporting more than 70 Latin-based languages and the three heaviest weights, named U1, U2 and U3 have 94 basic glyphs. ION glyphs are based on the classic 7-segment display, but for readability and aesthetic reasons, some alphabetic characters don't follow this matrix strictly. In case you like things in order, don't worry, there's a stylistic set that replaces all characters with their strict alternatives. The special characters, such as #, @ or % are composed of special segments, but are designed to fit seamlessly within the whole character set. ION was designed with the needs of contemporary graphic design in mind. There are alternative characters, discretionary ligatures, slashed zero, superior & inferior numbers, fractions, ordinals and three handy stylistic sets. The ten styles of ION C are accompanied with a special 11th style called Cells, allowing you to design a special underlying layer of black or outlined cells. This way you can create various containers and boxes for your text, highlight what's important or go wild and draw a space invader, using the cells as building blocks. Learn more about the OpenType features and Cells at www.urtd.net/ion.

ION B is a part of the ION superfamily, which consists of 3 families: condensed (ION A), normal (ION B) and wide (ION C), each having a compelling range of 10 weights. Styles Thin to Black have 436 glyphs supporting more than 70 Latin-based languages and the three heaviest weights, named U1, U2 and U3 have 94 basic glyphs. ION glyphs are based on the classic 7-segment display, but for readability and aesthetic reasons, some alphabetic characters don't follow this matrix strictly. In case you like things in order, don't worry, there’s a stylistic set that replaces all characters with their strict alternatives. The special characters, such as #, @ or % are composed of special segments, but are designed to fit seamlessly within the whole character set. ION was designed with the needs of contemporary graphic design in mind. There are alternative characters, discretionary ligatures, slashed zero, superior & inferior numbers, fractions, ordinals and three handy stylistic sets. The ten styles of ION B are accompanied with a special 11th style called Cells, allowing you to design a special underlying layer of black or outlined cells. This way you can create various containers and boxes for your text, highlight what’s important or go wild and draw a space invader, using the cells as building blocks. Learn more about the OpenType features and Cells at www.urtd.net/ion.

There is plenty of lyric and literature about looking over one's shoulder in contemplation. What would you have done differently if you knew then what you know now? This is the kind of question that comes out of nowhere. When it does and whether its context is personal or professional make very little difference. It's a question that can cause emotions to rise and passions to run hot. It can trigger priority shifts and identity crises. It's never easy to answer. Three years ago, I published a font called Semilla. My aim with that was to distill the work of Bentele, a lettering artist from early 1950s Germany. Picking such an obscure figure back then was my way of pondering the meaning and efficiency of objectivity in a world where real human events and existences are inevitably filtered through decades of unavoidably subjective written, printed and oral history. And maybe to pat myself on the back for surviving surprises mild and pleasant. Having been fortunate enough to follow my professional whims for quite some time now, I took another, longer look at my idea of distilling Bentele's work again. I suppose the concepts of established history and objectivity can become quite malleable when personal experience is added to the mix. I say that because there I was, three years later, second-guessing myself and opining that Bentele's work can be distilled differently, in a manner more suited to current cultural angles. So I embarked on that mission, and Bowling Script is the result. I realize that it's difficult to reconcile this soft and happy calligraphic outcome with the introspection I've blathered about so far, but it is what is. I guess even self-created first world problems need to be resolved somehow, and the resolution can happen in mysterious ways. Bowling Script is what people who like my work would expect from me. It's yet another script loaded with all kinds of alternation, swashing and over-the-top stuff. All of that is in here. These days I think I just do all that stuff without even blinking. But there are two additional twists. The more noticeable one is ornamental: The stroke endings in the main font are of the typical sharp and curly variety found in sign painting, while the other font complements that with ball endings, sometimes with an added-on-afterwards impression rather than an extension of the actual stroke. In the philosophical terms I was mumbling earlier, this is the equivalent of alternate realities in a world of historical reduxes that by their very nature can never properly translate original fact. The second twist has to do with the disruption of angular rhythm in calligraphic alphabets. Of course, this is the kind of lettering where the very concept of rhythm can be quite flexible, but it still counts for something, and experimenting with angular white space in a project of a very dense footprint was irresistible. After playing for a bit, I decided that it would interesting to include the option of using optically back-slanted forms in the fonts. Most scripts out there, including mine, have a rhythm sonically comparable to four-to-the-floor club beats. So the weirdly angled stuff here is your chance to do the occasional drumroll. Everyone knows we need one of those sometimes. Bowling Script and Bowling Script Balls fonts comes with 1600 characters and features extended Latin-based language support. There are also a basic version of both fonts without all the alternates and extra OpenType features. Bowling family ships in cross-platform OpenType format. We also want to present “Mute”, a visual essay narated by Tomás García and Valentín Muro, about digital life created specially to introduce Bowling Script.

Meet Ollie, a casual signage script whose friendly, bouncy exterior belies a heart of sophisticated OpenType programming. This font is designed to make the most of OpenType savvy applications, and as such is recommended for professional design use. Or to put it another way: Make sure that contextual alternates and ligatures are always turned on! Ollie includes about 900 glyphs, many of which are automagical substitutions to keep the text flowing smoothly, and to pseudo-randomly pick different glyphs to avoid repetition. With contextual alternates turned on (as they should be by default), most lowercase letters will alternate between at least two different forms. The powerful OpenType programming makes the font itself ‘look back’ (up to eight characters) on previously used letters; typing “banana” will give you three different a’s and two different n’s (the last a is a special ‘end form’ character). The calt feature controls many other ‘special effects’ which all add together to give a smooth-flowing, hand-lettered look. These effects include start and end forms (and indeed, ‘loner’ forms) of many letters, which are automatically substituted in at beginnings or ends of words, or when the previous or next letter doesn't connect. Another special feature tests to see if there is room for the crossbar of t (or tt ligature) to extend further over the previous or next letter, or both, as is often the case. The last main effect of the calt feature is to substitute certain letters typed before any ‘e’ character, to make for a more natural connection (see the pe combination in ‘Eclectotype’ in the first poster). Ligatures should be on by default, for a much nicer looking tt combination, and a few others besides. The swash feature should be used sparingly (one glyph at a time, really) to apply a more extravagant look to g,j and y in the lower case, and quite a few of the upper case too. Oldstyle figures are included, as well as the lining defaults. Now to delve into the stylistic alternates... These are all included in the salt feature, or for uses of applications that support them, separated into stylistic sets thus: ss01 - (with swash feature on) L and G swashes get even swashier. ss02 - standard s changes to a connected script s form. ss03 - r takes on a script form. ss04 - z also gets a scriptier look. [the previous three sets also change any versions of s, r or z with diacritics] ss05 - a useful underline function. When enabled, typing two or more underscores will extend a cool underline under the previous letters. More underscores = longer underline. ss06 - the Polish script lslash changes to its more standard form. ss07 - E, S and B change to a more top-heavy alternate form. ss08 - An alternate form for A characters. ss09 - Alterative rounder forms of M and N. ss10 - An alternate ampersand. That about wraps up the features. Now all that’s left is for you to license the font and get experimenting!