I spend a lot of time following two obsessions: packaging and hand lettering. Alongside a few other minor obsessions, those two have been my major ones for so many years now, I've finally reached the point where I can actually claim them as “obsessions” without getting a dramatic reaction from the little voice in the back of my head. When you spend so much time researching and studying a subject, you become very focused, directionally and objectively. But of course some of the research material you run into turns out to be tangential to whatever your focus happens to be at the time, so you absorb what you can from it, then shelf it — like the celebrity bobblehead that amused you for a while, but is now an almost invisible ornament eating dust and feathers somewhere in your environment. And just like the bobblehead may fall off the shelf one day to remind you of its existence, some of my lettering research material unveiled itself in my head one day for no particular reason. Hand lettering is now mostly perceived as an American art. Someone with my historical knowledge about lettering may be snooty enough to go as far as pointing out the British origins of almost everything American, including lettering — but for the most part, the contemporary perspective associates great lettering with America. The same perspective also associates blackletter, gothics and sans serifs with Germany. So you can imagine my simultaneous surprise and impatience when, in my research for one of my American lettering-based fonts, I ran into a German lettering book from 1953, by an artist called Bentele. It was no use for me because it didn't propel my focus at that particular time, but a few months ago I was marveling at what we take for granted — the sky is blue, blackletter is German, lettering is American — and found myself flipping through the pages of that book again. The lettering in that book is upbeat and casual sign making stuff, but it has a slightly strange and youthful experimentation at its heart. I suppose I find it strange because it deviates a lot from the American stuff I'm used to working with for so long now. To make a long story short, what’s inside that German book served as the semilla, which is Spanish for seed, for the typeface you see all over these pages. With Semilla, my normal routine went out the window. My life for a while was all Bezier all the time. No special analog or digital brushes or pens were used in drawing these forms. They're the product of a true Bezier process, all starting with a point creating a curve to another point, which draws a curve to another point, and so on. It’s a very time-consuming process, but at the end I am satisfied that it can get to pretty much the same results easier and more traditional methods accomplish. And as usual with my fonts, the OpenType is plenty and a lot of fun. Experimenting with substitution and automation is still a great pleasure for me. It is the OpenType that always saves me from the seemingly endless work hours every type designer must inevitably have to face at one point in his career. The artful photos used in this booklet are by French photographer and designer Stéphane Giner. He is very deserving of your patronage, so please keep an eye out for his marvelous work. I hope you like Semilla and enjoy using it. I have a feeling that it marks a transition to a more curious and flexible period in my career, but only time will tell.

Welcome to the sleek and stylish world of Great Escape. This ultra-modern typeface is the perfect choice for anyone who wants to make a bold statement with their typography. With its geometric shapes and elegant softening, Great Escape offers a fresh take on traditional grotesque typefaces. What makes Great Escape truly unique is its compact design. This font is packed with all the authority and rationality you need to deliver a powerful message, but its compactness gives it a contemporary and minimalist feel. Perfect for tech-related projects or any modern design, Great Escape is a versatile and sophisticated typeface that can elevate any project. Available in 28 styles, Great Escape gives you plenty of options to choose from. You can select from seven different weights, two widths, and even italics, so you can customize your typography to suit your specific needs. Whether you’re designing a logo, creating a website, or crafting a marketing campaign, Great Escape is the perfect typeface to add a touch of elegance and sophistication to your work. So why wait? Embrace the power and precision of Great Escape today and give your projects the square, precise technological voice they deserve. Most Latin-based European writing systems are supported, including the following languages. Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aromanian, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean, Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Dholuo, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kurdish (Latin), Latvian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Māori, Moldovan, Montenegrin, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Norwegian, Novial, Occitan, Ossetian (Latin), Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Sami, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Võro, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Wayuu, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Zapotec Zulu and Zuni.

One of the good practices of today’s type foundries is that they release their type families as systems including both serif and sans serif type. Usually, the sources of inspiration need to be well tried with time and practice, since production of a type family is such a laborious and complex process. From the beginning, it needs to be clear that the result will be suited for universal use. Such systems, complete with the broad, multi-lingual variations permitted by the OpenType format, have become the elementary, default instrument of visual communication. Non-Latin scripts are useful for a wide scope of academic publications, for packaging and corporate systems alike. And what about outdoor advertisement designated for markets in developing countries? Cyrillics and Greek have become an integral part of our OpenType font systems. Maybe you noticed that the sans serif cuts have richer variety of the light – black scale. This is due to the fact that sans serif families tend to be less susceptible to deformities in form, and thus they are able to retain their original character throughout the full range of weights. On the other hand, the nature of serifed, contrasted cuts does not permit such extremes without sacrificing their characteristic features. Both weights were drawn by hand, only the Medium cut has been interpolated. Anselm Ten is a unique family of four cuts, slightly strengthened and adjusted for the setting in sizes around 10 pt and smaller, as its name indicates. The ancestry of Anselm goes back to Jannon, a slightly modified Old Style Roman. I drew Serapion back in 1997, so its spirit is youthful, a bit frisky, and it is charmed by romantic, playful details. Anselm succeeds it after ten years of evolution, it is a sober, reliable laborer, immune to all eccentricities. The most significant difference between Sebastian/Serapion and Anselm is the raised x-height of lowercase, which makes it ideal for applications in extensive texts. Our goal was to create an all-round type family, equally suitable for poetry, magazines, books, posters, and information systems.

Introducing Jillican, the sans-serif typeface that is all about precision and practicality. With its clean lines and geometric design, Jillican is the perfect choice for any project where clarity and efficiency are key. But don’t let its no-frills appearance fool you. Jillican’s simplicity is precisely what makes it so special. This typeface is angled only where necessary, free of any unnecessary adornments or distractions. The result is a typeface that is both modern and timeless, suitable for a wide range of applications. Jillican is available in six weights and italics, giving you plenty of flexibility to use it in any situation. And for those who want to take things up a notch, Jillican offers some exciting variations. Jillican War is a bold stencil style that makes a statement, while Jillican Warpaint adds a touch of artistic flair with its dripping paint effect. For a more dimensional look, there’s Jillican War 3D, a shaded stencil style that brings your text to life. Overall, Jillican is the perfect choice for anyone looking for a typeface that is both practical and distinctive. With its classic British inspiration and computer plotter-drawn aesthetic, Jillican is sure to turn heads and make an impact in any design project. Most Latin-based European writing systems are supported, including the following languages. Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aromanian, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean, Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Dholuo, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kurdish (Latin), Latvian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Māori, Moldovan, Montenegrin, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Norwegian, Novial, Occitan, Ossetian (Latin), Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Sami, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Võro, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Wayuu, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Zapotec Zulu and Zuni.

One of the good practices of today’s type foundries is that they release their type families as systems including both serif and sans serif type. Usually, the sources of inspiration need to be well tried with time and practice, since production of a type family is such a laborious and complex process. From the beginning, it needs to be clear that the result will be suited for universal use. Such systems, complete with the broad, multi-lingual variations permitted by the OpenType format, have become the elementary, default instrument of visual communication. Non-Latin scripts are useful for a wide scope of academic publications, for packaging and corporate systems alike. And what about outdoor advertisement designated for markets in developing countries? Cyrillics and Greek have become an integral part of our OpenType font systems. Maybe you noticed that the sans serif cuts have richer variety of the light – black scale. This is due to the fact that sans serif families tend to be less susceptible to deformities in form, and thus they are able to retain their original character throughout the full range of weights. On the other hand, the nature of serifed, contrasted cuts does not permit such extremes without sacrificing their characteristic features. Both weights were drawn by hand, only the Medium cut has been interpolated. Anselm Ten is a unique family of four cuts, slightly strengthened and adjusted for the setting in sizes around 10 pt and smaller, as its name indicates. The ancestry of Anselm goes back to Jannon , a slightly modified Old Style Roman. I drew Serapion back in 1997, so its spirit is youthful, a bit frisky, and it is charmed by romantic, playful details. Anselm succeeds it after ten years of evolution, it is a sober, reliable laborer, immune to all eccentricities. The most significant difference between Sebastian/Serapion and Anselm is the raised x-height of lowercase, which makes it ideal for applications in extensive texts. Our goal was to create an all-round type family, equally suitable for poetry, magazines, books, posters, and information systems.

Inspired by early grotesque typefaces such as Akzidenz Grotesk and Venus, Werksatz is our contemporary interpretation of this beloved genre. Some things are timeless. These are the things that only get better with use. The aforementioned typefaces certainly belong into this category. Rediscovered by designers from every generation again and again, they are here to stay. However, as tools evolve and technology moves on, even a well-tried design has to adapt to this evolution continuously in order to stand the test of time. Werksatz is such an adaptation, taking the best from the invincible classics and infusing them with the warm blood of today’s tech. With 10 weights from Thin to Black, each with painstakingly fine-tuned obliques, and more than 940 characters per style, this font family is ready for the future. Its Extended Latin support ensures you won’t miss a letter in any of hundreds of languages. Special glyphs like three variations of arrows and additional shapes will make your design work so much easier—for well-structured forms as well as radical editorial layouts. Among a treasure trove of OpenType features, you’ll find essentials such as Capital Spacing, Case-Sensitive Forms, and Ligatures, but also advanced functions like Small Caps, Subscript and Inferior figures and letters, plenty figure sets (Lining Figures, Tabular Figures, Old-Style Figures, circled and squared figures, figures for small caps … you get the idea), Slashed Zero, and more. You’ll discover that Werksatz is less formalistic and rigid than your average neogrotesk typeface. Sure, you can use it for serious business—whether in corporate design, branding, editorial design, publication design, or web design for industries and topics ranging from politics, government, management, or law to technology, entrepreneurship, commerce, or finance. However, Werksatz is much more versatile than that. Its more human appearance also allows for effective use in culture, fashion, art, entertainment, sports, exhibitions, leisure, and luxury. It’s an excellent choice for wayfinding applications, apps, packaging, and all kinds of nonfiction books. Other Grotesks with big names are left behind outdated by their proprietors, but Werksatz is here to stay. The classic industrial warmth of these letterforms will age like fine wine.

Broone is a stunning versatile decorative display font. The proportion of wavy shapes with serif outlines can add a youthful and natural touch to any design project. You can use this font in modern and retro designs. This font is suitable for attractive packaging label designs, unique desired logos, poster designs, fashions and much more. This font contains standard glyph, alternates, ligatures, symbol, punctuation and multilingual supports.

Captain Tall Ship is the clean version of Captain Tall Shipwreck. The font can be used in many project themes, from birthday party invitations to beer labels. The font could be potentially used is a number of design themes including bars, pubs, pirate, navy, seafarer, alcohol products, western/cowboy, card game/gambling, biker gang, tattoos, emblems and crests, old military & hunting to name a few.

Cartoon Family Font is a cool and friendly display font that brings a playful and authentic vibe to your designs. This fun font is perfect for children activities, school projects, storybooks, posters, and more. With its chunky letter style, Cartoon Family Font adds a touch of liveliness and personality to any design. Let your creativity soar and watch your designs come alive with this captivating font.

Introducing our cutting-edge techno font, designed to add a futuristic and sleek aesthetic to your designs. Inspired by the sleek designs of technology and the digital age, this font captures the essence of innovation and progress. Its clean and precise letterforms, along with its distinct futuristic style, make it an excellent choice for technology-based branding, gaming graphics, sci-fi posters, and digital interfaces.

Introducing, Payung Senja is a beautiful handwritten typeface with an elegant style that is here to give a luxurious impression to your designs, made with consistent strokes to produce works that enhance your designs, complete with alternative ending swashes that will add to the luxurious impression. impact on your design. Payung Senja is perfect for Branding, Logos, Magazines, crafts, quotes, book covers, wedding invitations and more.

Popten is a modern minimalist design typeface with semi condensed conture and include alternative character also some ligature. It is inspired by hype and urban design, freestyle and brutalism. Popten typeface suited for anything lifestyle project with trend design. It was designed to be versatile, to blend in your design with light or dark through thin to black weights can add a lot of touch of personality.

Titch is a brush font, original glyphs drawn with a tombow brush pen. Special care has been taken to retain the individual characteristics of each glyph making Titch a beautifully unique display font. Titch is a small caps font available in both regular and slanted variations. This fun and versatile display font will add a hand made touch to your next packaging design or greetings card.

Agafia handwriting script is based on the hand of Agafia Karpovna Lykova - the last member of the Old Believer family lived like an hermit in the Khakass taiga. The face is developed for the new book on the history of Lykov's family by Lev Cherepanov. It's built in OpenType format with a contextual substitution of letterforms and specific ligatures. Designer - Gennady Fridman. Released by ParaType in 2009.

VANILA is a cute outline and very cheerful display font. Filled with ALL CAPS with cute and funny shapes, Inspired by freestyle graffiti writing, Add this lovely and dynamic font to any of your creative ideas related to school or kids, snacks and events. You will love the results. VANILA is perfect for birthday cards, kids invitations, quotes, branding, or just for fun for your art.

Brasílica is a robust design, with wide proportions, that assimilates influences both from old style and modern types. This wide shapes, as well as the moderate contrast and sturdy serifs make it suitable to different conditions of printing. The sharp corners, as well as the abrupt connections and terminals are remarkable features of this typeface, that renders a sturdy and crisp texture, with a distinct aspect.

Introducing Climora Duo CLIMORA SERIF is a typeface with a feminine taste, with a touch of old style paired with an elegant Climora Script its a perfect combination for your various design needs. CLIMORA Serif has 14 style and 7 weights, - from Thin to Bold and Matching oblique. and 1 Elegant Climora Script that supports multiple languages. Hope you enjoy with Climora Family Thank you

Segno. A Splash of Freshness. Cool, young and fresh, Segno surprises with his informal character and convinces for its careful execution. Its rounded forms and serifs evoke discretely the flow of a brush. Due to its moderate inclination Segno is easily readable and suits to more typographic purposes than you probably would expect from an informal typeface. Add a splash of freshness to your artwork, with Segno.

Suncos is a retro funk fonts that feels casual and clean an incredible modern retro aesthetic. Use this display font to add that special retro funk vintage touch to any design idea you can think of! Very suitable for Logotype, Stickers, Packaging design, Cricut Project, Headlines, Brand identity, T Shirt or Apparel industry, Posters, Magazines, Books, YouTube, Instagram, Websites, or any of your creative design projects. Enjoy!

This font is reminiscent of the Middle Ages texture fonts. But geometric shapes make it more modern. It will work well in large and short inscriptions. The large array of text readability is reduced due to the characteristic rhythm of the font. It has the standard ligatures and ligature to failed pairs. There are two sets of numbers: the proportional and the Old style.

This font is perfect for adding a little love and warmth to your designs--in a way that feels authentic and personal. Whether you're designing a t-shirt or logo, this cute hand-drawn font will add a friendly touch to any project. So what’s included : Basic Latin Uppercase and Lowercase Numbers, symbols, and punctuations Multilingual Support. Simple Installations works on PC & Mac Thank You.

Tobu means 'to jump' in Japanese. I came across a haiku by Matsuo Bashô wich reads: The old pond… a frog jumps in… the sound of water (Furu ike ya… kawazu tobikomu… mizu no oto). The font is named Tobu because of its jumpy character: it doesn't have a real baseline, which makes it playful and fun to use. Tobu comes with a pond full of diacritics.

Hambare is a sans serif font family that is bold, elegant, and futuristic. Its clean lines and balanced proportions make it an ideal choice for digital and print designs, ensuring readability and visual impact. Hamabare comes with six styles that you can mix and match. Add it to any design to provide the flexibility and visual impact you need to take your designs to the next level!

Air Leving this is an elegant font This is an elegant font, with alternatives that you can use as needed, this font is also very suitable to be used as a logo or product icon, it adds to your creative experience and will look much different from the others, suitable for all types of elegant and minimalist themed designs. Include : numeric alternate Latin Thank you very much

This whimsical typeface is based on an untitled work by William Hugh Gordon in his 1931 book, Lettering for Commercial Purposes. If you are looking for a font to add warmth and quirky charm to a project, this is the one. Both versions of this font contain complete Unicode 1252 (Latin) and Unicode 1250 (Central European) character sets, with localization for Romanian and Moldovan.

Here's a lettering style that just might be exactly on your wavelength. Add just the right dose of vintage freak-a-delia to your retro graphics with this original psychedelic-style design. Great for music posters, album graphics, book titles, etc. Evoke a warpy, wavy, whimsical vibe that harks back to the carefree 1960s or early 1970s era with Sixties Flashback; it's pure hippie, trippy fun!

Calendar Blocks JNL was inspired by old-fashioned wood type used to assemble calendar pages in the days of letterpress printing. The A-Z keystrokes contain the dates 1-26. The lower case a-z keystrokes have the remaining dates 27-31, along with the split dates 23/30 and 24/31 and blank boxes. The days of the week are located on the 1-7 keys.

Flawless Valentines is a beautiful and light handwritten font. Its unique feel and stunning impact will add a luxury spark to any design project you wish to create! This font is PUA encoded, which means you can access all of the amazing glyphs and ligatures with ease! Each Font Has: Stylish modern handwritten script Beautiful Swash (Ending tail) Beautiful Titling (Beginning tail) Special Ligatures Multilingual Support

Brookley is a hand-crafted, monoline script typeface designed to add a beautiful, modern touch to your designs. Available in 3 weights: light, regular and bold. Brookley comes with 372 glyphs including uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuation and includes OpenType alternates and ligatures for easy customization. It's perfect for branding projects, logos, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, labels, photography, and invitations.

Jolly Angel is a cute and quirky display font. It embodies playfulness and authenticity and is the perfect choice for any children's activity, Christmas, thanksgiving, poster, logo, packaging, or school project. Fall in love with its incredibly adaptable style and use it to create amazing designs! Add this beautiful display font to each of your creative ideas and notice how it makes them stand out!

Whether you're comfortable in your hiking boots or booting up your computer, Trailmap gets you where you want to go with an engaging mix of lower and uppercase or all caps. For double letters, or anywhere that needs it, add extra variation by combining lower and uppercase letters. Trailmap coordinates naturally with Trailmap Pictures, a fantastically fun collection of wilderness icons from rainclouds to raccoons.

Soothing is a signature font created in elegant modern handwriting, with a natural and stylish flow. This font has the perfect shape for your personal branding and business casual designs. This font is perfect for business cards, photography studios, signatures, interior designs, names of models, coffee late, traveling, weddings, cosmetics, jewelry. Start using this font to add an authentic and heartfelt vibe to any design project

Nektar is a soft & smooth sans serif typeface with spirit, personality and distinction. This bold, semi-condensed and human sans serif is inspired by the "perfect imperfection" of old prints. The typeface is lively and eye-catching, ideal for where and when you want to make a positive and human impression. The font has over 650 glyphs. It has Multilingual support (including Cyrillic script).

GREISSLER is a Retro Display Font inspired by old letterings on store fronts and building facades in Vienna. "Greißler" is a term used in the east of Austria and means small grocer. In Vienna you can still see some of the letterings "Lebensmittel", "Feinkost", etc. on the storefronts of mostly abandoned shops. Similar letters can be found on "Gemeindebauten" (council housing) from the 1920s.

Found within the pages of the 1927 edition of the “Welo Studio Handbook - Letter and Design for Artist and Advertisers” is an elegant Art Deco multi-line alphabet. Digitally redrawn as Theater Alley JNL, it is available in both regular and oblique versions. The font takes its name from that of a street in New York, although the street’s name uses the old-fashioned spelling of “theatre”.

Montain is a classic script font with rounded edges and a modern and unique look. This font is also equipped with 90+ stylistic sets, Contextual Alternative, ligatures and also multi-language support which further adds to the creativity in using this font. This font is perfect for your creative projects such as Logotype, printed quotes, invitations, cards, product packaging, headers, Letterhead, Apparel , Web design, Magazine, Book, etc.

Cheddar Gothic Rough is a hand-drawn, textured display all-caps typeface with condensed proportions. The uppercase characters add distinction with extended crossbars and chiseled terminals, while the lowercase provides a more classic sans serif appearance. Carefully drawn for quality and readability, but still rough enough to exhibit the handmade details. Cheddar Gothic Rough is great for display, branding, packaging, advertising, food, sports, titles, and more.

A massive grotesque in four weights + obliques! Perfect for your massive poster or news paper headlines as well as your massive text chunks. The four weights elegantly complete each other as the obliques add tension to your work. Each font consists of a 241 glyph character set with beautiful ligatures for ff ffi ffl fi fl st ts es tt ST ET TT and ES.

This is not a brush font! This is an imitation of brushstrokes, done by pen. But I guess you've already noticed that - the brushstrokes are way too obvious, to have been made by brush. Although being a "fake", the letters leaves you with quite a good impression. Letters were inspired by an old horror movie poster, but is very useful for something less terrifying!

ID Grotesk is a contemporary typeface that combines modern design with a classic feel. Its unique inktraps add an intriguing touch, enhancing both aesthetics and legibility. Suitable for various projects, ID Grotesk is a versatile choice that brings a fresh twist to traditional typography. ID Grotesk boasts a comprehensive collection of 14 styles, including Thin, Light, Book, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, and their corresponding italic variants.