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  1. Big River by Ana's Fonts, $15.00
    Big River is an elegant sans serif and handwritten font duo with lots of extras. It includes: - A wide sans serif font in three weights (with caps and small caps); - A handwritten font with a regular and slant version, and bonus swashes to give your designs a more natural look. Each font includes: - A-Z, a-z, 0-9, accents, punctuation and symbols - Contextual alternates (script) - Ligatures (script) This font duo makes it so easy to achieve beautiful and eye-catching designs, and is perfect for both short and longer texts. It can be used for making postcards and notes, creating logotypes, social media posts, branding and packaging, etc. Please note: No special software is needed in order to access the extras, as they are in a different font file. You can simply access them directly in your font bar (a-z for terminals in regular, A-Z for terminals in italic, and 0-1 for squiggles).
  2. Evita by ITC, $29.99
    Gérard Mariscalchi is a self-made designer. Born in Southern France of a Spanish mother and an Italian father, he has worked as a mechanic, salesman, pilot, college teacher – even a poet (with poetry being the worst-paying of these professions, he reports.) “Throughout all this, the backbone of my career has always been design,” Mariscalchi says. “I’ve been drawing since I was five, but it wasn’t until I was twenty-four that I learned that my hobby could also help me earn a living.” It was about this same time that Mariscalchi fell in love with type. He studied the designs of masters like Excoffon, Usherwood and Frutiger, as well as the work of calligraphers and type designers such as Plantin, Cochin and Dürer. With such an eclectic background, it’s no surprise that Mariscalchi’s typeface designs are inspired by many sources. Baylac and Evita reflect the style of the art nouveau and art deco periods, while Marnie was created as an homage to the great Lithuanian calligrapher Villu Toots. However, the touch of French elegance and distinction Mariscalchi brings to his work is all his own. Baylac Who says thirteen is an unlucky number? Three capitals and ten lowercase letters from a poster by L. Baylac, a relatively obscure Art Nouveau designer, served as the foundation for this typeface. The finished design has lush curves that give the face drama without diminishing its versatility. On the practical side, Baylac’s condensed proportions make it perfect for those situations where there’s a lot to say and not much room in which to say it Evita Mariscalchi based the design of Evita on hand lettering he found in a restaurant menu, and considers this typeface one of his most difficult design challenges. “The main problem was to render the big weight difference between the thin and the thick strokes without creating printing problems at small point sizes,” he says. Unlike most scripts, Evita is upright, with the design characteristics of a serif typeface. Mariscalchi named the face for a close friend. The end result is a charming design that is light, airy, and slightly sassy. Marnie Based on Art Nouveau calligraphic lettering, Marnie is elegant, inviting, and absolutely charming. Mariscalchi paid special attention to letter shapes and proportions to guarantee high levels of character legibility. He also kept weight transition in character strokes to modest levels, enabling the face to be used at relatively small sizes – an unusual asset for a formal script. Marnie’s capital letters are expansive designs with flowing swash strokes that wrap affectionately around adjoining lowercase letters. The design easily captures the spontaneous qualities of hand-rendered brush lettering.
  3. Baylac by ITC, $29.99
    Gérard Mariscalchi is a self-made designer. Born in Southern France of a Spanish mother and an Italian father, he has worked as a mechanic, salesman, pilot, college teacher – even a poet (with poetry being the worst-paying of these professions, he reports.) “Throughout all this, the backbone of my career has always been design,” Mariscalchi says. “I’ve been drawing since I was five, but it wasn’t until I was twenty-four that I learned that my hobby could also help me earn a living.” It was about this same time that Mariscalchi fell in love with type. He studied the designs of masters like Excoffon, Usherwood and Frutiger, as well as the work of calligraphers and type designers such as Plantin, Cochin and Dürer. With such an eclectic background, it’s no surprise that Mariscalchi’s typeface designs are inspired by many sources. Baylac and Evita reflect the style of the art nouveau and art deco periods, while Marnie was created as an homage to the great Lithuanian calligrapher Villu Toots. However, the touch of French elegance and distinction Mariscalchi brings to his work is all his own. Baylac Who says thirteen is an unlucky number? Three capitals and ten lowercase letters from a poster by L. Baylac, a relatively obscure Art Nouveau designer, served as the foundation for this typeface. The finished design has lush curves that give the face drama without diminishing its versatility. On the practical side, Baylac’s condensed proportions make it perfect for those situations where there’s a lot to say and not much room in which to say it Evita Mariscalchi based the design of Evita on hand lettering he found in a restaurant menu, and considers this typeface one of his most difficult design challenges. “The main problem was to render the big weight difference between the thin and the thick strokes without creating printing problems at small point sizes,” he says. Unlike most scripts, Evita is upright, with the design characteristics of a serif typeface. Mariscalchi named the face for a close friend. The end result is a charming design that is light, airy, and slightly sassy. Marnie Based on Art Nouveau calligraphic lettering, Marnie is elegant, inviting, and absolutely charming. Mariscalchi paid special attention to letter shapes and proportions to guarantee high levels of character legibility. He also kept weight transition in character strokes to modest levels, enabling the face to be used at relatively small sizes – an unusual asset for a formal script. Marnie’s capital letters are expansive designs with flowing swash strokes that wrap affectionately around adjoining lowercase letters. The design easily captures the spontaneous qualities of hand-rendered brush lettering.
  4. Marnie by ITC, $29.99
    Gérard Mariscalchi is a self-made designer. Born in Southern France of a Spanish mother and an Italian father, he has worked as a mechanic, salesman, pilot, college teacher – even a poet (with poetry being the worst-paying of these professions, he reports.) “Throughout all this, the backbone of my career has always been design,” Mariscalchi says. “I’ve been drawing since I was five, but it wasn’t until I was twenty-four that I learned that my hobby could also help me earn a living.” It was about this same time that Mariscalchi fell in love with type. He studied the designs of masters like Excoffon, Usherwood and Frutiger, as well as the work of calligraphers and type designers such as Plantin, Cochin and Dürer. With such an eclectic background, it’s no surprise that Mariscalchi’s typeface designs are inspired by many sources. Baylac and Evita reflect the style of the art nouveau and art deco periods, while Marnie was created as an homage to the great Lithuanian calligrapher Villu Toots. However, the touch of French elegance and distinction Mariscalchi brings to his work is all his own. Baylac Who says thirteen is an unlucky number? Three capitals and ten lowercase letters from a poster by L. Baylac, a relatively obscure Art Nouveau designer, served as the foundation for this typeface. The finished design has lush curves that give the face drama without diminishing its versatility. On the practical side, Baylac’s condensed proportions make it perfect for those situations where there’s a lot to say and not much room in which to say it Evita Mariscalchi based the design of Evita on hand lettering he found in a restaurant menu, and considers this typeface one of his most difficult design challenges. “The main problem was to render the big weight difference between the thin and the thick strokes without creating printing problems at small point sizes,” he says. Unlike most scripts, Evita is upright, with the design characteristics of a serif typeface. Mariscalchi named the face for a close friend. The end result is a charming design that is light, airy, and slightly sassy. Marnie Based on Art Nouveau calligraphic lettering, Marnie is elegant, inviting, and absolutely charming. Mariscalchi paid special attention to letter shapes and proportions to guarantee high levels of character legibility. He also kept weight transition in character strokes to modest levels, enabling the face to be used at relatively small sizes – an unusual asset for a formal script. Marnie’s capital letters are expansive designs with flowing swash strokes that wrap affectionately around adjoining lowercase letters. The design easily captures the spontaneous qualities of hand-rendered brush lettering.
  5. Echowarp by Luxfont, $18.00
    Introducing Echowarp is an unusual COLORED font family. Main idea of ​​this font is that a colored echo spreads and fades from minimalistic letters to the sides. Distorted letters give the effect of temporary refraction. The originality of this family is primarily suitable for a bold design. And if you add a random distortion in a graphics program to the finished heading written in this font, the inscription will turn into an absolutely unique and inimitable one. Futuristic set has 23 fonts in the family! Do not limit your imagination, because the font opens up a huge space for creative experiments. Check the quality before purchasing and try the FREE DEMO version of the font to make sure your software supports color fonts. Features: Free Demo font to check it works Letters with color echo & distortion 23 OTF SVG color fonts in the family Gradient and hologram fonts Kerning IMPORTANT: - OTF SVG fonts contain vector letters with gradients and transparency. - Multicolor OTF version of this font will show up only in apps that are compatible with color fonts, like Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.0.1 and above, Illustrator CC 2018. Learn more about color fonts & their support in third-party apps on www.colorfonts.wtf - Don't worry about what you can't see the preview of the font in the tab "Individual Styles" - all fonts are working and have passed technical inspection, but not displayed, they just because the website MyFonts is not yet able to show a preview of colored fonts. Then if you have software with support colored fonts - you can be sure that after installing fonts into the system you will be able to use them like every other classic font. Question/answer: How to install a font? The procedure for installing the font in the system has not changed. Install the font as you would install the classic OTF | TTF fonts. How can I change the font color to my color? Adobe Illustrator: Convert text to outline and easily change color to your taste as if you were repainting a simple vector shape. Adobe Photoshop: You can easily repaint text layer with Layer effects and color overlay. ld.luxfont@gmail.com
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  8. Davina by Nirmalagraphics, $14.00
    I made Davina for display purposes and it can be used for logos with a vintage style, for flyers, brochures, leaflets and more. If you like a logo with a semi-vintage style, thick, unique and clean, it means you have to buy and use Davina! This font also has Multi-Lingual support and more than 15 Ligatures.
  9. Fleurons Initials by Wiescher Design, $39.50
    Fleurons Initials is a set of elegantly decorated blocked initials, reminiscent of old Jazz and Circus Posters. I have added one set of flat underlays and one of blocked underlays, so you can easily add a little colorful touch here and there. Easy because those underlays have the the same spacing! Have fun. Your elegant designer, Gert Wiescher
  10. Eyeballs by Bitstream, $29.99
    Eyeballs was designed at Bitstream by designer David Robbins. Its beginnings can be found in Bitstream’s Old Dreadful No. 7, where Mr. Robbins first conceived the capital I. He was later asked by Bitstream to develop the entire character set. The result is a humorous meld of cartoon and typography. A word of caution: Watch how you use it!
  11. Hansel by Viaction Type.Co, $18.00
    Hansel is a slab serif with 2 styles rough & textured, which can be nicely applied in various products. Complete with multilingual characters and stylistic alternates. It is suitable for quotes, clothing design, vintage logos, labels, posters, packaging and other designs. Features (PUA Encoded) : - UPPERCASE. - LOWERCASE. - MULTILINGUAL. - PUNCTUATION & SYMBOL. - STYLISTIC SET. I hope you enjoy and thank you.
  12. Summer Sunshine by Figuree Studio, $18.00
    This time for Summer Sunshine! Made with love and joy, inspired by the warmth of summer. Comic look, so it will make your design more beautiful, cute, fun, and colorful. Features: Character Set A-Z (All-caps) Numerals and Punctuation (OpenType Standard) Accents (Multilingual characters) PUA Encode I hope you can enjoy the font :) Regards Figuree Studio
  13. Doorkick by Bogstav, $16.00
    Doorkick is my grungy handmade font with rough lines and a squarish look. Each letter has 5 different versions, which automatically cycles as you type - leaving your text with a super lively and natural/organic look. I'd say that Doorkick is best for short words or shoutouts, but try it out it massive text too! I dare you! :)
  14. Angekia by Cocodesign, $12.00
    Angekia a groovy fonts, including Regular. This font is casual and beautiful . It can be used for various purposes. such as logos, product packaging, wedding invitations, branding, headlines, signage, labels, signatures, book covers, posters, quotes, and many more. If you need help or have questions, please let me know. I am happy to help :) Thank you & Congratulations on Designing
  15. Wedney by Cocodesign, $12.00
    Wedney a groovy fonts, including Regular. This font is casual and beautiful . It can be used for various purposes. such as logos, product packaging, wedding invitations, branding, headlines, signage, labels, signatures, book covers, posters, quotes, and many more. If you need help or have questions, please let me know. I am happy to help :) Thank you & Congratulations on Designing
  16. Gaia by Outras Fontes, $21.95
    Gaia is the first dingbat series made by Ricardo Esteves Gomes. Each glyph in this font was designed to be used as single forms or as graphic pattens. When repeated several times, they create some interesting optical effects. Their organic shapes gives a nice feeling of nature. I hope this can be useful for your artworks.
  17. Rorschach by Kenn Munk, $15.00
    How to use The Rorschach dingbat: q,w,e,r,t,y,u,i,o,p create the start of an inkblot a,s,d,f,g,h,j,k,l create a middle, you can use any number of middle-elements z,x,c,v,b,n,m create the ending. Your Rorschach is now finished, get analysing!
  18. Perfect Redemption by Din Studio, $22.00
    Introducing Perfect Redemption- Font Duo. Perfect Redemption is a brush font and combines with sans font. Made with naturally brush. The texture from the brush font will make your design more beautiful and powerful. This font is suitable for any design like branding, quotes, t-shirt printing and etc. Accents (Multilingual Characters) 64 Alternates 50 Extra Swashes PUA encoded Numerals and Punctuations (OpenType Standard) I hope you enjoy it !! Thanks for visiting and purchasing my font! Best Regards Donis M
  19. The Stranger by Din Studio, $22.00
    The Stranger is a brush font and combines with sans font. Made with naturally brush. The texture from the brush font will make your design more beautiful and powerful. This font is suitable for any design like branding, quotes, t-shirt printing and etc. Features: Accents (Multilingual characters) 12 Alternates 14 Ligatures 52 Extra Swashes 26 Splatters PUA encoded Numerals and Punctuations (OpenType Standard) Customer support I hope you enjoy it !! Thanks for visiting and purchasing my font! Best Regards DIN STUDIO
  20. Funny Toons by Indian Summer Studio, $20.00
    Soft, funny round cartoon display font containing 500+ glyphs, Diacritics, Ligatures, Fractions in Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. Made entirely after Ekke Wolf's Greek 'rho' letter's idea in Runde Wien: — Damn, it's funnier than every [cartoon] mouse, duck and everything. — The source letter for a whole special typeface — with own funny happy mood. — As I see, it's the decent respected well-mannered sans. And this 'rho' is the source for the completely different Funny Toons display type. Just found it around this brilliant oval.
  21. Butter Sugar by Mozatype, $13.00
    Butter Sugar is an amazing typeface. It is one of the modern calligraphy script fonts that comes with very beautiful character changes. Butter Sugar consists of 2 version: Script, Sans, and extra cliparts. Butter Sugar is interesting because the typeface is pleasing to the ey e, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple, and very easy to read because there are many fancy letter connections. It has beautiful and well-balanced characters and as a result, it matches a wide pool of designs. It is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease! Fall in love with its incredibly versatile style and use it to create spectacular designs! Use this font for any crafting project that requires a personalized look! Thanks for downloading, and I hope you enjoy it!
  22. ZT Frimpong by Khaiuns, $12.00
    ZT Frimpong is a sans serif look made by hand, all the letters are drawn one by one, so that no one line is exactly the same. This is a closed, low contrast typeface with an emphasis on connecting strokes. Sensational style, potentially unique atmosphere, ZT Frimpong comes in three thicknesses, and each type has a different feel, namely each weight of the font texture is getting denser, so there are fewer cavities. It can be used to create almost any type of design project such as Poster materials, logos and web designs. Just use your imagination and your project will come alive and alive than ever with the ZT Frimpong Font. I hope you have fun using ZT Frimpong Thanks for using this font ~ Khaiuns X zelowtype
  23. Scripio A by AType, $24.95
    Scripio A was the first font which I submitted to MyFonts.com. It is a decorative font. Little bit technical. I wanted to make a font which would be interesting to all. To some extent it has justified my hopes.
  24. Diaria Pro by Mint Type, $40.00
    Diaria started as a project in Typeface Architecture for Master in Advanced Typograghy at EINA, Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona, a course tutored by Laura Meseguer and Íñigo Jerez Quintana. Later it has developed into Diaria Pro, an extensive typeface including Cyrillic script, small caps, and various OpenType features. Diaria Pro is a low-contrast serif typeface designed as a primary text face for the newspapers. Its large x-height and static exteriors allow comfortable reading in narrow columns, and calligrafic counters as well as dynamic serifs add humanist detail to overall perception and incline contrast axis without affecting interletter counterforms. Besides extensive language support, Diaria Pro includes various OpenType features: ligatures, discretionary ligatures, small caps, 6 sets of digits, superiors, inferiors, fractions, ordinals, upper-case punctuation, and some language-specific features. Diaria Pro also has a sans-serif companion - Diaria Sans Pro. Some of the styles of Diaria Pro can be found in Mint Type Editorial Bundle together with other fonts which make some great pairs. Check it out!
  25. Silky by Sensatype Studio, $15.00
    A Sans serif that we created special for elegant branding needs, with extra ligatures in unique shape will be ready to add value of your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more classy and modern. And specially for this font, We prepared any ligatures characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. Silky Sans serif font ready with: Any options to get creative variations (combination of Ligatures) Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Silky font Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)
  26. Olivany by Sensatype Studio, $15.00
    A new Sans serif that we created special for branding needs, with extra ligature in unique shape add value of your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more stylish and modern. And specially for Young font, We prepared any ligatures, and any alternate characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. Olivany Modern Beauty sans serif font ready with: Any options to get creative variations (combination of Alternate and Ligatures) Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Olivany font Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font!
  27. Bridge Style by Sensatype Studio, $15.00
    A Sans serif that we created special for elegant branding needs, with extra ligatures in unique shape will be ready to add value of your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more classy and modern. And specially for this font, We prepared any ligatures characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. Bridge Sans serif font ready with: Any options to get creative variations (combination of Ligatures) Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Bridge font Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)
  28. Magic Growing by Sensatype Studio, $15.00
    A Sans serif that we created special for elegant branding needs, with extra style will be ready to add value of your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more elegant and modern. And specially for this font, We prepared any Styles to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. Magic Growing Elegant Sans Serif Font ready with: Any styles to get creative variations (regular, bold, italic, bold italic) Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Magic Growing font Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)
  29. Basically by Sensatype Studio, $15.00
    An Elegant Modern Sans Serif font that we created special for elegant branding needs, with extra alternates in unique shape will be ready to add value of your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more classy and modern. And specially for Basically font, We prepared any alternate characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. Basically Elegant Modern Sans Serif ready with: Any options to get creative variations Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Basically font Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)
  30. Rosane by Sensatype Studio, $15.00
    A new Sans serif that we created special for branding needs, with extra ligature in unique shape add value of your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more stylish and modern. And specially for satisfy font, We prepared any ligatures, and any alternate characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. Satisfy sans serif font ready with: Any options to get creative variations (combination of Alternate and Ligatures) Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Satisfy font Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font!
  31. Bourton by Kimmy Design, $10.00
    Bourton is the sans-serif cousin to Burford. In addition to a new look, it boasts more layering options, stylistic alternatives, graphic extras and even comes with its own script font! For a hand-drawn look, check out Bourton Hand Okay… so here’s everything you get with Bourton! Bourton Layering Fonts • 6 Base Layer Fonts (Base, Inline, Marquee, Stripes A, Stripes B, Stripes C) • 6 Top Layer Fonts (Base Drop, Dots, Line Light, Outline Light, Outline Medium, Outline Bold) • 6 Extrude Fonts (Extrude, Outline, Shade A, Shade B, Shade C, Shadow) • 5 Drop Shadow Fonts + 5 solo styles (Drop Shadow, Drop Extrude, Drop Line, Drop Stripes A, Drop Stripes B) • 2 Line Fonts for secondary text (Line Medium, Line Bold) Bourton Script • Light • Bold Bourton Extras Ornaments, banners, frames, borders, flags and line break (OTF, EPS, AI with User Guide for OTS) Flourishes (OTF, EPS, AI with User Guide for OTS). Happy Creating!
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  34. Mocha Mattari by Dharma Type, $19.99
    Mocha Mattari is a distressed font designed based on Bebas Neue released as a free font in 2010. The Original Bebas Neue has an inordinate level of popularity and it has often been used as a web font in recent years. This Mocha Mattari was made by damaging the original and tweaked by hand work. Basically, Mocha Mattari does not have lowercases but alternative Uppercases. Exceptionally “g, m, oz, fl, lb” for “gram, milli, ounce, fluid, pound” can be available by opentype dlig or salt features.
  35. Fonia by Locomotype, $15.00
    Fonia is a calligraphic art deco font with feminine touch, unique and exotic. It is designed to be more simple, so it keeps the legibility in different font sizes. You will get a semi-classical typography that does not eliminate the modern concept. Opentype features allow you to mix and match to create a rich and beautiful design. With Fonia, you can create an attractive packaging design, wedding invitations, wine labels or great packaging of beauty products. That will be a really cool design.
  36. CA Mystery Girl by Cape Arcona Type Foundry, $29.00
    Elegance meets accident. A sturdy distressed all caps typeface that gives you the feeling of the happy little incidents that may happen when you print with silkscreen or letterpress. A whole bunch of alternative letters embedded in a pseudo-random OpenType feature does the magic. Get yourself surprised CA Mystery Girl speaks a lot of languages, at least all those covered by the extended Latin character set. Which means you can travel to Iceland, Turkey, France or Poland, this girl will always be your interpreter.
  37. Modesto by Parkinson, $25.00
    Modesto is a loose-knit family based on a signpainters lettering style popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. It evolved from the lettering I used for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Logo. The Modesto family was not planned. It just happened, a few fonts at a time over about fifteen years. In 2014 four new Italic fonts were added. There is a downloadable MODESTO USER MANUAL PDF in the Gallery section for this family.
  38. Busy Day by PizzaDude.dk, $16.00
    Today has been a busy day. I managed to take the dog for a walk, go for a run, empty the dishwasher, clean the car, vacuum the entire apartment AND make this font! :) The Busy Day font is all about fun and games: it’s playful, whimsical and legible at the same time. I’ve added an Outline version, Inside and the Regular version. They all work well together or as individual fonts - and they all have multilingual support!
  39. Donovan Display by The Ampersand Forest, $19.00
    Meet Donovan Display! She's a lovely, high-contrast Didone with lots of options. Do you like sweeping flourishes at the end of your strokes? She's got 'em! Prefer juicy ball terminals? She's got 'em! Like a simpler, cleaner terminal? She's got those, too! She also has a set of grand swash capitals and a trunkful of ligatures that will add panache and elegance to any project that requires display-size type. Even better, she comes in two widths: Slim, for standard display use, and Skinny, a compressed version for spaces that require a bit of a squeeze and/or a more (traditionally) masculine feel! Donovan's lines are inspired by classic Didone faces — most notably the work of Firmin Didot (for architectural detail) and Giambattista Bodoni (for the look of the skinny version). She's sexy and stylish and she'll give you exactly the fashionable, elegant look you're after.
  40. Basilia by Linotype, $29.99
    Among the countless typefaces available today, the Modern Face style is relatively underrepresented. During the 19th century and then later with the competition from the mechanized hot metal types and film setting, a number of attractive headline types appeared in this style. For text, however, the available types were limited to those based on tried and true classics like Walbaum, Didot and Bodoni, which were created between 1780 and 1830, as well as a few variations from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. The demand for new Modern text types remained nonexistant until the 1960s. Such was the situation when the Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas Type Foundry) commissioned me to come up with a concept and sketches of a new hot metal type. I was able to convince the director of the foundry that there was a niche to be filled with contemporary Modern typography. Another reason for the production of a new type was of a technical nature: the introduction of a new setting technique should not be limited to existing typefaces, but instead should lead to innovative text types suited to the demands of the new applications. André Gürtler, Basilia's designer: I began to work on the concept and initial designs of the new text type in 1968. I wanted to give the type a classical look, expressed above all in the strong stroke contrast between the robust verticals and fine horizontal strokes and serifs. This is one of the main characteristics of Modern typography.""This new typeface, Basilia, is distinguished by its soft, open appearance as well as a number of details which together mark a departure from historical models. For example, it has nothing of Bodoni's round letters and their angular, narrow spacing, and displays instead round forms with a much softer stroke in the curves. It was very important to me to avoid the Modern characteristic of stiff, vertical, grid-like strokes and to create instead a lighter, more transparent type. I retained the Modern style by using straight horizontal serifs at right angles to the strokes to still give the type its sense of rigidity." Three sketches for Basilia (normal, italic, and bold) were finished in 1973. Only the 9-point size was produced at first. In the following years, basic weights were made and adapted to filmsetting."
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