Bullvetti is a delicate, elegant and flowing handwritten font. It has beautiful and well balanced characters and as a result, it matches a wide pool of designs. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

American type designer Jim Parkinson created this display FontFont in 1996. The family contains 2 weights and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, film and tv, editorial and publishing as well as poster and billboards. It comes with proportional lining and proportional oldstyle figures.

Gloriance is a classic serif font adapted from the art deco style, a visual style that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s. This font is characterized by bold geometric shapes, a symmetrical design, and a sense of modernity and glamour. Gloriance is designed to have a distinctive classic impression with the presence of decorative elements such as extended lines, neat and tidy decorative shapes and types. These decorative elements can add a sense of sophistication and luxury to text. With a wide selection of alternates and ligatures, you can create a variety of styles and play with this unique fonts. This typeface is perfect for an elegant logo, jewelry stuff, packaging, magazine design, fashion brand, classic stuff, poster, flyer, wedding invitation, quotes, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image.

Looking for a font with playful style? This is it. Rainbow Pancake is a display font that generates fun and cute feels. What's particularly nice about this font is the readability and the weight that bring strength when you apply it. This font makes designing look easy to do. As a special extras you will get 15 illustrations that you can to beautify your designs. Features: Stylistic Sets Multilingual Supports Uppercase and lowercase PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation It is can be used on your branding, logos, social media quotes, stickers, posters, wall art, merchandise, social media, and many more. Get more inspiration about how to use it by seeing the font preview. Thank you for purchasing our fonts. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact us. Happy Designing.

LHF Retro Ricky transports you right into the groovy retro past. These 60’s-era Doohickies set includes over 85 panels and dingbats to enhance your designs. Save time recreating vintage logos and designs. Goes perfect with the LHF Retro Ricky Fonts, only available at Letterhead Fonts.

A pleasant looking slab serif font family which was originally released by the Wagner foundry as hot-metal fonts. These fonts avoid the appearance of being constructed, and this is underlined by the beautiful swash caps in the Italic style.

This popular type was manufactured by the Crescent Type Foundry of Chicago and sold on their behalf by a half dozen other foundries. Introduced in the early 1890s, just as tastes were swinging away from the excesses of the Victorian period.

The type­face “Netherlands Dirty Numbers Vol 1” is desi­gned for the Typo Gra­phic Design font foundry in 2017 by Manuel Vier­gutz. The playful dis­play font is designed on holiday photos of different numbers (house numbers, graffitis, handwritten menu cards …) from the Netherlands. An alphabet built with numbers. 342 gly­phs with A–Z, a–z, 0–9 and 40+ deco­ra­tive extras like arrows, ding­bats, emojis, sym­bols, geo­ma­tric shapes, catch­words, deco­ra­tive liga­tures (type the word “LOVE” for ❤ or “SMILE” for ☺as OpenType-Feature dlig ) and of course many many numbers (20+ stylistic sets). For use in logos, maga­zi­nes, pos­ters, adver­ti­se­ment plus as web­font for deco­ra­tive head­lines. The font works best for dis­play size. Have fun with this font & use the DEMO-FONT (with redu­ced glyph-set) FOR FREE!

Since the release of the first Andrea Handwriting in 2008, requests have come in for additional weights of the four variants in the font family. Andrea Handwriting II includes 16 fonts featuring four weights of the four original styles in the first release which have been improved for a more polished look, but still with a personal and casual feel. Sixteen styles – what’s your type?

A former lettering artist at Hallmark Cards, Rob Leuschke now has his own thriving design businesses, Alphabytes and the new TypeSETit. Growing up in St Charles, Missouri, where he still lives, Rob showed great artistic promise at an early age. He earned a BFA in graphic design at the University of Missouri at Columbia. After graduation, his stint at Hallmark Cards gave him the opportunity to learn from and work with some of the best lettering artists in the industry. Rob struck out on his own in 1987 and now boasts a long list of clients from all over the world. Rob has created over 250 custom typefaces, and his work has been exhibited in New York. Ambiance BT is Rob’s first typeface published by Bitstream, with more to follow.

Linotype Go Tekk is a part of the Take Type Library, selected from the contestants of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contest. The font was designed by the German artist Critzler and is available in three weights, thin, medium and black. Go Tekk is a cool, constructed with unusual cross strokes, appearing in almost every character at exactly the same height. The capital letters do not end on the baseline, rather drop even farther down than the descenders of the lower case letters, making it necessary to allow for generous line spacing. Linotype Go Tekk is a relatively static font designed exclusively for headlines and displays.

Linotype Mateo is part of the Take Type Library, which features the winners of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contest from 1994 to 1997. Jürgen Ellenberger included three styles in his font, roman, bold and outline. The characters of Mateo consist exclusively of lines, giving the font an extremely angular look. However, Mateo retains a certain handwritten style somewhat reminiscent of the graffiti left on wooden grade school desks by previous classes. The bold and outline styles have emphasized stroke contrasts but keep the angular, consciously irregular look. The roman style is best for smaller texts and the bold and outlines styles for headlines.

A well-polished typeface is like the sweet sound of a melodious voice. Soprano is designed for elegant and luxury design elements. Whether it's brands for watches, jewelry, cars or fine wines, Soprano adds the undeniable and outstanding beauty of a professional designed elegant typeface. Soprano offers 5 weights and a full set of upper & lowercase letters, ligatures, old-style & lining figures as well as ​broad Latin​ language support. www.typethis.studio

Forged to be as imposing as a Norse horde ready to stampede into battle, Works great in all caps which it was initially designed to. I designed the lowercase characters to match really well with each other and the uppercase, so it works well in title case. Plus it has a great set of looking numbers and loads of extras. Fully kerned pairs so all letter combinations look great

Modern aesthetic meets classy handmade elegance. Famosa is designed for all your stylish fashion magazines, clothing brands, and logos as well as your elegant blogger themes. The highlights are for sure the beautiful ligatures, such as sh, ct, fb and more. If you need more features like small caps, special symbols, extensive language support like Vietnamese, please visit: https://typethis.studio -- Famosa is well known from Netlix' Series 'Sweet Magnolias'

Sagrantino™ shines at large sizes – and in vibrant colors. Think big posters, commanding headlines, massive banners and oversized packaging. Set headlines in the Highlight or Shadow designs and running copy in the Regular – all on the same page! Sagrantino could be called the Lava Lamp of fonts. It’s slick, glossy, retro and futuristic. Somehow, it’s fresh and quirky-classic at the same time. This is a design that challenges you to think outside the text box. In fact, Sagrantino is so lively, it took three Monotype typeface designers, Karl Leuthold, Juan Villanueva and Carl Crossgrove, to draw it. Because it’s a script, Sagrantino pairs perfectly with just about any other design – except another script. Maintain the futuristic retro vibe by combining Sagrantino with a typeface like Biome™ or Neo™ Tech. Looking for a counterpoint? Try a cool sans like Avenir® Next or Univers® Next. OpenType® Pro fonts of Sagrantino enable automatic insertions from a crowd of fancy ligatures and delightful alternate characters – in addition to offering an extended character set supporting most Central European and many Eastern European languages.

In 1995, FontHaus came upon a rare opportunity to create a revival of Aries, a little known and previously unavailable typeface by the legendary Eric Gill. Discovering a lost typeface by one of the major designers of the 20th Century, was the discovery of a buried treasure, and being the first type company to release it was an honor. Thirteen years later, FontHaus came across another little known typeface treasure: Diane. Designed by the legendary French designer Roger Excoffon in 1956, this remarkable script has never been faithfully recreated until now. In close collaboration with Mark Simonson, FontHaus and Mr. Simonson painstakingly researched rare type books, publications, European metal type services, and period showings from the United States, England, Germany and from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Finding full specimens of the font turned out to be quite a challenge. In most cases, only the caps and lowercase were shown. Furthermore, the more we researched Diane, many curious facts came to light. The caps in earlier specimens of Diane are completely different from specimens published later, suggesting that the face was redesigned at some point, perhaps in the mid-1960s. So we are left with two different sets of caps. The original had very elaborate, swirly strokes, very characteristic of Excoffon¹s gestural designs for posters and logos. Later on, these appear to have been replaced by a set of simpler, more traditional script caps. The original caps are criticized in one source Mark found (Practical Handbook on Display Typefaces, 1959) as being "exquisite" but "not highly legible". Perhaps this is what led to the simpler caps being introduced. Nevertheless, FontHaus's release includes not only both sets of caps, but a range of alternates and a number of new characters not originally available such as the Euro, and a magnificent alternate Ampersand to name a few.

Winter Day is a strong and playful script with a streak and a solid version, as well as a fun handwritten sans serif in a regular and bold style. Inspired by winter beauty and Christmas mood. Fall in love with its charm and take any craft to a new level! Create templates with Winter Day, invitations, book covers, magazines, stationery, children's books, logo design, emphasize your individuality in the blog and social media and much more.

Simple Crush is my down-to-earth-comic-font with no hassle! Well, actually Simple Crush might take you by surprise here and there - because there is no real rules to height, width, curves and thickness…or whatever. When it comes to Simple Crush, you’re in luck - because Simple Crush is legible and stands out as a strong comic font, ready for action…even though the mission is a party invitation, birthday, poster or products for kids and pets!

Quta is a sans serif typeface produced by FoDa foundry, that meets all the needs of professionals who search a family of clean geometric font, very well suited for headlines, newspaper and many purposes. With a basic character set in Five weights with their italics. Quta covers many features like: -Five main weights (Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Extra Bold) -Matching italics for all weights. -language support for many Latin-based scripts -Ligatures and many other OpenType features.

ND Gambit is a quirky sans serif with an unusual variation between back slant and upright glyph by glyph. It comes in 9 weights. Watch out, the regular weight is free of charge, so you can use it to your heart’s content. Each weight includes extended language support (Latin + Cyrillic + Greek), arrows, fractions, old-style figures, ligatures, and more. It is perfectly suited for graphic design and will work for web, corporate as well as for editorial design.

Delegat is a comic book lettering font inspired by handwritting of Frank Ching. The family includes Regular, Italic and Bold version. Delegat contains two variations for each letter and ligatures to swap out any two identical letters that appear next to one another for a pair that is slightly different. Delegat Extra can be used to disguise curse words in comics. Language support includes Western, Central and Eastern European character sets, as well as Baltic and Turkish languages.

Ideal is a neo-grotesk typeface characterized by exaggerated pro­portions and an un­­con­ventional shift in balance such as in its a, k or s. Following low-contrast construction principles and with a generous x-height, Ideal works well both for expressive headlines and versatile reading sizes. The family consists of ten weights plus corres­ponding Italics. It supports languages written with Latin, Cyrillic or Greek alphabets. Each font includes fractions, tabular and oldsytle figures, arrows, ligatures and more.

D Blues its a sans serif typefamily of 9 weights plus matching italics. It is inspired by the neo humanist typefaces with a mix of 20st grotesque sans typeface. D Blues serve very well in web & print design areas, body text, excellent web-font legibility etc… D Blues is equipped with a complete set of opentype features including alternative glyphs, fractions, ligatures and many more. It is perfectly suited for highlighting lettering, magazines, web, interaction design, advertising & logotypes.

The design of the typeface Flamingo by Dior Sirous was inspired by this beautiful bird, creating long slim lines with soft curves at the ends. It is best suited for display use in Art Deco style.

As good as Nylon is, there’s nothing better than a nice woolly blanket. The smell and coarse, uneven texture are relaxing and feel reassuring. More comfortable. In a world where technology can reach millimetric precision, sometimes it’s good to connect with the imperfect and controlled impurity that is nature. Font design in particular has matured through software that can generate the most perfect letters in the world. But most of them don’t have soul. Landa is a glimpse from the cutting edge into the past. Inspired by Venetian lettering from the 15th century, whilst giving them new meaning, its letters become expressionist and have a modern touch. A rendez-vous between Nicolas Jenson, Oldřich Menhart, and nature itself. In Landa you can feel the texture of trunks and branches, from full fertile splendour to dried-out frailty. It takes the reader for a stroll through the woods on a late autumn evening, or on an adventure through the Amazonian rainforest, depending on the weight chosen. In the lighter and italic options, Landa text is organic and rustic, and very comfortable to read. What’s more, while it’s discreet on smaller screens, when enlarged it reveals brittle and expressive calligraphic shapes. This also makes it ideal for packaging or display elements. Landa provides advanced typographical support in several languages and OpenType features including case-sensitive forms, small caps, contextual alternatives, stylistic alternates, fractions, proportional and tabular figures. In this case it is technology that serves lettering, not the latter being technology dependent. Let’s not forget, as Erik Spiekermann said “we are still analogical beings. Our brains and eyes are analogical.” Perhaps that’s why to disconnect we always need to go back to forests, rivers, nature. Perhaps that’s why we still prefer wood to steel or wool to nylon.

The hand lettered words “Pere Noel” under a vintage French magazine’s photo of Santa with two bikini-clad beauties inspired the digital version of this quirky, condensed type style. Unusually Deco JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions From Wikipedia: “Père Noël “Papi Christmas”, sometimes called ‘Papa Noël’ (“Daddy Christmas”), is a legendary gift-bringer at Christmas in France and other French-speaking areas, identified with the Father Christmas and/or Santa Claus of English-speaking territories. Though they were traditionally different, all of them are now the same character, with different names, and the shared characteristics of a red outfit, workshop at the North Pole/Lapland, and a team of reindeer.”

Step into the artful world of Akashii, a Japanese brush font that embodies the beauty of traditional calligraphy with a contemporary flair. Crafted with precision and inspired by the elegance of brush strokes, Akashii is a visual symphony that captures the spirit of Japan's rich artistic heritage. The strokes of Akashii tell a story, conveying both strength and grace. Whether you're designing invitations, branding materials, or adding a touch of Eastern charm to your artistic creations, Akashii elevates your work with its unique cultural character. Dive into the world of Akashii and let your designs resonate with the poetic elegance of Japanese calligraphy. This brush font is more than a typeface; it's a brushstroke of cultural authenticity, inviting you to infuse your projects with the artistry of Japan. FONT FEATURES Additional Accents 68 Languages Ligatures Swashes SOFTWARE RECOMMENDATION Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 or the latest Adobe Illustrator CC 2020 or the latest

Juan Bruce’s Noort is not a type family for wayfinding or mapmaking alone, but for clarifying information and engaging readers along their own journey. The information designer’s role is to bring clarity and style to overwhelming amounts of information, which fortunately is Noort’s purpose as well. Hierarchies submit to its will and layering colour only adds more presence to its active posture. Noort’s design uses the proven editorial text features of a large x-height, ample spacing, and low contrast to check all the boxes for paragraph text use. But it’s the long serifs, wide characters, and overall typographic presence that make it resilient and ease the task of reading in small point sizes. These details mean Noort is able to demonstrate importance not only with its five pitch-perfect weights, but with its brindled colour within a layout. Noort’s roman and italic styles play off each other by transplanting their design features. The roman style’s serifs are transferred in substance but expectedly increased in speed in the italic styles. And the italic’s inktraps and separated strokes are echoed amidst the roman’s upright structure. Where digitisation could have removed the influence of the hand, Noort retains the analogue nature of its creation. This antiphonal seeding of details creates a cohesive family that is as fascinating as it is functional. Noort’s axis and serifs have a slightly varying ductus — the directional flow that aids reading and character clarity. Its latent obviousness in text sizes immediately becomes its signature style when bumped up to subhead sizes. And since Noort’s counters are so wide and welcoming, its heavier weights can expand more within themselves than along their exterior edges. Noort’s ten total fonts cover the Latin A Extended glyph set to bring its unbordered, globetrotting sensibilities to your projects. OpenType features include ligatures, fractions, and several figure styles, along with mature-rather-than-overbearing swashes. Aligned with TypeTogether’s commitment to produce high-quality type for the global market, the complete Noort family can set digital and printed works with ease, capitalising on the dual needs of clear information and fascinating textual artistry.

Nasti Sweet is a round bubble display font, a very unique trendy font with a combination of modern character bindings, and I think this product suits the teaser display theme in every headline design, business cards, leaflets, magazines, children's events, and brand screen printing. Come on, take a look and be happy to hear the review. If you have suggestions about this product, please let your work environment know whether this product is good for them. Thank you so much for everything!!

Abela Sweety is a monoline comic display font, a very unique trendy font with a combination of modern character bindings, and in my opinion this product suits the teaser display theme in every headline design, business cards, leaflets, magazines, children's events and brand screen printing. Come on, take a look and be happy to hear the review. If you have suggestions about this product, please let your work environment know whether this product is good for them. Thank you so much for everything!!

About Royalis: Royalis is an expressive and extravagant serif typeface family. It is characterized by a high contrast and dynamic features in the details, such as long terminals or deep inktraps. Royalis is available in three versions: a display version in six weights, a corresponding condensed version also for display applications, and a text version for body text in four weights. It also comes with all the corresponding italics. This makes Royalis versatile, especially for editorial, packaging, branding and advertising. The wide range of weights and possibilities allows Royalis to be used variably. The thinner weights are characterized by their elegance, while the thicker weights captivate with their powerful contrast. They complement each other like the three musketeers once did. Be it the charmingly elegant Aramis, the sober strategist Athos, the powerful ruffian Porthos or the charismatic d'Artagnan, who led the group. Features: The Royalis family has a total of 32 weights, from extralight to black with matching italics, as Display, Display Condensed and Text versions. With over 1027 characters, it covers more than 200 Latin-based languages, with a whole range of Open Type features. There are alternative characters as stylistic sets, small caps, automatic fractions - just to name a few. Arrows and numbers: In particular, the extensive selection of arrows and numbers should be mentioned here. Thanks to Open Type features and a simple system, the various designs of arrows and numbers can also be easily "written" without first having to select them in a glyph palette.

Museum Borders and Ornaments is part of a typographical treasure, the Norstedts type collection in Sweden. Type designer Torbjörn Olsson has painstakingly translated the original 34 Ornament matrices in the collection to Open Type. Among them are several of Granjon's arabesques, as well as symbols from both Swedish and Danish typefoundries. The signs were cut in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The old Swedish name for these "type trademarks" were "rössjor". Museum Borders and Ornaments is an OpenType creation, for both PC and Mac. Swedish type foundry T4 premiere new fonts every month. Museum Borders and Ornaments is our tenth introduction. Museum Borders and Ornaments is part of the growing Museum type family. Museum also includes Museum Tertia Cursive, an exquisite 1700's typeface with modern additions, and Museum Fournier, a set of Rococo capitals designed by Pierre Simon Fournier le Jeune circa 1760.

Closing Time - Display Retro Font takes you on a nostalgic journey to the charming days of classic design. This font is the epitome of retro and classic aesthetics, with its distinctive features and timeless appeal. The font boasts a perfect blend of retro and classic elements, achieved by slightly curving the font's edges inward. It offers two distinct versions: a clean variant for a polished look and a textured one for added character. Moreover, it provides alternative characters to infuse a touch of uniqueness and creativity into your designs. Closing Time - Display Retro Font is the ideal choice for logos, invitations, packaging, posters, titles, businesses, greeting cards, magazines, and any design projects that seek to capture the essence of retro and classic themes. Embrace the nostalgia and timeless charm of Closing Time - Display Retro Font, and let your designs tell a story of a bygone era.

Mamute is a block rockin' family with a cool letterpress look. Its upper- and lower-case slots hold glyphs with slightly different textures for a natural look. Numbers and punctuation marks also have alternate versions. Just trigger the Contextual Alternates feature to easily cycle the alternate glyphs, preventing double letters from displaying the same texture. Mamute is a highly decorative typeface available in 2 widths, regular and condensed, each also offered as a layered font, a handy and playful way for adding shades to your composition. There’s also a generous ornaments font and a catchwords one to spice up your designs. Mamute is based on Aldine wood type spirit (as there were many incarnations of it!), from circa 1870. Please note that this family has a limited character set and doesn't bring diacritics nor accented characters. But yet it does rock, you bet!

Brahma V2 is here. The new version has been three years in the making. It has multiple new updates and improvements based on user feedback. The focus for this version has been improved readability while maintaining the unique, modern identity of Brahma type family that has received so much love since V1 was launched in Dec 2020. Brahma is a modern geometric sans-serif font family with weights ranging from Thin (100) to Black (900). Features: Available in 9 weights Over 550 glyphs supporting extended Latin Ideal for display texts: Titles, Logos and Headlines etc. Perfect for branding and rebranding Supports OpenTypes features like Ligatures and Stylistic Alternates Tabular Numerals included Symbols for 10 major currencies including Bitcoin provided in all weights Description: The name comes from Brahmā who is known as the god of creation. And manifesting the same spirit, the Brahma font family focuses on modern creativity. Every character effortlessly integrates with current design standards and interfaces. The fonts are professional yet have a hint of informal personality in them. This makes Brahma perfect for use in modern apps and websites. Brahma is built for the designing and marketing squads. It has a trendy geometric characteristic which is ideal for any branding and rebranding. Brahma has lot of OpenType features (like ligatures and tabular numerals) and the Extended Latin character set supports over a hundred languages. Start Creating!

Start Brush is a handwritten font, using a brush and ink effects that combine calligraphic brush styles, irregular base lines, rough edges, thick and organic movements. Start Brush includes 239 characters, ligatures as well as multi-language support. Start Brush can be used for various purposes such as posters, logos, t-shirts, signage, business cards, magazines, book covers, wedding invitations, greeting cards, etc. To enable OpenType Stylistic Ligatures / Alternate, you need a program that supports the OpenType feature. such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. How to get access alternate/ligatures glyphs from open type fonts: http://youtu.be/iptSFA7feQ0 Start brush is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all the extra characters without having special designing software. You can use the Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favourite text editor/app. Using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac). How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw Thanks so much for looking and please let me know if you have any questions.

Brigland Script is a modern calligraphy font and includes beautiful swashes. It works well in various purposes such as logos, product packaging, wedding invitations, branding, headlines, signage, labels, signatures, book covers, posters, quotes and more. Brigland Script supports changing OpenType languages, binders and international support for most Western languages. To activate the OpenType Stylistic alternative, you request a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or newer versions. How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwjMkbB-wQ Brigland Script is coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having to install special software. Mac users can use the Font Book, and Windows users can use the Character Map to view and use one of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor / application. How to access all alternative characters, use Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw If you need help or have questions, please let me know. I am happy to help :) Thank you & Happy Designing!

The idea of a brand-new grotesk is certainly rather foolish – there are already lots of these typefaces in the world and, quite simply, nothing is more beautiful than the original Gill. The sans-serif chapter of typography is now closed by hundreds of technically perfect imitations of Syntax and Frutiger, which are, however, for the most part based on the cool din-aesthetics. The only chance, when looking for inspiration, is to go very far... A grotesk does not afford such a variety as a serif typeface, it is dull and can soon tire the eye. This is why books are not set in sans serif faces. A grotesk is, however, always welcome for expressing different degrees of emphasis, for headings, marginal notes, captions, registers, in short for any service accompaniment of a book, including its titlings. We also often come across a text in which we want to distinguish the individual speaking or writing persons by the use of different typefaces. The condition is that such grotesk should blend in perfectly with the proportions, colour and above all with the expression of the basic, serif typeface. In the area of non-fiction typography, what we appreciate in sans-serif typefaces is that they are clamorous in inscriptions and economic in the setting. John Sans is to be a modest servant and at the same time an original loudspeaker; it wishes to inhabit libraries of educated persons and to shout from billboards. A year ago we completed the transcription of the typefaces of John Baskerville, whose heritage still stands out vividly in our memory. Baskerville cleverly incorporated certain constructional elements in the design of the individual letters of his typeface. These elements include above all the alternation of softand sharp stroke endings. The frequency of these endings in the text and their rhythm produce a balanced impression. The anchoring of the letters on the surface varies and they do not look monotonous when they are read. We attempted to use these tricks also in the creation of a sans-serif typeface. Except that, if we wished to create a genuine “Baroque grotesk”, all the decorativeness of the original would have to be repeated, which would result in a parody. On the contrary, to achieve a mere contrast with the soft Baskerville it is sufficient to choose any other hard grotesk and not to take a great deal of time over designing a new one. Between these two extremes, we chose a path starting with the construction of an almost monolinear skeleton, to which the elements of Baskerville were carefully attached. After many tests of the text, however, some of the flourishes had to be removed again. Anything that is superfluous or ornamental is against the substance of a grotesk typeface. The monolinear character can be impinged upon in those places where any consistency would become a burden. The fine shading and softening is for the benefit of both legibility and aesthetics. The more marked incisions of all crotches are a characteristic feature of this typeface, especially in the bold designs. The colour of the Text, Medium and Bold designs is commensurate with their serif counterparts. The White and X-Black designs already exceed the framework of book graphics and are suitable for use in advertisements and magazines. The original concept of the italics copying faithfully Baskerville’s morphology turned out to be a blind alley. This design would restrict the independent use of the grotesk typeface. We, therefore, began to model the new italics only after the completion of the upright designs. The features which these new italics and Baskerville have in common are the angle of the slope and the softened sloped strokes of the lower case letters. There are also certain reminiscences in the details (K, k). More complicated are the signs & and @, in the case of which regard is paid to distinguishing, in the design, the upright, sloped @ small caps forms. The one-storey lower-case g and the absence of a descender in the lower-case f contributes to the open and simple expression of the design. Also the inclusion of non-aligning figures in the basic designs and of aligning figures in small caps serves the purpose of harmonization of the sans-serif families with the serif families. Non-aligning figures link up better with lower-case letters in the text. If John Sans looks like many other modern typefaces, it is just as well. It certainly is not to the detriment of a Latin typeface as a means of communication, if different typographers in different places of the world arrive in different ways at a similar result.