❧ Useful links: Luther’s Manuscripts at the UNESCO Memory of the World at Google Arts and Culture Martin Luther font on Kickstarter (with Film about the creation) Each letter of the Martin Luther font is strictly based on original samples found in Martin Luther’s 500 year old handwritten manuscripts. Letters that occur more often for example vowels have two or more different versions stored in the font. (➶ Figure 4) These alternative forms are exchanged automatically by the font as you type, and create a vivid look that comes close to actual handwriting. The font avoids that two identical letters are placed next to each other like, for example the two “o” in the word “look”. ➸ What Historic Sources is the Font based on? Two historic documents were used to base the font on. The notes Luther took before giving his speech in Worms in 1521 and a 6 page letter he wrote immediately after to Emperor Charles V., summarising his speech (➶ Figure 2). Both documents have been added to the UNESCO “Memory of the World” and can be seen at the Google Arts and Culture website. ➸ The Creation of a Handwriting Font The creation of a handwriting font is very different from the creation of a regular font. Harald Geisler has specialised in recreating handwriting in preceding projects with Albert Einstein’s, Sigmund Freud’s and his own handwriting. His experience working with Archives and Museums has gone into this project. First Geisler analyses the movement in the writing to understand how each letter is drawn. This involves partially learning how to write like a person. In this process not the outlines of the sample are reproduced but the original movement path of the handwriting (➶ Figure 3). In a second step width and contrast is added to reproduce Martin Luther’s characteristic impetus and the writing tools used at the time. (Link: Youtube Playlist showcasing the creation of individual letters) How about signs that can’t be found in archives? Some Glyphs can not be found in 500 year old manuscripts, for example the @-sign. Towards the end of the creation one collects a profund amount of details about how a writer moves on paper and addresses certain tasks moving the pen. Keeping this knowledge in mind an improvisation can be based on similar letter forms. For example the @ sign is based on of the movement of a lowercase a and parenthesis. ➸ Features of the Martin Luther font ❶ Extensive Documentation of the creation of the font, including high quality reproduction of the used manuscripts. ❷ Additional texts from Historian Dr. Henning Jürgens and Palaeographer (and Luther handwriting expert) Prof. Ulrich Bubenheimer ❸ Alternating Letters - in handwriting every word looks a bit different. To avoid that two identical letterforms are placed next to each other (for example in the word look) the font actively changes between different versions of letters as you type. ❹ Ligatures - characteristic writing forms when two letters are combined (for example “ct”) (➶ Figure 5) ❺ Terminal Letterforms - renders a special letterform when letter is at the end of a word. (➶ Figure 8) ❻ ‘’’Initial and Medial Letterforms''' - some letterforms are different when placed in the beginning or middle of a word, for example the lowercase s. ❼ Luther Rose - is a seal Luther used to authorise his correspondence. Today it is a widely recognized symbol for Luther. When you enter the numbers of Luthers year of birth and death 14831546 using the Martin Luther PRO font, it will render a stylised version of the Luther Rose. (➶ Figure 7) ❽ Historic letter-forms - letter-forms that are specific to medieval writing around 1500. For example the long-s or h with a loop at the bottom. (➶ Figure 6) ⚑ Multi language support - see the technical information tab for a full list of supported languages. (➶ Figure 11) ➸ The different Styles explained ❋ Martin Luther PRO - this includes all features listed above and is geared towards writing texts that are more readable today. It features alternating letters to create a natural handwriting look as well as two stylistic sets accessible through the OpenType menu. Historic forms are available through the glyph picker. ❋ Martin Luther Historic - this font creates a historically correct reproduction (i.e. with long-s) of Luther’s medieval latin handwriting. It features alternating letters to create a natural handwriting look as well as two stylistic sets accessible through the OpenType menu. ❋ Martin Luther Expert-1 - Dedicated access to the first set of letters only. ❋ Martin Luther Expert-2 - Dedicated access to the second set of letters only. ❈❈❈ Family Pack - recieve all fonts at a discounted price. ❈❈❈ ➸ Kickstarter The creation and development of the Martin Luther font was financed by 500 supporters on ➸Kickstarter.

The lower case of Lettergical is a mixture of several medieval styles and the upper case is a variant of Lombardic.

This Fonts designed so that users can use it more easily and make graffiti designs easier. Zigatos is very suitable for use in various media such as; packaging, logos, labels, posters, shirt designs, bulletins, typography, and many other media, especially with graffiti look.

Sunkiss font starts from a brush stroke with a script style and also follows the times. Sunkiss is very suitable for use in various media such as: packaging, logo, label, poster, shirt design, quotes of wisdom, hand-lettering, typography and many other media.

MalitiaVetus is a decorative blackletter font with influences of Old English, Lombardic and Tuscan styles. Is perfect to create authentic medieval documents

MalitiaVetus is a decorative blackletter font with influences of Old English, Lombardic and Tuscan styles. Is perfect to create authentic medieval documents

A piece of vintage sheet music with the hand lettered title "Solitude" is the namesake and inspiration for Solitude JNL. Purely Art Deco in its typographic curves and angles of the period, this typeface typifies the "Streamline" style that permeated designs of the 30s and 40s.

Fluence is a calligraphic typeface designed by dooType. With generous proportions, rounded forms and outstanding endings, Fluence is the right choice for those seeking personality and rhythm. Available in three different weights, contains 15 ligatures, 26 swashes and multilingual support to over 30 languages. Enjoy it.

Hightide is a rough, hand-lettered script font inspired by brush calligraphy of the 50’s and 60’s. It’s a cinch to use, and adds a welcome splash of salty vintage charm wherever it goes. Shown in posters with other Atlantic Fonts including Began and Reading.

Sweet Titling No. 22 is part of the Sweet Collection of engraved lettering styles from the 20th Century, published by MVB Fonts. This obscure, art deco design would have been used for engraved letterhead, business cards, etc., and likely first appeared in the 1920s or ’30s.

A design reminiscent to school script and handwriting, yet slightly off beat, with a gracious and elegant motion. Originally designed for invitations for a book store, the typeface likes to think it refers refers to book typography of the 40s and 50s of the last century.

Hylata is a typeface inspired by the Mexican colonial style of the 50s, especially from the state of Puebla. Its design is very characteristic of the local talavera crafts. The typography presents "blacksmith" type styles, which is ideal to represent the characteristic provincial style of Mexico.

Recreation JNL is Jeff Levine's own take on a popular vintage typeface from the late 50s or early 60s that's seen a resurgence in recent years. While the basic alphabet is somewhat modeled from the classic design, all the other characters in the font are original.

Dormitory Decals JNL is a set of Greek letters placed on the standard keyboard positions of A-X and a-x. The design (based on Jeff Levine's Juneway JNL) emulates the gold and black water-applied decals used by college kids in the 50s and 60s.

feel and use it to create gorgeous wedding invitations, beautiful stationary art, eye-catching social media posts, and cute greeting cards perfectly macth for desgign with valentine theme, any product like book cover, t-shirt, branding, promotion, social media post, quotes, wedding, photography and more.

Filler is a display variable font that allows you to flexibly change the width ratio of font characters from extra narrow to extremely wide shapes. The typeface includes complete Latin language support with contrasting drawing of accents and punctuation. The character set includes special symbols, such as a set of emoticons or arrows that support OpenType features. In addition to the variable font, Filler also offers five width styles – Compressed, Condensed, Medium, Extended, Expanded. The font is intended primarily for strong display use in large proportions.

Roundkey Is the font sans serif family for branding and text. Comes with two basic characters, namely "sharp" and "soft", each character consists of 6 weight with matching oblique. A total of 24 fonts with basic condensed shapes and unique curves. the soft version has a different degree of softness. medium and bold have wider curves because they are suitable for displays, while thin to regular have smaller curves for easier reading. With these sharp and soft version make it can be applied more widely

British type designer Neville Brody created this display FontFont in 1991. The family contains 3 weights: Light, Medium, and Bold and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, festive occasions, editorial and publishing, logo, branding and creative industries as well as poster and billboards. FF Blur provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures, alternate characters, and case-sensitive forms. It comes with tabular lining and proportional lining figures. In 2011, FF Blur was added to the MoMA Architecture and Design Collection in New York.

Our condensed to extended font is perfect for multiple uses, from branding to packaging designs. Its extendable and variable design makes it great for all kinds of projects. Its tubular shapes, ink traps and juicy curves make it both aesthetic and functional. Its condensation also allows a great flexibility, allowing you to adapt it to any project's need. Its versatility also makes it great for both print and digital projects. With this font's easy to use features, your designs will look good on any project or medium.

Osaca is a sans serif font family inspired by nature and it is composed of 6 weights, from extra light to heavy, including the matching italics. Osaca is a typeface that doesn't go unnoticed due to its particular design: its curves and lines mirror the typical motif of leaves. Osaca is ideal for large and medium headers and titles, but also perfectly suitable for short or large paragraphs as it creates an effect that is quite different from the classic sans-serif and definitely unique.

Quta Rounded "derivative typeface from Quta" is a sans serif typeface produced by FoDa foundry, that meets all the needs of professionals who search a family of clean rounded geometric font, very well suited for headlines, newspaper and many purposes. With a basic character set in Five weights with their italics. Quta Rounded 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.

Quarion is a clean, neo-humanist sans with a contemporary geometric approach. Its design started as an exploration of geometric fonts from the early 20th century, like Futura, Neuzeit Grotesk or Recta which allows the typeface to generate an inviting but sophisticated feel on the page. Although, less contrasting, geometric designs have been quite popular around type designers until today, Quarion finds its niche by combining circular elements with a medium stroke contrast, resulting in a versatile and robust workhorse for any analog or digital application.

HS Almaha is a modern OpenType Arabic Typeface. It combines the features of linear Naskh and modern Kufi. Segments of its letters are curvy and sharp. They are refinement more readable and present in extended texts in magazines, newspapers, books and other publications. This typeface supports Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Kurdish languages and it contains four weights; light, regular, medium and bold which can add to the library of Arabic fonts contemporary models that meet with the purposes of various designs for all tastes.

Genova is a sans serif type family with 4 variables namely Thin, Regular, Medium and Black. This font has a harmonious and beautiful shape that makes it perfect for all your needs for long text, branding, logotypes, print designs and more. This font is made in detail and measured by using geometric details to make this font look balanced and minimalist. This font is dedicated to the use of all needs in 2023, and will be the most popular and best selling font of the year.

Erbaum is a display square sans serif type family. It is straight-forward in overall structure, simple and rational in details. Erbaum was designed to maximise clarity, with an emphasis on construction and pragmatic aesthetics. The concept behind this typeface was uncompromisingly function driven, which was to provide a clear and effective medium for communication and a modern alternative to similar fonts in the aforementioned category. Extended x-height and sharp details aid legibility. Other features include seven weights, Cyrillic, alternative characters and various OpenType features.

Bullish is a clean, contemporary, geometric font family. There are 12 fonts in the Bullish family, Light, Medium and Bold. Each with a lower case, small caps, lower case oblique and small caps oblique. The small caps versions have small caps in place of the lower case alphabets. The lower case and small caps versions have the same uppercase alphabet, numbers, punctuation, symbols and miscellaneous characters. The Bullish fonts are ideal for headlines, titles, branding, small blocks of text or wherever a fresh font is desirable.

Piccata is a hand-drawn font family consisting of 2 weights with 4 styles each. Piccata has been built up from straight brush strokes arranged in a geometric grid. It is intended to work best in small and medium sized texts, but will also make a perfect logo for your next beer label, coffee packaging or shirt design. Combine the 8 styles to create interesting contrasts and rhythms. Piccata will spice up your artworks and is a new fresh approach to the handmade look in type design.

Finally, voltdeco V02 is basically capital letters (all-caps) for display, then to complement various needs for body text and headline layouts, it is developed into a font family. Voltdeco is an art deco uppercase font with a modern style, Voltdeco works great in short sentences or words, but the (20 weight) fonts allow for more options for exploration. Voltdeco can also work well for medium or regular text. Explore with voltdeco for creative works, whether printing the final design or digital design, happy exploring with voltdeco.

Rambla Alt is a variation of Rambla, which has certain modifications without altering its main structure (Rambla is also available in Myfonts). For this reason Rambla Alt is great when used together with Rambla. Rambla Alt is a humanist sans for medium-long texts. It’s slightly condensed, with a generous x-height and short ascender/descenders. Its proportions have the objective of gaining space in height and width. It’s elegant in large sizes and legible at the same time, with a lot of rhythm in small sizes.

Hupaisa is a geometric sans serif with a casual hand-drawn feeling. It has six weights: thin, light, regular, medium, bold and black. Although Hupaisa is a display font, it is very legible also in small sizes. That makes Hupaisa very useful in design projects. You can use it on titles and body texts. Create interesting typography with a proper hierarchy. Hupaisa also includes many alternate characters, ligatures and swashes to give you options to play with. Use them to create interesting titles, wordmarks, quotes or logos.

Grovana is a modern family of sans serif fonts, which includes 12 fonts: 3 styles - regular, round and rough, each of them has 4 weight - light, regular, medium and bold. I also prepared many ligatures and alternatives that give you more opportunities to create your project. with them you can be unique and experiment with your design. This font is easy to read and universal, perfect for creating logos, book and magazine covers, advertising, branding, wedding invitations, posters, postcard, labels, business cards, packaging and much more.

Erbar or Erbar Grotesk, designed by Jakob Erbar (Ludwig & Mayer) in the early 1920s, is a truly key design from a historical viewpoint. None other than Paul Renner studied Erbar and used this knowledge in the design of his famous Futura. Erbar is a beautiful constructive Grotesk perfectly mirroring the Zeitgeist of the 1920s. The newly expanded Erbar family of URW++ comes in nine styles, of which seven have been digitally remastered recently in URW's design studio (light, book, medium, bold, italic, bold italic).

Paulette is a script typeface, the capital letters are completely unpublished, some of them have a smile-similar ornament (A,F,O,H,Q,B,C,P,G), whereas minuscule letters are inspired to Edwardian font script. The font is very versatile and is very suitable for typographic compositions with large letters and for medium and small ones. It includes a complete series of internationals letters, 342 glyphs and 6 new ligatures. Paulette is an elegant letter and it's available in two versions, regular and eroded.

Introducing Automata, the typeface that combines futuristic appearance and easy readability. Great for titles but also for logos and text at medium/small sizes, making Automata suitable for a wide range of applications. In addition to its smooth, clean lines and geometric aesthetic, Automata offers a variety of customizable options such as stylistic alternates, logo discretionary ligatures and multiple weights including extra-light and black. The support for many languages makes Automata a global typeface. Add a touch of the future to your design work.

"Moyt" is a display slab font that has an art deco retro feel in a slanted modern design. This family is perfect not only for TV and film titles and credits but also for holiday season materials such as greeting cards, Christmas cards and many other purposes. Individual fonts - light, regular, medium and bold - are available in addition to a variable version which can be perfect if you would like to adjust its weights in detail. Hope you’ll have fun using this typeface for your projects.

Foundry Dit is created with a common horizontal dash grid structure for accurate layering when characters are superimposed. Foundry Dit functions as a legible correspondence font, with a ‘typewriter’ feel. Foundry Dit’s companion family Foundry Dat has an integrated background grid. Each family contains: light, regular, medium and bold weights. Foundry Dat comes with a series of dashes to extend the grid. Characters can also be offset to make different patterns – in the process becoming images – a graphic language with total integration of form and function.

Brogi is a stylish sans serif font designed specifically for logo and brand designs. Brogi exuded a sense of boldness and sophistication despite his menacing styles. Ligature fonts can be used for almost any purpose you can imagine. 10 Weights (Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Black) 2 Styles (Regular & Italic) Basic Latin A-Z and a-z Numerals & Punctuation Stylistic Ligatures Multilingual Support for ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ... Free updates and feature additions Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoy it.

Proudly Introducing you my new font collection – The Pretender. This collection was born and inspired by American sign painting typography and vintage package design. Wide range of styles for a wide range of use. This collection gives you awesome vintage look effect, which one will add the hand-touch feeling for your project. Light, Regular, Medium and Bold widths goes as Sans and Serifs and Normal or Expanded! And, of course, vintage candy Script! But that's not all – Every font comes as a Clear and Pressed style!