Max Joseph Gradl designed Art Nouveau jewelry in Germany. At least some of his designs were produced by Theodor Fahrner of Pforzheim, Germany -- one of the leading manufacturers of fine art jewelry on the Continent from 1855 to 1979. I don't know if he designed for Fahrner exclusively, but every example I found was produced by that firm. I assume it was also the same M.J, who edited a book, Authentic Art Nouveau Stained Glass which was reissued by Dover and is still available. For an artist as accomplished as Gradl was, he is very tough to research. There just does not seem to have been much written about him. The jeweler is visible in most of his typeface designs. They exhibit a sculptural quality as if they were modeled in clay (or gold) rather than drawn on paper. His monograms, especially, reflect that quality. Those shown in plates 112 through 116 in Petzendorfer actually appear to have been designed specifically for fabricating in the form of gold or silver pendents. Of the initial letters that came out of Germany during this period, these by Gradl seem unusually open and lyrical. They seem to be dancing on the page, rather than sitting. Please note that Gradl designed only the decorated initials. All other characters supplied were extrapolated by HiH, including the accented initials. Orn.1 (unicode E004) is based on a jeweled gold clasp designed by Gradl (please check out Gallery Image on Myfonts.com). Also included are an art nouveau girl’s face, a swan and the face from Munch’s “Scream”, from scans of old printer’s ornaments. Gradl Initialen M represents a major extension of the original release, with the following changes: 1. Added glyphs for the 1250 Central Europe, the 1252 Turkish and the 1257 Baltic Code Pages. Added glyphs to complete standard 1252 Western Europe Code Page. Special glyphs relocated and assigned Unicode codepoints, some in Private Use area. Total of 341 glyphs. Both upper & lower case provided with appropriate accents. 2. 558 Kerning Pairs. 3. Added OpenType GSUB layout features: salt, dlig, ornm and kern. 4. Revised vertical metrics for improved cross-platform line spacing. 5. Refined various glyph outlines. 6. Alternative characters: 16 upper case letters (with gaps in surrounding decorations for accents above letter). 8. Four Ornaments: face1, face2, swan and orn1 (silhouette of Gradl clasp) The zip package includes two versions of the font at no extra charge. There is an OTF version which is in Open PS (Post Script Type 1) format and a TTF version which is in Open TT (True Type)format. Use whichever works best for your applications.

My first font for 2009 was Aerle. It is a new dark sans serif font in my continuing objective of designing book fonts that I can really use. It made a little ripple in the industry, but more than that I found that I loved it with Aramus and Artimas — my latest book font family with the same proportions. In many ways, Aerle is a very different direction for me built on what I have learned on Aramus and other recent developments in my style. The concept came to me while using Bitstream's Mister Earl on a site online—though there is no direct reference. I wanted a more playful heavy sans with a much smaller x-height than I have been using lately, plus taller ascenders. As I was using Aerle, I constantly needed a light and bold version. The new direction I am taking is a result of a decision that my fonts, though I loved the character shapes, produced an even type color that is too dark or a little dense. Aerle was an attempt to get away from that look even though the letterspacing is quite tight. For Aerle Thin I pushed a little further in that direction and increased the letterspacing. The hand-drawn shapes vary a lot, many pushing the boundaries of the normal character. This gives a little looseness and helps the lightness in feel I am looking for. It will be interesting to see where this all goes. Most new type around the world is far too perfect for my taste. While the shapes are exquisite, the feel is not human but digital mechanical. I find myself wanting to draw fonts that feel human — as if a person crafted them. In most ways this is a normal font for me in that it has caps, lowercase, small caps with the appropriate figures for each case. These small caps were very small (x-height as is proper). So Aerle's small caps are a little oversize because they plugged up too bad at x-height size. The bold is halfway between. These size variations seem important and work well in the text. This font has all the OpenType features in the set for 2009. There are several ligatures for your fun and enjoyment: bb gg sh sp st ch ck ff fi fl ffi ffl ffy fj ft tt ty Wh Th and more. Like all of my fonts, there are: caps, lowercase, & small caps; proportional lining figures, proportional oldstyle figures, & small cap figures; plus numerators, denominators, superiors, inferiors, and a complete set of ordinals 1st through infinity. Enjoy!

Step into the beauty of Belda’s elegant form and discover the richness flowing from both its historic influence and its strong elements. At its heart, Belda's graceful style embodies the classical calligraphy of the Roman capital, best known from such Roman monuments as Trajan's Column. To lessen the possibility for error, the builders of these defining structures brushed their templates onto the marble before taking their first cuts from the expensive stone. These simple strokes now mark a simple but wonderful path full of life and mystery. Beyond a copy of the past, Belda has grown from its roots to offer a brave, new world of potential through its still-simple structure. The new design strongly contrasts thickness and stroke. Its delicate shape, curves and sharp serifs provide a unique style of harmony and beauty. The resulting balance? The lighter weight design remains subtle and elegant, while the combination in its bolder counterparts provides an intense luster and sparkle, pulling the reader’s eye to the font’s captivating features. A quick look beyond its surface of standard forms also reveals Belda has more layers to discover with OpenType small capitals, titling capitals and more. With a wealth of weights and many widths beside, the font is capable of serving as both text and titling. While especially strong as a movie title or poster font, it’s also great for book jackets, advertising, and packaging. So start your journey with Belda. The possibilities to explore on this path are practically endless. Production assistance from Lucas Azevedo and ikern.

The sibling of Childos, with with additional Arabic glyphs for more international fun. Handwritten rough sans serifs style, as well as the development of free and attractive ligature to fill the space between letters and make playful children feel designs.

Edgewater Small extends the popular Edgewater and Edgewater Square families with the inclusion of lower-case characters, creating a flexible typeface perfect for individual use in medium-to-large sizes or in concert with its sibling fonts in the series.

Named for the Zulu traditional spear, Assegai evokes the long, slim outline of the weapon, and the strength of the Zulu warrior. The font combines the irregular shapes of tribal African art with the simple, clean elegance of contemporary design. It is especially useful for headings, subheading, for shorter passages and also works as a body font since it has both upper and lower case and is striking and readable.

Roxborough CF is a dramatic serif, influenced by calligraphy and hand lettering. Built around a distinctive single-storey 'a' and full of rich detail, Roxborough pairs well with its expressive italics, lending an artful touch to text across print and digital. Roxborough CF pairs nicely with simple, bold headline typefaces, like Greycliff CF and Articulat CF. All typefaces from Connary Fagen include free updates, including new features, and free technical support.

Epidemic is a bold display font that is simple and unique looking.This customizable font will look great on a variety of design ideas such as Christmas themes,valentines, posters, invitations, weddings, branding projects, social media posts, magazines, book covers and more.This will add a fun and friendly touch to any of your projects.This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all the glyphs and sweeps easily.

Homela is a bold script font that is simple and unique looking. This customizable font will look great on a variety of design ideas such as Christmas themes, valentines, posters, invitations, weddings, branding projects, social media posts, magazines, book covers and more! This will add a fun and friendly touch to any of your projects! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all the glyphs and sweeps easily.

Porker was an experiment in making a barely readable but very simple and very bold typeface with no curves. It is caps only with some of the letters on the lower-case keys giving alternate versions. Include are three variants, a tall version, a striped version, and a randomized version. The striped version can be placed in a layer above the regular version to give two-colored letters.

Bold and angular. SbB Powertrain's glyphs are constructed from simple shapes. All straight edges and lots of right angles, but surprisingly friendly. A wide range of weights and widths make Powertrain perfect for branding projects, posters, logos or any project where you need maximum flexibility. Ten weights and five widths Small caps Stylistic alternatives Opentype figure styles Complete version includes a variable typeface with three axes: weight, width and slant.

Prop-a-ganda offers retro-flavored fonts inspired by lettering on retro propaganda posters, retro advertising posters, retro packages all the world over. This is perfect font for your retrospective project. PAG Industria is one of the simplest font in Prop-a-ganda series. In spite of its simple letter form, the bold stroke is very powerful and sophisticated.　This font leaves an impact even just a few words.

Delvona is a contemporary serif typeface, retro styled with a strong personality and a soft look. And also its high contrast and very simple and easily recognizable shape make it very easy to read. Delvona was inspired by the serif typography used in editorial headlines in the 80s. Delvona excels in display settings such as headlines, titles, branding projects, Logo design, packaging, magazine titles, advertisements, short or long text.

Introducing the Dear Kimberly it our beautiful handcrafted fonts – original handwritten styles carefully digitized using simple but highly effective methods. This font offers authentic charm and is versatile for a variety of projects, including logos, book covers, wedding invitations, business materials, quotes, and more. Enhance your designs with the charming appeal of our uniquely crafted handwritten fonts, designed to bring a touch of authenticity and elegance to any creative endeavor.

A typeface that proves its usefulness over time. Letter strokes that produce unique characters on each glyph so that they display a natural impression. This font is very suitable for branding, film titles, book titles, quotes, product names and the business you want to create. What's Included : Heikudo Freedom Standard glyphs Works on PC / Mac Simple installations Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even work on Microsoft Word.

Addington CF is a graceful and reliable serif, useful in any application. Beautiful and practical, Addington is designed for excellence at small point sizes, while doubling as a capable, bold display typeface. Includes roman and italic sets across seven weights. Addington CF pairs nicely with simple, bold headline typefaces, like Greycliff CF and Articulat CF. All typefaces from Connary Fagen include free updates, including new features, and free technical support.

Trilight is a result of my fascination (obsession?) with how the appearance of a typeface can impact on the tactile as well as visual sense to strengthen and guide its imapct. It consists of simple block characters with a triple highlight to give the effect of dimension. The Trilight family consists of both highlighted and solid characters to provide a two color display without the need to convert characters to outline.

Natalie Caydence is an incredibly distinct, delicate and timeless script font. It looks stunning on wedding invitations, thank you cards, quotes, greeting cards, logos, business cards and every other design which needs a handwritten touch. Feature : - A lot of Alternates ( With a Total of 620+ Glyphs ) - Multilingual Language - Works on PC & Mac - Simple installations - Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even works on Microsoft Word.

Magelove a handlettering font is a natural & beautyful handwritten font to get natural and natural writing. I'ts Perfect for logo, invitation, stationery, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, special events or anything INCLUDED FEATURE: - Stylistic Sets (SS01-SS08) & Ligature - PUA Encoded open - Support for MAC or PC - Simple installation for Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Photoshop, or Procreate (New Updated) Thanks and Regards Garisman Studio

Sagitha Serif attracts such a subtle, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very readable typeface. The classic style is perfect to apply in various formal forms such as invitations, labels, menus, Logos, fashion, make up, stationery, letterpress, romantic novels, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, labels Sagitha Serif also features a strong neoclassical serif typeface with high contrast, cool, stylish and unique look with alternative fonts, Ligatures, and multilingual support

Cheer up This is a cute and unique handmade font, with a simple appearance and an impression that is comfortable to read and easy to understand, there are several alternatives that you can use and combine, use this design for all purposes clothing, books, titles, magazines, comics, story books, youtube, posters, and other design needs include : Cheer up Cheer up extras numeric punctuation latin Thank you very much

Sadila is a simple serif. Supported by alternatives that make it look luxurious so it is suitable for all types of projects such as branding, quotes, cover design, films, web design, packaging, social media, logo design and many more, what are you waiting for! What's included? Uppercase Characters Lowercase Characters Support 75+ Language So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to email at khoirtypework@gmail.com

Sensational Sans is an original design by Alex Kaczun. The inspiration started with the shape of a paper clip. Simple and elegant. A condensed sans serif that's, well... just sensational! It's a delight to use and view. Great for advertising, large headlines, web applications, and well... just about anything. Works equally well in a broad range of text point sizes. Comes in 4 delightful flavors—Light, Regular, Medium and Bold.

Rounded, two was designed with a simple idea in mind: the basis for the majority of the characters is a perfect circle. That circle is then intersected and cropped to make unique, modern and stylish letterforms. Rounded, two is an improved version of my initial experimentation. The font looks good at all sizes, but particularly for large displays where the elegant simplicity of each character can be appreciated.

Old Claude was drawn by Paul Shaw to simulate an old cut of the classic (Claude) Garamond type designs of the 16th & 17th centuries. The pronounced rough edges and coarse letter shapes create the effect of letterpress printing with old foundry type onto handmade paper. The companion Old Claude Expert includes small caps and old-style figures. This "antiqued" design works equally well for both text and display.

HT Profumeria is a monoline and connected font with a thin line and a unique tail. Its simple and retro look is the best script for branding and packaging, but it may also be useful for headlines, publishing and advertising. Holiday Type Project offers retro hand drawing scripts. Inspired by retro script on shopfront lettering, wall paint advertisements in Italy around 1950s. Check out the script fonts from Holiday Type!

Rigestha Script is a calligraphy script font that comes with very beautiful changing characters, a kind of classic decorative copper script with a modern touch, designed with high detail to bring stylish elegance.Rigestha Script is attractive as a typeface that is smooth, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read, because there are many fancy letter connections. I also offer a number of viable style alternatives for many letters.

Hasan Noor is an Arabic display typeface. It is useful for titles and graphic projects The font is based on the simple lines of Square Kufi calligraphy. It supports Arabic, Persian and Urdu. In November, 2008, Hasan Noor was upgraded by working with Mirjam Somers an award-winning Arabic type designer to the DecoType font format for use in WinSoft Tasmeem which is now bundled with InDesign CS4.

Hi...Thank for your visit :) Sweety Strawberry A Simple Fonts are font designs that are made for various vector designs, printing such as digital wedding invitations, blogs, online shops, social media, while printing can be used in the field of product clothing, accessories, bags, pins, logos, business cards, watermarks and many others ... so it can make your product look elegant and attractive, and also Multilingual support!!! Happy design ...

This is condensed and more visually compact version of Skarpa font. All kerning has been thoroughly revised and manually adjusted. The font is based on geometric forms devoid of excessive flourishing. Would suit modern designs either in fashion, technology or laboratory setting. Would look good on door plaques in pharmacy or simple drawer plaques - especially Medium or Bold specimen. Lighter specimens would look good in leaflet & magazine print (see presented posters).

New Ancient is a Modern Classic Handmade Script. New Ancient has more than 818 Glyphs, with (82 Glyphs Uppercase), (427 Glyphs Lowercase and 65 Glyphs Ligatures. This font template contains Modern Classic, Classy, Elegant, readable, stylish, cool, catchy and easy to use. FEATURES - Ligatures - Stylistic Alternates - Stylistic Set - Uppercase and Lowercase letters - Numbering and Punctuations - Multilingual Support - Works on PC or Mac - Simple Installation Hope you like it. thanks. HIRO.std

Cotane Beach It is perfect monoline Font for branding, logo, every other design which needs a Display. What you get? - Character set A-Z - Character set a-z - Support multi-language glyphs - Works on PC & Mac - Simple installations - Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even work on Microsoft Word. Please kindly message us for any question or issue about our product. Hope you love it!!

Buroek is a display font that is not just letters, but also a spirit of courage that is expressed in every line and curve. Created in a stunning superhero style, Buroek is the perfect choice for projects that require a visual punch. What’s Included : File font All glyphs Iso Latin 1 Alternate, Ligature Simple installations PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. Fonts include Multilingual support

Centar Sans is a simple, modern, universal, powerful, invisible but not characterless, sans serif family. The family is designed for identities & corporate projects. Its wide range of styles covers lots of possibilities of use, from headlines to texts. It supports a lot of languages including cyrillic and comes along with 19 OpenType features - Small Caps, ligatures, alternates and many more. Regular styles are FREE! Extended detail here. or here.

Radilant script is a bold typeface, an incredible font to make iconic word marks, logotypes, typography. A simple script but also powerful for branding project, it is easy to use. This font is perfect to make an eyecatching tittle on a poster, music album, book tittle and more. Radiant script was made manually, handwritten with a brush pen, then carefully digitalized using vector software to make it nice and correctly proportional.

Gadigel Script is an Elegant script font that comes with very beautiful character changes, a classic copper decorative script type with a modern touch, designed with high detail to present an elegant style. Gadigel script is interesting because the typeface is pleasing to the eye, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read. If you need help or have questions, let me know. I'm happy to help.