Who haven't heard the phrase that ‘any past time was better’?. Although I sometimes find this phrase a little too pessimistic (because I try to think that the best is yet to come), it may be true regarding my passion, typography. I'm too young (29) unfortunately, and this means I did not have the pleasure of being contemporary with maybe the man who has influenced my work the most (1). The man that showed that letters are more than just letters to be read. Herb Lubalin (1918-1981), also called sometimes as ‘the rule basher’ (2), smashed the taboos and sacred rules of type design and gave it personality. He rejected the functionalist philosophy of europeans in favor of an eclectic and exuberant style. To him, letters were not merely vessels of form, they were objects of meaning. (3). Nowadays, when looking at his portfolio, who dares to deny that the term ‘typography’ and ‘beauty’ may go hand-in-hand without any problem? Ed Benguiat, one of Herb’s partners, still likes making jokes with the phrase “screw legibility, type should be beautiful” and what I understand of this is not to forget the rules, but to know and break them carefully. In an era of pure eclecticism, we, the lovers of flourishes and swashes, can't do nothing but admire all the legacy that Lubalin, this wonderful type-guru, left. My font Lubaline read as “the line of Lubalin” is my humble tribute to him. Those who know his work, may see the influences easily like in his ‘Beards’ (1976) and ‘The Sound of Music’ (1965) posters; the art-deco forms in many of his amazing logos and practically in all his creations where letters seem to be alive just like you and me. I really hope that the future finds me still learning more and more about type-design and letterforms, and like him, always willing to make innovations in my field: Because letters are not just letters to be read. NOTES (1) These are some of my fonts in which some of Lubalin’s influences can be seen (in order of creation): Reina, Aire, Erotica, String, Beatle, Heroe, Selfie, Model, Seventies, and many others that are still in progress. (2) (3) Steven Heller. Herb Lubalin: Rule Basher. U&lc (1998) http://www.printmag.com/imprint/my-favorite-lubalin/

The year 2022 went and 2023 came. I can honestly say that last year was a horrible year and I am happy it ended a couple of days ago. The first week after New Year’s Eve always fills my head with the U2 song ‘New Year’s Day’ - so I named this font after a line from the lyrics. I also happened to watch a fantastic movie called ‘Im Westen Nights Neues’, directed by Edward Berger, but based on a book by Erich Maria Remarque, which, in English, was published as ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’. So there you have it: naming a font in 2 easy steps! ;-) All Is Quiet is a lovely brush font, which I created using my father in law’s Chinese pencil and ink. I can suggest some uses here, but I am convinced you can come up with that yourself.

Entrée is a versatile sans serif font that works well in a variety of sizes and applications. It has a friendly, laid back personality and comes in six weights.

A practical font family with 2 weights for all your day by day headlines, signage etc. An extended sans serif typeface with rounded endings that provides unique bold appearance without losing legibility.

Introducing Himalaya Typeface a rounded vintage monoline. Himalaya is clean modern-vintage display font which inspired from old school letterpress 1.Uppercase,lowercase, numeral,punctuation & Symbol 2.Regular 3.Multilanguage 4.Alternate

Stillhouse is a vintage serif font that features 2 styles - Textured & Solid. This typeface is great for achieving that rustic aesthetic which is popular in restaurant branding, apparel designs and product packaging.

Interlaken™ is a modern display & branding typeface allowing to design creative logotypes, posters and headlines with ease. It is an uppercase family of six OpenType fonts and one 2-axis variable font, packed with features such as stylistic alternates and tons of original ligatures. The family’s purpose is to make the creative process of designing logotype a blast. It has a wide set of OpenType features crafted especially to make your life easier, allowing you to accomplish your projects in less time. Interlaken has a powerful and very modern character, it comes in three width variants, making it a good fit in various design scenarios. Its cutout details make it look unique and create an impression of inner shadows when set on a dark background. Interlaken is a great typographic tool for such industries as sports, fitness, modern technology, fashion and gaming. It works perfect as a pairing typeface with Rothorn, Conthey and Conthey Inline and Axalp Grotesk.

Looking like gifted jelly and falling in between cushions and cat food, this plump and inviting letter mixes simplicity with organic style for a wide range of uses. Jellybrush's compact cursive forms and robust friendliness draw on artbrush scripts, blending brush effects with synthetic forms. A versatile workhorse suitable for: * Dairy & beverage * Sweets & soft drink * Five minute food & sauces * Pet food & accessories * Bathroom & kitchen * Cushions, pillows, rubber & swimming pool, etc. Jellybrush is designed to take squishing and outline treatments and still look good. Squish it down in your application of choice, the letter proportions withstand horizontal compression easily. Jellybrush italic is a subtly-slanted fully cursive variant with the character width, counter size and hanging figures required for good text performance. Designed for supplementary text for packaging and advertising comps and any application requiring readable text matching the main font. The font packages contain two (2) formats of Jellybrush, in OpenType & TrueType flavors.

Melvens is an experimental combination font. includes 2 fonts that have very different styles and appearances, but make this font look unique. This font is perfect for your design needs such as poster design, logo design, branding, social media design, books, magazines, etc.

Pirouette is based on a logo that Japanese designer Ryuichi Tateno created for a packaging design project in 1999 (a shampoo container!). Tateno's logo experimented with complex, overlapped swash letterforms. He continued to develop these outside of the initial packaging project, until they took on a life of their own. Eventually, Tateno designed a full typeface out of the logo, Pirouette, which was the first place display face in Linotype's 2003 International Type Design Contest. The Pirouette typeface contains six different fonts. The basic font is Pirouette Regular. This is an engraver's italic lowercase paired with elaborate swash capitals. The swash capitals have two visual elements in their forms: thick strokes and thin strokes. Pirouette Text includes the same lowercase as Pirouette Regular, but the uppercase letters are much shorter and simpler. This "text" font can be used to set longer amounts of copy. Pirouette Alternate contains different lowercase glyphs and additional ligatures, which can be used as substitutes for the lowercase forms in the Pirouette Regular and Pirouette Text fonts. Pirouette Ornaments contains swashes and other knick-knacks that can either be added onto the end of a letter, or used as separate decorative elements or swooshes (accolades) on a page. Pirouette Separate 1 and Pirouette Separate 2 are two fonts that can be layered over top of one another in software applications that support layering (e.g., most Adobe and Macromedia applications, as well as QuarkXPress). Pirouette Separate 1 contains the thick stroke elements from Pirouette Regular's uppercase letters, as well as the same lowercase glyphs that can be found in Pirouette Regular and Pirouette Text. Pirouette Separate 2 contains only the thin stroke elements from Pirouette Regular's uppercase letters. By layering Pirouette Separate 1 and Pirouette Separate 2 over one another, you can give the uppercase letter's thick and thin stroke elements different colors and create unique, more calligraphic designs. The Pirouette family, Tanteno's first commercial typeface, was greatly influenced by the calligraphic and typographic work of the master German designer, Prof. Hermann Zapf, especially his Zapfino typeface.

SkinArt has a hand-made appearance. The style is similar to vintage Tattoo lettering. The caps are in an outline style and the lowercase keys give you a flat, solid style, numbers, punctuation and flourishes are included in this typeface. This typeface includes 2 full tattoo style alphabets that can each be used alone or you can combine the 2 fonts to create fill and gradient effects. Add the included banner pieces or use this font along with your own banner and flag graphics to create realistic body art and classic tattoo style lettering.

Summer South is a blend of 2 handwritten fonts with sans having a distinctive style and classy style, this font is suitable for your creative projects such as watermarks on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, photography, invitations, watermarks, advertisements, product designs, tools write, wedding designs, labels, product packaging, special events or anything that requires a handwritten flavor with a blend of sans. Summer South comes with 2 Signature and Sans Styles and has beautiful swash bonuses: uppercase, lowercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation, binders, alternative letters and multilingual support

BETTER FASTER! A handwritten display brush font. Comes with 2 styls, regular & slant. BETTER FASTER font is suitable for branding, logotype, apparel, T-shirt, Hoodie, product packaging, quotes, flyer, poster, book cover, advertising, etc. Whats Include? 1. Opentype support 2. Multilingual support 3. PUA encoded 4. Features: Uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuations, alternate, and ligatures 5. Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator Glyphs panel, or under Stylistic Alternates in the Adobe Photoshop OpenType menu, Adobe InDesign, Corel Draw, even work on Microsoft Word 6. Please message me if you’re unsure of any language support.

Glembo is a bold sans display font. This font has six styles that you can combine. Whatever the topic, this font will be a great asset to your font library, as it has the potential to enhance any creation.

Bushing is a quick serif experiment going for open light display type. For years I have always stopped and really liked what I saw with fonts like the original Cushing from the turn of the 20th century. This time the desire for a font was stirred by Felici's article in CreativePro on fonts from the beginning of the 20th century, especially his captures of Cushing No. 2 and the version commissioned for Norwood press from ATF. I'm not interested in historically accurate reconstructions. My desire is for the general feel I get when I see a font. As a result, Bushing has little to do with Cushing (other than the last six letters). But it is a Serif font with small serifs and a huge x-height with a very open feel. I like it. I hope you do also. I made it into a limited display version of OpenType Pro. I added small caps and oldstyle figures, as I can hardly work without them. But ligatures seemed silly for this one.

Introducing The Hepcat - 2 Style Display Font, a font that effortlessly embodies boldness, retro vibes, vintage charm, and a touch of playfulness. Its rounded letterforms and unique alternative characters add an extra layer of distinction to your designs.

Hello World, Introducing, Julietta Alexart is a beauty script font suitable for your design project needs, such as; wedding themes, social media posts, quotes, overlays on images, tagline logos, posters, print needs, website banners, and more. Features A set of uppercase and lowercase glyphs Number, symbol, and punctuation Multilingual support Some swashes and ligature So Easy to Use Access Swashes by keyboard key bracket left ' [ ' to feature beginning swash 1 key brace left ' { ' to feature beginning swash 2 key parent left ' ( ' to feature beginning swash 3 key plus ' + ' to feature middle swash 1 key equal ' = ' to feature middle swash 2 key bracket right ' ] ' to feature ending swash 1 key brace right ' } ' to feature ending swash 2 key paren right ' ) ' to feature ending swash 3 For Example type (you=me) Thank you a million times for downloading and using this font for your projects. Enjoy this font and happy creating!