A friend of mine says that sports are the ultimate popular drug. One of his favorite things to say is, “The sun’s always shining on a game somewhere.” It’s hard to argue with that. But that perspective is now the privilege of a society where technology is so high and mighty that it all but shapes such perspectives. These days I can, if I so choose, subscribe to nothing but sports on over a hundred TV channels and a thousand browser bookmarks. But it wasn't always like that. When I was growing up, long before the super-commercialization of the sport, I and other kids spent more than every spare minute of our time memorizing the names and positions of players, collecting team shirts and paraphernalia, making up game scenarios, and just being our generation’s entirely devoted fans. Argentina is one of the nations most obsessed with sports, especially "fútbol" (or soccer to North Americans). The running American joke was that we're all born with a football. When the national team is playing a game, stores actually close their doors, and Buenos Aires looks like a ghost town. Even on the local level, River Plate, my favorite team where I grew up, didn't normally have to worry about empty seats in its home stadium, even though attendance is charged at a high premium. There are things our senses absorb when we are children, yet we don't notice them until much later on in life. A sport’s collage of aesthetics is one of those things. When I was a kid I loved the teams and players that I loved, but I never really stopped to think what solidified them in my memory and made them instantly recognizable to me. Now, thirty-some years later, and after having had the fortune to experience many cultures other than my own, I can safely deduce that a sport’s aesthetic depends on the local or national culture as much as it depends on the sport itself. And the way all that gets molded in a single team’s identity becomes so intricate it is difficult to see where each part comes from to shape the whole. Although “futbol” is still in my blood as an Argentinean, I'm old enough to afford a little cynicism about how extremely corporate most popular sports are. Of course, nothing can now take away the joy I got from football in my childhood and early teens. But over the past few years I've been trying to perceive the sport itself in a global context, even alongside other popular sports in different areas of the world. Being a type designer, I naturally focus in my comparisons on the alphabets used in designing different sports experiences. And from that I've come to a few conclusions about my own taste in sports aesthetic, some of which surprised me. I think I like the baseball and basketball aesthetic better than football, hockey, volleyball, tennis, golf, cricket, rugby, and other sports. This of course is a biased opinion. I'm a lettering guy, and hand lettering is seen much more in baseball and basketball. But there’s a bit more to it than that. Even though all sports can be reduced to a bare-bones series of purposes and goals to reach, the rules and arrangements of baseball and basketball, in spite of their obvious tempo differences, are more suited for overall artistic motion than other sports. So when an application of swashed handlettering is used as part of a team’s identity in baseball or basketball, it becomes a natural fit. The swashes can almost be visual representation of a basketball curving in the air on its way to the hoop, or a baseball on its way out of the park. This expression is invariably backed by and connected to bold, sleak lettering, representing the driving force and precision (arms, bat) behind the artistic motion. It’s a simple and natural connective analysis to a designer, but the normal naked eye still marvels inexplicably at the beauty of such logos and wordmarks. That analytical simplicity was the divining rod behind Fan Script. My own ambitious brief was to build a readable yet very artistic sports script that can be a perfect fit for baseball or basketball identities, but which can also be implemented for other sports. The result turned out to be quite beautiful to my eyes, and I hope you find it satisfactory in your own work. Sports scripts like this one are rooted in showcard lettering models from the late 19th and early 20th century, like Detroit’s lettering teacher C. Strong’s — the same models that continue to influence book designers and sign painters for more than a century now. So as you can see, American turn-of-the-century calligraphy and its long-term influences still remain a subject of fascination to me. This fascination has been the engine of most of my work, and it shows clearly in Fan Script. Fan Script is a lively heavy brush face suitable for sports identities. It includes a variety of swashes of different shapes, both connective and non-connective, and contains a whole range of letter alternates. Users of this font will find a lot of casual freedom in playing with different combinations - a freedom backed by a solid technological undercurrent, where OpenType features provide immediate and logical solutions to problems common to this kind of script. One final thing bears mentioning: After the font design and production were completed, it was surprisingly delightful for me to notice, in the testing stage, that my background as a packaging designer seems to have left a mark on the way the font works overall. The modern improvements I applied to the letter forms have managed to induce a somewhat retro packaging appearance to the totality of the typeface. So I expect Fan Script will be just as useful in packaging as it would be in sports identity, logotype and merchandizing. Ale Paul

The ‘Hammer of Witches’, ‘Malleus Maleficarum’ or ‘Hexenhammer’ in German is the best know and most important treatise on witchcraft. It was composed by Heinrich Kramer in 1487. I thought it was a rather apt name for my latest fairytale font! Hexenhammer is a rough, handwritten typeface with an attitude. It can be used for book covers, posters and even spells. Comes with a bunch of end ligatures and a pandemonium of diacritics.

Distinguishing characteristics of Frank Marciulano’s Linotype Automat™ are its strictly constructed basis and its uniquely placed stroke contrasts. The emphasized vertical strokes are reminiscent of bars and give text a static feel. The forms of the letters are distinctly modern, an interpretation of a typeface meant for machines. Automat is not recommended for text but is particularly good for headlines in large point sizes, which allow its unusual forms to really stand out.

P22 Chai Tea is unique among brush lettering scripts. Its sweeping strokes and luxurious use of horizontal space lend personality and warmth to any project. Its sturdy letterforms make it ideal for logos, stationery, titling and packaging. The Pro version is stacked with alternative characters and ligatures programmed to substitute contextually in programs that support OpenType features. In addition, Chai Tea Pro contains Central European Language support that also includes many ligatures with accented characters.

Geometra is a new font family from Swedish type designer Bo Berndal and the T4 font foundry. Somewhere between a slab serif and a sans it has a crisp, geometric feel and is both 20’s retro and modern. Its soft curves and openness makes it very readable in smaller print. The powerful serifs give the font lots of character in larger sizes. Geometra comes in three weights, regular, semibold and bold.

Composed of compositional groups, with optical adjustments in the curves, Disco Display has been designed with special attention to kerning and tracking, allowing its use in both large and medium sizes, starring in large titles or filling entire covers with color. Inspired by the hippie movement, Disco Display provides sensuality, visual richness and compositional splendor, giving rise to the use of multiple colors or patterns in its forms, or rediscovering its counterforms.

This font may be conservative and classic, but also may be more playful and modern. It is good for theater or art posters and for modern music, web-pictures or vinyl covers. Of course it also will be good for coffee shops, cafe's, restaurants, magazine's headers, signs or gift/post cards and weddings. Try to use it in your beauty or travel blogs, you will see how many options you will have with stylish REKAAH

Deusa was designed with branding and advertising in mind. It was inspired by the perfume and fashion industries and intended to be an elegant and “clean” display typeface; characteristics which determined its sans-serif and significant contrast style attributes. The typeface includes multilingual support as well as standard ligatures and stylistic alternates. It also includes an “estimated” and Euro glyphs (the Euro as an alternate), both designed according to the official EU specifications.

This font may be conservative and classic, but also may be more playful and modern. It is good for theater or art posters and for modern music, web-pictures or vinyl covers. Of course it also will be good for coffee shops, cafe's, restaurants, magazine's headers, signs or gift/post cards and weddings. Try to use it in your beauty or travel blogs, you will see how many options you will have with stylish Sarah.

GL Miraflores is a nice slab serif font with the name of a Spanish village. It is an elegant vintage resource perfect for decorations, but also works perfectly for plain text, as you can see in the previews. The origin of the inspiration to create it is in the free font 'Molesk' as you can see in the capital letters. Hope it will be really useful for your arts from now on.

Last year I spent some time exploring the city of Bath in England. Its claim to fame are the Roman Baths in the city center, which are well worth a visit. Kingsmead is an electoral ward within Bath and I thought it was an apt name for this rather stylish - if old fashioned - font. Kingsmead Script is a handmade font. It comes with diacritics and some discretionary ligatures for double lower case letter combinations.

Neato Serif Rough is a hand drawn, quirky serif font with a textured, letterpress appearance. It features stylistic alternates, standard and discretionary ligatures, and swashes to add options and flair. The typeface has a unique blend of sophistication with its high contrast of thicks and thins and also playfulness with the distinct ball terminal characters—especially evident in the lowercase “e”. It is slightly condensed and great for display headlines, titles, packaging, branding, and more.

Bobar is a retro inspired variable font. Bobar is very eye catching, its groovy design and bold chunky shape makes it great for retro projects. Bobar comes with standalone fonts and a variable version, the variable version allows you to manually adjust the slant. Bobar is designed with creative alternate and engraved characters, this makes it perfect for a wide range of project such as: branding, magazines, logos, product packaging, advertisements and much more.

Casablanca is a decorative sans serif font family. It was designed and produced in 1997 by Steve Jackaman (International TypeFounders). Jackaman loosely based the designs on the Carlos Winkow typeface ‘Electra’ from the Spanish foundry, Nacional, circa early 1940’s. Casablanca has a clean, Art Deco, jazz, and/or noir film feel. It sets nicely at any size, and brings an air of bold mystery to the projects it is applied in.

The Buchen is an excellent combination of smooth shapes and medium weight. It will fit perfectly into any project, both in a modern style and in a vintage style. It can also be classic and more expressive and playful thanks to the alternatives and ligatures that are harmoniously combined in this font and add charm to your project. Making it more versatile to use. This font is easy to use has OpenType features.

Opulence is a font designed to show the world you mean business. Inspired by Times New Roman, this contemporary serif typeface is perfect for business cards, logos, presentations and web. Crafted to promote a modern, clean and elegant solution for your projects. Not only is it a solid, bold choice for a title, it also shows its strength a subtitling and body text. Opulence contains 187 beautiful characters with latin and western language support.

Dellycia is a modern handwritten font with a subtle touch. It comes in 2 styles, namely upright and italic. This font is designed with a powerful OpenType feature in mind. It includes multilingual support, numbers, punctuation, ligature, alternate and much more. It is suitable for graphic design and use of any screen. Dellycia is great for the web, brands, product promotions, product names, companies and also for other projects and will make your design perfect.

Tyrumate is an elegant serif font with a vintage touch and classic. Comes in two styles, regular and italic. Its clean lines and meticulous attention to detail embody the essence of classic typography, making it a chic serif font. Tyrumate is suitable for template design, brochures, videos, advertising branding, logos, invitations, layout designs, elegant crafts, beauty designs, and much more. It will add a splash of luxury to any design project you want to create!

Cosen is an elegant, modern and contrast sans-serif font family, and a great fashionable solution for your project. It includes upright and Italic style, each of them has four weights from thin to bold. This is a multi-purpose font that is perfect for fashion project, it is contrasted, modern and easy to read. With it, you can create logos, banners, use in advertising, packaging, book covers and magazines, headings, descriptions and much more.

The light Roast font is a fun, friendly, and hand-drawn vintage style. Inspired by the cafeteria and eatery vintage era, this font is available in regular and italic font. It can easily be matched to an incredibly large set of projects, so add it to your creative ideas and notice how it makes them stand out! This font is perfect for headings, flyers, greeting cards, product packaging, book cover, printed quotes, logotype, album covers.

Introducing Masberco, a dark blackletter style seamlessly merging street art and gothic typography. Crafted with meticulous letter spacing, it radiates an elegant yet fierce typographic presence. Masberco is a standout display font, especially effective in medium to large sizes. It exudes dark vibes, making it an ideal choice for underground styles like posters, flyers, logos, logotypes, branding, book covers, emblems, and more. Here’s what you’ll get : Uppercase Smallcaps Numbers & symbols Stylistic alternates Stylistic set

Boleo is a typeface designed to work in short texts such as headlines, banners, logos, signs, packaging and posters. It is a display font but has a good legibility thanks to well-proportioned shapes which let it works fine both on paper and screen. Boleo’s shapes remind to ribbons in motion, so that its lines, all curved, can be traced all at once. Boleo displays in three weights: regular, bold and black.

Introducing the majestic "Kingstone Serif Fonts," a typeface that exudes power, elegance, and timeless appeal. With its commanding presence and exquisite details, this font is designed to make a bold statement in your designs. Let the "Kingstone Serif Fonts" reign over your projects and elevate them to new heights of sophistication. Its sturdy serifs and balanced letterforms exude a sense of authority, making it ideal for prestigious branding, editorial designs, and luxury packaging.

Northunder (Nor/Thunder) Rough is a vintage style font with a powerful presence. It can be used as an excellent display font as it possesses a unique serif style combination of slab serif and serif that create sharp points that really give the font its character. The slab serif elements help give the characters a strong look and balance across the font. The font includes uppercase, lowercase, number, international Latin letters and punctuation.

Tassista means taxi in Italian. It suits this typeface well as the source of inspiration is the closing credits from the film Taxi driver, directed by Martin Scorsese in 1976. The typeface is designed to perform especially well in smaller sizes and makes it suitable for various credit copy, footnotes etcetera, nearly always presented in minor sizes. During the designs process it seemed more logical to make small caps instead of traditional lowercases.

Ploni is a precise, geometric multilingual typeface. It contains many glyphs and fully supports 230 Latin, Hebrew and Cyrillic languages - which makes it an ideal font for the side-by-side use of Latin/Cyrillic and Hebrew characters. Many fonts are characterised by their unique character and language, and yet Ploni sheds almost all elements of uniqueness; as such, it will not overshadow your entire design. Every designer needs this functional font in their arsenal.

Brattons, a newly crafted font, embodies an essence of elegance and sophistication. Its graceful curves and delicate strokes exude a distinctly feminine allure, capturing the essence of luxury and style. This serif font boasts stylistic alternates and ligatures that elevate its visual appeal, offering a unique and refined touch to any design project. Brattons is a testament to its meticulous craftsmanship, designed to resonate with those seeking a blend of timeless charm and contemporary finesse.

Masifa Rounded has compact, simple, functional and neutral body structure. It has 5 widths from Normal to Ultra Condensed. Each width includes 9 weights from Hairline to Black and their matching italics. Also, every weight includes rich OpenType Features like Small Caps and custom number styles. Due to its large family, it is ideal for a wide range of usage from large-scale designs to small product labels. Masifa Rounded updated on September 25, 2021.

Fabulous Sunday is a Handwritten font that's perfect for adding a personal touch to your design projects! With its natural, organic feel and unique character. Crafted with care and attention to detail, this font is incredibly versatile and can be used for a range of design projects, including logos, branding, invitations, and more. Its modern, handwritten style gives it a unique character that's sure to make an impact. - also multilingual support Thank you!

Mestiza is a type family with a living past, which combines its ancient roots with the handmade and the contemporary in a spirited mix that evokes elegance and strength. Thanks to its sharp terminals and high contrast, Mestiza acquires a unique personality. It is ideal for headlines and branding projects. Mestiza has 12 variants, six Roman plus Italics including Small Caps, Old-Style numbers, Superiors, Inferiors, Contextual and Discretionary ligatures, Symbols, and some Alternates.

A totally off the wall crazy sans serif display type, Beaucoup started as a digitization of a film typeface called “Bippie” by Facsimile Fonts. From there, it was taken and built out to an extensive character set ready to take you for a wild ride. Completely loco, yet somehow still easily legible, this typographic wildchild is dying for you to get your grubby little hands on it and take it for a spin!

Wide Texas is a cool and playful informal font, inspired by western cowboy cartoons and comics. It will elevate a wide range of design projects to the highest level. You can use this font for many design ideas such as stickers, t-shirt designs, amazing logo designs, magazine or book covers, comics, cartoon drawings, and many more. Fall in love with its incredibly versatile style, and use it to create lovely designs!

Mike Sans is a modern sans serif with a square style. It comes in 8 weights, clean and modern glyphs, thereby creating more variability. Designed with powerful opentype features in mind. Each weight includes extended language support, currency, and more. Perfectly suited for graphic design and any display use. It could easily work for web, signage, corporate as well as for editorial design. Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoy it.

In 1999, Jeff Levine released a freeware font called "Channel Tuning JL" scanned from drawings made with a felt tip marker and designed as if the letters were breaking up due to poor reception such as on pre-digital TV sets. Over a decade later, Jeff has totally reworked the font—giving it cleaner lines, an extended character set and renaming it Channel Surfing JNL to set it apart from the roughly-drawn original.

Middle Ages is a hand-drawn medieval type, designed by Måns Grebäck during 2019. With its blackletter style it works great in many historical context typesettings, as well as for traditional Christmas projects. It has a Gothic style that also works well for rock music genres, or for tattoos and other rough graphics. The font is multilingual and supports all Latin-based European languages, contains numbers and all symbols you'll ever need.

Let's Writzly font add a fun feels of personality to your designs! This fun and whimsical font with graffiti street art style. Its rounded, bubbly letters give it a friendly and approachable feel, while its cartoon-like appearance adds a touch of humor and playfulness. Use Kinder Stone to create logos, posters, and other designs that need a dash of personality and fun. Features : Uppercase & lowercase Numbers and punctuation Multilingual PUA encoded

Estricta font family has been designed for Graviton Font Foundry by Pablo Balcells in 2017. It is a sans serif typeface with a geometrical and mechanic appearence, its sharp, angular edges provide a strong and solid design. It has been conceived to be most suitable for short and middle length text blocks, as well as on all sized headlines. Estricta consists of 12 styles. Each containing small caps and glyph coverage for several languages.

Street Breaker is a graffiti font with sharp edges, making it a perfect choice for various street-themed projects. With its funky and dynamic style, this font adds an edgy and urban vibe to your designs. The sharp edges give it a bold and eye-catching look, ensuring your typography stands out with a distinct and rebellious flair. Bring a touch of street attitude to your projects with the Street Breaker font.

New from Black Studio, presenting Lestari is a typeface that is feminine, adaptable, contemporary aesthetic and creates endless variations for your creative needs. Its striking contrasts and subtle details, together with its sumptuous strokes and voluptuous curves, create a beautiful and powerful statement for any typographic composition, blending glamor with a contemporary aesthetic. This type of family has become the work of true love, making it as easy and fun as possible.

This font may be conservative and classic, but can also be more playful and modern. It is good for theater or art posters and for modern music, web-pictures or vinyl covers. Of course it also will be good for coffee shops, cafe's, restaurants, magazine's headers, signs or gift/post cards and weddings. Try to use it in your beauty or travel blogs, you will see how many options you will have with stylish Start.