Once, Blackletter was a calligraphy style. Full of ligatures, with letters bumping into each other to create an unapologetic picket-fence pattern. Some even claimed that the regularity improved legibility! But then Blackletter was cast into metal, and only a handful of established ligatures survived, while most interletter connections were disentangled. Everyone since followed suit, and hundreds of years later, digital Blackletter fonts were modelled mostly on the metal fonts that prevailed rather than the original handwriting. Up until now! AJ Quadrata is an authentic revival of the textura quadrata hand, and its major inspiration is a 15th-century Latin manuscript of the Bible from Zwolle, the Netherlands. The typeface is delivered in two flavors. The default cut is a modern take on textura quadrata that can be useful for today and tomorrow. The standard ligatures feature employs nearly all letters. The tittle of i retains its original, hasty squiggle form (except for the Turkish localization). Discretionary ligatures include medieval ligatures da, de, do, pa, pe, po (and their mixed-case counterparts!). Stylistic sets allow to use historic letter variants such as long s and rotunda r, closed-counter a, and alternate capitals. AJ Quadrata Medieval is perfect for setting Latin. Default forms of capital F, H and O are swapped with the alternates. The squiggles above i only appear for disamibiguation nearby m, n or u, as in original manuscripts. Discretionary ligatures and historic variants are promoted to the standard ligatures feature to make room in the discretionary ligatures feature for a variety of scribal abbreviations. Dedicated stylistic sets include medieval punctuation and justification alternates — glyphs with elongated terminals used for lengthening lines that end up too short. The Rubrum styles can be layered and colored to create the illuminated effect on the capital letters. Besides a faithful rendition of extended Latin including Vietnamese, numerous synthetic additions are included: polytonic Greek, Armenian, and Cyrillic (with Bulgarian and Serbian/Macedonian localizations). Both flavors of the typeface can be considered a starting point that can be further customized using OpenType features, including Stylistic Sets (some features differ between AJ Quadrata and AJ Quadrata Medieval): ss01 Alt E ss02 Descending F / Roman F ss03 Uncial H / Roman H ss04 Angular O / Round O ss05 Contextual closed-counter a ss06 Diamond-dot i j / Always dotted i, j ss07 Contextual rotunda r / No r rotunda ss08 Contextual long s / No long s ss09 Dotless y ss10 Serbian Cyrillic ss11 Alt Cyrillic de ss12 Alt Cyrillic zhe ss13 Alt Cyrillic sha ss14-ss17 [reserved for future use] ss18 Scribal punctuation ss19 Alt linking hyphen ss20 Justification alternates

Imagine being printer in the early nineteenth century, your stock isn’t the finest, your lead characters are worn out: Voilá Kandidat Rough. But wait, Kandidat isn’t the usual scan-an-old-book,-put-the-glyphs-in-a-font-and-you’re-done-font. Kandidat Rough has a variety of whopping 14 alternates for most characters. Our algorithm changes the letters automatically. All you have to do is turn on Contextual Alternates in your layout app. The algorithm is the best we’ve seen so far, and it’s so good that even same words appear in different forms. And should by coincidence words have the same glyphs, just assign a different Style Set to the first letter, and all other letters in the word will change as well (well, it depends a bit on your software). The mechanism isn’t perfect and maybe we stretched OpenType capabilities a bit over the top, but we yet haven’t seen any better routine for switching letters on the fly. Is it worth to mention that Kandidat Rough not only speaks English, but also German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Croatian, Turkish and most likely some other languages? Maybe. To be sure whether your language is supported, this is the typeset of all letters: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝĆČĐĞ݌ފŸŽ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöøùúûüýÿćčđğıœşšž Apart from that we also included the following punctuation and currency symbols: !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;?@[\]_{|}¡©«®°±¶·»¿×–—‘’‚“”„†•…‹›⁄≠☞ €¢$£¥ This sums up to nearly 3000 glyphs per font, and we have three of them: Regular, Italic and Bold. All neatly kerned. All in all a great repertoire for even the most demanding book or advert jobs with a look of old times. And now imagine you are sick of the rugged print experience Kandidat Rough delivers: go for Kandidat. This is our Scotch-ish ancestor the Rough version was made from. A sturdy, friendly, round, warm friend from the beginning of the nineteenth century. A bit dark, maybe. You will like it. Kandidat has the aforementioned type set plus complete Baltics, Eastern Europe and Cyrillic. Plus a couple of gimmicks like fleurons, stars, circled numbers, arrows, and, and, and… Kandidat Regular additionally has small caps for Latin based scripts (not Cyrillic). The spick and span Kandidat font set also consists of Regular, Italic and Bold cuts. The bold cut is on the very bold side and can nicely be used for headings, whereas Italic is a great companion for Regular. It took us some time and trouble to finish this project, but after all we are very proud of our little feat and hope you will enjoy Kandidat as much as we do. Enjoy!

Doodled, whimsical, curly "capitals" (some of which are lowercase styles) are paired with unicase lowercase letters in a playful mix of capital and lowercase styles.

LD Funky Chunky is a lighthearted, chunky font that's casual and perfect for some visual fun. They'd make a great team on your next project!

Coupon Clipper JNL is a fun, playful, casual sans serif font that evokes some of the lighthearted typography of the late 50s and early 60s.

Cardboard Cutouts JNL is a blocky sans serif font re-drawn from some old "kiddie" stencils from the 1950s or 1960s acquired by Jeff Levine.

Levato, the first font designed by Felix Bonge, is an Antiqua that is full of character and is refined but by no means sterile. This typeface provides for a wide range of options for creating individual designs. It was not really Felix Bonge's intention to create a whole font family when, as a second year student, he began several exercises in contrast and proportion as part of the typeface design course of Professor Veljovi? at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. However, these initial studies developed into a project that Bonge persisted with over the following years while working towards his degree. He continually had new insights and ideas that he was able to exploit for his font. Of particular importance, he claims, was a calligraphy seminar, which prompted him to completely rework his concept. It took him several years before his extensive font Levato™ was ready. Although the forms of Levato are ultimately derived from Renaissance Antiqua, Bonge has slightly increased the relative contrast in his version. This gives the font a graceful appearance that is further emphasized by the reduced x-height and the associated prominence of the ascenders. And, in addition, the relatively fine serifs, which are almost linear at their ends, infuse Levato with a hint of classical Antiqua á la Bodoni. At the same time, Bonge cleverly compensates for the sterilising tendency of this font form. Soft and rounded serif attachments and rounded line apexes offset the severe nature of the font and provide it with an aura of vivacity. This effect is promoted by the calligraphic-like foot of the lowercase h, n and m and the not quite horizontal bars of the uppercase E and F. Overall, Bonge has succeeded in creating a refined and yet very dynamic typeface. Levato is available in five weights; Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Black, in each case with the corresponding italic versions. Bonge treats Levato Italic as a genuine cursive typeface. Its letters are thus slightly narrower than the analogous upright letters and their forms are considerably more curvilinear. All the versions of Levato boast an enormous range of characters to meet all possible requirements. In addition to four sets of minuscule and majuscule numerals for tabular and proportional typesetting, there are also small caps, numerous ligatures, ornamental characters and even swash variants of letters. With their generous, sweeping curves, the swash variants (available as OpenType versions) can be used for striking titling effects or as initials.

College Dropout is hand sketched, organic and reminiscent of some of those less-than academic moments at school. Its ideal use is as a display font.

College Dropout is hand sketched, organic and reminiscent of some of those less-than academic moments at school. Its ideal use is as a display font.

A product of the Inland Type Foundry, some say stolen from a hand lettering job done by Goudy. (Goudy was one of those who said it!)

See also some related font families: American Advertise 013 , American Advertise 014 , American Advertise 015 , American Advertise 016 , American Advertise 017 , and American Advertise Square Series .

College Dropout is hand sketched, organic and reminiscent of some of those less-than academic moments at school. Its ideal use is as a display font.

Yma is inspired by 80's neonlight with an hand-written - brushpen style. Elegant & dynamic with a vintage look. There are also some interesting alternates glyphs.

College Dropout is hand sketched, organic and reminiscent of some of those less-than academic moments at school. Its ideal use is as a display font.

This font has the same uppercase and lowercase letters with some modifications on the uppercase letters. I included the modified letters to use however you like.

Heavyrust is All Aggressive with Brush style font special for your Display Design, which puts a bold on your projects and will inspire you to create something strong and aggressive. Heavyrust will help you to create special and touching typographical designs for bold or strong projects, It is perfect for headings, flyers, greeting cards, product packaging, book cover, printed quotes, logotype, apparel design, album covers. Features: Multilanguage Ligatures Alternates Punctuation

Introducing Truly Hook by Javanice Studio a Truly Hook is A Handwritting Font a Truly Hook is perfect for branding project, apparel, labels, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, and any type of advertising purpose or just used to express words above the background. This font includes a Truly Hook also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email.

Willow Eden is a Modern Handwritten Font. Willow Eden is a magical script font carefully created with a touch of elegance. Whether you’re looking for fonts for Instagram or calligraphy scripts for DIY projects, this font will turn any creative idea into a true piece of art! Willow Eden also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank you!

Whether or not you still use snail mail, there's something about folding a piece of card or paper and putting it inside a pristine white envelope. A sense of nostalgia or the tactile pleasure of mailing a card to someone you care for. The Font "Envelope" reminds us of the often overlooked innocent and fine wrapping. Envelope is an excellent display uppercase-only font for use on larger font display purposes.

Inspired by Bell Bottoms pants which are trending through the disco days of the 80s Skinny Joe features a reverse contrast style with a retro and vintage look. That’s simply ideal for summer theme concepts such as posters, book covers, t-shirts, branding, logo, and many more. Consists of 5 weights from thin to bold and a variable format. Skinny Joe also has alternatives for more decorative and unique looks.

Introduced by Timurtype Studio! Kristian Paradise is a Handwritten Script Font This font is mesmerizing handwritten script that adds a touch of elegance to your design, complete with enchanting swashes and a graceful underline. Elevate your creations with the perfect blend of style and sophistication Kristian Paradise Font also supports multilingualism. Enhance your designs with our original fonts, feel free to comment or provide feedback, Enjoy the fonts 😊

IC Grand Melton is a powerful display typeface inspired by vintage type with carefully crafted. This typeface is perfect for people looking for vintage aesthetics. Suitable for any graphic designs such as branding materials, shirts, print, logos, poster, t-shirt, quotes .etc We hope you enjoy the font, please feel free to comment if you have any thoughts or feedback. Thanks for purchasing and have fun! Regards, Ironbird Creative

Introduced by Timurtype Studio! Classic Fairy is a Monoline Handwriting Font This font showcases the art of monoline handwritten fonts – a symphony of elegance and charm. Let charming threads weave a tale of elegance in your designs, where every curve whispers sophistication and timeless appeal Classic Fairy Font also supports multilingualism. Enhance your designs with our original fonts, feel free to comment or provide feedback, Enjoy the fonts 😊 Thank You

Rochaline a fashion chic display font. This font was inspired by and for fashion brands in the world. In general, it creates a luxurious and elegant look in design. Add this font to your favorite creative ideas and notice how it makes them stand out! Use this font for your fashion brand, resort, cosmetics, invitations, wedding, branding, packaging, magazines, boutique, social media, restaurant, spa, greeting cards, headers, headline, and many more...

Activity is an energetic hand styled script. It is beautiful for wedding card design, logotype, website headers, fashion design and much more. It includes multi-lingual and swash characters. There it is! I really hope you enjoy it - comments and likes are always welcome and accepted. More importantly, don't hesitate to send a message if you have a problem or question. Now just read this, go there and make it happen :)

Introduced by Timurtype Studio! Realistic Harvest is a Handwritten Script Font this font Captivates with elegance Handwritten font, where every curve reveals a story of elegance and every detail is a brushstroke of luxury. A visual symphony for those who appreciate the art of beauty. Realistic Harvest Font also supports multilingualism. Enhance your designs with our original fonts, feel free to comment or provide feedback, Enjoy the fonts Thank You

The idea about Phenotype was to achieve a unique visual effect by touching serifs. Characters form ligatures, but every combination looks different. Touching serifs form connecting character images, e.g. like logotypes on old refrigerators or oldtimer cars, something like the fonts of Leslie Carbarga. The design idea is based on monospaced and heavy serif fonts like Courier, Isonorm Memphis or Rockwell. However, obviously, Phenotype is not a monospaced typeface.

Melgard this amazing handwritten font is light and elegant, will emphasize your personality in any project and will charm you with its signature. This font includes alternates for Uppercase and Lowercase, make your signature with them. You can use it to create logos, branding, t-shirts, book covers, stationery, marketing, blogs, magazines, cosmetics, signage, and more. This font is easy to use has OpenType features, and supports PUA encoding.

Introducing our newest font Anehik. Halloween fonts are perfect for making Halloween parties fun and full of fun. It’s also the perfect addition to your next various designs, making it easy to make something you can use to make people smile at night. Of course with this font your various design projects will be perfect and amazing, get a beautiful title and start using our font for your special project.

Hello! Meet Dinomik, one of our best seller fonts! With a cute, playful and modern looks, Dinomik can bring happiness for both of writers and readers. If you want to write something fun, happy and cheerful, we suggest you to use Dinomik. We have four styles that can boost the appearance your text. Enjoy this font in your children book, birthday card, fun poster, comic book, and any other arts. :)

Introducing Jorell Lieven by Javanice Studio Jorell Lieven is A Playful Handwritten Font Jorell Lieven is perfect for branding project, apparel, labels, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, and any type of advertising purpose or just used to express words above the background. This font includes, Jorell Lieven also multilingual support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email.

We've got something special for you today - the new Mellanika font! A natural script font, made with handwriting style. This font also has a signature touch that is versatile to apply for many purposes. Mellanika is feminine, lovable, and visualizes beauty! Recommended to be used on designs that require minimalist, elegant, or clean looks. The script font includes a full character set with alternates, ligatures, and swashes. Thank you!

Made you look? There’s a peculiar feel to the letters – achieved by the reversed contrast. Perfectly legible yet there’s something about the characters that makes them stand out. As Viktor Shklovsky once coined, ”Habitualization devours objects” – the everyday world becomes invisible until we are forced to see it otherwise. The Portland font family is a tool of choice when you want to effortlessly make your designs stand out.