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  1. Reverb by Carmel Type Co., $15.00
    Designed with the gig poster in mind, Reverb is a throwback to the Fillmore West golden age of psychedelic rock and summertime fun. With 5 distinct weights, this workhorse of a display face has you covered from light and airy to bold and curvy. Concave stems. short descenders with a tall x-height, and a generous helping of stroke contrast define this humanist sans face that's built to shine as a headliner or to spice up some secondary copy.
  2. Difayuni by Twinletter, $15.00
    difayuni, the ideal font for all your design requirements, is now available! This elegant font is suitable for your readers because it is simple to read. It’s also ideal for branding, product packaging, or even just to add a little flair to your editorial work. Difayuni is a contemporary font with geometric shapes and accuracy that will add a touch of elegance to any design. Thus, stop delaying and incorporate difayuni into your designs right away!
  3. Side Note Variable by Jamie Clarke Type, $199.00
    Hello! I’m SideNote Variable. I specialize in: Annotations Headings Friendly dialogue Social media marketing Looking both smart & casual I’m perfect for descriptions and explanatory text. Use me to deliver tricky information in a helpful, reassuring manner. I look friendly and relaxed but professional enough to make you look awesome. I add personality to otherwise dry information making it fun and easier to understand. I come with all sorts of useful features, like emoji, arrows, and underlines.
  4. Desert Island by Carnley Design Co., $20.00
    Take a trip to a remote tropical island with the Desert Island typeface. This display typeface is great for headlines and is sure to add a touch of island mystique to your work. The uppercase set is concave and the lowercase set is convex. Alternate each letter to create type that fits perfectly together or use all uppers or all lowers for unique lettering. It is 4 fonts in 1! Stamp illustration created by Adam Grason of studiograson.com/.
  5. Anona by Nova Type Foundry, $29.99
    Anona brings the upright italic to fruition and shows the handwriting shapes in a sans serif great to use in packaging and branding. Anona is an upright italic sans serif typeface perfect for packaging and playful identities. Explore the stylistic sets to see all the different shapes. Fruity and friendly upright italic sans serif come to brighten your projects. A warm and friendly sans serif will work for your identity. It has a complementary slanted version.
  6. Riot Funky by Beary, $10.00
    Get ready to make a bold statement with our revolutionary font that combines various styles into one. This eclectic, rebellious font is perfect for anyone looking to add an unpredictable touch to their designs. Whether you're creating posters, templates, or any other type of design, this font will help your work stand out and leave a lasting impression. Don't settle for ordinary, upgrade to this bold and daring font today and let your designs do the talking.
  7. Contralto by Synthview, $34.00
    Contralto is a high contrast sans-serif font family, crafted to look elegant but contemporary thanks to soft humanist shapes mixed with sharp geometric details. Contralto comes in 40 styles: 5 weights × italics × 4 optical sizes, to help optimizing contrast and readability. However, you can also use them to fine tune the mood of your graphical composition. Contralto’s generous character set and Opentype features let you meet the most demanding layout needs and lets your creativity fly!
  8. Matogrosso Script by Sudtipos, $59.00
    Matogrosso is another rough script from Argentine calligraphy team Koziupa and Paul. With its expressive urge at the importance of discovery, it is ideal to use on wine labels or organic food packaging, stationery and old maps. It also makes a great choice for designs relating to outdoor activities and rugged travel, where the concept of the wild is to be accentuated. Matogrosso's OpenType programming combines several alternate lowercase characters to generate perfectly fit and more natural textures.
  9. Rackem PB by Pink Broccoli, $14.00
    Rackem PB started as a digitization of a film typeface known as "Eightball" by LetterGraphics, not to be confused with Eightball that was released by other film type companies of a totally different look. This crazy typestyle had all the flavor it needed to make regular appearances in 70's sticker body modification ads for Chevrolet cars and trucks side panels. Loaded with hooptie appeal, it's something you really need to take for a ride to appreciate its novelty.
  10. Lah Kagok by Differentialtype, $12.00
    Lah Kagok is an elegant and luxurious serif font family. This font comes with 8 weights accompanied by italics. The lowercase is inspired by an italic serif, which this time is also used for the upright style. Whatever design you make, this font is perfect to complement it. This font is also equipped with alternate calligraphy on the uppercase, don't forget to activate it to add an elegant and luxurious impression to each of your projects.
  11. Sweet Hearts by Gatype, $11.00
    Sweet Hearts, This font is perfect for branding, invitations, stationery, wedding design, social media posts, advertising, product packaging, product design, labels, photography, watermarks, special events and more. Sweet Hearts is encoded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all additional characters without having to design any special software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor/app.
  12. Draw by Andinistas, $37.00
    Draw is a type family designed by Carlos Fabian Camargo G. Draw emphasizes the abundance of useful features to design messages with artistic purposes, spontaneous and vernacular, usually dressed in imaginative ideals to compose words, apparently drawn freehand. Draw is intended to be used in the context of graphic design as vogue, restaurants, weddings, art, clothing or imaginative supports where crafts and romance predominates. Draw contains professional typographic OpenType strategies to grant special character content: ligatures, swash and more.
  13. Nordic Folk by Kaer, $19.00
    Hey there! I'm happy to introduce to you my new ethnic-based font. Hurray! It was long and hard work because every glyph is unique. I sketched each letter of the font. Each letter is uniquely designed and has nordic folk art in the background. What you will get: Filled and Regular styles Icons and patterns font Uppercase (lowercase glyphs are same) Numbers and symbols Multilingual support Please feel free to request to add characters you need: kaer.pro@gmail.com
  14. Revelstoke by Rook Supply, $14.00
    Revelstoke is a family of five sans serif fonts designed with a vintage print look in mind. Rounded edges and imperfections were added to the characters to give that old school printing vibe. For those looking to take things one step further with some texture, we’ve added in grunge versions as well. Revelstoke is extremely versatile on its own. The font family also works great as a secondary font to go along with existing logos and branding.
  15. Kiddo by EPtackArts, $3.00
    Kiddo is a whimsical, handwritten font family created for use along side children's media. It pairs nicely with Monterrat and other neat, rounded sans serif fonts. It looks great with brightly colored, soft illustrations to create lively layouts full of movement. The characters are simple and easy to read as to not compete with the semi-inconsistent baselines and stroke weights. The line variations add a lot of character to the typeface that really compliments a good story.
  16. Mores by Graphicfresh, $19.00
    Mores - Minimal Sans Introducing a minimalist style font. Fonts that are suitable for branding, packaging, logos and others. This font comes in regular and medium formats. Including italics in it. If you like this font, don't forget to collect it and share it with your loved ones. If there are things you want to ask or problems you face with this font. Don't hesitate to ask us. Because we are very happy to help you. Thanks Graphicfresh
  17. Dinzy Minzy by The Printers, $20.00
    If you are looking for an expressive, witty and whimsical typeface, Dinzy Minzy will beckon to a change of pace for any designer looking to create space, time and lighthearted imagery. This typeface draws you into the message of the mind, lending fresh, new life to party, holiday and grand opening invitations. Whether it's a poster, a billboard, or the card in the mail, Dinzy Minzy will be sure to capture attention and turn on the senses.
  18. Sanchez Slab by Latinotype, $-
    Sánchez, designed by Daniel Hernández, is a serif typeface belonging to the classification slab serif, or Egyptian, that bears a strong resemblance to the iconic Rockwell. Offering contrast and balance to the square structure, Sánchez Slab is a new version, more robust with straight edges, that give greater character and power. Sanchez Slab comprises 12 variants, ranging from extra light to black, each of the same x-height. Regular and Italic variants are available for free.
  19. Monkey Rhumble by WingBuk Studio, $27.00
    Monkey Rhumble is an exclusive piece made with a touch of darkness, featuring a heavy and death metal feel to compliment your design. Monkey Rhumble is very easy to use in any variation or writing combination with extra custom bracket, also perfect for metal band logos, merchandise, clothing, apparel, or anything else that calls for a metal feel. Here is tutorial how to use it : https://youtu.be/ezNu7hCqV-w Recomended Software to use: Corel Draw Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator
  20. Beau's Varsity by Beau Williamson, $4.99
    I designed this font a few years ago to address a direct problem. My work demanded small paragraphs of text to be screenprinted in a varsity font style. The house varsity was rather uneven and created small blobs of ink at sharp angles when printed. I designed Beau's Varsity to address both of these problems. The new font eliminated the blobbing, and I like to think my original design is a step up in evenness from the other options.
  21. Bakewell by Kimmy Design, $25.00
    Bakewell is the 4th typeface of the Winslow Type System. It's a low contrast sans-serif with ball terminals and a sweet disposition. The typeface includes a wide range of styles, widths and weights that make it a great addition to any type collection. From Narrow to Wide and Hairline to Bold, the font family offers extended optionality. Packed with Opentype Features, users can create one-of-a-kind designs perfectly tailored to their specific needs!
  22. TA Bankslab Shadow by Tural Alisoy, $40.00
    TA Bankslab Shadow I created the font in 10 styles. 7 weight from Thin to Extra Black, an Outline, Shadow, and Art Nouveau. The Art Nouveau style was inspired by the texture in the background used for the text on the building. The texture I applied to capital letters adds beauty to the font. If you like the font feel free to use it or simply let me know if your current alphabet doesn't support this font.
  23. Kroist by Just Font You, $16.00
    Kroist was born from the rebellious mindset to break the rules of perfection of typographic hierarchy. Pushing to the very edge of possibilities to craft something different yet remarkable in the industry. Combining the reference of classic band posters, old records, and a spirit to be loud in sending the message. Kroist will be your perfect choice for your logo, branding, music project, cover artwork, merchandise, apparel, clothing, fashion, movie title, serial project, and many more.
  24. Blackiron by madeDeduk, $12.00
    Really excited to introduce Blackiron is a classic vintage blackletter font, made with a stylish impression and supported by alternative with references to various letters that I combine. There's come with 2 style font and suitable to create any branding, product packaging, invitation, quotes, t-shirt, label, poster, logo etc. Feature Feel free to drop us a message any time and follow my shop for upcoming updates Shoot me on email at: dedukvic@gmail.com Hope you enjoy it.
  25. Arta by Olivier Blanc, $34.00
    ARTA is an ArtDeco style font, inspired by classic font like Newport Classic with elongated typeface with high waisted uppercase letters which curve in an geometric and elegant way. It consisted of really condensed lettering which had little space available. It's a well complet font with 315 Glyphs for most latin languages as "English, French, Spanish, German, Icelandic, Afrikaans, Catalan, Czech, Esperanto, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Northern Sami, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovene, Sorbian, Turkish and Welsh". ARTA will give to your design an chic presentation, you will be able to generate beautiful writings,thanks to 3 differents type "Light, Regular & Bold". It can be used for Shop, Restaurant, Jewelry, Cosmetic, Press identity & more. I started to work on this typeface at the creation of a logo in 2017 for the butcher shop of my uncle in Luchon in France named "Le Louchébem". I always had in mind to complete & share it. So after some years, I decided that it was time to finish it. This was my first Typography creation and I wanted to make it as an Art Deco typeface. I really love this elegant, high & classy lettering style. I want to bring this 1910's vibes back to be more use in our days.
  26. Cabella Anderson by Create Big Supply, $15.00
    Experience the elegance and grace of Cabella Anderson, a sophisticated signature handwriting font that will elevate your designs to new heights. With its fluid strokes and contemporary style, Cabella Anderson brings a touch of refinement to any creative project. This versatile font features both uppercase and lowercase letters, offering you flexibility and creative freedom to craft captivating designs. Whether you're designing logos, branding materials, invitations, or any other project that requires a personalized touch, Cabella Anderson will leave a lasting impression. In addition to its stylish aesthetics, Cabella Anderson is designed to be practical and user-friendly. It includes a wide range of numbers and punctuations, ensuring seamless integration of numerical information into your designs. The font also supports multiple languages, enabling you to communicate effectively with a global audience. Cabella Anderson is equipped with PUA (Private Use Area) encoding, allowing you to access special characters, ligatures, and alternate letterforms. This feature empowers you to add unique flourishes and customize your typography, giving your designs a distinct and memorable look. Visit our store on Creative Market to unlock the full potential of Cabella Anderson. Download this exquisite signature handwriting font and let your creativity soar as you create stunning designs that make a statement.
  27. Hello Eiffel by Yumna Type, $15.00
    Being loyal to your same old font will make your designs plain and dull. You need a prominent font to live up your messages without losing the essence of the content itself. Time to welcome Hello Eiffel, a font to help you deliver your desired messages without omitting the whole design. Hello Eiffel is a display font in simple, yet interesting letter shapes with which you can strengthen your desired messages to deliver without distracting attention on the text content itself. Despite its simplicity, Hello Eiffel remains interesting in modern styles to enhance the design’s aesthetic value. Its letters are legible enough to be flexibly applicable for various text sizes, and it gives you a clipart as a bonus. You can enjoy the available features here as well. Features: Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Hello Eiffel fits best for various design projects, such as brandings, posters, banners, headings, magazine covers, quotes, printed products, merchandise, social media, etc. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Thanks for purchasing our fonts. Hopefully, you have a great time using our font. Feel free to contact us anytime for further information or when you have trouble with the font. Thanks a lot and happy designing.
  28. Couture Facile by Nathatype, $29.00
    Adding some beauty touches and perfect, unique styles to your designs, without which your designs will be incomplete and ignored, may be tough work and time-consuming. Therefore, Couture Facile is here to help you. Couture Facile is a handwriting-like script font to add combinations of beauty and styles to your designs properly. Its dissimilar, more natural shapes looking spontaneously written are the font’s main characters. In addition, its letters’ details show high contrasts in curvy, sharp scratches on the letters’ edges. Couture Facile shows personal, elegant, creative impressions to the designs and is suitable to apply for either big or small text sizes due to its great legibility. You can also enjoy the available features here. Features: Stylistic Sets Ligatures Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Couture Facile fits best for various design projects, such as brandings, headings, magazine covers, quotes, invitations, greeting cards, printed products, merchandise, social media, etc. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Thanks for purchasing our fonts. Hopefully, you have a great time using our font. Feel free to contact us anytime for further information or when you have trouble with the font. Thanks a lot and happy designing.
  29. Kunhety by Twinletter, $18.00
    Introducing Kunhety, a groovy retro font display perfect for bringing a vintage touch to your designs. This font features bold and quirky letters that will make your projects stand out and evoke a feeling of nostalgia. Whether you’re working on a poster, or an album cover, or want to add some retro vibes to your latest project, Kunhety is the perfect font for you. With a range of alternative characters and multilingual support, this font is versatile and ready to add some groovy flavor to your work. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to elevate your designs with Kunhety. Furthermore, Kunhety is user-friendly and easy to use. Making it compatible with a wide range of software and devices. And with its clear and distinct letterforms, it’s sure to grab the attention of your audience and leave a lasting impression. So, add a touch of retro cool to your next project with Kunhety today! What’s Included : - File font - All glyphs Iso Latin 1 - Alternate, Ligature - Simple installations - We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many Adobe apps and Corel Draw so that you can see and access all Glyph variations. - PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. - Fonts include Multilingual support
  30. Sweet Jasmine by Nathatype, $25.00
    Are you having trouble finding a perfect font for your projects? Using an inappropriate font will only show unprofessional, uninteresting projects and leave bad impressions to the audience. Therefore, let us introduce you to our script font to help you create lovely, unique, prominent designs. This is Sweet Jasmine. Sweet Jasmine is a handwriting-like script font created with mixing the natural handwriting elements with natural nuances to produce warm, flowing-looking designs. Its letters are interconnected in high contrasts, and it is suitable to apply for big text sizes because it has somewhat complicated font style details to ease the font to read. In addition, you can enjoy the available features here. Features: Ligatures Stylistic Sets Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Sweet Jasmine fits best for various design projects, such as brandings, posters, banners, headings, magazine covers, quotes, invitations, name cards, printed products, merchandise, social media, etc. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Thanks for purchasing our fonts. Hopefully, you have a great time using our font. Feel free to contact us anytime for further information or when you have trouble with the font. Thanks a lot and happy designing.
  31. Hello Billy by Skinny Type, $15.00
    Hello Billy is a modern, handwritten, modern calligraphy font. The shape is modern and unique and the writing style is very natural. Hello Billy features a varied baseline, smooth lines, gorgeous glyphs, and stunning alternatives. Hand-drawn design elements allow you to create many beautiful typographic designs in an instant like branding, web design and editorial, prints, crafts, quotes, It's great for logotypes, wedding invitations, romantic cards, labels, packaging, spelling of names and others. Add to your most creative ideas and watch how they bring them to life! Hello Billy includes OpenType stylistic alternates, ligatures and International support for most Western Languages. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions. How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwjMkbB-wQ Hello Billy is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all the extra characters without having special designing software. Mac users can use Font Book , and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor/app. How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw
  32. High Beginning by Twinletter, $12.00
    High Beginning is our newest script font, a product font with a modern, artistic style. each letter has a strong and beautiful character to be used as a title, a sentence that if you use it creates an elegant effect in the appearance of your design. not limited to that, the bold calligraphy font is designed to keep paying attention to the beauty of each letter, there are alternate options for the letters which are certainly easy for you to access, so you can automatically customize the letters you want to enhance the visual appearance of your design project. This font also offers harmoniously beautiful abstract typography for a wide variety of design projects. This font is also perfect for wedding invitations, quote designs, for social media business designs, advertisements, trademarks, food and beverage promotion banners, text, posters, signatures, and any design that requires handwriting. This font is equipped with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation marks, swhas and several variations on each character including multi-language. ================================================== This font is best suited for open type friendly applications. How to get alternative glyphs from open type fonts: http://adobe.ly/1m1fn4Y PUA Character Code - Fully accessible without additional design software. we hope you enjoy this font. Feel free to send whatever message you want to convey.
  33. Voltexa by Ardyanatypes, $10.00
    Voltexa is a sans-serif font that offers 10 thickness levels, ranging from thin to extra black. Designed with a bold and firm style, it aims to provide a broad range of options for every designer. What sets Voltexa apart are its sharp curves in each letter, creating an elegant and modern yet strong impression. Tailored to meet diverse design needs, Voltexa can adapt to various contexts. With 10 available thickness levels, designers have the freedom to express their creativity limitlessly. This font also comes with OpenType features for ease of use and flexibility. Voltexa also supports multilingual use, allowing it to be utilized in various languages. Let's bring forth inspiring and powerful designs using the Voltexa font. With its 10 available thickness levels, this font offers designers the opportunity to create unique and standout works. The distinctiveness of each letter will enhance the aesthetic value of every design project. Use Voltexa to add an elegant, modern, and assertive touch to your creative works. With its comprehensive features and multilingual capabilities, this font will be a loyal partner in expressing your design ideas and visions into extraordinary works. Features: A – Z Character Set a – z Characters set Numerals & Punctuations Ligatures & Alternates Multilingual
  34. Khatija Calligraphy by 38-lineart, $24.00
    Khatija Calligraphy is a beautiful calligraphy font in base style of penmanship with a modern look, an eclectic concept by paying attention to the beautiful choice models. This fonts consist of 2,484 letters ready to use. To make it easier for you to use it, we utilize the access all alternates feature so that you only need to type and then select one of the letters then the alternative letters will appear automatically. We also use the stylistic set selection feature from SS01 - SS20, because we made a very unique alternate pair, alternate 1 paired with alternate 2, alternate 3 paired with alternate 4. We matched the alternate pair's kernings perfectly. For wedding themes and elegant product brands, believe it.. this font is the perfect choice, because we also prepare a ligature that raises flower ornaments to complement your design, you only need to press your keyboard | 1 | 2 | 3 to | 10. Now you have very beautiful flower ornaments. You can combine these ornaments again according to your needs. Khatija Calligraphy has 27 language support: Afrikaans Albanian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Hungarian Icelandic Italian Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Norwegian Polish Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Turkish Zulu.
  35. Parkour by Resistenza, $39.00
    Parkour Brush Font takes the repertoire of moves and free spirit of this modern sport and bring it to a graphic definition. Handwritten with authentic dry brush imperfections and a bouncy baseline to evoke the energy of this urban sport discipline which emphasizes the athlete to be strong and flexible as to be able to move quickly and efficiently through any given environment. Sounds like a fun game, right? This font comes with a full set of upper and lower case characters - giving you the extra freedom to turn your text into authentic custom-made hand lettering. Parkour Marker font Includes a large range of glyphs including numerals, punctuation & multilingual support. It comes with a perfectly paired handy set of bonus Swashes and extras perfect to complete and customize your layout. Perfect for branding, social media, stationery, advertising, logos, handwritten quotes, product packaging, header, poster, merchandise & greeting cards. Features: - OTF Font file - Punctuation & numbers - Splashes & Splatters - Alternate letters - Uppercase letters - Multi Language To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. There are additional ways to access alternates, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as PopChar (for Windows and Mac).
  36. The Red Devil Script by Bal Studio, $12.00
    The Red Devil is a handmade script font with clear style and creative projects such as logos, printed quotes, invitations, cards, product packaging, headers, logos, letterhead, posters, clothing designs, labels, as you can use the illustrative qualities of the shapes to create an art piece. The Red Devil Script come with uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and so many variations on each character including alternative opentype, general binder. It's fun to use because each word can be transformed to you like. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions. How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwjMkbB-wQ The Red Devil Script is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all the extra characters without having special designing software. Mac users can use Font Book , and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favourite text editor/app. Thanks so much for looking and please let me know if you have any questions.
  37. Vendetta by Emigre, $69.00
    The famous roman type cut in Venice by Nicolas Jenson, and used in 1470 for his printing of the tract, De Evangelica Praeparatione, Eusebius, has usually been declared the seminal and definitive representative of a class of types known as Venetian Old Style. The Jenson type is thought to have been the primary model for types that immediately followed. Subsequent 15th-century Venetian Old Style types, cut by other punchcutters in Venice and elsewhere in Italy, are also worthy of study, but have been largely neglected by 20th-century type designers. There were many versions of Venetian Old Style types produced in the final quarter of the quattrocento. The exact number is unknown, but numerous printed examples survive, though the actual types, matrices, and punches are long gone. All these types are not, however, conspicuously Jensonian in character. Each shows a liberal amount of individuality, inconsistency, and eccentricity. My fascination with these historical types began in the 1970s and eventually led to the production of my first text typeface, Iowan Old Style (Bitstream, 1991). Sometime in the early 1990s, I started doodling letters for another Venetian typeface. The letters were pieced together from sections of circles and squares. The n, a standard lowercase control character in a text typeface, came first. Its most unusual feature was its head serif, a bisected quadrant of a circle. My aim was to see if its sharp beak would work with blunt, rectangular, foot serifs. Next, I wanted to see if I could construct a set of capital letters by following a similar design system. Rectangular serifs, or what we today call "slab serifs," were common in early roman printing types, particularly text types cut in Italy before 1500. Slab serifs are evident on both lowercase and uppercase characters in roman types of the Incunabula period, but they are seen mainly at the feet of the lowercase letters. The head serifs on lowercase letters of early roman types were usually angled. They were not arched, like mine. Oddly, there seems to be no actual historical precedent for my approach. Another characteristic of my arched serif is that the side opposite the arch is flat, not concave. Arched, concave serifs were used extensively in early italic types, a genre which first appeared more than a quarter century after roman types. Their forms followed humanistic cursive writing, common in Italy since before movable type was used there. Initially, italic characters were all lowercase, set with upright capitals (a practice I much admire and would like to see revived). Sloped italic capitals were not introduced until the middle of the sixteenth century, and they have very little to do with the evolution of humanist scripts. In contrast to the cursive writing on which italic types were based, formal book hands used by humanist scholars to transcribe classical texts served as a source of inspiration for the lowercase letters of the first roman types cut in Italy. While book hands were not as informal as cursive scripts, they still had features which could be said to be more calligraphic than geometric in detail. Over time, though, the copied vestiges of calligraphy virtually disappeared from roman fonts, and type became more rational. This profound change in the way type developed was also due in part to popular interest in the classical inscriptions of Roman antiquity. Imperial Roman letters, or majuscules, became models for the capital letters in nearly all early roman printing types. So it was, that the first letters in my typeface arose from pondering how shapes of lowercase letters and capital letters relate to one another in terms of classical ideals and geometric proportions, two pinnacles in a range of artistic notions which emerged during the Italian Renaissance. Indeed, such ideas are interesting to explore, but in the field of type design they often lead to dead ends. It is generally acknowledged, for instance, that pure geometry, as a strict approach to type design, has limitations. No roman alphabet, based solely on the circle and square, has ever been ideal for continuous reading. This much, I knew from the start. In the course of developing my typeface for text, innumerable compromises were made. Even though the finished letterforms retain a measure of geometric structure, they were modified again and again to improve their performance en masse. Each modification caused further deviation from my original scheme, and gave every font a slightly different direction. In the lower case letters especially, I made countless variations, and diverged significantly from my original plan. For example, not all the arcs remained radial, and they were designed to vary from font to font. Such variety added to the individuality of each style. The counters of many letters are described by intersecting arcs or angled facets, and the bowls are not round. In the capitals, angular bracketing was used practically everywhere stems and serifs meet, accentuating the terseness of the characters. As a result of all my tinkering, the entire family took on a kind of rich, familiar, coarseness - akin to roman types of the late 1400s. In his book, Printing Types D. B. Updike wrote: "Almost all Italian roman fonts in the last half of the fifteenth century had an air of "security" and generous ease extremely agreeable to the eye. Indeed, there is nothing better than fine Italian roman type in the whole history of typography." It does seem a shame that only in the 20th century have revivals of these beautiful types found acceptance in the English language. For four centuries (circa 1500 - circa 1900) Venetian Old Style faces were definitely not in favor in any living language. Recently, though, reinterpretations of early Italian printing types have been returning with a vengeance. The name Vendetta, which as an Italian sound I like, struck me as being a word that could be taken to signifiy a comeback of types designed in the Venetian style. In closing, I should add that a large measure of Vendetta's overall character comes from a synthesis of ideas, old and new. Hallmarks of roman type design from the Incunabula period are blended with contemporary concerns for the optimal display of letterforms on computer screens. Vendetta is thus not a historical revival. It is instead an indirect but personal digital homage to the roman types of punchcutters whose work was influenced by the example Jenson set in 1470. John Downer.
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