Hey folks! Glad to introduce you a new MINORICA handwritten collection to imitate a hand lettering style! A complete font kit with graphics give you a fantastic result. A roughen pencil written letters with the same rustic shapes and decorate doodle elements looks very authentically! Play with styles, use the stroke style with inlines, or just a regular. You'll get: Bouncing baseline spooky serif with all caps letters, stroke style and inline decoration Handwritten textured and roughen brush script Bold playful sans with inline and stroke styles. Decoration font with text shapes and doodle elements decoration. A helpful kit to create a funny stuff as greeting cards, t-shirts, advertisement content, cafe or coffee shop decoration, book covers etc. Thank you and Enjoy! VVDS

Hont, the original Haunted Font is here. We've captured the essence of an old-school horror film and now you can use it to create awesome-looking titles for all your projects. With its chunky appearance, this font is perfect for vintage poster designs, t-shirt designs, logos, or anything that needs a hint of spooky. Hont is the ultimate Haunted Font that looks amazing on all projects. Inspired by classic mid-century horror films, it will give your projects just the right amount of classic horror. Features Doubles Elimination gives you a more natural look. Inspired by classic mid-century horror films. Includes a Remedy667 Font Catalog PDF, all your favorite fonts in one handy catalog. Possibly haunted, may possess you to create awesome work.

GummiType is a wildly wobbly and clumsy gummy/jelly style letter font. This was a weird typeface that I originally designed back in 2000 but never finished it. Coming across it again recently, I thought it would be a fun font family to get out there. Perfect for a range of designs that require a spooky or gooey-gooey typestyle. Sometimes the inspiration for my typefaces comes from random everyday things, and this is the perfect example of that. My daughter is addicted to those little peach gummy rings and gummy worms, and gummy anything, but it was my own prior addiction to gummy peach rings that inspired this font. Pulling and distorting the ring sparked the inspiration for the droopy warped characters.

Are you Troubled by Ghostly Voices in the night? Do you hear the Terrifying Tones of Demons and Ghouls in your Attic or Cellar? Have you or any of your family spoken with "Forked Tongue? Well, talk of the devil, Forked Tongue happens to be the latest offering brought to you buy our courteous and efficient staff this month (now on call twenty-four hours a day to serve all your supernatural lettering needs). If it Sounds Spooky, it most probably speaks with Forked Tongue. Oh, but if you really have got ghosts or poltergeists, well, um, we don't know who you gonna call. Features: Four weights (Regular, Italic, Bold & Bold Italic) with upper and lower case alphabets. Includes Western and Central European international characters.

Kitetsu is a spoof Japanese typeface that we created especially for those of you who need writing for a Japanese-themed design. Of course, this typeface is also very attractive when used for other graphic display purposes. If you choose this typeface, your project will leave an impression on your audience because of its unique, abstract, and different shape, which will set it apart from the rest. Logotypes, food banners, branding, brochure, posters, movie titles, book titles, quotes, and more may all benefit from this font. Of course, using this font in your various design projects will make them excellent and outstanding; many viewers are drawn to the striking and unusual graphic display. Start utilizing this typeface in your projects to make them stand out.

Professor Minty is a cartoon-inspired kind of comic font with a lotta bounce and a whole buncha spooky fun. Both regular and bold are based on Chank’s first fonts, Mister Frisky and Uncle Stinky. The Bold version is brand new in 2011, never before available. But here both of those fonts are combined into one extra-savvy font that does all kinds of tricks. It has many extra special OpenType features, like Swash, Contextual Alternates and Small caps and more. There’s even a “decaf” feature (Stylistic Set #1) which tones it down a bit if the account people think it is just too exciting. Works good for Halloween, Christmas and Valentine’s Day, oddly enough. Who knew those three holidays had anything in common?

Stu is based on the penmanship of the late Raoul "Stu" Stuart. Raoul's penmanship was always admired by those who saw it; it was a first glimpse into the artistic and creative side of an otherwise easy-going, funny guy. The print variants exude a soft yet masculine feel, while the scripts evoke a sense of sentimentality and romance. Stu features dingbats which say something about Raoul: affectionate and romantic (heart), a big coffee drinker (coffee cup), a great cook (spoon and fork), a music lover (musical note), and a prankster (winking smiley). (The winking smiley is available in all the font styles, while each of the other four dingbats is unique to one font style.) Stu is a tribute to the coolest dad in the world.

Just in time for your Halloween projects hopefully :) Say hello to Folklore! A font that's all about spooky, ghoulish fun! With its charming all caps style and built-in speckly texture, Folklore brings a touch of whimsy to your creative projects. Plus, we've included an Outline version of the font as a little bonus. What's Included? Folklore Main File Regular and Outline version Instructions (Access special characters, even in Cricut Design) Unique Letterforms Works on PC & Mac Simple Installations Accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word even Canva! PUA Encoded Characters. Fully accessible without additional design software. Multilingual Supports: (Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Zulu) Thank you, Dharmas Studio

Hollow House is a font which will looks great in dark / horror / spooky / scary theme. This type of font perfectly made to be applied especially in movies or storybook children which is need a standout font, and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : numbers and punctuation multilingual alternates ligatures PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations. How to access opentype feature : letterhend.com/tutorials/using-opentype-feature-in-any-software/ Email us to letterhend@gmail.com if you need something! Happy Designing!

Before 1959, in pre-Castro Havana, Cuba, the preeminent nightclub was the Tropicana. During the regime of Fulgencio Batista, Cuba was resplendent with nightclubs and gambling casinos catering to [mostly] the North American tourists; which brought it the title of the Monte Carlo of the Americas. Although Cuba (and the world as a whole) has changed vastly over the decades, the hand-lettered logo of the Tropicana Night Club has survived, and has been reproduced as a complete digital font called Tropicano JNL (a slight twist to the club's name). At first the font seems to be awkward, crude and amateurish, but in taking a second look, there's a playful charm to it. Additionally, this font can double as a "spooky" font for the Halloween season, monster parties and in other similar themes.

Purgatorie - Quirky Halloween Font is an enigmatic display typeface tailor-made for the spooktacular season of Halloween. With its sharp, angular letterforms, it effortlessly embraces the eerie and horror-themed design aesthetic. This font offers a whopping ten alternative variations, each inspired by different Halloween motifs like skeletons, bats, tombstones, blood, pumpkins, bats, witches' hats, and ghosts. Ideal for crafters and designers who enjoy creating products with a variety of themes, Purgatorie is a fantastic choice for logos, packaging, product branding, stickers, crafting, greeting cards, and invitations. Its ability to bring a playful and whimsical Halloween spirit to your creative projects makes it a must-have for the season. With its quirky Halloween style, Purgatorie allows you to create a bewitching atmosphere in your designs and celebrate the spooky holiday.

Friendly Monster - Character Monster Font. Friendly Monster funny font is a kid's friendly spooky monster for your projects. When we talk about monster, it's not always the one that really scary. We can all have a cute, adorable, and friendly monster as well. Friendly Monster comes just like that. Friendly Monster has a strict style, but still gives a cheerful impression, making it very easy to read and apply in all design projects such as poster designs, clothing, logos, quotes, album covers, books, business cards, product designs, and many more design projects The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates, and Ligature. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. This font is also support multi language.

Pumpkin Field is a font designed to capture the atmosphere of Halloween. It was hand-painted with ink, using a stick. Therefore, it is suitable as an imitation of sloppy, messy writing. The font will also serve perfectly for any materials that are meant to have a slightly spooky, quirky feel - whether it's Spooktober or not! There are several alternative glyphs in the font. The font supports 68 languages. Supported languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Breton, Catalan, Chiga, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Uzbek (Latin), Volapük, Vunjo, Zulu

TF Bleedwax Font - an eerie and spine-chilling typeface perfectly suited for Halloween-themed designs. This font exudes a horror style, created specifically to send shivers down your spine. Each letter is meticulously crafted to resemble dripping blood, giving your designs a blood-curdling and macabre feel. With its gory and unsettling appearance, "TF Bleedwax" font is sure to add a terrifying touch to any Halloween project, horror movie poster, haunted house flyer, or spooky party invitation. Let this font unleash a wave of fear and make your designs stand out in the dark and creepy night. Multilingual contained: Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Breton, Catalan, Chiga, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Portuguese, Quechua, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Uzbek (Latin), Volapük, Vunjo, Zulu. For any questions please contact me 🙂 Thanks!

Chilada is an outrageous display family by designer Patricia Lillie for Image Club. Across four versions, the decorate treatment inside Chilada's letters becomes more intense. Chilada characters exude an energy of their own. Their design could be described as a cross between Bank Gothic and Neuland, with a spoonful of funk mixed in. Big and chunky, Chilada's forms are made up of straight lines only. There are no curved elements. The resulting design is angular and cuts a good figure on the page. Of the Chilada family's four members, the basic font is named Chilada Uno. Uno is Spanish for one!" The forms of Chilada Uno's letter are solid black-or whatever color you choose to set them in! Chilada Dos, Tres, and Quatro each offer their own decorative treatments: Chilada Dos's letters sport a zigzag inline, Chilada Tres is decorated or an ornamented leaving leaves more black from the letters than white, while Chilada Quatro's level of decoration is just crazy. Its letters are made up more more from white space than from black marks. Chilada Quatro is almost an outline font!"

Proudly Present The Fright House - Classic Horror Type, created by ikiiko. Inspired by classic horror movie posters, The Fright House, with its retro appeal and traditional serif styling, revives the spirit of horror from the 1970s. The nostalgia and appeal of a past of dread is captured by this typeface, which pays homage to the typefaces that covered horror novels, movie posters, and spooky magazines during that time. The Fright House is a classic elongated condensed serif typeface with a timeless elegance inspired by 1970s fonts. With a precisely defined serif that gives it a sharp and unsettling feel. Each character has graceful contours and precise proportions, seamlessly blending vintage design with the thrilling charm of suspense. This typeface is perfect for an vintage poster, movie title, classic stuff, magazine layout, book cover, and also good for quotes, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image. What's included? Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Punctuation Ligature (Bonus) Multilingual Support Works on PC & Mac Get also a good offer & FREEBIE at our site : www.ikiiko.com Enjoy our font and if you have any questions, you can contact us by email : ikiikowrk@gmail.com

If you’re in need of some serious typography, stop scrolling. Barth. Yoooou heard that right. Designed with a love for horror movies and 90s Nickelodeon nostalgia, Barth is the best font. Get serious about your design work, get Barth. It’s burgery. Looking for a horror font that is as fun and nostalgic as it is eye-catching? Barth. Yoooou heard that right. This retro font is sure to get your viewers hooked on your work with its bold style and innocent yet spooky lettering. It’s perfect for posters, books, movies, even restaurant signage and beyond. Features Doubles Elimination gives you a more natural look. Stands out and get noticed…. be heard. Includes a Remedy667 Font Catalog PDF, all your favorite fonts in one handy catalog. Additional Information Some fonts may require special graphic design software to access OpenType features. Examples of these programs are Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, and Corel Draw. Feedback is always welcome. If there is anything missing from our typefaces that you would like to see, or if there are any issues that occur when using them. Please don’t hesitate to contact us or email me at nick@remedy667.com and let us know.

A Sans Serif Family with a few unique relatives Our Bookable Sans Family was inspired by a lettering specimen from “Letters and Lettering” by Carlyle & Oring, but you'll find the inspiration has come a long way, baby. From its original reference of displaying a standard width and weight, to the two words showing a light narrow and a heavy wide, this friendly utilitarian display text face has grown to include three width families, with six weights from light to black each. The outliers of the family are Bookable Mondo: an uber heavyweight wide style exuding all brute power in an all-caps form, and Bookable Noir: a lightweight and narrow style with many unique alternate letterforms and ligatures that spoof film noir titling, but also goes off the rails having fun. Opentype features for the traditional families include: - Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions. - A small collection of f-based Ligatures. - Tabular & Proportional figure sets. - Ordinals. - Approx. 419 characters. Opentype features for Bookable Mondo include: - Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions. - Ordinals. - Approx. 391 characters. Opentype features for Bookable Noir include: - Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions. - Five Stylistic Alternate Sets. - Sixty-six unique ligatures. - Ordinals. - Approx. 701 characters.

"Le Mano" is a captivating serif display font that seamlessly blends classic elegance with modern sophistication. Crafted with precision, its graceful strokes and refined serifs exude a sense of timeless charm, making it a versatile choice for various design projects. This font commands attention with its distinctive and carefully balanced letterforms, each meticulously designed to offer a harmonious flow and readability. The deliberate spacing and clean lines ensure clarity, even at larger sizes, while maintaining a graceful presence in smaller text. Features: - Uppercase, Lowercase, Number, and Punctuation - Standard and Special Ligatures and alternates - Works on PC & Mac - Simple installations - Accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and even works on Microsoft Word - Fully accessible without additional design software - Multilingual Support, ä, ö, ü, Ä, Ö, Ü, ß, ¿, and ¡. Utilizing this font for titles, headings, or focal points within a design can create a unique juxtaposition that captures attention and adds a touch of sophistication to the fun and spooky theme. If you're looking to insert "Le Mano" into your designs for these themes, consider experimenting with its application in headlines, titles, accent text, horror theme, and horror font, leveraging its elegant yet slightly haunting aesthetic to amplify the overall feel of the design.

Introducing Corpsy, the horror display font with a trash style and a unique droplet touch. Its spooky design perfectly captures the essence of Halloween, nightmares, and horror. Ideal for posters, t-shirts, art crafts, unique headlines, logotypes, and many more. What makes Corpsy unique is its distinct droplet effect, adding an extra layer of fear to any design. This font also pairs well with other horror-themed families such as Ghoulish and Gruesome. Corpsy comes in various styles, including regular and bold, and boasts an extensive character set, making it versatile for any project. Its special features include ligatures, stylistic alternates, and swashes. The design concept for Corpsy was to create a font that could embody the essence of all things horror, yet still retain a unique and identifiable style. We wanted to create a font that could stand out amongst the other horror display fonts available. We created Corpsy for designers who wanted to create horror-themed designs that were more than just clichés. This font is perfect for those looking to push the boundaries of horror design and create something new and unique. Corpsy is not a revival or based on any historical design. It was created from scratch, with the goal of becoming a staple font in the horror design world. Try Corpsy today, and take your horror designs to the next level.

A font perfect for not just one, but many projects! Introducing Oceanwide Pro, a sans that loves to be used in just about any situation! Designed with ultra clean lines and versatility in mind, Oceanwide wants to be your new favorite sans! Oceanwide’s ultra clean letters work anywhere you want to communicate orderliness and competence, and designed to build trust and rapport with your audience. Its wide proportions make it ideal for display and logo use. Oceanwide especially shines for white/bright letters on black/dark backgrounds! That’s because the inside shapes are nearly perfect circles in many weights. Here's a quick video tour of Oceanwide Pro by Dave Lawrence, including all the great things Oceanwide can be used for! We've tested Oceanwide for these industries, with stunning results!: Tech Arts Fashion & Style Business & Branding Corporations Logistics Architecture Food and many more... Oceanwide can be used for: Headers Subheadlines Logos Even body text, if tracked. Print & Screen The styles it can take are also many. It's great for: Modern/minimalist design Flat design Cut out design User Interface (UI) Technical designs In combination with text effects, even for grunge and other situations. And many others... DESIGN FEATURES Simplicity Tall x-height Hand-sloped obliques (italics) Narrow spacing Semi-wide proportions Expert kerning Well proportioned, usable lights & extra lights Large caps Great ALL CAPS MODE Uppercase punctuation Uppercase spacing with California Type Foundry’s Smart Tracking™ Advanced fraction support Proportional lining figures Thick joins Smooth curves Sturdy—great for textures and effects Variable font available Latin Pro character set for Central European languages. That's the writing for over 782 languages and transliterations worldwide! DESIGN STORY—THE FORGOTTEN SANS by Dave Lawrence, Lead Designer, California Type Foundry Adrian Frutiger was the 20th century master of sans, but I didn't realize he had made—not one—but TWO geometric sans! It wasn't until I had purchased the book “Adrian Frutiger: Typefaces”. I had hoped to someday meet Adrian Frutiger, but he passed away that very same year. Here is the story of Frutiger's forgotten sans. Back in 1968, Frutiger was approached by Pentagram to make a design for British Petroleum. They wanted a "new version of Futura". However, they wanted him to make a couple adjustments. First, they felt that Futura was "too fiddly." By this, they meant that it narrowed too much at the joins. (Joins are for example where the round and straight parts of the 'd' meet.) This is something that is necessary for small print text (to prevent ink clogging), but is not necessary at large sizes. Second, they wanted it to be entirely geometric, using the circular shape with minimal optical corrections. Unfortunately this font was not even used very consistently in the BP brand. A haphazard mix of Futura and Frutiger's BP font ensued. It was then replaced by another font design very soon after. My design is different in several ways. First, the commas and quotes are a more modern style. I tried his original commas, but these just didn’t work to 21st century eyes. Second, in his drawings, Frutiger went for a more standard u with a downstroke on the right. However, Oceanwide has a simpler u. Third, I made more optical adjustments. At the direction of his employer, Frutiger reluctantly put no font optical corrections into the letters. So I think my optical adjustments are similar to what Frutiger would have wanted. Fourth, I extended the weight into the light and extra light ranges. Fifth, the rest of the font I created according to the principles of Adrian Frutiger, but with no sources for inspiration. Here is Frutiger’s design philosophy, in his own words: “If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.” The words about the spoon were the ones I kept in my mind as I tried to make the curves ultra smooth, and the shapes ultra simple. Hopefully this font is a worthy successor to the font that inspired it. Released on the 93rd birthday of Adrian Frutiger, to celebrate the life and achievements of this amazing designer. ——————— Simplicity. Versatility. Oceanwide.

L-O-L-A Like the subject of the Kinks’ song, FS Lola is a little bit of both – a font with a rare combination of masculine and feminine. The font was inspired by the song, which itself was inspired by the night the Kinks’ manager spent dancing drunkenly in a Soho club with a beautiful woman... Or so he’d thought, until her stubble started to show halfway through the evening. Masculine/feminin Phil Garnham’s experience in designing FS Lola was similar to the one related by Ray Davies. Setting out to create a sans serif font, he realised along the way that he was actually dealing with a semi-serif. He went with it, though, and produced a font with the best masculine and feminine qualities: hard edges and corners tempered by shapes of softness and generosity, the outcome of what Phil calls an “organic” design process. “Initially, my designs were very graphic and hard but not very distinctive. By printing and redrawing the letters in pencil I achieved a softer and friendlier alphabet with a strong personality.” Broad Lola, as you’d expect, is very broad-minded. Available in five weights with italics – and fluent in central European languages – FS Lola offers a confident combination of feminine softness and male steeliness to any kind of design. As the song says, “It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world... except for Lola.

Torcao is one of the sporks of the font universe, a useful and functional outlier. Half square, half circle, this uncommon squircle of a family with its asymmetry of curved and angular shapes drives through headlines and body copy with forward velocity. The robust, technical appearance is light-hearted and inviting, and its organic nature plays off of its one-of-a-kind kinks and hybrid forms. Torcao is not merely an experimental font, though. The figures have been crafted and refined into a functional, hard-working typeface that lends itself to many sizes and environments. The font family features a tall x-height and light modulation, which give the typography its unique color highly effective in headlines but still quite legible in longer text. This family contains a comprehensive range of nine weights--slender to black--and features condensed and extender selections for a complete set of forty-eight fonts. The font has been decked out for experienced typographers, together with swash alternates and simplified titling. The typeface also contains a range of numeral sets, together with fractions and old-style figures. OpenType-capable programs including Quark or the Adobe suite allow quick changes to ligatures and alternates. Previews of these options can be found in the .pdf brochure. Torcao also features the glyphs to enable all Central, Eastern, and Western European languages. In all, the font supports around forty languages that utilize the prolonged Latin script, making it an excellent option for multi-lingual publications and packaging. Simple, technical, and open, the Torcao type family could just be the perfect choice for your web type or print project.

Discover Deadfall, the ultimate horror display font that will send shivers down your spine! What sets Deadfall apart is its unique blend of fear-inducing aesthetics and multilingual capabilities. This Monospace typeface exudes a captivating dripped and splash style, adding an extra layer of terror to your designs. Notably, Deadfall supports the Cyrillic alphabet, making it an ideal choice for a global audience. Deadfall offers both regular and italic variations, granting you even more creative possibilities. Whether you're designing posters, crafting marketing materials, conjuring chilling movie titles, creating Death metal logotypes, or working on Halloween-themed crafts, Deadfall will infuse your projects with a bone-chilling atmosphere. To ensure versatility, consider pairing Deadfall with related font families or other typefaces that complement its macabre charm. Its functional aspects include an extensive character set and special features, making it suitable for a wide range of applications. The design concept behind Deadfall revolves around the idea of capturing the essence of horror. The font's distinctive dripped and splash style adds a sense of chaos and unease to any composition, immersing the viewer in a world of terror. The inclusion of the Cyrillic alphabet reflects our commitment to providing a font that caters to diverse audiences, bringing fear to every corner of the globe. We created Deadfall to meet the demand for a truly spine-tingling font that conveys a sense of horror and foreboding. Whether you're a graphic designer looking to evoke fear or a Halloween enthusiast seeking to amplify the spooky atmosphere, Deadfall is here to unleash terror in your designs. Get ready to embrace the darkness with Deadfall - the ultimate font for all things haunting and macabre!

The idea for Quirky was born while I was looking at a book of etchings by British artist Graham Clarke. His signature, crawling spider-like across the page, fascinated me with its casual, almost messy, inky dark and light drama. I started scribbling the alphabet as I imagined he would write it, based on his signature, then continued, adding curls, making the characters more angular, and refining the dramatic play between dark and light. Finally, Quirky appeared. Apparently casual, Quirky is, in fact, a true connected script. Quirky is characteristic of contemporary handwriting: It appears loose, angular, unstructured, and free, while maintaining good form and legibility. Its baseline is varied, creating an impression of impatient handwriting, without losing legibility. Quirky comes in five styles: condensed -- the most dramatic form, with great drama between thick and thin condensed black -- as with condensed but allows the user to provide exceptional emphasis wide -- increased readability wide black -- increased readability and emphasis splat -- messy and ink-blotted -- a hint of grunge Use Quirky for advertising, for humorous greeting cards, for a funky fashion look or tongue-in-cheek spooky media. Quirky is a fully professional font with extensive use of OpenType Ligatures. For example: most common double letter combinations such as "ee" are rendered as two, slightly different shaped "e"s. This variation in letter shapes removes the cues by which the reader identifies that he is viewing a FONT and thus conveys a strong sense of hand-lettered text. Language support includes all European character sets and has been designed to be used with the following languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bemba, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Ganda, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kinyarwanda, Luo, Malagasy, Malay, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Portuguese, Romansh, Sango, Shona, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German and Zulu.

Jill Bell's typefaces are energetic, highly decorative, and refreshingly unpredictable. Some are friendly and childlike, while others are rough and nervous. Her latest creation is ITC Swank, a connected script whose shabby-chic" sophistication communicates a worn elegance. Bell begins the design process "with black stuff on white paper," she explains, preferring to draw letters before she digitizes them. Often the inspiration for her typefaces comes from a piece of hand-lettering. "Bruno began as a reminder to buy cat food," she says, "and ITC Swank started out as a small bit of lettering for Wurlitzer Pianos." Bell finds that working with blocks of lettering is a good start for script typefaces. "If I'm drawing a script typeface, I have to write out sentences in the letters first," she explains. "Drawing each letter separately doesn't establish the flow and spontaneity that scripts deserve." Bell's newest design is ITC Swank. It's a somewhat tattered formal script with definite links to early copperplate scripts. Though probably not for wedding invitations, Swank's elegant underpinnings are evident, with its slightly narrow proportions and a baseline that can best be called "bouncy." Graphic designers will appreciate the abundance of swash letters, making it easy to create distinctive headlines and short blocks of copy. Bell has a fondness for the "open, genuine" quality of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy. "Eastern styles incorporate the natural flow of the hand," she says. "Natural, human qualities shine through. Mistakes are accepted, not scorned as in the 'white-out' Western culture." This philosophy is evident in Bell's own designs. Whether it's ITC Clover 's carefree spirit, the slightly spooky Hollyweird, Caribbean 's< rustic charm or the weathered elegance of ITC Swank, there is a natural honesty in her work."