Scriptissimo is, as the name says, very much of a script! It is in the best American tradition. A script that could have served for writing the Constitution with, if only they would have had computers at that time. Scriptissimo consists of three different scripts that are meant to be used together. One is the script with the more or less plain characters. Two is the version for characters to start a word with. Three is the cut that has the characters for the end of a word. Ligatures is used for, well, ligatures and some glyphs like Ltd., GmbH, and so on. Scriptissimo is a very elegant and versatile script. It can be used for chocolate bars as well as stock certificates. I really enjoyed designing it. Yours scriptissimo, Gert Wiescher

Luce Stilren is a serif font with a modern and geometric design from Objectype Studio. With clean lines and bold shapes, this font adds a professional and contemporary touch to any design project. The main feature of this font is its flexibility. Whether you’re working on a branding project, logo design, magazine headlines, or wedding invitations, Luce Stilren is the perfect choice. This font is designed to provide reading comfort, making it a great choice for both print and digital publications. Luce Stilren supports various languages and includes various typographic features such as ligatures, old-style numbers, and letter-style variations. With these possibilities, you can customize the font according to your needs. With Luce Stilren, you can take your designs to the next level. Get it now and start creating!

The typeface Klötzchen (german word for blocks) is designed from 2020 for the font foundry Typo Graphic Design by Manuel Viergutz | Typo Graphic Design × Peter Eckartz | kleinholzTYPO as a political statement #climatejustice The display font based on the original wood letter from Peter Eckartz (kleinholzTYPO). The technic is called Reifendreherei from the Erzgebirge. Craft Tools like Hobel and Fräsmaschine. The idea based from Gert Schaaf (Spielzeugproduzent in Wittlich, 1970s). The font started from 41 wood letters (analog) and was finally digitalize and extended to 374 glyphs (digital). Thanks to Alex Branczyk for the Klötzchen. 3 font-styles (Wood, Clean, Impact) + 1 icon-style with 374 glyphs (Adobe Latin 1) incl. 100+ decorative extras like icons, arrows, dingbats, emojis, symbols, geometric shapes (type the word #LOVE for ❤️or #SMILE for

We decided to explore the concept of fitness, but from a more natural perspective. With so many people drinking detox drinks and eating raw food, we were inspired to create a font that mixes the ‘strength’ of sports and the organic nature of natural products. The result is ‘Matcha’: a strong and energetic typeface that also flows at the same time. Matcha consists of a stable, very friendly Slab face and a calligraphy Script with a handmade style: spontaneous and fickle with some reverse-contrast alternative characters. Can you guess who is the designer behind each style? The duo contains OpenType features and is perfect for labeling natural products, cookbooks, magazine photography, fashion & beauty magazines covers, health & fitness publications, and more. For both print and digital communication. Matcha: the new black coffee!

Introducing Perfectly Nineties – a brand new serif with all the nostalgic vibes! I've started seeing classic, tightly spaced serifs of the 80s & 90s making a comeback, and wanted to create the perfect one for you too! Perfectly Nineties is a beautifully nostalgic upper and lowercase typeface that looks incredible in both large and small settings as a display and body text. It's gorgeous used on its own, or paired as you see above with Aguafina Script (free from Google Fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Aguafina+Script ) One thing to note about Perfectly Nineties is the letter spacing. It was intentionally spaced for clean reading if you wanted to use it for body type, so I recommend setting the spacing a little tighter for display use (around -20 should do!).

DEZARU is a fictitious Japanese display font created by combining Japanese letters with well-known and understood san serif fonts from throughout the world. Imagine all promotional materials can be understood and understood by all audiences in various parts of the world, your message will reach the hearts of the audience, and your brand will be very easy to remember by many people because the display of this font is contemporary and different from the others. 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.

Introducing our newest font called Brifa. Fonts that have unique letters create a distinctive impression when applied to words or text. We designed this san serif family font by paying attention to the combination of each letter to create an elegant impression and appearance making it easier for you to use it according to what you need, both formal and non-formal needs. This font is perfect for a wide variety of design projects, sporting events, branding, banners, posters, movie titles, food and beverage, technology, quotes, clothing, logotypes, and more. Of course, your various design projects will be perfect and amazing if you use this font because this font comes with a font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your amazing projects.

Start good day for new font! present to you, Hella Instegra! Hella Instegra is a stylish font It has both modern and retro look - clear, modern and fun. Helps to create layout design in 60s or 70s design projects. This font have more than 150 unique alternate and 59 ligature that to give your logo,business card and another project to a unique vintage look. It has Italic and Outline version too so what a perfect vintage font! Hella Instegra is also included full set of: uppercase and lowercase letters multilingual symbols numerals punctuation Alternates PUA Encoded Unique letterforms I really hope you'll get pleasure using Hella Instegra font and it will be perfect addition to your font collection! If you have some questions, please write me a letter! Thank You Skypia.

Martin, a condensed semi-serif with rounded edges and friendly serifs, shows its charme best in short, pointed sentences, in headlines set in about 20 to 36 p. The playing with serifs in a condensed, very characteristic type design is attractive and the technical skill is convincing. More styles are planned. The idea was to try to apply a given design criteria (also see Volker Schnebel's Marita and Manuel fonts) to every single character. In other words, start with a character and develop all of the others from it. This is quite easy for some characters but extremely difficult for others. This process generates creativity and the characters move away from the initial constructed sketch. Together in a typeface, the individual characters are now all of a piece and character.

STF Eclectic Web is the ultimate web design dingbat tool - with 80 icons designed for creating e-commerce, navigation, and interface designs. Use it as a starting point in your favorite vector program, or use the icons as is - they are optimized for sizes down to 20 point and anti-alias beautifully in all of the major applications (any smaller than that and you're on your own…) Shopping carts, directional arrows, buttons galore! It's like a pinata in font format, surprises for everyone! This font includes: a new button, order, buy, and close buttons, home, security, email, search, and a host of other icons and images to make designing your next website a breeze!. Most of the icons are shown Available in Mac and PC formats, in TrueType and Postscript formats. License it today!

ขอแนะนำ "Tawilack Slab" ฟอนต์ serif แบบ slab ที่แสดงถึงความแข็งแกร่งและความมั่นคง ทวีลักษณ์ สลับ มีรูปทรงกว้าง แข็งแรงและมั่นคง คอนทราสต์ต่ำทำให้เกิดความกลมกลืนระหว่างเส้นหนาและเส้นบาง ทำให้ได้แบบอักษรที่สวยงามและอ่านง่าย ด้วยรูปลักษณ์ที่โดดเด่น ทวีลักษณ์ สลับ จึงสมบูรณ์แบบสำหรับโปรเจ็คที่ต้องการความชัดเจนและมั่นใจ ไม่ว่าจะใช้พาดหัว หรือสร้างแบรนด์ Thawilack Slab ก็สร้างความประทับใจได้ไม่รู้ลืมด้วยรูปลักษณ์ที่แข็งแกร่งและมั่นคงดึงดูดความสนใจ แบบอักษรนี้เป็นตัวเลือกอเนกประสงค์ที่สามารถปรับเข้ากับบริบทการออกแบบต่างๆ ได้อย่างลงตัว ทำให้เป็นคู่หูที่ยอดเยี่ยมสำหรับทั้งสิ่งพิมพ์และสื่อดิจิทัล - Introducing "Thawilack Slab," a captivating slab serif font that exudes strength and stability. Thawilack Slab boasts a wide and sturdy shape, radiating strength and stability. Its low contrast creates a harmonious flow between the thick and thin strokes, resulting in a visually pleasing and easily readable typeface. With its commanding presence, Thawilack Slab is perfect for projects that require a bold and confident touch. Whether used for headlines, or branding materials, Thawilack Slab leaves a lasting impression. Its strong and stable appearance captures attention. This font is a versatile choice that adapts seamlessly to various design contexts, making it an excellent companion for both print and digital media.

Stanzer is an interpretation of wood type combined with the idea of modern stencils. Instead of cutting every letter, we are presenting an example of how a modern stencil typeface could look like, as we have come to the conclusion that almost every letter works without cutting it. Stanzer is a Unicase typeface, available in three OpenType weights: Black, Shadow and Block. Stanzer first started as part of our diploma 2010 (it was called Stanley at that time). The basic idea behind this typeface is that it is fully stencil usable, and, unlike other stencil fonts, does not require any bridges (except for the O and Q). Almost every letter can be sprayed without inserting planks. However, Stanzer also offers the display weight Block, which is only suitable for print or online usage.

Museo... it all started with my love for the letter ‘U’. This uppercase letter just came to me as an image in a daydream. The top of both stems bent into semi-slab serifs. From this principle I worked out the rest of the uppercase letters. My first intention was to make it an all-caps display font, but after a while, I changed my mind. I wanted it to be a bit more versatile, so I decided to add lowercase and adjust spacing and kerning to increase legibility. This OpenType font family comes in five weights, and each weight comes with support for CE languages, even Esperanto. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, stylistic alternates, fractions and proportional/tabular figures, Museo has a ‘case’ feature for case-sensitive forms.

Say hello to Decrypt 02—a geometric typeface that features highly stylized capitals with sharp corners, circular forms and generous proportions. Specifically created for visual impact—use Decrypt 02 when you want your words to stand out from the rest of the crowd. The concept is modern, futuristic and non-traditional. Perfect for display text, logos and headings. The development of Decrypt 02 started in 1997, inspired by Alex Kaczun’s best selling grotesque font family called Contax Pro. Decrypt 02 is specifically introduced here as a bold weight, but Alex plans to expand the design to include many weights, styles and alternative design treatments. Stay tuned! If you like Decrypt 02—check out it’s alternate twin Decrypt 01 and all of Type Innovations fonts at: http://www.myfonts.com/person/Alex_Kaczun/

The Klutz AOE Pro Family was inspired by the plethora of naive hand drawn lettering becoming commonplace in modern advertising. What I hadn't seen was a family of hand drawn typefaces, in a range of widths and weights, with both alternate capitals as well as small caps character sets...and so Klutz Pro was born. The letterforms started with a few letters my daughter had drawn which I expanded on from there. Pulling from inspirations in retro cartoon titling and modern hand lettering playfulness, the full font was born, with weights and width to follow. Quirky, eclectic, and just a bit ridiculous, it lends itself to a range of design typesetting - although I must confess, even though it all began with the Regular width, the Extra Condensed styles are my personal favorites. What's your favorite?

Introduce our newest font named Rufing. There are three alternatives in this font, thin, regular, and bold. which makes it easier for you to arrange a proportional and captivating design layout because the character of this font is suitable for use as logos and titles and of course it is also flexible in use in text and sentences. This handwritten font is perfect for children’s magazines, drink banners, games, posters, beverage, outdoor events, thumbnails, food banners, cheerful writing, film titles, quotes, titles, logos, and various kinds of projects you need, of course, your various design projects will be perfect and extraordinary if you use this font because this font is equipped with a complimentary font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text. start using our fonts for your amazing projects.

Making a Christmas card takes a lot of work! Finding the right typeface can be tough, too. Have you ever spent hours searching for the right one? Well, in 2003, instead of spending hours searching, German designer Guido Bittner made his own. Expectation was first used on the Christmas card for Bittner's Wiesbaden design studio. This delicate series of letters maintains a handwritten feel, in part because it began as a digitalization of Bittner’s own handwriting. Expectation Swash includes additional swash letters, which can be paired with regular version of Expectation to create superior effects. Perhaps it is already time for you to begin working on next year’s holiday cards. Let these fonts be the starting port for your inspiration! Expectation was a winner in the 2003 International Type Design Contest, sponsored by Linotype GmbH.

Glaciar is a script typeface based on brush handwriting and inspired by old-style bas-reliefs. All contours were carefully cleaned of brush roughness, but at the same time, minor imperfections were left to create the unique character of this font Glaciar has a built-in auto replacement for lowercase letters without connecting strokes (in the case of word ends) and for ligatures (in the case of letter pairs that do not fit well together). In addition, there are alternates glyphs with starting and ending swashes - the last ones can be used with any OpenType software. And finally, the font has wide multilingual support and can be used in texts in 195 languages Glaciar is a good choice for branding and design projects as well as a cute text overlay to any background image

At the end of every road in Transylvania stands a dark, foreboding castle, seemingly clouded by impossibly dark shadows. Bat-like creatures scurry across its gargoyle-festooned towers, and slimy green patches of moss climb inexorably up its cold walls. Blood has been spilt in the tombs of this chilling location, and there, etched in stone above the arched entranceway, is inscribed -- in Comicraft’s TRANSYLVANIAN typeface -- a simple legend: ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE. TRANSYLVANIAN is a small-caps font that includes Comicraft's revolutionary Crossbar I Technology™, to locate that mysterious character in exactly the right places. Artwork from ASK FOR MERCY by Richard Starkings & Abigail Jill Harding, available on Comixology.com Features Four weights (Regular, Italic, Bold & Bold Italic) with upper and lowercase characters. Includes Western European international characters.

Introducing the Thole font, a very elegant and clean san serif family, with a characteristic width and graceful impression, for designs with feminine or masculine themes, this font will look strong and strong in your design projects. There is a strong impression in this font, both from the width of the letters, the corners in this font are also equipped with ligatures and alternates to complement your needs. This font is perfect for games, sporting events, branding, banners, posters, movie titles, book titles, quotes, clothing, logotypes, and more. of course, your various design projects will be perfect and extraordinary if you use this font because this font is equipped with a complimentary font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text. start using our fonts for your amazing projects.

Say hello to Decrypt He2—a geometric typeface that features highly stylized capitals with sharp corners, circular forms and generous proportions. Specifically created for visual impact—use Decrypt He2 when you want your words to stand out from the rest of the crowd. The concept is modern, futuristic and non-traditional. Perfect for display text, logos and headings. The development of Decrypt He2 started in 1997, inspired by Alex Kaczun’s best selling grotesque font family called Contax Pro. Decrypt He2 is specifically introduced here as a bold weight, but Alex plans to expand the design to include many weights, styles and alternative design treatments. Stay tuned! If you like Decrypt He2—check out it’s alternate twins Decrypt H1, Decrypt 01, Decrypt 02 and all of Type Innovations fonts at: http://www.myfonts.com/person/Alex_Kaczun/.

NarrowWay is a family of 18 condensed and ultra-condensed sans-serif typefaces. The family started with the ultra-condensed widths, then the condensed and regular widths (the regular is still quite condensed) were added. All widths have three weights and each weight has an italics style. These 18 styles lack a true lowercase but rather have a set of alternative characters, some based on lower-case forms, on the lower-case keys. Some alternative letters can be reached with the OpenType feature of stylistic sets. The character spacing in most of the styles is quite loose and it can be tightened with an application's character spacing if needed. These typefaces are display faces that can be useful for squeezing tall lettering into tight spaces. They are not readable at small point sizes.

Introducing Megatropolis : intellectual, architectural, urban and urbane. What started as an idea where the counters would be letters (3 scribbled glyphs on a piece of scrap paper), has grown into a mighty font family of eight stackable fonts. First came Megatropolis itself, a Deco font within a Deco font; Double Deco, you might say. In Illustrator, you can deconstruct it to make solid letters, outline letters or just the inset letters on their own, and you can stack them how you wish. Or you can get the whole Megatropolis family with Black , Outline , Inset , Smog , Shade and Shade with Inset and keep them all separate stackable, editable fonts. In addition, there’s Megatropolis Benday (available in TT only), with its fabulous stackable comic dots. Megatropolis is a typographer’s playground.

In today's typographic landscape, few would still consider Bodoni to have a "modern" feel, but there was once a time when it's vertical axis and thinned horizontal strokes were considered radical. Volterra—inspired by the forms of Bodoni—finishes what Bodoni started and eliminates the horizontal stroke altogether, breathing an elegant new energy into a 200-year-old classic. Named for the artist hired to paint loincloths over Michelangelo's "Last Judgement" when nudity in religious art was condemned, Volterra acknowledges that it is no easy feat picking up where a master left off. Volterra takes what has grown to feel traditional and transforms it into a delicate mixture of classic and modern, with razor-edged serifs and ultra-sharp strokes. Strictly a display face, the larger Volterra is used, the better it looks.

Pounder Fonts were designed by Tom Nikosey / CozyFonts Foundry. This font, as all my fonts started with pencil sketches based on the letter O. Once I arrived at the comfortable shape I worked out the C, G, & Q. The H, M, T matched the visual weight and so I moved on to E & S. As the E & S are 2 of the most repeated characters in fonts' I wanted a little bit extra here. The font is obviously heavy weighted yet very legible and almost architectural in presence. There are flashes of Art Deco yet futuristic style. After sketching the feel of this font I was excited by the possibility of the numerals styling. I can see these used for many applications. Why the title Pounder? Why not it seems to fit.

DASEGO, our newest font, is now available. A display typeface with an Asia theme that we made to fulfill the needs of your project with an Asian theme that you may use for projects that can be understood by audiences all over the world. We created this typeface by paying close attention to the individuality of each letter, abstract while still prioritizing optical harmony, and your project will look stunning with it. 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.

Di Mare is a layered script inspired by Italian restaurant and cafe signs. It’s about delicious food and the joyful atmosphere of traveling: freedom, sea, fresh wind and warm sun. This font family has three styles: Regular, Line, Shadow. You can combine and overlay them to get different effects. Di Mare works well for menu, packaging, clothes, signs, magazines, and as a starting point for lettering and logos. Di Mare is designed with hundreds of contextual alternates and ligatures. It makes all connections look natural and harmonious. Di Mare supports most European languages, has small capitals, numbers, fractions, currency and mathematical signs. All contextual alternates are built into the “Liga” feature that is turned on by default. However, when your work with typeface, please make sure that “Liga” is turned on.

Start a good day for a new font! present to you, Sunny! Brilors is a stylish font. It has a modern and retro look - clear, modern and fun. Help create layout designs in 60's or 70's design projects. This font has over 50 unique alternatives and binders that give your logo, business cards and other projects a unique vintage look. Unique fonts Works on PC & Mac Simple installation Accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word even works in Canva! PUA Coded Characters Fully accessible without any additional design software. I really hope you will enjoy using the Brilors font and that it will be the perfect addition to your font collection! If you have some questions, please write me a letter! Please try! Zane Studio

Kabusi San Serif is a premium font family with 18 different styles to choose from. Designed to aid you in the creation of visually stunning projects of all types. It is the most widely used typeface on the internet, in printed materials, and in other design projects. This Kabusi San Serif font embodies both modernity and classicism while remaining simple and clean in appearance. Apart from their great looks, this premium font family will assist you in giving your company a more unique look that will pay off! of course, your various design projects will be perfect and extraordinary if you use this font because this font is equipped with a font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your extraordinary projects.

Fieasto is a modern serif typeface with many styles. High contrast version of the famous Didot display that has been synonymous with fashion for decades. This font has more than 378 glyphs with multilingual letters included. Based on modern serif fonts but by rethinking the height of lowercase letters to make this font look more fun, this font is modern and nostalgic and works great for logos, mastheads, and quotations. It's a beautiful pair with minimal serifs or lightweight script fonts. Includes: - Uppercase and lowercase letters are full - Numbers, Punctuation, Multilingual Accents - Alternates Glyphs We really hope you enjoy and are interested in our offer. If you want to upgrade or need a license or ask questions, you can send me a message and you can immediately start your service doratypefoundry@gmail.com. Thank You

The genesis of ApronSoft font type family is inspired by soft-vertical structure of airplane window. On the other hand ApronSoft is making a reference to technological design mentality of early 2000's. In short texts it has stable view and also humanist effect. Very suitable for mobile apps, web designs, sportive & technological product packs and ads designs. Especially Narrow Bold and Condensed Bold Italic weights have fluid and strong expression for striking headlines. User friendly ApronSoft serves rich opentype properties; small capitals, alternative letters (a, c, e, g, k, l, q, s, y, A, C, G, K, M, N, R, S), stylistic sets, standart and optional ligatures, oldstyle figures, tabular linings, arrows, bullets and wide money currencies, fractions and math symbols. With reduced file size, it’s softer now!

Inspired by the diverse and dynamic neighborhoods around their studio, kapitza’s most recent work is about observing and recording the transient nature of inner-city populations. This visual research results in vibrant sets of silhouettes with site-specific names like ‘Liverpool Street’, ‘Victoria Park’ and ‘Brick Lane’. This ongoing project charts the visual component of local transformation, managing to reflect something that is deeper, invisible and beyond the surface. These fresh, creative typologies make sense of sensory overload. Though stark and simple, these silhouettes make the increasingly complex connections between people (s) and place(s). Somehow identities are represented in the absence of context and locations are curiously referenced without surroundings. By focusing on an area’s inhabitants, their work highlights distinct subtleties regarding the interplay time and place.

Claudium started as an attempt to create a sans serif version of Garamond. As time went on it gradually became a meditation on the nature of French typography from Garamond to Excoffon. It was especially influenced by Cassandre's type for the Orly airport which seems to epitomize certain aspects of the French character�at least in typography. Attempts to create an italic met with disaster. Gradually, after lots of Cotes du Rhone, a cursive, based on Garamond�s Greek forms, emerged. It came at a time when I was looking at lot at Victor Hammer�s uncial and Andromaque cursive. So Claudium Cursive was developed as a lower case only and mated to the Claudium Regular caps ala Griffo�s original italic type. In keeping with the cursive lowercase there are cursive oldstyle numbers.

Dulcet is a hand lettered, rough binding script with high ascenders & low-descenders. It is both elegant and grungy and will work wonders on your invitations or love letters, make beautiful posters, frightening t-shirt designs or logotypes. It is equipped with OpenType features such as common ligatures, double letter ligatures, contextual and stylistic alternates for a varied and hand drawn look. Access alternates by using the glyph panel in Illustrator and InDesign. Dulcet comes with several initial & terminal swashes that can be added to the beginning and/or end of any lowercase letter as well as different swashes for the upper case letters. For initials/beginnings, write _ (underscore) + digit 0 to 9 For terminals/endings, write digit 0 to 9 + _ (underscore) For start swashes, - (hyphen) + digit 0 to 9. Enjoy!

The dearJoe series of fonts came to life around the year 1999, when I created dearJoe 1, which was a first (and half-assed) attempt to convert my own handwriting into a working font. Being able to type in my own hand had always been a childhood fantasy, and even though I only partly understood the software, a working font was generated and I decided to put it on the internet for people to use in their own personal projects. Which they did: at this moment the dearJoe 1 font has been downloaded millions of times and can be found on Vietnamese riksjas, Tasmanian gyms and chocolate stores on 5th Avenue for instance. The font is not something I am particularly proud of, but it started me of in building what's now the JOEBOB graphics foundry. Inbetween creating other fonts, the dearJoe series has become a theme I revisit every once in a while, trying to create an update on how my handwriting has evolved, along with my abilities in creating fonts that mimic actual handwriting. In the last decade or so I started implementing ligatures and alternate characters, which helped a lot in coming to a result that can almost pass for actual handwriting. The 2019 dearJoe 7 font is the latest addition to this font family. All characters were scanned from handwritten notes, cherrypicking the characters and letter-combinations I liked best. They were written with a Lamy M66 B pen and only minor adjustments were made to the original scans, leaving most little flaws and rough edges as they were for a convincing ball-point on paper result. The font comes with over 150 ligatures, making sure the font has a variated and credible overall look and feel.

Born in the 70s Personal influences are unavoidable in type design and usually find their way through into finished fonts. At Fontsmith, one period in particular provides inspiration, according to FS Pimlico designer, Fernando Mello. “Jason and Phil have always known that I’m very into the visual language of the 70s. I know that Jason shares my love of the 70s and Phil will sometimes admit to being a fan, too. I think that’s the reason they were both so supportive in the development of this font. “And, of course, we all share an interest in good-humoured and intelligent design. We like to think it’s a Fontsmith characteristic.” Back from black FS Pimlico started in an unusual place: with a tubby, penguin-like lowercase “a” that Fernando Mello had been sketching. From “a” grew the rest of the alphabet – a bubbly, fat, friendly family with a brush-written quality that became FS Pimlico Black. The black weight certainly isn’t the normal starting point for creating a regular and bold weight, but Fernando pressed on, driven by a glut of influences: brush-writing; Letraset and early digital systems catalogues; the type of Herb Lubalin and Tony di Spigna; 70s clothes and vinyl; and 70s revival disco nights in London’s Pimlico and Vauxhall. Natural or flourished Not often do fonts come along that seem to span the ages. FS Pimlico is at home in an office environment providing a fresh clear identity in communications or providing text that’s clear and easy to read. But it likes to party, too, 70s style. With the OpenType features switched on, a designer can totally change the look of their work, and create point-of-sale, headlines and titles that stand out and get noticed.

DESCRIPTION With Skill I wanted to create something wild. Something that splashed the letters with life. To do this, I knew I'd have to break the barrier between analog and digital, so I took my best brush and started to play. Throughout the years as a type-designer I've met and become fan of many calligraphers. My belief that only a good calligrapher can make good typography (1) has become even stronger. I'm now absolutely sure that only practice improves the skill, especially in this field. So, with this in mind, I started a font which was a challenge for me because sometimes the gap between paper and screen can be gigantic. Skill is another of my attemps (2) to capture the spirit of the pointed brush, its expressiveness, the passions and fears of the artist. This font is about freedom. Freedom everywhere. Movement, velocity, passion. To achieve this, many alternates and ligatures per glyph were designed. Use it on magazines, posters, book covers, music albums, t-shirts, skates, tattoos. NOTES (1) This is mostly referred to script fonts, though text fonts made by designers with a deep calligraphic background have at least to me, an extra charm. (2) See my fonts Live and Indie. TIPS Thanks to Open-Type, the font gives the user the chance to play and get many wonderful results: In example, using the font with “discretionary ligatures” activated will give more life to the written word. Some letters will jump of the base, while others will ligate or not with the following (typical of gestural calligraphy). Adobe Illustrator is recommended. STYLES Skill is the most complete style. It has all the alternates and ligatures that can be seen in the posters and more! Skill Standard is a variant with no decorative glyphs. It has the basic alphabet and some ligatures for better legibility.

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."

Born in the 70s Personal influences are unavoidable in type design and usually find their way through into finished fonts. At Fontsmith, one period in particular provides inspiration, according to FS Pimlico designer, Fernando Mello. “Jason and Phil have always known that I’m very into the visual language of the 70s. I know that Jason shares my love of the 70s and Phil will sometimes admit to being a fan, too. I think that’s the reason they were both so supportive in the development of this font. “And, of course, we all share an interest in good-humoured and intelligent design. We like to think it’s a Fontsmith characteristic.” Back from black FS Pimlico started in an unusual place: with a tubby, penguin-like lowercase “a” that Fernando Mello had been sketching. From “a” grew the rest of the alphabet – a bubbly, fat, friendly family with a brush-written quality that became FS Pimlico Black. The black weight certainly isn’t the normal starting point for creating a regular and bold weight, but Fernando pressed on, driven by a glut of influences: brush-writing; Letraset and early digital systems catalogues; the type of Herb Lubalin and Tony di Spigna; 70s clothes and vinyl; and 70s revival disco nights in London’s Pimlico and Vauxhall. Natural or flourished Not often do fonts come along that seem to span the ages. FS Pimlico is at home in an office environment providing a fresh clear identity in communications or providing text that’s clear and easy to read. But it likes to party, too, 70s style. With the OpenType features switched on, a designer can totally change the look of their work, and create point-of-sale, headlines and titles that stand out and get noticed.