I was working at Bozell Worldwide, an advertising agency, on their yearly promotional pitch. An art director was looking for a condensed informal headline treatment to be used on one of the new ad campaigns. I took several different font designs and started to condense and scale the proportions in the hopes of finding several good solutions. They finally settled on a version of Times Roman, scaled horizontally to about 50 percent proportions. I liked the look so much that I later went back to the drawing board and refined the concept by adding slanted serifs and a varying alignment on all the letter forms giving the typeface a very casual and informal appearance. At about that time, I was reading a book by Jack Kerouac, and was so inspired by his writings on the ‘beat generation’ that I decided to name the font ‘Beatnik’. Afterwards, I added a set of true small capitals and old style figures. I'm currently working on additional weights and variations to expand this ‘hip’ new font series. Groovin' baby.

The award-winning Conrad was created by Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi. Its design was based on the fifteenth-century type by Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz, two German printers active in Rome at that time. They produced a unique, slightly unbalanced yet attractive type. Kobayashi says of his typeface, “I have designed a couple of typefaces inspired from the past, but this time the original print acted merely as a reference. The distinctive lowercase ‘a’ and some other letters were inspired by Sweynheym and Pannartz’s second roman type, but I revived the type in a more informal way. Here I used the historical type as a springboard. The resulting type looks different, taking on a rather temporary and lively look. I assume that the Conrad is the first revival of the Sweynheym and Pannartz type, though it does not closely resemble the original.” Conrad won first prize for the text typeface category in Linotype’s Third International Typeface Design Contest (2000) as well as the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club (2001).

Introducing Tooth & Nail; a rustic & hearty hand-painted dry brush font, designed to work in both all-caps as well as lowercase. It also includes a bonus vector pack, featuring 24 elements designed to boost your text and reaffirm it's hand-made style. With rough bold strokes and high quality textures throughout, Tooth & Nail is the perfect workhorse font for product packaging, promotional messages, handwritten quotes, home decor and branding projects. Tooth & Nail is reliable and familiar, like meeting someone for the first time and feeling like you've been reunited with an old friend. Tooth & Nail consists of 2 styles: 1. Tooth & Nail • A handwritten brush font containing upper & lowercase characters, numerals and a large range of punctuation. 2. Tooth & Nail Alt • This is a second version of Tooth & Nail, with a completely new set of lowercase characters. If you wanted to avoid letters looking the same each time to recreate a custom-made style, or try a different word shape, simply switch to this font for an additional layout option.

Go back to a time when the Mediterranean coastline was truly glamorous, when stylish women and men in wire-framed glasses listened to Domenico Modugno songs on the radio while sipping wine in sidewalk cafes. A relaxing summer’s day, a gentle sea breeze, taking the time to write a postcard to your loved ones in your best handwriting. The 1950’s may have come and gone, but the elegance and simplicity of that classic style has not, Mina keeps the feel of calligraphy, the long connections between letters is elastic, the clean, thin lines, it is a relaxed cursive ideal for logotypes, titles, and lettering. There are eleven Mina font styles and many loops to choose from to customize any letter. Bring the seaside glamour of a bygone era to your projects of today with Mina. Ranging from light to heavy, Mina Calligraphic, and Mina Shadow, this family of fonts work perfectly separately but you can also achieve beautiful results when combining them. Check out also Mina Chic We recommend to combine Mina with: PestoFresco Turquoise

The year 1914 marked the appearance of Washington Ludlow's first typograph machine. This remarkable invention permitted typesetters to quickly cast a full line of lead type in one operation using supplied brass matrices, a procedure which was for the time a major technological improvement over the usual hand-set foundry type methods. Casting type the Ludlow way necessitated the creation of an entire range of new Ludlow typefaces, a development which made Ludlow not only a major manufacturer of printing machinery, but also one of the world's leading sources of professional type design. Renowned typographers such as Douglas C. McMurtrie and Ernest F. Detterer created original faces at Ludlow's request. Robert Hunter Middleton was Ludlow's design director for over fifty years, and during his distinguished career produced an entire library of typefaces representing virtually every known typographic style. He is recognized as one of the most prolific type designers of all time. Today, new Ludlow computer fonts are in preparation, including optically-correct versions of many classic Ludlow typefaces, drawn directly from the originals in the Ludlow company library.

In 1066, William, duke of Normandy, was invading England. He was demanding the crown for himself, against King Harold the Saxon. He killed Harold and reached the crown at Hastings, the well-known battlefield. A few years later, in Bayeux (Normandy, French)was displayed a large tapestry (almost 70 m long) who was telling the story of the conquest. Along the tapestry was written a comment in Latin, using Roman capitals influenced a little by English or Scandinavian style (as it is visible in the Eth character). We have created the font, inspired from this design, adapted for contemporary users, making difference between U and V, I and J, which has not any relevance for ancient Latin scribes, and naturally with Thorn, Oslash, Lslash... and usual accented characters did not exist at the time. We also have reconstructed the K, German double s and Z, always using patterns of the time. We have scrupulously respected the poetic irregular and distressed original forms with two or three alternate for each characters, including reconstructed numerals.

Thank you for waiting. Finally, Bebas Neue has got lowercases! Bebas Neue is a world wide, the most popular font family with all caps released in 2010. Bebas Neue has been used from by big companies to by startup designers for many projects. In spite of the fact that Bebas Neue has only Uppercases, it became very popular font for these 10 years. At the same time, we received many requests for adding lowercases. To be honest, we had been developing whole new Bebas Neue with lowercases secretly for long time. Thinner Uppercase from thin to regular weights were redesigned for Pro. New lowercases were designed to match the Uppercases very carefully. You can access Tabular figures by using OpenType tnum features. Almost all European languages are supported by Pro. One more big thing is... Bebas Neue Pro has Italics! Please don't use sloped Bebas Neue. Pro has proper Italics! Bebas Neue “Pro” can extend your possibilities. Be the first to use this professional and premium Bebas Neue!

Escuela typeface is born in an attempt to reflect so many current influences of modern grotesque fonts that are trying to better reflect the values of today's world. Its compact proportions and high x-height, but at the same time with sort kind of modulation and open inktraps, propose a visual game that is worth enough to use it many places; Escuela can be striking and ideal for headlines in large text and heavy weights, but at the same time serious and readable in smaller bodies or regular and fine weights. Its wide range of characters, which includes a set of emoticons ideal for signage, work and evaluation documents, as well as inclusive, is ideal for educational centers, whether they are more playful (schools) or more pragmatic (universities). In fact, "Escuela" means “School” in English. For this reason, Escuela is your best ally when it comes to preparing texts that transcend students through a contemporary and different, but functional, character. Designed by Carlos Campos www.cuchiquetipo.com Dummy text from wikisource.org (1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Universities).

Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813) was called the King of Printers; he was a prolific type designer, a masterful engraver of punches and the most widely admired printer of his time. His books and typefaces were created during the 45 years he was the director of the fine press and publishing house of the Duke of Parma in Italy. He produced the best of what are known as "modern" style types, basing them on the finest writing of his time. Modern types represented the ultimate typographic development of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They have characteristics quite different from the types that preceded them; such as extreme vertical stress, fine hairlines contrasted by bold main strokes, and very subtle, almost non-existent bracketing of sharply defined hairline serifs. Bodoni saw this style as beautiful and harmonious-the natural result of writing done with a well-cut pen, and the look was fashionable and admired. Other punchcutters, such as the Didot family (1689-1853) in France, and J. E. Walbaum (1768-1839) in Germany made their own versions of the modern faces. Even though some nineteenth century critics turned up their noses and called such types shattering and chilly, today the Bodoni moderns are seen in much the same light as they were in his own time. When used with care, the Bodoni types are both romantic and elegant, with a presence that adds tasteful sparkle to headlines and advertising. The Bauer Bodoni was done by Heinrich Jost for Bauer Typefoundry in 1927. This version has finer details of the original Bodoni types. It works well for headlines, logos, advertising.

Originally inspired by the numerals on a vintage clock face, Roloi is a layered numbers font in the deco lettering style, and includes a full set of automatic clock symbols. Its geometric forms are typical of the deco style, but stop well-short of pure geometry. The irregular stroke and character widths work together to give the forms a warm and energetic, yet cohesive, feel. Roloi offers two layering styles—the personable Fill and the more dynamic Inline. Designed to be layered over the background Regular style, they both lend the forms an added level of interest. Roloi also includes a clock symbol for any and every time of day, rounded to the nearest five-minutes. The regular weight provides the circular clock background, while the Fill and Inline styles produce the clock hands. If ligatures are activated in your text-editing program, type out any time—such as 9:32, 12:05, etc.—and the proper clock symbol will be automatically substituted. Go ahead, type any time out below! To stop the automatic clock symbol substitution, simply deactivate ligatures. Because the clock symbols are standard ligatures, every major modern browser will support their use on the web. With some programing they could even be used to make a lightweight, text-only clock. In addition to the clock symbols and basic numerals, Roloi’s glyph range covers numeric superiors and inferiors, standard and arbitrary fractions, currency symbols, all of the punctuation and symbols commonly associated with currency, unicode clock Face symbols, the A M P / a m p letters, and alternates of the 1, 2, and 4, accessible by selecting Stylistic Set 1.

Haeock is very readable, an beautiful slab serif designed by Pedro Alexandre Teixeira. This font family works very well on packagings, branding and editorial design, tiles, books, magazines, corporate design.

Geometric Patterns JNL offers a large and varied assortment of interesting design variations in a 'tiled' (square) format that can be adapted to spot embellishments, running borders or repetitive patterns.

Jukotha is a casual retro from the san serif font family that carries a vintage theme, this font is designed with care so that it can produce a blend of letters and become a sweet and elegant word but still natural. by using this font, your work will become stronger and more extraordinary. This font is suitable for various graphic promotion media, banners, posters, logos, typography, hand lettering, packaging, t-shirts, labels, and much more.

Here comes a special Christmas font with a beautiful and unique shape equipped with various alternative characters and of course there are extra bonuses. This font makes it easy for you in various projects that you create. Can be applied to print and digital media such as invitations, clothes, crafts, packaging, and there is still so much to explore. For reference, see preview. Features: -Uppercase -Lowercase -Numeral -Punctuation -Multilingual -Ligature -Alternate -Extra Bonus

Tenby is a series of modular geometric display sans serif fonts with a hint of Art Deco combined with a 1980s finish. The fonts' underlying grid is ten squares high. Their widths correspond to condensed (Tenby Four), normal (Tenby Five) semi-extended (Tenby Six), extended (Tenby Seven), and extra-extended (Tenby Eight). Each contains two weights, light and regular. Although smaller text sizes are still quite legible, the fonts work better at large sizes.

A personal calligraphic series commissioned by Bitstream from Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. Although Carmina BT is a neutral design, optimized for use in digital publishing, Zapf von Hesse’s unique calligraphic spirit is still quite visible in the family’s letterforms. This is not surprising, as all of Zapf von Hesse’s typefaces are calligraphic in nature. Yet Carmina BT is suitable for almost any conceivable digital text application, from book design up through signage use.

Built in 1928 in Wichita, Kansas, the Uptown Theater started out as a movie house, but today still exists as a dinner theater. Online images of this vintage venue’s perpendicular wall sign show the theater’s name in an Art Nouveau influenced angular style with rounded terminals – similar to that of pen drawn sign lettering of the era. Adapted as a digital type font, Silent Film JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Histeagin – A New Serif Font with Fancy Curves, More Alternative Character, and Multilingual Support. Histeagin – this style works well for branding projects, logo, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, invitation, or whatever project you’re working on. WHAT’S INCLUDED? Uppercase & lowercase letters Numbers, punctuation Ligature & Huge Stylistic alternate Multilingual support. Still got a question? Send me a message and I’ll be happy to answer! qura.yahya@gmail.com

The convey typefont family merges essential features of classical serifs and sans-serifs and creates a character with a contemporary, open appearance. The elements of an antiqua typeface are formally reduced to a minimum, still supporting the eye in keeping lines and maintaining outstanding reading properties. The font was created as a cooperation project with media theorists and was designed and perfected through analyses, reading tests and the application of media psychological and sociological findings.

Looking for a big, bold, black typeface? Meet the fat solid curves of Blonk! This type is based on hand-drawn letterforms with basic curves and angles, so it still retains softness and has a handcrafted feel. Yet, its boldness suits poster design, packaging, and other uses that needs to draw attention, in an quirky yet distinctive way. All glyphs are handcrafted by illustrative designer Zeptonn. Prepare to make a Blonk statement!

Hi, introducing an Amber Taste Pro font. It's a vintage typeface with classic shape. Seven weights variations from thin to bold is available. Actually this font set is a remastered version of my best selling font Amber Taste with lots of improvements. Pro version has much more characters, including multilingual west european support. All the contours was cleaned up and several glyphs has a new more organic shape. Thank you and have a nice day!

Treasure Stones is a display typeface which is inspired by vintage lettering sign and art. While this font has a victorian touch, it still looks bold and solid. Very suitable for for headline, logotype, apparel, invitation, branding, packaging, advertising etc with old school / vintage theme. We hope you enjoy the font, please feel free to comment if you have any thoughts or feedback. Thanks for purchasing and have fun! Regards, Ironbird Creative

The New Elegance is a new editorial serif with all clean and soft lines, tight curves, and a trendy elegant look! The New Elegance has two versions of the font, namely serif & Sans Serif which are equipped with an italic version style, very suitable for your design needs such as very suitable for creating nostalgic designs but still clean and elegant such as headlines, magazines, logos, packaging, editorial, and much more. Thank you, Great Studio

Supra-compressed – designed by Gert Wiescher in 2013 – is the extreme version of this family. But despite it being very slim it is still – because of its openness – a very readable font. The light and normal weights and the dominant x-height with its high ascenders make for easy reading of long copy. The heavy and x-light weights are great for elegant headlines. Supra is a versatile OpenType family with lots of different weights.

Armetica is an ultra condensed sans serif typeface with a unique personality. It comes in normal and display versions, with 9 weights, as well as italics totaling 18 fonts. Armetica is a modern elegant typeface that would be perfect for branding, logos, headlines or captions. The font could also work as a stylish text overlay on any background image you like, minimalist and warm while still being versatile enough to use anywhere!

Maraka is a handwritten font family, drawn with a paint marker on rough paper, then scanned and turned into vector format. Maraka has a lot of alternative letters and is available in three versions: “Regular”, characterized by an unique look obtained by drawing the letters on a rough sheet, "Solid" and "Serif". Maraka is ideal for large headers, straplines and typographic compositions, but it still gives a great dynamic effect when writing wordy paragraphs.

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

Mitreba – is an elegant classic serif font with Fancy Curves, More Alternative Characters, and Multilingual Support. Mitreba – this style works well for branding projects, logo, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, invitation, or whatever project you’re working on. WHAT’S INCLUDED? Uppercase & lowercase letters Numbers, punctuation Ligature & Huge Stylistic alternate Multilingual support. Still got a question? Send me a message and I’ll be happy to answer! qura.yahya@gmail.com

Hand lettered Art Deco lettering for the title on the cover of the 1930s-era song "And I Still Do" provided the inspiration for Swing Era JNL. A bold, casual and friendly typeface, it features an intersecting inline through some of the characters. One could almost picture the hottest big band of the day promoted on a lobby card with this alphabet, beckoning all to come on in and "cut a rug".

The source for these hand-drawn initials was an early 20th Century French alphabet book whose pages were displayed online at an image sharing site. This style typifies the Art Nouveau period, and makes a wonderful paragraph starter or "drop cap" for your printed projects. Some users may still want to compose headlines with this font, but be aware there are no punctuation marks, accents or kerning - just the twenty-six initials.

The unusual name for this Deco style typeface comes from the playful and pun-laden 1960s Rocky & Bullwinkle TV show. It is the name of the newspaper in the mythical town of Frostbite Falls, MN, home of the two cartoon stars. The name, Picayune Intelligence, literally means “pretty dumb”, but we don’t think that describes Nick’s competent design at all. It is comforting to know that someone is still watching quality television.

Diplomat was designed in response to Portfolio’s very ornate script - a much more legible and formal script that has plenty of flare but without the elaborations. It is still more ornate than Duet so if you need to find a script right in between Portfolio and Duet, Diplomat will do the trick! Diplomat in combination with its elegant lowercase, creates a prestigious presentation useful for Certificates, Wedding Invitations, Corporate Identities, Brochures, and Headlines.

Introducing Night Crow . A display deathmetal font. This font is inspired by underground and metal music band logostyle. There are alternate directions of the thorns (right and left), alternate is in lowercase. I purposely made the spines a little so that the font can still be read. Night Crow is suitable for death metal music, underground, hardcore music, blackletter, death metal logo design, clothing, logos, music covers, posters or other designs with the theme deathmetal.

Ring Soft, soft as cashmere... Cute set of the Ring font family! It probably won't get any softer than this. Ring Soft is a cool, varied, and trendy-looking display font. No matter the topic, this font will be an incredible asset to your fonts’ library, as it has the potential to elevate any creation. Cuter than ever and much prettier. Ring Soft and other fonts of Ring family is still very cozy and comfortable.

Blastatic! is a highly versatile and unique sans-serif display typeface, but still desires an offbeat, modern style. Blastatic!, new from Remedy667, has the power to turn your designs into masterpieces. With ligatures, extended glyphs, and complimentary alternates, this typeface can do it all. Whether you’re designing for a Jazz Album, Godzilla Movie, or Hot Rod Magazine, Blastatic! will give you an irresistible style. Saul Bass fans take note, this stuff’ll give you vertigo.

Script characters should fit together neatly and the connections mustn't look awkward. While this can be accomplished by using dozens of alternate glyphs and OpenType feature coding, there is still something worthy and eloquent about doing it with the simplest character set possible. Tribeca Script is a casual, mono-weight script first drawn as the headline for a Taste of Tribeca poster and later finessed into a font with no pretense of looking hand-rendered.

Kingsad is inspired by the contemporary trends of visual design nowadays. Combining the modern and elegant vibes with the breakthrough of typography hierarchy, but still holding on to the function and voices of the sans-serif core. Contains 5 styles in a family from thin to bold to expand the versatility usage. Perfectly fit for your logo and modern visual branding touch. In short, Kingsad is an easy font to go with.

Chyntia Oesman was built with OpenType features and includes beginning and ending swashes, numbers, punctuation, alternates, ligatures and it also supports other languages. Chyntia Oesman is an organic handwritten font suitable for branding, signatures, wedding invitations, promotions, product packaging and other needs. This font is modern, simple, but still original. You'll get a full set of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers and punctuation, multilingual symbols, lowercase start and end swashes, extra ligatures and swashes.

Mrs Green is a great typeface for short texts, invitations, headlines, logotypes and advertising. We’ve started with a heavy capital G and A. At the beginning it was supposed to be just one fat style (still our favorite). But after a few months we’ve ended up with a family of 20 styles. It has contextual alternates, fractions, four types of figures (old style, lining, superior and inferior), ordinals and a case feature.