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  1. Parisian Style by Sensatype Studio, $15.00
    Parisian is Modern Elegant Luxury Serif Font is a well-balanced contemporary font with a fancy, unique, and versatile Luxury serif, font that you can combine to get any variations and unique shapes easily just in seconds with choose alternates of them. It is a serif display font with moderate contrast that perfect for branding projects, logo, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, invitation, stationery, and any projects, it makes with a high level of legibility. What's Included: Character set A-Z Numerals & Punctuation Accented Characters (West Europe) Works on PC & Mac Recommended using Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. Wish you enjoy our font. :)
  2. Delissa Beauty by HIRO.std, $16.00
    Delissa Beauty is a semi casual script font. This font describes about elegant, classy, dynamic, stylish, catchy, feminist, elegant, humanist, easy to use and will bring a good harmony when the letters are connected and paired each other. FEATURES - Support Opentype Features - Support Ligatures - Uppercase - Lowercase - Numbering and Punctuations - PUA Encoded Characters - Fully accessible without additional design software - Multilingual Support - Works on PC or Mac USE Delissa Beauty works great in any branding, logotype, signature logo, magazines, invitation, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, invitation, stationery, quotes and any projects that need handwriting taste. Enjoy using! Thanks. HIRO.std
  3. Elfira by Allouse Studio, $14.00
    Proudly Presenting, Elfira a Handwritten Monoline Script Font which come with two styles Regular and Bold. Elfira has many Stylistic Alternates, multiple Swash, Ligatures and also Multi-Lingual Support which will give you much choices for your needs. 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. Elfira is perfect for any tittle, logo, product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!
  4. Cithally by Gatype, $10.00
    introducing a new font Cithally Handwritten Font is a handwritten font with a distinctive and sharp brush texture. Cithally was handwritten on paper with a coarse type brush, resulting in a consistent texture. You can customize Cithally to create a unique style when multiple characters of the same letter meet, because Cithally has alternative lowercase letters in different styles. The Cithally handwritten font can also be used for projects such as stationery invitations, social media, logos, weddings, branding, graphic designs with the addition of some binding and strokes. and can be combined with various types of serif fonts to perfect the project you want to work on.
  5. Cowboy Strong by Solidtype, $12.00
    Cowboy Strong is a gorgeous and simple handwritten script font; contemporary and fashionable, Cowboy Strong looks great for a large range of project types. This elegant font is legible and looks great as a headline or in body text. This font will perfect for many different project for blogging, social media, branding, wedding invites, cards etc. Cowboy Strong font including over 70 ligatures, uppercase and lowercase alternates. you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw X6/X7. and you can also access the alternate glyph via Font Book (Mac user) or Windows Character Map (Windows user).
  6. Black Ruby by NJ Studio, $19.00
    Hi...Thank for your visit :) Black Ruby a handwritten brush font. It features ligatures characters that will take your projects to the next level! This font is PUA code which means you can easily access all the glyphs that are full of brush! It also features many special features including glyphs. font designs that are made for various vector designs, printing such as digital wedding blogs, online shops, social media, while printing can be used in the field of product clothing, accessories, bags, pins, logos, business cards, watermarks and many others ... so it can make your product look brush and attractive, and also Multilingual support!!! Happy design ...
  7. Lajoya by Keristyper Studio, $12.00
    Lajoya is a unique and natural handwritten script. The appearance of the strokes is in the form of light, free-flowing brush strokes. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with sans or serif. Featured: Standard Uppercase & Lowercase Numeral & Punctuation Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ Alternate & Ligature PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  8. Almirab by Keristyper Studio, $14.00
    Almirab Script is a classic Script font inspired by Arabic classic handwriting that uses a flat pen (or signature pen) and is written in the low height of letterforms. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with sans or serif. Featured: Standard Uppercase & Lowercase Numeral & Punctuation Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ Alternate & Ligature PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  9. Master of Magic by NJ Studio, $19.00
    Hi...Thank for your visit :) Master of Magic a magical script font. It features ligatures characters that will take your projects to the next level! This font is PUA code which means you can easily access all the glyphs that are full of magic! It also features many special features including glyphs. font designs that are made for various vector designs, printing such as digital wedding blogs, online shops, social media, while printing can be used in the field of product clothing, accessories, bags, pins, logos, business cards, watermarks and many others ... so it can make your product look beautyful and attractive, and also Multilingual support!!! Happy design ...
  10. Brush Effect by NJ Studio, $19.00
    Hi...Thank for your visit :) Brush effect a handwritten brush font. It features ligatures characters that will take your projects to the next level! This font is PUA code which means you can easily access all the glyphs that are full of brush! It also features many special features including glyphs. font designs that are made for various vector designs, printing such as digital wedding blogs, online shops, social media, while printing can be used in the field of product clothing, accessories, bags, pins, logos, business cards, watermarks and many others ... so it can make your product look brush and attractive, and also Multilingual support!!! Happy design ...
  11. Steamy Miracles by Din Studio, $29.00
    Steamy Miracles is a handwritten script font which is a mixture of incredible drama and gracefulness to clearly express a modern design. Each letter’s details show some curvy, sharp strokes on the edges. Due to its great legibility, you may apply this font for either bigger- or smaller-sized texts. Features: Ligatures Stylistic Sets Swashes Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuations Sreamy Miracles fits best for various designs, such as posters, banners, logos, book covers, headings, printed products, merchandise, social media, and more. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Thank you for purchasing our font and happy designing.
  12. Willydope by Keristyper Studio, $14.00
    Introducing a new font from our Script Collection called Willydope. This hand-drawn typeface is made in a digital hand-drawn style with a classy scripted look. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with sans or serif. **Featured:** * Standard Uppercase & Lowercase * Numeral & Punctuation * Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ * Alternate & Ligature * PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  13. Omaha Beach by Scratch Design, $12.00
    Introducing Omaha Beach Font! It's a modern script font with a dry ink brush style. It's highly recommended for you who want to make some designs with natural brush handwriting with signature style. Omaha Beach Font will work for the company logo, signature logo, name card design, invitation design, wedding design, poster, packaging, book cover title, quote, social media post, etc. Just open your Opentype features ( Minimum Compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS 6 and Adobe Illustrator CS 6 ) while using the script font to use the ligatures, stylistic alternates, and swashes. As you type, your text will look like a natural signature or handwriting.
  14. TT Octas by TypeType, $29.00
    TT Octas is a narrowly proportioned font family built upon the principle of octagonal forms: all circles in this font family are actually octagons. Thanks to small serifs, TT Octas has a saturated and vintage character to it. Simple depiction of the letters and the serifs make the family easily readable even in the smallest sizes. Narrow proportions allow for positioning of large text arrays even in small text fields. This font family is well fitted for brand visual identity and product labeling as well as for all digital media, such as web interfaces and gameplays. It is also great for mobile apps’ interfaces.
  15. Bottega by Keristyper Studio, $14.00
    Bottega is a script bold classic font with a relaxed theme, featuring a lovely style. This font was created to look as close to a natural handwritten script as possible. It is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with sans or serif. Featured: Standard Uppercase & Lowercase Numeral & Punctuation Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ Alternate & Ligature PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  16. Back To Teacher Outline by NJ Studio, $19.00
    Hi...Thank for your visit :) Back to school (Outline & Inline) a simple handwritten font. It features fun characters that will take your projects to the next level! This font is PUA code which means you can easily access all the glyphs that are full of simple! It also features many special features including glyphs. font designs that are made for various vector designs, printing such as digital wedding blogs, online shops, social media, while printing can be used in the field of product clothing, accessories, bags, pins, logos, business cards, watermarks and many others ... so it can make your product look simple and attractive, and also Multilingual support!!! Happy design ...
  17. CCS Calma by Creative Corner Studio, $29.00
    Calma is a new bold display font that is perfect for projects that need a bold, playful, and energetic look with a retro 80s vibe. It features slightly expanded stroke endings combined with curvy letterforms, giving it a sense of movement and excitement. It also includes a large number of ligatures and special characters, giving users even more flexibility and creativity when using the font. Calma can be used for a variety of purposes, including headlines, titles, posters, packaging, and branding. It is also well-suited for use in digital applications, such as websites and social media. Calma is the font that will make your next project pop!
  18. Manadis Deadly by Allouse Studio, $16.00
    Proudly Present, Manadis Deadly a Quirky Font. Manadis Deadly come with many Stylistic-Alternates for Uppercase and Lowercase. This also come along with Multi-Lingual Support so thats all will give you more choices to play arround. 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. Manadis Deadly is perfect for any tittle, logo, product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, or just used to express words above the background. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!
  19. Regorden by Dumadi, $35.00
    Regorden – Playful Typeface is a casual font made wholeheartedly for designers to improve their designs and perfect their projects. Regorden – Playful Typeface is perfect for designs, logos, social media, brands, advertisements, product designs, handwritten quotes, product packaging, headers, posters, merchandise, and other designs. What’s Included: + Standard glyph + Web Fonts + Multilingual Accent + Works on PC & Mac, Simple installation Accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even works in Microsoft Word. PUA Coded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. Fonts include multilingual support + Images used: All photos/images/vectors used in the preview are not included, are meant for illustration purposes only. Thank You
  20. The Flash by NJ Studio, $19.00
    Hi...Thank for your visit :) the flash a signature font with beginning and ending swash. It features ligatures characters that will take your projects to the next level! This font is PUA code which means you can easily access all the glyphs that are full of swash! It also features many special features including glyphs. font designs that are made for various vector designs, printing such as digital wedding blogs, online shops, social media, while printing can be used in the field of product clothing, accessories, bags, pins, logos, business cards, watermarks and many others ... so it can make your product look swash and attractive, and also Multilingual support!!! Happy design ...
  21. Wildrace by Din Studio, $29.00
    Get ready to be bold and elegant at the same time. It’s time to see Wildrace, a display font created in capital letters with the racing theme. The font’s character is the thick letters formed similar to rectangles to give strong impressions. Therefore, it will be more noticeable and match the large-sized texts. Wildrace also provides interesting features to enjoy. Features: Multilingual Supports PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Use Wildrace for any design projects such as posters, banners, logos, book covers, headings, printed products, merchandise, social media, etc. Find out more ways to use this font by taking a look at the font preview. Purchase now. Happy designing.
  22. Rydhesti by Twinletter, $14.00
    Rydhesti is an enchanting and charming signature font, the beautiful and smooth curves of each letter make this font seem luxurious, clean and beautiful. not only that, this font is equipped with a flexible choice of letters to produce the right words according to your needs. Use it to add an authentic, heartfelt vibe to any design project. This font is perfect for business cards, photography studios, autographs, interior designs, model names, coffee late, travel, weddings, cosmetics, jewelry, social media posts, product packaging, watermarks, special events, or anything else. Start using this font to add an authentic and heartfelt vibe to any design project.
  23. Roseva by Keristyper Studio, $14.00
    Roseva was inspired by the France art decade between art nouveau to art deco which combines classic typography with awesome features to bring a classic touch to this decade. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, short text even long text letters, and good for your secondary text font with sans or serif. **Featured:** * Standard Uppercase & Lowercase * Numeral & Punctuation * Multilingual : ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡ * Alternate & Ligature * PUA encoded We recommend programs that support the OpenType feature and the Glyphs panel such as Adobe applications or Corel Draw. so you can use all the variations of the glyphs. Hope you enjoy our fonts!
  24. Hommy Land by Alandya TypeFoundry, $15.00
    Hommy Land is a beautiful and simple handwriting script font, contemporary and fashionable. Hommy Land looks elegant for a wide variety of designs. This elegant font can be read and looks good as a title or body text. This font will be perfect for many different designs for magazine headlines, social media, branding, wedding invitations, cards, etc. Hommy Land script fonts include ligatures, stylistic sets, capital letters and lowercase letters. You need a program that supports OpenType features like Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw X6 / X7 and you can also access alternates via Font Book (Mac users) or Windows Character Map (Windows users).
  25. Lovely Sonia by Attype Studio, $13.00
    Lovely Sonia is a layered script font with display extrude style perfect for 3D designs. Combine it with Lovely Sonia - ending swash & extrude style to make an effect on your letter! Lovely Sonia perfect for wedding promotion, branding, logo, invitation, stationery, social media post, product packaging, merchandise, blog design, game titles, cute style design, Book/Cover Title and more. What's Included : - Lovely Sonia Family Font - Layered Font - Multilingual Support - Made it into separated file to make it easier to use by beginner & separated file user can use the font with software which doesn't accept open type features. --- Hope you enjoy with our font! Attype Studio
  26. Dream Miracless by Zeenesia Studio, $12.00
    Introducing Dream Miracless Font Dream Miracless is a Monoline Lettering Font. Its came with three weight, Thin, Regular, and Bold. Dream Miracless is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. What’s Included : - Standard glyphs - Multilingual - Web Font - Works on PC & Mac Simple installations Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even work on Microsoft Word. PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. Fonts include multilingual support Image used : All photographs/pictures/vector used in the preview are not included, they are intended for illustration purpose only. Cheers! Thank You
  27. Willford Brush by ijemrockart, $10.00
    Wilford Brush is a handmade brush style font with stunning characters. Ideal for logos, name tags, handwritten quotes, product packaging, merchandising, social media & greeting cards. It contains a full set of lower & uppercase letters, a large range of punctuation, numerals, and multilingual support. The font also contains several alternatives for lowercase characters, accessible in the Adobe Illustrator Glyphs panel, or under Stylistic Alternates in the Adobe Photoshop OpenType menu. But if you don't have any opentype specific software, you can still use Wilford Brush as it is with its standard lowercase and uppercase letters. If you have any question, don't hesitate to contact me by email ijemrealmad54@gmail.com Thank you!
  28. Gefuh by Twinletter, $12.00
    Gefuh is our latest handwritten font that we designed with a natural theme, if you are having an outdoor project or something related to nature or whatever your special project is then this font will make your project look special because of the theme and the alignment looks appropriate and appropriate. This font is designed with a natural touch of handwriting which is refined to create a portion and composition that suits your needs. So this font is suitable for craft, children’s writing, adventure posters, food banner titles, wedding invitations, product packaging logos, quotes, social media page covers, furniture banner headlines, book covers, and much more.
  29. Angelin Heart by Yumna Type, $16.00
    Want to travel your audience to a world of gorgeous, elegant, versatile, yet modern? Looking for a font that makes your projects to spark happiness? Then, you go to the right way. Introducing Angelin Heart- A Calligraphy Font A modern and stylish handcrafted signature font that’ll make your audience swoon and enhance your projects. Suitable for social media posts and ads, printed quotes, t-shirt designs, packaging, or even as a modern text overlay to any background image. Angelin Heart includes Multilingual Options to make your branding globally acceptable. Features: Alternates Standard Ligatures Stylistic Sets Swashes Multilingual Support (67 languages) PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation
  30. Monten by Gatype, $14.00
    Monten is a script font whose letters are designed a bit bold, almost similar to the Sans Serif font. A great choice if you want to add a retro look to your designs. Perfect for titles, logos, or anything your creative brain can think of. This customizable font will look great on a variety of design ideas such as Christmas themes, valentines, posters, invitations, weddings, branding projects, social media posts, magazines, book covers and more! This will add a fun and friendly touch to any of your projects! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all the glyphs and sweeps easily.
  31. Glitzier by Nathatype, $29.00
    Get ready to transcend to a world of magic, laughter, and butterflies. Your branding will spark delight and engage everyone who sees it! Glitzier-A Calligraphy Font A beautifully handcrafted calligraphy font that’ll make your guests sing and elevate your projects! Every swash, stroke, and curve was created to entice happiness and elegance. The ideal font for social media banners; posts, and ads, printed quotes, t-shirt designs, packaging, or even as a modern text overlay to any background image. Our font always includes Multilingual Support to make your branding reach a global audience. Features: Swashes Ligatures Stylistic Set PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading from Natha Studio
  32. Whiles by Ditatype, $29.00
    Ready to get something epic? Whiles is a monoline signature font. The characters have inconsistent spacing and height that resembles to actual handwriting gives this font natural and elegant feel. It's easy to read and also work great for any sizes. Features: Ligatures Numerals and Punctuations PUA Encoded It can be used for many design projects, such as poster, logo, book cover, branding, heading, printed product, merchandise, quotes, social media campaign, etc. Get more inspiration about how to use it by seeing the font preview. Thank you for purchasing our fonts. Please don’t hesitate to contact us, if you have any further question or issues. We’re happy to help. Happy Designing.
  33. Bossthy by Twinletter, $14.00
    Bossthy is a signature font with a simple modern theme and has a unique curve in each letter, which is written in natural hand strokes making this font more natural, This font in addition to having a dazzling and elegant shape is also equipped with various alternative options that make it easier for you to create beautiful and extraordinary designs This font is perfect for business cards, photography studios, autographs, interior designs, model names, coffee late, travel, weddings, cosmetics, jewelry, social media posts, product packaging, watermarks, special events, or anything else. Start using this font to add an authentic and heartfelt vibe to any design project.
  34. Dase Signature by Dase, $25.00
    The handwriten script font inspired by Dase’s Signature streetart. Create Calligraffiti Art. This handstyle mixes the quick, confident and contemporary gestures of rebel graffiti tags (usually made with markers and sprays) with the legibility, organic texture and clean edges of modern handbrushed calligraphy. Casual and spontaneous. Elegant yet casual. Simple, clean and contemporary brushpen strokes with some classy hip-hop vibes. Your words become artworks. Just write to create beautiful designs and bold statements. Empower your creative content (Social media posts, quotes, videos, blog and magazine titles), product & branding (logos, patterns, packaging, fashion products, book covers), advertising (banners & posters), event invitations (weddings, releases…) and more.
  35. Vemina by Afkari Studio, $15.00
    Vemina Is Handwritten Monoline Script font which is make with natural movement, elegant for signature style and any other needed. Vemina Handwritten is suitable for any branding projects, logo, wedding designs, social media posts, product packaging, product designs, advertisements, label, photography, watermark, invitation, stationery and any projects that need handwriting taste looklike. Included : Web Font (Only WOFF format) Standard glyphs Begin and Ending Swash Ligature Works on PC & Mac Simple installations Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even work on Microsoft Word. PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. Multilingual support for; ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß ¿ ¡
  36. Jacky Brushes by NJ Studio, $19.00
    Hi...Thank for your visit :) Jacky Brushes all caps textured brush typeface. It features ligatures characters that will take your projects to the next level! This font is PUA code which means you can easily access all the glyphs that are full of brush! It also features many special features including glyphs. font designs that are made for various vector designs, printing such as digital wedding blogs, online shops, social media, while printing can be used in the field of product clothing, accessories, bags, pins, logos, business cards, watermarks and many others ... so it can make your product look brush and attractive, and also Multilingual support!!! Happy design ...
  37. Mero Thai by Deltatype, $59.00
    Mero inspired by the Roman Capital Proportions which we have seen in Trajan Inscription. With different widths; There are applied each letter to visual proportion. Mero inspired by this measurement method and would like to create the primary typeface in terms of simple form. This sans serif typeface designed to use for any media with a little notice from designer eyes. You won't notice much about style, but something will let you feel extraordinary and trust. Mero has supported over 30 languages and come with nine weights for a complete family. With the standard of CSS font-weight, Mero complete family will map beautifully for your digital layout.
  38. Moyenage by Storm Type Foundry, $55.00
    Blackletter typefaces follow certain fixed rules, both in respect to their forms and to the orthography. Possibly, they were a reaction to the half-developed Carolingian minuscule which was soon to end in the Latin script. Narrow, ordered script was to replace the round, hesitant and shattered shapes of letters in order to simplify writing, to unify the meaning of individual letters, and to save some parchment, too. Opposed to the practice common in monasterial scriptoriums where Uncial, Irish and Carolingian inspiration flew freely and as a result, the styles of writing differed in each monastery, the blackletter type was to define one, common standard. It was to express spiritual verticality, in perfect tune with the architecture of the Gothic era. Typography became an integral part of the overall style of the period. The pointed arch and the blackletter type were the vanguard of the spectacular transformation from the Middle Ages towards the modern era, they were a celebration of a time when works of art were not signed by their makers yet. Some unfortunate souls keep linking blackletter solely with Germany and the Third Reich, while the truth is that its direct predecessor, the Gothic minuscule, evolved mostly in France. Even Hitler himself indicated blackletter type obsolete in the age of steel, iron and concrete – thus making a significant contribution to the spreading of the Latin script in Germany. Once we leave our prejudice aside, we find that the shapes of blackletter type have exceptional potential, unheard of in sans-serif letterforms. The lower case letters fit into an imaginary rectangle which is easily extended both upwards and sideways. In its scope and in the name itself, the Moyenage type family project is to celebrate the diversity of the Middle Ages. I begun realizing the urge to design my own blackletter when visiting the beer gardens of Munich and while walking through the villages of rural Austria. The letters from the notice boards of inns are scented with spring air, with the flowers of cudweed, with white sausage and weissbier. The crooked calligraphic hooks and beaks seem to imitate the hearty yodeling of local drinkers and the rustle of the giant skirts of girls who distribute the giant wreaths of beer jugs. Moyenage is, however, a modern replica of blackletter, so it contains some otherwise unacceptable Latin script elements in upper case. I chose these keeping the modern reader in mind, striving for better legibility. The font is drawn as if written with a flat pen or brush, and with the ambition to, perhaps, serve as a calligraphic model. In medium width, the face is surprisingly well legible; it is perfect for menus as well as posters and CD covers for some of the heavier kinds of music. It has five types of numerals and also a set of Cyrillic script, symbolising the lovelorn union of Germans and Russians in the 20th century. Thus, it is well suited for the setting of bilingual texts of the German classic literature, which, according to the ancient rules, must not be set in Latin script.
  39. Maestro by Canada Type, $24.95
    Out of a lifelong inner struggle, Philip Bouwsma unleashes a masterpiece that reconciles classic calligraphy with type in a way never before attempted. Maestro takes its cue from the Italian chancery cursive of the early sixteenth century. By this time type ruled the publishing world, but official court documents were still presented in calligraphy, in a new formal style of the high Renaissance that was integrated with Roman letters and matched the refined order of type. The copybooks of Arrighi and others, printed from engraved wood blocks, spread the Italian cancellaresca across Europe, but the medium was too clumsy and the size too small to show what was really happening in the stroke. Arrighi and others also made metal fonts that pushed type in the direction of calligraphy, but again the medium did not support the superb artistry of these masters or sustain the vitality in their work. As the elegant sensitive moving stroke of the broad pen was reduced to a static outline, the human quality, the variety and the excitement of a living act were lost. Because the high level of skill could not be reproduced, the broad pen was largely replaced by the pointed tool. The modern italic handwriting revival is based on a simplified model and does not approach the level of this formal calligraphy with its relationship to the Roman forms. Maestro is the font that Arrighi and his colleagues would have made if they had had digital technology. Like the calligraphic system of the papal chancery on which it is modelled, it was not drawn as a single finished alphabet, but evolved from a confluence of script and Roman; the script is formalized by the Roman to stand proudly in a world of type. Maestro came together on screen over the course of several years, through many versions ranging widely in style, formality, width, slant, weight and other parameters. On one end of the spectrum, looking back to tradition it embodies the formal harmony of the Roman capitals and the minuscule which became the lower case. On the other it is a flowing script letter drawing on the spirit of later pointed pen and engravers scripts. As its original designers intended, it works with simple Roman capitals and serifs or swash capitals and baroque flourishes. The broad pen supplies weight and substance to the stroke which carries energy through tension in balanced s-curves. Above all it is meant to convey the life and motion of formal calligraphy as a worthy counterbalance to the stolid gravity of metal type. The Maestro family consists of forty fonts distributed over two weights. The OpenType version compresses the family considerably down to two fonts, regular and bold, each containing the entire character set of twenty fonts, for a total of more than 3350 characters per font. These include a wide variety of stylistic alternates, ligatures, beginning and ending letters, flourishes, borders, rules, and other extras. The Pro version also includes extended linguistic support for Latin-based scripts (Western, Central and Eastern European, Baltic, Turkish, Welsh/Celtic, Maltese) as well as Greek. For more thoughts on Maestro, its background and character sets, please read the PDF accompanying the family.
  40. Neue Aachen by ITC, $40.99
    Impressed by the quality of the Aachen typeface that was originally designed for Letraset in 1969 and extended to include Aachen Medium in 1977, Jim Wasco of Monotype Imaging has extended this robust display design to create an entire family. Derived from the serif-accented Egyptienne fonts dating to the early 20th century, Aachen has serifs that are very solid but considerably shorter than those of its precursor. The incorporated geometrical elements, such as right angles and straight lines, provide the slender letters of Aachen with a slightly technological, stencil-like quality. Despite this, the effect of Aachen is by no means static; its dynamism means that this typeface, originally designed for use in headlines, has come to be used with particular frequency in sport- and fitness-related contexts. Jim Wasco, for many years a type designer at Monotype Imaging, recognized the potential of Aachen and decided to extend the typeface to create an entire typeface family. He appropriated the existing Aachen Bold in unchanged form and first created the less heavy cuts, Thin and Regular. Wasco admits that he found designing the forms for Thin a particular challenge. It took him several attempts before he was able to achieve consistency within the glyphs for Thin and, at the same time, retain sufficient affinity with the original Aachen Bold. But he finally managed to adapt the short serifs and the condensed and slightly geometrical quality of the letters to the needs of Thin. The weights Light, Book, Medium and Semibold were generated by means of interpolation. Supplemented by Extralight and Extrabold, the new Neue Aachen can now boast a total of nine different weights. Wasco initially relied on his predilection for genuine cursives in his designs for the Italic cuts. But it became apparent with these first trial runs that the soft curves of cursives did not suit Aachen and led to the loss of too much of its original character. Wasco thus decided to compromise by using both inclined and cursive letters. Neue Aachen Italic is somewhat narrower than its upright counterparts; the lower case 'a' has a closed form while the 'f' has been given a descender, but the letters have otherwise not been given additional adornments. The range of glyphs available for Neue Aachen has been significantly extended, so that the typeface can now be used to set texts not only in Western but also Central European languages. Wasco has also added a double-counter lowercase 'g' while relying on the availability of alternative letters in the format sets for the enhancement of the legibility of Neue Aachen when used to set texts. The seven new weights and completely new Italic variants have enormously increased the potential applications of Aachen and the range of creative options for the designer. While the Bold weights have proved their worth as display fonts, the new Book and Regular cuts are ideal for setting text. And the subtlety of Ultra Light will provide your projects with a quite unique flair. The new possibilities and opportunities in terms of design and applications that Neue Aachen offers you are not restricted to print production; you can also create internet pages thanks to its availability as a web font.
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