Allegiant is a beautiful handwritten font. this font is so simple that I write very carefully. Even though it looks simple, this font still looks cool and stylish. Handwritten script font. These Fonts are perfect for: logos, branding, wedding invitations, business cards, greeting cards, posters, magazines, social media, proliferate fonts, planner prints, and websites. Get creative with their unique fun, and use them to brighten up any craft project! Get this font now and boost your creativity with it! If you have any questions, before or after your purchase, don't hesitate to contact us. Thank You

Robot Frangky is a beautiful handwritten font. this font is so simple that i write very carefully. Even though it looks simple, this font still looks cool and stylish. Handwritten script font. These Fonts are perfect for: logos, branding, wedding invitations, business cards, greeting cards, posters, magazines, social media, proliferate fonts, planner prints and websites. Get creative with their unique fun, and use them to brighten up any craft project! Get this font now and boost your creativity with it! If you have any questions, before or after your purchase, don't hesitate to contact us. Thank You

Gold is all new for 2021, the complete family has been rebuilt using the multiple masters technique. In this new version we've removed any alternatives that could not be shared across all weights in the family and we've trimmed a few others that just were not practical in keeping a consistent look to the whole font. All the alternates now have matching accented glyphs across all weights. Case sensitive forms have also been added to all weights. With 14 weights the difference between weights are closer together which may give you the effect of a variable font where variable fonts are not supported. For technical reasons the original Gold family has now been split into two families with Gold having ten weights and the four heavier weights under the Gold Magnum family. The Gold and Gold Magnum font families support accented characters for western, central and eastern European countries. Gold comes with OpenType features to access the alternate glyphs however you will need an application such as Adobe Creative Suite to take advantage of alternate glyphs.

Sincere Valentine is a modern handwritten font made with sincerity and care to produce a font filled with love. Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Sincere Valentine, and make your day full of love with your loved ones! This font is PUA encoded, which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

Unconventional beauty FS Kim is bold and intriguing – exuberant and unmissable, but playing a supporting role when needed. This typeface shines brightest as a display font, and is perfect for applications across fashion, theatre, cultural projects and pretty much any brand that wants to make a statement. While FS Kim is dramatic, it’s incredibly versatile, too, and works to showcase content in a stylish, striking way. This font makes you look, and makes you curious – perfect for brands and publishers that relish unconventional beauty. A playful text version While FS Kim’s text version is more constrained than the display, the strength and playfulness remain. Modifications for the text version include larger x-heights, longer ascenders and descenders, wider proportions and spacing, longer and more defined serifs and a lower contrast. “The overall idea is that it’s not an optical size,” Radoeva explains. Text and display maintain a strong connection that mean they can be used together. A display with a twist The calligraphic starting point helped to create familiar forms, while a contemporary display feel is achieved through short wedge serifs, with bold touches added through the font’s exaggerated forms and details. FS Kim’s narrow proportions, short ascenders and descenders, and tighter spacing make the font suitably compact for display use. The overall aesthetic feels bold and sharp, but closer inspection reveals that all the corners are softened. Decorative inlines In an unusual twist, FS Kim’s display version was first drawn using a broad-nib pen to create familiar forms and elegance while still breaking from serif traditions and making it all about standout character. There are also two additional styles, based on the Regular and Black with inlines – in uppercase, figures and symbols. The inline brings an extra option for an even stronger, more decorative display use.

Unconventional beauty FS Kim is bold and intriguing – exuberant and unmissable, but playing a supporting role when needed. This typeface shines brightest as a display font, and is perfect for applications across fashion, theatre, cultural projects and pretty much any brand that wants to make a statement. While FS Kim is dramatic, it’s incredibly versatile, too, and works to showcase content in a stylish, striking way. This font makes you look, and makes you curious – perfect for brands and publishers that relish unconventional beauty. A playful text version While FS Kim’s text version is more constrained than the display, the strength and playfulness remain. Modifications for the text version include larger x-heights, longer ascenders and descenders, wider proportions and spacing, longer and more defined serifs and a lower contrast. “The overall idea is that it’s not an optical size,” Radoeva explains. Text and display maintain a strong connection that mean they can be used together. A display with a twist The calligraphic starting point helped to create familiar forms, while a contemporary display feel is achieved through short wedge serifs, with bold touches added through the font’s exaggerated forms and details. FS Kim’s narrow proportions, short ascenders and descenders, and tighter spacing make the font suitably compact for display use. The overall aesthetic feels bold and sharp, but closer inspection reveals that all the corners are softened. Decorative inlines In an unusual twist, FS Kim’s display version was first drawn using a broad-nib pen to create familiar forms and elegance while still breaking from serif traditions and making it all about standout character. There are also two additional styles, based on the Regular and Black with inlines – in uppercase, figures and symbols. The inline brings an extra option for an even stronger, more decorative display use.

Candrika is a classic label display typeface. Come up with solid and decorative style. This font inspired by the vintage package label and old signboards. The style of this font is strong, classic and dynamic. So that makes this font good for normal text sizes or large headline text sizes. Candrika is also great for any kind of display purpose from logos, label, tshirt, apparel, barbershops, tattoo, packaging, poster, signage, greeting card and logotype. This font is also support multi language.

Introducing, Daily Spark, handwritten font duo Daily Spark is a package of two fonts including Bold Sans and Script that will compliment each other. You can use this font for any occasions such as a branding, merchandise, etc. With handmade feels, this font is suitable for quote. For additional, this font also contains underline that you can access from ligature and type underscore + number (1-3) in the middle of the text, for example : Sp_2ark. This font also support multilingual.

Platinor this is a beautiful and elegant Display Serif font. You can use this font in the classical style, with it you can highlight exactly what you need. But Platinor can also be more expressive, playful and looking vintage due to the many alternatives and ligatures that are harmoniously combined in this font. Try changing alternatives, ligatures and you will get many options for your project, which will make it unique. This font is easy to use as it has OpenType features.

Shortly after the creation of Chauncy Deluxxe, Chank realized that he needed a condensed font to go with the regular version of his handwriting. The solution was Coffeedance, a fun, light, dancing, dandy handmade font. Makes me think of frozen treats as the lines wiggle a bit like they’re shivering. Brrrr. Coffeedance was Chank’s Font of the Month for November 1998.

Say hello to “Rosiana Script”. This font is bold, fun, and cheerful which visualizes slightly bouncy and elegant looks that are sure to bring your design projects to life. This font is designed with a fun, exciting, and dynamic shape, so it is perfect for use on headlines, storefronts, flyers, stickers, logotypes, storefronts, merchandise, quotes, and more! This font is the perfect choice for you. With so many unique options available, such as stylistic alternates, ligatures & multilingual support. This is the right style that will give your project a professional look and feel. Font featured : Uppercase Lowercase Numbers & symbols Stylistic alternates Stylistic set Ligatures Accented characters Thanks for supporting us!

Dofend San Serif is a luxurious font family with 18 different styles to choose from. This font is the best choice for your various design projects because of its unique personality and beauty. The entire set includes a display and sans-serif styles that are suitable for a wide range of applications, including logos and posters. Allow this font to create stunning graphic designs, banners, posters, and texts for you! 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.

Hello there! We are introducing my new font - Skypilot! This font is carefully selected from hundreds of letters. We manually created this font using a flat pen and make it as close as possible to street graffiti style. Not only that, we also make another typeface that is perfectly suited for this theme, Skypilot extruded! With those fonts, you can combine them as a pair to make them a layered style! You will make exquisite real street graffiti art just like on the wall that you saw in the city! Besides all this, the Skypilot Swashes and ornaments are designed to make your designs more fun! You can apply this font to t-shirt designs, posters, covers, video thumbnails, merchandise, wall, and so on to make it look special. ——— Skypilot features: A full set of uppercase and lowercase Numbers and punctuation Multilingual language support PUA Encoded Characters OpenType Features Layered Style +379 Total Glyphs +100 Graffiti Swashes and Ornaments included! ——— ⚠️To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions. There are additional ways to access alternates/swashes, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program such as Pop Char (for Windows and Mac). ⚠️For more information about accessing alternative, you can see this link: http://adobe.ly/1m1fn4Y

Betterman is a realistic signature font, that is perfect for you to create a realistic signature logo, so easy to use and you can combine it with the swashes and 20 ligatures to make your signature more natural. Betterman font is also perfect for different projects such as invitations, quote text, stationery, wedding invitation designs, social media posts, advertisements, website & landing pages, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, and more like special events. How to use this font: Just open your Opentype features ( Minimum Compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS 6 and Adobe Illustrator CS 6 ) in Adobe Photoshop go to Window - Glyphs and all the alternates will appear while using the script font to use the ligatures and swashes. As you type, your text will look like a natural signature or handwriting. What are you waiting for? Download now Betterman font and make your own Signature logo!

"Hi there, thank you for passing by. Colllab Studio is here. We crafted best collection of typefaces in a variety of styles to keep you covered for any project that comes your way! If you're looking for a hand-drawn font to help craft a unique statement piece, you've probably been spending hours looking for the perfect brush font. The problem with most brush fonts is that they're not actually made from real brushes - they look like they've been artificially drawn by a machine. There's now a high-quality alternative available. We are proud to introduce our new, very high resolution Chicago Brush font - the result of our meticulous process of digitizing hand-drawn typefaces and then optimizing them through our exclusive, innovative technology. That’s why we created Chicago Brush, a font made from a real brush. Use it to create logos, names and signage. It will look hand lettered, like you really worked on those letters manually. A Million Thanks Colllab Studio www.colllabstudio.com

The original Swift (1985) proved its worth in corporate identities, magazines and newspapers and occasionally in books. It is a versatile type and can be used in a wide range of circumstances. It is a striking type, with large serifs, large counters and letters that produce a particularly strong horizontal impression. This means that words and lines in Neue Swift are easily distinguished, even where there are large spaces between words, as can occur in newsprint. Neue Swift's large, robust counters were designed to improve legibility particularly in newspapers. It was designed in the early eighties, when papers were less well printed than they are today, and its special features help it survive on grey, rough paper printed on fast rotary presses. Today it is used more often outside newspapers than in them. Neue Swift (2009) is the newest version of the Swift concept. It has been improved by technical and aesthetic enhancements, and has been expanded into a family of twelve variants. Featured in: Best Fonts for Logos, Best Fonts for Websites, Best Fonts for PowerPoints

ATF Poster Gothic is an expansion of a typeface designed in 1934 by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders. The one-weight design was a slightly condensed display companion to Benton’s ubiquitous Bank Gothic family. This new family of aggressively rectilinear headline types expands the design’s possibilities, offering 30 fonts. The all-cap design sports square corners in the counters, creating tension between angular and curved details; this feature, and the generally rectangular shape of the whole alphabet, makes ATF Poster Gothic distinctive on the page or screen, while its relationship to Bank Gothic makes it seem somehow familiar. Vertical strokes on the C, G, J, and S, as well as on several of the numerals, are cut off at an angle, which suggest the curves those strokes might typically display if the characters were less boxy in design and more along the lines of late-19th-century headline faces. Certain weights also recall the style of lettering used on athletic team jerseys, television crime dramas, action & adventure movie titles, and engraved stationery. With three widths and five weights, ATF Poster Gothic is distinctive and versatile at the same time. The full family is also available in a “Round” version, with corners subtly rounded for a softer, more “printed” feel.

Introducing Swath Trees, our newest font, a beautiful and appealing graffiti font with a modern and phenomenal style, designed with attention to each letter so that when used, it can create a blend of words that contain charming and striking artwork. Don’t hesitate to use this font for various project needs. This graffiti font is great for product logos, poster titles, headlines, packaging, film titles, logotypes, gorgeous writing, and trendy graffiti designs, among other things. Of course, if you utilize this font in your numerous creative projects, they will be perfect and outstanding. Use this typeface right away for your one-of-a-kind and remarkable projects.

Tahillia is a beautiful handwritten font. this font is so simple that i write very carefully. Even though it looks simple, this font still looks cool and stylish. Handwritten script font. Available to you in TTF/OTF/WOFF format. This Fonts are perfect for: logos, branding, wedding invitations, business cards, greeting cards, posters, magazines, social media, proliferate fonts, planner prints and websites. Get creative with their unique fun, and use them to brighten up any craft project! Get this font now and boost your creativity with it! If you have any questions, before or after your purchase, don't hesitate to contact us. Thank You

I felt an urge to create a font that used the bars seen in an equalizer; Sound Board is that font. If you're going to use it, you will need to put the size up much more then a normal font, this font is very skinny and tall.

Diamond Lady is so gorgeous, she’ll steal your heart with her hand-lettering and handwritten font shapes, The idea of this font was to create as realistic as the possible texture of hand lettering and keep the style of Signature. Diamond Lady is a handwriting font with delicate curves and a unique blend of thick and thin lines. This font offers all the sophistication and beauty you could ask for in one package. It will help you to create an authentic modern signature or a stylish handwritten effect for your logotype and headlines. The font contains 94 ligatures, so it would be perfect for logos and branding with handwriting/sig logos look. She’s got all the real hand-lettered shine, loveliness, and romance attached to the art of hand lettering. Don’t hesitate, just get it! Diamond Lady features: A full set of upper & lowercase characters Numbers & punctuation 94 Gorgeous ligatures Multilingual symbols PUA Encoded Characters – Fully accessible without additional design software. Feel free to give me a message if you have a problem or question. Thank you so much for taking the time to look at one of our products.

Ozana Pro is a bracketed serif font family adapted to the professional requirements of graphic designers, web designers and mobile app developers. Comprised of 24 styles including 12 styles designed especially for headlines and 12 styles for text and long paragraph design, Ozana Pro is a very versatile family of fonts that can be used in many projects such as editorial design, branding or corporate identity creation, design of posters or logos, the creation of websites or the development of mobile applications. This serif font family, with a resolutely modern aspect, also hides a unique typographic design since it has 2 distinct styles (Roman and Display) which have 2 different optical sizes in order to graphically differentiate the appearance of titles, subtitles and long paragraphs. With this design of glyphs differentiated by the optical size according to the styles, the titles have a very graphic aspect while the long texts have a more classic design in order to keep an optimal readability in all cases. Ozana Pro is also equipped with powerful OpenType features such as case sensitivity, true small caps, ligatures, tabular figures, old styles figures, numbers circled. Ozana Pro is also available as a variable font family.

Every character in this font is meticulously crafted from eerie, yet beautifully haunting music notes. Here are some ways you can use this font to your benefit: Party Invitations: Create spine-chilling invitations for your Halloween party that resonates with the theme, setting the mood for a night of hauntingly good fun. Posters and Flyers: Craft attention-grabbing posters and flyers for haunted houses, Halloween events, or horror movie screenings that evoke the perfect blend of fear and fascination. Merchandise: Design eerie merchandise like t-shirts, mugs, or stickers that cater to Halloween enthusiasts and music lovers alike. Digital Media: Elevate your digital content, including social media graphics, banners, and web elements, to capture the essence of Halloween in a truly unique way. (This font only includes the 26 characters based on the English alphabet)

Introducing a distorted wavy Sans Serif font family. Interesting combination of elongation and distortion is embodied in the Dewave typeface. This font family is best suited for headlines and short text as an eye-catching accent. Due to its appearance, the font is well suited for the entertainment industry and everything connected with it both in offline life and in online projects. Dewave family has two types of tilt in different directions and 2 types of distortion - calm and strong, and all this is done in 3 types of thickness - this gives a lot of freedom of choice for the use of the font in the design. Features: Distorted letters in waveform 12 fonts in family: - 2 types of tilt - 3 thicknesses - 2 types of distortion Kerning ld.luxfont@gmail.com

Sharpe Variable is a stylish serif typeface family. The original type was drawn between 2018 and 2019, and the variable font and its updated styles was created in 2020. It is clear, sharp and has brave, lively letter forms but with a conservative backbone. This font is provided as a Variable Font. It is only one font file, but this file contains multiple styles. Use the sliders in Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign to manually set any weight and width. This gives you not only the 15 predefined styles, but instead more than half a million steps to customize the type to the exact look your project requires. Each style contains ligatures and support for a wide range of languages. More info about Variable Fonts: https://mansgreback.com/s/About_Variable_Fonts.pdf

The Wild West meets Russia and India in this heavy duty display face. Although it's uppercase only, most of the characters vary between the uppercase and lowercase alphabets, so it's easy to give your text a hand-made feel by mixing up your cases. OpenType savvy applications can really exploit the extra features of this font. Engage contextual alternates, and G, C, L and alternate form of E will change when placed before a letter with a crossbar to create some cool effects (see the CK and LE combinations in the poster). There are standard ligatures for ff and FF combinations, and discretionary ligatures for 'and', 'the', 'No', 'Mc' and 'Co'. Engage stylistic alternates for a reversed 3 version of E, and the obligatory backwards R for that faux-Russian effect. Also included in the font is a host of ornaments. This font is perfect for wanted posters, heavy metal band logos, Communist propaganda leaflets and no doubt a load of other things too.

Floro is a typographic family with 3 members designed by Carlos Fabian Camargo. Its idea combines medieval ideas, grotesque, stencil and grunge for T-shirts, stickers, advertising material design. More specifically the concept of Floro join several DNAís coordinating X height, ascendant, descendant and wide, in which proportions and adaptive optics were determined to inject great visual impact when composing titles. Its forms and counter forms have imperfections controlled with vitality and consistency. Floro is useful for ranking words and phrases with corroded edges and creases between the lines of his letters. In that vein, Floro refers to improvised design, deletion and copying. For that reason, its determinants seem stencil patterns that attract the attention of the reader. Its inaccurate decisions were planned that way, in which the type of contrast seems made with a flat tip and the amount of contrast between thick and thin is medium. Its sizes, regular and italic shine by their systematic wear and terminations sometimes in pointed forms resembling medieval darkness. In short, we can say that Floro comes from the miscegenation of Gothic calligraphy texture, foundational calligraphy and some refinements of gothic writings with italic sans-serif ideas of late 19th century. Even with the blur appearance, floro has ideal proportions to pile for horizontal and vertical areas when composing titles with striking looks and robust. And finally, floro dingbats are related shields and stamps, to accompany the written resulting useful at the level of visual support and hierarchical.

Giambattista Bodoni created this modern typeface in 1790 which served as the structural model for Sol Hess’s faithful rendition. Hess made necessary adjustments for mechanical typesetting on Lanston’s Monotype composition system. Remastered in 2006 by Paul Hunt.

Introducing the Gadeg sanserif font. special font with a unique and special shape adopts a modern minimalist style with a simple and elegant impression. We designed this san serif family font by paying attention to the combination of each letter to create a beautiful impression and appearance, making it easier to answer your needs, 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, by using this font your various design projects will be perfect and amazing, because this font comes with a family of fonts, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your amazing projects.

Monogamma is an experimental typeface which explores opportunities for harmonious connection of broad nib writing and the aesthetics of monospaced typefaces. The typeface is primarily designed for headings and typesetting in large sizes. It is not intended for technical usage, therefore its metrics and characters proportions are optimized and the spacing between letters is optically evened out. Thereby, Monogamma has even letter spacing, contrasting styles and is free from the imperfections of monospaced fonts. It is supplied with kerning and OpenType features and comes in three weights, with full character set or capitals only. Supporting Latin and Cyrillic, it covers most European languages. The full character set includes an alternative capital U and zero, punctuation marks for the upper case and a set of arrows.

We, GalaStudio (Lilia & Galina) represent the SlimOne BESTIARY font from our MELTING FONTS collection. It is a decorative style version of the SlimOne font family, which we designed by playing with glyphs: we converted them into funny animals and thus created a "zoo". One can use the BESTIARY font for children's books and notebooks as well as for all kinds of funky advertising, social media, greeting cards and comics. INCLUDED: GS_SlimOne_Bestiary.otf GS_SlimOne_Bestiary.ttf Numbers, additional glyphs & basic punctuation are included. PERFECT FOR: using in books titles, textbooks, notebooks, different brochures and advertising, especially for kids, home-ware design, packaging design; magazines, posters and flyers titles; logos design, books design, fashion design, slogans etc. :) Multilingual support included for the languages based on Latin alphabet.

Eroika Slab is a robust, display serif, intended to be set large. While for most serifs, display means high contrast, Eroika's "displayness" stems from its wide stance, tight spacing, equal cap and ascender heights, flared stems and large x-height. The italics in particular are quite unorthodox, with their vertical serif cut-offs and foot serifs where most fear to tread ('scuse the pun). All fonts feature a useful array of stylistic sets, oldstyle figures, automatic fractions and case sensitive forms. All ligatures are in the discretionary section, as it's my belief that this typeface looks better without them, but I like to offer the choice. Perfect for book covers, craft beer logos, boxing paraphernalia and tattoo magazine pull quotes. And probably a whole lot more besides!

Desirable Brush Texture is a brush version of desirable solid released in 2019. With a classic style and an elegant touch, inspired by Italian women's handwriting and ancient manuscripts. These two fonts are carefully designed to work together in harmony making them perfect for wedding media, book covers, greeting cards, logos, branding, business cards and certificates, even for any design work that requires classic, formal or extravagant. Try Desirable Brush Texture, enjoy the richness of the features and let her fun and elegant excitement make you happy and enhance your creativity! You can use this font very easily. Multilingual Support And Special Ligatures If you are interested in the solid version, visit the link - https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/alcode/desirable-calligraphy/

Introducing BOTAKY Romellast fontduo Unique and fantastic duo fonts combined or they stand alone. BOTAKY font family which consists of 10 families, from Thin to Black style. The funky, swaying font creates a unique design and is sure to take the eye off the design target audience. Apart from being unique, the BOTAKY font also has a luxury simple character that makes the design charming. The Romellast font is a signature script that has cool strokes. The line shape from Romellast is inspired by the brushes on Instagram when creating stories. This brush is very cool and is often used by netizens who are not designers or designers. In addition, Romellast has an altenate ligature that looks natural and not stiff. There are 2 styles of the Romellast font, namely the Thin style which is thinner and the regular style which is thicker, so you have several options to suit your taste. Combining the two BOTAKY and Romellast fonts will create a design that is charming, unique, elegant and cool. you can see from the design preview. These two fonts are perfect for designs with the concept of elegant, luxury, romance, fashion and so on.

The main 20-th century handwritten display font in the USSR, usually performed with a flat brush or a wide poster pen for all kinds of signage during 1920-1990s. It had also many analogues in other countries, but never was that popular as in the Soviet Union, used everywhere. The softened modern humanistic version.

In the early days of PostScript fonts, I designed a font of leaves called XLeafMeAlone. In 2006 I decided to revisit this topic and the result was two sets of new leaf fonts: MapleOaks and MoreLeaves. MapleOaks contains almost 100 images of maple, oak, and sycamore leaves, and MoreLeaves has almost 100 images of leaves of various other species. There are four MapleOak fonts. They have identical images; only the orientation of the images is different. In MapleOaksUR the tips of the leaves point to the upper right, in MapleOaksDR the tips point down to the right, etc.

A font drawn in a rounded rectangle looks modern – if we do not mind that it was in vogue mainly in the 80s of the last century and was created in the fifties, when various Italian designers noticed that the outline of a glass TV screen is actually the letter “o“. Since then, this progressive idea has undergone many improvements, which can be summarized in the notion of “popular-scientific typographic revival”. The present incarnation called “Superscience” has the advantage of having extreme variations and nicely simplified letters, as well as the usual repertoire of OTF functions and playful variations.

SK Fushimi is an accidental experimental font inspired by modern Japanese culture and aesthetics. Its futuristic geometric shapes, on the one hand, follow the spirit of the time of the land of the rising sun, and on the other hand, they make homage to technology. Like Japanese culture, the SK Fushimi font plastic fits perfectly into many areas of graphic design, supporting and complementing any graphic solutions. In addition, this font supports a multilingual set of more than fifty characters, including Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. Unusual in all respects, the font is perfect for the same unusual design or will make it so!

Here is another design by jewelry designer Max Joseph Gradl. Zier is a verb, meaning to decorate, adorn or ornament; zierlich means decorative, elegant, fine, neat. Schrift means type. Zierschrift, therefore, means decorative type. Gradl Zierschriften is a decorative type in the Art Nouveau style, rather than the more ornate Victorian style. Very modern, very young, with an elegant simplicity of form. Maria Makela, in her book The Munich Secession (Princeton 1990) suggests that the frequent use of simple, flowing, organic forms that was so characteristic of Art Nouveau was a reaction against the growing complexity and rapid urbanization that resulted from 19th century industrialization. In keeping with that reaction is the hand-drawn quality that intentionally rejects a mechanistic mathematic precision of line rendering. Gradl Zierschriften preserves that hand-drawn quality. Designed with upper case only, this face was obviously intended for short headlines only and is best set at 18 points or larger. However, I don't think you really get to experience the grace of this design until you get to 36 points or more. In the larger sizes, it is simply stunning. Please note that while most of the uppercase letterforms are repeated in the lower case for convenience, the ‘F’,‘L’ and ‘T’ are rendered a little narrower than in the uppercase to provide for visual variety. The font also includes a generous supply of ligatures for just the right fit ... and just for the fun of using them. Three common ways of inserting a ligature, accented letter or other special character are: 1) Key in “ALT”+“0”+[ascii #]; for example ALT+0233 for the e-acute, 2) From within your application program, go to the INSERT menu and look for something like “Insert Symbol,” (this function is NOT available in all application programs) & 3) Cut & Paste from the CHARACTER MAP display that has been supplied by every generation of Windows Operating System that I can recall (All Programs>Accessories>System Tools). Isn't it amazing what you can do? Don't be afraid to experiment. If you back up your work, you have very little to lose and a lot to gain. Not only do you acquire a new tool, but by the very process you have learned how to continually expand your knowledge and skill base.

P22 Cigno is a new digitization of the 1950s Italian typeface by Aldo Novarese for the Nebiolo foundry. This semi-formal script has a definite mid-century European flavor suitable for menus, invitations and poster work. Along with the accurate rendition of the regular weight, designer Colin Kahn has added a lighter companion font for another variation on Cigno. Both fonts feature a full Western European character set.