Be it a blessing or a curse, when a type designer sees a shape that could be interpreted as a letter, his/her mind is off and running. My parents loved to travel; Dad drove to Florida seven different years, winding on (barely) two-lane “highways” clinging to the hills of Kentucky and Tennessee. My brothers and I saw many of these letters along the way. Watch those Curves .

Here's another mosaic marvel from the New York subway system, to complement Midtown Tessie. This style is based on signage at the 34th Street station, with connections to Brooklyn. A full tile background is available at the bar position, and a marvelous meander can be found at the German double-s spot. Both versions of the font include 1252 Latin, 1250 CE (with localization for Romanian and Moldovan).

This unusual display face is another in a series of works based on the work of lettering artist Samuel Welo. The sinewy curves and radiant inline decoration give this typeface a cozy, warm and inviting charm. Named after the informal radio addresses popularized by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s. Both versions of this font include the complete Latin 1252 and CE 1250 character sets, with localization for Romanian and Moldovan.

Jiwez Arabic style font is a premium Arabic style font that is a great way to bring a new level of luxury to your designs. The classic, yet modern style of this font is perfect for creating elegant titles and cover pages for your projects. With its classy, yet simple structure and easy-to-read fonts, you can use this font to create the perfect typeface for your projects.

Smart Cookie is a happy and handmade font, ideal for packaging, posters or books (especially children's books!) It's highly legible and comes int 3 versions: Regular, Shine and Layer. Mix the Regular and Shine layer (using different colours) to make a cool shiny effect, or use the Shine version where the colours rely on the fore- and background colours...also a nice way of making your text stand out!

A blackletter font I could not resist to revive: Ernst Schneidler’s Buchdeutsch, released by Schelter & Giesecke in 1926 which I renamed as Werbedeutsch. This font contains the letter ‚long s‘ which can be reached in two ways. Either you use the OpenType feature ‚historical forms‘, or you type the integral sign on your keyboard. To achieve all ligatures, it is recommended to activate both standard and discretionary ligatures.

Enjoy Font Kitchen’s all-natural Pastrami! This rounded geometric sans is served with a tall glass of ligatures, a heaping portion of all kinds of fractions, and your choice of stylistic alternates. Inspired by warm, whimsical typefaces of 70s American diners, Pastrami is perfect for adding a stylized charm to your next piece. Available in seven weights, Pastrami is sure to add a dash of flavor to your next project.

Rigot is a Modern display typeface which comes in regular & Bold weights with features of extended & Additional Latin character set of 552 glyphs covering many languages with full Arabic language support and includes advanced OTF such as standard and discretionary ligatures, and stylistic alternates and more. Rigot covers many OTF features that suitable for Headlines and gives you the potential to show your business, brand or logo in a unique way.

Tangram is the famous Chinese puzzle, perhaps one of the oldest games in the world. It consists of seven pieces called Tans obtained from a square cut up in a certain way. These seven Tans (5 different-sized triangles, a square and a parallelogram) have to be used to form the figures. The Tangram collection represents 1772 different shapes spread in 15 fonts. Each font exists in 2 styles: plain & inline.

Ephemera Shoemakers is a bold font with spurred serif & medium contrasted, vintage inspiration with letters in all caps. Traditionally this type of decorative font that emerged in Italy, France & England in the nineteenth century were used in large headlines and posters that were closely related to circus shows, carnival or environments of the Far West American. Perfect for signs, posters, handbills and other large format advertising. Ephemera Shoemakers Pdf Specimens

The Kymer Awon font family includes 5 weights and 20 styles. Whereas traditional Sans Serif typefaces show low contrast, this family has high contrast. And It brings out modern elegance through curved variations of glyphs with diagonal bars. Alternative fonts with Small Caps inherit the vertical stem width of the default capitals. These elegant and contemporary styles have an affinity to fit into any of your design work.

Organic Respect is my monospaced and organic slab serif font. Although the font is monospaced - which may not lead your mind to something organic - I did my best to make the letters appear vibrant and lively in an organic way. I've added 6 slightly different letters for you to choose from, and they automatically cycle as you type, or you can manually select them from the glyph menu.

We have adapted the version of our Darwin font for use in Microsoft Office. It only has 4 variants: regular, italic, bold and bold italic. Font weights have been named in a way that can be clearly shown up in the font list in Office programs for the sake of a good hierarchy (the bold variant is quite bold and does not look the same as the original font).

Papyrus is a roman calligraphic typeface with distinctive human touches like rough edges, irregular curves, and high horizontal strokes in the caps. It imparts a warm and friendly ambience to everything from restaurant menus to book covers. American Chris Costello created the popular font Papyrus in 1983 and counts it as one of his proudest accomplishments. In addition to designing type, Costello is a prolific graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer.

Horror Korpus is an artistic rebellion, a statement against the clean and the pristine, evoking the gritty scenes of a horror movie into your design. With flames burning in its strokes and a wild, untamed demeanor, this rough font wears a garment of distress, with eroded and destroyed textures that screams an extreme temperament. It stands defiant, bearing a resemblance to edgy tattoo designs that adorn the bravest of souls.

Handlettering on a 1934 WPA poster promoting skating in Central Park provided the pattern for the uppercase letters of this typeface, while the lowercase letters take their inspiration from Paul Renner’s Steile Futura. The result is a warm, friendly face that is both quaint and modern. Available in Roman and Italic versions. Both versions of the font include 1252 Latin, 1250 CE (with localization for Romanian and Moldovan).

Hello Aluyeaholics! Mother Bakery, a handwriting inspired by the warm and fussy nature of a mother baking cakes for her children and grandchildren. Coming with 100+ stunning and super easy to use alternates and ligatures. Super Easy to Use alternates - You can easily call alternates using special combination like a.2 k.3 b.4 th cc etc. To get results like the preview just type Mother.2 Bak.7ery.2

In his book of 100 Wood Type Alphabets, Rob Roy Kelly called this face "Teutonic". This version adds lowercase letters, missing in the original, plus a few woodcut dingbats in the brackets, bar, section and florin positions. Named for a charming town in the Texas Hill Country, founded by German settlers in the mid-1850s. Both versions of the font include 1252 Latin, 1250 CE (with localization for Romanian and Moldovan).

Introducing "Bentband" - a unique and playful typeface inspired by the way a pipe bends. This typeface features curved lines, bold and geometric shapes that tries to mimic a pipe. With its distinct style, Bentband is perfect for creating eye-catching headlines and titles that stand out. The font is available in both uppercase and lowercase letters, a range of symbols and numerals. Bentband is available in 66 languages.

Kobold is a font system consisting of a hand drawn serif and a connecting script. The all caps serif combines a handmade look and angled, modern looking letter forms. It also contains rough styles with a printed vintage look. Kobold Script is warm and friendly and has an expressive charm. Use Kobold for logotypes, magazine headlines, packaging, invitations, clothing, labels, greeting cards, posters, ads and the various web usages.

Vivala Unicase is a modern, rounded linear grotesque that is easy to read even in small font sizes. The composition of uppercase and lowercase letters results in a unique typeface. The new version contains five weights, including a boldface, which greatly expands the design possibilities. With an extensive set of characters and symbols, it is ideal for posters, t-shirt design, promotional products, car design, labeling, trademarks and headlines.

Containing over 100 ligatures, Epistula is a loosely written font, resembling my own natural way of writing. It has a nice flow and the pointy tail-ends give it a certain speed. Creating Epistula has been a long process, but returning to the drawing board a few times has – in my humble opinion – paid off. This font comes in two weights: regular and medium. Because sometimes one flavour just isn’t enough…

Fonseca is a modern sans serif inspired by art deco and typography poster in early 20th century. The key of this all-caps family is simple straight geometric forms and modernized letterforms. This display family is perfect for headlines, posters, logos, branding projects, magazines, and packaging. The modernized retro-look makes this family great to presents any contents related to travel, history & culture in the present/modern way.

Paget is a modern exploration of Tuscan design. Here you'll find simple geometric outlines with an 'Arts and Craft' charm about them. Paget is beautifully clear and easy to read, but offers a distinctive charm that conventional sans serif and serif faces don't. Paget is offered in regular and oblique forms and is an ideal way to merge tradition and all that is new and fresh in your designs.

Chinese Monoline is a Chinese style monoline font, with a modern twist. It has 2 styles: regular and slant. Chinese Monoline is perfect for branding and promotional material for Asian-themed designs The fonts works best as display typefaces or as beautiful headline fonts, but can also be used in other ways to create stunning designs. Features : - Chinese Monoline Family Font - Ligatures - Multilingual, US Roman, Latin 1 Support

Uplink is decorative upright lettering with heavy calligraphic influences and clear friendly forms. Alternate forms with artificial "tail" connections, swashing their way from one letter across the vertical stroke of the next, add an unusual yet distinctly human detail to the forms that shape the words. Uplink's reserved humor can be a little tolerant of mechanical abuses like shearing or stretching, which makes it ideal for food product packaging design.

Velocity Vipers Brush Font, a modern and stylish font style influenced by urban style and branded goods that can be used in a wide variety of ways by Lettercorner Studio Velocity Vipers font is ideal for branding, photo overlays, watermark, typography, greeting cards, posters, business card, branding projects, social media posts, magazines, book covers, invitations, weddings, photography, fashion, apparel, letter, stationery, or any tasks that need a signature taste.

Carefully refined shapes and sensitively balanced spacing and kerning create the gentle rythm that grants Captura its warm-hearted face, perfect in form and shape. www.typethis.studio This version covers all the essentials of Captura 265 Characters 8 Styles, including Italics Western European Language Support Numbers Symbols Punctuation If you need more features like small caps, special symbols, Cyrillic or Vietnamese language support, you may review the expert version of CapturaNow.

MM Cruella is a monolinear display typeface well suited for magazines headlines, posters, catalogs, branding and packaging. The round, large counters combined with the rounded terminals gives it a very fluid look and a warm character while the straight lines establishes a nice rhythm. It comes in 5 weighs and is loaded with discretionary ligatures and contextual alternates that will give your next project a very distinctive look.

darling is a display font, with medium contrast, designed to be used in the composition of titles, letterings, visual id's and short texts such as illustrated books or magazines for children. it has 738 characters and a lot of opentype features that allows the composition of titles and/or words in a very different ways. otherwise, when applied with no features, it produces a homogeneous amount of text.

I designed this font because it didn't exist - it’s based on hand rendered type created for black and white line marker scamps used in the advertising industry. I use it that way and it’s saved me a LOT of hand-rendering time over the years. Of course, Scamps works as an informal marker script in its own right too. I’ll be interested to see what you do with it.

Mestizo is a term traditionally used in Latin America and Spain for people of mixed heritage or descent. In some countries it has come to mean a mixture of European and Amerindian. The font Mestizo is based on a strict grid system – but combines it with ethnic symbolism. Six weights can be combined in various ways. Accius, Alerio & Amias display the basic geometric shapes, Balbo, Belus & Borba represent the playful icons.

Blauth—a versatile and contemporary sans serif typeface—comes in 8 weights, ranging from Thin to Black, with matching italics and contains a set of alternate characters. Its small x-height gives it an elegant feel that reminds us of classic typefaces. Blauth is well-suited to continuous text and its uppercase set is ideal for high-impact headlines while its softened corners give your designs a warm and contemporary look.

Someday, a long time from now, in a galaxy not so very far away, you'll find yourself Suddenly transported to the nether-realms of Elsewhere, bathed in the light of the mystic moons of Meanwhile... While you're waiting for that day, check out this font by John "JG" Roshell. It may not provide you with the same transcendental experience, but JG assures us that it really is the next best thing.

Cuanky is a super fun, retro-style sans serif font with subtle serifs. It possesses a recognizable flair and evokes a sense of warm nostalgia. Available in both regular and italic styles, Cuanky also features a playful hint of the future. Cuanky is perfect for headlines or food-related designs, such as pizza, burgers, and restaurant themes. Additionally, it's well-suited for creating eye-catching posters with a cool aesthetic.

Ahhh, who doesn't want to sleep late? That’s excactly what a “sovetryne” wants ... even though he/she often sleeps way to much! But that’s not the case with this font. It’s legible, even though it’s slightly worn. Change between upper- and lowercase letters to variate the typing - and turn on ligatures, in order to use the substitution of double letters such as aa, bb, cc and many more!

Neue Northwest is a vintage sans serif family, Inspired by Vintage Wild west culture and combining with modern vintage touch. An All-Caps Sans Serif pairing with a Clean, Rounded & textured version of each. Choose between varying texture strength for your desired effect. This font is great for logo print, Restaurant Menus & Signage, Pubs, Bars, Tattoo Shops, Barber Shops, Butcher Shops, Handmade Brands, BBQ, Anything vintage styles related, etc

You can’t reinvent the wheel When it comes to designing a sans serif, many designers stick closely to existing models. How boring! Others try to demonstrate self-reliance by special stylistic elements – at the cost of readability or aesthetics, or both. I did chose a different way: My Font should just look pretty and friendly, being the good buddy for all days. This is how the name is explained.

From the pages of the 1939 French lettering book “Modèles de lettres modernes par Georges Léculier” (“Models of Modern Lettering”) comes an attractive and unusual set of initial drop caps made from square letters adorned with multiple vertical lines. Originally designed as white letters on black backgrounds, an additional set with black letters on white backgrounds comprise Deco Drop Caps JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.

In 1948, Mergenthaler Linotype released the first weights of Trade Gothic, designed by Jackson Burke. Over the next 12 years Burke, who was the company’s Director of Typographic Development from 1948 through 1963, continued to expand the family. Trade Gothic Next is the 2008 revision of Jackson Burke’s design. Developed over a prolonged period of time, the original Trade Gothic showed many inconsistencies. Under the direction of Linotype’s Type Director Akira Kobayashi, American type designer Tom Grace, a graduate of the MA Typeface Design in Reading, redesigned, revised and expand the Trade Gothic family. Many details were improved, such as the terminals and stroke endings, symbols, and the spacing and kerning. Moreover, there are newly added compressed widths and heavy weights perfect for setting even more powerful headlines. Trade Gothic Next brings more features and better quality for today’s demanding typographers. Trade Gothic Next® font field guide including best practices, font pairings and alternatives.