Introducing Analogous Script is elegant calligraphy font with a classic style and a touch of elegance, inspired by the handwriting and ancient manuscripts. Carefully designed to work together in harmony that makes it very suitable for wedding media, book covers, greeting cards, logos, branding, business cards and certificates, even for any design work that requires a classic, formal or luxurious. Analogous script, an elegant, full-featured script font with tons of alternate characters and OpenType features. Hand-lettered with a heavy right slant. Specific OpenType features include contextual alternates, stylistic alternates, initial and final forms, multiple alternate glyphs for many letters (accessed through the glyphs panel), multilingual support (including multiple currency symbols), ligatures, standard numbers, and six ampersand styles. What's Included: Analogous script .OTF Alternate Character Map for swashes, alternates, etc. PUA Support Thanks!

This font creation is inspired by a fairy tale from a modern fantasy country but does not eliminate their culture, a country full of love and peace removes people's minds to commit evil. Hugtophia is a simple typography and easy to read so comfortable to wear. You can use them as logos, badges, badges, packaging, headlines, posters, t-shirts / clothing, greeting cards, business cards, and wedding invitations and more. The flowing character is ideal for creating interesting messages to your taste. mix and match a group of alternate characters to fit your project. It will be more interesting if you add swash. Alternate characters in this font are divided into several OpenType features such as Stylistic Alternate, Ligature and Ligature Alternates. Email support: maculinc@gmail.com Thank you! Maculinc

This family is a compilation created from a Garamond set in use in Paris circa 1651, but similar to those, eroded and tired, that were in use during centuries to print cheap publications, as well as in Europe than in America, and from a large choice of printed symbols—all specially redrawn—used for alchemical, pharmaceutical and astrological books, covering 1550 to late 1800s period. Each alphabet is doubled by a slightly different one, and a special OTF encoding allows to give an irregular effect with never the same twin letters in a single word. The Normal style is enriched by small caps, and the Italic style by Swashes. A lot of symbols, too, are given twice with differences. This font may be used with our calendar specialized 1689 Almanach.

Ready to enhance your branding? Looking for that “something” that’ll make your audience go WOW and clients get on board immediately? Maybe you’re looking for the perfect font to use on your wedding invitations or branding? Whatever you need - we’ve got JUST the thing for you! Lavone-A Serif Font Lavone is a elegant serif typeface. Designed primarily as a captivating handcrafted with style. This typeface that is easy on the eyes font that excels at captivating headlines, or large branding text, the font oozes that cute aesthetic that just makes you go “aww!” Our font always includes Multilingual Support to make your branding reach a global audience. Features: Alternates Ligatures Stylistic Sets Swashes PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation Thank you for downloading premium fonts from Natha Studio

Marlon Pro is a soft sans serif font family characterized by its contemporary aspect and its warm touch. It provides advanced typographical support with features such as case sensitive forms, small caps, ligatures, alternate characters, fractions, slashed zero, circled gures, pro kerning...It comes with a complete range of gure set options – oldstyle and lining gures, each in tabular and proportional widths. It comes in 9 weights with corresponding italics and it's suited for multiple purposes including editorial use, web font, apps, digital ads, ebook, and also for advertising, long text, packaging and branding. As a modern sans serif font family, Marlon Pro Sans has true italics to give more style in long texts. It has also an extended character set to support Central and Eastern European as well as Western European languages.

WildSong was inspired by the exuberant flight and beautiful song of birds. While most brush scripts take their cue from mid-twentieth century samples, WildSong is a fresh, contemporary alternative. WildSong reflects a dynamic interplay between dark and light, creating a sense of drama while hinting at a calligraphic background. Words suggest a baseline, yet are not bound by it. Letters interweave in a seemingly random dance, sometimes connecting smoothly, then breaking that connection as a calligraphic scribe does intuitively. Exuberant swash alternatives to uppercase letters, as well as ligatures can be accessed through both the type and glyph palettes. The font contains over 235 characters - (upper and lower case characters, punctuation, numerals, symbols and accented characters are present). It has all the accented characters used in the major European languages.

Introducing Mankey Typeface The Mankey Typeface is made with the concept of a modern font display that gives a unique impression because it has a curvy shape like waves that is charming and unique. The serif style adopted by the Mankey font is a 2022 style font, has a unique swash alternative, has a large selection of ligatures. In addition. Serif typefaces such as “ Mankey typeface” are very easy to apply to any design, especially those with an elegant and smooth concept, besides that this font is very easy to use both in design and non-design programs because everything changes and glyphs are supported by Unicode (PUA). The Mankey typeface contains 704 glyphs with many unique and interesting alternative options. In the poster preview all the letters are in the Mankey typeface.

Your branding missing something that makes people amaze? Looking for an elegant font to attract your audiences or customers? What if we told you, you only need to change one element to engage and convert your clients? Introducing Anthony Hartman - A Modern Script Font Giving you a simple, yet gorgeous solution to your branding. This font is another level script font. It encapsulates the essence of elegance and modernity. With its clean script-type design and curved indentations, this font will take your projects to the next level! Use it for headings, logos, business cards, printed quotes, invitations of all sorts, cards, packaging, and your website or social media branding. Anthony Hartman includes Multilingual Options to make your branding globally acceptable. Features: Ligatures Alternates Swashes Multilingual Support PUA Encoded Numerals and Punctuation

Subversia is inspired by sport and Victorian style. It is designed with elegant and solid shapes to give a modern touch, and is very suitable for your designs such as posters, flyers, t-shirts, logos, signage, branding, the even body text for magazines. Subversia has all-caps characters as Stylistic set in OpenType features that gives you greater variant of typographic possibilities, especially in headlines. This set also has ligatures, stylistic alternates and swashes to make your design look more natural and elegant. 400+ glyphs total with 23 languages. This font is designed with adaptive and flexible looks that possible to apply in other styles outside vintage. With the italic style you can use this font for a sporty theme, minimalism, pop contemporary, dark theme, feminine or editorial project.

Decoral Soft depicts the character of Art Deco period typography and reinterprets it into modern approaches. This typeface is a friendly and flexible family that is fun to use. It comes with a set of 670 characters per weight, supporting over 50 different languages using the Latin alphabet. Decoral Soft also comes with special stylistic sets and swash characters that allow the user to be creative and playful with the type, helps enhance many different possibilities that certainly will spice up your design. Decoral Soft will satisfy all your typographic needs, from book jackets to monograms to packaging, logos, and even wedding invitations—timelessly elegant, with a distinctive flair that exudes Art Deco typography in a fresh, modern way. The wide selection of titling alternates and ligatures make copyfitting a delight.

Largelake is a bold logotype script typeface. Drawn and created by Mans Greback in 2021, this lettering has a colourful character and confidence. It has the appearance of a classic restaurant or hotel sign, or logo for a casino or sports event. Use multiple underscores to make swashes of different styles and lengths. Example: Fisher____ (Download required.) The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from North Europa to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers, ensuring it works great for big cats and small businesses.

Hello good people. introducing our new font 'Piedmond' This time we wanted to create a gallant signature font. Inspired by men's hand strokes, with a decisive pattern, each glyph is formed through the pressing of the pen, the orientation of the shape is almost constant with the direction of the pattern that continues to point forward and ends with a strong pressing of the pen. We call it the masculine signature type, reflecting a confident attitude, a definite decision and full confidence. We design this font for modern product branding, not only for men, but women also love this masculine side. This font is equipped with swashes, alternates and additional ligatures for the lowercase. By using this font, it will give your brand more confidence to appear wider. Thanks

Slacker is a carefree brush script with soft features, low contrast and well balanced character forms. Slacker is excellent for creating easygoing yet catchy headlines, logotypes or even longer texts. Slacker is equipped with Standard Ligatures and Contextual Alternates - they help to keep the flow lively and balanced and connections smooth so you should normally keep the features on. In addition Slacker has Stylistic, Swash and Titling Alternates for more showy letterforms. If you want to keep letters connecting to one another at maximum try turning on Stylistic Set 01 (SS01). On top of these Slacker has even more alternates in the Character Window making the total glyph count to 660. Slacker Extras is a set of 50+ brush strokes with the same style as the brush and a set of catchwords.

Rumble Born is a retro bold script which will bring you back to 60s feel but still with fun and playful look. This font perfectly made to be applied especially in logo, and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual ligatures alternates swashes PUA encoded 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. For accessing opentype feature, kindly check this link letterhend.com/tutorials/using-opentype-feature-in-any-software/ Email us to letterhend@gmail.com if you need something! Happy Designing!

Give your typographic designs a touch of retro style with Amderais! Amderais is one of our 2022 fonts inspired by the famous retro typographic designs of the late 60s to 70s. This font has an extruded version so you can easily create retro effect fonts. This typeface is very suitable to be applied especially to logos, and various other formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting/wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make-up, stationery, novels, and labels or other types of fonts. advertising purposes. Feature : - upper & lower case - numbers and punctuation - multilingual - ligature - alternative - swashes - PUA encoded We highly recommend using a program that supports the OpenType feature and the Glyphs pane like many Adobe and Corel Draw applications, so that you can view and access all variations of Glyphs.

Jengotan is a rapid script, hand-painted with a brush to give a great contrast between thick and thin curves. It is drawn, scanned and vectorized from paper to screen, with the intent of being an authentic brush typeface, leaving the texture and imperfections the way they are, resulting in a vivid style for projects that requires dynamic handwriting. Use [ ] { } < > anywhere in a word to create a swash. Example: Jeng{otan In addition to the Jengotan font, also included is the Upright variation. The lettering is suitable for quotes, logos, watermarks on photography, signatures, branding, advertisement, album covers, business cards, clothing, magazines, posters, and more! It is a font of very extensive lingual support, covering all European Latin scripts. The font contains all characters you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Airium is a decorative serif typeface. Classy and clear, but with original display features, Airium assures any graphic project a characteristic appearance and unique personality. It is lightweight and bright, with cut-out parts and hollow vertical strokes. Use the parenthesis characters ( [ { } ] ) to make decorative swashes. Example: [Wonderful] The Airium family consists of four high-quality styles: Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from North Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Bromest Signature with a handmade Signature style, decorative characters and a dancing baseline! So beautiful on invitation like greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more!! Bromest Signature come with 200+ glyphs. The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, and Ligature. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Bromest Signature Features : Uppercase & Lowercase International Languange & Symbols Support Punctuation & Number PUA Unicode Range Standard Ligatures Discretionary Ligatures Stylistic Alternates Stylistic Set. Thank you,

Signature Script is a smooth pen script with large display capitals and small but legible lowercase letters. It’s ideal for logo, signature, poster, brochure or any display use. Signature Script is great for typing headlines or a restaurant logo - it’s stylish but legible enough due to its smooth shapes. Signature Script has at least three alternates for every basic lowercase letters that are automatically connected to next letter nicely. This feature is coded inside Standard Ligature so I recommend keeping that on. There’s also Stylistic Alternates for every standard Uppercase letter and Swash, Stylistic and Titling Alternates on certain lowercase letters that can be used to spice up your words. The font is PUA encoded so you can access extras in most graphic design softwares even without OpenType support.

Introducing, Valegan Display Font, display font with a touch of vintage look and feel. This font duo is also perfectly made to be applied especially in logo, headline, signage and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : Regular & Stamp Style uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual alternates / swashes and ligatures PUA encoded 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. How to access opentype feature : letterhend.com/tutorials/using-opentype-feature-in-any-software/ Email us to letterhend@gmail.com if you need something! Happy Designing!

Ridgent Signature with a handmade Signature style, decorative characters and a dancing baseline! So beautiful on invitation like greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more!! Ridgent Signature come with 200+ glyphs. The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, and Ligature. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Ridgent Signature Features : Uppercase & Lowercase International Languange & Symbols Support Punctuation & Number PUA Unicode Range Standard Ligatures Discretionary Ligatures Stylistic Alternates Stylistic Set. Thank you,

Nadishaq - Arabic Font is a captivating typeface with a unique Arabic letter theme. Each character in this font is meticulously crafted using the basic Arabic letterforms, resulting in a font that authentically captures the essence of Arabic script. It retains the distinctive features of Arabic letters, such as dots and swashes, which adds an extra layer of authenticity to your designs. Perfect for logos, packaging, branding, books, titles, and posters designed with an Arabic theme, Nadishaq seamlessly integrates into designs focusing on the Arabic language and culture. It's a font that encapsulates the beauty and intricacies of Arabic script, making it a versatile choice for a wide range of projects. With its Arabic-inspired design, Nadishaq allows you to infuse an authentic Arabic touch into your creative works, making them truly stand out

Bonna and Bonna Bold is a casual calligraphy family Font with an original textured appearance that will allow you to create an effect even more authentic. It’s an exclusively Open Type release with 815 glyphs, 93 ornaments to combine with letters and decorate your text. There are plenty of options to create something unique and special with lots of possibility an infinity of combinations: standard and discretionary ligatures, several swashes and stylistics alternates for each letter, catchwords, tails that can be added to the beginning or end of each letter, and much more. These ravishing fonts have already an extended character set to support Central and Eastern as well as Western European languages. Bonna was designed to help your projects look more creative, wonderful and fascinating! Have fun with it!

HS Aleman is a modern OpenType Arabic Typeface. It is a modern Kufi / Naskh hybrid and keeps the balance between its construction and its flexibility in the transition between the thick and thin parts and it also contains a harmonious smooth curve at its parts in all characters, numbers and marks. This font contains some extended characters (swash), some variants of some characters (Stylistic Set), which gives the user some flexibility in using some characters. The font weights are refined with enhanced legibility and are ideally suited to advertising, extended texts in magazines, newspapers, book and publishing, and creative industries, meeting the purposes of various designs. This typeface supports Arabic, Persian, Pashtu, Kurdish Sorani, Kurdish Kirmanji and Urdu variants and it is available in '''five weights: light, regular, medium, bold and black.

Winter Rosetta is a pretty script font based on authentic hand writing with natural signature style with winter theme. It comes with floral / botanical hand drawn illustration object in vector. This type of font perfectly made to be applied especially in logo, and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : uppercase & lowercase numbers and punctuation multilingual alternates and ligatures swashes PUA encoded free ornament vector 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. How to access opentype feature : letterhend.com/tutorials/using-opentype-feature-in-any-software/

Circe™ is a geometric sans-serif with some humanist qualities. It consists of seven weights from Thin to Extra Bold in both Normal and Italic styles. Circe, like the Greek goddess it is named after, is capable of metamorphosis. While being clean and simple in its basic form, Circe can become intricate and fancy with its numerous decorative glyph variations. The extensive character set provides support for almost all European languages based on Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Abundant alternates and swash variants organized in stylistic sets inspire creative design options. Circe is good for small point size paragraphs as well as for headlines and posters. The typeface was designed by Alexandra Korolkova and released by Paratype in 2011. The Italic styles were added in 2018 by Alexandra Korolkova and Maria Kharlamova (Selezeneva).

Please welcome a new contemporary font family: an adventurous pair of ultra condensed sans serif and a monoline signature script. Both fonts are charged with ligatures and swashes and will make your design journey even more enjoyable! The ultra condensed sans serif comes in three weights while the script font - in two. You can mix-n-match all five to enhance your design and to invigorate your ideas. The font family is perfect for all kind of designs: quotes, t-shirt, branding, social media, magazines, cards, packaging etc. All fonts are fully unicode mapped and can be used in any software - either using OpenType panel of the application in use or your OS default Font management software - Character Map or FontBook - by copy-pasting the glyphs you need. Enjoy!

Karlostine Font with a handmade calligraphy style, decorative characters and a dancing baseline! So beautiful on invitation like greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more!! Karlostine Font come with 250+ glyphs. The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, and Ligature. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Karlostine Font Features : Uppercase & Lowercase International Languange & Symbols Support Punctuation & Number PUA Unicode Range Standard Ligatures Discretionary Ligatures Stylistic Alternates Stylistic Set 01-03:

Child Krafter - Quirky Font. Child Krafter a super fun and playful hand-lettered bold typeface. Child Krafter is uneven, unexpected, playful font family which puts a smile on your projects and will inspire you to create something fun and memorable This font is perfect for a professional touch which makes it even more super fun and playful . It is perfect for headings, flyer, greeting cards, product packaging, book cover, printed quotes, logotype, apparel design, album covers, etc. The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates, and Ligature. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. This font is also support multi language.

Logirent is a unique typeface which is speciality made for a logotype. The customized ligatures is what makes this font unique. This type of font perfectly made to be applied especially in logo, headline, signage and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose. Features : numbers and punctuation ligatures multilingual alternates / swashes and ligatures PUA encoded 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. How to access opentype feature : letterhend.com/tutorials/using-opentype-feature-in-any-software/ Email us to letterhend@gmail.com if you need something! Happy Designing!

Introducing Raph Lanok Typeface which has a elegant hand lettering brush style. So it looks natural like a handmade, because Raph Lanok family have a more choice characters. This font is best used for your design project that have the concept of fun, brave and sporty. Can also be applied to the design of a logotype, header website, making some lettering for a quote, t-shirt design etc. Raph Lanok has three font styles that are similar but with a different character, named Raph Lanok Future and Raph Lanok Rusty but that you also get Raph Lanok Swash with a line fast brushed of a used font. Raph Lanok Typeface deserve to be in your fonts collections, because it is unique and has many options of alternative glyphs. Thank you and enjoy :)

Highway Signature with a handmade Signature style, decorative characters and a dancing baseline! So beautiful on invitation like greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more!! Highway Signature come with 200+ glyphs. The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, and Ligature. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Highway Signature Features : Uppercase & Lowercase International Language & Symbols Support Punctuation & Number PUA Unicode Range Standard Ligatures Discretionary Ligatures Stylistic Alternates Stylistic Set. Thank you,

Introducing Mathery Typeface Mathery font is designed with a modern concept that is simple and dynamic. The serif style adopted by the Mathery font is a 2022 style font, has a unique swash alternative, has a large selection of ligatures. In addition. Serif typefaces such as “Mathery typeface” are very easy to apply to any design, especially those with an elegant and playful concept, besides that this font is very easy to use both in design and non-design programs because everything changes and glyphs are supported by Unicode (PUA). The Mathery typeface contains 806 glyphs with many unique and interesting alternative options. Plus, there's a cool serif font family for header and description text from thin to heavy. In the poster preview all the letters are in the Mathery typeface.

Stylleda Brush with a handmade calligraphy style, decorative characters and a dancing baseline! So beautiful on invitation like greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more!! Stylleda Brush come with 250+ glyphs. The alternative characters were divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, and Ligature. The Open Type features can be accessed by using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, And Microsoft Word. And this Font has given PUA unicode (specially coded fonts). so that all the alternate characters can easily be accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Shirleya Script Features : Uppercase & Lowercase International Languange Symbols Support Punctuation Number PUA Unicode Range Standard Ligatures Discretionary Ligatures Stylistic Alternates Stylistic Set 01-07:

Moments is a charming font family inspired by all those moments in life that make us smile. As usual, it is a combo of an informal script, two handmade sans variations and some extras to spice up your designs. The script has 1300+ lovely glyphs with lots of stylistic variations, ligatures and swashes, which you can mix and match for a more interesting effect. The dancing baseline makes it very casual and full of personality, thus a great addition to every design project. Moments is versatile and can be used on cards, posters, merchandise, book covers, websites, packaging, and basically anywhere you like. The overall feel of the font is warm, elegant and informal and it is perfect if you want to convey a sense of friendliness and style.

We created this with vibe of real hand lettering. This is Perfect for your BRANDING not just branding you can do design, wedding, funny logos with this font. These typeface work well for many different aesthetics. this typeface work well with Liquor Labels, Signage, & any type of signature-styled logo. Signaline is handwritten signature script with a natural & stylish flow. This collection of scripts is perfect for personal branding. In order to use the beautiful swashes, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign and Corel Draw. Signaline also includes full set of uppercase and lowercase letters, multilingual symbols, numeral, punctuation. This font would be perfect for all types of printing techniques *you can embroidery, laser cut, gold foil etc.

Some words from the designer, Frantisek Storm... Designed by Josef Tyfa in 1959, digitalized by F. Storm in 1996. This Roman and Italic are well-known perhaps to all Czech graphic artists and typographers ever since their release. Although this type face in some details is under the sway of the period of its rise, its importance is timeless, in contradistinction to other famous types dating from the turn of the sixties which were found, after some time, to be trite. The italics live their own life, only their upper-case letters have the same expression as the basic design. Thin and fragile, they work excellently, emphasizing certain parts in the text by their perfect contrast of expression. When seen from a distance they are a little bit darker than the Roman face. Tyfa Roman was released in 1960 by Grafotechna in Prague for hot setting. Later on, Berthold produced letter matrices - "rulers" for Staromat devices, used for manual photosetting of display alphabets. In the eighties it was available on dry transfers of Transotype and today it is offered also by ITC. The meticulously executed designs of the individual letters in the 288 point size are arranged into a set of signs on a cardboard of about B2 in size. The yellowed paper reveals retouches by white paint on the ink. Blue lines mark the baseline, the capital line, the ascender and descender lines and the central verticals of the letters. With regard to the format of the flat scanner, the designs had to be reduced, with the use of a camera, to the format A4, i.e. to the upper-case letter height of about 30 mm. These were then scanned in 600 dpi resolution and read as a bitmap template to the FontStudio programme. The newly created bold type faces derive from Tyfa's designs of the letters "a", "n", "p", the darkness of which was increased further, approximately by 3%, to enhance their emphasizing function. The text designs have hairstrokes thickened by one third; the contrast between thin and thick strokes has been modified, in order to improve legibility, in sizes under 12 points. We have used electronic interpolation to produce the semi-bold designs. Josef Tyfa himself recommends to choose a somewhat darker design than the basic one for printing of books.

A Venetian serif in 6 styles The Apolline typeface family was created by Jean François Porchez as a means to study the transition from Renaissance writing into the first printing types. Rather than sticking to the method commonly used these days for the creation of revivals of Jenson or Bembo types, it seemed more interesting to try and get in the same mindset as those exceptional designers during this pivotal period in the history of typography. Thus Apolline is an exploration of the design methods used by people like Nicolas Jenson and his contemporaries for adapting handwriting with its multiple occurrences (a, a, a, b, b, b…) into single, unique signs (a, b…). Initially Jean François made drawings modelled after his own calligraphy. They were done at a very small size on tracing paper (2 cm high for the capitals) to preserve the irregularity of human handwriting. Besides emphasising the horizontal parts of the letter forms, the serifs were designed asymmetrically to reinforce the rhythm of the writing. The final drawings were produced at a large size (10 cm high for the capitals) to allow for subtle optimisation of specific details. The very narrow and fluid Apolline italic Influenced by various concepts for an ideal italic by Van Krimpen, Gill, etc. Apolline italic was designed at 8° degrees. Although the structure of the letterforms were informed by chancery scripts, the italic has full serifs like the roman. Very narrow and fluid, its unique design creates a good contrast when used in combination with its upright counterparts. Thanks to the presence of the serifs similar to roman typefaces it sets very neatly in large sizes. The next step was digitising the drawings with Ikarus (the pre-Bézier-curves era) to create the final roman and italic fonts. Two years later, when the family was expanded to six series the same method was used, this time with Fontographer. This was necessary for correcting a few problems caused by the conversion to Bézier outlines, and to add intermediate weights. Before the advent of feature-rich OpenType, quality type families consisted of several separate fonts for each weight to provide users with various sets of numerals, an extended ligature set and alternates, ornaments, and so on. Introducing Apolline Morisawa Awards 1993

FF Real is a convincing re-interpretation of the German grotesque style from between 1998 and 1908, but with much more warmth and improved legibility as well as a hint towards the warmer American grotesques. Later on, not just slanted styles, but a “proper” italic version was added inspired by the way Roman and Italic are distinguished in traditional serif faces. NEW: a specially created set of obliques were added in 2018 to give designers more design flexibility, for those looking for a less calligraphic look. In 2020 the family was extended with matching condensed weights. FF Real was originally conceived by Erik Spiekermann as one text weight and one headline weight to be used as the only faces in his biography ‘Hello I am Erik’, edited by Johannes Erler, published in 2014. While Spiekermann drew the alphabets, he passed on the font data to Ralph du Carrois and Anja Meiners who cleaned it up and completed it. In the meantime, FF Real has been extended to a family of two styles and 65 weights each. The design of FF Real is rooted in early static grotesques from the turn of the century. Several German type foundries – among them the Berlin-based foundries Theinhardt and H. Berthold AG – released such designs between 1898 and 1908. The semi-bold weight of a poster-size typeface that was lighter than most of the according semi-bolds in metal type at the time, gave the impetus to FF Real’s regular weight. In the words of Spiekermann, the historical example is “the real, non-fake version, as it were, the royal sans serif face“, thus giving his new typeface the name “Real” (which is also in keeping with his four-letter names, i.e. FF Meta, FF Unit). FF Real is a convincing re-interpretation of the German grotesque style, but with much more warmth and improved legibility. With a hint towards the warmer American grotesques, Spiekermann added those typical Anglo-American features such as a three-story ‘g’ and an ‘8’ with a more defined loop. To better distinguish characters in small text sizes, FF Real Text comes in old style figures, ‘f’ and ‘t’ are wider, the capital ‘I’ is equipped with serifs, as is the lowercase ‘l’. What’s more, i-dots and all punctuation are round.

Among the countless typefaces available today, the Modern Face style is relatively underrepresented. During the 19th century and then later with the competition from the mechanized hot metal types and film setting, a number of attractive headline types appeared in this style. For text, however, the available types were limited to those based on tried and true classics like Walbaum, Didot and Bodoni, which were created between 1780 and 1830, as well as a few variations from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. The demand for new Modern text types remained nonexistant until the 1960s. Such was the situation when the Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas Type Foundry) commissioned me to come up with a concept and sketches of a new hot metal type. I was able to convince the director of the foundry that there was a niche to be filled with contemporary Modern typography. Another reason for the production of a new type was of a technical nature: the introduction of a new setting technique should not be limited to existing typefaces, but instead should lead to innovative text types suited to the demands of the new applications. André Gürtler, Basilia's designer: I began to work on the concept and initial designs of the new text type in 1968. I wanted to give the type a classical look, expressed above all in the strong stroke contrast between the robust verticals and fine horizontal strokes and serifs. This is one of the main characteristics of Modern typography.""This new typeface, Basilia, is distinguished by its soft, open appearance as well as a number of details which together mark a departure from historical models. For example, it has nothing of Bodoni's round letters and their angular, narrow spacing, and displays instead round forms with a much softer stroke in the curves. It was very important to me to avoid the Modern characteristic of stiff, vertical, grid-like strokes and to create instead a lighter, more transparent type. I retained the Modern style by using straight horizontal serifs at right angles to the strokes to still give the type its sense of rigidity." Three sketches for Basilia (normal, italic, and bold) were finished in 1973. Only the 9-point size was produced at first. In the following years, basic weights were made and adapted to filmsetting."