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  1. Ah, Kingthings Stirrup by Kingthings—where to even begin? Imagine, if you will, a font that decided to go on a whimsical adventure, trotting through the verdant fields of creativity, its serifs flari...
  2. Rieven by Delve Fonts, $29.00
    Designer Steven Skaggs wanted a versatile uncial typeface that was not simply decorative. Traditionally, a true uncial is a majuscule form, entirely lacking in ascenders and descenders. However, by designing Rieven Uncial, Skaggs found a way to use the true uncial as inspiration but retained a lowercase look and feel. Typically, uncials do not have italic forms but in order for Rieven to be a truly versatile face, it was imperative that it should be accompanied by an italic. The italic form owes much to the historical roots in the letra antigua cursiva of the 15th century humanist masters. Rieven Uncial was awarded a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design in the 2010 TDC2.
  3. Frisco Antique Display SG by Spiece Graphics, $39.00
    Here is a decorative condensed antique design that is sure to fit a variety of contemporary situations. The Bruce Type Foundry (later acquired by V. B. Munson) developed this wonderfully shaded Tuscan in the 1880s - or possibly earlier. It was known back then as Style No. 1050 and carried a pronounced three-dimensional look with a thin hairline at the bottom and right of each stroke. It is best to use Frisco Antique in large display sizes because it is easy to lose these delicate hairlines. A lowercase and several alternate characters have been provided for your convenience. Frisco Antique Display is also available in the OpenType Std format. Some new characters have been added to this OpenType version. Advanced features currently work in Adobe Creative Suite InDesign, Creative Suite Illustrator, and Quark XPress. Check for OpenType advanced feature support in other applications as it gradually becomes available with upgrades.
  4. Mailuna Pro AOE by Astigmatic, $24.00
    Mailuna Pro is a family of gothic typefaces of weight and oblique stature, finding themselves on a line between modern and historical gothic styles. Originating as a revival and elaboration of a limited lettering specimen from a series of old loose spanish specimen book pages, it finds itself in the visual company of vintage transportation roll signs, wood type gig posters, financial publications, etc. What began as just Capitals, Lowercase and Numerals was expanded to a rich pro glyphset including small caps, unlimited fractionals, superiors & inferiors, ordinals, tabular & proportional figures, a Caps to small caps feature and an expanded language glyph set. From modern letterpress back to historical adverts, book covers, headlines, or anything else you want to give a dash of vintage authenticity to, the Mailuna Pro Family is here to fill your needs. Be sure to download and take Mailuna Pro AOE - Book weight for a spin for free.
  5. Wolverhampton by Greater Albion Typefounders, $12.50
    Wolverhampton is a new Neo-Victorian face from Greater Albion Typefounders. It's something of an example of starting with a small idea and running with it. This family of three typefaces (Regular, Small Capitals and Capitals) was inspired by a line of lettering seen on a late 19th Century enamel advertisement made by Chromo of Wolverhampton (hence the family name). The family grew, topsy-like, from a recreation of these initial fifteen capital letterforms to the three complete typefaces offered here. The three typefaces are ideal for advertising and poster work with a Victorian, Edwardian, or 'Steam-punk' theme. They would also be eminently suitable for signage inspired by the same eras or (as we've seen a number of our other typeface families prove very popular) for book covers of period related novels and historical works. Finally, these slender elegant display faces are just plain fun!
  6. Gerlach Sans by Juraj Chrastina, $29.00
    As the foundry’s top–of–the–line family, Gerlach Sans was named after the highest peak in Slovakia. Its functional design is enhanced by a few subtle ingredients, adding life and giving words a more playful voice. The family has eight weights ranging from delicate hairline to the super thick black. Each of them includes a genuine italic companion with variant shapes. The large character set accessible through OpenType features provides the designer with a wealth of opportunities and supports a wide range of Latin-based languages. It is stuffed up with tabular and proportional figures, old-style and lining figures, fractions, superscripts and subscripts, ordinals, case-sensitive forms, circled numbers, arrows, icons and many more. Combining legibility and usability of its grotesque style with cool elegance, Gerlach Sans provides a strong partner for your print and web project. You can download the instruction PDF here.
  7. News Gothic No. 2 by Linotype, $40.99
    News Gothic No. 2 is an enhanced version of News Gothic produced by the D. Stempel AG type foundry in 1984. It added more weights to the News Gothic family than were available in other versions, increasing its use in contemporary design and communication. The lighter weights of the original News Gothic were designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1908 for American Typefounders (ATF). News Gothic typeface is quite similar to Benton's other sans serifs from the early twentieth century, including Franklin Gothic and Lightline Gothic. The bold weights were added to the News Gothic scheme in 1958. The capital letters in News Gothic No. 2, just like those found in News Gothic, have a similar visual width to each other. The lowercase is compact and powerful. These design attributes contributed to Benton's strong handle on the sans serif genre, and for years his types have been popular for newspaper headlines and many other uses. Still a popular presence on the font charts, News Gothic has proven its ability to get the job done right.
  8. Balance by Victory Type, $12.00
    The three typefaces that make up the Balance font set are legible, funky and stylish. Every character has been spaced and designed on a uniform geometric grid to insure true typographic "balance." There are only two shapes that make up every character: a parallelogram and a quarter circle. This design renders Balance a distinct family of fonts which are appropriate for all documents. Balance Regular is legible, funky and stylish. Every character has been spaced and designed on a uniform geometric grid to insure true typographic "balance." There are only two shapes that make up every character: a parallelogram and a quarter circle. This design renders Balance Regular a distinct font that is appropriate for all documents. Balance Light is legible, funky and stylish. Every character has been spaced and designed on a uniform geometric grid to insure true typographic "balance." There are only two shapes that make up every character: a parallelogram and a quarter circle. This design renders Balance Light a distinct font that is appropriate for all documents. Balance Unicase is legible, funky and stylish. Every character has been spaced and designed on a uniform geometric grid to insure true typographic "balance." Each letter, in this unicase version of Balance uses a single character height. There are only two shapes that make up every character: a parallelogram and a quarter circle. This design renders Balance Unicase a distinct font that is appropriate for all documents.
  9. Casira Script by Krafted, $10.00
    We live only to discover beauty, all else is a form of waiting. --- Khalil Gibran Wait no more, this beautiful font can be yours right now! This custom made font was specifically designed to fit whatever you need! The curvature of the Casira Script was fully thought out to easily meld inside your designs. These fonts make a good foundation of what you want it to be! Discover the beauty in your own imagination while this font gives you a quick kickstart to what it can be. Everything’s well with cursive! Show your opulence and decadence with this fancy font and blow your audience’s mind away as you put these cursive letters in your projects. Communicate the extent of your mind so that whoever views your designs understand not just what you write, but also the tone and feel of it! The Casira Script makes a perfect addition for your collection of fonts, show love and bring out the true you! Feel free to contact us if you need anything else! If you have a request on what kind of fonts you’d like to see, tell us that too!
  10. LeDrôle Lettering Pro by Ingo, $40.00
    The Comic-Script by ingoFonts In the past cartoons used to be lettered by hand. Hardly anyone does this today. The reason is, because hardly anyone has nice handwriting these days, so there are practical advantages in having a special font. However the font should still look like it’s been written by hand. Well, most script fonts don’t meet this requirement. The LeDrôle Lettering is a computer font, but closely resembles genuine handwriting. The model for the LeDrôle Lettering is my personal handwriting, as can be seen on the example of the Biró Script, which is also an ingoFont. The habit of capitalization comes from the Romanic and Anglo-Saxon countries. Depending on the purpose they are designed in three significantly bolder weights. In order for the typeface to actually look handwritten, it needs to have clearly visible irregularities. These are not found only in the shapes of the individual letters. Even though LeDrôle Lettering is all in capital letters, the characters of uppercase and lowercase letters are clearly different. Additionally, many alternative shapes are used, which are automatically applied when the OpenType “Ligatures” feature is activated. Thus, there are no identical double letters or numerals, and many character combinations are defined as ligatures with alternative forms.
  11. Agatized Informal by ULGA Type, $26.00
    Agatized Informal is a rough-edged stencil typeface with chunky letterforms and tight spacing. Designed primarily for display use, it’s ideal for posters, logos, advertising, book cover designs or small chunks of text such as pull-out quotes. The design is something of an enigma, a curious mish-mash of genres – imagine splicing Uncle Buck and Deadpool into a horror movie – it’s big, bold and funny although has a dark side. But what really makes this typeface a joy to drive is its boot full of alternative characters and ligatures. There is a saying: Use sparingly. Not on this street! Make your Glyphs palette burn rubber. Set your OpenType to full throttle: crank up your style and get those liga-tyres screeching. Agatized is a souped-up old campervan spinning doughnuts on the beach. The design started life as a piece of lettering for a book design that didn’t progress past the sketch stage. I liked the rough, dense character shapes, so during some down time I started drawing more characters and the lure of a new typeface pulled me in from there. Although this is a single-weight typeface it has a younger sibling, Agatized Formal, a neater, more dapper brother, smoother round the chops and smartly dressed – certainly no less fun though.
  12. Honey Florist - Personal Use - Personal use only
  13. Milla Cilla - Personal Use - Personal use only
  14. Ivory Chill - Personal Use - Personal use only
  15. Nadimo by Twinletter, $12.00
    Nadimo is an elegant, charming, and sensual sans serif font. Designed with subtle curves and flexible shapes to create a beautiful typeface that fits all your projects. Whether you’re looking for a typeface for a logo, t-shirt, poster, or even a large typography installation, Nadimo is here to help. Of course, your various design projects will be perfect and extraordinary if you use this font because this font comes with a font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your extraordinary projects.
  16. Fox Kitty by Fox7, $14.00
    Fox Kitty is a cute and fun color font. This font is your go-to for crafting cute greeting cards that express affection and warmth. Whether you’re a designer, a social media influencer, or someone with a penchant for creative expression. Fall in love with its authentic feel and use it to create gorgeous invitations, beautiful stationary art, eye-catching social media posts, and cute greeting cards. Learn more about color font support on third-party apps here: https://www.colorfonts.wtf/ 🌺🌺 Please note that the Canva do not support color fonts! 🌺🌺
  17. Selcouth by Gassstype, $25.00
    Here comes a New font, Introducing SELCOUTH It's Weird Display Font is a Natural Brush Style and Authentic classy style, this font is great for your creative projects such as watermark on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, invitation,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. SELCOUTH is a natural Hand Drawn feel. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes,photos, photography overlays, signs, window art, scrapbooking, tags and so much more!
  18. Rosarian by Laura Worthington, $29.00
    Rosarian celebrates the grace of the pointed brush, flowing expressively from thick, rounded downward strokes to thin, delicate hairlines to create graceful and unique letterforms. Contextual alternates help Rosarian look convincingly hand-lettered, while stylistic alternates allow you to customize Rosarian into a less formal, unconnected script. See what’s included! http://bit.ly/2bIG4Pc *NOTE* Basic versions DO NOT include swashes, alternates or ornaments These fonts have been specially coded for access of all the swashes, alternates and ornaments without the need for professional design software! Info and instructions here: http://lauraworthingtontype.com/faqs/
  19. Tangelo by Laura Worthington, $25.00
    Tangelo is a fun, casual display script that could be more accurately termed a unicase – it borrows characters liberally from the lower case, but scales them up to cap-size. Tangelo is ideal for kid-friendly products like candy packaging, game boards or apps, and clothing labels. It includes 115 alternates and swash characters for a convincingly hand-lettered look. See what’s included! http://bit.ly/2lW33tt These fonts have been specially coded for access of all the swashes, alternates and ornaments without the need for professional design software! Info and instructions here: http://lauraworthingtontype.com/faqs/
  20. Marga by madeDeduk, $12.00
    Introducing Marga is a groovy sans family with much special alternative glyphs and ligatures comes with 9 variable weight to get more stunning. Use this font family for any branding, product packaging, invitation, quotes, t-shirt, label, poster, logo etc. Feature 9 Weight Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Symbol International Glyphs Alternative & Ligatures Multilingual support Feel free to drop us a message any time and follow my shop for upcoming updates Shoot me on email at: dedukvic@gmail.com and find more previews on my Instagram here : https://www.instagram.com/acekelgondolayu/?hl=en Hope you enjoy it.
  21. Saturknight by Echopraxium, $13.50
    Saturnight Regular is a proportional and kerned typeface. The name is a variation of Saturnight, which is itself the anagram of Unstraight. This is because vertical lines are Unstraight sticks. It's a consequence of the Design rule * Glyphs are built from segments on a triangular tessellation (cf. poster 1) Note 1: Unstraight lines depend from the chosen tesselation orientation (here the tesselation has horizontal lines and thus Unstraight verticals). Note 2: The encoding is Windows Latin 'ANSI', which includes Icelandic characters (as illustrated by poster 3).
  22. Flossy by Gassstype, $23.00
    Here comes our new font Flossy is a Handwritten Brush font with a Rough style and dramatic movement. This font is great for your next creative project such as logos, printed quotes, invitations, cards, product packaging, headers, Logotype, Letterhead, Poster, Label, and etc. This font are handmade with brushes on Procreate. Then crafted carefully drawn into vector format. Flossy a natural handwritten feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes.
  23. Rafferty by Gassstype, $23.00
    Here comes a New font, Introducing Rafferty It's Weird Display Font is a Natural Style and Authentic classy style, this font is great for your creative projects such as watermark on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, invitation,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. Rafferty a natural Hand Drawn feel. This handmade font will make your design has a beautiful natural touch for each details. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of Alternates glyphs.
  24. Rambuk by David Engelby Foundry, $25.00
    Here comes Rambuk! (Well ... it's Danish for rambuck) Rambuk is not a silent font! It’s big and noisy! The font is designed to be used in magazines, as an expressive poster font, for book covers, logotypes and much more! This font is bold, and it fits your style! The font is also handy when it comes to having big letters to fill with art or pictures. Rambuk comes with specific numerals for its small and big letter as well as carefully designed superior and inferior numerals. Make your design count — knock in some doors!
  25. Planjer by TypeFaith Fonts, $10.00
    Art deco typography from the Netherlands that summons a thirties vibe for a nostalgic twist on chic lines. Planjer is the work of designer Leon Hulst, and you can see from the layout examples here that nostalgia means ruin, and it has become super cool to use a ruin vibe in retro aesthetics. Yep, there's a touch of class to that worn out look and feel, and the beautiful lines of the typography and numerals show how the barely restrained charisma of art deco can be coupled with the new obsession with all things vintage.
  26. Pacho by madeDeduk, $15.00
    Introducing Pacho is a brand new serif family with much special alternative glyphs and ligatures comes with 9 variable weight to get more stunning. Use this font family for any branding, product packaging, invitation, quotes, t-shirt, label, poster, logo etc. Feature 9 Weight UPPERCASE & Lowercase Number & Symbol International Glyphs Alternative & Ligatures Multilingual support Feel free to drop us a message any time and follow my shop for upcoming updates Shoot me on email at: dedukvic@gmail.com and find more previews on my Instagram here : https://www.instagram.com/acekelgondolayu/?hl=en Hope you enjoy it.
  27. Nelson by Laura Worthington, $25.00
    Evocative of paint on weathered wood, Nelson’s engraved capital letters are as rustic and confident as the Old West. Combine the engraved face with bold and rough versions to create handsome wordmarks, or use Nelson to captivate customers of food packaging, restaurant menus, and roadside attractions. See what’s included! Engraved • Ornaments • Rugged • Bold *NOTE* Basic versions DO NOT include swashes, alternates or ornaments These fonts have been specially coded for access of all the swashes, alternates and ornaments without the need for professional design software! Info and instructions here: http://lauraworthingtontype.com/faqs/
  28. Little Boy by Gassstype, $23.00
    Here comes a New font, Introducing Little Boy It's Fun Display Font is a Cute Craft style and Textured Natural Style , this font is great for your creative projects such as watermark on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, invitation,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. Little Boy a natural display Hand Drawn feel. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes,photos, photography overlays, signs, window art, scrapbooking, tags and so much more!
  29. Belgium Catherine by Almarkha Type, $25.00
    Belgium Catherine – Handwritten Signature Font is a handwritten script font with a Signature Style and classy style, this font is great for your creative projects such as watermark on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, photography, invitation, watermark,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. Belgium Catherine is here to elevate your work to the highest level. Belgium Catherine comes with 2 Style Regular and Slant : uppercase letters, lowercase letters, lowercase , numbers, punctuation, ligature, alternative letters and multilingual support Thank You
  30. The Quiz Script by Siwox Studios, $95.00
    The Quiz Script is an handwriting typeface. For designers, instagramers, bloggers, youtubers, fashion lovers or somebody who loves fresh design. Every creative loves something new. Thats why we love handmade and freestyle designs, because it will make something unique, fresh and natural. So here we are, The Quiz Script fonts are ready to work with your creativity. The Quiz Script is suitable for any modern design such as for ad banner, modern card, invitation, announcement, seasonal design, social media promotion, web design, branding and logo stylist and many more.
  31. Graves by madeDeduk, $14.00
    Introducing Graves is a display sans family with much special alternative glyphs and ligatures comes with 9 weight to get more stunning. Use this font family for any branding, product packaging, invitation, quotes, t-shirt, label, poster, logo etc. Feature 9 Weight Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Symbol International Glyphs Alternative & Ligatures Multilingual support Feel free to drop us a message any time and follow my shop for upcoming updates Shoot me on email at: dedukvic@gmail.com and find more previews on my Instagram here : https://www.instagram.com/acekelgondolayu/?hl=en Hope you enjoy it.
  32. Ollivette Elite by Chank, $59.00
    Fly your inner geek flag with this cool new "Eleet" typewriter font. It's kinda like a wonky internet translator that converts normal text into leet-speak, so you can exchange encoded love notes with cyber-hackers and goofy-gamers. The actual glyphs in this font are interchangeable with the more logical Ollivette typewriter font, but here the characters have all been moved around to create stylized interpretation of similar glyphs. So "ELEET" could also be typed "31337". Except you don't have to think about it. Get it? Got it? Good! 3NJ0¥ TH15 ƒØÑ+ & U53 !† 0FT3N.
  33. Insomnyacs by Gassstype, $23.00
    Here comes a New font, Introducing INSOMNYACS It's Weird Display Font is a Natural Style and Authentic classy style, this font is great for your creative projects such as watermark on photography, and perfect for logos & branding, invitation,advertisements,product designs, stationery, wedding designs,label ,product packaging, special events or anything that need handwritting taste. INSOMNYACS is a natural Hand Drawn feel. It is perfect for any design project as Invitation,logo, book cover, craft or any design purposes,photos, photography overlays, signs, window art, scrapbooking, tags and so much more!
  34. Adorn Garland Smooth by Laura Worthington, $29.00
    Adorn Garland is a script face that runs along a somewhat “vintage” direction. Rather than deriving its strength from a heavy skeleton or structure, it uses its sense of contrast, its light touch upon the page, and its elongation to provide a visual break – it can function as a long string, rule, or dividing line. With 166 swashes. See what's included! http://bit.ly/1rYDcmQ This font has been specially coded for access of all the swashes, alternates and ornaments without the need for professional design software! Info and instructions here: http://lauraworthingtontype.com/faqs/
  35. Biscuit Juice by PizzaDude.dk, $20.00
    A biscuit and a cup of coffee, a biscuit and a cup of tee ... both are obvious - but what about a biscuit and a glass of juice? I loved that combination as a kid (and I even crumbled the biscuit in the juice...yuck...I wouldn't do that today!!! Anyway, here you have a legible uppercase font with a nice handmade look. I've added 4 different versions of each letter, which makes the font look really nice and slightly jumpy. I even added two nice swashes to the N and K. Enjoy!
  36. Robur by Canada Type, $24.95
    It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that these letter shapes are familiar. They have the unmistakable color and weight of Cooper Black, Oswald Cooper's most famous typeface from 1921. What should be a surprise is that these letters are actually from George Auriol's Robur Noir (or Robur Black), published in France circa 1909 by the Peignot foundry as a bolder, solid counterpart to its popular Auriol typeface (1901). This face precedes Cooper Black by a dozen of years and a whole Great War. Cooper Black has always been a bit of a strange typographical apparition to anyone who tried to explain its original purpose, instant popularity in the 1920s, and major revival in the late 1960s. BB&S and Oswald Cooper PR aside, it is quite evident that the majority of Cooper Black's forms did not evolve from Cooper Old Style, as its originators claimed. And the claim that it collected various Art Nouveau elements is of course too ambiguous to be questioned. But when compared with Robur Noir, the "elements" in question can hardly be debated. The chronology of this "machine age" ad face in metal is amusing and stands as somewhat of a general index of post-Great War global industrial competition: - 1901: Peignot releases Auriol, based on the handwriting of George Auriol (the "quintessential Art Nouveau designer," according to Steven Heller and Louise Fili), and it becomes very popular. - 1909-1912: Peignot releases the Robur family of faces. The eight styles released are Robur Noir and its italic, a condensed version called Robur Noir Allongée (Elongated) and its italic, an outline version called Clair De Lune and its condensed/elongated, a lined/striped version called Robur Tigre, and its condensed/elongated counterpart. - 1914 to 1918: World War One uses up economies on both sides of the Atlantic, claims Georges Peignot with a bullet to the forehead, and non-war industry stalls for 4 years. - 1921: BB&S releases Cooper Black with a lot of hype to hungry publishing, manufacturing and advertising industries. - 1924: Robert Middleton releases Ludlow Black. - 1924: The Stevens Shanks foundry, the British successor to the Figgins legacy, releases its own exact copies of Robur Noir and Robur Noir Allongée, alongside a lined version called Royal Lining. - 1925: Oswald Cooper releases his Cooper Black Condensed, with similar math to Robur Noir Allongée (20% reduction in width and vectical stroke). - 1925: Monotype releases Frederick Goudy's Goudy Heavy, an "answer to Cooper Black". Type historians gravely note it as the "teacher steals from his student" scandal. Goudy Heavy Condensed follows a few years later. - 1928: Linotype releases Chauncey Griffith's Pabst Extra Bold. The condensed counterpart is released in 1931. When type production technologies changed and it was time to retool the old faces for the Typositor age, Cooper Black was a frontrunning candidate, while Robur Noir was all but erased from history. This was mostly due to its commercial revival by flourishing and media-driven music and advertising industries. By the late 1960s variations and spinoffs of Cooper Black were in every typesetting catalog. In the early- to mid-1970s, VGC, wanting to capitalize on the Art Nouveau onslaught, published an uncredited exact copy of Robur Black under the name Skylark. But that also went with the dust of history and PR when digital tech came around, and Cooper Black was once again a prime retooling candidate. The "old fellows stole all of our best ideas" indeed. So almost a hundred years after its initial fizz, Robur is here in digital form, to reclaim its rightful position as the inspiration for, and the best alternative to, Cooper Black. Given that its forms date back to the turn of the century, a time when foundry output had a closer relationship to calligraphic and humanist craft, its shapes are truer to brush strokes and much more idiosyncratic than Cooper Black in their totality's construct. Robur and Robur Italic come in all popular font formats. Language support includes Western, Central and Eastern European character sets, as well as Baltic, Esperanto, Maltese, Turkish, and Celtic/Welsh languages. A range of complementary f-ligatures and a few alternates letters are included within the fonts.
  37. Miedinger by Canada Type, $24.95
    Helvetica’s 50-year anniversary celebrations in 2007 were overwhelming and contagious. We saw the movie. Twice. We bought the shirts and the buttons. We dug out the homage books and re-read the hate articles. We mourned the fading non-color of an old black shirt proudly exclaiming that “HELVETICA IS NOT AN ADOBE FONT”. We took part in long conversations discussing the merits of the Swiss classic, that most sacred of typographic dreamboats, outlasting its builder and tenants to go on alone and saturate the world with the fundamental truth of its perfect logarithm. We swooned again over its subtleties (“Ah, that mermaid of an R!”). We rehashed decades-old debates about “Hakzidenz,” “improvement in mind” and “less is more.” We dutifully cursed every single one of Helvetica’s knockoffs. We breathed deeply and closed our eyes on perfect Shakti Gawain-style visualizations of David Carson hack'n'slashing Arial — using a Swiss Army knife, no less — with all the infernal post-brutality of his creative disturbance and disturbed creativity. We then sailed without hesitation into the absurdities of analyzing Helvetica’s role in globalization and upcoming world blandness (China beware! Helvetica will invade you as silently and transparently as a sheet of rice paper!). And at the end of a perfect celebratory day, we positively affirmed à la Shakti, and solemnly whispered the energy of our affirmation unto the universal mind: “We appreciate Helvetica for getting us this far. We are now ready for release and await the arrival of the next head snatcher.” The great hype of Swisspalooza '07 prompted a look at Max Miedinger, the designer of Neue Haas Grotesk (later renamed to Helvetica). Surprisingly, what little biographical information available about Miedinger indicates that he was a typography consultant and type sales rep for the Haas foundry until 1956, after which time he was a freelance graphic designer — rather than the full-time type designer most Helvetica enthusiasts presume him to have been. It was under that freelance capacity that he was commissioned to design the regular and bold weights of Neue Haas Grotesk typeface. His role in designing Helvetica was never really trumpeted until long after the typeface attained global popularity. And, again surprisingly, Miedinger designed two more typefaces that seem to have been lost to the dust of film type history. One is called Pro Arte (1954), a very condensed Playbill-like slab serif that is similar to many of its genre. The other, made in 1964, is much more interesting. Its original name was Horizontal. Here it is, lest it becomes a Haas-been, presented to you in digital form by Canada Type under the name of its original designer, Miedinger, the Helvetica King. The original film face was a simple set of bold, panoramically wide caps and figures that give off a first impression of being an ultra wide Gothic incarnation of Microgramma. Upon a second look, they are clearly more than that. This face is a quirky, very non-Akzidental take on the vernacular, mostly an exercise in geometric modularity, but also includes some unconventional solutions to typical problems (like thinning the midline strokes across the board to minimize clogging in three-storey forms). This digital version introduces four new weights, ranging from Thin to Medium, alongside the bold original. The Miedinger package comes in all popular font formats, and supports Western, Central and Eastern European languages, as well as Esperanto, Maltese, Turkish and Celtic/Welsh. A few counter-less alternates are included in the fonts.
  38. Torio by DSType, $55.00
    Our main purpose while developing this typeface was to reconstruct, in the most precise way, the first ten plates of the “Arte de Escribir”, in a chapter named “Enseñanza de la letra italiana, y sus principales variaciones, autores, sistemas, &c.”, dedicated to the analysis of the Italian Script. We decided by this plates because those are the few that don’t refer, directly or indirectly, to any author in particular. We strongly believe that these plates reflect the freedom of his very own calligraphy and are closely related to the calligraphic style that was a success among the spanish calligraphers: the Spanish Bastarda.
  39. American Scribe by Three Islands Press, $39.00
    The Declaration of Independence was authored by Thomas Jefferson, but his is not the classic handwriting on the engrossed copies familiar to most Americans. That belonged to Timothy Matlack, an early patriot who fought in the Revolution, sat as prosecutor at Benedict Arnold’s court martial, and also penned copies of a number of documents for then-General George Washington. Matlack’s script was compact but legible, perfect for the first and most famous of American documents. Now you, too, can write that way. Please note: The font does not include any of the signatures from the Declaration of Independence.
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