ITC Johnston is the result of the combined talents of Dave Farey and Richard Dawson, based on the work of Edward Johnston. In developing ITC Johnston, says London type designer Dave Farey, he did “lots of research on not only the face but the man.” Edward Johnston was something of an eccentric, “famous for sitting in a deck chair and carrying toast in his pockets.” (The deck chair was his preferred furniture in his own living room; the toast was so that he’d always have sustenance near at hand.) Johnston was also almost single-handedly responsible, early in this century, for the revival in Britain of the Renaissance calligraphic tradition of the chancery italic. His book Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering (with its peculiar extraneous comma in the title) is a classic on its subject, and his influence on his contemporaries was tremendous. He is perhaps best remembered, however, for the alphabet that he designed in 1916 for the London Underground Railway (now London Transport), which was based on his original “block letter” model. Johnston’s letters were constructed very carefully, based on his study of historical writing techniques at the British Museum. His capital letters took their form from the best classical Roman inscriptions. “He had serious rules for his sans serif style,” says Farey, “particularly the height-to-weight ratio of 1:7 for the construction of line weight, and therefore horizontals and verticals were to be the same thickness. Johnston’s O’s and C’s and G’s and even his S’s were constructions of perfect circles. This was a bit of a problem as far as text sizes were concerned, or in reality sizes smaller than half an inch. It also precluded any other weight but medium ‘ any weight lighter or heavier than his 1:7 relationship.” Johnston was famously slow at any project he undertook, says Farey. “He did eventually, under protest, create a bolder weight, in capitals only ‘ which took twenty years to complete.” Farey and his colleague Richard Dawson have based ITC Johnston on Edward Johnston’s original block letters, expanding them into a three-weight type family. Johnston himself never called his Underground lettering a typeface, according to Farey. It was an alphabet meant for signage and other display purposes, designed to be legible at a glance rather than readable in passages of text. Farey and Dawson’s adaptation retains the sparkling starkness of Johnston’s letters while combining comfortably into text. Johnston’s block letter bears an obvious resemblance to Gill Sans, the highly successful type family developed by Monotype in the 1920s. The young Eric Gill had studied under Johnston at the London College of Printing, worked on the Underground project with him, and followed many of the same principles in developing his own sans serif typeface. The Johnston letters gave a characteristic look to London’s transport system after the First World War, but it was Gill Sans that became the emblematic letter form of British graphic design for decades. (Johnston’s sans serif continued in use in the Underground until the early ‘80s, when a revised and modernized version, with a tighter fit and a larger x-height, was designed by the London design firm Banks and Miles.) Farey and Dawson, working from their studio in London’s Clerkenwell, wanted to create a type family that was neither a museum piece nor a bastardization, and that would “provide an alternative of the same school” to the omnipresent Gill Sans. “These alphabets,” says Farey, referring to the Johnston letters, “have never been developed as contemporary styles.” He and Dawson not only devised three weights of ITC Johnston but gave it a full set of small capitals in each weight ‘ something that neither the original Johnston face nor the Gill faces have ‘ as well as old-style figures and several alternate characters.

Novelo is a 9 weight neo-grotesk typeface family. Featuring; over 800 characters and symbols, including over 100 ligatures, with extended language support, and true italics. The wide selection of alternate characters allows for deep customisation, making the Novelo family a powerful and flexible toolkit for the modern designer.

Goodbees is built from a bold base, unique combinations, smooth curves, and sharp edges. Goodbees is best uses for headings, Logo types, quotes, apparel design, invitations, flyers, posters, greeting cards, product packaging, book covers, printed quotes, album covers, movies and more.

Crestwood is an updated version of an elegant semi-formal script typeface originally released by the Ludlow Type Foundry in 1937. Crestwood is best used at larger sizes, and is wonderful for invitations and greeting cards. Character Set: Latin-1

Mallorga is a serif typeface. It has an elegant and modern character by adjusting design developments. Mallorga is made to complete your best work. You can use this font to create wedding invitations, logos, advertisements, web, covers, clothing, banners and more.

Candaleya is a modern handwritten font. With a classy and natural handwritten style, it brings a classy and chic typeface. Candaleya is best used for weddings, branding, logotype, and quotes. Features: - Beautiful Ligatures - PUA Encoded - Multilingual Support - Numerals and Punctuation

Columna is an all-caps, Classical Roman-inspired typeface designed by the renowned Swiss typographer Max Caflisch (interesting fact: Columna is Caflisch's only typeface). Caflisch's Columna adds a stately elegance to any application, and is best used in large sizes.

Slightwell is a modern handwritten font. With a classy and natural handwritten style, it brings a classy and chic typeface. Slightwell is best used for weddings, branding, logotype, and quotes. Includes: - Slightwell (OTF) Features: - PUA Encoded - Multilingual Support - Numerals and Punctuation

Hola Delight serif font was a very unique retro style-obsessed in the past, but now we are giving this font a unique touch by providing 100+ alternative characters, which can be combined at your command for your best designs.

Plastic Waist is just a wordplay - a wordplay that hopefully sets your mind to the huge amount of plastic waste we're experiencing these days. Be aware of how much plastic you use, recycle and don't throw your plastic in nature.

FP Dancer Serif attempts to combine a constructed face with an upright script face. The goal was a type family that combines softness and friendliness with more strength. Typographica.org selected this font as one of the best typefaces for 2007.

Based on the Batman logo, this font (and a medium weight which is unreleased) were designed especially for Rian Hughes' "Batman: Black and White" comic book. It retains the signature reversed-stress weight distribution, seen to best effect on the A.

Introducing our latest display typeface called Junker - Normal And Italic Paint Brush Font with a natural style and dramatic movement can make your logotype become more interesting. Best Vintage font and multilingual support. inspired by the decorative arts and architecture movement

Vektra takes advantage of the high-resolution afforded by the Glyphs font design program. Stripes of different density overlap to create a cross-hatched tonal effect. Best used at larger sizes and in shorter settings where the details can be seen.

Selenic is a solid typeface with a clean look, interesting texture and quick impact. Friendly but also aggressive it is best suited for massive headlines, fashion photography, album covers, logo design or any other typographical work on digital and print.

Sunlight JNL takes the classic wood type from Jeff Levine's Twelve Oaks JNL and shatters it with bursts of light for a novelty effect. Limited to a very basic character set, it's best used for short words and phrases in headlines.

Howdy pardner, stick 'em up! Sharp Shooter is a ruff rider that won't take no guff. He'll shoot first and send a 'get well' card later. This font makes a whimsical webfont, best for board games and awesome for apps!

The Wella Atimbo Cyrillic font is a handwritten calligraphic signature script font. It is the font pair with will be the best option for branding, logos, wedding invitations, social media, packaging, business cards, DIY projects, social media, and many others.

Frankie remains a classic among classics. A pioneer of the Type-Ø-Tones catalog, this is their personal eroded Franklin Gothic.  Avoid imitations. Try Frankie, today still their best-seller. Now, in this updated version with a complete CE Character Set.

Victorah Gaerioa is a lovely and timeless serif font. It is the best choice for creating eye catching logos, branding and quotes. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

Andaretta is a modern handwritten font. With a classy and natural handwritten style, it brings a classy and chic typeface. Andaretta is best used for weddings, branding, logotype, and quotes. Features: - Beautiful Ligatures - PUA Encoded - Multilingual Support - Numerals and Punctuation

Premiere California is a lovely and timeless handwritten font. It is the best choice for creating eye catching logos, branding and quotes. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

Introducing a new layered typeface called Dreadful. Inspired from classic horror movie and vintage comic. Dreadful typeface best uses for headings, Logo type, quotes, apparel design, invitations, flyer, poster, greeting cards, product packaging, book cover, printed quotes, cover album, movie, etc.

This quirky script is packed with features. Best of all: Optical sizes! The three style family is based on the writing of calligrapher Natascha Safarik. All glyphs were redrawn manually to produce vector shapes that look perfect in literally every size!

Veryberry is a handwritten font with a unique character inspired by latest trends in modern calligraphy and handlettering. Full of open type features, is best used in an OpenType-aware software. Font supports most of European languages including cyrillic ones.

Barracuda has this sharp, sharky look and I do a lot of diving with my best friend. What else is there to say? If you see a shark say hello from me. Yours from under the Red Sea, Gert Wiescher

A Hand Made hand painted font with over 100 ligatures to give the text a real free flowing and hand written feel. Great for wide range of applications and works best as upper and lowercase text in a range of sizes.

Danomo is a modern take on the extra bold typeface design. With extra big and wide body and extra small counter makes this font unique and grabs attention. Best usage on logo, poster, display, headline, t-shirt design and many more.

Hallery is a lovely and timeless handwritten font. It is the best choice for creating eye catching logos, business card, branding and quotes. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

The cover of the vintage sheet music for "This Little Piggie Went to Market" (from the 1934 film "Eight Girls in a Boat") features a hand-lettered sans serif with intermittent chamfered angles. This became the model for Shopping Basket JNL.

Mariolite is a modern handwritten font. With a classy and natural handwritten style, it brings a classy and chic typeface. Mariolite is best used for weddings, branding, logotype, and quotes. Features: - Beautiful Ligatures - Alternates - PUA Encoded - Multilingual Support - Numerals and Punctuation

Deco Neue Wilde is a filter font based on Deco, an original Open Window classic. It sort of speaks for itself but it reminds me of a lava lamp and the countless shapes that you could waste time watching appear.

An eye-pleasing collection of 31 Woodland Doodles. Illustrations of 11 trees--traditional and contemporary. A branch, animals, cabin, acorn, flower, leaves, mushrooms, bird’s nest, pine cone and birds on a branch. Coordinating nicely with Lake Vacation Doodles or Farm Doodles .

After Butler is a lovely and timeless handwritten font. It is the best choice for creating eye catching logos, branding and quotes. After Butler is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

Mightwell is a modern Brush font. With a classy and natural handwritten style, it brings a classy and chic typeface. Mightwell is best used for weddings, branding, logotype, and quotes. Features: - Beautiful Ligatures - PUA Encoded - Multilingual Support - Numerals and Punctuation

Roughcast is a kind of outside plaster, composed of cement and pebbles. It’s not the best looking plaster and it is estimated that in the UK, a roughcast outer reduces the value of a house by 5%. I am in the middle of renovating our old farm, but I won’t cover it in roughcast! Roughcast font is actually quite an attractive brush font. I made it with a brush I found hiding underneath my stove (where it had been for a while). I cleaned it and used it to make a couple of fonts, including Roughcast. Roughcast is best used for packaging, book covers and posters.

Amora is a messy, feminine, carefree script that is perfect for logos, posters, signage, and more! Fonts I paired with in the samples are Adobe Caslon, Proxima Nova (both available through www.typekit.com) and Bebas Neue. Comes with 79 ligatures for a totally unique hand-written feel! Includes: Upper + Lowercase Letters w/ alternates Non-English support 79 Ligatures Best for: Logos Branding Large format writing Feminine look + feel Paired with sans serifs (Proxima Nova, Bebas) and classic serifs (Adobe Caslon, Baskerville) Web headers Signage Wedding invitations and decor (table numbers, signage, balloons, etc.) Not best for: Small printing Long quotes (generally flows better with just a few words) Patterned backgrounds