❧ Useful links: Luther’s Manuscripts at the UNESCO Memory of the World at Google Arts and Culture Martin Luther font on Kickstarter (with Film about the creation) Each letter of the Martin Luther font is strictly based on original samples found in Martin Luther’s 500 year old handwritten manuscripts. Letters that occur more often for example vowels have two or more different versions stored in the font. (➶ Figure 4) These alternative forms are exchanged automatically by the font as you type, and create a vivid look that comes close to actual handwriting. The font avoids that two identical letters are placed next to each other like, for example the two “o” in the word “look”. ➸ What Historic Sources is the Font based on? Two historic documents were used to base the font on. The notes Luther took before giving his speech in Worms in 1521 and a 6 page letter he wrote immediately after to Emperor Charles V., summarising his speech (➶ Figure 2). Both documents have been added to the UNESCO “Memory of the World” and can be seen at the Google Arts and Culture website. ➸ The Creation of a Handwriting Font The creation of a handwriting font is very different from the creation of a regular font. Harald Geisler has specialised in recreating handwriting in preceding projects with Albert Einstein’s, Sigmund Freud’s and his own handwriting. His experience working with Archives and Museums has gone into this project. First Geisler analyses the movement in the writing to understand how each letter is drawn. This involves partially learning how to write like a person. In this process not the outlines of the sample are reproduced but the original movement path of the handwriting (➶ Figure 3). In a second step width and contrast is added to reproduce Martin Luther’s characteristic impetus and the writing tools used at the time. (Link: Youtube Playlist showcasing the creation of individual letters) How about signs that can’t be found in archives? Some Glyphs can not be found in 500 year old manuscripts, for example the @-sign. Towards the end of the creation one collects a profund amount of details about how a writer moves on paper and addresses certain tasks moving the pen. Keeping this knowledge in mind an improvisation can be based on similar letter forms. For example the @ sign is based on of the movement of a lowercase a and parenthesis. ➸ Features of the Martin Luther font ❶ Extensive Documentation of the creation of the font, including high quality reproduction of the used manuscripts. ❷ Additional texts from Historian Dr. Henning Jürgens and Palaeographer (and Luther handwriting expert) Prof. Ulrich Bubenheimer ❸ Alternating Letters - in handwriting every word looks a bit different. To avoid that two identical letterforms are placed next to each other (for example in the word look) the font actively changes between different versions of letters as you type. ❹ Ligatures - characteristic writing forms when two letters are combined (for example “ct”) (➶ Figure 5) ❺ Terminal Letterforms - renders a special letterform when letter is at the end of a word. (➶ Figure 8) ❻ ‘’’Initial and Medial Letterforms''' - some letterforms are different when placed in the beginning or middle of a word, for example the lowercase s. ❼ Luther Rose - is a seal Luther used to authorise his correspondence. Today it is a widely recognized symbol for Luther. When you enter the numbers of Luthers year of birth and death 14831546 using the Martin Luther PRO font, it will render a stylised version of the Luther Rose. (➶ Figure 7) ❽ Historic letter-forms - letter-forms that are specific to medieval writing around 1500. For example the long-s or h with a loop at the bottom. (➶ Figure 6) ⚑ Multi language support - see the technical information tab for a full list of supported languages. (➶ Figure 11) ➸ The different Styles explained ❋ Martin Luther PRO - this includes all features listed above and is geared towards writing texts that are more readable today. It features alternating letters to create a natural handwriting look as well as two stylistic sets accessible through the OpenType menu. Historic forms are available through the glyph picker. ❋ Martin Luther Historic - this font creates a historically correct reproduction (i.e. with long-s) of Luther’s medieval latin handwriting. It features alternating letters to create a natural handwriting look as well as two stylistic sets accessible through the OpenType menu. ❋ Martin Luther Expert-1 - Dedicated access to the first set of letters only. ❋ Martin Luther Expert-2 - Dedicated access to the second set of letters only. ❈❈❈ Family Pack - recieve all fonts at a discounted price. ❈❈❈ ➸ Kickstarter The creation and development of the Martin Luther font was financed by 500 supporters on ➸Kickstarter.

Rosso is a condensed geometric Sans with a retro style, inspired by various typographic styles. It features the Roslyn Gothic structure, which was popularly used for the covers of Philip K. Dick's books in the 1970s. Rosso has 10 variants from Ultra Light to Black with their respective Italics. In addition, it is divided into two Subfamilies, Normal and Alt. The normal one remains faithful to the proportions of Roslyn Gothic and classic geometric fonts, while the Alternative version expands its round shapes, generating a striking and unique rhythm and contrast, classic of Art Deco fonts. In addition, it has alternative glyphs and discretionary ligatures inspired by the work of Herb Lubalin, which add greater possibilities to face any design project. All this makes Rosso a font full of personality, striking and recognizable. Ideal for the construction of logos, eye-catching headlines, movie posters, volumetric posters, etc.

The Country Blues it's a cool fancy font family inspired by the good old vinyl records / movie covers, bowling and golf aesthetics and good old Rock'n'Roll melodies such as "Runaround Sue" was. The sans comes in five widths from light to black. Each letter has a stylistic alternate to get your typography more individuality. Especially it looks good with all caps and bouncing baseline. But it still good with normal block texts with straight line. The script has also stylistic alternates for each capitals and some lowercase features as awesome underlined 'g'/ 'j' / 'y' or special 't' with long stroke. All these fonts come as Clear or Raw (roughen) style if you want to add some "Horror" mood. As a dessert you'll get the graphic font with a lot of vintage sign shapes. 78 graphic elements total. The PDF graphic navigation file is include. Multilingual.

The Razels Font is a bold calligraphy script with dramatic moves and strong styles for your latest project that requires the look of a hand bulletin. This is perfect for branding projects, logos, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product design, labels, photography, watermarks, invitations, stationery, and any project that requires a handwriting style. The Razels Font comes with uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and many variations of each character, including OpenType alternatives and general binders to allow you to customize the design.

Metal Cry is a font family that was inspired by countless hours spent playing video games, watching old movies or reading comic books. And even more hours closely analysing the design of all these things. The art of creating beautiful letters has slowly declined with the rise of the digital age and its solid-colour, 2D fonts. And most of the time, the care given to typography in cultural products just isn't what it used to be anymore. This was the inspiration for Metal Cry, a family of 4 layerable fonts that can bring a feeling of depth to its letters, and offers endless possible combinations. Metal Cry Outlands is the basic shape of all the characters, it can be used as the bright side of the bevel. Metal Cry Front is the inline border font that can be used as the front side of the bevel. Metal Cry Shadow can be used as the dark side of the bevel. Metal Cry Depth can be used to flash out the inside shape of the letter. But of course, any font can be combined with any other font(s) to obtain various results. The planets in the above visuals are courtesy of 3D artist Thomas Veyrat / veyratom.com

Iza and Paulo W (Intellecta Design) are proud to announce Van den Velde Script. A free interpretation of the work of the famous master penman Jan van den Velde, to be found in the “Spieghel der schrijfkonste, in den welcken ghesien worden veelderhande gheschrifften met hare fondementen ende onderrichtinghe. ” (Haarlen, 1605). Van den Velde Script has evocative ancient ligature forms from the XVII Century Dutch master penman Jan van den Velde. Your indescritible writing-book was important not only with regard to the specific period it represents, but also in relationship to the entire history of calligraphy as an art: Van den Velde is rightly credited with having introduced and perfected a new trend in Dutch calligraphy. Our font, Van den Velde Script merges modern necessities o better legibility without loose the taste of his archaic origins. This enhanced OpenType version is a complete solution for producing documents and artworks whith a evocative and voluptuous style of calligraphic script: - dozens of stylistic alternates for each letter (upper- and lowercase), accessed with the glyph palette; - historical ornaments and fleurons in the typical style (and motifs) from the XVII century at the Lower Countryes accessed with the glyph palette using the Ornaments feature); - an extensive set of ligatures (100s of contextual alternates plus discretionary ligatures) providing letterform variations that make your designs really special, resembling real handwriting on the page; - a tour-de-force kerning work: over 700 gliphs in this font was adjusted to your kern pairs handly. In non-OpenType-savvy applications it works well as an unusual and beautiful script style font. Because of its high number of alternate letters and combinations (over 700 glyphs), we suggest the use of the glyph palette to find ideal solutions to specific designs. The sample illustrations will give you an idea of the possibilities. You have full access to this amazing stuff using InDesign, Illustrator, QuarkXpress and similar software. However, we still recommend exploring what this font has to offer using the glyphs palette: principally to get all the power of the Contextual Alternates feature. You can has an idea of the power of this font looking at the “Van den Velde User Guide”, a pdf brochure in the Galçlery section. Two last things: take a special look at the Van den Velde Words (ready words) font and another super script font, Penabico. Van den Velde Script has original letters designed by Iza W and overall creative direction plus core programming by Paulo W.

ERAGU is a display typeface that is unlike any other, both in terms of shape and the impression it gives when used in words or sentences. It also has a new and unusual appearance that makes it truly unique and quirky. All of your projects will be unique in the market if you use this font; it will pique the interest of everyone who sees it, and it will be simple to remember every message you will convey to the audience because, in just a few seconds, everyone will be interested in the appearance of your project if you use this font. Logotypes, food banners, branding, brochure, posters, movie titles, book titles, quotes, and more may all benefit from this font. Of course, using this font in your various design projects will make them excellent and outstanding; many viewers are drawn to the striking and unusual graphic display. Start utilizing this typeface in your projects to make them stand out.

Proudly present a new font that fresh from the oven Creative Thinking font, an elegant font family that has 4 weight styles regular, italic, bold, and bold-italic. It's so perfect to combining and mixing the weight styles to make outstanding and beautiful design project. Don't worry this font already with multilingual support more than 30 languages.

Motor Mouth provides racy type, oozing of high octane gasoline and selfconfidence. Designer Martin Fredrikson CORE, graffiti artist turned typeface designer and car paint expert, combines his sense of speed with raw power lettering. Sloped and cocky, Motor Mouth is an original design in the great tradition of Nascar and Indy 500 and makes you think of roaring muscle cars and hot asphalt. Swedish type foundry T4 premiere new fonts every month. Motor Mouth is our fourth introduction.

Too Sweet To Eat is a hand-drawn font that has many variations because you can choose from simple outline version, only shadow version, normal version and filling version. If You put one on another then you have a great possibility to apply different colors on different layers! That makes your letters multicolor! Great stuff for decorative writings, posters, informal stationery! SPECIFICATION: alternate characters for all numbers and letters, nearly 400 kerning pairs, multi-language coverage, ornaments.

The original idea of the Dada font and randomness was given new life with the introduction of OpenType programming. P22 Dada Pro includes over 500 glyphs of letters and images and can be used to create Dada inspired typography by simply selecting various OpenType features. P22 Dada Pro was released in 2006 as "Dada Special Edition" to coincide with the "First Major International Dada Museum Exhibition in The United States" at the National Gallery of Art.

Noelia Script is a typeface inspired on the work of Doyald Young, Tommy Thompson, Matthew Carter and Giambattista Bodoni. This project is great to use in designs about sports, travel, and city postals, among others. This font has about 360 glyphs with stylistic alternates, old style numbers, serif caps, and a nice touch of classic penmanship. This is the result of a few months of work and that is it! Enjoy it! Thanks for buy it!

Neon Summer is a monoline script font: modern, warm, fun and lovely. It's a family of 7 styles, some of which are layerable and ready to play with! This typeface offers opentype features such as ligatures, alternates, swashes, and multilingual support with over 500 glyphs. With all of these features and options, it makes a good choice for a more modern, yet warmer and funnier approach in texts, display, posters, book covers, quotes, branding, social media, packaging and more...

House Soft is the curvy, fun little brother of House Sans. Its exaggerated rounded corners give it a playful feel that will bring happiness and joy wherever it’s used. Like its big brother, House Soft is also made up of 100 weights in 5 useful widths (Compressed to extended) that make it a versatile font. From big bold headlines to playful brands House Soft offers the flexibility and uniqueness you and your project deserve. Go soft or go home.

Electric Lady in a light script with a great amount of different possibilities. With Electric Lady font family you can to turn on various features (Ligatures, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates, Swashes, 3 completely different Stylistic sets) to auto swap out letter sets with alternate versions. - More than 3,000 glyphs - 100 different numbers shapes - 110 different ornaments In the Extra 2 style, you'll find many different standalone words, kitchen icons, menu icons, swashes, and extra fun characters!

Introducing Thourenz, a monoline vintage typeface combining with the modern typography style. Thourenz comes with 6 style (Regular, Inked, Rough, Stamp, Outline, Outline Rough). It is perfect to create a beautiful vintage typography on your any project like t-shirt, merchandise, logo, label, poster, magazine, packaging, quotation and more. Thourenz is all-caps font, has 500+ glyphs including many openType features and underlines that you can mix and match each character to get the more playful vintage design

Hello Aluyeaholics! Boulevard Signature, an exclusive handwritten signature font. Coming with 100+ stunning and super easy to use alternates and ligatures. Very suitable for your wedding invitation, packaging, apps, magazine, headline, website, ads and all type of design project you have. Super Easy to Use alternates - You can easily call alternates using special combination like a.2 k.3 b.4 t.h c.c etc. To get results like the preview just type Boul.4evard.3 Sig.4nature

Sunderland is a modern calligraphy font with a beautiful touch, perfect for branding, social media, logos and more. Sunderland has 301 glyphs, including 8 ligatures, sunderland also gets swash lowercase letters a to z. Sunderland is very easy to use, because there is an automatic first and last letters swap. 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.

GUI Design Icons is pack of about 200 icons for every possible user interface (GUI). What makes this font special is combinations. There are background and foreground objects which you can combine any way you like. Imagine you have an icon of shopping cart. By just adding another symbol, you can make an icon for adding that item to shopping cart, removing the item, showing favorites or any other possible combination. See image example for some fresh ideas!

Losta Masta - fun and playful serif family. Unique, playful and versatile serif family with 40+ ligatures and 100+ alternates that you can combine to get curves and beautiful shapes just in seconds. Play with the ornaments to create a more stunning display. This font is suitable for use in many design forms, for example magazines, postcards, logos, vintage look, old classic ,60s, 70s, 80s era, wedding projects and many more. We recommend using Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

Rondalia is a timeless yet modern font in which the strokes vary in thickness. It is highly readable yet has an informality combined with a quiet elegance. Above all else, Rondalia is well-behaved, ladylike, and can be expected to behave correctly and make the right impression in a wide range of situations. Rondalia is clean and rounded with a slightly Byzantine flavor. It is extremely versatile, equally effective for magazine design, movie posters and cosmetic ads, and for invitations, greeting cards and company profiles. The fact that there is very little difference in height between upper and lower case letters creates a calm, peaceful impression. The font is letterspaced and kerned and has a complete character set (all upper and lower case, numerals and mathematical symbols and a complete set of accented and special characters).

Step into the groove with Daily Shine, the ultimate funky retro font that will transport you straight back to the '70s era. Whether you're looking to infuse nostalgic flair into your logo or seek a fresh burst of inspiration for your design ventures, Daily Shine is your go-to choice. With its stylish swash alternates, Daily Shine adds a touch of extra style to your project, creating a dynamic and eye-catching look. Plus, its multilingual support ensures versatility for various language needs. From captivating headings and expressive logotypes to spirited quotes, apparel designs, inviting invitations, lively flyers, dynamic posters, heartfelt greeting cards, captivating product packaging, captivating book covers, empowering printed quotes and even mesmerizing album covers and movie posters, Daily Shine is your versatile companion for any creative endeavor. Get ready to shine bright and groove on with Daily Shine font!

An old rubber stamp printing set called the Aristocrat Sign Marker was the inspiration for this font from Jeff Levine. The letter shapes are truly reminiscent of the 1920s and early 30s with their casual playfulness, hence the font's name of Casual Friday JNL. To add a more nostalgic touch, the characters show slight imperfection of shape, as if hand-lettered.

Presenting 🕌Alibon Arabic Typeface🕌 by alitdesign. Alibon Arabic Typeface is a stunning font product that features a religious and Islamic style, making it an ideal choice for Ramadan promotions and other Islamic design projects. The font's carefully crafted design is sure to impress your audience and help your designs stand out. One of the standout features of Alibon Arabic Typeface is its support for PUA Unicode, which ensures that users can easily access all of the font's characters without any issues. The font also supports multilingual characters, making it perfect for use in various languages other than Arabic. With 958 glyphs characters, Alibon Arabic Typeface offers a vast range of options, allowing users to create unique and eye-catching designs. The font's characters are well-crafted and easily readable, making it an excellent choice for any design that requires an Arabic font. As a bonus, Alibon Arabic Typeface comes with a Bahlull Dingbats font that includes a collection of 304 Islamic symbols and ornaments. These extra glyphs can be used to add a personal touch to your designs and enhance their visual appeal. In summary, Alibon Arabic Typeface is a versatile and elegant font product that is perfect for Ramadan promotions and other Islamic design projects. With PUA Unicode support, multilingual characters, 958 glyphs characters, and a bonus Bahlull Dingbats font with 304 characters, this product offers everything you need to create stunning designs that resonate with your audience. Language Support : Latin, Basic, Western European, Central European, South European,Vietnamese. 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. but if your software doesn't have Glyphs panel, you can install additional swashes font files.

Designed in 2012 by Olivier Gourvat, this font family is inspired by the euskaran (basque language) font. Redesigned with modernism, this new font respects the traditional euskara language with lowercase addition. These nuances give Kara a traditional appearance for both text and headlines, but can be used for many more applications such as titles, decoration, posters, cartoons... Kara Text & Display support a wide range of languages, with more than 500 glyphs and OpenType features like case-sensitive forms, contextual alternatives, stylistic alternates, fractions, proportional and tabular figures. With its 2 fonts, Kara is an ideal font family for text, brand identity, signage, print and web design.

Dudu is a font which I made mainly for my own purposes. A lot of times in many projects I was looking for elegant vertical and modular typeface. There is a lot of fonts that overall look good but if You take a closer look, You can clearly see they have mistakes. That's why I made Dudu. Dudu is a font designed with a highest attention to the detail. Each Dudu glyph has the same modular construction. Dudu Font contains over 400 glyphs ready to use in various languages. I'm also working on a cyrillic version of a Dudu Font which soon is going to be published.

Okeanos Handwritten Greek Cyrillic Font is a handwritten display font. 100% handcrafted with a marker, digitized, and turned into a font. Of course, the font supports a full set of Greek characters, Cyrillics, and an extended Latin character set with diacritics. With 10 nautical icons, this typeface can be your next typeface for your graphic design needs. From “hand-written” quotes to product packaging, merchandise, and branding projects, this font is so easy to use that it can cover them all. Also, it can be used on social media content, for branding, poster design, for “hand-written” quotes and any other kind of product packaging.

A mixture of bold and fine line helps this distinctive design evoke the spirit of the 1930s Jazz Age. Due to the modular nature of this design there may be a slight lack of smoothness to the curves at very large point sizes (around 100 pt and above).

Altum Sans is a new clean and contemporary typeface. The geometric and condensed letterforms are designed for use in larger texts and display applications. With over 500 glyphs Altum Sans supports many languages as well as two different figure styles, interpolation breakpoints, subscript, superscript, contextual alternatives, ordinal indicators, fractions,...

Put together from a collection of old bits and pieces, RM Scrapheap is a distinctive display face with many uses. Due to the modular nature of this design there may be a slight lack of smoothness to the curves at very large point sizes (around 100 pt and above).

Studio Grotesk is a modern sans typeface with a futuristic touch. This multi-purpose typeface will grab reader's attention with its stylish and neat design. With over 500+ Glyphs, five styles and a wide range of weights its a timeless workhorse for many possible application from branding to editorial.

Strong and distinctive, yet soft and cuddly. This is a rounded sans serif design that features slightly thicker horizontals. Due to the modular nature of this design there may be a slight lack of smoothness to the curves at very large point sizes (around 100 pt and above).

Marilyn Script in a beautiful handwritten style. Equipped with 350 glyphs. Marilyn Script is perfect for branding projects, home appliance design, product packaging, use in business cards, invitation cards, etc. Simply as a stylish text overlay onto a background image or anything that requires a touch of elegance.

A family of soft, rounded, yet bold display faces which can successfully be used in conjunction with one another. Due to the modular nature of this design there may be a very slight lack of smoothness to the curves at extremely large point sizes (around 200 pt and above).

A condensed neo-grotesque typeface with a quirky personality. Cargi contains 9 weights, obliques and a variable version. Low contrast and clean forms create legibility at small sizes, but display uses are where the real character of Cargi comes out to play. 319 glyphs to support 100+ languages.

Alfreda grotesque is not just another grotesque typeface. Its morphology mixes modulated and unmodulated strokes, and natural and reverse contrast. All that with a humanistic touch and subtle ink traps. Weird. Alfreda comes in 6 weights, it has open type features, more than 400 glyphs and 18 stylistic sets.

Shopie is a handmade script made with a marker pen. It is useful for a variety projects such as quotes, book covers, t-shirt designs, magazine titles and much more. Features: 370 Glyphs Uppercase Lowercase Symbols & Punctuation Support more than 62 Languages Support OpenType Features Support PUA Unicode

A geometric sans serif with contemporary lines. Distinctive curves are combined with classical letterforms to produce a clean, linear typeface best suited to identity, mobile and web applications. Details include 9 weights with italics, 500 characters, 5 variations of numerals, stylistic alternatives, manually edited kerning and OpenType features.