Out of a lifelong inner struggle, Philip Bouwsma unleashes a masterpiece that reconciles classic calligraphy with type in a way never before attempted. Maestro takes its cue from the Italian chancery cursive of the early sixteenth century. By this time type ruled the publishing world, but official court documents were still presented in calligraphy, in a new formal style of the high Renaissance that was integrated with Roman letters and matched the refined order of type. The copybooks of Arrighi and others, printed from engraved wood blocks, spread the Italian cancellaresca across Europe, but the medium was too clumsy and the size too small to show what was really happening in the stroke. Arrighi and others also made metal fonts that pushed type in the direction of calligraphy, but again the medium did not support the superb artistry of these masters or sustain the vitality in their work. As the elegant sensitive moving stroke of the broad pen was reduced to a static outline, the human quality, the variety and the excitement of a living act were lost. Because the high level of skill could not be reproduced, the broad pen was largely replaced by the pointed tool. The modern italic handwriting revival is based on a simplified model and does not approach the level of this formal calligraphy with its relationship to the Roman forms. Maestro is the font that Arrighi and his colleagues would have made if they had had digital technology. Like the calligraphic system of the papal chancery on which it is modelled, it was not drawn as a single finished alphabet, but evolved from a confluence of script and Roman; the script is formalized by the Roman to stand proudly in a world of type. Maestro came together on screen over the course of several years, through many versions ranging widely in style, formality, width, slant, weight and other parameters. On one end of the spectrum, looking back to tradition it embodies the formal harmony of the Roman capitals and the minuscule which became the lower case. On the other it is a flowing script letter drawing on the spirit of later pointed pen and engravers scripts. As its original designers intended, it works with simple Roman capitals and serifs or swash capitals and baroque flourishes. The broad pen supplies weight and substance to the stroke which carries energy through tension in balanced s-curves. Above all it is meant to convey the life and motion of formal calligraphy as a worthy counterbalance to the stolid gravity of metal type. The Maestro family consists of forty fonts distributed over two weights. The OpenType version compresses the family considerably down to two fonts, regular and bold, each containing the entire character set of twenty fonts, for a total of more than 3350 characters per font. These include a wide variety of stylistic alternates, ligatures, beginning and ending letters, flourishes, borders, rules, and other extras. The Pro version also includes extended linguistic support for Latin-based scripts (Western, Central and Eastern European, Baltic, Turkish, Welsh/Celtic, Maltese) as well as Greek. For more thoughts on Maestro, its background and character sets, please read the PDF accompanying the family.

Danielle Signature font. It has a elegant, classy look and beauty. It’s a great font for fashion, apparel projects, signature, album cover, logo, branding, magazine, social media, & advertisements, but also works great for other projects. Highlight : The perfect font choice for powerful projects – watermarks, signatures, photography, logos, business cards, quotes, album covers. No special software is required, The fonts can be opened and used in almost any program/software that can read standard fonts – even MS Word

This is the kind of font which is up to trouble. Not trouble in a bad way, but trouble like when you are in no way prepared what is going to happen. The font is handmade and playful - and to help that playfullness come to live, the 5 different versions of each letter helps! Watch your words change while you write with Budskab! And, by the way..."budskab" is message in danish...just thought you should know!

The 1920 song “Noah’s Wife Lived a Wonderful Life (‘Cause Noah Had to Stay Home)” is another example of one of those overly-worded song titles from early 20th Century composers. What’s more important for type enthusiasts is that the title was hand lettered with a round nib pen in a slightly ragged Art Nouveau style. Cleaning up the ragged design, the end result became Nouveau Showcard JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Taylor Julianne is a bold display font with vintage charm. This font was created to give your headlines and logotype projects a strong and confident touch. Taylor Julianne font is also usable in a wide range of works such as logos, covers, posters, quotes, product packaging, merchandise, social media and much more! Feature : - Accompanied by aesthetic ornaments - Multilingual Language - Works on PC & Mac - Simple installations - Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even works on Microsoft Word.

Charllona is a very beautiful and unique font. This font is perfect for all types of your work. This font is perfect for all wedding needs (wedding invitations, wedding photography, decorations, and other wedding designs), your business promotion (hotels, villas, vacation spots, products, services or promotion of snacks / beverage products. Also suitable for promo updates, logos, branding, posters, or status updates on social media, making romantic words, or quotes. This font is also equipped with swash, ligature and multilingual.

Cross the irrepressible Samuel Welo with a bit of found matchbook art and voilà! You have this retro charmer, proudly found on the kind of neon signs that offered an invitation to dine and dance. To continue the baseline treatment between words—or to extend it on either side—use the _Underscore character. Both versions of the font include complete Latin 1252, Central European 1250 and Turkish 1524 character sets, with localization for Moldovan, Romanian and Turkish.

Melancoline is a brush font created with the original, handcrafted quick stroke technique! Consists of all capital letters, gives a very strong and confident impression. Melancoline also includes LA LE LI LO LU LH ligatures in it, for unique requirements for the word you want. You can use Melancoline repeatedly for your design needs such as branding projects, web banner, quotes, homeware designs, product packaging, headlines, simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image, etc.

Holly Jolly in a beautiful handwritten style. Equipped with 300 glyphs. Holly Jolly 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. To enable OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or a later version.

Whisky fudge is a tasty handmade font! With its smooth edges and fun style Whisky Fudge will make your creative projects look simply delicious! Giving your design ideas a more personal touch, it’s a great choice for gift tags, greeting cards and invitations. The font comes with a set of standard ligatures (including double letters) and 5 final form characters to add extra flavour to your words. Uppercase letters also look great on their own for added creativity. Enjoy!

This typeface was inspired by the font Pabst Heavy, designed by Chauncey Hawley Griffith in 1928 for Linotype. Because of its formal characteristics, recalls the popular Cooper Black and probably was the reaction of Linotype to counter the popularity of this font distributed by the "American Type Founders" was acquired. It's a heavy typeface, ideal for headlines or for use in creating logos, rounded shapes and gestures evoke dynamism and make it perfect to highlight specific words or phrases.

The common Slavic word Osnova means basis in English and βάση in Greek. This universal but still distinctive typeface can make a good ground for any design project. Osnova has six weights from Thin to Heavy with Italic, Small Caps, Old Style & Tabular Figures, some ligatures, alternatives and letter variations. It supports Central European, Greek and Cyrillic codepages, and will be suited for both display and text use. Look how people use it: http://use.type.org.ua/tagged/osnova

Rickslord is an uppercase display font that transports you back in the early 20th century. Some characters show high contrast between thick and thin strokes, creating a dramatic visual impact, while others maintain a more consistent weight for a balanced appearance. This blend of contrasts adds an unexpected dynamic quality to the text, making every word a work of art. Beautiful ornaments are included as a bonus. Rickslord fits in headlines, logos, branding materials, and many more.

Stay Gracious in a beautiful handwritten style. Equipped with 300 glyphs.Stay Gracious 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. To enable OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or a later version.

Original Quality: I often see these words on various objects - from T-shirts to sprinkles and cookies. In fact, I see this term so often that I decided to name a font after it. Original Quality font is an adaptation of an older font of mine called Butterfly Ball. It is a totally different typeface, but I hope it hasn’t lost its original quality… ;-) Comes with all the diacritics you want, plus a handful of cute stylistic alternates.

Amealnia Script is a new modern script font with an irregular baseline. Amealnia looks lovely on wedding invitations, thank you cards, quotes, greeting cards, logos, business cards and more. Perfect for using in ink or watercolor. Including initial and terminal letters, alternates, ligatures and multiple language support. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe In design & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions.

Is a recreational typography. Created from experimentation of the Slab Serif style with asymmetric lines. Bock is compact and stable, although having the quality of breaking the typographic rhythm, to benefit its use in short words as logotypes and lowering of text in editorials and publicity. The Fat variable was devised as an extension of the Bock concept, deleting the inner and outer space that surrounds a letter, creating a font with much weight and attitude.

Gloss Drop is a wild hand lettered typeface, that passed the process of digitization without losing the spontaneous vibrancy of brush lettering. With the power of OpenType it gets real close to what you normally do with ink, brush and paper. Like in real handwriting, some, but not all, letters connect within a word. Automatic OpenType features handle the choice of inital and final forms neighbouring a gap and choose the adequate medial or isolated forms.

Kutaraja is a hand-drawn script font that gives a natural-looking impression that is perfect for those of you who want to use script-style fonts, very suitable for writing product labels, printing t-shirts, greeting cards, invitation cards, etc. Kutaraja family has 2 choice models, namely regular and italic. both have several ligatures, alternate, swash at the beginning and end of lowercase letters to give a sweet touch to the written word or sentence.

Amanllor is a thin lettered and graceful script font. Fall for its ravishing style and use it to create gorgeous wedding invitations, beautiful stationary art, eye-catching social media posts, and much more! Amanllor is PUA encoded which means you can access all glyphs and swashes with ease! FEATURES Alternate Characters Uppercase and Lowercase letters Numbering and Punctuations Multilingual Support Works on PC or Mac Simple Installation Support Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, also works on Microsoft Word

Proudly Present Boniface is sweet, bouncy and swirly calligraphy script. Meanwhile, this script is still maintaining its elegance. Boniface is PUA-Encoded, with many swirly extra glyphs to give many options in designing. Barbie is such a fabulous font for any elegant projects, such as wedding invitation, branding, logo, lettering, crafting, and so on. +Can be used in any software, like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, SIlhouette Studio, even Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and others. +Multilingual glyphs. Thank You

The first ideas about creation this font appeared in spring 2005. I took gothic fonts and a technique of feather as the base and create something unusual. Zholud's Modern Ghotic font has only A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and . , : ; ' " ! ? - characters. I recommed you to use this font in headers. It looks better if you'll start each word with Caps. Please use an application that supports kerning in order to display the spaces between characters correctly.

Côte is a display monospace handwriting font. The typeface is a distinct hand drawn font using a felt marker. The Côte name is derived from the French word meaning "coast" and is also used to describe winemaking vineyards and regions throughout France. One of the most popular regions in the south of France is the French Riviera also known as the Côte d'Azur. Côte is great for display work, invitations, writing, architecture, posters, wine labels and headings.

Berrylina Script come with 320+ glyphs. The alternative characters were divided into several OpenType features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates. The OpenType 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.

Chapter Eight is a stylish signature font that is inspired by modern photography. It’s easy to use, to create a stunning watermark for your photos, invitations, branding. It also works great as a business signature or on other branding materials. - PUA encoded = Accessible in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even work on Microsoft Word. - PUA Encoded Characters - Fully accessible without additional design software. How to access alternate glyphs? you can see it on this link: http://goo.gl/1vy2fv

Unveil the artistry of the written word with Corymbus, a script font that captures the beauty of handwriting. The interplay between thick and thin lines creates a visual feast for the eyes. The whimsical irregularity mirrors the fluidity of natural handwriting. The distinctive hallmark of this font lies in its swinging endings-each letter playfully extends beyond its baseline, creating a sense of rhythm. Corymbus fits in headlines, logos, print media, editorial layouts, and many more.

Honoured to introduce Mystical Memories — a luxury timeless serif font. Make your work stand-out from the crowd with Mystical Memories' chic and elegant 82 Stylistic Alternates and 19 ligatures. that can be accessed automatically when using Open Type features. Mystical Memories was designed specifically for bold projects in mind — perfect for creating headlines, word mark logos, monograms, quotes, product packaging, invitations, magazines and more... I am excited to see what you can design with Mystical Memories! Happy designing!

Bushman a font with capitals and decorative foliage letters. It works pretty simply - just type a word as usual with first capital letter, and it will automatically make the first two letters with growing leaves. The second big part of this set is a supporting font Bushman Sans. It's a modern grotesque font with 7 weight variations. Basically this font is supposed to support a main decorative theme with some smaller text. Thank you and have a nice day

Garishing Worse is a multi-language font supporting the complete Latin/Latin-1 character range, as well as Latin-A (Central European), Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew. In other words, this is more than just the usual line-up of glyphical villains. There’s even a few OpenType features to make things interesting. Just type in a bullet or a hyphen and you'll be presented with some interesting alternatives. A cool ligature or two might even pop up.

Catalina Shiba with alternative characters is divided into several Open Type features such as Swash, Stylistic Sets, Stylistic Alternate, Contextual Alternate. The Open Type feature can be accessed using Open Type savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop version of Corel Draw X, and Microsoft Word. And this Font has provided PUA unicode (custom coded font). so that all alternative characters can be easily accessed in full by a craftsman or designer. Thank You.