Sardis is based on a family of wood type called "Lydian," designed for American Type Founders Company by Warren Chappell in 1938. The strokes have angled ends, referencing the use of a calligraphy nib.

African fonts are characterised by design considerations that differ from those of Europe and the Americas. At one extreme we have a relaxed and casual approach to life that values the quality of each moment in life far more than people do in the west. In this approach each element of the font, while being part of a community, nevertheless stands on its own and has its own "character". An African font that characterises this approach is Ubuvila (the word means relaxedness or relaxation in Zulu). There is no strict adherence to a design format in Ubuvila nor are the characters constrained by resting on the same baseline. They wander up and down in the sentence and find a comfortable resting place.

Here’s a workman-like collection of border elements gleaned from the specimen books of various American manufacturers of woodtype from around 1840 to 1885. Refer to the PDF guides for detailed, yet simple, instructions for constructing various border patterns, all with Victorian grace and charm.

Tag is the work of American designer David Sagorski and influenced by street art. It is an all caps typeface which includes a complete set of alternate capitals and amusing spot illustrations. The graffiti style of Tag is ideal for vivid, eye-catching headlines.

The name says it all. It is aesthetically located between American Gothics and European Grotesques and features small caps, a Central European character set and four number formats plus small caps numerals. This makes it not only a heartbreaking headline font, but also extremely versatile.

Kennerley Old Style was designed by Goudy for publisher Mitchell Kennerley in 1911. Goudy described it as a "book letter with strong serifs, firm hairlines, and makes a solid, compact page." One of Goudy's best text faces, Kennerley is considered an original American classic as it is not based on historical type designs.

This is a stylized blackletter font with many OpenType features and 403 characters -- many of which are presently unknown for blackletter fonts: Caps, lower case, small caps, old style figures, numerators, denominators, accents characters and so on. The idea is a modern blackletter that is readable and usable for the American eye.

Novety Script is a quirky script typeface, drawn and created by Mans Greback. It has a great contrast, with bold calligraphic curves and hair thin conjunctions, giving the lettering a juicy, swirly appearance. Use underscore _ anywhere in a word to make a swash. Example: Nov_ety Use multiple underscore to make different swashes. Example: Cute___ness (Download required.) Optimized for logotype and header usage, Novety Script works great for product branding or as a signature, or for a beautiful wallpaper quote graphic. It has a modern style and a strong personality to make it stand out. Novety Script is provided in four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from North Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Rabento is an original serif family, with articulate and big letterforms. The typeface was drawn and created by Mans Greback between the years 2018-2021, and is designed to assure a unique and confident character to any headline, logotype or title. A display typeface made for large text displays, it is still clear and legible. With great contrast, this lettering has precise hairline thin horizontal parts, a bold and expressive outline and fat slab serifs. It has traditional traits, but a new and modern design, which together makes for an impactful and notable type setting. Rabento is provided in six high-quality styles: Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black & Black Italic. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from North Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

The rather wide, caps-only Monotype Engravers family imitates scripts that evolved from copperplate and steel plate engravers hands of the nineteenth century, which were a quite expressive medium! Monotype Engravers' letters show a strong contrast between thick and thin strokes and have sharply cut serifs. In 1899, Robert Wiebking (who worked for a number of foundries in his time) designed an all-caps typeface named Engravers Roman."" Shortly thereafter, American Type Founders, Inc. (ATF) released another successful ancestor of this design in 1902, ""Engravers Bold,"" designed by Morris Fuller Benton. Engravers Bold was also released by the Barnhart Brothes & Spinder foundry. Also made available by Lanston Monotype at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Engravers faces soon became a popular choice for letter heads, advertising and stationery.

Manofik is a classic serif typeface. It has round and relaxed retro forms, a comfortable thickness and a stable base. A traditional legible font, the Manofik family sets the authenticity to any project. It could be used for a hamburger logo, a product headline, or a body text that requires that extra bit of personality. This expressive type is provided in four styles: Manofik Regular, Manofik Bold, Manofik Italic and Manofik Bold Italic The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has a very extensive lingual support, covering Arabic, Cyrillic, Capital Greek and all Latin-based languages, from North Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Barney Script is a cool baseball typeface. A sporty calligraphy, this retro lettering will be your go-to style for a fresh team logotype or a vintage headline. Drawn and created by Mans Greback in 2022, it has a competitive style and a bold personality. The Barney Script family consists of three professional styles: Regular, Bold and Rounded, complimenting each other for greater design opportunities. Use underscore _ to make a swash. Example: Letter_ Use multiple underscores to make longer swashes. Example: Football____ The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Kerney Script is a cool baseball typeface. A sporty calligraphy, this retro lettering will be your go-to style for a fresh team logotype or a vintage headline. Drawn and created by Mans Greback in 2022, it has a competitive style and a bold personality. The Kerney Script family consists of three professional styles: Regular, Bold and Rounded, complimenting each other for greater design opportunities. Use underscore _ to make a swash. Example: Letter_ Use multiple underscores to make longer swashes. Example: Football____ The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Brophy Script is a bold connecting brush alphabet. This brush script typeface was designed in 1953 by the American type designer Harold Broderson. Broderson worked for ATF (the American Type Founders), who were the original publishers of this design. Brophy Script is a version with more handwritten letters than to its other version called Body. This a brush script face that mimics the show card style of lettering, which was very popular throughout the United States during the first half of the 20th Century. The letters appear as if they were drawn quickly and spontaneously with a wide, flat lettering brush. The lowercase letters connect to each other, cursive script style. Brophy Script is the perfect display face to provoke a nostalgic feeling for the 1950s. Anything having to do with apple pie, home cooking, or last minute sales would look great in this face. You could outfit a whole supermarket signage system in a snap with Brophy Script.

Upholding aspects of geometric shapes Created Pelinka. Pelinka is a Sans serif Family that has a solid foundation of geometric shapes designed to be bold and flexible. This typeface has all the widths needed to meet various design needs, Condensed, Normal and Expanded each width has 9 weights. Pelinka also includes support for Cyrillic and Greek Alphabets. Opentype feature: aalt, frac, liga, locl, numr, onum,ordn, salt, sinf, ss01, ss02, subs, sups, kern, mark. Language support for the Americas, most of Europe,Cyrillic and Greek.

Rainsong is a display font inspired by the art and symbols of the Native Americans.

A revival of one of the popular American Clarendon wooden types of the 19th century.

A crisp, geometric semiscript, based on the font Adonis, originally released by American Type Founders.

NixonScript is a display typeface inspired by the typographic emancipation given voice by 1950s and '60s north American vernacular type. NixonScript's starting point was lettering found on a 1960s camera found in a Chicago junk shop, but its development saw it transformed from a punchy sans-serif to a more thoughtful serif, with a lowered x-height and a vibe of almost priestly piousness. Rather than a simple regular italic, a bold italic is offered. During its development, the regular version seemed almost placid but with the double emphasis of bold and italic, NixonScript gained an energetic, self-congratulatory form.

American type designer Guy Jeffrey Nelson created this script FontFont in 1994. The family contains 4 weights: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, festive occasions, poster and billboards as well as web and screen design. FF Providence provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures, small capitals, alternate characters, case-sensitive forms, and stylistic alternates. It comes with proportional oldstyle figures. As well as Latin-based languages, the typeface family also supports the Greek writing system. This FontFont is a member of the FF Providence super family, which also includes FF Providence Sans.

The standard American sanserif of the first two thirds of the twentieth century, prepared for ATF by Morris Fuller Benton in 1908 under the name News Gothic, with a matching lightface known as Lightline Gothic. Linotype’s Trade Gothic follows News Gothic except for its widely-spaced straight-sided boldface based on ATF Alternate Gothic No.3. Linotype matches News Gothic Bold, a boldface version that originated at Intertype, with Trade Gothic Bold No.2. Ludlow Record Gothic follows News Gothic more loosely. News Gothic BT™ font field guide including best practices, font pairings and alternatives.

Ds Hand Font Family is a handwritten font designed by Tom Nikosey, based on Danielle Nikosey’s printing style. Tom is an American Graphic Designer specializing in Typographic Design and Illustration. Ds Hand is available in Regular & Bold weights CozyFonts Foundry is Tom's intro into the world of font design. Ds Hand Family is a tribute and gift to his daughter. Ds Hand, at first glance, gives a hand drawn aesthetic feel but on closer inspection, when set as text, this font gives off a cool, organized, legibly organic read. Also available in Bold. This is the 5th Hand Drawn Font Family from CozyFonts!

Decary Sans is a new vintage typeface. A sans-serif lettering provided in the styles Light, Regular and Bold, and each weight as Italic. Perfect for a logotype or headline, use this modern retro type to express genuine tradition while keeping the design up-to-date. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

This American original was designed in 1901 by Frederic W. Goudy for the American Type Founders in Jersey City. Copperplate Gothic is an all caps font which looks like a sans serif at first glance. But closer examination reveals tiny, pointy serifs which almost seem to round off the letters. Designers rely on this font’s lofty and sublime impression and it is often seen in advertisements, but it has also made a place for itself in private and business correspondence and corporate design. The AB and BC designations in the style names refer to the relative sizes of the capitals and small capitals.

Morris Fuller Benton’s version of the standard American nineteenth century blackletter made for ATF in 1901.

The first of the popular American informal scripts designed by R.E. Smith for ATF in 1933.

This elegant face with a few semi-script flourishes is based on Morris Fuller Benton’s Announcement Roman, designed for American Type Founders in 1917. It’s perfect for invitations, programs and all kinds of formal ballyhoo. All versions of this font include the Unicode 1250 Central European character set in addition to the standard Unicode 1252 Latin set.

Dance Lesson JNL is a reinterpretation of the popular "Latin Bold" typeface. The font's name is a reference to the Latin dance craze of the 1950s, when the Cha-Cha, Meringue, Tango, Mambo and even the "Chalypso" - a hybrid of Cha-Cha and Calypso rhythms had everyone moving to the beat of Central and South America.

ATF Headline Gothic cries out to be used in headlines, and that is exactly how it was used after it was first created by American Type Founders in 1936 with newspapers in mind. It would be hard to imagine a better typeface for a shocking, front-page headline in a scene from an old black-and-white movie. With its all-caps character set, and its big, bold, condensed design, ATF Headline Gothic is the epitome of its name. “Extra! Extra!” The style of ATF Headline Gothic recalls the bold, condensed gothic display faces of the 19th century, but with more refinement in its details than many large types of the time (typically wood type). Its most recognizable trait is the restrained, high-waisted M, with short diagonal strokes that end with their point well above the baseline; this avoids the sometimes cramped look of a bold condensed M with a deep “V” in the middle, common in many similar headline faces. The digital ATF Headline Gothic comes in a single weight, all caps, like its predecessor, but offers two styles: one crisply drawn, and a “Round” version with softer corners, to suggest a more “printed” feel, reminiscent of wood type. Of course, in either style it includes a full modern character set, including symbols such as the Euro, Ruble, and Rupee, that didn’t exist in 1936.

Imagine America in the 1930s. A gangster flick with Al Capone, a crime novel featuring Philip Marlowe. Our hero in a fedora sits in a classy bar, orders a double bourbon, lights a cigar and eyes the evening paper. He turns the pages, reading about a bank heist over on Third Avenue, a scandal involving a baseball player, a small ad for a general practitioner and a large spread about a famous law firm. What do the bottle of booze and the majestic facade of the bank have in common? The elegant baseball uniform and trustworthy attorneys? - Copperplate Gothic - When Frederick William Goudy created his legendary typeface in 1901, it went on to literally become the symbol of early 20th century America. Tiny serifs, characteristically broad letterforms, and particularly bold titles decorated calling cards at 6-point size, enormous bronze-cast logos, newspaper headlines, restaurant menus and more. This was the golden age of Copperplate, lasting up until the arrival of die neue Typografie and monospaced grotesques in the 1960s. Then the typeface almost completely disappeared. It made a partial comeback with the advent of the personal computer; digitizations of varying quality appeared, and one version even became a standard font in Adobe programs. This may have played a role in Copperplate later being used in DIY projects and amateur designs, which harmed its reputation. Copperplate New has been created to revive the faded glory of the original design. Formally, the new typeface expands the existing weight and proportional extremes. The slight serifs are reduced even further, making the typeface sans-like at smaller point sizes and improving readability. In contrast, at large point sizes it retains all of its original character. Decorative inline & shadow styles have been added and both have been created in all five proportions, making it easy to adapt the typesetting to the format you need. Despite these changes and innovations, Copperplate New remains true to Goudy’s original design and represents a snazzy way to evoke a golden era in American culture. Specimen: http://carontwice.com/files/specimen_Copperplate_New.pdf

Pristinia Duo is a powerful fancy and impactful bold mono-lined script font that comes in with a clean all-caps sans serif font that makes a great harmonious pair. The monolined script comes in with a large number of ligatures providing you with several options for your designs. Pristinia Duo is supporting western, southern, southern american and south eastern european. Pristinia Duo is perfect for branding, web headings, logos, quotes, movie titles and more... Promote your next project today with this great duo and set your message apart from others. I am eager and elated to see what you can do with Pristinia Duo!

A typical set of American Tuscan capitals cast by ATF in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Bernhard Modern was designed by Lucian Bernhard and was first cut by American Type Founders. Bernhard Modern is an unusual face with small lowercase but very tall ascenders and short descenders. Bernhard Modern was intended to hold its color and contrast without depending on the spread of ink of the letterpress method. It has an attractive pen drawn quality which has made it a popular choice for invitations and greetings cards. The Bernhard Modern font is useful for advertising and display work.

Galahad font was designed by the American artist Alan A. Blackman in 1994. It is a sans serif font with a calligraphic flair particularly suited for displays, although its open geometric forms make it a good choice for shorter texts as well. Galahad also includes old style figures and alternate characters, making it a very flexible font.

Harvey is a work of American graphic designer Dale R. Kramer. It is an all capital sans serif typeface which features a distinctive, light-hearted look and includes both conventional and unusual letter forms. Alternate letters give Harvey even more flexibility, making it a great typeface for any headline.

Hastafi is a classy serif typeface. It is naturally bold, with contrasting, hairline thin horizontal strokes, and a confident character. Use it for any project that needs that extra bit of elegance and personality, without losing the thoughtfulness and authenticity of a serious serif font. The Hastafi family consists of eight beautiful styles: The Regular, for a medium and normal variety, and the flowing Italic version. It also contains a swash style for decorative additions to the letters, and each of the styles as an emphasized Bold. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from North Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Wonder Smile is a lovely script typeface. With a quirky character, this optimistic and charming lettering will give any project a naive and happy appearance. In a hand-drawn style, Wonder Smile is your rustic and down-to-earth calligraphic font. Use underscore _ before or after any letter to make cute heart decorations. Example: _beauty_ Write # after any letter to make a swash. Example: Wand#er (Download required.) The Wonder Smile typeface family consist of four diverse styles: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Bourdos is an energetic script typeface. Its vivid letter forms move quickly over the paper, with active calligraphic movements and a joyful humour. A beautiful handwriting font, Bourdos should be used for a modern logotype, an enthusiastic headline, or any graphic that needs that extra spark of life. The Bourdos family consists of four styles. The weights Bold and Regular, as well as Italic and Bold Italic. Use underscore _ to make a swash. Example: Amaz_ing Use multiple underscores to make different swashes. Example: Price__less (Download required.) The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from North Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Dramatic Hearts is a lovely script typeface. A romantic valentine typeface, Dramatic Hearts flows with love and passion. It has beautiful, swashy capital letters and its charming, hand-drawn character gives any project a true and genuine appearance. Use the parenthesis characters ( ) [ ] { } for decorative heart symbols. Use underscore _ anywhere in a word for swashes. Example: Restau_rant Use multiple underscore for different swashes. Example: Crea___tives The Dramatic Hearts family consists of eight styles: Regular and Bold, the swirly Swash and Swash Bold, plus each style as a slanted Italic. The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from North Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.