It took me a long time, but I think I now understand why people of my generation and older feel the need to frame current events in an historical context or precedents, while most of the young couldn't care less about what happened ten years ago, let alone centuries back. After living for a few decades, you get to a point when time seems to be moving quite fast, and it’s humbling to see that your entire existence so far can be summed up in a paragraph or two which may or may not be useful to whoever ends up reading the stuff anyhow. I suppose one way to cope with the serenity of aging is trying to convince yourself that your life and work are really an extension of millenia of a species striving to accept, adapt to, and improve the human condition through advancing the many facets of civilization -- basically making things more understandable and comfortable for ourselves and each other while we go about doing whatever it is we are trying to do. And when you do finally convince yourself of that, history becomes a source of much solace and even a little premonition, so you end up spending more time there. Going far back into the history of what I do, one can easily see that for the most part it was ruled by the quill. Western civilization’s writing was done with quill pens for more than thirteen centuries and with newer instruments for about two. By the mid-18th century, the height of the quill experience, various calligraphy techniques could be discerned and writing styles were arranged in distinct categories. There are many old books that showcase the history of it all. I recommend looking at some whenever the urge comes calling and you have to get away from backlit worlds. Multiple sources usually help me get a better perspective on the range of a specific script genre, so many books served as reference to this quill font of mine. Late 17th century French and Spanish professional calligraphy guides were great aides in understanding the ornamental scope of what the scribes were doing back then. The French books, with their showings of the Ronde, Bâtarde and Coulée alphabets, were the ones I referenced the most. So I decided to name the font Auberge, a French word for hotel or inn, because I really felt like a guest in different French locales (and times) when I going through all that stuff. Because it is multi-sourced, Auberge does not strictly fit in a distinct quill pen category. Instead, it shows strong hints of both Bâtarde and Coulée alphabets. And like most of my fonts, it is an exercise in going overboard with alternates, swashes, and ornamental devices. Having worked with it for a while, I find it most suitable for display calligraphic setting in general, but it works especially well for things like wine labels and event invitations. It also shines in the original quill pen application purpose, which of course was stationery. Also, as it just occurred to me, if you find yourself in a situation where you have to describe your entire life in 50 words or less, you may as well make it look good and swashy, so Auberge would probably be a good fit there as well. This is one quill script that no large bird had to die for. A few technical notes The Auberge Script Pro version includes 1800 glyphs, everything is included there. Also latin language support. We recommend you to use the latest design application to have full access to alternates, swashes, small caps, ornaments, etc. The images from the gallery uses this version. For better results use the fonts with “liga” feature on. Awards During 2014 the early develop of Auberge Script was chosen to be part of Tipos Latinos, the most important type exhibition in South America.

A free style specifically designed for Packaging but still works well for Greeting cards, Magazines, Posters and Advertising Ads.

venfro is dynamic including tech display fonts, is a bold with futuristic character. it's work for games, logo & more

A bold new look great for headlines, magazines very powerful yet very distinguished works extremely well for many applications.

An exquisite calligraphic font, ideal for any elegant work. With a very large set of characters and alternative forms.

Based on custom design work by DTP Types Limited in 1992 with associated Small Capitals and Old Style Figures.

Adelanto JNL is a wood type revival featuring a condensed sans serif face with chamfered [rather than rounded] corners.

Carved in stone or wood? this old looking typeface will be great for signage, posters and short texts too.

Engel is a revival of a classic wood type font, in a large array of variations in the family.

Salamemingoe is a playful, young, jumpy and vibrant display font design. Works great in quirky and children's design projects.

Lockup JNL is a more condensed version of Jeff Levine's Hoosegow JNL - based on a classic wood type design.

ITC Tempus is the work of British designer Phill Grimshaw. He claims that every calligrapher's aspiration is to draw perfect roman capitals with a pen, but admits that this is extremely difficult. For this typeface, Grimshaw used a fountain pen on cheap, porous paper and, of course, the ink bled. The resulting forms are classic but their rugged edges deviate from the perfection of roman type. And Tempus Sans is just Tempus with the serif surgically removed, yet the proportions of the characters work nicely," says Grimshaw. Because of its rough quality, the typeface works best in larger point sizes, yet maintains its characters even in smaller sizes."

Cullion is a new departure for Greater Albion, being a modern Fraktur, embodying future trends sch as highly stylised glyphs, a single case of lettering and highly evolved letterforms. At the same time it can trace its inspiration back to blackletter traditions, and is inspired by the sort of ironwork to be found in a medieval portcullis. The resulting typeface can sit happily in traditional, modern or futuristic design work. As the gallery images suggest, it does rather lend itself to work with a 'horror' theme, but it could have many other uses too-even in religious work. Cullion is particularly effective in poster headings.

Exo Slab Pro is a slab serif with a technological and futuristic tone. Even though it has a very peculiar look and many distinct shapes that pop out in an headline, it also works well as whole creating a nice shade of text. Large x-height, ink-traps and a modest contrast ensures that this font will work well even on small font sizes. Loaded with opentype features Exo Slab provides a huge versatility. You can use it on rigorous work as well as on more funny projects. From Branding to Editorial, from Paper to Screen, from Today to the Future. Please see our promotional video.

ITC Tempus is the work of British designer Phill Grimshaw. He claims that every calligrapher's aspiration is to draw perfect roman capitals with a pen, but admits that this is extremely difficult. For this typeface, Grimshaw used a fountain pen on cheap, porous paper and, of course, the ink bled. The resulting forms are classic but their rugged edges deviate from the perfection of roman type. And Tempus Sans is just Tempus with the serif surgically removed, yet the proportions of the characters work nicely," says Grimshaw. Because of its rough quality, the typeface works best in larger point sizes, yet maintains its characters even in smaller sizes.

Wellingborough is a family of six late-Victorian inspired faces, principally for display work and headings but also including a text form suitable for use in ‘feature’ paragraphs and short documents. The regular, small capitals and italic forms provides good clear headings, with a modicum of individualism and flair about them, while the Flourish and capital faces carry the family to rather more elaborate-yet still readily legible- heights. The italic form also works well alone to suggest a sense of flow and movement. The whole family is ideally suited for poster and advertising work, as well as book and record covers and period themed signage.

Dom Loves Mary has a baby brother! Check out Fratello Nick here: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/correspondence-ink/fratello-nick/ The DomLovesMary font family has all you need to create unique, custom stationery products. THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE DOMLOVESMARY FONT FAMILY: DomLovesMary is named in memory of Dominic and Mary Sementelli, Debi’s in-laws. Dom and Mary were opposites who were truly “made for each other”. A snazzy dresser, Mary was feisty, loved to dance, sing, and be the life of the party. Dom was cool, calm and collected and was happy to shine the spotlight on the love of his life. They balanced each other out in a really great way. Going through some of her in-laws old photos, Debi found their wedding album. She was struck by the beautiful look on their faces as they got ready to start their life together. She saw the excitement, joy and anticipation of them envisioning “Una Bella Vita!” (A beautiful life!) She decided to create a hand-lettered font with them in mind represented by two totally different lettering styles that were, like Dom and Mary, “made for each other”. It’s her way of honoring them and sharing their beautiful life with all of the couples just starting theirs together. They truly had “Una Bella Vita” and we hope you do too. WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT THE DOMLOVESMARY FONT FAMILY: The SCRIPT & TEXT FONTS are lettering styles that were made to compliment each other. With a vintage, classic feel, they will add elegance to your design, while the TEXT serves to offer support with easy to read simplicity. In addition to the standard character set, each of the uniquely styled script fonts includes a collection of flourished ornaments. Use them to create corners, headers or other embellishments to complete the look. And if you really want to fancy things up, we offer two sets of 72 additional flourishes that were specifically made to add to upper and lower case letters for easy customization. Dress them up with one, two or more. It’s like choosing simple pearls or piling on the glitz! Or combine several to create unique flourished ornaments of your own. To add even more panache, we're pleased to present our ready made set of most frequently used ADD-ON WORDS. Created with the wedding client in mind, this set of 66 includes envelope friendly titles: Mr and Mrs, Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Doctor, the Doctors, as well as words to fill out your invitation suite: RSVP, Respond, Save the Date, Accommodations, Directions and more! Easily create Bride and Groom signs or Thank You cards or tags with the click of a key. Or use angled words like “and, at, to, on, for, from and of” to add a special touch to your large groups of copy. PACKAGES: We are pleased to have a variety of customers. From professional invitation designers to DIY brides, publishing companies and website / blog designers among others. So we've created packages to help fit their diverse needs. Purchase just one of our beautiful DomLovesMary SCRIPT fonts, each with its collection of included flourishes or the PRO VERSION complete with ALL THREE script fonts and a combined total of over 100 flourished ornaments. Add our TEXT font, a set of FLOURISHES or ADD-ON WORDS. Love the idea of customizing your letters with all the possible combinations? We offer a special price when you purchase both sets of flourishes. Or choose our Accoutrements Package containing both sets of FLOURISHES for letter customization as well as our ADD-ON WORDS. Want to have it all? The “DomLovesMary Total Design” package is for you. Each of these packages are offered at a 25% savings. WHAT PROGRAM WILL YOU USE?: All of the font options come in both Pro and Standard format fonts. For those with programs that can take advantage of OpenType features (click on the link to see if the program your using is one of them) the Pro fonts are for you. http://www.typotheque.com/fonts/opentype_feature_support/ For others without the ability to use Open Type features, we provide all of the script fonts that comprise the Pro Version as separate versions (Regular, Contextual and Stylistic). If you are using a program like Microsoft Word, and want all three script fonts, you can still purchase the Pro Version (a $50.00 savings), and install the individual fonts bundled in the Standard Fonts folder. We have set it up so they will appear separately as DomLovesMary, DomLovesMary Contextual and DomLovesMary Stylistic in your fonts list. Exciting news! In an effort to help our customers access all the goodies that are normally only available in Open Type Capable programs (like the flourished ornaments that come with our script fonts), we have found a simple application that allows you to do just that. For this reason, we've made sure to unicode all of our characters and glyphs so that they will work in this type of program. There may be others, but we checked this one out and found that it works. Check out PopChar

Shabwa is An Arabic typeface for Print And screen. this font family is from Kufi style and contains 3 weights: Regular, Medium and bold. Shabwa is simple and a little detailed font and its three weights are fully harmonized, one letter with one length on the line, and words with a uniform length on the line, gives a comfortable reading look.

Introducing by Timur type Proudly Present, Simplesky Simplesky A Handwritten Script Font, which was created with great care and specially created for you ✨ Simplesky is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Simplesky also multilingual support. Embelish your designs with our original fonts. Enjoy the font 😉 Thank you!

Created for Jim Lee's Wildstorm books, WildWords has proved to be one of our most popular fonts and has been featured in TIME magazine and the LEGO catalog, as well as used to letter thousands of Manga pages. Comicraft fonts are created BY comic book letterers FOR lettering comic books. Accept no substitutes! See this family related to WildWords: Wild Words Lower

Introducing by Timur type Proudly Present, Requista Requista A Handwritten Script Font Requista is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. This Claritty font includes: -Full Set of standard alphabet and punctuation & symbol -Extra set Ligature -multilingual support. Embelish your designs with our original fonts.Enjoy the font,Thank you!

Garris is a monoline script font with awesome opentype features such as ligatures, stylistic alternates, swashes, stylistic set, initial and terminal form as well as multilingual support with 360+ glyphs. This monoline script font comes with multiple alternates that will make your words look like a custom lettering. Available in light and regular versions as an option for your typographic design creations.

Proudly Presenting, Xwisth a Gothic Handwritten Font that will bring an a classical type. Xwisth is perfect for any titles, logo, product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Xwisth also come with Multi-Lingual Support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!

Ethique is a minimalist, luxury and gorgeous font that is both classically elegant and inherently modern. Create unique word mark logos, beautiful wedding invitations, use it as an elegant solution for your next magazine layout, or choose Ethique for any graphic design that require a sleek look with an elegant flair. Ethique features a unique style of design and contains multi-lingual support.

Zipline is a geometric sans built from a folded line or ribbon. Contemporary and stylish, with a certain decorative flair. There are three variants that can can be freely mixed for effect - a solid version, a decorative lined version, and a half-solid version. Most effective used in short words or phrases at larger sizes, where the details can be appreciated.

Bethanien is beautiful sweet calligraphy font. It is fresh, modern, and maintaining its elegance. This font is so perfect for many designs, from wedding invation, greeting card, social media quotes, branding, logo, and many more. Features: +Tons of Glyphs, including beautiful alternate glyphs. +Can be used in any software, like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, even Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and others. +Multilingual glyphs.

Authentic Sheldon is beautiful and lovely script font with many alternative styles, ligatures, swash and multilingual glyphs. Authentic Sheldon can be used for wide ranges of application, such as wedding design, logo, poster, name card, invitations, social media posts, and others. Files include: + PUA-Encoded + Can be used in any software, like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, even Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and others. + Multilingual glyphs.

Proudly Presenting, The Goblick a Handdrawn Signature Font. The Goblick is perfect for any titles, logo, product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. The Goblick also come with initial swash and Multi-Lingual Support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!

Put the needle in the groove and jive baby! Discolicious brings back the golden age of moustaches and sideburns, psychedelic tie-dyes and bell bottoms. Use this ‘bubblegum’ disco font for your product packaging, magazines and party posters and they’ll look off the hook! Comes with a primo amount of diacritics, so you can let it all hang out! Word!

Designed with visual novels and romantic text in mind, Doki Doki Tokimeki (taken from the Japanese sound for a heartbeat and the word heartbeat itself) is a romantically-inclined sans serif. From playful, yet friendly letters to a range of dingbats and a series of alternate heart-shaped glyphs, it’s sure to make your heart go pitter-patter as well!

Proudly Presenting, Quarts Pachino a Bold Marker Font. Quarts Pachino is perfect for any tittles, logo, product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Quarts Pachino come with many ligatures, ending swash and come with Multi-Lingual Support. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank You!

Martin Kamila is a lovely script hand drawn font. Martin Kamila is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Martin Kamila has also multilingual support. Lowercase font Stylistic Alternates Ligatures Symbols & Punctuation OpenType Features. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank you!

Selyna Avelyn is a Lovely Handwritten Font. Selyna Avelyn is perfect for product packaging, branding project, megazine, social media, wedding, or just used to express words above the background. Selyna Avelyn also multilingual support. Uppercase & Lowercase font Stylistic Alternates Ligatures Symbols & Punctuation OpenType Features. Enjoy the font, feel free to comment or feedback, send me PM or email. Thank you!

Bellinzo sans serif font is a set of 3 weights and it is good for making creative displays and it has urban / street wear touch. It’s a lovely and unique sans serif font, allowing you to make each word look completely stylish! Bellinzo is the unique typeface for creating elegant headlines, fashion magazine covers, book covers, templates and creative displays and logo designs.