This is Alter Littera’s second original design. It started as an attempt at translating into roman forms the lowercase metrics of classic blackletters, in particular those of The Oldtype “Alter Gotisch” Font. Eventually, the design process led naturally to an innovative and modern re-creation of the overall forms and style of classic bold condensed letters from the early twentieth century, especially those of the “Century Bold Condensed” type from American Type Founders (ATF) Company’s American Specimen Book of Type Styles, Jersey City, 1912 (pp. 274-7) [also seen in McGrew, M. (1993), American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century, New Castle: Oak Knoll Books (pp. 76-7)]. In addition to the usual standard characters for typesetting in modern Western languages, the font includes a comprehensive set of special characters, alternates, ligatures and ornaments, plus Opentype features, that can be used for creating distinctive and attractive texts with virtually unlimited variations. The glyphs are clean, smooth and definitely readable, so the font will be suitable not only for large titles and headings, but also for full text pages. Specimen, detailed character map, OpenType features, and font samples available at Alter Littera’s The Oldtype “Alter Headletter” Font Page.

The typeface Hearts Love Smile (All We Need Is LOVE) is designed in 2018–2021 for the font foundry Typo Graphic Design by Manuel Viergutz. A font-collection from rough hand-printed old wood letters, rubber-stamps and plastic stamps till clean vectors, photos … 302 glyphs of LOVE. Decorative extras like icons, arrows, dingbats, emojis, symbols, decorative ligatures (type the word LOVE for ♥ or SMILE for ☻ as OpenType-Feature dlig). For use in logos, magazines, posters, advertisement and packaging plus as webfont for decorative headlines. The font works best for display size. Have fun with this font & use the DEMO-FONT (with reduced glyph-set) FOR FREE! ■ Font Name: Hearts Love Smile ■ Font Styles: 1 Icons + DEMO (with reduced glyph-set) ■ Font Cate­gory: Dis­play for head­line size ■ Glyph Set: 302 glyphs / decorative extras like arrows, dingbats, emojis, symbols ■ Design Date: 2021 ■ Type Desi­gner: Manuel Viergutz