Probably one of the most unusual applications of a stencil took place in 1964 when Union Carbide [then-owner of the still-new line of "Glad" brand plastic wrap and storage bags] sponsored a $100,000 contest to match up a stencil of their logo in order to win a prize. The magazine ad told of how one thousand lucky participants would win $100 by simply taking a die-cut stencil of the brand name to the store and overlaying it on the logo printed on the food wrap box to see if it aligned perfectly. The hand-lettered title proclaiming "match the stencil and win" was done in a casual sans design and reflected the cheerfulness of many typestyles found in ads during the late 50s and early 60s.

Fictionalism is carefully handcrafted slab serif, slightly condensed to fit lots of beautiful text wherever you need. It's handwritten, but neat as a pin; it's tidy, but has a lively character that grabs attention in a friendly way. Use it for branding, posters, text, or a million and one other design applications.

Sirucanorm™ is the no-stencil version of the previous Siruca™ . Designed using golden ratio formulas, it’s inspired to DIN and Isonorm typeface.

Ostent is a font family which is inspired by the early Din-Type fonts. In particular, Din 1451. This is reflected in Ostents simple and uncomplicated design, which results in creating a good sense of legibility. Each of the three weights have been carefully designed to work in conjunction with one another, or individually, complimenting other typefaces. Ostent can be used across a wide range of design mediums (both print and screen).

The Fou typeface family was designed as an alternative to Trade Gothic condensed bold. During the design process of a normally wide font variant a system developed that responds to white space and changing proportions. Thus, round transitions become rectangular and vice versa, space is made and space is taken away. This system and the associated changes are continued on a model with semi-serifs. Fou can also be used as an alternative to Din or the wider Q-Type, but in comparison offers more room for emphasis with its italics, expert sets and numerous special characters.

A 1935 song with the unusual title of "Dinner for One Please, James" had its title hand lettered on the cover of the sheet music with simple, condensed letters made by a round point dip pen. This has been reproduced in a digital font as Pen Lettering Sans JNL, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

In one of our yearly type hunts, we came across the ancestor of this font, much wider and more decorative, with fine outside shading. Condition was poor so we did the obvious, cutting out the excess decoration and condensing the face optically. It reeks of dancing girls and drunken sailors and other colorful attributes of Old San Francisco.

CONCEPT/ CHARACTERISTICS A display font that allows you to »Kleckern und Klotzen« (modified German proverb »to not take half-measures«) The fat and square character to the font, a bold and loud statement. The motto is square, practical, fat. The font styles ranging from high-contrast line difference "beanpole" over mediocrity "slim" to the fattest and blackest "okay" style. A font with humor ^^ APPLICATION AREA The modern, square lightweight »Fat Wear Shirt« would be happy as a display typeface in headline size on the following areas and would find this very real bold: Edi­to­rial Design (Maga­zine or Fan­zine) or Web­de­sign (Head­line Web­font for your web­site), party flyer, movie pos­ter, music pos­ter, clothing, fashion, t-shirts, music covers or web­ban­ner. And and and… TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Head­line Font | Dis­play Font | Fat Techno Font »Wear Fat Shirt« Open­Type Font (Mac + Win) with 3 styles (okay, slim, beanpole) & 268 gly­phs. Alter­na­tive let­ters and liga­tures (with accents & €) Desk­top Font (.otf) + Web Font (.svg, .eot, .woff) KONZEPT/BESONDERHEITEN Eine Display-Schrift bei der Kleckern und Klotzen erlaubt ist! (Verändertes deutsches Sprichwort »nicht kleckern sondern klotzen«) Der fette und eckige Charakter verleihen der Schrift eine plakative und laute Aussage. Das Motto lautet quadratisch, praktisch, fett. Die Schriftschnitte reichen von kontrastreichen Linienunterschied »beanpole«, über mittelmaß »slim« bis zum fettesten und schwärzesten »okay« Style. Eine Schrift mit Humor ^^ EINSATZGEBIETE Das moderne, quadratische Leichtgewicht »Wear Fat Shirt«, würde sich als Aus­zeich­nungs­schrift in Head­line­größe über fol­gende Ein­satz­ge­biete sehr freuen und fände dies echt fett: Logos/Wortmarken aller Art, Flyer für fast jede Party, Plat­ten ­Co­ver, CD-Cover und Icon Design, Pla­kat­ De­sign, Kleidung, T-Shirts, Comics und Gra­phic­no­vels, Game– und Video­spiel Design aller Gen­res, als Head­line­schrift für print und digi­tale Maga­zine, Bücher und Web­sei­ten u.v.m. TECHNISCHE INFORMATIONEN Head­line Font | Dis­play Font | Fat Techno Font »Wear Fat Shirt« Open­Type Font (Mac + Win) mit 3 Schrift­schnit­ten (okay, slim, beanpole) & 268 Gly­phen. Inkl. dia­kri­ti­sches Zei­chen, alter­na­tive Buch­sta­ben, Liga­tu­ren & €. Desk­top Font (.otf) + Web Font (.svg, .eot, .woff)

A few scant examples of some condensed Roman style water-applied decals inspired Sign Letters JNL. The decals were once part of the gold and black "Signmaker" letters and numbers once manufactured by the Duro Decal Company of Chicago and were sold through hardware and variety stores across the country. The condensed letters (which were eight inches in height) did not sell as well as Duro's mainstay sizes of 1/2 inch to 3-1/2 inches and were discontinued long before the rest of the line was supplanted by self-adhesive lettering.

Just in time for the sale season. Ad Words is a font of words you would use if you did retail ads. Some words in script, some print, some bold, some not. Plus 2 starbursts. Enlarge the starbursts and then reverse one of the words out of it… like Now! Win! or Free! Other Outside the Line fonts work with this one, check out Architectural Lettering Regular and Bold, Plz Print or Plz Script.

Cute, messy (yet still legible) teen girl handwriting with flair.

The designers of wood type in the 1880s did not lack for inspiration or imagination. From extremely ornate designs to ultra compressed or condensed alphabets, there was no shortage of variety. Saddle Tramp JNL is one such compressed font. Its wide, bold design coupled with its squat appearance allows for multiple words in a headline without overuse of page space.

Southside Fizz is a cocktail (made with gin, lime, mint and soda). Southside Fizz font was based on a single word in a 1930’s advertisement and my Palembang font. I did not have that many glyphs to work with, so I made most of them up. Southside Fizz became a very elegant all caps Art Deco font, quite useful for wedding invitations, books and posters. It comes with a roaring amount of diacritics as well.

Trapped in a world they never made, the characters in our Story So Far have been engaged in final battle with their Arch Enemies... the characters known only as ToBeContinued. One of our characters will win, one will die, at least two of them will be engaged in a Clash of Titans. Face Front, True Believer, This One's Got it All! The Story So Far & Near complete family includes eight weights with support for Western & Central Europe.

Ostent Rounded is based on my first release "Ostent' which is a font family which is inspired by the early Din-Type fonts. In particular, Din 1451. This is reflected in Ostents simple and uncomplicated design, which results in creating a good sense of legibility. Each of the three weights has been carefully designed to work in conjunction with one another, or individually, complimenting other typefaces. Ostent can be used across a wide range of design mediums (both print and screen). There is also a non-rounded version of Ostent available to purchase.

Quick Meal JNL is a ‘hand lettered’ interpretation of Morris Fuller Benton’s 1905 design “Miehle Extra Condensed Title”, no doubt named for [or on behalf of] the manufacturer of printing and die cutting presses that were used for years within the printing industry. The type face is available in both regular and oblique versions. Quick Meal JNL is a pun on the pronunciation of ‘Miehle’.

ThinPen is based on an ancestor of the German DIN-Schrift. The font was traced with a plastic template on transparent paper, scanned and worked over carefully to keep the handmade, authentic touch.

NormPen is based on an ancestor of the German DIN-Schrift. The font was traced with a plastic template on transparent paper, scanned and worked over carefully to keep the handmade, authentic touch.

Influenced by the classic German industrial typeface DIN, Bockhold strays from the grid system and into humanist nuances. The family consists of two weights with matching italics, making a total of four fonts.

BoldPen is based on an ancestor of the German DIN-Schrift. The font was traced with a plastic template on transparent paper, scanned and worked over carefully to keep the handmade, authentic touch.

Peter Kin-Fan Lo designed the award winning Linotype Ancient Chinese™ in 1997. It is a symbol font that contains 92 “portraits” of figures who look as if they could have populated ancient China. These portraits are black and white symbols, gathered together into a font. This symbol font may be used for any design piece dealing with history, China, Chinese restaurants, or Asian art. To clearly see all the details, these symbols should be used at larger point sizes.

Diaper Bag is a ding bat font providing images related to baby: bottles, pacifiers, rattles, cribs, bassinets, safety pins, and some random things like umbrellas (for a baby shower), expecting moms, storks, baby feet, teddy bear, rubber duckey, booties, teething ring, etc. You can use these to make baby shower invites, baby announcements, and anything you can customize with your own design. Bellafonts' user license allows for commercial use so you can make products for re-sale, including services offering graphic design.

Hardbop is a typographic system inspired by jazz, especially the style it's named after "Hardbop". It's also inspired by the prolific graphic work of Reid Miles for the covers of Blue Notes Records in the '50s, Japanese jazz album covers of the '70s and condensed and grotesque hand painted signs. Hardbop also references classic fonts such as Impact, Bebas, Din, Frontage and TT Trailers, the latter in the exaggeration of certain characteristics such as counterforms and endings. Hardbop design works for titles and wide spaces and was specially designed for covers and posters, where its intention is not to go unnoticed. Although it is a small family, it allows game possibilities with a wide set of characters. Enjoy!