ITC Johnston is the result of the combined talents of Dave Farey and Richard Dawson, based on the work of Edward Johnston. In developing ITC Johnston, says London type designer Dave Farey, he did “lots of research on not only the face but the man.” Edward Johnston was something of an eccentric, “famous for sitting in a deck chair and carrying toast in his pockets.” (The deck chair was his preferred furniture in his own living room; the toast was so that he’d always have sustenance near at hand.) Johnston was also almost single-handedly responsible, early in this century, for the revival in Britain of the Renaissance calligraphic tradition of the chancery italic. His book Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering (with its peculiar extraneous comma in the title) is a classic on its subject, and his influence on his contemporaries was tremendous. He is perhaps best remembered, however, for the alphabet that he designed in 1916 for the London Underground Railway (now London Transport), which was based on his original “block letter” model. Johnston’s letters were constructed very carefully, based on his study of historical writing techniques at the British Museum. His capital letters took their form from the best classical Roman inscriptions. “He had serious rules for his sans serif style,” says Farey, “particularly the height-to-weight ratio of 1:7 for the construction of line weight, and therefore horizontals and verticals were to be the same thickness. Johnston’s O’s and C’s and G’s and even his S’s were constructions of perfect circles. This was a bit of a problem as far as text sizes were concerned, or in reality sizes smaller than half an inch. It also precluded any other weight but medium ‘ any weight lighter or heavier than his 1:7 relationship.” Johnston was famously slow at any project he undertook, says Farey. “He did eventually, under protest, create a bolder weight, in capitals only ‘ which took twenty years to complete.” Farey and his colleague Richard Dawson have based ITC Johnston on Edward Johnston’s original block letters, expanding them into a three-weight type family. Johnston himself never called his Underground lettering a typeface, according to Farey. It was an alphabet meant for signage and other display purposes, designed to be legible at a glance rather than readable in passages of text. Farey and Dawson’s adaptation retains the sparkling starkness of Johnston’s letters while combining comfortably into text. Johnston’s block letter bears an obvious resemblance to Gill Sans, the highly successful type family developed by Monotype in the 1920s. The young Eric Gill had studied under Johnston at the London College of Printing, worked on the Underground project with him, and followed many of the same principles in developing his own sans serif typeface. The Johnston letters gave a characteristic look to London’s transport system after the First World War, but it was Gill Sans that became the emblematic letter form of British graphic design for decades. (Johnston’s sans serif continued in use in the Underground until the early ‘80s, when a revised and modernized version, with a tighter fit and a larger x-height, was designed by the London design firm Banks and Miles.) Farey and Dawson, working from their studio in London’s Clerkenwell, wanted to create a type family that was neither a museum piece nor a bastardization, and that would “provide an alternative of the same school” to the omnipresent Gill Sans. “These alphabets,” says Farey, referring to the Johnston letters, “have never been developed as contemporary styles.” He and Dawson not only devised three weights of ITC Johnston but gave it a full set of small capitals in each weight ‘ something that neither the original Johnston face nor the Gill faces have ‘ as well as old-style figures and several alternate characters.

L-O-L-A Like the subject of the Kinks’ song, FS Lola is a little bit of both – a font with a rare combination of masculine and feminine. The font was inspired by the song, which itself was inspired by the night the Kinks’ manager spent dancing drunkenly in a Soho club with a beautiful woman... Or so he’d thought, until her stubble started to show halfway through the evening. Masculine/feminin Phil Garnham’s experience in designing FS Lola was similar to the one related by Ray Davies. Setting out to create a sans serif font, he realised along the way that he was actually dealing with a semi-serif. He went with it, though, and produced a font with the best masculine and feminine qualities: hard edges and corners tempered by shapes of softness and generosity, the outcome of what Phil calls an “organic” design process. “Initially, my designs were very graphic and hard but not very distinctive. By printing and redrawing the letters in pencil I achieved a softer and friendlier alphabet with a strong personality.” Broad Lola, as you’d expect, is very broad-minded. Available in five weights with italics – and fluent in central European languages – FS Lola offers a confident combination of feminine softness and male steeliness to any kind of design. As the song says, “It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world... except for Lola.

In March 2010, Émile Fradin, a modest peasant farmer from central France, died at the age of 103. To his grave he took the secret behind one of the most controversial archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. A discovery which put into question the very origins of the written word and the paternity of European culture. It was the uncovering of peculiar artefacts would come to be known as the Glozel runes. The discovery of the Glozel runes On the first day of March 1924, a not yet 18-year-old Fradin was ploughing his family’s field in the hamlet of Glozel, when his cow stumbled into a hole. When he and his grandfather, Claude, looked closer, they discovered a mass of broken stone, under which lay an underground chamber. Within, they discovered pottery fragments, carved bones, and a peculiar clay tablet covered in bizarre characters that neither of the two could decipher. The family requested a subsidy for excavation works to be carried out, but were refused by the regional authority. With that disappointment, it seemed as though the discovery would fade into obscurity. However, the following year, news of Fradin’s unusual clay tablet reached the ears of the physician and amateur archeologist, Antonin Morlet. By the end of May 1925, Morlet began the first of his excavations.4 Within the first two years alone, he had amassed some 3,000 finds.

Jorstin script - a new, fresh, funny, interesting, cute calligraphy font with a heart that can be connected. Great for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more! Jorstin script - includes many alternative characters. Coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book. Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy one of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor. For people who have opentype-capable software: Alternatives can be accessed by turning on the "Alternative Style" and "Ligature" buttons on the Photoshop Character panel, or through any software with the glyph panel, e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape.

Bella Lolly is a new calligraphy font which is fresh, funny, interesting and with a cute heart that can be connected. It is suitable for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more! Bella Lolly includes many alternative characters. Coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book. Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy one of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor. For people who have opentype-capable software: Alternatives can be accessed by turning on the "Alternative Style" and "Ligature" buttons on the Photoshop Characters panel, or through any software with glyph panels, e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape. Thank You!

Sophia Bianca is a new calligraphy font which is fresh, funny, interesting and with a cute heart that can be connected. It is suitable for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more! Sophia Bianca includes many alternative characters. Coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book. Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy one of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor. For people who have opentype-capable software: Alternatives can be accessed by turning on the "Alternative Style" and "Ligature" buttons on the Photoshop Characters panel, or through any software with glyph panels, e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape. Thank You!

My Sweety Script - a new, fresh, funny, interesting, cute calligraphy font with a heart that can be connected. Great for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more! My Sweety Script - includes many alternative characters. Coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book. Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy one of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor. For people who have opentype-capable software: Alternatives can be accessed by turning on the "Alternative Style" and "Ligature" buttons on the Photoshop Character panel, or through any software with the glyph panel, e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape.

Oh Juliya is a new, fresh, funny, interesting, cute calligraphy font with hearts, and that can be connected. Great for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more! Oh Juliya includes many alternative characters. Coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book. Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy one of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor. For people who have OpenType-capable software: Alternatives can be accessed by turning on the "Alternative Style" and "Ligature" buttons on the Photoshop Character panel, or through any software with the glyph panel, e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape.

Mitha Silva is a new calligraphy font which is fresh, funny, interesting and with a cute heart that can be connected. It is suitable for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more! Mitha Silva includes many alternative characters. Coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book. Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy one of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor. For people who have opentype-capable software: Alternatives can be accessed by turning on the "Alternative Style" and "Ligature" buttons on the Photoshop Characters panel, or through any software with glyph panels, e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape.

Layla Layli - new, fresh, funny, interesting, cute calligraphy fonts with a heart that can be connected and beautiful curves. It is suitable for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more! Layla Layli - includes many alternative characters. Coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book. Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy one of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor. For people who have opentype-capable software: Alternatives can be accessed by turning on the "Alternative Style" and "Ligature" buttons on the Photoshop Character panel, or through any software with the glyph panel, e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape.

946 is a multilingual techno-style family developed by Berlin-based type designer Roman Wilhelm (RomanType). While more and more text families have recently been extended to a multilingual and multi-script level, not so much attention has been given to the more decorative styles. The 946 family does exactly that. A lot of care has been given to the various diacritics: they were designed a little more brutal, a little more European than with some other fonts of this category. Do also watch out for the non-Latin legs of this family. 946 is inspired by electronic music. When Roman found a second-hand Roland TR-606 drum machine in a store in his hometown back in 1995, he started to hang out with would-be DJs and musicians, trying to play the beats that went around the globe. When he started to study visual communication three years later, he was assigned the matriculation number of 946, which has now become the name of this family. Language support: Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Zulu. Do also watch out for the other script versions of this family!

Amatins is an elegant Script font, every single letters has been carefully crafted to make your text look beautiful. This font will be perfect for many different projects like: photography, watermark, quotes, blog header, poster, wedding, branding, logo, fashion, apparel, letter, invitation, stationery, and more. Amatins Script includes alternate glyphs. You can access the alternate glyphs via Font Book (Mac user) or Windows Character Map (Windows user). If you have any questions regarding this font, please feel free to contact me on beary.dsgn@gmail.com and I’ll be glad to offer support.

Mantilda is a stylish, refined script font that emanates sophistication and elegance. Its stylish alternates and ligatures make this font the perfect match for any project. Mantilda is PUA encoded which means you can access all glyphs and swashes with ease!

Christmas Faithful is an enchanting calligraphy font that emanates sophistication and elegance. Fall for its ravishing style and use it to create beautiful designs. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all glyphs and swashes with ease!

Salmah is a chic, refined script font that emanates sophistication and elegance. Its stylish alternates and ligatures make this font the perfect match for any project. Salmah is PUA encoded which means you can access all glyphs and swashes with ease!

Brightness Script - new, fresh, cute, catchy, funny calligraphy font with relatable heart. Perfect for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters and more! Brightness Script - includes many alternative characters. Coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having any special design software. Mac users can use Font Book. Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy any of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor. For people who have opentype-capable software: Alternatives can be accessed by turning on the "Alternative" and "Ligature" buttons on Photoshop's Character panel, or via any software with a glyph panel, eg. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape. Thank you for purchasing!

Fanitiya script - new, fresh, funny, interesting, cute calligraphy font with relatable heart. Great for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters and more! Fanitiya script - includes many alternative characters. Coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having any special design software. Mac users can use Font Book. Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy any of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor. For people who have opentype-capable software: Alternatives can be accessed by activating the "Alternative Styles" and "Ligatures" buttons on Photoshop's Character panel, or via any software with a glyph panel, eg. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape. Thank you for purchasing!

Brokang Script, modern handwritten letters with signature style and quick streaks. This font includes alternative letters. Perfect for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more! Including many alternative characters. Encoded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all additional characters without having to design special software. Mac users can use the Font Book. Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy one of the additional characters to attach to your favorite text editor. For people who have opentype capable software: Alternatives can be accessed by turning on the "Alternative Style" and "Ligature" buttons in the Photoshop Character panel, or through any software with glyph panels, for example Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape.

Chery Santos feels equally charming and elegant. It looks stunning on wedding invitations, thank you cards, quotes, greeting cards, logos, business cards and every other design which needs a handwritten touch. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease! It features a varying baseline, smooth lines, gorgeous glyphs and stunning alternates. Chery Santos is coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having any special design software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor / application.

Hi Girls - New fonts, fresh, cute, attractive calligraphy, plus a small and sweet headband ribbon, this is very interesting and you will love to try it Hi Girls - including many alternative characters. Coded with Unicode PUA, which provides full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book. Windows users can use the Character Map to view and save one of the additional characters to attach to your favorite text editor. For people who have opentype-capable software: Alternatives can be accessed by using the "Alternative Style" and "Ligature" buttons on the Photoshop Characters panel, or through any software with glyph panels, such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape.

Stefan Claudius developed this font while he was sitting in a small chalet in Denmark with a hot wood-oven and nothing but snow outside. Probably the amount of white led him to make it so thin and to have as much space between the lines as possible. If you have that in mind, it looks best in large sizes.

Nobody knows what God looks like but we know that the Devil has a thousand different faces. Samuel Casal sees the demon everywhere. In the streets, the movies, rock music, books, gambling, other things and even in Hell. Devilishly, he captures it all with his magical design. Purchase the font Inferno Dingbats now and take control of the forces of Evil.

The font "Gaidar" named in the honour of Arkady Gaidar. He was a Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet children, and a Red Army commander. He died in combat fighting with German nazis in 1941. Few generations of Soviet kids are raised on his books and a number of films were made based on his stories. This font inspired by posters, movie titles and book covers of this writer. The letterforms are bold and gnarly and comes in 2 styles: uppercase and small caps. It has LATIN and Extended Eastern Europe CYRILLIC letters. "ST-Gaidar" created for titles, poster design, web design, branding and packaging works, illustrations, badges and other typography works. Pls, don't use it for for typing large arrays of text. ST Gaidar supports 15+ languages: Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, English, German, Macedonian, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Spanish, Slovenian, Ukrainian and probably others

Yulica claudy is a lovely, modern calligraphic script. It features dynamic and pretty swashes and can be used for many purpose, such as titles, signatures, logos, wedding invitations, letterhead, signage, labels, newsletters, posters, badges, etc. Yulica claudy features OpenType, including the initial and terminal letters, ligatures and International support for most Western languages ​​included. Yulica claudy PUA encoded with Unicode, which allows full access to all the extra characters without having to design special software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy one additional character to paste into your text editor / favorite applications. Enjoy using

Ralph M. Unger, known for his preference for blackletter designs, brought this beautiful blackletter variant back to life. Based on artwork from old catalogues, he redesigned, digitally remastered and completed the character set for this typeface. Breite Kanzlei cannot be avoided by blackletter lovers!

The Roger family was designed in memory of a friend of ours who passed away recently. We created a humorous design for him because he was always laughing and never failed to see the funny side of things. We miss his great outlook on life.

Tarocco is a typical book face with good readability and rather tall x-height. The origin for this typeface is found in Nordisk Antikva. A typeface especially constructed with attention for the Swedish language. Waldemar Zachrisson was determined to realize his ideas and in 1906 he began to cooperate with the foundry Genzsch & Heyse, based in Hamburg. Some influences of Jugendt can be found and the typeface were released in 1910. It became rather popular until around 1930. The MRF version includes 7 weights all together.

In the early years of the 20th Century, singer-dancer-actor-composer-playwright George M. Cohan was known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway". In 1904, Cohan was enjoying success with his latest creation, "Little Johnny Jones". Cohan gave America what would become a number of iconic songs, and both he and his compositions were immortalized in the 1942 biographical film "Yankee Doodle Dandy" starring James Cagney. The Art Nouveau-influenced hand lettering of the title on the cover of the sheet music for "The Yankee Doodle Boy" was the model for its namesake digital typeface design and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Italian type design master Aldo Novarese was not famous for making calligraphic designs, nor had he any interest in them. He is much better known for his text faces, and quite innovative sans serif and decorative designs which became the definition of what we now know as techno and modern. But in 1968, Novarese surprised everyone with a fantastic flowing deco script entitled Elite. Novarese's formula of simple soft curves and toned-down swashes makes for one of the most unique alphabets ever seen, not to mention one of the best flowing and most legible scripts. This is now its digital incarnation, named Fontella. Fontella's applications are virtually limitless. This is the sort of script that can feel at home pretty much anywhere; a sign, a fridge magnet, a bumper sticker, a greeting card, a movie poster, a book cover, music artwork, magazine ads, newsletter headlines, etc. Digitized from original specimen and expanded with a few built-in alternates and ligatures by Rebecca Alaccari, the font was named after the famed jazz singer Fontella Bass. These letters are just so sweet they had to be called Fontella.

Nela neta -Nela neta script font, new, fresh, funny, attractive, with a heart to connect. This font has 3 styles in it. Perfect for greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more! Nela neta - includes many alternative characters. Coded with Unicode PUA, which allows full access to all additional characters without having any special design software. Mac users can use Font Book. Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy any of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor. For people who have opentype-capable software: Alternatives can be accessed by activating the "Alternative Styles" and "Ligatures" buttons on Photoshop's Character panel, or via any software with a glyph panel, eg. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape.

Jeff Script is based on original handwriting of renowned Russian type designer Vladimir Yefimov. Vladimir designed a plenty of Cyrillic fonts that became the classical ones between contemporary Cyrillic type designs. Being extreme busy with type projects, he never had time to digitize his own script and this lacuna was filled by Gennady Fridman. The font was developed to the 60th anniversary of Maestro and released by ParaType in 2009.

Father's Day, or June 17 of this year, is in the middle of Argentinian winter. And like people do on wintery Sunday mornings, I was bundled up in bed with too many covers, pillows and comforters. Feeling good and not thinking about anything in particular, Father's Day was nowhere in the vicinity of my mind. My eleven year old son, Matías, came into the room with a handmade present for me. Up to this point, my Father's Day gift history was nothing unusual. Books, socks, hand-painted wooden spoons, the kind of thing any father would expect from his pre-teen son. So you can understand when I say I was bracing myself to fake excitement at my son's present. But this Father's Day was special. I didn't have to fake excitement. I was in fact excited beyond my own belief. Matí's handmade present was a complete alphabet drawn on an A4 paper. Grungy, childish, and sweeter than a ton of honey. He'd spent days making it, three-dimensioning the letters, wiggle-shadowing them. Incredible. A common annoyance for graphic designers is explaining to people, even those close to them, what they do for a living. You have to somehow make it understandable that you are a visual communicator, not an artist. Part of the problem is the fact that "graphic designer" and "visual communicator" are just not in the dictionary of standard professions out there. If you're a plumber, you can wrap all the duties of your job with 3.5 words: I'm a plumber. If you're a graphic designer, no wrapper, 3.5 or 300 words, will ever cover it. I've spent many hours throughout the years explaining to my own family and friends what I do for a living, but most of them still come back and ask what it is exactly that I do for dough. When you're a type designer, that problem magnifies itself considerably. When someone asks you what you do for a living, you start looking for the nearest exit, but none of the ones you can find is any good. All the one-line descriptions are vague, and every single one of them queues a long, one-sided conversation that usually ends with someone getting too drunk listening, or too tired of talking. Now imagine being a type designer, with a curious eleven year old son. The kid is curious as to why daddy keeps writing huge letters on the computer screen. Let's go play some ball, dad. As soon as I finish working, son. He looks over my shoulder and sees a big twirly H on the screen. To him it looks like a game, like I'm not working. And I have to explain it to him again. This Father's Day, my son gave me the one present that tells me he finally understands what I do for a living. Perhaps he is even comfortable with it, or curious enough about that he wants to try it out himself. Either way, it was the happiest Father's Day I've ever had, and I'm prouder of my son than of everything else I've done in my life. This is Matí's font. I hope you find it useful.

Allenisa is a chic, refined script font that emanates sophistication and elegance. Its stylish alternates and ligatures make this font the perfect match for any project. Allenisa is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

Jarekuh is a neat decorative serif font. This font will look amazing in any context, whether it's used on a busy background or as a standalone title! Jarekuh has many alternative glyphs that can be combined to get an attractive and prominent impression. Of course this font is PUA encoded, which means you can access all of the glyphs and swashes with ease!

Sanremo - this bold display font is a stylish and original multipurpose font in a modern style with many alternatives and ligatures that are very attractive. With their help you can make your project unique. Use the main set to highlight exactly what you need. All characters in this font are PUA-encoded and can be accessed from the Glyph panel.

Chatnarong Jingsuphatada is a Thailand based typeface designer of foundry Typesketchbook. In 2014, he has created Orev, a type family that consists of 18 fonts, including 9 weights available as normal and oblique style. It’s a unique and modern sans typeface, which is well suited for a variety of typographic applications such as headlines and small texts. The Orev font family supports multiple languages and is available as both webfont and desktop font.