Years ago, by happenstance, designers Nancy Mazzei and Brian Kelly found an old decrepit typewriter in an abandoned lot with tall grass in Brooklyn. They kept it around their apartment for two years. Then one day they decided that it was time to move and they planned to throw the old typewriter away. But it was so beautiful they wanted to keep at least a part of it. So they decided on keeping the keys. They kept the keys in a brown bag until one fine day the keys were introduced to a camera. It was a match made in heaven that resulted in some beautiful quirky images of typewriter keys. These images were the inspiration for Backspacer. They were scanned, traced and turned into a working typeface by Zuzana Licko.

Pilgrim is a re-cut of a Linotype face that Eric Gill originally designed for a book published by the Limited Edition Club of New York. Admired for its tranquil dignity, the Pilgrim type is both firm and elegant. Its general appearance resembles that of Gill’s Joanna font family. The contrast of the font is not very strong. The serifs are bracketed. Eric Gill, who designed the type on which Pilgrim is closely based, observed one sort of model for his lettering - the incised monumental letter of Roman origin. This is clearly seen in his capitals, but is also true of his lowercase letters, which have little of the calligraphic or engraved qualities of most other type designs. Gill’s types are Roman in the classic sense, yet also particular to Gill himself.

Jester Jumble - Fun Clown Font is a whimsical and playful typeface designed with a clown and circus theme in mind. Its quirky characters add an element of chaos and fun to your designs, making it perfect for projects that require a playful touch. This font includes six adorable clown-themed decorative variations, featuring circus hats, masks, laughing mouths, and more. Perfect for clown-themed designs, such as invitation cards, birthday invites, party decorations, logos, stickers, clothing, packaging, children's books, magazines, and more, Jester Jumble adds a delightful and entertaining dimension to your creative projects. With its charming and playful style, this font captures the essence of circus merriment and clownish fun, making it an ideal choice for any project that aims to bring a smile to people's faces.

This extremely heavy informal script was created in the early 1920s by Lucian Bernhard. Like so many of his designs, this typeface has its roots in his earlier poster work. Bernhard Brushscript invokes a rather warm, pleasant feeling despite a number of quirky characters. Originally created for the Bauer Foundry of Frankfurt, Germany, the face looks as though it’s been drawn with a brush and contains looping ascenders and descenders. Perfect for situations where a quaint and casual lettering effect is desired. The Bernhard Brushscript is also available in the OpenType Std format. Some new characters have been added to this OpenType version. Advanced features currently work in Adobe Creative Suite InDesign, Creative Suite Illustrator, and Quark XPress 7. Check for OpenType advanced feature support in other applications as it gradually becomes available with upgrades.

Plusquam Sans is a humanist sans serif family in eight weights, roman and italic. It’s neutral character and legibility in smaller sizes recommend it as a text face, and wide range of weights and swash capitals make it usable for various designer purposes. While roman fonts are simple, although in humanist spirit, italics are more vivid. Typographic variants are supported through OpenType features. Several kind of numerals are offered: lining and Oldstyle, tabular and proportional, superior and inferior, fractions. Small caps and math symbols are provided. There is a range of standard and discretionary ligatures. Alternates sorted in three stylistic sets are created to soften the overall appearance. Most distinguished feature is a set of swash capitals balanced to match sans serif characters. Plusquam Sans comprises multilingual Latin and monotonic Greek characters.

Imagine a slender serif font that effortlessly combines classic elegance with modern sophistication. This font features delicate, fine lines that evoke a sense of refinement and grace. Its letters are meticulously crafted, and it comes with a range of ligatures and alternate characters that add a unique touch to your design projects. These ligatures and alternates seamlessly blend together, creating a harmonious and seamless flow of text. Whether you're working on a vintage-inspired poster or a contemporary wedding invitation, this font's ligatures and alternates will allow you to infuse a touch of artistic flair into your designs, making it the perfect choice for those seeking a balance of tradition and innovation. Included : Uppercase & Lowercase Numeral & Punctuation Ligatures & Alternates Multilingual Support PUA Encode Thank you for visiting our shop and happy designing.

Bramante™ is an original display font by LetterPerfect Fonts, designed by Garrett Boge in 2020. It is modeled after a fifteenth-century inscription in the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome. The name is a tribute to the pre-eminent Renaissance architect Donato Bramante, whose Tempietto (1502, San Pietro in Montorio) marked the beginning of the High Renaissance in Rome. In 1503 he was named lead architect for the new St. Peter's Basilica, which was completed by Michelangelo, Maderno and Bernini a century later. Based on the pervasive use of Adobe Trajan as a classical-inspired titling face, LetterPerfect offers this Renaissance revival of imperial Roman capitals as an alternative with additional refinement and personality. (The full size capitals are complemented with small capitals in the lowercase positions.)

Empathic • Contemporary • Versatile • Corporate A typeface specially designed for corporate identity. Trust Sans is a friendly typeface, with a flowing ductus and humanist features, specially created to help designers face everyday challenges. This font comes in a variety of weights—perfectly suited to establishing an effective typographic hierarchy—and contains an extensive character set, including small caps, different figure styles, case-sensitive forms, contextual and discretionary ligatures, etc. The family glyph set supports over 200 Latin-based languages. Trust Sans is composed of two complementary sub-families: a standard, formal font and an alternative, more casual, version. Each family comes in 6 weights, from Thin to Black, with matching true italics. All these characteristics make it an ideal typeface for a range of applications such as editorial design, immersive text, corporate identity, branding or packaging.

Natalya Swashes provides a diverse set of flowing swashes and ornaments originally designed to complement the popular insigne script Natalya. The basis point for Natalya's ornate swirls is the golden ratio, and this makes for especially harmonious swashes with timeless appeal. These poised and graceful flourishes can be easily adapted to many design situations, even in situations that don't call for Natalya Swashes' script companion. Natalya swashes can be resized and rotated easily without any loss of quality and converted to outlines and modified. Combine them to form unique compositions or insert them into your copy to create interest. Please see the sample .pdf to see all 56 ornaments in action. The Natalya Swash package comes with an inDesign sample file to quickly reference ornaments and copy and paste them into your layouts.

A typographic revolution-Bronzetti has been a long term project for Greater Albion Typefounders, aimed at filling a large gap in the range of typefaces available today. The Bronzetti family of 22 text typefaces combines modern requirements for legibility and readability with the charm of traditional Roman faces in the spirit of those carefully constructed by small scale quality foundries such as the Kelmscott and Vale presses. In short, Bronzetti is traditional letterpress meets modern publishing, offering a real opportunity to make your material stand out from today’s ‘run of the mill’ crowd. The range of typefaces on offer includes five widths of type, as well as small capitals and italic forms and regular and bold weights. Try out Bronzetti today, make your work stand out from the crowd and join the revolution!

Inspirited as much by nature and the elements as it was by the decorative and ornate alphabets of early sign-painting and lettering books, Alchemist aspires to become the next surefire, go-to staple in the display type community. This semi-condensed, high contrast, and stylish take on classic Roman forms is certain to stand out in your arsenal.Alchemist lends itself adeptly to signage, headlines, cinematic and gaming titles, packaging design and much more. This protean display face can shift and adapt to your every need with over 100 alternate characters and more than 40 ligatures. Explore this massive 500+ character font today and see what you can create with it. 100+ Stylistic Alternates Standard & Discretionary Ligatures Uppercase & Lowercase Numerals & Punctuation 500+ glyphs Supports 75+ Latin based languages OTF file Design by Jason Carne

Elegant, graceful and timeless. Hattori is a versatile font with timeless classic appeal, over 50 alternatives & ligatures, multilingual support, (And we think this is our best work so far!) Each letter has been hand-drawn and made with great care. The variety of weights provides a variety of options that will help you find the best typographic character for your project. All 3 weights are perfect for big screen use and high impact headlines. The available binding and style alternatives offer a number of different options that give your logo or business card a unique look. This high-contrast serif typeface has a glyph and offers comprehensive language support. If you have any questions, just send us a message and we'll be happy to help! Stay sweet, Sweetest Stuff

Discover Meishu, a captivating Japanese brush font that combines the beauty of traditional calligraphy with modern design elements. With its strong and natural stroke style, Meishu brings an authentic and artistic touch to your projects. This versatile font is perfect for various applications, including logos, labels, magazines, books, greeting cards, packaging, novels, and advertising materials. Meishu captures the essence of Japanese brushwork, evoking elegance and grace in every character. Its blend of uppercase and lowercase letters adds visual interest and flexibility to your typography. The font also includes numbers and punctuation marks, enabling seamless integration into your designs. In addition to its aesthetic appeal, Meishu ensures multilingual support, allowing you to communicate your message effectively across different languages. Whether you're creating a design for a local or international audience, this font has you covered.

Serofina is an adaptable and fluid connected script with plenty of alternate flourish options. From clean and flowing to cute and frilly, Serofina can do it. The Serofina family comes with four weights, including a unique hairline, which makes it a versatile investment for a wide range of design possibilities. All weights include the OpenType programming to automatically and seamlessly swap out the default characters for 45 alternate forms and 18 auto-replacing ligatures. These alternates can make the face appear to be more simplified, restrained or frilly. Serofina also includes seven ornaments and old-style numbers. Check out the sample images to see these features in action. Serofina is a highly versatile script family and its range of weights make it perfect for whenever you need an expressive and original typeface.

Elone Veloz is a captivating and organic monoline font that evokes a sense of natural beauty and effortless grace. Inspired by the gentle curves of a snail’s trail, this script font carries a harmonious flow and a touch of whimsy. Each letter exudes a handmade charm, as if written with a single fluid stroke. Elone Veloz’s monoline design adds a contemporary and refined touch, making it perfect for a wide range of creative projects, from wedding invitations and stationery to nature-themed branding and packaging. Its versatility allows it to seamlessly adapt to both elegant and casual designs, while its inherent organic feel adds a warm and inviting atmosphere. With its serene and enchanting nature, Elone Veloz encapsulates the beauty of the natural world in a timeless and elegant script font.

Unzial typefaces consist of letter forms of the Capitalis Monumentalis and the majescule cursive. The origins of Unizial faces date back to the 5th century. The Neue Hammer Unziale was developed from the Hammer typeface, which was designed by Victor Hammer in 1921, cut by A. Schuricht and appeared with the font foundry Klingspor in 1923. In 1953, American Unizial was expanded to include some new figures, also designed by Hammer, and was rereleased by Klingspor with the name Neue Hammer Unziale. The forms are based on old scripts in books of antiquity and the early Middle Ages and the font is a new variation of a classic. Neue Hammer Unziale has been a favorite for certificates and diplomas and is recommended for headlines and shorter texts in a point size of 12 or larger.

Golden Stanbury is an elegant and classy font duo with a modern touch. The signature ballpoint style gives you a sleek, elegant look for your logos, business card, wedding invitations, quotes, advertisements, and more. I made this Golden Stanbury Font Duo for the needs of the logo and branding market where fonts that are combined with modern and clean concepts are still very rare and hard to find. Hopefully Golden Standbury can provide choices for designers. Highly recommended to use it in OpenType capable software - there are plenty out there nowadays as technology catches up with design. The OpenType features can be accessed by using programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, Afinity and more. Let's create something beautiful today with Golden Stanbury. Enjoy!

Introducing Aquene – Display Serif Font Are you in search of a unique serif font with a captivating flow for your display requirements? Look no further than Aquene – Display Serif. This meticulously crafted font is designed to make your text stand out and captivate your audience. Unique Flow for Captivating Text Aquene – Display Serif font boasts a distinctive flow that sets it apart. Firstly, its elegant curves and graceful lines lend a touch of sophistication. Secondly, it’s perfect for eye-catching headlines and titles that leave a lasting impression. Versatile Usage for Various Design Needs Moreover, Aquene is remarkably versatile. It’s suitable for posters, banners, or website headers, making it ideal for different design contexts. Whether you’re working on a promotional campaign, crafting a logo, or designing social media graphics, Aquene’s adaptability shines.

Hs Alnasma is an Arabic display typeface, under “titles” category. It is useful for book titles, creative designs and modern logos. Also, it is used when a contemporary and simple look is desired that can fit with the characteristics of Latin fonts where horizontal parts are thinner than vertical ones for use in technical and engineering company. The font is based on some modern lines of Kufi calligraphy along with some derived ideas of Latin fonts, maintaining the beauty of the Arabic font and its fixed rates. This font supports Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Kurdish and Pashto and also includes Basic Latin and consisting of two weights (regular and bold) which can add to the library of Arabic and Latin fonts contemporary models that meet with the purposes of various designs for all tastes.

Engraving inspired typeface The AW Conqueror Carved encapsulates perfectly the lettering styles in fashion during the 19th century quite often in the frontispieces of books. It wasn’t rare to see these kinds of typefaces, with their variations in depth and relief effects, adorning boxes and other forms of packaging of the time. AW Conqueror superfamily AW Conqueror Didot is part of a larger family, who include 4 others subfamilies with great potential: They’re but based on same structure, with some connection between them (width for example), to offer a great & easy titling toolbox to any designers, from skilful to beginner. Each of the members try their best to be different from the others because of their features. They should work harmoniously in contrast. Club des directeurs artistiques Prix 2010 European Design Awards 2011

BB Noname™ (Pro) is intended to imply the appearance of a conventional typeface in a contemporary context. Due to the frequent use in the public service (among other things), the style associates a supposedly objective face. The style is characterized by the proportions, the contradiction of the apparently perfect reduction and the retention of chirographic elements. In addition, the rapid further development of the input devices has meant that existing character sets have been added again and again, regardless of style and technical requirements. With this work, the properties were analyzed, the characteristic features highlighted and summarized in a complete typesetting: Anonymity (procedure), bureaucracy (style by category), convention (shape) and formality (optical corrections). ● 3 Variants: Human, Computer, Interaction ● 20 Stylistic-Sets ● 34 Styles ● 39 OpenType features ● 93 Languages Support ● 35,598 (1,047/Style)

Australian designer and art director Wayne Thompson has loved typography “ever since I received a battered second-hand Letraset catalog at the age of 10.” He based ITC Django on the handwriting of an acquaintance -- “a fellow I know who writes and illustrates children's books and is also a commercial artist” -- who called himself Django, after the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. “I felt that that name Django suited the funky, lively feel of the face,” says Thompson. But he adds, “Django has a split personality: it appears loose and easy at first, but after looking at it for some time I felt an edginess come through that was slightly psychotic.” The looseness of the lowercase contrasts with the spikiness of the capitals. The “edginess” is especially apparent in words in all caps.

This delicate condensed typeface evokes a distant 1930s style with its pointed and sloping capital letters. The splayed capital M gives the design a very a definite retro flavor. But deco quickly becomes modern day with the use of slab serifs. The thick body of Kingsbury Condensed is neatly anchored to long thin serifs giving the face an unusual and at the same time contemporary appearance. Great for book covers and large capital letter assignments where a modern revivalist look is appropriate. Kingsbury Condensed Book is also available in the OpenType Std format. Some new characters have been added to this OpenType version. Advanced features currently work in Adobe Creative Suite InDesign, Creative Suite Illustrator, and Quark XPress 7. Check for OpenType advanced feature support in other applications as it gradually becomes available with upgrades.

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.

Quarkwell™ by The Typeworks is a line based typeface ideal for use in designs that require a modern and highly legible appearance whilst still retaining a classic feel. The Quarkwell font family is inspired by lettering from twentieth-century pantograph engraving machines. The letterforms give a nod to the signature copy sets used on many computer mechanical keyboard keycaps and vintage typewriters, plotter engraved plastics signage fonts and others using modified Gorton lettering. Quarkwell font faces include many stylistic alternates for its uppercase and symbols characters sets. Need a different "Q" design? Use access all alternates or insert symbol to select a different "Q" form! Vector lines for plotting machines are also available to purchase on request at TheTypeworks.com So take Quarkwell home today! It's a perfect fit for all sorts of projects.

Joost Schmidt?s (1893?1948) name is undoubtedly connected with monolinear condensed letters of geometric appearance ? his unfinished draft of a stencil alphabet, constructed on grid paper in 1930, is much lesser known. These modular shapes simply consist of half circles, quarter circles and square strokes with half-round terminals. From just six original letterforms (a, b, c, d, e, g), Flavia Zimbardi completed Schmidt?s draft and extended it to a full character set for contemporary use, adding upper case letters and different figure sets including old-style. Joschmi overcomes legibility issues usually associated with this stencil style, with special attention to the design of white space. Zimbardi lends the face even more character by carefully adding round terminals in subtle spots of the alphabet, accessible through stylistic sets.

Cherishline Script is a thin lettered and graceful script font. Fall for its ravishing style and use it to create gorgeous wedding invitations, beautiful stationary art, eye-catching social media posts, and much more! Cherishline Script is PUA encoded which means you can access all glyphs and swashes with ease! What's Include : PUA encode & Opentype ( It is full of Tails and glyphs ) Multilingual support Use the fonts for: logos, branding materials, wedding sign, wedding website card, farmhouse signs, sign bridal, shirts, pantry labels, sign bridal shower, business cards, greeting cards, wall decor, social media, planner prints and websites. • This font works with any application Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, Corel, Adobe Illustrator, Cricut Design Space, and many others! If you have any question please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank You!

Introducing the Thole font, a very elegant and clean san serif family, with a characteristic width and graceful impression, for designs with feminine or masculine themes, this font will look strong and strong in your design projects. There is a strong impression in this font, both from the width of the letters, the corners in this font are also equipped with ligatures and alternates to complement your needs. This font is perfect for games, sporting events, branding, banners, posters, movie titles, book titles, quotes, clothing, logotypes, and more. of course, your various design projects will be perfect and extraordinary if you use this font because this font is equipped with a complimentary font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text. start using our fonts for your amazing projects.

Carpenter® is a beautiful script perfectly suited for invitations and announcements. Created by James West, the design was a facsimile of the penmanship of Mr. Carpenter of R. Hoe & Co. and released by the Cleveland Type Foundry as one weight in 1882. It is now also available in SemiBold and Bold. The style of this script is very reminiscent of formal handwriting popular in the late 19 and early 20th centuries. It is graceful with formal structure. Its x-height is very small, with unusually long ascenders and descenders. Although there are many script fonts available, Carpenter is a historical design with a truly unique personality that will add a truly unique look and feel to your design. From GroupType™, Carpenter is available in TrueType and OpenType.

NarrowWay is a family of 18 condensed and ultra-condensed sans-serif typefaces. The family started with the ultra-condensed widths, then the condensed and regular widths (the regular is still quite condensed) were added. All widths have three weights and each weight has an italics style. These 18 styles lack a true lowercase but rather have a set of alternative characters, some based on lower-case forms, on the lower-case keys. Some alternative letters can be reached with the OpenType feature of stylistic sets. The character spacing in most of the styles is quite loose and it can be tightened with an application's character spacing if needed. These typefaces are display faces that can be useful for squeezing tall lettering into tight spaces. They are not readable at small point sizes.

In today's typographic landscape, few would still consider Bodoni to have a "modern" feel, but there was once a time when it's vertical axis and thinned horizontal strokes were considered radical. Volterra—inspired by the forms of Bodoni—finishes what Bodoni started and eliminates the horizontal stroke altogether, breathing an elegant new energy into a 200-year-old classic. Named for the artist hired to paint loincloths over Michelangelo's "Last Judgement" when nudity in religious art was condemned, Volterra acknowledges that it is no easy feat picking up where a master left off. Volterra takes what has grown to feel traditional and transforms it into a delicate mixture of classic and modern, with razor-edged serifs and ultra-sharp strokes. Strictly a display face, the larger Volterra is used, the better it looks.

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.

TOUCHDOWN! This is not a Hoax, not a What If, not an Imaginary Font! The Eagle has Landed... Comicraft's latest manned mission: Space Age Faces for Space Age Spaces! Our Apollo Modules have settled in the moondust and our Astronauts are buckled up in the Rover collecting little rocks and looking for suitable spots to play golf. We invested billions and billions of dollars to send these fonts into space using the largest and most powerful rockets ever built, and rest assured, our Orbiter is coated with a phenolic epoxy resin ablative heatshield to protect you for your journey back to Earth. Features: Six fonts (Modular, Modular-Bold, Orbiter, Orbiter-Bold, Rover, Rover-Bold) with upper and lower case characters. Opentype version of Orbiter also includes 52 auto-ligatures.

Town is a display collection inspired by art deco and contemporary lettering. The fonts have a classic feel, with contemporary proportions, styling and details. There are eight base weights and nine decorative styles in multiple weights. The variety of styles are designed to create bespoke brand marks, stylish liquor labels, unique restaurant menus, engaging websites and fresh magazine layouts. The fonts are built on the same foundations, so the display and decorative styles can be mixed and matched while maintaining a harmonious look. Several of the styles can also be layered together; add a subtle shadow to your headline or create a full dimensional look with an inline face. The collection is rounded out with two sets of accent fonts, and a set of text weights, with matching italics.

Steal the spotlight with Senlot. A high contrast sans serif, Senlot’s figure is perfect for enrapturing your audience. The font shows off a unique calligraphic stress, which--with the contrast--makes the face quite usable in luxury and high quality design work. The gorgeous appearance of Senlot is accompanied by a complete set of small capitals and a true italic. Dress your text in any of nine separate styles from Thin to Bold. Senlot also holds a full set of OpenType features, including titling capitals, superscripts and subscripts, and oldstyle figures and has an extended Latin cover with span for over 72 languages. A special thanks to Lucas Azevedo and ikern for production assistance on Senlot. Let Senlot’s beauty and simplicity carry the stage on your new text or webpage.

Neubau is a condensed geometric display typeface, designed in 2009. The inspiration for this face came from Joost Schmidt lowercase letters developed during 1925-28 in Bauhaus Dessau. Schmidt was one of the proponents of New Typography – a movement advocating the use of only lowercase letters which were constructed strictly geometrically using only ruler and compass. Neubau Pro is the new edition of Neubau fonts. The new typeface is an upgraded version of an old fonts (2009), with careful refinements to glyph shapes, and the extension of glyph amounts which enabled support of more Latin languages as well as Greek and Cyrillic languages. Neubau Pro is released in six styles with small caps, and true italics, and contains OpenType features. This typeface can be used for editorials and print designs.

Cruickshank is a decorative typeface from the late Victorian period. The upper case includes several letters with swash strokes, extending well below the baseline, as found in the original design. Alternatives to the swash caps are provided. The lower case contains small caps of simpler design. The face was designed by William W. Jackson and released by MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan Type Foundry of Samson Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1886. MS&J was founded originally as Binny & Ronaldson in 1796 and later known as The Johnson Type Foundry. Cruickshank has a strong late Victorian flavor without the extravagance of so many fonts of the period. In its simplicity and clarity, it may be seen as a precursor to the Art Nouveau style that would develop a decade later.

The handwritten cursive by the famous Italian Casanova has inspired Petra Beiße to design a new script, the “Casanova Script Pro”, with a complement of over 1400 characters and symbols. “Casanova Script Regular” is the basic version of this font with a reduced West-Layout. “Petras Script”, the first digital script font created by the calligrapher Petra Beiße, has, for many years, met with worldwide success. Petra Beiße has resided for a long time in Wiesbaden, Germany, where she is working as a renowned calligrapher. It is rare that any of her scripts are transferred into digital format and sold worldwide as fonts. Because “Petras Script” became such a huge success, she decided to release this new design for digitization. Further information about Petra Beiße and her present workshops can be found under www.handlettering.de.

Italian poet and author, Francesco Pastonchi was commissioned to produce a new edition of the Italian Classics but was unable to find types which satisfied his needs. He decided to embark on designing a new typeface, assisted by Professor Eduardo Cotti at the Royal School of Typography in Torino. Early printed works, manuscripts and inscriptions were carefully studied before drawings were presented to Monotype for matrix production. A process of careful refinement of the design was carried out in the Monotype Type Drawing Office before the typeface was ready for manufacture. Pastonchi is a Venetian style face with a fresh, almost exotic appearance, ideally suited to classical works such as poetry and short stories. The Pastonchi font family has beautiful character shapes that also make excellent display and advertising copy.

Preface vs. Helvetica/Futura/Gill: a different strategy of text color. Whereas the established classes of sans serif typeface achieve a dynamic balance between stroke and space by combining a diversity of letterform with an evenness of fit, Preface switches the emphasis, driving out diagonals to create a dominant harmony of curves and perpendiculars, matched with a greater variety of inter-character space shapes—the result of extra width introduced in the “f” and “t”, and by the openness that accompanies the wide tails of the “ a” and “l”, the long ear of the “r”, and the serif of the “i”. En masse, and in keeping with the present trend in typography, Preface exhibits a coarser texture than the traditional sans serif faces, but one that is nonetheless even and precise. With tabular, oldstyle figures.