Experience the timeless allure of Black Oldest, a font that effortlessly blends style and bold. With its neat and clean design, this serif font is a versatile choice for a wide variety of designs, taking them to new heights of sophistication. Explore the possibilities as you unlock the potential of its alternates and ligatures, allowing you to create the perfect typography design. Whether you're working on a luxury logo and branding, a classy editorial design, magazines, packaging, posters, movies, brands, fashion promotions, or art gallery branding, Black Oldest is the ideal companion for your upcoming projects. Embrace the possibilities and unleash your creativity with this PUA-encoded font, granting you access to all the captivating glyphs it offers. Elevate your designs with the timeless charm of Black Oldest and watch them come to life with elegance and grace.

Introducing Molend - a unique display font that allows you to customize the letter width to create one-of-a-kind designs. With its futuristic, techno, brutalist, and experimental styles. Inspired by kinetic typography and urban style. This font is perfect for display, headline, magazine, editorial, label, logotype, branding, movie, poster, and short quotes. Molend also features up to 6 sets of special characters, giving you the freedom to mix & match your designs. With its sans-serif style, Molend is highly versatile and can be used for a variety of projects. Molend is the unique font, customizable letter width and bold style are sure to grab the attention of your audience and leave a lasting impression. What you'll get : All capitals characters Number & punctuation Symbols Stylistic alternates Stylistic set 01-06 Multilingual support. Thank you for your time.

Rocksane Display is a modern hybrid font with fantastic decorative uppercase and strong serif lowercase for impressive and powerful look. This typeface works fine in big sizes and more suits for example in short tittles, logotypes, names, movie posters, books and music album covers. Rocksane includes 84 beautiful uppercase alternates except of basic set. You can easy get it with special combination like A1, A2, A3 etc. (This hot keys works with activated Standard Ligatures option). In addition, there are 11 End-swashes which harmoniously underline the words. You can quickly get it by the same way with combination like _1, _2, _3 up to _11 (underscore+number). This features works fine in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. You can use Rocksane for following languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

Hollywood Revue JNL gets its design inspiration and name from a vintage movie poster for "The Hollywood Revue of 1929". The letter style shows early Art Deco influences, yet the hand lettering was done in the late 1920s toward the end of the Art Nouveau period. MGM produced this early "talkie" all-star musical with a cast that included Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Conrad Nagel, Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Polly Moran and many others. This is the motion picture where Cliff ("Ukelele Ike") Edwards introduced "Singin' in the Rain" (composed by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown). Years later, Freed was a producer at MGM and gathered up many of the songs he and Brown wrote during the 1920s to form the musical core of the 1952 Gene Kelly-Debbie Reynolds-Donald O'Conner musical "Singin' in the Rain".

Cottorway Display Pro is a Brand New Elegant Typeface From a powerful font family of cottorway with 54 Varients. It has a dependable and uncompromising style, with controlled letterforms and modern touches. It looks amazing in logos, magazines, and movies. Cottorway Font would be perfect for branding, headlines, Captions, paragraphs, and posters. The various weights allow you to experiment with a wide range of applications. It's created to make an impression without sacrificing its beauty and readability. It's shown a clean, minimalist, warmth, quirky, yet still purposed to be versatile The Typeface includes Nine Weights -Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold and Black. Numerals and extended punctuation (200+ Glyphs). Updated and reworked Glyphs Expert kerning and quality crafting. Normal, Italic, Condensed and Outline Varients are Included. Thank you for taking the time to look into the font.

Cherubina means ‘Blessed’. It is a name derived from the Akkadian “karabu / kuribu”, meaning “blessing, blessed”. A cherub is a type of spiritual being mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, often depicted as a baby with wings. This font was based on the hand lettering I found on a 1962 Japanese poster for the movie “Mother Joanna Of The Angels”. The poster was designed by Hiroyoshi Oshima. Cherubina font is an all caps font (upper and lower case differ and can be used together) with a medieval feel to it. I tried to keep the ‘spirit’ of Hiroyoshi Oshima’s lettering, but changed the glyphs and designed most of them myself, as I had nothing but the title of the poster to work with. I have added some ligatures as well. Comes with my blessing and an eternity of diacritics.

It's a bold, It's HOT ROAD! A realistic hand brushed font just raring to get going. HOT ROAD is handwritten made with a wet brush, dynamic spontaneous flow and natural. It's perfect to leave a realistics impression on social media posts, advertisements, posters, products packaging & more. HOT ROAD FONT comes with several alternates character, ligature, punctuation, numerals. Also included is a bonus extras swashes. Use it for magazines, t-shirt, packaging, logos, advertising, quotes, branding, posters, editorials, cover artwork, movies, websites, etc HOT ROAD Font is coded with Unicode PUA, Allows full access to all the extra characters without having special software designing. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor / app. Thanks so much for looking and Enjoy it!

Step into the groove with Daily Shine, the ultimate funky retro font that will transport you straight back to the '70s era. Whether you're looking to infuse nostalgic flair into your logo or seek a fresh burst of inspiration for your design ventures, Daily Shine is your go-to choice. With its stylish swash alternates, Daily Shine adds a touch of extra style to your project, creating a dynamic and eye-catching look. Plus, its multilingual support ensures versatility for various language needs. From captivating headings and expressive logotypes to spirited quotes, apparel designs, inviting invitations, lively flyers, dynamic posters, heartfelt greeting cards, captivating product packaging, captivating book covers, empowering printed quotes and even mesmerizing album covers and movie posters, Daily Shine is your versatile companion for any creative endeavor. Get ready to shine bright and groove on with Daily Shine font!

Some words from the designer, Frantisek Storm... Designed by Josef Tyfa in 1959, digitalized by F. Storm in 1996. This Roman and Italic are well-known perhaps to all Czech graphic artists and typographers ever since their release. Although this type face in some details is under the sway of the period of its rise, its importance is timeless, in contradistinction to other famous types dating from the turn of the sixties which were found, after some time, to be trite. The italics live their own life, only their upper-case letters have the same expression as the basic design. Thin and fragile, they work excellently, emphasizing certain parts in the text by their perfect contrast of expression. When seen from a distance they are a little bit darker than the Roman face. Tyfa Roman was released in 1960 by Grafotechna in Prague for hot setting. Later on, Berthold produced letter matrices - "rulers" for Staromat devices, used for manual photosetting of display alphabets. In the eighties it was available on dry transfers of Transotype and today it is offered also by ITC. The meticulously executed designs of the individual letters in the 288 point size are arranged into a set of signs on a cardboard of about B2 in size. The yellowed paper reveals retouches by white paint on the ink. Blue lines mark the baseline, the capital line, the ascender and descender lines and the central verticals of the letters. With regard to the format of the flat scanner, the designs had to be reduced, with the use of a camera, to the format A4, i.e. to the upper-case letter height of about 30 mm. These were then scanned in 600 dpi resolution and read as a bitmap template to the FontStudio programme. The newly created bold type faces derive from Tyfa's designs of the letters "a", "n", "p", the darkness of which was increased further, approximately by 3%, to enhance their emphasizing function. The text designs have hairstrokes thickened by one third; the contrast between thin and thick strokes has been modified, in order to improve legibility, in sizes under 12 points. We have used electronic interpolation to produce the semi-bold designs. Josef Tyfa himself recommends to choose a somewhat darker design than the basic one for printing of books.

Constant is a meticulously constructed slab serif display typeface of a sturdy lineage. The strong horizontal and vertical rhythm and calculated angles dominate its appearance, yet sweeping broad shapes infuse the design with an overall warm undertone. Constant is best suited for setting short headlines, word marks, posters and other visual communication ephemera. Particular when set in all uppercase the typeface’s squarish and resolute nature commands attention and projects authority. Despite the prominent slab serifs and their angular corner details, these fonts work well also for shorter text passages, especially in the lighter to medium weights. When typesetting Constant in paragraphs spanning several lines the face requires a fair amount of leading to not appear vertically compressed. As customary for Underscore’s catalog the fonts have very extensive support for languages in the Latin script, reaching from Afrikaans to Vietnamese and Zulu. The fonts are carefully spaced, kerned and hinted, and include a variety of typographic glyphs and OpenType features like various ligatures, number features and case alternatives. Constant has been developed and released in 2018 as the proud forth release from the Underscore label. This design by Johannes Neumeier is available from the Underscore webshop as well as selected retailers.

Most of my fonts tend to skew more to the darker side in terms of themes and uses. So, as a challenge, I took it upon myself to design a font through the eyes of my wife. Josephine, having a sunny and carefree disposition, gave this font her blessing as being certifiably fun and cheerful. The name of the font comes from the Cantonese translation for "peach" (tow); and saying it twice (toto) is just a cuter way of putting it. Sort of like "Peachy". It's been my nickname for Josephine for as long as I can remember. Totoey has a glyph count of 390 and supports the following languages; Supported Languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Embu, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Meru, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkmen, Upper Sorbian, Vunjo, Walser, Zulu

Refillia Calligraphy is a stylish calligraphy font that features a varying baseline, smooth line, modern and with a depth love. For those of you who are need a touch of love and modernity for your designs or branding, it can be used for various purposes such as headings, wedding, invitation, signature, logos, branding, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, label, news, posters, badges etc. Just imagine that your customers love to see something beautiful, elegant, and warm, right? You don’t need to get confused to find an interesting font to attract their attention. We have a special font namely Refillia. The font design looks simple without losing its elegance and warmness. The function of the font is to show that you have a modern spirit to serve high-quality products and services. We design this font with OpenType features to give an artistic touch on it. This font is also applicable for numbers, punctuation, and other languages. It is also a multifunction font where you can use for a business logo, branding, wedding invitation, and anything you want. We'll have more great and artistic fonts. Just check our font collection by visiting Our Profile. Then, pick your most favorite font and use it to reach your goals.

Imagine a world filled with swirls of strawberry, pops of pink, and pure joy to go around for everyone... Are you trying to make an elegant, sweet, and stylish statement with your invitations, social media, website, or printed materials? Then grab some cotton candy, crack a smile, and get ready for a swirly day of wonders! Introducing Strawberry Swirl - A Modern Script Font. This gorgeous & stylish font can be used for a host of different content needs and projects. Use it for your headings, logos, business cards, printed quotes, invitations (wedding, birthday, engagement, etc.), packaging, resumes, and even your website or social media branding. Enchant & delight your audience, clients, or guests with this versatile, stylish, and elegant font. What you’ll get: - Multilingual & Ligature Support - Full sets of Punctuation and Numerals Compatible with: - Adobe Suite - Microsoft Office - KeyNote - Pages Software Requirements: The fonts that you’ll receive in the pack are widely supported by most software. In order to get the full functionality of the selection of standard ligatures (custom created letters) in the script font, any software that can read OpenType fonts will work. We hope you enjoy this font and that it makes your branding sparkle! Feel free to reach out to us if you’d like more information or if you have any concerns.

Epica is a contemporary interpretation of the Venetian Renaissance types. A humanist type family with a contemporary design. This family encompasses different typographic scenarios with emphasis in style and functional equilibrium. Its letterforms show the visual richness of Epica that includes some calligraphic reminiscences perfectly legible in small and display sizes. Its strong personality makes it distinguish, because it perfectly combines the elegance of antique typographies and the forcefulness of contemporary ones. This family has been designed in two different moments. Epica Serif, which have a more classical design, was finished 5 years ago in its first version. The first sketches were drew 8 years ago during the Master of Type Design at the University of Buenos Aires. Through the years was re design in several times to the point of reaching its current version. On the other hand, Epica Sans was completed in 2020 and is the counterpart of Epica Serif. A complementary system designed to enrich the serif version and give new options for hierarchy and composition. This is a versatile type family perfectly fit for books, editorial, and usage in print and on screens. It possesses great legibility in body texts, which makes it ideal for extended reading and supports a variety of languages.

Aljaraz (meaning “small bell” in english) is a curvy typeface inspired on the “Fat face" letters with an extremely bold design from the early 19th century, but with an insolent touch of brave and psychedelic distortions. Aljaraz has a regular and italic variable, and in both styles the capital letters have a swash alternative where the naughty touch reaches its maximum expression. It is ideal to recall the lysergic era of the 60s, write funny words, or simply to express small texts in a display way that powerfully attracts attention. Let Aljaraz inspire you groovy kind of love! Designed by Carlos Campos cuchi@cuchiquetipo.com Secondary typeface: 'Escuela', also by Carlos Campos _ Aljaraz (“campanita”) es una tipografía curvy inspirada en las letras con un diseño extremadamente grueso y atrevido de principios del siglo XIX (las “Fat face”), pero con un toque insolente de valientes distorsiones psicodélicas. Aljaraz tiene una variable regular y cursiva, y en ambos estilos las mayúsculas tienen una alternativa súper decorada donde el toque travieso alcanza su máxima expresión. Es ideal para rememorar la época lisérgica de los años 60, escribir palabras graciosas, o simplemente expresar textos graciosos de una forma visual que llame poderosamente la atención. ¡Deja que Aljaraz te inspire su maravilloso amor!

Peleguer typeface is the reinterpretation of the characters that the valencias goldsmiths Peleguer Manuel, father and son had opened and merged between 1779 and 1783 on behalf of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Land of Valencia “in order to create a Factory letters. Then during that time, reached 6 degrees of open letters (small pica, pica, gross pica, text, great primer and double pica). It appears that the letters never were done, and were themselves Manuel Peleguer who kept the punches and dies, leading to create a foundry-printing which only came out 5 or 6 books or documents for the single year of 1784 . One of these books, “Praise in the solemn funeral service …” made ​​with the degree of “gross pica” samples were selected to take the characters for subsequent drawings on the following parameters for the unity and a contemporary look to the source: Keep the proportions of the original source (but unifying the shapes of the serifs, as these were different according to repose at baseline or in descending order). Match the counterforms and match the fallen traces from the cursive. En short, “catch” the formal essence of the source and following update current typographic design criteria to achieve a source with good legibility and subtle personality.

Carelia is a modern multilingual (including cyrillic) serif family with classic forms, enhanced by extended OpenType features. It is well suited for all sorts of design - starting from web, to editorial and branding. Its stylistic alternates, swashes and ligatures (more 1200 glyphs in each font) will make your design even more stylized and unique. Carelia comes in two styles Upright and Italic - each has it's own character but both share the same curves and style. Both fonts are fully unicode mapped - can be used in any application of your choice.

The Grenhil is a handmade vintage font. Inspired by modern, vintage, and retro style. This font has 2 styles: Clean and Rough so you can use that style according to the type of project. Additionally, this font has many OpenType features so you can combine each font to be more dynamic. Made carefully to create the perfect texture and suitable for each of your projects also great for Logotype, Branding Design, Logo Design, Digital Lettering Arts, T-Shirt/Apparel. Please note that this family only contains uppercase letters.

Oceanshore is a modern display sans typeface with stencil characteristics and based on geometric shapes. That when combined gives the font a retro-futuristic look and makes it ideal for big and catchy editorial headlines. The family includes 6 styles, from Thin to Bold, each of them in a wide variety of alternates and ligatures that provides the users with a number of choices when composing. Each font comprises more than 550 characters and supports over 200 Latin languages. Seashore is well-suited for headlines, short text, posters, flyers and so on.

Strong and somewhat rough but absolutely warm-hearted, this Tremendous family is quite versatile and will find the right tone to deliver your message in a nice way. It can be friendly, it can speak out loud, it can be almost serious. It just cannot go unnoticed! Each font weight brings 2 slightly different options for each letter , which is cool for a more uneven look. Pick your choices through the keyboard or just turn on the OpenType ‘contextual alternates’ feature to instantly cycle these alternates. For tremendous people.

An early drawing tablet was largely responsible for the LeakorLeach typefaces. They resemble hand lettering using cake icing or done with an ink pen that leaves lots of ink blobs or ink blots. The family has two widths, plain and condensed, and in addition to each having an oblique style, each also has a leftward-inclined style. There may not be many uses for a leftward-inclined typeface, but for those needing one, the LeakorLeach family offers two. The LeakorLeach typefaces are unlike any other faces from IngrimayneType.

Nimble carries a strong, unique, cute, elegant, and formal character theme with a different touch, giving a new impression. beautiful, harmonious, relaxed but still formal. This font is rich in uniqueness in various characters in each letter, especially uppercase letters. you can alternate calls in each uppercase letter to create a new and captivating look in writing a name or trademark or something else. This font is perfect for strong text with displays for a wide variety of branding, advertising, posters, banners, packaging, news headlines, magazines, websites, logo design, and more.

Merlod has depicted its characters from Latin-American sign painting and reinterpreted them into modern approaches. This typeface is a friendly, fun and flexible family that is fun to use, consisting of 3 different styles that each comes with 7 weights. Each style of Merlod – Norme, Autre and Queue, possess a distinctive character but works together compatibly. Merlod also comes with a special stylistic set that allows the user to be creative and playful with the type, it helps enhance many different possibilities that certainly will spice up your design.

Building on Hiruko’s success, Hiruko Stencil continues the tradition of minimalism and clarity with support for a wide range of languages. Cut in such a way that each character works well with those surrounding it, this font is created with an understanding that even the most minor seeming things can make a big difference. The thick nature of the font makes it work wonderfully at larger sizes, but thanks to the carefully considered cuts in each letter, it remains incredibly legible even when shrunk down, so it’s useful in whatever you intend to craft.

Petugas is our newest font. This font is written in deep and dramatic handwriting. Each letter has a unique and beautiful character to be used as a title, word or sentence, which looks good and beautiful in every display design you make. Not limited to that, the bold calligraphy font is designed to keep paying attention to the beauty of each letter, there are alternate options for the letters which are certainly easy for you to access, so you can automatically customize the letters you want to enhance the visual appearance of your design project.

Foundry Flek and Foundry Plek are created on the same dot matrix grid system. Each family includes: light, regular, medium and bold weights – with a selection of dot patterns that can extend the grid vertically and horizontally. The underlying matrix common to each weight allows experimentation with overlays, and mixing weights produces varying effects. Foundry Plek used conventionally works well for serious correspondence, with a 'typewriter font' effect. Foundry Flek has an integral dot matrix grid as a background. With these two fonts a whole new graphic language can be explored.

Indento is a multi-purpose modern geometric slab serif for headlines, posters, branding but fairly legible to be used as longer text. The straight and rounded corners combined with deep cuts and asymmetric serifs gives it a distinctive look while still keeping its rigorousness and legibility. The family consist of three weights, each with a companying italic. The extensive character set—513 glyphs in each font—includes support for Central and Eastern European languages and OpenType features like small caps, ligatures, fractions, slashed zero, stylistic alternates and more.

Ossuary is a font in which each letter is formed using a uniquely arranged pile of skulls. The font was originally designed to be caps only, but small caps were added for convenience. There is now a character for each typeable letter of the American English keyboard. The font was inspired by images from the Kostnice ossuary in Sedlec, Kutna Hora near Prague. (Google it.) Whether you are fascinated or repulsed, such images have a mystery about them. They demand your attention. That is the feel this font was intended to capture.

ZIGZAG is a funny font family whose letters have four varieties each in order to multiply expressions and attract the eye by breaking the rhythm of reading. There are two styles available Rounded and Not Rounded. The variations oscillate between a hand-drawn design and a geometric or imaginative drawing. Opentype’s function lets you choose between different variations of each glyph and contextual variables allow to mix the styles. Benoît Bodhuin designed ZIGZAG Rounded in 2011/12 for the theatre Vivat. In 2013 ZIGZAG Rounded was supplemented by ZIGZAG Not Rounded.

Introducing, Blushing Rose - A Stylish Modern Serif with Ligatures and Alternates Blushing Rose is a stylish and modern serif with a bunch of alternates for each characters and ligatures that will make your presentation or logo even more stunning and attractive! You can use this font for unlimited purpose such as wedding invitation, branding, or even your own logo. The ligatures will make your logo more advanced without many steps. This fonts support Multi Language. Features Uppercase & Lowercase Number & Symbol Extended Multi language Alternates for each characters Ligatures

The goal with South Island was to make a font that looked authentically handwritten. Each character had to perfectly flow into the next and maintain a nice balance between variation and legibility. The typeface retains all the texture and grit of the original handwritten characters, making it especially powerful when used for large headers. South Island comes in a regular version, and a second version which contains alternate versions of each letter A-Z (both upper and lowercase). Try pairing it up with a more traditional serif or sans serif font for endless possibilities.

Undersong brings 13 fancy hand-drawn stackable fonts which can be combined in many, many tasty ways. Layered or not, you'll see that these little ones work together scrumptiously well. For added flavor and freshness, each font brings at least 3 variations for each letter, making it for a cool natural handmade look. T-shirts, posters, book covers, packaging projects, Undersong will nicely fit many design applications. Some great font families out there are said to be workhorses. Figure this one like a work-unicorn: perfect for fantastic designs. Enjoy the ride!

Foundry Plek and Foundry Flek are created on the same dot matrix grid system. Each family includes: light, regular, medium and bold weights – with a selection of dot patterns that can extend the grid vertically and horizontally. The underlying matrix common to each weight allows experimentation with overlays, and mixing weights produces varying effects. Foundry Plek used conventionally works well for serious correspondence, with a 'typewriter font' effect. Foundry Flek has an integral dot matrix grid as a background. With these two fonts a whole new graphic language can be explored.

Sean Henrich ATF is a sharp, rounded geometric display font and works best in text and display applications, such as headline, posters, signage, magazine, product branding, corporate branding, logos and titles. Several alternate characters are included in this typeface. Sean Henrich ATF font has six weights; ultra light, extra light, light, regular, bold and extra bold, each available in italic, making a total of twelve styles. Each style has a full upper and lower-case, accents, punctuation and a selection of monetary symbols. Currently Available for PC, in Open Type, PostScript or TrueType.

Mumford began as a revival of the early designs for sans serif fonts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but along the way it morphed into a reinterpretation of this style and it adaptation to more contemporary shapes. It's strong contrast, signature of the design, works along it 9 weight variables each with their corresponding oblique. Each variable includes extended language support (+ Cyrillic), fractions, tabular figures, ligatures and opentype features. Mumford was design with strong graphic display design in mind, perfectly suited for poster, magazine headers, titles and editorial design.

Gold Spur is a spurred version of the FontMesa Gold Rush set of fonts. Each version includes many extended characters for Western, Central and Eastern European countries. The Gold Spur Trail OpenType version has alternate double letter pairs included in the font and will automatically be substituted when used in Adobe CS products or other software that takes advantage of OpenType features. The $20.67 price of each font reflects the price of an ounce of gold in 1865 which was the year that the original Gold Rush font was created.

A tessellation is a pattern in which a shape or tile fits together with copies of itself to fill the plane with no gaps or overlaps. One type of tessellation is formed with sides of center-point rotation, that is, one half of an edge is rotated 180 degrees to form the other half. If a square template is made with sides of identical center-point rotation, there are exactly four shapes that are possible. If these shapes or tiles are fit together not edge to edge but vertex to vertex, the result is a checkerboard-like pattern of tiles and voids. However, the voids have four edges formed by the four possible shapes that the tiles can have, so the voids are limited to the same four shapes that that make up the tiles. The FabFours have 22 tile families that allow a wide variety of fascinating patterns. They form one, two, three, and four tile tessellation. Eleven of the seventeen symmetry groups can be formed with these patterns. In each tile family two of the shapes have two possible orientations, one shape has four possible orientations, and one has eight, for a total of 16 tiles. Each font has two families, one on letters A-P the other on a-p. For some of the families there are also other tiles using the same edge but using triangular and hexagonal templates. To get proper results, the leading must be set equal to the point size of the font. I discovered these fabulous families and their decorative possibilities as I was working on a book about tessellations. I have not been able to find anyone else who has written about these families of four and their decorative possibilities when arranged vertex to vertex.

The Verdana typeface family was designed specifically to address the challenges of on-screen display. Verdana was originally designed by world-renowned type designer Matthew Carter, and tuned for screen display by the leading TrueType hinting expert, Tom Rickner. The Verdana fonts are unique examples of type designed specifically for the computer screen.The Verdana family received a major update in 2011 as a collaboration between The Font Bureau, Monotype Imaging and Matthew Carter. The original Verdana family included only four fonts: regular, italic, bold and bold italic. The new and expanded Verdana Pro family contains 20 fonts in total. The Verdana Pro and Verdana Pro Condensed families each contain 10 fonts: Light, Regular, Semibold, Bold and Black (each with matching italic styles).Verdana exhibits characteristics derived from the pixel rather than the pen, the brush or the chisel. The balance between straight, curve and diagonal were meticulously tuned to ensure that the pixel patterns at small sizes are pleasing, clear and legible. Commonly confused characters, such as the lowercase i j l, the uppercase I J L and the number 1, have been carefully drawn for maximum individuality - an important characteristic of fonts designed for on-screen use. Another reason for the legibility of the Verdana fonts on the screen is their generous width and spacing.Designed by David Berlow and David Johnathan Ross of the Font Bureau, with typographic consultation by Matthew Carter, the new Verdana Pro includes a variety of advanced typographic features including true small capitals, ligatures, fractions, old style figures, lining tabular figures and lining proportional figures. An OpenType-savvy application is required to access these typographic features. The expanded weights and completely new condensed range of fonts provide designers with an expanded palette of typographic options for use in print and on-screen, in both small text sizes and headlines.

Linotype Univers is a completely reworked version of the original Univers typeface family designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1957. After a long process of painstakingly detailed revision, Frutiger and the design staff at Linotype completed this large joint project in 1997. The result: a brilliant and cohesive font family of 63 weights and styles including the 4 monospaced typewriter weights. All the existing weights were completely redrawn, with careful attention paid to making the proportions more consistent with each other and improving fine details such as curves and thick-to-thin stroke ratios. The family was expanded from 27 to 63 weights, providing a much larger framework to graphic designers for choosing just the right style. The bold and condensed weights were reworked for improved legibility and on-screen application. The stroke weights were revised for consistency within each face as well as in relationship to the other weights. By following Frutiger's original designs, the humanist character of the sans serif Univers now comes through more distinctly. T he systemized numbering system has also been updated. With its sturdy, clean forms Univers can facilitate an expression of cool elegance and rational competence. In fact, the strong familial relationships between all the styles and weights make it a serviceable choice for large graphic design projects that require versatility with consistency. Frutiger was successful in staying true to his initial aims; the new Linotype Univers does indeed work in longer texts as well as for display settings. In 2010 the typeface family was extended and renamed into a more logical naming of "Univers Next" to fit better in the Platinum Collection naming. Univers Next Variable are font files which are featuring two axis and have a preset instance from Light to Heavy and Condensed to Extended. Univers® Next font field guide including best practices, font pairings and alternatives.

The Bauer Typefoundry first released the Beton family of types in 1936. Created by the German type designer Heinrich Jost, the present digital version of the Beton family consists of six slab serif typefaces. First developed during the early 1800s, by the 1930s slab serif faces had become one of many stock styles of type developed by foundries all over the world. Because of their distance from pen-drawn forms and their industrial appearance, they were seen as “modern” typefaces. (Their serifs kept them from being too modern.) The first slab serif typefaces were outgrowths of didone style text faces (e.g., Walbaum). As newspapers and advertising grew in importance in the western world (especially in “Wild West” America), type founders and printers began to create bigger, bolder typefaces, which would set large headlines apart from text, and each other. Through display tactics, businesses and industry could begin to visually differentiate their products from one another. This craze eventually led to the development of monster sized wood type, among other things. By the 20th Century, the typographic establishment had begun to tame, categorize, and codify 19th Century type styles. It was in the wake of this environment that Jost developed Beton. The Beton family is a type “family” in a pre-1950s sense of the word. Although six styles of type are available, only four of them fit in logical progression with each other (Beton Light, Beton Demi Bold, Beton Bold, and Beton Extra Bold). The other two members of the family, Beton Bold Condensed and Beton Bold Compressed, are more like distant cousins. They function better as single headlines to text set in Beton Light or Beton Demi Bold, of as companions to totally separate typefaces.