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  1. Aleksa by AlfaBravo, $25.00
    Sans serif family Aleksa combine some of traditional Ukrainian letter shapes with contemporary vision. It makes a beautiful contrast that works really well with a modern design. The family features 9 weights, ranging from Thin to UltraBlack including italics. Designed by Kyrylo Tkachov and Marchela Mozhyna. Released by AlfaBravo in 2020.
  2. Aryzena by Scratch Design, $9.00
    Aryzena is handwritten, textured, artistic brush script. This font also has swash characters that make your design more attractive and natural, giving your text an authentic and laid-back characteristic. This font works well in designs for clothing, tittle books, quotes, branding, logos, packaging designs, posters, invitation, mural and more!
  3. Bumpo by Graphite, $24.00
    Bumpo is a chunky and a fun display typeface. With an extra heavy but friendly personality, Bumpo works well for posters, food packaging, children’s products and books, or any communications which needs to be friendly, fun, casual or loud. There is also a version of Bumpo with softer edges – Bumpo Soft
  4. farloni by Justi, $15.00
    farloni is a monospaced monoline typeface family that can be used in a variety of typographic environments. it comes in four weights, from light to bold. the typeface is intended for use in display sizes, but looks quite legible in text and it works well for editorial and brand design.
  5. Jungle street by Fidan Fonts, $19.00
    Jungle Street is an uppercase decorative font inspired by street art tag in big city wall. It's works perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirts, postcards and many more. Latin-based Language Support. A summary of what's included: Jungle street Regular font (otf) Jungle street Outline font (otf) Happy creating!
  6. MS Gothic by Microsoft Corporation, $39.00
    MS Gothic™ Japanese font features plain strokes similar to sans serif designs, and works well for on-screen display such as user interfaces. This file is 4.4 MB in size. MS Gothic is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. MS Gothic font Character Set: Latin-1, Japanese (Code Page 932)
  7. University Roman by ITC, $40.99
    University Roman font is based on Speedball hand-lettering. Designed at the Letraset Type Studio in 1983. University Roman is notable for its narrow capitals with crossbars that sit well above the median line. This unique roman design evokes a romantic air in display work such as packaging and advertising.
  8. Pink Lemonade by Typadelic, $19.95
    Pink Lemonade (formerly called Fresh Paint) is just like cool, tart lemonade on a hot summer’s day...refreshing! With varying widths and irregular sizes of the lowercase letters, Pink Lemonade lends a bouncy rhythm to text. Works very well for scrapbooking, invitations, children’s books, recipe books, titling, display purposes, etc.
  9. Cooperative by Hafontia, $99.00
    Cooperative is a retro style poster font in Hebrew and Latin. Is based on a printed example of a vintage handmade wood type from the 1950's. This sans serif font is available in both regular and bold versions, with a dirty and grungy styles as well in regular and bold.
  10. Circus Poster by Ascender, $29.99
    Circus Poster Shadow was created by Tom Rickner as a tribute to the classic Tuscan Egyptian forms used in many wood types of the 1890s. It captures the spirit of the wild west, amusement parks and ciruses. The details of Circus Poster Shadow are best reproduced at larger, display sizes.
  11. Cerise by Magpie Paper Works, $58.00
    Cerise from Magpie Paper Works is a sweet, hand-lettered font ready for any use. She's full of Opentype features that mix & match for a convincing calligraphy effect. Cerise includes decorative contextual caps, double-letter ligatures, discretionary ligatures, and old-style numerals as well as 62 coordinating strokes and swashes.
  12. Blog by BA Graphics, $45.00
    Blog has a new distinctive look and comes in four weights light, regular, medium and bold. It can be seen as quite elegant in the light weights while looking masculine in the heavy weight. Its unique look lends to so many different applications. Blog works well for both headline and text.
  13. Vatican by Alan Meeks, $45.00
    Vatican is a calligraphic face. The lower case is influenced by the lettering of Arthur Baker but the caps are more formal, the shape of the Cap V reminded me of a Bishops Mitre which led eventually to the name. The lighter weight works particually well in small text pieces
  14. Tarpon Springs JNL by Jeff Levine, $29.00
    An early-1960s Canadian magazine ad for a brand of birth control pills featured the least likely spokesperson – Annette Funicello (“starring in “Beach Blanket Bingo” and “How to Stuff A Wild Bikini”). The text was hand lettered in an Art Deco-inspired sans serif type design. Tarpon Spring JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.
  15. The Bossman by Sipanji21, $15.00
    The Bossman is a display font with a graffiti-like appearance, this font only uses uppercase letters and the standard number as well as the standard punctuation. This font is good for various design purposes, such as: title posters, banners, logotypes, apparel, wall displays, crafting, packaging, advertising, or whatever. make your design more attractive with this font.
  16. Midpoint Pro by Mint Type, $-
    Midpoint Pro is a soft sans-serif typeface with a modern technical look. Its spurless design creates a perfect balance between static rigid verticals and softened endings. The interplay of open and closed forms suggests increased legibility in small sizes and results in a vivid texture. The typeface will serve for a number of purposes, including posters, corporate branding or screen design of any kind like web or UI layouts. Midpoint Pro comes in 9 weights + oblique styles, each supporting numerous Latin-based languages as well as major Cyrillic languages. It is packed with OpenType features like ligatures, small caps, 4 sets of digits, 2 stylistic sets, superiors and inferiors, fractions, ordinals, respective punctuation varieties including all-cap punctuation, as well as language-specific alternates.
  17. Mary Helen JF by Jukebox Collection, $32.99
    Mary Helen from Jukebox is a warm and feminine script font that is bright and happy. Named after the designer’s paternal grandmother, the typeface lends a sense of fun and joy to any design. Perfect for a variety of functions, Mary Helen will provide that touch of feminine grace, like a handwritten note from a friend or loved one. The font contains several alternate letters and a couple of ending flourishes as well, for variety. Jukebox fonts are available in OpenType format and downloadable packages contain both .otf and .ttf versions of the font. They are compatible on both Mac and Windows. All fonts contain basic OpenType features as well as support for Latin-based and most Eastern European languages.
  18. Jakosta by Twinletter, $15.00
    We introduce Jakosta, a one-of-a-kind Japanese-themed display font. This font was created by paying close attention to each letter shape to make it as natural as possible, similar to a Japanese font, while still prioritizing letterforms that are easy to read and understand by the audience so that all of your projects will become projects that are easy to remember and understand by anyone from anywhere in the world. anywhere Logotypes, food banners, branding, brochure, posters, movie titles, book titles, quotes, and more may all benefit from this font. Of course, using this font in your various design projects will make them excellent and outstanding; many viewers are drawn to the striking and unusual graphic display. Start utilizing this typeface in your projects to make them stand out.
  19. Hatolie by Gilar Studio, $16.00
    Introducing New Font : Hatolie - Elegant And Luxuries Typeface Hatolie - Elegant And Luxuries Typeface will work perfectly for fashion, e-commerce brands, trend blogs, wedding boutiques or any business that wants to appear upscale and chic. Hatolie - Elegant And Luxuries Typeface also Suitable for Logo, greeting cards, quotes, posters, branding, name card, stationary, design title, blog header, art quote, typography, art, modern envelope lettering or book design, happening style like handdrawn design or watercolor design theme, craft design, any DIY project, book title, or any purpose to make your art/design project look pretty and trendy. Features : Uppercase & Lowercase Numerals & Punctuations (OpenType Standard) Accents/Multilingual characters PUA Encoded Check my other Font here : https://gilarstudio.com/ Give it a try! You will surely love it! Thanks and have a wonderful day, Gilar :)
  20. Better Together by Katsia Jazwinska, $19.00
    Take a look at Better Together, a four-font handwriting family, which was made to look great together in all possible combinations, but also work beautifully on their own. The family consists of: - Better Together Script - a charismatic script, which includes some double-lettered ligatures and alternates for several letters to make your texts look more authentic. - Better Together Condensed - a friendly, fun and quirky font which will give your project illustrative handmade feel. - Better Together Spaced - a specially spaced small font which will give your designs a handwritten feel and a modern aesthetic look. - Better Together Caps - a bold Uppercase font which is indispensable in all occasions where eye-catching headline needed. And one more thing! Each font includes cyrillic and international characters that support most European languages. Hope you like it!
  21. Strokes by Favorite Fonts, $17.00
    The "Strokes" font family presented here has several styles: regular, italic, bold and bold italic. The font supports the alphabet consisting of Latin letters and symbols, Cyrillic, Tatar. The composition of the font "Strokes" includes graphemes from uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, standard characters. The originality of the font lies in its name. The "Strokes" font is made up of many intersecting lines, forming rounded sans-serif letters, but at the same time smooth and easy to read, which will fit perfectly into your composition. The unusualness and attractiveness of the font makes it noticeable among the texts that surround us everywhere. This property is convenient to use on signs, logos, corporate identity, product packaging. The decorativeness of the font is eye-catching and will add important accents to your work.
  22. Pinfong Typeface by Alcode, $23.00
    Pinfong Typeface is a Decorative display font with ligatures also complete multilingual glyphs. Pinfong come with Regular style, it will make this typeface can be used in all design projects and works perfectly for pairing with script typeface or handmade fonts, Headlines, Posters, Packaging, T-shirts, Postcards, Invitation, Wedding Sign, Sign Painting, Signboard, and much more. Try Pinfong, enjoy the richness of OpenType features and let her fun and elegant excitement make you happy and enhance your creativity! You can use this font very easily. •Multilingual Support And Special Ligatures Your download will include OTF format files. If you do not have programs that support OpenType features like Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw X Versions, you can access all alternative flying machines using Font Book (Mac) or Character Map (Windows)
  23. Dofta by Alcode, $23.00
    Dofta is a serif Decorative typeface with ligatures also complete multilingual glyphs. Dofta come with Regular style, it will make this typeface can be used in all design projects and works perfectly for pairing with script typeface or handmade fonts, Headlines, Posters, Packaging, T-shirts, Postcards, Invitation, Wedding Sign, Sign Painting, Signboard, and much more. Try Dofta, enjoy the richness of OpenType features and let her fun and elegant excitement make you happy and enhance your creativity! You can use this font very easily. •Multilingual Support And Special Ligatures Your download will include OTF format files. If you do not have programs that support OpenType features like Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw X Versions, you can access all alternative flying machines using Font Book (Mac) or Character Map (Windows)
  24. Justine Garden by Attract Studio, $12.00
    -INTRODUCING- Justine Garden Script is a beautiful modern calligraphy typeface, I hope you will be interested in this font, if you want to use it for your work. This font can be used easily and simply because there are many features in it. contains a complete set of lowercase and uppercase letters, assorted punctuation, numbers, and multilingual support. Justine Garden is very suitable for market designs being developed today, this font has a stylish, trendy, natural and soft font, with this font you can take advantage of opportunities every moment is a great way to highlight the celebration of the best of the party, because this font will be an advocate for the purposes such as wedding invitations, branding, parties, graduations, birthdays, gatherings, etc. Thank you, Attract Studio
  25. Bamew by Twinletter, $14.00
    BAMEW is a fun and slightly dirty graffiti font designed by us. We put a lot of thought into every detail so that you may use this font in a wide range of outdoor event projects for people of all genders and ages. If you utilize this typeface, the project you’re working on will be harmonious and harmonious, making it amazing for everyone who sees it. Use this font right now for that. This graffiti font is great for product logos, poster titles, headlines, packaging, film titles, logotypes, gorgeous writing, and trendy graffiti designs, among other things. Of course, if you utilize this font in your numerous creative projects, they will be perfect and outstanding. Use this typeface right away for your one-of-a-kind and remarkable projects.
  26. DASEGO by Twinletter, $15.00
    DASEGO, our newest font, is now available. A display typeface with an Asia theme that we made to fulfill the needs of your project with an Asian theme that you may use for projects that can be understood by audiences all over the world. We created this typeface by paying close attention to the individuality of each letter, abstract while still prioritizing optical harmony, and your project will look stunning with it. Logotypes, food banners, branding, brochure, posters, movie titles, book titles, quotes, and more may all benefit from this font. Of course, using this font in your various design projects will make them excellent and outstanding; many viewers are drawn to the striking and unusual graphic display. Start utilizing this typeface in your projects to make them stand out.
  27. Foncy by Cooldesignlab, $10.00
    Foncy Serif features open, ligature and alternative types that are packaged in 3 fonts: Regular, Italic and Bold. Foncy fonts include uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation and multilingual support. Foncy Serif is an elegant and unique serif font, thin yet impressive. Expertly designed to make your creations look amazing, this font will look beautiful and impressive with a variety of characters to display and is perfect for use on various ideas such as Editorial Projects, Logo Designs, Weddings, Clothing Branding, Product Packaging, Magazine Headers or simply as a stylish text overlay for any background image which will make your presentation more stunning and stand out. Foncy Serif also supports Multi Language and is PUA encoded !! Give us "likes" and support our work. Thank you very much. Have a nice day and Enjoy!!!
  28. Adelle Mono by TypeTogether, $36.00
    The Adelle family continues its stylistic expansion with the release of Adelle Mono and Adelle Mono Flex by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione. Monospaced typefaces are the default choice for developers and programmers and are also an aesthetic choice for many designers and communicators. The Adelle Mono font family has two widths to serve both breeds and a variable font for the flexible spectrum in between. Monospaced typefaces are born of necessity rather than purely aesthetic values. Each glyph is constrained to a strict box, making the naturally smaller ones the same width as the naturally wider ones. While this serves the functional purpose of keeping text aligned in vertical and horizontal rows, it is completely unnatural in terms of readability. A monospaced ‘l, i’ are overblown compromises while ‘m, w’ become compressed mutations. The Adelle Mono family was therefore designed with both the developer and the aesthete in mind. Adelle Mono respects its necessary constraints while still being visually appealing and easily read. Activate it for use in Sublime, Swift, Terminal, or your IDE of choice and see how well it performs. Clarity will lead to less developer mistakes, and its aesthetic appeal will make your work enjoyable. Adelle Mono Flex is the proportional width version that works for any kind of normal text reading or a design intended to invoke “system or information aesthetics”. Opposite the demands of the monospace family, Flex is reader friendly and intended for branding, annual reports, paragraphs, UI, logos, posters, screens, tables, captions, and more. Employ the Mono version where monospace is needed and the Flex version where reading or coherence is priority. Adelle Mono’s experimental 20-style design explores the space between proportional and monospaced types. It boosts creativity and coherence by providing flexible options in the same family, including italics and the variable font format with an axis of weight and a spectrum axis between multi-width and monospaced characters. Combining Adelle Mono with either Adelle or Adelle Sans adds more layers and adaptability to your work.
  29. ViabellaT H Pro by Elsner+Flake, $40.00
    The script version of the typeface Viabella introduces us to the calligraphic side of the Berlin type designer and typographer Karl-Heinz Lange. The sketches for this script typeface, which resulted from the close cooperation with Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake, found their roots in sketch drawings which Karl-Heinz Lange had already drawn in the 1980’s. For the Viabella design, Karl-Heinz Lange drew the basic letterforms of the Black and Regular cuts with a brush. He then re-worked the drawings and transferred them on to tracing paper. The design studio Elsner+Flake in Hamburg cut these typeface extensions and later digitized them manually with the help of the IKARUS Sustem. With the Regular cut as a basis, Elsner+Flake extended the family with the Light version and interpolated and re-worked the Medium weight. The completion of the family was taken over by the type designer Björn Gogalla who had done the same kind of work on Rotola, a design which Karl-Heinz Lange had also created for Elsner+Flake. While Viabella was originally conceived as a headline typeface, its lighter weights can certainly be used for shorter text applications. The Black version creates powerful headlines with highly effective accents. With the help of swashes, which are available for all weights, the user can lighten up longer texts and add special character to titles. In contrast to pure headline fonts, Viabella has been enriched by an extensive complement of special characters. In addition to the Europa-Plus character set which allows setting type in over 70 latin-based languages, the user will find multiple versions of numerals as well as oldstyle figures, tabular and proportional lining figures, diagonal fractions, and a complete set of superior and inferior figures and fractions (60%). With such a rich character set, Viabella is not only ideal for many different uses in the areas of newspaper, magazine and advertising but it will surely be chosen for the design of greeting cards, invitations and other design projects within the privat sphere.
  30. Gandur New by Blackletra, $50.00
    Gandur is a display textura in three weights, split into two families: Alte — the German word for old — and New. Gandur was inspired by other geometric texturas, specially Max Bittrof’s Element (1933). The design began by adhering to a strict hexagonal grid, but during its development, slowly moved from a purely geometric to a more pen-based design (this is especially true in the heaviest weights). The differences between Alte and New are essentially morphological, with reflections in the character set and OpenType features. Gandur New has a more humanistic, contemporary structure and is more ‘romanized’ then Alte. Gandur New also features small capitals. Gandur Alte, on the other hand, remains truer to historical forms, most notably: S s X x Z z. Gandur Alte also features the long-s, which can be accessed via a Stylistic Set or the glyph palette. (As is historically accurate, a short-s will be used at the end of words automatically when the historical Stylistic Set has been activated).
  31. Gandur Alte by Blackletra, $50.00
    Gandur is a display textura in three weights, split into two families: Alte — the German word for old — and New . Gandur was inspired by other geometric texturas, specially Max Bittrof’s Element (1933). The design began by adhering to a strict hexagonal grid, but during its development, slowly moved from a purely geometric to a more pen-based design (this is especially true in the heaviest weights). The differences between Alte and New are essentially morphological, with reflections in the character set and OpenType features. Gandur New has a more humanistic, contemporary structure and is more ‘romanized’ then Alte. Gandur New also features small capitals. Gandur Alte, on the other hand, remains truer to historical forms, most notably: S s X x Z z. Gandur Alte also features the long-s, which can be accessed via a Stylistic Set or the glyph palette. (As is historically accurate, a short-s will be used at the end of words automatically when the historical Stylistic Set has been activated).
  32. Rosenbaum by SIAS, $34.90
    The design of Rosenbaum started with the idea of an eclectic merger of didone stroke pattern and contrast, uncial letterforms and blackletter appearance. It was a destillation experiment. It happened around christmas in 2011. The result is a unique typeface which strongly evokes a peculiar pastiche mood without being any historical in the strict sense of the word. It’s all about the fun to mix ingredients and to freely create reminiscences in a new way. Rosenbaum is a typeface like a fairytale – one of a kind, strangely poetic and incredibly true at once… Use Rosenbaum for emotional typographics, for fairytale books and stories, for headings and invitations, for distinctive labels or menu cards, for Wave Gothic publishing … you will know best! Both Rosenbaum Eins and Rosenbaum Rose contain all characters needed for any European language. They both contain the same range of additional symbols and ornaments, some of them are zero-width calligraphic embellishments designed for direct combination with the letters, even inside of words.
  33. Arabelle Script by madjack.font, $10.00
    Arabelle Script is a sweet, romantic calligraphy typeface with characters dancing along the baseline. It has a casual yet elegant touch. Can be used for various purposes such as logos, wedding invitations, headers, t-shirts, letterheads, signboards, labels, news, posters, badges etc. The font includes OpenType features with alternative styles, ligatures, and multiple language support. To enable OpenType Stylistic alternates, you will need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions. There are additional ways to alternate / swash, using the Character Map (Windows), Nexus Font (Windows), Font Book (Mac) or a software program like PopChar (for Windows and Mac). How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: http://youtu.be/iptSFA7feQ0 How to use a stylish font set in Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions: https://youtu.be/x1A_ilsBsGs
  34. FS Jack by Fontsmith, $80.00
    a, g, k and y It was a forensic examination by Jason Smith of his existing designs that laid the groundwork for FS Jack. Jason made a list of unique characteristics that would give the sans serif font its typographic thumbprint, which included an unusually large x-height and slightly off-the-wall letters like the lower-case “a”, “g”, “k” and “y”. “I wanted to make something that was slightly uncomfortable,” says Jason, “and in doing so simplify the quirkiness down to a few letters.” Fernando Mello did “the rest of the cooking”, filling the design out and making the additional weights. Tipos Latinos Upon its release in 2010, FS Jack was submitted by Fernando, who is Brazilian, for the esteemed type design biennial, Tipos Latinos, where it was selected as a winner in the Families category. It went on to be selected for type exhibitions throughout Latin America and around the world. “FS Jack is a workhorse,” says Fernando, “but also very ownable and distinctive, and available in a good range of weights, crafted by Jason and I.” Corporate “FS Jack took a couple of years to get noticed and is still fairly underused,” says Jason, “which is good in a way, for our Brandfont clients that have adopted it.” FS Jack was chosen as the signature font for The Shard in London, from its signage down to business cards. Fontsmith also worked with Lloyds Bank to customise FS Jack into a bespoke font for the bank’s updated brand identity – part of Fontsmith’s Brandfont service, which you can read about here. Fat Jack Included in the FS Jack family – just – is FS Jack Poster, the super-heavy weight of the range. “That was a last minute addition,” says Fernando, “after Jason and I started talking about how much we liked Gill KO, a typeface that is almost comically fat.”
  35. AZ Varsity Brush by Artist of Design, $20.00
    AZ Varsity Brushed font was inspired from a combination of typical collegiate t-shirts designs and also the current wave of Hollister t-shirt designs (rough painted look). This font utilizes an "old look" to the line work which is designed to have a "worn feel" to it. It is designed to compliment it's sister font; AZ Vintage. This font is designed for use as a worn and antiqued headline or subheadline.
  36. Primed by Set Sail Studios, $14.00
    It's bold, chunky, and ready to make a big impression - Primed is an authentic, hand-drawn brush font made with real marker pens. Perfect for unmissable display text, logos, handwritten quotes, product packaging and more! As well as a full alternate set of upper & lowercase characters, Primed also includes a set of 18 swashes, ideal for underlining your lettering and adding that extra 'custom' style. The alternates and swashes are included as their own separate fonts. Primed also includes 47 ligatures, these double and triple letter combinations will help letters connect and flow more naturally. The ligatures will automatically generate when using the Primed fonts with most software. The Primed fonts contain language support for; English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Malay, Hungarian, Polish, Croatian, Turkish, Romanian, Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Slovenian.
  37. Contribute by Fontscafe, $39.00
    The Contribute font is one that takes you back to the days of the fountain pen. To those who are old enough to remember, fountain pens were tiresome to fill and use – but also a pleasure to own, something to cherish that became so much a part of your daily life, a symbol of etiquette and sometimes even a style statement! Our Contribute fonts will definitely remind you of that, and everything else to do with a touch of vintage class. This 30s-like font is sure to become one of your favorite cursive fonts, be it for use on a poster or a web page. This font is ideal for those situations where you need your viewer to connect on a more personal level than formal. Think ‘writing a letter rather than typing it out’, and you will know what we mean!
  38. Shout Out by Comicraft, $19.00
    Here's a big shout out to all our Loud and Proud font homies -- If you've got a good set of lungs on you -- fill 'em up and get ready to Shout, SHOUT! Yes, let it all out because this is a font you can't do without -- It will make you wanna SHOUT! Throw your hands up, SHOUT! Kick your heels back, SHOUT! Throw your head back, SHOUT! Come on now, SHOUT! And don't forget to say you will... Don't forget to SHOUT! Yeah yeah yeah yeah, SHOUT! A little bit softer now, (Shout) A little bit softer now, (Shout) A little bit softer now, (Shout) A little bit louder now, SHOUT! A little bit louder now, SHOUT! A LITTLE BIT LOUDER NOW! SHOUT! SHOUT! SHOUT! SHOUT! PHEW -- Who says Comicraft doesn't know how to Pump it Up AND Get Down?!
  39. Trollkatt by Hanoded, $15.00
    A Trollkatt in Norwegian myth, is the cat associated with witches. The last few days a stray ginger cat seems to have adopted us - she comes into the house, lies down on the carpet and loves the cat food we bought her. We have posted some ‘found a cat’ messages online and hung op some flyers - just in case someone is missing a cat. Because of the stray, I decided that I should name this font something cattish, so Trollkatt is what popped up. The font is quite nice; I made it with my Chinese ink and a brush, from which I cut most of the hairs. This font won’t catch mice, but it will put some magic into your designs! And the stray cat… well, if she isn’t chipped and no one comes to fetch her, we will keep her. #happyending
  40. Roller Poster by HiH, $12.00
    Roller Poster is named after Alfred Roller. In 1902, Roller created a poster to advertise the 16th exhibit of Austrian Artists and Sculptures Association, representing the Vienna Secession movement. The exhibit was to take place in Vienna during January & February 1903. The location is not mentioned because everyone in Vienna knew it would be held at the exhibit hall in the Secession Building at Friedrichstraþe 12, a few blocks south of the Opernring, near the Naschmarkt. Designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich in 1897, the buiilding has been restored and stands today as one finest of the many fine examples of Art Nouveau architecture in Vienna (see vienna_secession_bldg.jpg). Because of its dome, it is called “the golden cabbage.” The poster itself is unique. The word “secession” is in one type style and takes up two-thirds of the elongated poster. At the bottom of the poster are the details in a different lettering style. It is this second style at the bottom that is the basis for the font Roller Poster. In keeping with our regular naming conventions, we were going to call it Roller Gezeichnete (hand-drawn), but the wonderful play on both words and the shape of the three S’s in secession was too compelling. In November 1965 there was an exhibit of Jugendstil and Expressionist art at the University of California. Alfred Roller’s Secession Poster was part of that exhibit. Wes Wilson was designing promotional material at Contact Printing in San Francisco. Among their clients was a rock promoter named Bill Graham, staging dance-concerts at Fillmore Auditorium. Wilson saw the catalog from the UC exhibit and Roller’s lettering. Wilson adapted Roller’s letter forms to his own fluid style. The result was the poster for the August 12-13, 1966 Jefferson Airplane/Grateful Dead concert at Fillmore put on by Graham (BG23-1). Wilson continued to use Roller’s letter forms on most of the posters he did for Graham through May 1967, when he stopped working for Graham. The posters were extremely successful and the lettering style along with Roller’s letter forms were picked up by other artists, including Bonnie MacLean, Clifford Charles Seeley, James Gardner, and others. The Secession poster and the Fillmore posters have inspired a number of fonts in addition to ours. Among them are JONAH BLACK (& WHITE) by Rececca Alaccari, LOVE SOLID by Leslie Carbarga and MOJO by Jim Parkinson. Each is different and yet each clearly shows its bloodlines. Our font differs in two ways: 1) the general differences in the interpretation of the letter forms and 2) the modification of the basic letter form to incorporate the diacriticals within the implied frame of the letter, after the manner of the original design by Roller. We borrowed Carbarga’s solution to the slashed O and used it, in a modified form, for other characters as well to accomplish the same purpose. We recommend that you buy ours and at least one of the other three. According to Alaccari, a version called URBAN was released by Franklin Lettering in the 70’s (and is shown on page 51 of The Solotype Catalog). For comparison of our font to original design, see image files roller_poster_2s.jpg of original poster and roller_poster_2sx.jpg showing reconstruction using our font for the lower portion (recontructed area indicated by blue bar). Please note the consistency of character width. In the lower case, 23 of the basic 26 letters are 1/2 EM Square wide. The ‘i’ is an eighth narrower, while the ‘m’& ‘w’ are one quarter wider. All the Upper Case letters are 1/8 EM wider than the lower case. This is to make it easier to fill a geometrical shape like a rectangle, allowing you to capture a little of the flavor of Wes Wilson’s Fillmore West poster using only a word processor. We have also included a number of shapes for use as spacers and endcaps. If you have a drawing program that allows you to edit an ‘envelope’ around the letters to distort their shape, you can really get creative. I used Corel Draw for the gallary images, but there are other programs that can accomplish the same thing. The image file “roller_poster_keys.jpg” shows the complete character set with the keystrokes required for each character (see “HiH_Font_readme.txt” for instruction on inserting the non-keyboard characters). The file “roller_poster_widths.jpg” shows the exact width of each character in EM units (based on 1000 units per EM square). You will notice that the font is set wide for readability. However, most programs will allow you to tighten up on the character spacing after the manner of Roller & Wilson. In MS Word, for example, go to the FORMAT menu > FONT > CHARACTER SPACING. Go to the second Drop-Down Menu, labeled ‘Spacing’ and select "condensed' and then set the amount that you want to condense ‘by’ (key on the little arrows); two points (2.0) is a godd place to start. Let your motto be EXPLORE & EXPERIMENT. Art Nouveau has always been one of my favorite movements in art -- I grew up in a home with a couple of Mucha prints hanging on the living room wall. Perhaps because of that and because I lived through the sixties, I have enjoyed researching and designing this font more than any other I have worked on. Let’s face it (pardon the pun), Roller Poster is a FUN font. You owe it to yourself to have fun using it.
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