Arlt is a family of contemporary typefaces for a wide variety of applications. It includes text, display, and decorative fonts. Its style gives the text a sort of spicy atmosphere that makes it ideal for composing literature.
Arlt has been created for the demanding, inspired designers. Being the result of 3 years of intensive work, the types aim to balance a strong personality against comfortable readability. The fonts have been carefully crafted in every detail, to offer you the highest visual quality standards in typography.

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Created by Adobe type designer Robert Slimbach, Cronos is a new sans serif typeface family that embodies the warmth and readability of oldstyle roman typefaces.

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Sauna, a typeface for all sizes.

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Enjoy Fertigo Pro. The font nobody was waiting for.

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Initially an experiment in vertical calligraphy, Mama Script was developed by drawing on multiple sources of inspiration. These range from simple swashy handwriting, lettering and signage, to the works of renowned calligraphers.

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The Scrivano family was designed by Ricardo Esteves Gomes, inspired by some handwritings from the Middle Ages and Renaissance period.

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Captain Quill is a lively calligraphic style script font designed by Jim Ford, based on the handwriting of a fictional pirate figure named Paul Pierce, aka Captain Quill.

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Bouwsma Text is what Roman type would look like if it had been designed by calligraphers instead of metalworkers. The formal harmony of the Roman capitals, with tapered stems, graduated curves and serifs which are natural entrances and exits for the broad pen. These serifs seamlessly work in relativity with the stroke weight, decreasing in size when the stroke increases.

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Designed at Polygraphmash in 1984 by Vladimir Yefimov, with adding of Demi and Demi Italic. Based on a hot-metal typeface (1962) by Moscow book designer Vadim Lazurski (1909-1994), inspired by the early 16th century typefaces of Italian Renaissance. The typeface is useful for text and display composition, in fiction and art books. An ‘expert set’ was added by ParaGraph in 1997. Additional ‘Antique’ styles were developed by ParaGraph in 1997 by Alexander and Dmitry Tarbeev.

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Kigara was Elena’s first attempt at designing a text typeface. The result is not exactly a conventional book face.

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Arrus was designed at Bitstream by Richard Lipton and first released in 1991. Arrus is based on Lipton’s own hand-lettered calligraphic alphabets that draw their influence from classic inscriptional forms. Arrus has small cap and extension typographer sets available as well.

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Poetica was designed in 1992, and is the first Adobe Originals script typeface; modeled on chancery handwriting scripts developed during the Italian Renaissance. This elegant style of writing formed the basis for italic typefaces and for modern calligraphy.

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The origin of Grimm was to create a typeface in the spirit of Elliott Peter Earls' Subluxation, but somewhere in the process things shifted to a blackletter influenced uppercase while the lowercase became more roman.

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Missale Lunea is a new designed uncial typeface with more advanced facilities to look good even on smaller text sizes. Compared to previews attempts, its more matured and flexible with a female note.

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Simeon is well suited for setting an short and medium amount of text with an historic impression.

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Tenebra is an example of a combination of the Baroque inscriptional majuscule with decorative calligraphic elements and alchemistic symbols. The widespread forms of the letters allows for the use of the old German manner of writing of the “Umlaut” when, in place of two dots above the letter, there is a reduced E. In our case it is inserted in the open letters.

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Sans-serif typefaces compensate for their basic handicap – an absence of serifs – with a softening modulation typical of roman typefaces. Grotesques often inherit a hypertrophy of the x-height, which is very efficient, but not very beautiful. They are like dogs with fat bodies and short legs.

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Alizé is a three-weight typeface inspired by the chancery italic of the 16th century. It is a high-contrast face, created with syncopations in axes and proportions and subtle irregularities that form a lively and delicate weave, suitable for setting a single word, a special expression, or a short block of prose.

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Mezzo is a slender, humanist sans serif with four font styles.

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North is a small type family designed for books and pages of text in smaller or bigger sizes. It has been designed with special care for the Scandinavian languages, their letter combinations and special characters, but contains accented characters for all European languages.

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The name of this typeface, David Aubert, comes from the calligrapher of Philippe Le Bon and Charles Le téméraire, both Dukes of Burgundy who worked and lived in Brussels in the 1500s.

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Garden Party has a calligraphic feel without appearing formal. The ample x-height, short ascenders and descenders make this a distinctive typeface.

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AltraTwo is a complete redraw of a family based on a tracing of a clip art font from an old printed book. The AltraTwo family adds italic, black, and black italic.

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The chapbook Pen & Brush Lettering and Practical Alphabets, published by Blandford Press, Ltd., London, in 1929 averred that these letterforms suggested a lightface version of Neuland.

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Divina is a Latinized digitization of one of German calligraphy master Rudolph Koch's typefaces. The original typeface, Kurrent, was designed in 1927 and cut in 1935. Its shapes are a variant of the German script to be used as a model for writing in schools at the time.

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The unmistakable hand of Angel Koziupa and the technical expertise of Alejandro Paul brings us once more the kind of calligraphy that reads softly yet commands attention.

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Swan Song is a digitization of gorgeous free form calligraphy by British artist Rachel Yallop. It first appeared in The Calligraphy Source Book edited by Miriam Stribley (Running Press, 1986).

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A handsome, rhythmic calligraphic design, winner of a competition sponsored by Morisawa, designed in 1984 by Carol Twombly, then at the Bigelow & Holmes studio. Bitstream purchased the rights to publish the winning entry.

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ITC Usherwood was created by Leslie Usherwood and released in 1984. It is a roman design with the classical trait of ascenders that are taller than the capitals, but has a very large x-height.

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This typeface was inspired in the amazing typographic work of Manoel de Andrade de Figueiredo that was published in 1722, named "Nova Escola para Aprender a Ler, Escrever e Contar, offerecida ‡ Augusta Magestade do Senhor Dom Jao V, Rey de Portugal".

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Artegio is an elegant, joining, classical script with impressive horizontal swirls.

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Pelican was designed by Arthur Baker and released by Agfa Compugraphic in 1989. Pelican is a calligraphic typeface that is distinguished by the irregular shapes of the lowercase letters.

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Argenta is handwritten and fresh. The casual spirit of this face is evident, but complemented by very specific typographic details. A playful script with an immensely useful array of alternate characters.

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The tradition at the New York Times magazine has been to dedicate the year’s last issue to the people who passed away during the year, especially those whose lives have affected us. Art director Nancy Harris Rouemy, whose typographic design sense has earned her many prestigious awards over the years, decided on an all-type magazine cover for the 2008 issue, and commissioned Canada Type to do a new typeface especially for that project. Now Memoriam is finally here in retail form—not least because hundreds of people have asked for it.

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In the early 1980s, at the start of my career, I had the opportunity to work in a print shop with classic lead setting. In those days I would study issues of U&lc magazine from ITC. What really caught my attention were scripts in the Spencerian style. I’ve been fascinated by this American penmanship tradition ever since.

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P22 Zaner is based on ornamental penmanship as taught by Charles Paxton Zaner at his art college at the turn of the 20th century.

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Since I designed Mommie you can see a lot of script typefaces with big contrast for big sizes.

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When Aldo Novarese designed his “tipo inglese” Juliet typeface, he had a simple objective in mind: Reduce the inclination angle of the traditional 18th and 19th centuries English script in order to make the punchcutter’s job easier and the resulting metal type more durable.

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“Skin Deep BB” is a quirky script typeface family inspired by modern tattooing!

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Designed by the famous English (type designer) Eric Gill, it was created specially for the Silver Jubilee Wedding Anniversary announcement of George VI and Queen Mary.

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An exquisite calligraphic font, ideal for any elegant work.

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Pendulum is the much-anticipated digitization and swashy expansion of Americana, an amazing yet long overlooked treasure from the Nebiolo foundry, circa 1945.

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A calligraphic script available in several variations (or as one OpenType font with over 800 characters). Cilati is a flexible script which adapts well to a variety of uses. Based on Italic handwriting, this type style can adapt well for casual as well as formal design projects.

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Sava™ Pro is a calligraphic capitals and small capitals Adobe Originals design by Jovica Veljovic.

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A pen-drawn calligraphic font of narrow proportions featuring plain capitals and an optional alternate range with swashes.

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Designed by ParaType in 1995 by Tagir Safayev. Based on informal handwriting. For use in advertising and display typography.

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During the investigation of the infamous murders in Whitechapel, police received several letters allegedly from Jack the Ripper. Of the hundreds received, the so-called, “Dear Boss” letter actually included some details of a crime that had yet to be committed. Soon after, the information in this letter would be corroborated at a crime scene.

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Discovered in The Zanerian Manual of Alphabets and Engrossing was this quaint charmer, called simply “Italic Roundhand”.

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Gudrun Zapf von Hesse designed Diotima for D. Stempel AG. The roman was released in 1951, and the companion italic in 1953.

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An original design.

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Lydian is Warren Chappell’s almost calligraphic sanserif, designed for ATF in 1938.

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Apolline received a Morisawa Award in 1993 (Japan).

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OldHaroldRee is a modification of PhederFract, which was a calligraphic fraktur face. It keeps the lower case letters and inserts a completely different set of upper-case letters, which is in the “Old English” rather than the “Old German” or fraktur style.

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Based on the 1922 Klingspor model by German designer Rudolf Koch, this hand-drawn quill roman has an informal and curiously delicate appearance. The typeface was known in Germany as Koch Antiqua and in the rest of Europe as Locarno. Eve, as it was called in the United States, continues to enjoy great popularity in advertising and book publishing circles.

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Calligraphica was designed because there are very few inline fonts, and even fewer inline calligraphic fonts. The original forms were written with a split pen in a single stroke. The minuscules have a rougher look and the capitals have a smoother shape to imitate hand written calligraphy with more formal, decorative initial caps.

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AeroScript is a loose 50s style scribble script.

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Yngreena is a serifed typeface with calligraphic origins.

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Presidio is a stylized version of the hand-lettered calligraphy typical of the Mission era of early California. This lettering was often unique to an individual hand, but the characters shared a common style, and had their roots in the Middle Ages when monks and scholars copied whole books one letter at a time. “Presidio” replicates this style with subtle variations in each character, giving the font its authentic charm.

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Helenia is a classic broad-nib script with joining letters.

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GretchenHello is an informal and rather ordinary cursive face which looks as if it were written with a calligraphic pen.

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Are you looking for a font reflecting ancient times, antiques, knights and suchlike?

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A cursive font with a curvilinear feel, named for the Scottish stream immortalized by the poet Robert Burns. Useful for menus, certificates, display lines, short paragraphs or poetry setting.

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Sleigh bells ring... are you listenin'? In the lane, snow is glistenin'. It’s a beautiful sight, we're happy tonight...

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PT Natali Script™ was designed by Natalia Vasilyeva and licensed by ParaType in 2002. An original calligraphic script. For use in advertising and display typography.

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Xahosch is an simple, informal calligraphic face.

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Arkona was designed in 1935 by Karl Klauss.

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Nick Cooke’s G-Type foundry continues to trailblaze and top of the sales charts is the fabulous Olicana typeface.

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Flavour is an elegant brush script headline typeface.

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Philip Bouwsma’s offbeat mind, always working in mysterious ways, brings us one the unlikeliest syntheses of historical influences in a perfectly fluid, organic, and highly expressive connected script.

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