An adaptation of the font “Modernistic,” designed by Wadsworth A. Parker for American Type Founders in 1927, true to the original with the notable exception of an added lower case. Best used sparingly, and in large sizes.

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Sqweash, although very jumpy and uneven, is surprisingly legible.

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Someone recently pointed out that May and June are the wedding season months, and that while we have some excellent fonts for non-traditional weddings (celtic and renaissance styles work well), we don't have a straightforward, elegant engraver style font.

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Silk Script is a revival and elaborate expansion of a 1956 Helmut Matheis script called Primadonna, which strangely remained a metal face and never made the leap into the film age.

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A fanciful reinterpretation of the elvish type found inside the ring in J. R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings”.

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Azariel is a decorative calligraphic script font designed to have linking characters in the lower case and elaborate swashed capital letters which overlap and nestle with adjoining characters.

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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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This fanciful typeface was designed by resident Letraset designer Michael Gills and is based on the famous French Ronde script. Created entirely on screen, Fling has a precise, clinical appearance. The capitals are for initialling purposes only and support a lowercase that is rich in alternative and ligatured letterforms. Also included is a host of attractive embellishment devices. An ideal choice for work requiring the use of a highly legible script.

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This elegant copperplate typeface is somewhat different from others in the script category due its slightly condensed lowercase letterforms. With its beautiful, free flowing initial capitals and stunning array of lowercase alternatives, Young Baroque looks magnificent in word settings and is ideally suited for diplomas and citations. Created by the well-known American west coast designer Doyald Young.

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A 60s, 70s revival this curled casual latin brings back that great look. The font comes with an alternate version which can be used as a separate font or you can mix and match the two.

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The idea for Duet started when I decided to create a complex, elegant, and easy-to-read script with particular emphasis using a double line feature in the capitals.

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This elegant, formal script from German designer and professor Friedrich Poppl was released by Berthold in 1977.

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In spite of the fact that Portfolio’s capitals are highly ornate, it is still very legible.

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DB Fleuries is a great set of filigree images you can use to accent your scrapbook pages, invitations, etc.

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Font designed from that used in France in 1492 to print the peace treaty between French and Enqlish Kings in Etaples, French town in Normandy.

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Kwokwi is a drop-shadow pub font, loosely based on Mikadan’s letterforms.

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Albion Signature Is a value packed font of exceptional character with lots of old world charm to make your next project personal and special. Containing over 2.200 glyphs, it’s large enough to handle any demanding project big or small.. It’s also contains over 400 flourishes in three sections ( dingbats, geometric shapes, and misc. geometric shapes,) in numerous styles that can be used in endless combinations. It’s like several fonts in one. Everything you need to do a stellar project is included. A script font that lines up perfectly with a few extra endings and hidden treasures spread threw out. It also contains a complete easy to use pdf index so you will be able to find exactly the glyph you are looking for fast. This font can only enhance the fonts that you already own making them more versatile and useful. On its own it is a very elegant calligraphy script that will make every project you create look great. The capitol letters overlap and intertwine just like in days gone by so you can really create some nice very unique styles. Also included are tools that that can give you very precise spacing right inside a word processor.

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Now is a great time to dust off your old motor scooter and take a ride along the Italian Riviera. Let’s head to the flower city of San Remo, Italy - the namesake for this versatile, 1950s style script.

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The Treasury script waited over 130 years to be digitized, and the Canada Type crew is very proud to have done the honors. And then some. After seven months of meticulous work on some of the most fascinating letter forms ever made, we can easily say that Treasury is the most ambitious, educational and enjoyable type journey we've embarked upon, and we're certain you will be quite happy with the results.

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Curlicues galore on this modern version of a mid-victorian display type.
We started with the caps from a type called Cellini, altered them considerably, and added a lowercase.

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Its manuscript and informal profile emphasizes its sweet and feminine style.

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Rosebud is a great blend of simple yet organic rosy caps. Each big caps has a single rose while the small caps has the prickly, thorny stems.

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Authentic copy of the original, with a couple of minor changes to the caps, making them fit better.

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Gothic Initials Four is part of a three font set including Gothic Initials Five and Gothic Initials Six.

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Whether you prefer Drip or Automatic, there is nothing quite like quality Coffee Service!

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Wrap your chilly fingers around this ultra cool swingin' typeface! Cocktail Shaker is a swanky retro connecting script born out of 1950s lounge culture. Often referred to as the ‘googie’ look, Cocktail Shaker blends a casual loungy script with clean readability and a twist of modern Atomic Age charm.

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Out of a lifelong inner struggle, Philip Bouwsma unleashes a masterpiece that reconciles classic calligraphy with type in a way never before attempted.

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I wrote Freedom Writer out of a desire for a handwritten script that’s all-connecting. It’s partly based on my own handwriting style, and somewhat influenced by hand-lettered scripts of the 1940s and 1950s.

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Colo Pro is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items.

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Sometimes you need to gild the lily, add a little drama. With that in mind we’ve created a collection of flourishes & embellished letters to enhance Nelly Script’s romantic appeal.

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Le Havre is a geometric sans serif inspired by the golden era of the passenger ship, when getting to your destination was a delight in and of itself.

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Condé Nast commissioned the FB version of this popular oldstyle for Traveler magazine.

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Nelly is a beautiful yet sensible romantic, clearly hand drawn but easy to read. She’s a bit formal but not stuffy and simply adores a lovely party.

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Youngblood is a non-connected formal script with tall, sweeping ascenders and two alternates. These alternate forms can be mixed and matched for a custom look, and Youngblood is stronger in weight and is better suited for display work than most script fonts.

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Based on the free-spirited handwriting style of a friend, this font features automatic ligatures, alternate character substitutions and swashes in applications that are OpenType-savvy.

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Mahalia draws inspiration from vintage hand-lettering, but adds a modern, European twist.

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Auto is a sans serif typeface which has three different models of italics, each with its own flavour.

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Auto is a sans serif typeface which has three different models of italics, each with its own flavour.

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Beautiful and elegant, Black Swan BF lives equally in bliss as entrance signage for an exclusive housing subdivision, as it does on the cover of a hot new music CD.

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Sauna, a typeface for all sizes.

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This frilly script has been acid dipped, scratched and destroyed for use in grungy design jobs or any other use that calls for a ragged script.

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The Le Havre series is a series of geometric sans serifs inspired by the dignified era of the passenger ship, when getting to your destination was a delight in and of itself.

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Colo is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and logos.

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Although a sans serif, Colosseum owes its style to the original Trajan Roman form. Borrowing some characteristics from Friz Quadrata, in its san serif form it is more adaptable to text usage whilst still having a modern and original look which works well in headlines.

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Based on the Robert Wiebking design for either Western or BB&S, circa 1918.

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Inspired by an example of French handwriting ca. 1935.

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The inspiration for Jeeves came from Leslie Carbarga’s wonderful book LETTERHEADS, One Hundred Years of Great Design, 1850-1950. It was based on a secondary type usage for the letterhead for Sutherland in New York. The rest of the letterhead had features that were more typical of the Art Deco period, but this script added a touch of timeless elegance. And since at the time I was reading every scrap of P.G. Wodehouse I could get my hands on, the name Jeeves seemed like a perfect fit.

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Digitalis was created from a desire to make an original æsthetically pleasing rounded typeface using the minimum of strokes. Each character has been reduced to only the most essential elements, yet retains its own beauty and elegance. Due to the contrast between thick and thin it is surprisingly legible when set as text.

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Blanchard is a revival and elaborate extension of Muriel, a 1950 metal face made by Blanchard Trochut for the Fonderie Typographique Française, that was published simultaneously by the Spanish Gans foundry under the name Juventud.

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Jezebel is all dressed up for you. And if she can't make your mouth water and eyes light up with love, nobody else can. She’s got bigger hair than Dolly and Elvira together, more tongue than a Kiss concert with Jagger opening, more leg than a Moulin Rouge premiere, more sword than a pirate ship, and more loop than a chartered accountant. She’s the queen of now, the essence of cool, the twenty-first century fox. She’s the ever playful and creative girl with so much talent her art just cannot be restrained. She’s got popular culture on a long but strong leash. She looks gorgeous and positively glamorous no matter what color she wears. And last but not least, she’s got the charisma to make people of all ages want more of whatever it is she feels like offering.

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Carta Marina is based on the titling found on the famous map drawn by Olaus Magnus in 1539. The map of northern Europe took 12 years to complete, and the total size is a huge 1.7 meters tall by 1.25 meters wide. More information about the map, as well as the high resolution reference document used to create the typeface and illustration set can be found at the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota.

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A casual retro script refined and developed from some old handwritten letters.

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The Morris Benton 1918 American classic, Announcement Roman, comes to digital life with more pizzazz than it ever had.

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Based on a turn of the century design.

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Font designed after the face of a few characters of a real old 1913 small portable typewriter.

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Based heavily on Gill Sans especially in the mid weights, Astoria has a subtle top left serif which makes it not quite a Roman and not quite a Sans. Designed specificaly as a text face it still works very well as a headline font.

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This family was inspired by the pure Garamond pattern set of fonts used by Egenolff and Berner, German printers in Frankfurt, at the end of sixteen century. All the experts said it was the best and more complete set of the time. The italic style used with was Granjon’s, like in 1543 Humane Jenson. Added are a few fleurons from the same printers.

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Clou is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items.

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Prisma is a custom font which is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items.

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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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Newcomen is a highly versatile titling face that includes 87 OpenType alternates and 38 ligatures. Newcomen titling, in its default form, evokes the Victorian era and is named for the British inventor of a steam engine for pumping water.

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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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An endearing upright script with outspoken shapes, casual connections and generous swashes. Somewhere between very legible handwriting and calligraphy, Dominique captures the attention of a much larger audience than either strictly elegant calligraphy or regular everyday handwriting.

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VIP is a humanist sans serif uppercase and figures combined with a freshly redrawn revival of the classic Constanze initials originally designed by Joachim Romann for Stempel in 1956.

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Designed by R.H. Middleton for Ludlow, circa 1929-30. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman.

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Coral had its origins in the font Leah. I had requests from users that I create a cursive version of Leah. (In a cursive font the letters are joined together as in handwriting). In the process of development it changed sufficiently that I decided to release it under its own name. Hence “Coral”.

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Oporto is a modern font which blends the cosmopolitan and bohemian mood from Oporto city in a elegant and timeless design.

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Chikita greets you with big, happy eyes, and all the energy in the world. She wants to skip the talking and get to the dance floor, where she owns the beat and sways like a tongue of fire. She doesn't settle for anything less than everyone in the room fixating on her, and every pair of eyes is indeed happy to oblige. Being both the noumenon and phenomenon of the party, she remains in your mind long after closing time. And you just know the next time you see her your heart will skip a beat and a welcome wave of contentedness will wash over you.

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Weird Bill is Squid’s tribute to his most prominent influence, Bill Campbell, model kit box illustrator extraordinaire and creator of the Weird-Ohs!.

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It’s a very happy day when we stumble upon beautiful alphabets that were never digitized. It is even a happier day when the beautiful alphabet finds its way to us through friends and people who like our work. Some two months ago, the forms of this gorgeous font were pointed to us by a friend who saw it in an old Dover Publications specimen book showcasing historical alphabets. It was there under the name Vanessa, with nothing else to go by. We looked and researched for further information but found nothing else. So this gem comes to you like a coal that winked its way out of the ashes because it wanted to shine again.

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This family was inspired by the pure Jenson set of fonts used in Venice to print De preparatio evangelica in the year 1470. The present font contains all of the specific latin abbreviations and ligatures used in the original. Added are the accented characters and a few others not in use in this early period of printing, also small caps, these, contained in a separate file in the Mac TT version.

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The concepts of this font come from the Palmer’s Penmanship guides and manual from XIX century.

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Fun, hand-lettered script.

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Natalya is a flashy and rhythmic script. The script has more space between characters than most for better legibility, and the basis point for the ornate swirls is the golden ratio. This makes for an especially harmonious typeface with timeless appeal.

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Cactus majestically blooming in the desert is truly a wondrous event! As the landscape cools, nature blossoms into a beautiful rainbow of colors. These same harmonies and contours, plus a dash of ruggedness and legibility, help to make Cactus Flower Open a superb choice for display work. This cowboy boot style is an old Speedball favorite originated by lettering artist Ross F. George. It’s especially useful for creating distinctive headlines and titles where a Tuscan look is desired.

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I have completely redone the spacing in this font, making the sidebearings more conventional. And after replacing the kerning with fresh pairs working together with the new spacing the font looks like a real gem. I love it!

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This graceful script has a strong 1940s flavor. The capitals were designed for initialling purposes and enhance the lowercase, which features tall ascenders that lend sophistication and elegance. Suitable for application where a slender, feminine appearance is desired. Developed by accomplished British designer Alan Meeks.

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An elegant, free-flowing copperplate script style designed by renowned British designer Martin Wait. Generous initial capitals compliment the more restrained lower case letters that join for balanced letter spacing in word settings. Excellent for certificates, citations, diplomas and greeting card applications.

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This family was inspired by the eroded and tired fonts used by printers from the sixteenth century to the early years of twentieth for cheap or fleeting works, like almanacs, adverts, gazettes or popular novels.

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