Escoffier Capitaux is named for culinary legend Auguste Escoffier (1846-35) and inspired by lettering used in vintage French advertising – including the work of commercial illustrator/fashion designer Ernst Dryden (1887-1938)

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Otoboke was hand lettered on the sides of adorable white ponies. Letter pair thingamajigs (autoligs) make repeating letters less obvious. They really, really do, but only if an OpenType savvy application is involved. Look closely: you can see real (sort of) pony fur texture. Otoboke’s curly-whirly letter forms were inspired by Louis Minott’s 1965 classic, Davida.

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A loose and funky font, KutOut is the perfect typeface for your next retro beach party invitation.

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Crognita is made entirely of straight lines, but that doesn't keep it from being playful and fun!

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Ruts looks like it was found in a rut, and if you can eek past all that splatter, it may just pull you out of one. Talk about having to be brave to use a wild font! Did someone break a lava lamp? Ruts is just one font in a package of five known as Wild Bunch Pak #1.

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Loose and irregular, Slowhand is an easy display face to implement.

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Numbskull contains an expanded character set including: Central, Eastern and Western European languages, The Baltic, Cyrillic, Esperanto, Greek and Turkish.

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Punkfarm is a collection 3 fonts in different messed-up ways.

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A condensed loose brush style.

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Now, more than ever, the world needs BenderHead.

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FG Bethany is really decorative spontaneous handwriting.

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Epsiolet is wacky, crunchy and unpredictable!

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What font to choose when it comes to malevolent, wry or downright bad seeded phrases?

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Lettering artist and graphic designer Leslie Cabarga has been charmed all his life with the eccentricities in amateur lettering, especially those found in logos and sign painting.

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Type designer Luc(as) de Groot has a large archive of lettering he drew by hand, often to accompany the quirky cartoons which he made in his visual diaries. Only a few of these alpahabets have been digitized into full-fledged typefaces. Punten (Dutch for “points” or “spikes”) is one of them. It comes in three styles of varying legibility: Punten Straight, Punten Extremo, and Punten Rondom (Dutch for “all around”).

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Rock around the clock with Roquette! This casual, all capital wedge serif typeface brings the 1950s back to life. Its undulating baseline and kooky spot illustrations will definitely put your headlines in the swing of things. Designed by accomplished British lettering designer Martin Wait.

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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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An elegant, contemporary and quirky handwriting font inspired by fonts such as Satisfaction and Nothing. There are many handwriting fonts out there, almost all of them tending to highlight the individuality of a particular person’s handwriting. I wanted to go beyond this.

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Inspired by an example of French handwriting ca. 1935.

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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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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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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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Mark van Bronkhorst designed Celestia as an alternative to Caslon Antique at a time when few rough-edged fonts were available. He borrowed the basic forms from an early attempt he’d made at designing an oldstyle roman typeface, this time redrawing the letterforms with stronger serifs and adding the rough-edges. Designed to be more open and readable in text settings than Caslon Antique, Celestia’s gentle roughness becomes more apparent when used in display settings. An italic design, based on van Bronkhorst’s calligraphy, complements the roman character set.

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Picklepie was created by Lydia, aged around 6 at the time, for use in her own artwork and things like party invitations, birthday cards and secret files. It looked so lively, happy and original that, with encouragement from me, her dad, she went on to draw all the letter and number forms, including alternate versions of some, entirely unaided.

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Bolívar is a contemporary calligraphic display typeface inspired in the handwriting of one of the most prominent personalities of the nineteenth century in latin america: Simón Bolívar, “the liberator".

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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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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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Murbia was written with a glimmer-pen which has left the letters with a grungy look. What’s even better is that the font comes with loads of ligatures for both double letters/numbers and the most common letter combinations...just to make the font look more like real scribbled handwriting!

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Queen is based on the designer’s own hand. It is a handwriting font with a difference (just like Affable). It has all the vigor and spontaneity of a hurried note, combined with a skilled and precise joining of characters to give a true cursive script.

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A great animated fun design. Works really well for kid’s stuff and children’s books.

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Hamburger Font BF is an endearing tribute to the lettering style of a logo, long retired, from a certain chain of fast food restaurants.

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Florencia flows with the spirit and excitement of a beautiful dancer. Its extended and flowing letterforms are designed to glide across the page.

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Lorelei is an exuberant and bouncy script.

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Handmade Bugler is a font based on the first logo created by Harry Warren in late 1974 for his sixth grade class newsletter, The Broadwater Bugler, at Broadwater Academy in Exmore, Virginia, on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

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1776 Independence was designed inspired mainly from the font used by John Dunlap in the night of 1776 July 4th in Philadelphia to print the first 200 sheets of the Congress' Declaration of Independence establishing the United States of America. I just added accented letters and a few others, with respect for the original design.

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Whether with pen on paper, or in digital, realistically connecting vertical handwriting is never an easy task to accomplish.

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Legoix is a simulates scribbled letters - comes with ligatures to avoid repeating letters.

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Named after the trendy New York City locale, SoHo Nights BF features sensuous curves and tapering lines that combine to create a unique new look that’s a little bit art deco and a little bit art nouveau. The font also exhibits attributes that can be described as cartoon-like, and even “spooky” when seen in short blocks of large text.

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In 1543 was published in Bâle (Switzerland) the well-known “De humani corporis fabrica” treatise on anatomy by André Vesale, printed by Johann Oporinus. A various types of faces were used for this work, mostly in Latin but including Greek characters. Its Jenson-type font was the one who inspired this font software. It is a very elegant one, including “long s”, a few abreviated characters and ligatures. As it was a Latin text, there were any accented characters and a few capitals were to be lacking. I had to reconstruct them.

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This family was inspired by the edition De Civitate Dei (by Sanctus Augustinus) printed in 1467 in Sobiano (Italy, Roma) by Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz who was the Punchcutter. It is one of the first few “Roman style” fonts, just before the birth of Jenson’s pattern (look at 1470 Jenson Latin).

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Indoxine is a scribbled font, simulating hasty written letters with occasional inkblobs.

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Everything is a simple, yet beautiful handwritten font.

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Compliment is a script design which is obviously based on H. Matheis' typeface designed for Ludwig & Mayer in 1965.

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Blackout SCF is a loose and informal grungy font with a modern, electric zappy quality.

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A casual sans that harks back to the very English style of book jacket and poster art of the late 50’s and early 60’s.

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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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Font designed from work by an anonymous printer in Lyon (France) to print the French popular novel Les Grandes et inestimables Chroniques du grand et enorme geant Gargantua [...] in 1532.

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Tattletale PW is intended and suitable for Display use, titles, as well as paragraphs or pages for that quickly messy but endearingly handwritten look.

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A marvelous idea for a font inspired by the stenciled lettering on imported merchandise containers. Chinese Rocks looks like it was made by a hand cut rubber stamp, used about a million times. Uneven line thickness and odd stem widths combined with sharp corners give the effect of having been cut out with a box knife in a hurry. It ain't pretty but it sure gets the message across.

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Based in Manuel Corradine’s handwriting, Salpicon is a very spontaneous font.

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Caveman is a very rustic font, its aspect remember the prehistoric art in the caves when the man learned how to draw and to express his emotions through the painting.

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Usurp is a cut-rubber freak-out with . . . with . . . what were we talking about? Okay, yeah! It’s got letters, man. Lots of freaky letters that are all like whoa and rainbows trails shooting out and what have you. The OpenType format features autoligs which automatically swap common letter pairs with variations to create a more realistic, less repetitive effect. Usurp is based on Garamond letterforms if you think about it.

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This set of initial decorated letters was inspired by a font in use in the beginning of 1500s in Paris.

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Meet Bleeker. Bleeker is the casual, happy-go-lucky hand-lettered font you’ve been looking for.

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This family was inspired by the two fonts used by the famous William Caxton in Westminster (UK) in the late 1400s. There is only one (Normal) style. We have added the accented characters and others not in use in the early time of printing, but the ligatures and the few abbreviations for the Old English language and Latin were present in the original fonts.

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A revival from the past this animated letter will fit right into todays market.

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Based in Manuel Corradine’s handwriting, Masato is a very spontaneous font.

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Based in Manuel Corradine’s handwriting, Mucura is a very spontaneous font.

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Infilto is a scribbled font, simulating hasty written letters. Comes with loads of ligatures for both double letters/numbers and the most common letter combinations...

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One of my earliest memories of being able to write - an exciting skill - was of writing with my finger in the fine soft sea sand. I remember the freedom - I had no fear of making mistakes, of smudging ink or of doing anything wrong - and the ease with which I could write or wipe out any thing in the sand.

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Bouwsma Script, based on Philip Bouwsma’s own handwriting, was originally released in 1994 and settled for nothing less than being an instant classic. One of Bouwsma’s widely used works in the 1990s, Bouwsma Script finds its home now at Canada Type, where it was updated with the Euro symbol and complete support for Turkish, Baltic, and Central and Eastern European languages. It now also comes in all popular font formats, including OpenType.

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Intense Eve is a crunchy, girly font with jumpy letters. Romantic indeed, and comes with extra heart swashes to jazz up your text!

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Flambster is an uneven and quickly scribbled font - perfect to simulate ... well, uneven and quickly scribbled text! :)

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Fracture is a broken font -- broken into many pieces -- yet it still conveys a powerful and modern message. It is a funky, in-your-face font that has strong overtones of modern rap and hip-hop culture. Its fragmented look brings to mind graffiti, contemporary youth culture, kids-on-the-move. Fracture is a must for movie posters, event posters, CD & DVD covers, clothing ads & swing tags, funky magazines, in fact, any product aimed at the young, trendy market.

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This script font was inspired by the type used in Leyden by Jan Seversz to print Breviores elegantioresque epistolae [...], author Francesco Filfelo, circa 1509. The original font contains all lower case characters, except w, eth, thorn, lslash, oslash and so... and almost upper case. In addition, one set of small lombardic initials were also nearly complete. It take place instead of the Bold style (in only one package)offering a real and rare complete historical printing set...

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A chunky, laid-back typeface inspired by a hand-painted notice on the doors of a mechanic’s workshop in Plymouth, Tobago. Two different mostly-uppercase alphabets in one font help to keep things loose.

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Klatter is a font that is “in your face”. It can't be ignored, and draws attention to itself no matter how noisy the environment.

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Hobi was influenced by Spaza. In it I tried to highlight the dissonance between the irregular outlines of the characters and the formality suggested by the serifs of the characters. Differences from Spaza are:

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Stoan is a rough, textured grunge font, based on the popular Spaza.

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BobTag was written on paper taped to a wall for extra grungyness. Looks like it was actually written on an irregular surface.

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Italic type was invented by Aldus Manutius in 1499 or 1501, first, before to be a style name, it was a plain font familly name. This Italique style font was inspired from these who was used by Jean de Tournes in Lyon (France) to print La mÈtamorphose d'Ovide figurÈe, a splendid book with numerous gothic style wood carved pictures.

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Leah is an easy-going, informal handwritten font based on the handwriting of a friend. It was digitally refined after scanning. It has been refined to ensure legibility.

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