Lonestar is a revival of the old classic slab serif font named Hellenic which was very popular in the middle to late 1800s.

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A wild and wacky font that falls in that extreme catagory.

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Dandygal is wild and unpredictable, but she still does the works with rich text or just headlines - without overdoing the sillyness!

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Here’s a Morris line; a traditional and legible font in small sizes, but almost abstract in big sizes.

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The typeface which inspired this offering was originally called “Chaucer”, not because it is typical of lettering of Chaucer’s time (which it is not) but, more likely, because it’s pretty funny, even if the humor is low.

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A wild and crazy extreme look. Fun animated.

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Savage Hipsters was designed by German pinstriper Tom Plate for Sideshow and all you retro kustom beatniks.

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LOLO Cursive is sweet & funky lettering written with distinct character. Create a memorable look with this flowering, freehand script.

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Keetoowah evolved from a just a few letters in a sketch for a sorority t-shirt design.

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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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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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One would think the whole hippy thing would have died out after the knighting of Mick Jagger and the selling out of the The Who. Not at Canada Type. We still occasionally read Burroughs and Ginsberg, listen to Dylan and Hendrix, and use the backyard to pretend (um, like run barefoot with the dog). And we're always happy to make another psychedelic font. This one is based on an early 1970s film type that went by the names Hoopla and Scorpio.

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Amazonian pack is an incredible set of exotic sources; Makiritare is inspired by the craftsmanship of an ethnic baskets. Tepuy is a round font created to compose a new form and as the Makiritare comes in two weights Light and Regular. Palaima is a fonts with unusual architectural round strokes. To complete the set you found a pictorial font, Precolumbino, that contains an interesting collection of pre-Columbian petroglyphs from the jungle in the Amazon.

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The Daddy-O font set was originally introduced in 1995 by P22 as a collaborative effort with The Whitney Museum of American Art. The set included Daddy-O Hip, Daddy-O Square and Daddy-O Crazy (extras). This set of three fonts is themed on Jazz and Beat era lettering and graphics. In 1996 Daddy-O junkie was added to the “family” and in 1998 Rod McKuen’s Beatsville audio CD was released by P22 with the inclusion of Daddy-O Beatsville (more extras).

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

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Mustang is a powerfully expressive brush font that combines an edgy urban aesthetic with a smooth feminine flow. Some have suggested that Mustang is romantic. Some say it has something to do with speed or freedom. While precisely what Mustang expresses is up to debate, there’s no doubt that it’s expressing it with intensity.

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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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A tasty jambalaya of three different weights, Thunderhouse owes part of its unique flavor and diversity to 26 OpenType ligature features that automatically substitute a unique pairing of characters when any lower case character is keyed twice in a row.

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The OpenType versions of Applewood and Applewood Alternate have 26 ligature features that when used with OpenType-savvy applications will automatically substitute a unique pair of distressed characters when any lower case letter is keyed twice in a row.

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When I was in high school, I would wreck my notebooks with multiple layers of graffiti tags, which would start in the margins, and then creep in to cover the entire page. I developed a sensibility towards a very fast, expressive use of my hand, which later easily and naturally translated into brush. I used this style typographically on several projects throughout the years, and even turned it into a signature illustration style. Recently, by repeating letters hundreds of times each with brush on paper, this ad-hoc brush style became Streetbrush.

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Sensual is ideal for invitations, greeting cards, logotypes, or anywhere a touch of elegance is desired.

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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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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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The OpenType versions of Pacifco and Pacifco Alternate use ligature features to substitute unique glyphs when any lowercase character is keyed twice in a row, as well as for fi and fl.

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

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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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Espectro is a fabulous font full of swashes and alternates.

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Straight from the ‘extras’ drawer at the old West print shop, the mismatched Sluicebox character set is comprised mainly of serif type specimens.

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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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Machiarge is a casual, heavy, and decorative script font developed to be kid of Machia.

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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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Inspired by an example of French handwriting ca. 1935.

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The OpenType version of Dogjaw has 26 ligature features that automatically substitute a unique pair of distressed characters when any lower case letter is keyed twice in a row.

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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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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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Busted is the very strange and out-of-character outburst of Bill Troop, a guy who was classically trained in everything, from classical piano and literature to classical photography and type design. As far as we could tell, Bill Troop is the kind of guy whose appearance and voice instantly trigger thoughts of black and white photos, fedoras, and pre-industrial age Europe. A few years ago, he even moved from the United States to England, where it took him less than a week to feel at home and start sounding like a Norwich native. Then something happened and the poor dude just snapped. Busted is the controversial result of the blood rushing to his head. If you know what exactly happened to him, please let us know.

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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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Teaspoon was originally designed by Haley Fiege as a project-specific font in 2007, then completed and produced by Canada Type for commercial viability in 2008. With a personality that can only be described as “ironic cute”, it serves as a much needed alternative for the old overused poster faces, such as Cooper Black and Gill Sans Extra Bold. Words that look good set in Teaspoon include puppies, rainbows, salmonella poisoning and Tom Cruise.

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The OpenType versions of Buckboard and Buckboard Alternate have 26 ligature features that automatically substitute a unique pair of distressed characters when any lower case letter is keyed twice in a row.

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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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Pauline is a sans serif with a strong influence from retro scripts. Pauline is a geometric face formed with slow and deliberate rounded brush strokes. The tall ascenders give it a useful touch of naïveté. It’s a face suitable for some interesting titling and short bits of copy.

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An offbeat comic latin typestyle inspired by old cartoon titling.

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Philip Bouwsma returns with his yet another great manifestation of historical calligraphy.

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Born as a revival of an Egyptian typeface, this hand-drawn typeface is is perfect for headers and even as a body text.

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Fantini is the revival and elaborate update of a typeface called Fantan, made in-house and released in 1970 by a minor Chicago film type supplier called Custom Headings International. In the most excellent tradition of seriously-planned American film faces back then, CHI released a full complement of swashes and alternates to the curly art nouveau letters. Fantan didn't fare much among the type scene’s big players back then, but it did spread like electricity among the smaller ones, the mom-and-pop type shops. But by the late 1980s, when film type was giving up the ghost, most smaller players in the industry were gone, in some cases along with little original libraries that existed nowhere else and became instant rarities on their way to be forgotten and almost impossible to resurrect for future technologies.

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A wild extreme-looking font that can also be used as chalk writing.

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Felt tip-written and full of expressive lines, Brandy BF exudes much verve and energy; and unlike many scripts, sets rather well in all caps situations.

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Handwriting script with more than enough ink.

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Mullen Hand is the fresh digitization and expansion of a Jerry Mullen metal typeface called Repro, originally published by ATF in 1953.

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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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Lorelei is an exuberant and bouncy script.

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The idea for Lipstick came from a snippy little note Patrick Griffin’s better half left for him one night. The note was tacked to the bedroom door. “COUCH TONIGHT!” it exclaimed in red lipstick on a paper towel. All because the hockey game was on at the same time as American Idol. Sheesh. But since all is fair in love and hockey, and since Patrick was used to such cruel treatment, he shrugged his shoulders and let his mind wander about the concept of using lipstick as a writing tool, and pondering the possibilities of a lipstick font.

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Crown Jewels is a massive Super Pro font like no other.

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Grunge, in a painterly sort of way; excellent for a wide variety of uses in headline and display.

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

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Emulating real handwriting has always been an aim of font designers in the digital age. The standard mainstream scripts and doodles that were available for the longest time have not successfully reached that goal. A letter always looked the same wherever you placed it. Some workarounds, such as letter alternates and ligatures, were used in many fonts, but they were a bit inconvenient to use, and in some cases didn't work correctly because they had to be placed in separate fonts from the main character set. Not until now, with OpenType technology, have we been able to emulate real handwriting, by including multiple character sets in the same font and programming it for smart form changes through letter sequence counting.

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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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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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The famous Italian type designer and Nebiolo director Alessandro Butti designed Rondine in 1948. Not so surprisingly - given its beauty - it quickly became quite a commonly copied metal type. But for some reason Rondine was spared during the massive “phototyping” that happened with the introduction of film type. Perhaps this is why no digital version of it ever existed until now.

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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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Maryam is an Outras Fontes type family designed by Ricardo Esteves Gomes.

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Lourdes is an informal script font drawn with quick, thick brush strokes. The script appears to be quickly dashed down, and the characters were carefully designed to create a subtle rhythm. The strokes are slightly muted to avoid an overly aggressive appearance.

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According to the two most popular statistics companies in England and North America, eight out of every ten people like to dance.

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Mirabel is based on the handwriting of Beverly Bouwsma (Philip’s mother), which she developed in the 1930s in, as she puts it, an act of teenage rebellion. In the 1960s, Philip gave her a broad-edged Osmiroid fountain pen which she took to immediately and has used ever since, along with the computer fonts he made from her script.

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Captain Comic is very loosely based on lettering from 1967 to the early 1970s found in the very first Star Trek comic series ever published, the Gold Key one. By very loosely we mean most letter shapes were changed, rounded and tweaked for a more contemporary comic text look. The original lettering was uncredited, as was the entire series artwork for a whole decade, though research shows that four Italian artists were mainly responsible for it: Nevio Zeccara, Alberto Giolitti, Giovanni Ticci and Giorgio Cambiotti.

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Prolific calligrapher Angel Koziupa and designer Alejandro Paul charm us once again with an imaginative typeface.

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Grunge Standard is to grunge fonts what Jazz standards are to the world of Jazz – timeless, easy to use, great for every occasion. The font is easily recognized, clear and legible, just like the tune that everyone knows.

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Inspired by logotype of the Mirage Resort and Casino in Las Vegas comes the Montelago typeface, complete with a restrained capitals version, and a flare version with true to form lengthy capitals.

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Everything is a simple, yet beautiful handwritten font.

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Flicka is a super funky font that oozes of fun and games. Every single letter has got it’s personality of its own!

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The Torquemada family marks the return of eminent American calligrapher Philip Bouwsma to the type scene after almost 7 years of hiatus, and he is certainly coming back with a lot of bells and whistles!

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This handwritten font is the result of trying to write in a different way to what I'm used to: sometimes taking a left turn when going straight was the more obvious way. Or the other way around.

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Runway is the font that will satisfy the need for speed in your design. Simple lines and curves, a commanding slant, and big sturdy shapes made to cruise at any speed or altitude, through summer breeze or horrible snowstorms.

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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 revival and major expansion of a 1926 Ludwig Wagner Schriftgiesserei typeface called Titanic, Lexington is the ultimate art deco expression of the high times of signage and theater during the first half of the twentieth century. Big feminine caps and cozy direct minuscules make for a unique combination rarely found in other deco faces.

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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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In 1939 the Stephenson Blake Company bought a very popular script called Undine Ronde and began marketing under the name Amanda Ronde. Although Undine/Amanda was quite popular and can be seen in many advertisements from the 1930s and 1940s, there seems to be no surviving record stating the original foundry or designer.

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The flower children of Canada Type are at it again. This time we went above and beyond the call of duty and right into the land of reconstruction in order to make this font. When we saw a few letters from an early 1970s film type called Jefferson Aeroplane, we had the sudden urge to bring their beauty to digital life. But since further research revealed no more letters or information, we just had to “wing” the rest of this Aeroplane. Now this Genie is out of the lava lamp, and it’s nothing short of groovy. A few symbols and alternates come within the font, so make sure to check out the very full character set.

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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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