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Last edited May 04, 2014
winter
ultraviolets
Set goods afire, paste at will

Voluta Script is the work of Austrian designer Viktor Solt, created for use in a guide to the Austrian Gallery at Castle Belvedere. A volute (Latin "voluta") is a spiral or scroll-shaped ornament used in the Baroque architecture of Castle Belvedere, similar to the swashes in this typeface. The castle was the historic residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy, one of the great military commanders of... Read More

jungle
illustrative
Work to live, don’t live to work

ITC Johann Sparkling is the work of Austrian designer Viktor Solt, a perfect imitation of the handwriting of an educated person of the 18th century. "ITC Johann Sparkling is intended to close the gap between highly formal copperplate scripts and the scribbled look of 'true' handwriting," says Solt. "I am not very interested in highly formal and perfect calligraphy, but rather in quick,... Read More

safety
fiddlesticks
Thank you for habitual drinking

ITC Galliard font is a work of Matthew Carter and a contemporary adaptation of Robert Granjon's 16th century design. "The result was not a literal copy of any one of Granjon's faces, more a reinterpretation of his style," says Carter. ITC Galliard font captures the vitality of Granjon's work in a graceful, modern typeface. eText fonts - the optimum of on-screen text qualityWith our new eText... Read More

grapes
fiddlesticks
Misery loves bacon and cheese

In 2005, Handsome was one of the first script typefaces to utilize the OpenType format to simulate the natural quality of writing, by automatically substituting alternate contextual glyphs.

mystic
microphysics
Please carefully bang head

Jan Tschichold designed Sabon™ in 1964, and it was produced jointly by three foundries: D. Stempel AG, Linotype and Monotype. This was in response to a request from German master printers to make a font family that was the same design for the three metal type technologies of the time: foundry type for hand composition, linecasting, and single-type machine composition. Tschichold turned to the... Read More

chalet
ultraviolets
Canned beverage make you refresh

Granjon™ was designed by George W. Jones for the English branch of Linotype in 1928. The bold weight was added by American Chauncey H. Griffith in 1930. For his model, Jones used a type cut by Claude Garamond that was used in a book printed by the Parisian Jean Poupy in 1592. Because several other Garamonds were on the market in the 1920s, Jones decided to name his type Granjon. Many of the... Read More

always
bureaucratic
Life is too short to follow the rules

Indy is the work of Chicago-based lettering designer Charles Hughes. The lowercase letters link together to evoke the look of true handwriting and complement a generous and graceful capital alphabet. Indy is a refined handwriting script ideal for anything needing a touch of elegance.

rocket
illustrative
It is warm and fragrant to hint

In designing Minion font, Robert Slimbach was inspired by the timeless beauty of the fonts of the late Renaissance. Minion was created primarily as a traditional text font but adapts well to today's digital technology, presenting the richness of the late baroque forms within modern text formats. This clear, balanced font is suitable for almost any use.

always
conceptional
Courage is grace under pressure

Xavier Dupré’s FF Yoga mixes the harshness of a blackletter with the balanced rhythm and round shapes of the Renaissance Roman. Its sturdy serifs are a good choice for body text; They also serve as an effective headline face given their subtly chiseled counters. FF Yoga Sans is a contemporary alternative to the quintessential humanist sans (Gill Sans) and a steady companion to FF Yoga... Read More

chalet
bureaucratic
Life is too short to follow the rules

Caflisch Script was designed by Robert Slimbach in 1993. The design is based on the handwriting of Max Caflisch, one of the foremost graphic designers of this century. Caflisch, a teacher of graphic arts for over three decades in Zurich, is author of several books on typography and designer of the 1952 Columna typeface. Caflisch´s handwriting has a free flowing yet disciplined character, the... Read More

brandy
zygapophysis
No tails in the disorder please

Using Franz Kafka’s handwritten literary oeuvre as a source, Julia Sysmäläinen created the FF Mister K family, beginning with “the temptation and challenge” of capturing the writer’s free flowing penmanship as type. Its members, the original FF Mister K, a more relaxed Informal variant, and a Splendid style in two weights capture the lively charm of the author’s characters, whose temperaments... Read More

mystic
abstractions
Please do not get over it

Vienna designer Viktor Solt has a love affair with handwriting. “Usually” he says “when I start with a specific calligraphic style I take some historic specimens and try to integrate their main features into my own handwriting.” Although there are hints of various 18th-century calligraphic styles in Ballerino it was not based on any historical model. The swash ascenders and descenders on the... Read More

grapes
zygapophysis
Throw mischievous cook the sauce

Frank Marciuliano designed the basic forms of Linotype Constitution around those of the swash alphabets of the 18th century. While the capitals are generously designed, the lower case letters have more reserved forms and are narrower. The characters of Constitution seem to have been set to paper with a feather and ink. The marked stroke contrast and elegant forms makes it a dynamic and... Read More

mystic
hypothenuses
Smoking is friend of mental activity

FF Pepe is an uninhibited typeface with no prejudices. Working out of Valencia, Spain, Pepe Gimeno’s design practice is known for lively, colorful posters and publications. FF Pepe is his own script typeface: both informal and drawn taking great pains to preserve a uniform feeling throughout. The capitals are deformed, giving them a strong personality. A more uniform set of lowercase letters... Read More

grapes
wunderkinder
Remember to pillage before you burn

FF Reminga offers a fresh take on the Garamond tradition, rather sober (for Xavier Dupré’s work) and particularly readable at 10–12 points. It also comes in a narrower Titling version which is adds an even more elegant and calligraphic variation to the family. Dupré made significant improvements to FF Reminga’s letterforms for its 2008 OpenType re-release.

brandy
japanophilia
Species with vogue synchronous

Pablo is the work of British designer Trevor Pettit, who based this dramatic typeface on the signature of Pablo Picasso. The chunky lowercase reflects the very essence of Picasso's influence and the initial capitals can also be used on their own. Pablo is excellent for work requiring a vivid, cutting edge appearance.

safety
japanophilia
Mind the static electricity

ITC Galliard font is a work of Matthew Carter and a contemporary adaptation of Robert Granjon's 16th century design. "The result was not a literal copy of any one of Granjon's faces, more a reinterpretation of his style," says Carter. ITC Galliard font captures the vitality of Granjon's work in a graceful, modern typeface. eText fonts - the optimum of on-screen text qualityWith our new eText... Read More

chalet
fiddlesticks
Move fast and break stuff

Today's digital font technology allowed the world-renowned typeface designer/calligrapher Hermann Zapf to finally realize a vision he first had more than fifty years ago: creating a typeface that could capture the freedom and liveliness of beautiful handwriting. The basic Zapfino™ font family, released in 1998, consists of four alphabets with many additional stylistic alternates that can be... Read More

Viktor Solt-Bittner
Adobe 1998
Viktor Solt-Bittner
ITC 1998
Matthew Carter
ITC 1978
Julius de Goede
Monotype 1999

Shinntype
Claude Garamond, Jan Tschichold and Akaki Razmadze
Linotype 1499
Claude Garamond and George W. Jones
Linotype 1499
Charles E. Hughes
ITC 1990
Robert Slimbach
Adobe 1992
Xavier Dupré
FontFont 2009
Robert Slimbach
Adobe 1993
Julia Sysmäläinen
FontFont 2008
Viktor Solt-Bittner
ITC
Frank Marciuliano
Linotype 1997
Three Islands Press
Three Islands Press
Three Islands Press
Three Islands Press
Three Islands Press
Three Islands Press
Three Islands Press
Three Islands Press
Brian Willson
Three Islands Press 2002
Three Islands Press
Three Islands Press
Pepe Gimeno
FontFont 2002
Xavier Dupré
FontFont 2001
Trevor Pettit
ITC 1995
Matthew Carter
ITC 1978
Nadine Chahine
Linotype 2014