List Best Font: 2013

Monday, December 30, 2013

British Inserat Font Download

A grunge sans-serif.

JoeHand was one of the first scripts by JOEBOB graphics.

A complete character set with numbers and most (but not all) special signs.

Simple. Classic. The beautiful handwriting of your mother. Madelinette is inspired by Palmer Method which was introduced to the US in 1894 as a modern alternative to Spencerian. The method won many awards including the Gold Medals at the Panama Pacific Expo of 1915 and the Sesquicentennial Expo in 1926.

This disciplined style set the standard of cursive penmanship for decades of American schoolchildren.

Of course, Madelinette was written with a steel nibbed dip pen in black ink…she’s traditional.

She looks perfect in grandmother’s pearls & sweater sets. Travels Europe on holiday. Loves Parisian food. Owns a tweed suit, plaid capris, a single pair of jeans and more shoes than she can count.

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Sandscript comes from the hand of the Original Copywriter.

Use this smart typeface with characteristic descenders to set long lines of clean, organized-looking text and maintain a personal touch.

Or use it to mark up grammatical and spelling errors whenever you wish to critique with authority.

A typeface that allows the direct typing of headers and footers in WP packages. Full frames can be made using any drawing packages clone, flip and rotate commands. The typeface is supplied with two weights which will allow countless numbers of frames to be created.

As the name suggests the frames and headers/footers all have a leaf theme.

Stronghold BB Font Download

Fill the moat and sharpen your spears! It’s time to defend the keep against orcs!

Comes with Regular and Deco and has a large complement of European characters.

Designed at Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1986. Based on “English” bold styles of the Ossip Lehmann type foundry (St.-Petersburg), of mid-19th century. The digital version was developed at ParaType in 1992 by Vladimir Yefimov.

For use in advertising and display typography.

Jure Stojan first created JY Klin for a student magazine in Ljubljana, Slovenia. ‘It was borne out of my frustration with layout [programs] and their taste for messing with decent fonts (making the headline occupy the entire column width at any cost, for instance).

Therefore, I designed a “heavy duty” display font—it can be extended up to 120 per cent without any loss in quality (it is fairly condensed, so no one could think of squeezing it any further).

I even used the font, stretched by the very 120 per cent, for 10 point text and the result was surprisingly legible (given some peculiar details prominent at display size).’

Diskojuice is a font that just wants to party and burn up the dancefloor!

When I needed a Braille font for a project, it was hard to find one that worked the way I wanted. When I type an ‘A’, I want the dot pattern for an ‘A’. Fonts from the big computer companies have their Braille hidden deep in the unicode and are not easy to use.

This new font is very simple, and the dot patterns are matched to the keys on the keyboard. Simply type; no more hunting through unicode pages. If you develop materials for the sight-impaired, check out my Moon Type font also.

Made from a simple font incantation, the Invocation typeface was born. Inspired by an old Atari game called Necromancer where trees uprooted and came after the wizard, or something like that. The end result, a thematic typeface spawning roots.

“On darkened night, the moon eclipsed, a cryptic verse does pass my lips, from ancient parchment, edges worn, this Invoctation font is born...”

Sometimes we need an evil look for our designs, so why not summon this typeface into your hands today!

Dractura is based on a fifteenth century German fraktur typeface.

Nutnik was made using cut out cardboard letters, black paint and some brushes. The result is a highly legible, yet grungy font. It comes with all the diacritics you could possibly wish for and stylistic alternates for the lower case letters.

Highly intricate ornaments inspired from the work of Johann Georg Schwandner (1716- 1791). Complete your collection with Schwandner Versalia and Schwandner Ornaments.

Dexterous is my interpretation of an antique typeface.

The font includes upper and lowercase alphabets with alternate “E F L M S T” characters and alternate “c e m s” characters, numbers, punctuation, accented characters, symbols, and miscellaneous characters.

Pupcat was inspired by posters from 1960s Hollywood comedies. It’s cute, thin and lives for fun. Dig the OpenType features: an alternate A, E and R, fractions, ordinals & math symbols.

Utah Font Download

Hub represents so called block letter handwriting style, which becomes more and more usual and nowadays replaces traditional cursive handwriting.

One of the reasons for these changes is an often requirement in official forms to write in block letters. Some forms contain even stricter rule – to write in capital letters. Hub was designed to meet these requirements and includes small caps instead of lower case letters.

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A cow-print style.

Based on Lucien Bernhard’s idiosyncratic Schoenschrift, Liberty was designed for ATF two years later, in 1927, by W.T. Sniffin.

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

With heavy descenders and seemingly floating ascenders emanating from one of the most classical attempts at connected upright calligraphy, never did a font have this much charm and complexity at once.

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Plenty of alternates and extra custom endings are included for extra choice and variety.

One click of a button and you have a nice swash ending for your word, or a nice mix of swash lowercase for a calligraphic plate.

Its use can efficiently vary from simple slogans to richer layouts such as music sleeves or movie posters, and everything in between.

Grit Primer is a distressed, aged typeface resurrected from letterpress samples of schoolhouse primers common in the midwest around the turn of the century. Additional characters are also included in this expansive offering.

Grit Primer offers the charm of handset type as well as slightly offset baseline characteristics and a rough-hewn character easily visible at larger point sizes, hence the name.

Lysosome, was created and designed by Noah Rothschild. It is a unique typeface that is offered at a great price! Lysosome is a cute, curved and delightful font. Some think it’s bubbly, others think it"s just enjoyable to read.

Lysosome adds a unique element to any document. In addition, Victory Type has thrown in Lysosome-Outline for free. Both fonts are complete with a full character set, including European glyphs for your enjoyment.

I just loved the design idea behind this font, but the original font had a lot of ugly artifacts - so I have completely redrawn ALL the letters, before expanding the character set.

The lowercase has been redrawn with a higher x-height, making the font even more usable (with more “normal” word shapes).

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They also contain all glyphs in the Latin Extended-A Unicode block (which among others cover the Central European and Baltic areas) supporting: Afrikaans, Belarusian (Lacinka), Bosnian, Catalan, Chichewa, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Kashubian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Maori, Polish, Saami (Inari), Saami (North), Serbian (latin), Slovak(ian), Slovene, Sorbian (Lower), Sorbian (Upper), Turkish and Turkmen.

And they of course contain all the usual “western” glyphs supporting: Albanian, Basque, Breton, Chamorro, Danish, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galican, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Occitan, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Sami (Lule), Sami (South), Scots (Gaelic), Spanish, Swedish, Tswana, Walloon and Yapese.

FG Rochelle has some special capitals like the B and R that makes it stand out from other script fonts.

A beauty!

QUAHOG BB is a Rhode Island original, inspired by classic American Italic designs. The font family comes with Regular, Italic, Bold and BoldItalic. The opentype version has auto-ligatures for fl, ff, fi, ft, st.

Oakland is a Streamline era design inspired by some hand-drawn lettering on a 1930’s French poster advertising a certain brand of Car (Automobile for our American cousins). It’s ideal for giving poster and design work that late 1930s to mid 1950s feel.

Make a bold statement with this all capitals typeface!

Cattle Drive JNL Font Download

Cattle Drive JNL is based on some examples of a classic condensed wood type. Lettering of this period lends itself well to themes of Western life, carnivals, circuses or classic broadside posters.

This pretty script is neat and legible and nicely connected.

Inspired by the lettering used on race cars this three-dimensional design has four individually drawn outlines to create multiple solutions with layers and filters. Mulsanne requires subjective display kerning and compensation.

The following sample illustrates the layered outlines:

This font is intended for use with simplified Chinese. It contains the GB2312 character set.

A modern classic which will readily find a place in your font folder. Great effort has been taken to ensure the balance of color and weight for every glyph to promote flowing legibility.

Due to the modular nature of this design there may be a slight lack of smoothness to the curves at very large point sizes (around 100 pt and above).

Radiac is a semi-monospaced unicase design inspired by lettering constructed from pieces of tile.

The Vtg Stencil fonts from astype are based on real world stencils. The US No. 4 design was derived from a typical antique American stencil-plate. This revolving stencil-plate was invented by Eugene L.

Tarbox and patented in 1868. It was a mass produced product and a very common tool in the United States.

In case of US No. 4 an original early plate from New York Stencil Works was used.

The Regular font style is a clean font design featuring a full standard Type1 glyph set including some typical stencil ornaments and tabular figures. The Paint font style is made from true stenciled letters and features all the letters of the stencil-plate only.

Max Joseph Gradl designed Art Nouveau jewelry in Germany. At least some of his designs were produced by Theodor Fahrner of Pforzheim, Germany -- one of the leading manufacturers of fine art jewelry on the Continent from 1855 to 1979.

I don't know if he designed for Fahrner exclusively, but every example I found was produced by that firm. I assume it was also the same M.J, who edited a book, Authentic Art Nouveau Stained Glass which was reissued by Dover and is still available.

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They exhibit a sculptural quality as if they were modeled in clay (or gold) rather than drawn on paper. His monograms, especially, reflect that quality. Those shown in plates 112 through 116 in Petzendorfer actually appear to have been designed specifically for fabricating in the form of gold or silver pendents.

Of the initial letters that came out of Germany during this period, these by Gradl seem unusually open and lyrical. They seem to be dancing on the page, rather than sitting. Please note that Gradl designed only the decorated initials.

All other characters supplied were extrapolated by HiH, including the accented initials. Orn.1 (unicode E004) is based on a jeweled gold clasp designed by Gradl (please check out Gallery Image on Myfonts.com).

Also included are an art nouveau girl’s face, a swan and the face from Munch’s “Scream”, from scans of old printer’s ornaments.

Added glyphs for the 1250 Central Europe, the 1252 Turkish and the 1257 Baltic Code Pages. Added glyphs to complete standard 1252 Western Europe Code Page. Special glyphs relocated and assigned Unicode codepoints, some in Private Use area.

Total of 341 glyphs. Both upper & lower case provided with appropriate accents.

Revised vertical metrics for improved cross-platform line spacing.

Four Ornaments: face1, face2, swan and orn1 (silhouette of Gradl clasp)

Use whichever works best for your applications.

Kanban is the work of British designer Ed Bugg, an all capital, oriental style typeface. Kanban was the word used for shop signs in old Japan and the letter forms mimic the square look of Japanese and Chinese calligraphy.

Kanban is the ideal display solution wherever an oriental appearance is needed.

The Engraver’s Square Gothic—like its rounder cousin, the engraver’s sans serif, Sweet® Sans,has been one of the more widely used stationer’s lettering styles since about 1900. Its minimal forms, made without curves, were popularized long ago by bankers and others seeking a serious, established feel to their stationery.

One might argue that the design is a possible precursor to Morris Fuller Benton’s Bank Gothic® typeface. More…

This demanding technique is rare today given that most engravers now use a photographic process to make plates, where just about any font will do. But the lettering styles engravers popularized during the first half of the twentieth century remain both familiar and appealing.

The sources offered just uppercase, small caps, and figures, yet similar, condensed examples had a lowercase, making it possible to interpret a full character set for Sweet Square. Italics were also added to give the family greater versatility.

Its unique style is as useful as it is novel.

Stay True Font Download

Express yourself in ink with tattoo-inspired Stay True™. Available as a set or individually, Stay True and companion font Stay True Open deliver your message with an edgy attitude. Pro versions of both fonts extend the character set to support Eastern European and Baltic languages.

Anna Gagarin is the loving matriarch of the Gagarin Family. Her life was full of love and passion. She had several affairs with Futurist and Contstructivist artist in the beginning of the 20th century.

She was in love with the Russian poet Vladimir Majakovski (born on July 19th, 1893 and died in Moscow on the April 14th, 1930). She gave birth to his son Boris. She called him ‘a cloud with trousers’.

After this love story, Anna Gagarin met the designer and artist Gustav Klucis in Italy.

His radical and political ideas were much too childish for her. After a period of love and passion Anna gave birth to his son. At that time they were in Italy, which explains his italic forms.

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Anna once said that ‘Alexander fills mine construction with love...’ That phrase can be an explanation for the term Constructuvism as an art movement. Alexander was the great love of Anna.

She gave birth to their love-baby Dimitri Gagarin. That night Alexander designed his most famous poster. A decade before that Anna told it was ‘a time for a change’. In a local bar in Sint Petersburg she met Gregory Rasputin.

At that time Rasputin was a well known person and a respected member of the Sint Petersburg upper class.His diabolic character influenced Anna and after several months she gave birth to their son Kurt.

He inherited the main characteristics of his father.

Triborough JNL is the heavier-weight version of Wingate JNL, a narrow, all-caps font from Jeff Levine.

Evoking the feel of 1930s and 1940s store and architectural signs, use Triborough JNL along with its counterpart for a nice dual-weight contrast...

or by itself for an elegant Art Deco look.

Couldn't you really use a wish right now? Girly. Swirly. Quirky. And utterly adorable. This Pro version of one of Kimberlys latest cutesy handwriting fonts has received lots of corrections and tweaks to the outlines - to remove autotracing artefacts, stroke width inconsistencies and create a better flow.

Finally the character set was completed and expanded. Job done! Back to stargazing..

ALL fonts from CheapProFonts have very extensive language support: More…

P22 Phantasmagoria is a stylized Celtic-meets-Futurist font with multiple variations as a geometric majuscule.

The heads of beasts that cap each large Uppercase letter complement the thinner, lowercase letters that can function on their own as an effective and flexible titling font.

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