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Dharma Gothic P Font - Image 1

Dharma Gothic P  Font

Dharma Gothic P font family is designed based on Dharma Gothic and a distressed offshoot from the original. The glyphs that damaged by printing the original had been tweaked by hand work with great care. This family contains basic  Roman,

Balaghat Font - Image 2

Balaghat  Font

Rapid handwriting script for posters, advertising and visual part of work. Very impressive and strong letterform stands out. Published by Dharma TypeDownload Balaghat

Civilite Vigesimals Font - Image 4

Civilite Vigesimals  Font

This 8-bit pixel font is designed with respect for 80s game designers and the pixel font pioneers in middle 90s. Ues at size 20 pixels or multiples of 20 and anti-alias off is recommended. Published by Dharma TypeDownload Civilite Vigesimals

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Pueblito  Font

Pueblito is a hand drawn font with a rustic and antique appearance. Was inspired from old books and newspapers but express a very own personality and not necessary represent a specific classic style. The family consists of twelve fonts  in

PiS Creatinin Pro Font - Image 6

PiS Creatinin Pro  Font

PiS Creatinin pro is based on a vintage ABC learning game for kids found in my grandparents attic. The narrow and high hand-drawn letters combine delicacy and chunkyness in a wonderful way, so it can be used both in  huge

CA Coronado Font - Image 7

CA Coronado  Font

As a display typeface CA Coronado is best for logotypes, titles and headlines. We thought about signage for wooden block houses in green forests, BBQs and western style bars. CA Coronado comes in two styles with ‘Regular’ and ‘Shadow’  style.

1509 Leyden Font - Image 8

1509 Leyden  Font

This blackletter font was created inspired from the set who was used in Leyden by Jan Seversz to print “Breviores elegantioresque epistolae […]”, by author Francesco Filfelo, circa 1509. The original font contains all lower case characters, excepted w,  eth,

Venice Initials Font - Image 9

Venice Initials  Font

“Venice Initials” are my redesign of a 15th century venetian original by an unknown calligrapher. Unfortunately only parts of the letters existed, so I had to design about half of them myself. Of course I enjoyed doing that. Published  by

1540 Mercator Script Font - Image 11

1540 Mercator Script  Font

This font was created inspired from the so called “Litterarum latinarum, quas italicas, cursoriasque vocant, scribendum Ratio” (Louvain 1540), a manual intended to calligraphers by the well known scientist Gerhard Mercator. It was a magnificent “Cancellaresca corsiva” pattern, enriched  with

Felicita Font - Image 12

Felicita  Font

Felicità is based on the design of my “Ellida” font family. It was designed with “happiness” in mind. Therefore I used extremely high contrast between the down- and upstrokes, this gives the fonts a lively, happy appearance. I designed  two

Exprima Font - Image 13

Exprima  Font

Exprima is a very expressive script with lots of contrast. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Exprima

1805 Jaeck Map Font - Image 14

1805 Jaeck Map  Font

This “Pro” font is mainly inspired from the engraved characters of a German Map depicting Germany’s roads and parts of surrounding lands, edited in Berlin probably in the end of 1700’s. The engraver was Carl Jaeck or Jaek (1763-1808).  The

750 Latin Uncial Font - Image 15

750 Latin Uncial  Font

This font was inspired from the Latin script used in european monasteries from circa 5th to 8th, before the Carolingian “Caroline”. It was a regular script, rounded, written slowly, used mainly for specially meticulous books, with a little few  of

1543 Humane Jenson Font - Image 16

1543 Humane Jenson  Font

In 1543 the well-known “De humani corporis fabrica” treatise on anatomy by André Vesale, was printed by Johann Oporinus in Basel (Switzerland). Various typefaces were used for this work, mostly in Latin but including Greek characters. Its Jenson-type font  was

CA Postal Font - Image 17

CA Postal  Font

CA Postal is a cute and clever little stamp-font. It was originally intended for a record-cover only, but when the artist wanted all lyrics printed in the booklet, it was time for a font. The initial inspiration was a moveable-stamp

Movie Script Font - Image 18

Movie Script  Font

“Movie Script” is the script that was used in German movie-brochures. Those were small four page leaflets with a lot of sepia-colored pictures about the movie one was about to see. Today those things are collectors items. The script  was