Tag: calligraphic
Dragonflight Pro Font
Dragonflight Pro is a script collection of four modern calligraphy fonts. Each glyph was hand-drawn with a brass folded pen dipped in ink. The tip of the folded pen resembles the shape of a dragonfly’s wing, hence the name. By
Modish Font
Inky but neat. Flowing but controlled. Modish perfectly balances two predominant aesthetics of fashion and lifestyle: the casually cool hand-drawn look, and the pixel-perfect slickness of digital design. This synthesis might be due partly to how it was created: it’s
Grandezza Font
“Grandezza” is my most elaborate script so far and it is the script for many countries that write in Latin letters as well. I designed it in 5 different parts, since I still think the “OpenType Format” is phantastic but
Pointino Font
“Pointino” is a very pointed script. It comes in three versions: Pointino-A has good looking curves, Pointino-B has more of those good looking curves and Pointino-C has fewer, but still sensational curves. Pointino is very sexy, as sexy as typefaces
Fleurons Initials Font
“Fleurons Initials” are a set of elegantly decorated blocked initials, reminding of old Jazz and Circus Posters. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Fleurons Initials
Artegio Font
“Artegio” is an elegant, joining, classical script with impressive horizontal swirls. I designed an comlementary set with simpler capitals, lower-case ending letters and medieval ciphers. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Artegio
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
Dyane Font
Dyane is based on monolinear scripts from the Bauhaus time. But it is very special for its counter strokes in the lowercase letters a, h, m and n that gives the script a very distinct rhythm. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload
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
Flourishes A Font
“Florishes A” are a set of flourishes, that serves well for frames and other elegant embellishments, they are beginning of last century American. Your I-found-them-somewhere type-designer Gert Wiescher Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Flourishes A
Antea Font
“Antea” is named after “Antaeus” the giant of Libya in Greek mythology, son of Poseidon and Gaia (mother earth), whose wife was Tinjis. He was extremely strong if he stayed in contact with the earth, but once lifted into the
Fengo Font
Fengo is a beautiful handlettering font inspired by Sino-Japanese and traditional Chinese hieroglyphic characters. As a result the font looks authentic and very friendly. It contains a wide range of features such as initials, finals, swashes, arrows, circled numerals. Fengo
Sixtra Font
“Sixtra” is a font right out of the 30ies or 40ies of last century. I discovered a few letters on an old package for some obscure cutlery manufacturer and made a font of those six letters. Hence Sixtra! Published by
1491 Cancellaresca Font
This font was created inspired from the very well known humanistic script called Cancellaresca. Published by Gilles Le CorreDownload 1491 Cancellaresca
Bohemio Font
“Bohemio” is designed in memoriam of “Gunter Böhmer”, an artist that is famous for his many bookcovers of the 1950’s in Germany. The cover I took as an inspiration for this font is that of a book called “Stiller” (by
Breezy Font
“Breezy” is a brush script with very expressive strokes and surprising connections. “Breezy” is a great script if you really want to have that crude, rough feeling. Published by Wiescher DesignDownload Breezy
