Tag: calligraphic

Blanchard Font

Blanchard is a revival and elaborate extension of Muriel, a 1950 metal face made by Joan Trochut-Blanchard for the Fonderie Typographique Française, that was published simultaneously by the Spanish Gans foundry under the name Juventud. Blanchard is a script that

Viento Font

Viento is the evolution, devolution and revolution of the classic Brisa font. Drawn in a rough way for quick times in a fast culture, this font is a top-of-the-range option for casual text, invites, recipes, menus and of course, packaging

Zigarre Font

Though Zigarre can easily be categorized a brush script, Jim Rimmer actually drew it using a big marker. Jim's original face, inspired by inter-war German poster lettering, was a rough one, with the marker's juicy ink roughing it out all

Symphony Pro Font

Symphony Pro sounds like music, elegance and classic quality. That’s exactly how Symphony Pro carries the message to the reader. Symphony Pro is a rather formal script with very beautiful, generous and swashy upper case that was redesigned, digitized, completed

Daisy Lau Font

Based on Hongkong ladies f script in the 19th century, the Inky texture gives this font a realistic handwriting appearance. Published by Dharma TypeDownload Daisy Lau

Libertine Font

Taking its cue from the lettering of 1930s Dutch commercial artist Martin Meijer, Libertine is a script where expert calligraphy and total wrist control are on display. With strokes stopping and starting at very steep angles and extreme contrasts, every

Parnassus Font

Parnassus is a hand-drawn font created by Jessie Riley and inspired by the German Expressionists. Born out of the need for a unique and emphatic typeface to match the content of Taylor University’s literary journal, its rough-around-the-edges feel and semi-calligraphic

Ganz Grobe Gotisch Font

Ganz Grobe Gotisch is an intense and masculine blackletter font originally designed by F.H. Ernst Schneidler and Ralph M. Ungern. Works great in headline usage, for logos and poster design. Published by URW Type Foundry GmbHDownload Ganz Grobe Gotisch

Bank Script Font

Designed by James West in 1895, Bank Script is a script release by URW. Contains language support for West, East, Turkish, Baltic, and Romanian. Published by URW Type Foundry GmbHDownload Bank Script

Tarantula Font

Designed by Steve Jackaman, Tarantula is a fun script design re-tooled from the QBF Collection. Published by Red RoosterDownload Tarantula

Aguafina Script Pro Font

Semi-formal and eye-catching elegance is the name of the game, says Aguafina Script, Koziupa and Paul’s latest creation. Graceful, but not too casual. Knowledgeable and artistic, but not too imposing. The characters flow into each other, making a very saucy

Parfumerie Script Font

Typesenses presents Parfumerie Script, designed by Sabrina Lopez. With more than 2500 glyphs, Parfumerie is unique amongst the others in its style because it is based on the author’s calligraphy. One of its variables is a Decorative option which combines

P22 Operina Pro Font

Operina is based on a 16th century lettering model of the scribe Ludovico degli Arrighi (Vicentino Ludovico degli Arrighi) used in his 1522 instructional lettering book, “La Operina da Imparare di scrivere littera Cancellarescha.” This book contains what is considered

Mercy Font

This Ladies’ Hand Style font is very (somewhat) similar to ornamental penmanship, but uses slightly longer ascenders and descenders and a modest shading. Originally the Ladies’ Hand had less flourishings, which was ideal for writing long letters. Even though its

Jolly Roger Font

Steve Jackaman has refined and optimized Jolly Roger for digital release. The original design was created in 1970 by the legendary American type designer Phil Martin, founder and creator of the Alphabet Innovations and TypeSpectra type collections. Although quirky, playful