Tag: legible

Starlight Lovers Font

I have always loved gazing at the stars. Too bad that you don’t get to see a true starry night these days – mostly because of light pollution. Starlight Lovers is a messy serif. It is hand painted, using a

Pumpkinseed Font

With its eight type styles and chockablock character set, Pumpkinseed ranks among the few truly casual handwritten typefaces with an industrial-strength, multi-purpose feel. Its name, by the way, comes from the distinctively oblong shapes of certain counters as well as

Cavita Rounded Font

Cavita Rounded typeface is a mix between both grotesque and calligraphic models: regulars have a rough grotesque spirit, while the italics were inspired in calligraphic gestures. All of these details are reinforced with an inverted modulation (horizontals strokes are thicker

Kettering 105 Font

Kettering 105 is inspired by the classic, geometric slab-serifs such as Lubalin, but has shallower ascenders and descenders for a more compact look. It’s a versatile, modern slab-serif, highly legible as a text font and with a clean, elegant look

Cherubina Font

Cherubina means ‘Blessed’. It is a name derived from the Akkadian “karabu / kuribu”, meaning “blessing, blessed”. A cherub is a type of spiritual being mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, often depicted as a baby with wings. This font was

Attic Antique Font

Attic Antique replicates the warn, weathered text in a friend’s old copy of John Burroughs nature essays. It shares the wide spacing and ample serifs of the Century faces. Use it to represent age, to suggest photocopied archives, or to

Hummington Font

An elegant script typeface with a bunch of opentype features to make your design and digital lettering look more outstanding and fun. Hummington contains 700+ total characters, 16+ stylistic set alternates, elegant swashes, unique ligatures, oldstyle figures, multilanguage support and

Rogan Font

Rogan: A Robust Modular Sans. Rogans clean lines started out as an exercise in modularity and geometric forms. This initial construction approach was then adapted to improve the functionality of the family; Breaking away from the strictly modular system in

Smooth Brushings Font

When I was painting this font, I suddenly had the movie Cool Runnings (1993, directed by Jon Turteltaub) in my head. I had to name the font, so I came up with Smooth Brushings. Of course, this font has nothing

Midnight Chalker Font

Midnight Chalker is, well, a chalk(ish) font and it was (fro the greater part) created around the midnight hour. That’s usually when I get my inspiration. Midnight Chalker is a tall, eroded font – all caps, but the upper and

Rail Font

Rail type family is a tough conveyance mechanism for large and lengthy information packages. It offers great reading comfort and avoids unnecessary friction. The precise construction of this slab serif signals greater legibility and capacity. Rail is designed to provide

Alethia Pro Font

Alethia Pro is a grotesque sans-serif typeface with high contrast in all weights. It has been designed to serve as a display typeface in various editorial projects, such as magazines or corporate brochures, as a sans-serif pair to serif types

Cutlass Font

Cutlass was just for fun. A decade ago or so, someone on typophile showed a scan of the word “Ciruelo”. I liked it. Those were the only letters I had and no one ever came up with the name of

Yuli Font

Yuli is my daughter – she was born on February 13th, 2014. I named this font after her, because there are some similarities. Both are bouncy and happy, playful and quirky, funny and happy – and above all: cute and

Tartufo Font

A Tartufo is a truffle in Italian. I have to admit, I have never eaten one, so I couldn’t really tell you if they’re any good. I suppose they are, but you’ll have to find that out for yourselves! Tartufo

Sheepman Font

Sheepman font was named after my favorite Haruki Murakami character: the Sheep Man. Sheepman font is handwritten, messy, but legible and complete. It comes with alternates and ligatures. Published by HanodedDownload Sheepman

Crypt Font

Crypt is a seemingly lovely font that will look good in just about any design. But if you take a closer look, then Crypt is actually quite a scary font: it has jagged edges and a sinister undertone, making the

Addington CF Font

Addington is a graceful and reliable serif, useful in any situation. Beautiful yet practical, Addington is designed for excellence in text-heavy settings while doubling as a capable and strong display typeface. Complete with seven weights, true italics, and many OpenType