Tag: penmanship
Terra Ignota Font
The idea for Terra Ignota came years before I actually designed it, as I was admiring a reproduction of “Amerique Septentrionale,” a 1650 map by French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, given me by my parents. The hand-lettering has a sort of
Botanical Scribe Font
Botanical Scribe is modeled after the elegant hand-inscribed legends on the antique floral prints of Belgian artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté, perhaps the most famous painter of flowers. Redoute’s engravings used the stipple method—innovative for the early 1800s—and have survived in large
Douglass Pen Font
Douglass Pen was inspired by the handwriting of Frederick Douglass, who was born an American slave but died a distinguished 19th century statesman, orator, and abolitionist leader. He also had fine penmanship. Douglass Pen is modeled chiefly after Douglass’s handwritten
Marydale Font
As a casual handwriting face, Marydale works well in diagram legends, cutlines or other display type, product packaging, movie credits—in fact, in any situation when the idea is to simulate the kind of informal hand-lettering you might find on a
Professor Font
Professor is modeled after the handwriting of an actual professor emeritus whose cursive script displays just the plain-yet-handsome, casual-yet-legible feeling I’d been looking for in a contemporary hand—one that might prove as useful in a personal letter as, say, on
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
Antiquarian Font
Antiquarian was inspired by the hand-lettered headlines and captions that appear on an original page of “Atlas Historique, ou Nouvelle Introduction a L’Histoire’—a world atlas published by Henri Abraham Chatelain between 1705 and 1732 in Amsterdam—that I picked up at
Antonietta Font
Antonietta is Mauricio Astete Brito’s first typeface, which is inspired by the eccentricity of the rococo style and Queen Marie Antoinette’s wild personality. This project, supervised by Latinotype Team, was born from the idea of turning lettering into a digital
Asterism Clean Family Font
Asterism Clean is the smooth lined version of Asterism. It is a calligraphy style font with a moving baseline and lots of shining personality. Also contains a bold and a monoline version. This hand written style font is based on
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
Asterism Font
Asterism is a calligraphy style font with a moving baseline and lots of shining personality. This hand written style font is based on one of Molly’s signature calligraphy styles and pairs beautifully with Frosted, Icing, Saint Agnes. Published by Great
Marguerite Font
Designed by fine artist and calligrapher Alissa Mazzenga, Marguerite is is a calligraphy style font inspired by fine artistry and risk taking. She has a way of surprising her viewer, with a look that is authentic, yet chic, relaxed, but
Sherlock Font
Sherlock is a very mysterious script, always on the lookout for the killer-design-project. It is a joining- or not-joining-script, whatever you want it to be. The pro-version sports 807 glyphs with language support for all European languages and some –
Marmelade Font
“Marmelade” is a useful script, always ready to adorn that latest jam-jelly-confiture-marmelade project. It is a joining-script, or a script with printed small caps, whatever you like. Marmelade comes in two different scripts “Basic” and “Plus”, and one “Print” set
Poem Script Font
Poem Script is a mixed collection of interpretations conjuring a late nineteenth century American pen script style. Though not an actual Italian letterform, this style was called “Italian Alphabet” stemming from an old penman’s term for an alphabet where the
Bellissima Script Pro Font
While in the same vein and spirit as Burgues and Compendium, Bellissima began from an entirely different thread as those fonts. It started with Alex Trochut generously showing me a gorgeous lettering book from his grandfather’s library: Bellezas de la
Kinfolk Pro Font
Kinfolk Pro is a font collection of six fonts. The main styles Rough and Smooth are extremely sturdy and bold brush fonts. As the name suggests the smooth style has clean, crisp contours and the rough version has the authentic
Salt & Spices Mono Font
Salt & Spices Mono is the mono lined version of Salt & Spices Pro. Where Salt & Spices Pro has the rough contours and high contrast that is typical for dip pen calligraphy, Salt & Spices Mono has clean crisp