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Illusion™ is an original calligraphic script by Natalia Vasilyeva. The variety of alternates and ligatures makes Illusion especially suitable for use in advertising and display typography. Published by Paratype in 2019.
Friday, June 21, 2019
Download Lagarto Font Family From Sudtipos
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Some years ago, a good friend and typophile, Gonzalo GarcÃa Barcha, approached me with the idea of designing a typeface for his editorial project Blacamán Ediciones. He had just came across an hitherto unknown manuscript by Luis Lagarto, a colonial illuminator and scribe, working in Mexico City and Puebla in the late 1500s.
The manuscript calligraphy was incredible and stunningly original. It featured three different hands by the scribe, intermingled in the text: a kind of baroque «Roman» roundhand; a very ornate, lively «Italic»; and some sort of irregular, playful, even funny «small caps». All imbued with an eccentric, convoluted zest and vivacious rhythm.
Lagarto is the final result of translating these extraordinary hands into a digital type family. Since the manuscript had no numerals, math signs and many other characters now in use, part of the fun of the job was to infer them from the stylistic peculiarities of Luis Lagarto's calligraphy.
Lagarto received an Award of Excellence at the Type Directors Club of New York annual competition.
Download Kotto Slab Font Family From Picador
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Ultra Heavy Weight Font Champion – that's Kotto Slab. Bold curves and catchy endings. You can always count on Kotto – quirky posters, creative projects or long texts. That doesn't matter. Easy to use and easy to pair with other typefaces. Matching italics and opentype features will make your work faster. Try it with sans and serif fonts, especially with Praho Pro – you won't regret it.
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Download Size Font Family From SD Fonts
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Retro style is hip, so are early 20th century poster fonts. Size is based on these extra condensed letter forms.
In the 19th century the need to communicate commercial messages on limited poster space brought up extremely condensed fonts creating a new typographical look. Since not really legible in small sizes these fonts nearly disappeared with the change in the commercial communication in the 20th century.
For a couple of years now, these extra condensed fonts have a revival copying the exact historical appearance of its predecessors. Size, though also seeking the inspiration in the historical draft, furthermore aims to interpret this compressed look in a more vivid way by not closing in on the open counters of the round letters, but having its stroke endings slightly curved. Since other characters are defined by straight strokes, Size displays a look more vital and candid, but still distinct, compared to its historical predecessors.
Download Cena Font Family From SevenType
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Cena is a dynamic humanist sans serif family. It comes in 6 weights with matching italics.
The idea behind this typeface was to create a relatively condensed typeface. It’s just on the verge of being condensed in order to allow you to save some space when using columns and headlines.
Cena has a lot of contrast in the connection to the stems in order to give it a more dynamic feel.
It has also low descenders and a large x-height and great legibility.
Each weight has 482 glyphs and alternate characters.
This medium contrast family is perfectly suited for advertising and editorial projects making headlines, posters and billboards stand out.
We would love to see your designs using Cena. Feel free to share them with us via email to hi@seventype.com.
Download Bodrum Soft Font Family From Bülent Yüksel
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You can download Bodrum Soft PDF Type Specimen here.
"Bodrum Soft" is a rounded sans serif type family, designed by Bülent Yüksel in 20018/19. The font, influenced by serif styles that were popular in the 1920s and 30s, is based on optically corrected geometric forms for a better readability.
"Bodrum Soft" is not purely geometric; it has vertical strokes that are thicker than the horizontals, an “o” that is not a perfect circle, and shortened ascenders. These nuances helps the legibility and gives "Bodrum Soft" an harmonious and sensible appearance for both texts and headlines.
Bodrum Soft provides advanced typographical support for Latin-based languages. An extended character set, supporting Central, Western and Eastern European languages, rounds up the family.
“Bodrum Soft 14 Regular” forms the central point. "Bodrum Soft" is available in 10 weights (Hair, Thin, Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Extra-Bold, Heavy and Black) and 10 matching italics. The family contains a set of 650+ characters.
Case-Sensitive Forms, Classes and Features, Small Caps from Letter Cases, Fractions, Superior, Inferior, Denominator, Numerator, Old Style Figures can be accessed with one simple touch in all graphic programs.
Bodrum Soft is the perfect font for web use.
I hope you enjoy using it!
Download Dry Goods Stencil JNL Font Family From Jeff Levine
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An antique Bradley stencil cutting machine’s letters and numbers were the basis for Dry Goods Stencil JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
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