Anna Pizzey

Bodoni Z37 is a twenty-first century Didone typeface with a dynamic range of widths, weights and optical sizes. Stylistically, what really sets it apart from other typefaces in its category are flat sides and a geometric Deco style. Razor thin lines are captivating at large sizes but can be hard to deal with when you get really small. Rather than compromising, Bodoni Z37 was created with three optical sizes:

• Large (Bodoni Z37 L) with high contrast, fine lines and tight spacing
• Small (Bodoni Z37 S) with sturdy lines, more generous spacing
• Medium (Bodoni Z37 M) which is right in-between

Bodoni Z37’s cute, curly italics have loose spacing for clarity and emphasis. Lining numerals are kerned and proportionally spaced. There are OpenType fractions, numeric ordinals and old-style (lowercase) numerals too. Almost all current Latin-based languages are supported as well as Greek and Cyrillic. Four weights, four widths, italics and 3 optical sizes add up to a whopping 96 fonts. There are lots of other Didones and Bodonis to choose from but investing in something contemporary and versatile like Bodoni Z37 will end up saving you lots of time and money.

A debut from the most anticipated vintage digital typefoundry by Gilang Purnama and Ilham Herry, who stucked their mind, body and soul back into the first era of 18th century. They build this intense visual-time machine that no one capable before. Started by the visual branding of the Ephemera Fonts, they bring every letters of it to the another level of journey. They called it Ephemera Sickles.

Ephemera Sickles is a ornamented letterhead style typeface-inspired by the era of victorian (1800-1900) and this style was commonly used by engrossers at the turn of the century to embellish official documents, such as diplomas and other certificates. Carefully crafted for every single letters with the soul of Sickels Lettering, Spencerian, and some research from the Penmanship Journal book. The style is named after Charles Sickels, who headed the art department of Electro-Light Engraving Co. in New York City during the early 20th century.

There’s no doubt that such a very strong presence typeface like Ephemera Sickles will bring a powerful identity to your visual project. Will be a perfect joint for a logo, visual branding, poster, beer label, packaging, classic bar decor, vintage hotel, et cetera.

Yafferbuddle comes in the category of 'a funky fun font' with a pleasing rounded shape, but it still has the extensive range of features you'd expect in a modern OpenType font. It's especially useful for posters, headlines and comics. There's 5 weights and a Shadow version in Regular and Italic, making 12 fonts in all.  

To let you know what's in the font that you might otherwise not suspect . . .  

With Discretionary Ligatures on, you get special characters if you type  Mc St. Rd. Bd. Ave. c/o No. (p) (P)  - include the full-stop/period where given. 

With Stylistic Alternates switched on, you get plenty of extra characters - including a WiFi symbol (type Wifi or WiFi) / bullet numbers instead of ordinary numbers / that different U-dieresis / special characters for c/o No. Mc / an upside down ~ / a huge bullet, and different forms for cent, dollar, percent, per-thousand. 

As you'd expect, there's all the accented characters for all Western European scripts using Latin letters, and standard ligatures, plus other Open Type features including Class Kerning, Slashed-Zero, Historical Forms, Sub- and Superscript numbers, fractions for halves, thirds and quarters, Ornamental forms giving bullet numbers, etc. There's even some of the more obscure stuff like the main mathematical operators, symbols like card-suits and male/female signs and so on, schwa, U-horn O-horn, and there's more if you can Access All Alternates. Much will depend on what features your software recognises.  

In 2011, while tutoring an exercise on Slab Serifs, Josema discovered Robert Thorne’s work for Thorowgood. Specifically, he was fascinated by the extraordinary density of the 6-line Egyptian Pica from 1820-21.

As a simple exercise, he wanted to test the limits of readability within the context of a contemporary alphabet. Rothwood Ultra is the result of this experiment.

As a way of developing the series, he found it interesting to go to the opposite end of the spectrum and discover how to evolve the extra-black Ultra’s DNA into a super lightweight model. The Hairline and Thin styles are her slim sisters. 

The third challenge has been the creation of the text version. Light, Book, DemiBold and Bold, including italics and Small Caps close the Rothwood cycle for editorial use.

I was listening to the radio and a song caught my attention. It was ‘Demagogue’ by a band called the Urban Dance Squad. That song brought back memories from when I was a student, so I decided to name this font after it.

Demagogue was made using a Sharpie pen and a piece of expensive paper. The result is a very legible, very neat and very bold font. Demagogue is ideal for when you want to get your message across, but hopefully not in a demagogue-ish way! ;-)

Introducing Kinder, our first serif font featuring both upper and lowercase characters! Featuring unique beautiful curves and a modern feel (look at that K!) Inspired by old records and packaging designs, with an 1871 spin. It has a beautiful range of stylistic alternates with unique characters making it a versatile powerhouse for logos, headlines, posters, shirts, you name it! Pick up Kinder today and make the world more beautiful with your creations!

Made you look? There’s a peculiar feel to the letters – achieved by the reversed contrast. Perfectly legible yet there’s something about the characters that makes them stand out. As Viktor Shklovsky once coined, ”Habitualization devours objects” – the everyday world becomes invisible until we are forced to see it otherwise.

The Portland font family is a tool of choice when you want to effortlessly make your designs stand out.

I was doodling away with a sharpie pen on a rainy day.

Hey… wait a minute. A rainy day, a font called Rainclouds… Yep, that’s right, it is called Rainclouds for that reason! ;-)

Rainclouds is a fat marker font with a lot of texture and a lot of mouth.

Device™ display typeface is inspired by industrial type used for decals and signage. This typeface pairs nicely with geometric sans serifs like Cerebri Sans and HK Grotesk.

Prushkov is the first typeface that I made. Its name comes from the town I lived in at the time. The design was inspired by both geometric typefaces like Futura, and didone fonts like Bodoni. Its aim (perhaps quite bold) is to blend high contrast with mathematical excellence.

Prushkov will work well as a display font, both in uppercase and lowercase. It has a wide array of stylistic alternates for all of the capitals and some lowercase glyphs too.

Grand Sword is a wide serif and high contrast display font, which is inspired by the swords of the antique ages. There are two styles which are regular and outline. This font family also includes lots of eye-pleasing ligatures and alternatives. By using these opportunities of Grand Sword Typeface, you can create unique and stylish designs.

Peter Quincy is a script and sans serif font duo, and is perfect use for a logo for branding, typography design, Christmas cards, product packaging, invitations, quotes, t-shirt design, labels, posters, special events and anything that need handwriting taste.

Features:

- Multilingual Language Support

- Accessible in the Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, even works on Microsoft Word.