Anna Pizzey

Hand crafted in Amsterdam amongst the winter canals, Maniac Display represents the best of modern serif aesthetic with a big feeling of movement. Sharp, full and quirky, it’s everything you want out of a display font. It looks amazing at large sizes and, also, small sizes.

Maniac has 36 punctuation marks, 57 uppercase letters, 60 lowercase letters, 17 symbols and a full number set. It supports 17 languages; Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.

The difference between each weight is intentionally more subtle, for maximum impact at larger sizes. Maniac is best displayed with large text and is suitable for branding, magazines, products and anything else you can imagine. Maniac weights are sold separately and together.

Aure Brash speaks with the cheeky inuendo of a sassy parrot. The quirky forms of this unique outline font engage the reader with a subtext of whimsy. Designed for its visual impact, Brash stands out as a title font and offers delightful possibilities for graphic imagery.

Brash is an original design developed by Aurora Isaac. After more than a decade in development, 2018 marks the first release of the CJ and KB glyphsets.

The CJ glyphset is a full text font with an extended set of lowercase and uppercase glyphs supporting a variety of European languages. Additional glyphs include standard ligatures, four variations of the ampersand, and check-mark and happy-face with their companions x-mark and grumpy-face.

Numbers are available in lining and oldstyle versions, with numerators and denominators for forming fractions. Companion glyphs include Roman numerals, specialized glyphs for indicating ordinals, and a variety of mathematical symbols and operators.

The CJ glyphset also includes an extended set of glyphs for typesetting Western Astrology. These glyphs are also available separately in the KB glyphset: a symbol font re-coded to allow easy keyboard access for the most commonly used glyphs.

Brash is not designed for use in extended text. It shows its strength paired with strong text fonts such as Aure Jane or Aure Teddy. Used sparingly, Brash will add witty highlights to catch the reader’s eye.

Give Aure Brash a trial run! You may discover a permanent place for this font family in your typographic palette.

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Once upon a time in Frankfurt, two ‘almost-neighbours’ met at a coffee shop and boom- Excited-Alphabets was born. Inspired by the illustration of Sumbo Pinheiro, Excited was designed by Harald Geisler and Sumbo Pinheiro. From quirky illustration to font, this was a fun project to work on because each alphabet comes with its own sassy character.

Excited-Alphabets is a family of lowercase display fonts. The letterform is sans-serif with a few appendages to give the letters a life-like and cheerful form. Also, each alphabet has two poses which can be chosen individually from the capital glyphs menu to get a unique look.

Its dynamic or ‘dancing’ look makes it perfect for (short) editorial headlines, celebratory lines, fun branding, social media posts, website headers, posters, ads, products, stationery designs and more.