Best Top Font: May 2013

Friday, May 31, 2013

Mechanoid Font Download

Mechanoid is a machine age font: crisp, clean, bold and unadorned, yet with a distinctive character of its own. As the name suggests it is well suited to engineering or technological themes, yet versatile enough for universal applications.

Mr Lucky is Mr Happy's slab brother and a hand-drawn narrow typeface designed for one of our books.

You can layer different styles over the background style to achieve lots of colorful effects.

Use just one style to get a single color letter or set Fill over Background or Stripped Background to get a two color mode. More…

Build in OpenType Contextual Alternates feature will automatically set alternate glyphs depending on frequency of appearance of the same character (even in web font but only in HTML5 browsers).

The script doesn’t throw random glyphs. For example in the word “HIPPOPOTAMUS” you will automatically get three different “P” glyphs and two “O” glyphs. It really works great but of course you can always fine tune it by hand.

This font was inspired by music from the band The Dresden Dolls.

This font was inspired by music from the band Silverstein.

This font was inspired by the handwriting of Jessica Mercer (Illustrator). The name was inspired by the band Freelance Whales.

Nanami is a brand new Japanese inspired type family. Originally influenced by early swiss geometric-style sans serif faces that were popular in use throughout Japan during the 1970s. Nanami consist of 18 individual weights ranging from Thin through to Black.

It also has extensive support for over 27 languages, and as a font family that works well both in headlines and bodycopy, Nanami is the perfect choice for a whole variety of creative briefs.

Point of Sale JNL is a specialty font for producing retro-style price cards, tags, stickers, labels and similar items. Within this design are a large set of numerals and two smaller sets of numerals.

Both of the smaller sets are centered against the larger ones with one set also having underscores.

In addition, there are a number of price card designs provided for those who want a truly nostalgic feel to their price marks.

The layout of Point of Sale JNL breaks down as follows: More…

Add some twinkling lights to a bold Art Deco font such as Art Lesson JNL, and the result is a typeface which truly puts your name (or message) up in lights. Opening Night JNL conjures up images of Broadway plays and Hollywood premiers.

Ink Spots JNL Font Download

For decades, spot illustrations - whether by hot type, photoengraving, clip art or (in later years) digital means provided decorative and often lighthearted breaks in reading printed copy.

This collection of twenty-six cartoon images has been meticulously re-drawn in digital format from 1920s-1930s era source material.

By adding a simple caption underneath a design, your ad copy can be enhanced with these wonderful period pieces.

Brand X JNL is a retro-inspired Art Deco typeface with its name being derived from the generic label given to competitor’s brands. Whenever a product wishes to extol its virtues without directly naming its competitors and thereby giving reverse publicity to them, “Brand X” is mentioned.

A typewriter gives you clean, crisp text from its keys, but Type Wronger JNL does anything but this.

A distressed typewriter font, this font emits a rough, crude imprint as if the original had been photocopied, copied from that copy and re-copied until the original message had degenerated.

Sunbursts JNL is a simple little collection of sun dingbats for all types of creative embellishment. Make sure to use them with the recommended SPF-rated sunblock!

Stencil Set JNL takes the 2011 release of Stencil Mark JNL (a spur-serif letter based on a vintage set of brass stencils) and transitions it to the design of a clean, bold sans typeface.

Printy Things JNL gathers together another collection of dingbats, border elements, embellishments and other images from vintage source material.

Headlined is back with a bang! This time it’s dropped the letterpress look for something a lot harder. Headlined Solid is a brand new no nonsense headline font that demands attention, and leaves a lasting impression.

Headlined Solid has a worn sans-serif look and feel that differentiates it from the run of the mill headline fonts. Headlined Solid also supports a wide range of languages. So it doesn't matter whether you're setting a headline in English, Italian, or even Manx.

Headlined Solid has got you covered with support for over 20 languages.

This font is my handwriting.

This font was inspired by music from the band The Devil Wears Prada.

This font was inspired by music from the band Asteria.

This font was inspired by music from the band Dropout Year.

This font was inspired by music from the band Mae.

Originally offered by Filmotype in the early 1950s, Filmotype Lakeside was among its earliest informal style brush script typefaces inspired by sign painter classic brush script styles.

Filmotype Lakeside was developed from the original font filmstrips and includes a full international character compliment, automatic fractions, ordinals, with a complete set of alternate characters and ligatures to allow flawless typesetting in dynamic OpenType format.

Hear that? That’s the sound of tropical ocean breezes as they whistle gently through your laptop! Grab a mai-tai, a hammock under a swaying palm tree and let your hair down as your fingers gently caress the keyboard just like seaweed! Enjoy Seaweed Script when a rustic tropical beachside script is called for and watch out for Squid!

The Pro version has been expanded and enhanced with more character, dynamic OpenType ligatures and more for smooth seamless script connections!

Mocca Pro Font family is designed by Naghi Naghashian. It is a headline font family. The character set of this Font family supports most western languages including: Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Sami, Spanish, Swahili and Swedish.

There are 17 additional symbol characters: euro, litre, estimated, omega, pi, partialdiff, delta, product, summation, radical, infinity, integral, approxequal, notequal, lessequal, greaterequal, and lozenge.

It also includes the characters necessary to support the following central European languages: Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian and Turkish.

Charisma was inspired by the hand lettering used by draftsmen and architects. It is casual and informal and is ideal for use in conveying these qualities. It is excellent for casual text and at large sizes an effective casual display font.

The font includes upper and lowercase alphabets, numbers, punctuation, accented characters, symbols, and miscellaneous characters.

A redesign of Typoart’s Thannhaeuser Fraktur.

A revival of “Gras Vibert”, a French fat face originally cast by the Didot typefoundry in Paris. It was cut in 1840 by Vibert, an engraver employed by the foundry. The capitals are heavier than the lowercase letters, and the characters g, k, y and & are rather peculiarly shaped, exaggerating the vertical stress.

The font is designed for large sizes.

A thin caps-only cross-stitch font, based on a late 19th century embroidery pattern. Accented letters for Western and Central European languages are included.

A bold condensed caps-only cross-stitch font, based on an embroidery pattern from the middle of the 20th century.

A rounded sans-serif with even stroke thickness, based on the standard round-pen ink lettering used on technical drawings in the middle of the 20th century.

Karolinus Fraktur Font Download

A slightly regularized digital version of a late Baroque Fraktur type, probably from the beginning of the 18th century, issued by the Norstedts type foundry in Stockholm in 56 point size as “Sju petit fraktur nr 2”.

This digital font is designed for rather large sizes, at least 30 points.

The font includes accented letters for all Western languages, as well as a long s and the usual Fraktur ligatures, e.g. ch, ck, st, tz.

Characters not included in the Unicode standard are encoded in the Private Use Area.

Rochester Pro™ Font Download

On the town with the latest sensation they call Rochester! This dapper fresh face is dressed to the nines and ready for action! Inspired by elegant calligraphic forms from the early age of Victorian and Art Deco, Rochester is the perfect selection when you want to add a touch of class or a smart looking formal style to any correspondence or memorandum!

The Pro version has been expanded and enhanced with more character, dynamic OpenType ligatures and more!

Nanuk in the Inuit language means polar bear. My 2 year old son’s favorite animal is the polar bear and he loves to watch the ‘Earth’ DVD.
Nanuk font is an all caps, outlined affair, ideal for use in posters and covers.

It comes with a bear-load of diacritics!

A cross-stitch font based on a classical pattern, including capital and lower-case letters for all Western languages.

Volantene Script is a fully equipped display typeface inspired by the fine penmanship of Lady Talisa Maegyr-Stark. The lowercase letters are crafted to be as faithful as possible to the lady’s hand-written forms, while the uppercase, figures, symbols, and punctuations are original designs by Catharsis Fonts (Christian Thalmann) matching the lowercase in style.

Volantene Script comes with an extensive character set and OpenType features like ligatures and contextual alternates.

The common romanization of High Valyrian uses macrons (āēīōūȳ) to mark long vowels.

Since these are difficult to type with most keyboard mappings, Volantene Script offers macron-shaped diaereses (äëïöüÿ), which are easily accessible. More…

The name is derived from the free city of Volantis, where Lady Talisa grew up and learned to write. This font is dedicated to Simone. Geros ilas!

Progeny is a single-stroke freehand informal script that began life as a logo for a fast food company. That logo was rejected but when I added a suite of swash caps and a few extra ligatures and my trademark underlines it all started to come together as a font.

Then I used it successfully for another logo and I proceeded to complete the weight variations that emerged during the first logo design, rounding the lighter weights to give a more friendly, softer look.

That treatment didn't suit the bold weight but sharp corners did not detract from the robust, legible headliner that emerged. All weights work in all-lowercase, all-capitals, lowers with swash or regular initial caps and surprisingly – in all-caps with swash initials.

Nexa Slab is a geometric slab serif font whose design is based on the already popular best-seller Nexa.

The font family contains 3 basic forms: italics, obliques and uprights, each of which has 8 different weights.

This visual richness makes it the ideal slab serif font family for the web as well as for print, for motion graphics, logos, t-shirts and so on. It is also great for headings, fitting nicely with both small and large typesetting text blocks.

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Just like these fonts, it’s design is subject to rational, carefully thought-out, thick and thin bars with a low contrast between them. The letters are characterized by the strict geometry and square proportions of the original, extra-fortified by suitably balanced slab serifs.

it can build and create exquisite and harmonic designs.

Ready for the designs of today, the Sancoale superfamily takes a softer turn with a rounded slab serif.

Crafted from Sancoale’s simple geometry, new softened slab serifs provide a lively typeface that conveniently enhances its cousins: Sancoale Softened--a sans with blunted terminals; Sancoale Slab; and, certainly, the first Sancoale.

The weights of each and every member are balanced diligently to be compatible with one another. When used alongside one another, the combination makes for robust and tight design. More…

Its design is legible and neutral enough for bodies of copy--both in print and on your website. The web font also stands out perfectly as a headline or a display face. Slab Soft carefully places a foot ahead, and doesn't overpower like many slabs.

This font’s the choice to seize the day and get the job done.

The font features many numeral sets, with fractions, old-style and lining figures with superiors and inferiors. OpenType-capable programs like Quark or the Adobe suite allow you to quickly change ligatures and alternates.

You can see these options shown in the .pdf brochure. Bundled are compact caps, fractions, old-style and lining quantities, scientific superior/inferior figures, entire ordinal and inferior alphabet.

In all, Sancoale Slab supports around forty languages that utilize the Latin script, earning Sancoale the pick for for multi-lingual publications and packaging.

Quarca’s masculine power runs strong across the page with bold self-assurance and a raw energy that courses through its thick veins.

Don't think the continuous, smooth geometry of this semi-modular face is captively chained to the grid, though.

Quarca has been cautiously optimized to engage the reader’s eye. Achieving an attractive balance to its sturdy design, the open forms of this “rounded square” geometric sans -together with a tall x-height- make the font legible even when using the compact widths.

This high-impact typeface definitely doesn't sacrifice versatility for style. More…

The font has a thinner weight and transcends to an intense bold. The face’s geometric or technological construction also tends to make it right at home on the web.

Where Quarca truly stands out, though, is its wide number of OpenType typographic choices and optional glyphs, allowing you to design your piece with a personal, one-of-a-kind variant touch.

These variations consist of Experimental Capitals, Angled Capital Terminals, and “Future Stencil”. In all, you can find more than one hundred of these alternate glyphs.

Devised for today’s multi-disciplined designer, this clear and infinitely versatile family provides tremendous value to your toolbox.

Released by Filmotype in the late 1950s, Filmotype Kellog expanded its Scripts category with this informal style brush script inspired by sign painter classic brush script styles and expanded to allow a wider line setting.

Filmotype Kellog was developed from the original font filmstrips and includes a full international character compliment, automatic fractions, ordinals, with a complete set of alternate characters and ligatures to allow flawless typesetting in dynamic OpenType format.

Introduced by Filmotype in 1955, Filmotype Parade was released to compliment its slimmer cousin Filmotype Orlando and afford Filmotype’s customers the ability to set the same playful casual look in an extra wide setting.

This Free Style typeface captures a relaxed casual sho-card lettering style popular in grocery store and auto dealership advertising of the mid-1950s.

Type designer Charles Gibbons expanded and developed a full range of styles based on exploring a variety of useful width variations.

While it had been Filmotype’s practice to generate width variant typefaces using camera stretching techniques, Gibbons instead mastered each alphabet at its native width and expanded weights to create exceptional typesetting throughout the family.

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He’s one cool customer with that crazy casual beatnik outfit, a long silky goatee and a touch of spooky just to give you the creeps... They call him Griffy! Dig this fun and wacky hip new font from Squid and Neapolitan and turn your L7 designs into way out masterpieces!

The Pro version has been expanded and enhanced with more character, dynamic OpenType ligatures and more!

Herradura has been designed for Graviton Font Foundry by Pablo Balcells in 2013. It is a woodtype slab serif typeface with a slightly techno angular look.

Herradura font family consists of 8 styles including 4 shadowed styles, each containing framed characters and endings.

Amelia Basic is a selected version of Amelia Family.
Amelia Basic is a geometric sans, but it keeps the softness of humanistic strokes.
The contrast and the differents styles alows Amelia Basic to work as a text or display font.

The complete version is also available in Myfonts, it incorporate a Up version, that incorporate calligraphic features that adds a touch of informaliy.

Sans-serif reversed capitals in circles, resembling typewriter keys.

Created by Olivier Gourvat in early 2013, Mettro Pro is a sans-serif typeface with a technological and minimalist look for text and headlines. It has six versatile weights from Air to Black with an alternative glyph set to improve its use in different graphic contexts.

Mettro Pro has a wide range of OpenType features such as: old style and proportional figures, ligatures, case sensitive forms, fractions, stylistic alternates, arrows and an icons/ornaments set.

This set of 60 icons, directly inspired from the typeface improves the OpenType features and can be quickly and easily use in your web design, GUI design, graphic design or any other graphic work.

Eskorte is a hardworking Latin-Arabic type family with an uncomplicated, regular appearance that conveys a crisp, businesslike tone. Its compact range of styles has been designed for easy use by non-designers in offices of legal and academic institutions, and corporate environments.

Eskorte supports Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and over ninety languages using the Latin script.

The various styles were designed together, resulting in a smooth, coherent style across the family.

The italics take on livelier, more fluid forms that echo the design of the Arabic, allowing them to sit perfectly together, while the extrabold adds punch to official announcements and notices.

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Originally released in 1955, Filmotype Orlando was one of Filmotype’s most successful Free Style typefaces based on its loose casual sho-card lettering style which peaked in popularity during the mid-1950s.

Remastered and expanded with exacting precision from the original filmstrips, Filmotype Orlando includes a full international character compliment, automatic fractions, ordinals, and a suite of alternates in dynamic OpenType format.

Like a brother to the Bourbon family, Gin is distilled from similar letterforms, but condensed less. This vintage display typeface was inspired by the likes of old serifs and classic bottles of whiskey and gin.

Features include: Stylistic Alternates, Discretionary Ligatures, and Multiple Language Support.

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