Category: Font of the Month

Font of the Month: March 2013

Fleche Designed by British comics artist, illustrator and author Woodrow Phoenix, FLECHE is an informal brush script that has definitive starts, firm strokes and tapered ends—it truly looks as if it was created with a calligraphy brush.

Fleche comes in three weights and is available in Windows/Mac TTF and Webfont formats.

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March 13, 2013  •  Font of the Month

Font of the Month: February 2013

Otrada OTRADA is a bold-weight brush stroke that features broad strokes, curved serifs, and the slightest of italic slants—a nice option for packaging or display uses.

A nicely legible font, it contains character sets for Western, Central and Baltic European, as well as Turkish and Cyrillic languages.

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February 10, 2013  •  Font of the Month

Font of the Month: January 2013

Margot MARGOT is a heavy, typwriter-style, slab-serif font suitable for most display, logo, packaging or online project (small font sizes should be avoided, however).

Rounded corners and gently curved serifs lend a bit of style and project a welcoming warmth without diminishing impact. The italic form has a bouncy feel that is especially pleasing.

Characters for Western and Central European, and Baltic languages are included; along ligatures, swashes, stylistic alternates and other Open Type features.

Margot is available in OpenType OTF and Webfont formats.

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January 4, 2013  •  Font of the Month

Font of the Month: December 2012

Kereru™ New Zealand artist, cartographer and calligrapher Daniel Reeve is well-known in the film world for his hand-crafted, calligraphic fonts and hand-drawn historic-style maps, especially those created for the The Lord of the Rings films.

KERERU is a hand-crafted font that emulates Reeve’s custom calligraphy. A legible, half-uncial style font, it includes alternate letter forms that allow additional typesetting in standard roman and full uncial styles. Glyphs for all European languages (including Scandinavian, Baltic, Cyrillic and Greek alphabets) are present, as are alternates, ligatures, decorative swashes and flourishes, ornaments, unlimited fractions, and other OpenType features.

Keruru is available in both Non-Commercial and Commercial versions.
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Updated March 2013: The Kereru family has been expanded to include italic, bold and bold italic versions. They can be purchased individually or as a package at the links above.

December 3, 2012  •  Font of the Month

Font of the Month: November 2012

CAMBRIDGE is an elegant and easy-to-read sans-serif font that is suitable for all uses. The heavier weights are great for headlines or display, while the medium weights are perfect for books, reports or any other large bodies of text where legibility is important, but a bit of style is welcome.

The Cambridge family consists 24 fonts: three widths (regular, condensed and expanded) in four weights (light, regular, semi-bold & bold), with roman and italicized versions of each width/weight combination.

Cambridge is available in OpenType OTF, Windows/Mac TTF and Webfont formats.

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November 9, 2012  •  Font of the Month

Font of the Month: Halloween Bonus 2012

Monster Fiesta PB™ 2012′s Halloween bonus was inspired by the typeface used for Rankin/Bass’ 1967 “Animagic” film Mad Monster Party.

MONSTER FIESTA PB comes from Pink Broccoli Types and shares the film’s offbeat feel. Unlike many Halloween themed fonts, it is neither ghastly nor horrific. Instead, it is festive and funky; almost cute with a childlike appeal.

Monster Fiesta PBcomes with a full set of Latin/English characters, Western and Central European diacritics, ligatures and stylistic alternates; and is available in OpenType OTF format.

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October 30, 2012  •  Font of the Month