Hermann is one of our most readable typefaces so far. Since last year, the W Design team had been examining closely the possibility of developing a text font. Thus, we dug into concepts within some of our favorite novels, such as The Steppenwolf and Brave New World, written by Hermann Hesse and Aldous Huxley respectively. Ideas like duality, surrealism, and wildness mainly appeared. With these concepts in mind, we analyzed carefully the typefaces used in both Hesse’s and Huxley’s creations; Sabon and Garamond showed up catching our attention and, of course, awakening our admiration.

Consequently, the challenge was to combine the key features of these fonts with the concepts already identified. At first, we made a text font which was suitable to compose long texts. However, we realized that we needed to refine some characteristics to convey all the ideas. A full set of capital discretionary ligatures was designed, which convert Hermann in a display font when is required. We also designed swashes (from A-Z) and final forms (in letters h, k, m, n, r and x in romans, and in letters a, d, e, h, i, l, m, n, r, t, u, x and z in italics), conveying more dynamism and versatility when it comes to composing visually.

Hermann was designed not only to be accurate in terms of legibility but also to be wild and bold. That is why we took a big leap and designed from the beginning a font that is inspired by the world of 20th-century novels, using the name of one of its greatest exponents, Hermann Hesse.

Published by W Type Foundry

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Irish Poem is a modern ligature display font. It was inspired by a short Irish poem found in an old book. Irish Poem is great for logos and branding, posters, signs, labels and more! Enjoy!

Includes:
– Irish Poem Regular (without ligatures)
– Irish Poem Liga (with ligatures)

Language support:
ÀÁÂÄÃÅĀ Æ Ç ÈÉÊËĒ ÎÏÍĪÌ Ñ ÔÖÒÓØÕ ÛÜÙU ŸÝỲŶ ÞŒ
àáâäãåā æ ç èéêëē îïíīì ñ ôöòóøõ ûüùu ÿýỳŷ þœ

Published by Bartosz Wesolek

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Cysan is created with well balanced contrast between thick stems and thin crossbar. Smooth combination of curviness and sharpness create elegant and assured figures that look best at medium to large scale. This is perfect to sweeten up your headlines, branding visual identity, editorial, poster, and etc.

Published by Hindia Studio

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Designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli with Maria Chiara Fantini, Lovelace is Zetafonts homage to the tradition of nineteenth century “Old Style” typography – a revival of Renaissance hand-lettered shapes driven by the desire to create a less formal and more friendly alternative to Bodonian serifs. While taking inspiration from the letter shapes created by Pheimester or Alexander Kay – with their calligraphic curves and heavy angled serifs that influenced Benguiat and Goudy’s typefaces in the 70s – we also tried to add elegance and contrast by following another 19th century revival style: the Elzevir. This digital homage to victorian typography, aptly named after the algorist daughter of lord Byron, is developed in two optical sizes, both in a six weights range from extralight to extrabold.

The text variant offers maximum readability thanks to the generous x-height and screen-friendly design, while the display variant excels in the sharp contrast and thin details needed for editorial and large-size titling use. The italics, strongly influenced by calligraphy, have been complemented with a display script family, including luscious swashes and connected lowercase letters, lovingly designed by Zetafont in-house calligrapher.

All the thirty weights of Lovelace cover over 200 languages that use latin, cyrillic and greek alphabets, and include advanced Open Type features as Stylistic Alternates, Standard and Discretionary Ligatures, Positional Numerals, Small Caps and Case Sensitive Forms.

Published by Zetafonts

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Meet Ardin, a wedge serif that merges letter characteristics of traditional serifs with textures and styles found almost exclusively in modern sans-serif typefaces. The result is a bold design that feels distinctly classic, powerful, and handcrafted. With Ardin, you can make your projects (logos, product sheets, marketing materials, business cards, websites, etc.) look sophisticated while feeling both approachable and fresh.

Ardin comes in three flavors: Standard, Distressed, and Outline. Included file formats: .OTF .TTF .WOFF Also included with Ardin is Ardin Swashes: 10 original swashes designed to match Ardin's look and feel.

Published by Alan Parker

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Marcelo's new typeface “Emperator” —based on his knowledge gained from instruction by master calligraphers— provides a fresh perspective on classic typefaces.

Emperator comes in 3 variants that make your designs look elegant, legible and expressive. This font is perfectly suitable for a wide range of applications such as titles, wedding invitations, short text, logos, labels, book covers, posters, packaging, etc.

Emperator's character set includes small caps (letters, figures and symbols), fractions, stylistic alternates, ligatures, mathematical symbols, etc.— more than 750 glyphs in all, supporting over 200 Latin-based languages.

Published by LatinoType

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