Alain Bazarova

This might be the font for your next tattoo, or even a poster of the newest movie.

Once, Blackletter was a calligraphy style. Full of ligatures, with letters bumping into each other to create an unapologetic picket-fence pattern. Some even claimed that the regularity improved legibility! But then Blackletter was cast into metal, and only a handful of established ligatures survived, while most interletter connections were disentangled. Everyone since followed suit, and hundreds of years later, digital Blackletter fonts were modelled mostly on the metal fonts that prevailed rather than the original handwriting. Up until now!

AJ Quadrata is an authentic revival of the textura quadrata hand, and its major inspiration is a 15th-century Latin manuscript of the Bible from Zwolle, the Netherlands. The typeface is delivered in two flavors.

The default cut is a modern take on textura quadrata that can be useful for today and tomorrow. The standard ligatures feature employs nearly all letters. The tittle of i retains its original, hasty squiggle form (except for the Turkish localization). Discretionary ligatures include medieval ligatures da, de, do, pa, pe, po (and their mixed-case counterparts!). Stylistic sets allow to use historic letter variants such as long s and rotunda r, closed-counter a, and alternate capitals.

AJ Quadrata Medieval is perfect for setting medieval Latin. Default forms of capital F, H and O are swapped with the alternates. The squiggles above i only appear for disamibiguation nearby m, n or u, as in original manuscripts. Discretionary ligatures and historic variants are promoted to the standard ligatures feature to make room in the discretionary ligatures feature for a variety of scribal abbreviations. Dedicated stylistic sets include medieval punctuation and justification alternates — glyphs with elongated terminals used for lengthening lines that end up too short.

The Rubrum styles can be layered and colored to create the illuminated effect on the capital letters.

Besides a faithful rendition of extended Latin including Vietnamese, numerous synthetic additions are included: polytonic Greek, Armenian, and Cyrillic (with Bulgarian and Serbian/Macedonian localizations).

Both flavors of the typeface can be considered a starting point that can be further customized using OpenType features, including Stylistic Sets (some features differ between AJ Quadrata and AJ Quadrata Medieval):

• ss01 Alt E
• ss02 Descending F / Roman F
• ss03 Uncial H / Roman H
• ss04 Angular O / Round O
• ss05 Contextual closed-counter a
• ss06 Diamond-dot i j / Always dotted i, j
• ss07 Contextual rotunda r / No r rotunda
• ss08 Contextual long s / No long s
• ss09 Dotless y
• ss10 Serbian Cyrillic
• ss11 Alt Cyrillic de
• ss12 Alt Cyrillic zhe
• ss13 Alt Cyrillic sha
• ss14-ss17 [reserved for future use]
• ss18 Scribal punctuation
• ss19 Alt linking hyphen
• ss20 Justification alternates

«Fluse» is an accidental sans-serif font. It has an angular design but smooth and sleek shapes. The font is suitable for both active titles and medium-sized texts. It can also be an accent in a poster or the basis of a corporate identity.

Fluse supportsBasic Latin, Cyrillic and more than 100 languages all together.

The font was designed by Viktor Pesotsky.

Solistaria Script is new quality calligraphy font with modern and vintage touches. Inspired by a mixture of copper calligraphy with hand-lettering style. OpenType feature includes Stylistic Alternatives, Swash, Ligatures, Stylistic sets. It allows you to mix and match letter pairs to fit your design, and also comes with modern ornaments to make this font look elegant and perfect. Solistaria Script is attractive, smooth, clean, feminine, sensual, glamorous, simple and very easy to read. The classic style is perfect to be applied in various formal forms such as invitations, labels, menus, logos, fashion, make up, stationery, letterpress, romantic novels, books, greeting/wedding cards, packaging, labels, and more.

Solistaria Script can be used in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Corel Draw X version, Microsoft Word.

Language Support : Albanian, Basque, Breton, Chamorro, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Icelandic, Italian, Malagasy, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.

Revival of metal type metrics used in the old days to engrave in the signage industry.

Rose Garden Deluxe is an elegant type collection including a luscious high contrast serif in three weights and an ethereal pen script also in three weights. Together the fonts form an effective all-around set for sophisticated display purposes. The fonts are best used for imposing headlines, as a logotype, in packaging and posters.

Rose Garden Serif has an extra high contrast giving it a sophisticated look, suitable for fashion or luxurious high-end products, magazines and anything such.

Rose Garden Pen has no contrast, as if it was written with a steady and precise inking pen. Rose Garden Pen is equipped with plenty of useful OpenType features: it has Contextual Alternates and Standard Ligatures to enliven the flow of “writing” and to keep the connections between letters smooth. In addition it has Stylistic and Swash Alternates for every standard uppercase and lowercase characters, as well as for ampersand and few ligatures. On top of that it has initial and terminal swashes - a feature that is set in Titling Alternates. The feature works following: click it on and write normally. Type a space before a word and after it to get a special swash character in the beginning and in the end of the word. If that isn’t enough seek for even more alternates in the Glyphs Palette. Each weight has over 650 glyphs in total.

Rose Garden Ornaments is an extension to Rose Garden Pen. It’s a set of Ornaments with the same weight and handwriting style as the font. The swooshes can be combined with the font for even more ornamental looks and the swashes set in lowercase letters can be used as additional terminal swashes, combined with any lowercase character.