Anfisa Kudryashova

Linotype Bengali, a revival

This project by Neelakash Kshetriymayum and Fiona Ross commissioned by Monotype is at heart a revival of the now ubiquitous original Linotype Bengali typeface designed by Tim Holloway and Fiona Ross (1978-1982) based on Ross’s research for her doctoral studies in Indian Palaeography.

The new Linotype Bengali is informed by more recent research by Ross and Kshetrimayum resulting in additional glyphs that serve contemporary needs in a variety of genres – the original had been specifically designed for newspaper composition and in now outdated digital formats.

The new design makes use of OpenType features with the employment of contextual vowel signs for Bengali – a feature that Ross and Holloway had first introduced in Indian scripts for the Adobe Devanagari typeface – and has sophisticated contextual mark positioning. Furthermore, whereas the original design had existed in only two typestyles, extensive work has been undertaken to produce this new design in 5 weights: Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Black. It has been an important aspect of this project to remain true to the original design concepts, and so to achieve optimal readability for sustained reading at small type-sizes, but the additional weights enable differentiation in document design, and afford users scope to produce textural variety in their outputs. This revival design is intended to widen the hitherto very limited palette of typographic choices in the field of textual communication in Bengali, Assamese and other languages that make use of the Bengali script.

South Belgian is a soft vintage serif font packaged in a modern and classy style, complete with access to your OpenType features to access a large selection of alternates letters and ligatures, the choice of letters you like from variations of uppercase and lowercase letters to get a display luxurious and elegant.

South Belgian is Perfect for branding projects, Logo design, Clothing Branding, packaging, magazine headings, advertising, T-shirts, postcards and much more.

Language Support:

African, Albanian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkey, Zulu

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Alaskan Malamute is charming authentic handwriting font. This is a beautiful combination of timeless elegance and authentic calligraphy. Alaskan Malamute is the perfect font for making original and outstanding designs. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all of the cute glyphs and swashes with ease! It also features a wealth of special features including alternate glyphs and ligatures.

Ragilone brush font, featuring a contemporary approach to design, and a handmade, natural irregular baseline. It is also equipped with alternatives and ligatures. Suitable for use in title design as well as apparel, invitations, books tittle, stationery design, quotes, branding, logos, greeting card, t-shirt, packaging design, poster and more. Ragilone Brush includes a complete set of uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as multi-language support, numbers, punctuation.

Clarabela is a handwritten font with varied base lines, designed to convey elegance and style. It's smooth, clean and feminine. Clarabela also has a slanted style that looks beautiful and more elegant.

Works perfectly for logos, magazines, menus, books, greeting cards, packaging, labels, t-shirts etc. All your designs will have an amazing homemade touch with Clarabela.

Clarabela is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all additional characters without having special design software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows to attach your favorite text editor/application.

To activate the OpenType Stylistic alternative, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or newer versions. And there are additional ways to access alternatives/swash, using Character Map (Windows), Nexus Fonts (Windows), Font Books (Mac) or software programs like PopChar (for Windows and Mac).

If you need help or advice, please contact me via email.

Caltic-Holiday, Caltic-Festival, and Caltic-Straight are three eye-catching, very bold typefaces that are suitable for posters and signage. Caltic-Holiday and Caltic-Festival base letter shapes on trapezoids with curved sides but with curves that are reversed going from one to the other. Caltic-Straight has letters based on trapezoids with straight sides. None are suited for text and with their built-in spacing will not work as all upper-case or all lower-case. All three come in two widths, regular and wide, giving the Caltic family six members.

Caltic has nothing to do with Celts. The Calt refers to the calt or contextual alternative OpenType feature that makes this typeface work. When the letters on the upper-case keys alternate with the letters on the lower-case keys, they fit snuggly together. As long as the user has a word processor that supports the contextual alternatives feature, there is no need for the user to alternate letters; the calt feature does it automatically.

Although the fonts seem similar to hand-drawn lettering that was done on posters and signs during the hippie era of the 1960s and 1970s, I can find nothing quite like them. My inspiration for them is older, in a newspaper from 1932 that led to the typeface family PoultySign. Caltic (and Lentzers) are the result of seeing what else I could do with the inspiration that sprang from that 1932 newspaper.

Astage is a new, very interesting brushed font. This font is perfect for branding projects, logos, product packaging, posters, invitations, greeting cards, news, blogs, everything including personal charm and more.

Astage offers OpenType features, some ligatures and swashes, initial and terminal letters, and International support for most Western Languages.

To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions.

How to access all alternative characters, using Windows Character Map with Photoshop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw

How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator:

http://youtu.be/iptSFA7feQ0nn

Astage is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all the extra characters without having special designing software. Mac users can use Font Book , and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favorite text editor/app.

Thanks so much for looking and please let me know if you have any questions.