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Download Baskerville Original Pro™ Fonts by Storm

Download Baskerville Original Pro™ Fonts by Storm Until recently the story of this typeface ended with mediocre digital versions, which did not get at the root of its inspiration. Our pursuit of this paramount body typeface of the 20th century began in Nové Hrady Castle, the place where a part of the depository of old prints of the National Museum Library is kept, in the summer of 1999. Thanks to the understanding of the librarian Petr Maek we were allowed to study and photograph four rare volumes from Baskervilles printing office, dating from about 1760. We selected as the most successful models for the digitization of this typeface its Roman and italics in the size of about todays 14 points, which Baskerville used for the printing, among other things, of his folio Bible in 1763 and Vergils works in Latin in 1757. These were large-size, stately prints on paper smoothed out by hot copper calender rollers. When composing the pages, Baskerville emphasized the import...

Download Pinto™ Fonts by FaceType

Download Pinto™ Fonts by FaceType Written as drawn the new font family Pinto Pinto, designed by Vienna based typographer Georg Herold-Wildfellner, lets you transform type into an exciting and beautiful piece of work. The irregular, hand-lettered look adds a real human touch to things and comes along with a lot of loving details. Combine all font-styles the way you want, add some ornamental swashes or banners and even a single word becomes magnificent. Four subfamilies plus hundreds of ornaments in 1 font combo! More Pinto shows a great flexibility and variety. It works similar to a toolbox: four subfamilies including shadow-, outline-, display- and layer-variations. On top of that is NO_05, a set of more than 800 different ornaments to dress up any typographic project. Browse through tons of swashes, flourishes, dividers, corners, ribbons, banners, frames, arrows, hearts and stars. The extensive character set includes uppercase letters in two automatically alter...