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Download Nocturne Serif Fonts by BORUTTA GROUP

Download Nocturne Serif Fonts by BORUTTA GROUP Nocturne Serif font is inspired by the lettering on stone tablets commemorating the victims of World War II and Warsaw architecture. Nocturne is a text font that features clean geometrical shapes and high contrast, and is modernist in character. The family consists of over 750 glyphs, including: Latin, Cyrillic, small caps and many others Download Nocturne Serif Fonts by BORUTTA GROUP Download Now View Gallery

Download Praho Pro Fonts by Picador

Download Praho Pro Fonts by Picador Praho Pro is a part of Warsaw Types a project based on Warsaws local typographic heritage. The project, presented at the Museum of Praga, is a collaboration of 12 young Polish typographers. Praho Pro is a multilingual family inspired by the unique, historical character of Praga district of Polands capital - Warsaw. High contrast, thin serifs, sharp terminals and large x-height are key features for distinctive headlines. The whole family consist of 9 weights and real italics, small caps, superscript and subscript letters, oldstyle, tabular figures and fractions. It covers latin and cyrillic script. Every weight has almost 2000 glyphs. Download Praho Pro Fonts by Picador Download Now View Gallery

Download Sabon® Fonts by Linotype

Download Sabon® Fonts by Linotype In the early 1960s, the German Master Printers Association requested that a new typeface be designed and produced in identical form on both Linotype and Monotype machines so that text and technical composition would match. Walter Cunz at Stempel responded by commissioning Jan Tschichold to design a new version of Claude Garamonds serene and classical Roman. Its bold, and particularly its italic styles are limited by the requirements of Linotype casting machines, forcing the character widths of a given letter to match between styles, giving the italic its characteristic narrow f. The familys name is taken from Jacques Sabon, who introduced Garamonds Romans to Frankfurt. Sabon has long been a favorite of typographers for setting book text, due to its smooth texture , and in large part because Tschicholds book typography remains world famous. Download Sabon® Fonts by Linotype Download Now View Gallery

Download Orpheus Pro™ Fonts by Canada Type

Download Orpheus Pro™ Fonts by Canada Type The original Orpheus design by Walter Tiemann (1926-1928, Klingspor) was certainly a masterpiece. Unfortunately, like so many typefaces of that between-wars era, it got overlooked when type technology changed over to film, and once again when digital type came around. But during the decade or so when it was available on the metal type market, it was quite popular in Germany. Tiemann was already famous for having an incomparable instinct for the construct and proportions of classic Roman caps, something that shows in spades here, but the surprising genius of Orpheus at the time was how it managed to seamlessly combine an expert vision of the traditional empire caps with a lowercase that showcases a very fine and precise infusion of that efficient rhythm of modern minimalism that was all the rage in Germany at the time, which of course lives on to this very day. More The italic companion to the original Orpheus roman was rel...