DSType Volupia WinALL Commercial FontSet

"I started designing Volupia in 2004 and the main goal was to create a very casual font with some characteristics than we can find in some old commercial advertisements.
After designing the basic character set I decided to go OpenType because it would allow me to go deep into the script, correcting the balance of the spaces and the kerning, along with the possibility to create Ligatures and Swashes.
The result is a typeface ideal for use in very big sizes. Volupia includes Small Caps, Ligatures, Fractions, CE Characters, Swashes and Alternates. The ligatures and the ending swashes allow the user to make the text more calligraphic and personal." -Dino dos Santos (2005)

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Priva Pro is available in four styles with italics. It includes Greek and Cyrillic characters, along with small caps, ligatures, alternates and swashes.

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Calligraphy by Alf Becker

 "Buffet Script" is based on fantastic calligraphy by Alf Becker, arguably the greatest American sign lettering artist of all time.
The series of nameless alphabets created by Becker and published by Sign of the Times magazine in 1941 have attracted typeface digitizers for years. It's a wonder that several of these alphabets are still undigitized.

It's also understandable that the basis for "Buffet Script" was not attempted in digital form until now. The page presenting the original Becker alphabet shows a jumble of letters running into each other, swashes intertwined. There is a massive amount of work involved in digitizing such lettering and scanning is not an option. If anyone was going to attempt this particular alphabet, it would have to be redrawn stroke by stroke, and curve by curve.
The challenge was not the main attraction. In a way, the Becker approach to lettering is so far and away from digital that you are forced to work out the possibilities and letter combinations on your own. Part of the process is solving problems presented by the scant typographic showings. However, after a few imaginative visualizations, the digital potential becomes clear in the mind. The eye and hand follow.
The end result with "Buffet Script" is an enormous font with a lot of alternates and ligatures. The end result particularly shines because it includes some of the most fascinating, flowing calligraphy ever seen. Calligraphy is where all of the extra touches - such as alternates, swashes, and ligatures - raises the typeface to a higher aesthetic level.
The OpenType programming for "Buffet Script" contains discretionary ligatures, stylistic and contextual alternates, all interacting with each other to allow the composition of just the typographic look and feel. This font is best used where lush elegance is a design requirement.

About the Designer

Alejandro Paul teaches graphic design and typography at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has worked as an art director in prestigious Argentina-based studios, handling high-profile corporate brands such as Arcor, Marta Harff, Morph, SC Johnson, Danone, and Movicom. He has walked away with awards from several design competitions and is also a typeface designer for T26. He is one of the founders of the Sudtipos project, the first Argentinean type foundry collective.

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Fonts of The Logos of Web 2.0

 List of the fonts that you get:

• VAG Rundschrift and Light (no light. sorry)
  
•  Frankfurter Medium or Bryant Bold Alt
  
• Arial Rounded Bold and Bell Gothic Black
  
• Helvetica Rounded Bold
  
• FF Cocon Bold
  
• ITC Ronda
  
• avernus
  
• Digital Sans Medium
  
• Base 9 Regular SC
  
• ITC Bauhaus Medium
  
• FF Dot Matrix Two Regular (not sure if two is there)
  
• Neo Sans Medium
  
• Handel Gothic Bold
  
• Agency Bold
  
• Trade Gothic Bold
  
• FF Meta Bold and Book
  
• FF DIN Medium
  
• Frutiger Bold
  
• Frutiger Black
  
• Avenir Book and Medium
  
• Avenir Heavy
  
• Helvetica Bold
  
• Interstate Black
  
• Interstate Regular
  
• Alternate Gothic No. Two
  
• ITC Officina Bold
  
• Syntax Bold
  
• Hoefler Text
  
• Lisboa Sans
  
• Klavika
  
• Proxima Nova
  

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Typodermic Commercial Fonts from Ray Larabie

 

Although Ray became an internet star making fonts to give away, he now makes some of the most imaginative and technically powerful fonts in the business at his Typodermic foundry. His fonts Owned, Sinzano, Barrista, Amienne, Soap and Boopee make super use of OpenType. These and dozens of others show Ray has a handle on just about every genre going.

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434 Letraset Fonts

Letraset was formed to exploit the invention of transfer sheet lettering in 1959.
Letraset always ran an adventurous letter design program and from 1964 under the leadership of design director Colin Brignall, built a distinctive library of display typefaces.
The rise of the Apple Macintosh and the wide availability of digital fonts brought about the inevitable decline of transfer lettering. Letraset quickly converted the best of its library into digital format and continues to this day to develop typefaces under the Fontek brand.
Acquired by the Swedish Office Supplies Group Esselte A.B. in 1981 Letraset was subsequently divested to the company’s management team in June 2001.
Today, under the tagline Creative Opportunities, Letraset provides a broad range of digital and traditional design products meeting both professional and non-professional requirements.

 
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Collecection of Hand Writting font

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UrbanFonts.com for free fonts

If you only have one bookmark for free fonts, this is the one to use.

UrbanFonts.com has all the fonts you'll ever need. They tick all the right boxes for a font site:
Quality - They keep out the dross so you get a manageable selection of good fonts
Easy to browse - Fonts are organised in useful categories (see below)
Good samples - There's a nice big grab of each font, means more scrolling but better quality
Articles - giving you advice on selecting fonts

If you need a little bit more distinction, UrbanFonts also offers a selection of affordable high-quality fonts.

FontThing for browsing your fonts

I have hundreds of fonts installed on my computer. When working in Photoshop, it's not possible to scroll through all my fonts to find the right face for a particular use.
That's where The Font Thing comes in. It's totally free to use, and lets me type in some text and then browse what that text will look like in all the fonts I have installed.

Font Thing is one of the top 5 productivity applications I couldn't live without.
Some text will work great in one font, but look awful in another, because some fonts have weak letters or patterns. So it's often important to match a font to the text that will be shown in that font. Just type in the text you want to see, set the size using the slider at the bottom, and you can scroll through all your installed fonts, looking out for something that has the right feel.

Font browsers for Mac
Waterfall Typeset 3 (OS X 10.3.9+, $12.95)
FontDoc (OS X 10.2+, free)

ModernMantra

Beautiful Chinese Fonts for Windows

Almost all scripts come both in traditional （繁体字） and simplified (简体字） version.

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