Alexandra Thornber

From completely OUT OF THE BLUE, here’s a font you'll need when, unexpectedly -- with a sense of immediate urgency -- your characters abruptly call out without warning and on the spur of the moment! When Suddenly ’s prompt! It’s abrupt! It responds in a flash! Now you can put all the words you need in your comic book in such a way that they'll come as a complete surprise to all your readers!

When Suddenly is BOLD! It’s ITALIC! It’s anything but REGULAR!

Once upon a midnight dreary, this Comicraftsman pondered, weak and weary,
For a name synonymous with Mighty and Marvelous comics lore.
Solid, Outline, Inline was the nameless font I'd crafted,
I nodded, nearly napping o'er the work I'd grafted
When suddenly came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my cubicle door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my cubicle door--
Calling out “EXCELSIOR!”

Then an Amazing Vision beguiled my sad fancy into smilin',
By the Spectacular decorum of the countenance it wore,
“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven,” he said, "thou art sure no craven,
And thy font should not remain nameless here forevermore!"
Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow
From comic books surcease of sorrow, letters that called out “EXCELSIOR!”

Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking of the nominative neuter singular thing
Like Some Silvered Surfer wandering from the Nightly shore--
The Vision shrieked, upstarting--“Tell me what thy lordly name is thus!”
Quoth the Craftsman: “EXCELSIUS!”

Six Hands is a set of handwritten fonts based on various writing tools, such as pencil, felt-tip pen, ball-point pen, and brush. The character set of each of these fonts supports the Cyrillic alphabet, as well as the extended Latin script for all European languages. Most of the styles also contain additional alternatives that have the capability of automatically interchanging in the setting, which significantly variegates and humanizes the text. Six Hands is quite a rare combination of diverse display fonts that work well together. It is made for talented designers who can use it creatively in packaging, advertising, displays, posters, menus, invitations and so on. The design of Six Hands was a result of collaboration between Alexandra Korolkova, Alexander Lubovenko and all those who assist them in this work. This set of fonts was released by Paratype in 2018.