Alexandra Thornber

The Magnate Family began as a digitization of a film typeface from LetterGraphics known as “Wilshire”.

What began as a basic glyphset was fleshed out with a full character set with a smallcaps feature. We also decided to add a slightly more delicate side to Magnate, softening up the sharp flair serifs just a little.

See the 5th graphic for a comprehensive character map preview.

Opentype features include:

- Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions.
- SmallCaps feature.
- Tabular and Proportional figure sets.
- A small collection of Standard Ligatures.
- A Stylistic Alternates feature for an alternate lowercase t style.

Approx. 687 Character Glyph Set: Each style of Magnate comes with a glyphset that includes standard & punctuation, international language support, and additional features.

The Pagnol typeface has been designed with a principle developed by A. M. Cassandre in 1937, when the great French designer created the Peignot typeface following paleographic studies on the evolution of letterforms.

Researches in the history of writing have proved that the lowercase “a” is at its origin nothing but the “A” shape transformed through centuries by scribes until the invention of printing. A large number of lowercases meanwhile kept their original shapes. If the scribes’ hand didn’t find the necessity to simplify them, it is only because these letters could be easily written.

Integrating the classical shapes of capitals to the lowercases has already been used, keeping the lowercases which are only a deformation of capitals. Nevertheless, the respect of readability imposes to keep ascendants and descendants from traditional lowercases which serve as optical focus points in a text and make reading easier.

The particularity of Pagnol is to use rounded shapes on top and bottom of pointed capital letters to make them fit with corresponding lowercases (Aa, Mm, Nn, Vv, Ww, Zz). Lowercases proportions are wide, to be in tune with classic lowercase shapes in order to optimize readability.

Five weights in roman and italic have been designed to offer a wide palette of typographic possibilities in all sizes and all paper and screen supports.

Polygon are unique fonts with a modern character based on the rational thinking of the enlightenment with its classic forms and timeless elegance. This first installment will be followed by more extreme and by less extreme designs on the same design basics. You get many embellished characters in each font. The font has over 1100 glyphs, but you need to have Open-Type-Savy software to use the font to its full extend. These fonts have been designed to work great as bodycopy, the heavier weights are meant to be used for smaller sized typesetting and the lighter ones should be used when the sizes get bigger. Enjoy!

Mangaba is a condensed font designed to create a hand-drawn feel for texts in small spaces. It is great for packaging and labels as well as titles and other short texts.
It has low contrast and high x-height. Blend well with other hand drawn, cursive and san serif fonts.
Includes Latin characters, punctuation, diacritics and old-style numbers.

Sans-serif, with clean and fresh Character.
“Ye Paradigma” has been established in order to keep its forms as simple as possible - without losing the unique character of each letter, and without simplifying too much. The process was gradual, like the ripening of a sauce that leaves it to be reduced to strengthen flavors, so the letters ripened while reducing unnecessary details, until the taste became more concentrated and uniform.
The result is a clean, fresh, remarkably useful 24 fonts typeface, with a clear and stable graphic language.

Ye Benjamin is a smooth italic typeface, that will spread style and good vibes everywhere you put him. The crystallization of the letters shape was through seeking an iconic look, that would be a useful branding tool.

The Carlsbad font family is a bringing together of Regina Cursiv and Hansa Cursiv which both had been released by H. Berthold Messinglinienfabrik und Schriftgiesserei around 1895.
Both these beautiful Art Nouveau italic fonts come with the following swash alternatives: D, E, G, H, K, S, T, h, k, m, n, s, and z.