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Pietro Aretino (1492 1556) Was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics.

The most vigorous and versatile vernacular writer of the 16th century He was a very versatile writer, famous for his Lascivious Sonnets which caused great scandal at the time but also for his satirical verses, addressed to all the powerful people in Italy, without forgetting the many plays that he wrote for the theatre.

Part of the charm of his letters is that through them you may know the whole of Venetian society from the top to the bottom.

The little-known church of San Luca in Venice (in St Marks district) has been a place of pilgrimage for centuries for people who are decidedly not devout: journalists, writers, free thinkers.

In 1556 Pietro Aretino, a unique character of the Italian and Venetian Renaissance period was buried there.

Such strong of personality, has contributed to generate the powerful wind of change that emerged from the italian renaissance.

We have inspired on that talent searching for a new sight the famous Venetian typefaces.

Probably looking for more vigour and contemporary digital style. This typeface is slightly condensed, lighter and has more contrast between the thick and thin letter-strokes, it has concave bracketed serif.

Their ascender and descenders strokes are very shorts. Aretino family is completed by four weigh: Regular, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold, while Italics has three weighs.

These fonts came with a full OpenType features and CE languages.

Get ultra chic with the new Signature Collection handwritten font - A stylish and super-casual font created to look as close to natural handwriting as possible by including over 100 carefully designed, natural looking opentype ligatures, and a full set of lowercase alternates.

Loaded with built in Opentype features, its recommended that you use it with your opentype ligatures option turned on in your character settings, then watch as, like magic, this script comes to life as if you are writing it yourself.

Morandi is the first commercial sans serif font created by Jovica Veljovi a much-awarded designer whos been creating typefaces for over thirty years.

The product of years of crafting letterforms, Morandi is supremely graceful. Each detail has been carefully refined for legibility, with open counters and generous apertures, and the bottom of round strokes slightly flattened.

Not just elegant in appearance, Morandi is an efficient design, versatile enough to work in print and digital environments, including on-screen applications.

The family offers three weight ranges and includes a large multi-national character set making it a practical choice, as well as an aesthetic one.

Monstice Family is elegant playful and decorative, including five style basically Base serif design and then expand to Engraved, Inline, Hatched, Emboss styles.

and extra element decorative, The font is well suited for display, header, poster, book covers,packaging and among other uses.

Every part of them have opentype features, swash, ligatures, and alternates with including the extra decorative element this font is easy to use and which allow designer to exploration features to create their own combinations.

Dallas Print Shop is a refined display collection of five styles and eight fonts. The fonts are designed to act together. They work great in pairs or even all together yet they can well be used alone. More Dallas Print Shop Sans is a sturdy Sans with soft edges and two weights - Regular and Heavy Dallas Print Shop Serif is a sturdy Serif with straight forms and just slightly rounded corners.

Serif has three weights: Regular, Heavy and Inline which is same as Heavy but with ornate inlines.

Dallas Print Shop Brush is a Brush Script with soft and bold classic script forms.

Brush is equipped with Standard Ligatures and Stylistic Alternates. Dallas Print Shop Pen is a flashy Monoline Script with a clear character. Pen is equipped with Contextual and Swash Alternates. Dallas Print Shop Script is a curly upright Script with a feminine character. Script is equipped with Standard Ligatures and Swash Alternates. Enjoy!

ROARRR! THE STYLES -Pantera Pro is the most complete style, and although its default look is mono-rhythmic it gets really playful and crazy like the examples of the posters by just activating the Decorative Ligatures button in the Open-type Panel of Adobe Illustrator.

However, I recommend using also the Glyphs Panel because there you'll find much more variants per letter.

More Pantera Pro is in fact, coded in a way the combination of thicknesses will always look fantastic.

-Pantera Black Left, and Pantera Black Right are actually lite versions of Pantera Pro: They have very little Open-Type code, so what you see here is what you get.

Pantera Black Left has its left strokes thick, while Pantera Black Right has its right strokes thick.

-Pantera White is a lovely member in this family that looks lighter and airy, hence its name.

With the feature Standard Ligatures activated (liga) the font gets very playful.

-Pantera Caps is based on sign painters lettering and since it follows the same pointed brush rules as the other styles, it matches perfectly.

-Pantera Claws like its name suggests, is a set of icons that were done by our dear panther.

THE STORY It is said that typography can never be as expressive as calligraphy, but sometimes it can get close enough.

I tend to think that calligraphic trials, in order to work well as potential fonts, need first to go through very strict filters before going digital: While calligraphy is synonym of freedom (once its rules are mastered), type-design, in the other hand, has its battlefield a little tighter and tougher.

When I practice pointed brush lettering, there are so many things happening on the paper.

And most of them are delicious. The ones who know my work may see that although many of my fonts are very expressive, my handmade brush trials are much more lively than them.

With that in mind, this time I tried to go further and rescue more of those things that are lost in the process of thinking type when first sketches are calligraphic.

I wondered if I could create something wild, hence its name Panther, by understanding the randomness that sometimes calligraphy conveys and turning it to something systemic: With Pantera, I created an ordered disorder.

Like it happens a lot in many kinds of lettering styles, in order to enrich the written word the scribe mixes the thickness of the strokes and the width of the letters.

Like one of my favorite mentors say (1), they make thoughtful gestures Some lively strokes go down with a thick, while some do that with a thin.

Some letters are very narrow, meaning some of them will need to be very wide to compensate.

Why not?. The calligrapher is always thinking on the following letters, and he/she designs in his head the combination of thicks and thins before he/she executes them.

He/she knows the playful rhythm the words will have before writing them. It takes time and skill to master this and achieve graceful results. Going back to the font, in Pantera, this combination of varying thicknesses and widths of letters were Open-Type coded so the user will see satisfactory results by just enabling or disabling some buttons on the glyphs panel.

I'm very pleased with the result since its not very easy to find fonts which play with the words' rhythm like Pantera does, following of course, a strong calligraphic base.

I believe that if you were on the prowl for innovative fonts, this is your chance to go wild and get Pantera! NOTES (1) Phrase by Yves Leterme.

In fact, its the title of a book by him. EPILOGUE Esta fuente está dedicada a mi panterita

Speakeasy is a 5-font combo thematically built as a toolset for designing menus and liquor labels but also for coffees, restaurants and signs that communicate with style.

Originally put together to be used by the most famous speakeasy in Buenos Aires, this set contains a script, a minor (almost flat) wedge serif, a flare serif, a sans serif, and a bold Didone.

The seed for the script was found in a German lettering book, and the other fonts reflect the familiar advertising and announcement styles of the early 20th century.

The Speakeasy script is a connected one, but comes with two different ways to connect the letterforms.

It also comes with many alternates, swashes, endings and flourishes all accessible via OpenType features or glyph palettes.

More Speakeasy Modern and Speakeasy Flare are small cap fonts, and come with a few alternates.

Speakeasy Sans and Speakeasy Gothic come with full sets of majuscules and minuscules, but contain small caps and a few alternates as well.

A few rules and ornaments are also sprinkled throughout the set. This combination of fonts worked wonderfully for the project that called for it. Hopefully it will work just as well for your project.

The Cannon family is the result of combining clean aesthetic from classic sans neo-grotesque typography adding a touch of mecano fonts.

The result is a simple but dynamic typography with retro and technological airs.

Cannon is ideal for robust advertising, bold brand identities and packaging, also suitable for high impact headlines and short texts.

This type family consists of 36 variants and 9 weights (thin, extra light, light, regular, book, medium, bold, extra bold, black), matching italics for all weights and widths, matching small caps for all weights and widths, alternate characters and extended language support.

We are proud to introduce: Cannon.

Big modern sans-serif family, for multiple use.

Ash is a script font hand drawn with dry brush. Ash is packed with automatic Contextual Alternates that keep the text vivid. Ash also has Swash alternates for lowercase letters that add extra flavour. In Titling Alternates theres 26 swooshes and strokes placed in a-z that can be used as underlines or just decorations.

Ash is great display font for a swift hand drawn look. Ash has wide language support and it is PUA encoded so you can access extra glyphs in most graphic design softwares.

Suprema is 14 fonts modern sans serif family precisely designed for geometric perfection. It has 7 weights with matching true italics. When it comes to Opentype it has lots of features such as tabular lining, proportional oldstyle, tabular oldstyle, ligatures, superscript, subscript, fractions and language localisations for Polish, Dutch, Romanian, Moldovian and Catalan.

Suprema fits perfectly to any kind of modern graphic design project, it can be strikingly beautiful to look at as a logotype or pleasure to read in a long text.

It will definitely add a modern look and sense of professionalism to any piece of typography.

Inspired by old school sign painting techniques, Grand is a display condensed sans serif that isn't shy to put its foot down.

Its verticality and bulky curves combined with its sharp angular connections between the bowls and stems give Grand a distinctive look and feel.

It comes in 12 styles (6 weights and accompanying italics), and supports over 200 languages.

Grand Regular and Grand Italic are both available for free (personal and commercial use).