Stella Tyas

La vie est une fleur dont l'amour est le miel Fleur is the french for flower and I've chosen this language for a good reason.

Over the past 5 years, I've had the opportunity to travel a lot to Paris and I've always tried to catch every moment, and detail of this delightful city through the eyes of the designer inside me.

More Paris is full of surprises mainly for us, artists. In fact, I believe the city is a museum itself. Every corner of any street has something inspiring. But, theres something I particularly love and I want to address here: The Palais Garnier.

Built between 1861 and 1875, this opera house is a dream made true for many of us, who love somptuosité.

Garnier, the architect of this magnificient building, said that the style he proposed was not Grecian nor Roman/baroque, he created something new and called it Napoleonic: Luxurious at its best.

Fleur is inspired in this palace which, in fact, has some similar letters inside.

Garnier put his name at the ceiling of the Rotonde des Abonnés: Letters are interlacing each other with nicely done art nouveau curves.

I thought I could take this idea and achieve something very delicate and imposing at the same time if the font consisted entirely of caps with the logic of a didone and a bit of art-nouveau.

This mix of elegance and flamboyance gave birth to Fleur which has a wide range of uses but was mainly intended for perfumes, fashion magazines, storefronts, book covers or logos.

Not only you'll find many decorative glyphs, but also a vast amount of unique ligatures will make you really adore this font.

Get Fleur and profite de la vie. TECHNICAL As suggested above, the font has many open-type coded alternates and a vast amount of unique ligatures.

Install the font in applications that support them, like Adobe Illustrator of Photoshop.

Liquidambar is actually a beautiful tree, native to America. I have one in my garden and I love its autumn colors! Liquid Amber is something else: it is a handmade all caps font that comes with oodles of diacritics, some swashes and some alternate glyphs.

Enjoy!

I have always liked Weeping Willows, they sort of remind me of China. During my years as a tour guide, I spent a lot of time in China and I can tell you that the Chinese love weeping willows - they plant them everywhere! Weeping Willow was created using a Japanese brush pen (bought in China actually).

It comes with double letter ligatures and a bunch of swashes as well.

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

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.

Looking at some specimen books of printing types of late nineteenth century, I found many ornamented capitals for headings among the typefaces.

Most of them showed a flourish like a tuscan serif - a characteristic trait of a peculiar capital lettering made with brush.

Dress is the result of the mash up between that influence and the Didone style - perfect for display.

To decorate, to adorn, to dress a design piece is the intention of this family, adapted to the twenty-first century.

The font should embellish book covers, publications, packagings, movie posters, greeting cards, stationery, among other uses.

Additionally, Dress matches very well with Limon Script. More Started up by the authors hand, Dress is a professional work, accurate, well spaced, with ligatures and alternates for uppercases, initials, endings and figures.

Each variable contains more than 1200 glyphs with plenty of OpenType features and extensive Western, Central and Eastern European language support.

The characters of the shades, inlines and outlines were not automatically made.

Instead, they were drawn one by one in order to take care of every detail, even the change of pressure of the hairlines.

The main member of this family is the Base font which can be used alone or decorated with the layers: Shade One or Shade Two, Inline One or Inline Two and Outline.

In this way, experienced designers will create their own combinations. On the other hand, there are multi-layered fonts that make Dress easier to use: Dress Combo One to Five.

Additionally, Dress Deco adorns the beginning and the ending of the words (1) while the Ornaments decorates the whole design.

The family package contains all this thirteen options. Lets Dress your work! (1) Take a look at the Instructions on the Gallery Section.