Zavier Woodward

Since their first appearance as Italians on the pages of the 1821 William Caslon type specimens, reverse contrast typefaces have been typography’s best loved quirky outcasts. Subverting the traditional relationship between thick verticals and thin horizontals made them perfect for eye-catching advertisements. The unexpected contrasts and the thick slabs produced by reverse-contrast serifs became ubiquitous in period posters, and synonymous with wild west and circus iconography.

In designing Stinger, the Zetafonts design team composed by Maria Chiara Fantini, Andrea Tartarelli and Francesco Canovaro and orchestrated by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini decided to marry this subversive tradition with the workhorse approach of modernist sans serif typefaces like Univers, developing a super-family with four widths, each in five different weights, from thin to heavy. This gives the designer a full range of options for type setting, with the Normal and Fit widths providing two different text-sized alternatives, the wide width adding display and titling options and the Slim ready to deal with the space-saving necessities of extremely long texts. True italics have been added developed for all weights and variants, bringing the Stinger family to a total of 40 fonts, with a latin extended + Russian Cyrillic character set covering over 200 languages, and open type features including positional numbers, stylistic sets and alternate forms.

In the crowded panorama of contemporary grotesque typefaces, all aiming to stark geometric perfection, Stinger stands out with its bold choices and strong personality. From the calligraphy-inspired terminals in the thin weights to the logo-ready sculptural approach in the heavy weights, each variant manages to look striking without forgetting the readability and flexibility lessons of modern reverse-contrast classics like those designed by Excoffon or Novarese. A variable version is included with the full family, allowing maximum flexibility and control for the designer over the wide range of expression capabilities of the Stinger super family.

Mamba is inspired by Cooper Black.

Here is my font with carved out letters, like a really bad stamp. Each lowercase letter has 3 different versions, and that makes your text more natural, organic and handmade. Normally I kern my fonts throughout, but this time there is no kerning at all…and that’s odd, when we’re not talking about monospaced fonts. Anyway, Bottle Fork has its flaws and jumpy x-height…but that’s exactly the charm of it all! :)

Chrysante is a flowing pen script.
The typeface was drawn and created by Måns Grebäck between 2018 and 2020.
Its thin lines are inspired by mid-century advertising, emits optimism and has a strong personality.

The ink script family consists of three weights: Chrysante Thin, Chrysante Medium and Chrysante Bold.

Its multiple alternate alphabets gives the font a true handwritten feeling.
Use it for a logotype, a greeting card or as a headline.

The font contains all characters you’ll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.
It has an extensive lingual support, covering all European Latin-based scripts.

Fresh is best! Say hello to this playful and bouncing font designed by Resistenza. This all-caps have been specially created to add a lively mood to your graphics. You’ll be able to create catchy quotes combining these all-caps fonts or you can use them individually.

Including 2 sets of letters on each font (uppercase & lowercase), so you can choose an alternate for each glyph just using your keyboard or the opentype glyphs panel on Indesign, illustrator and other apps with opentype features.

Have fun with this friendly font family and give a whimsical touch to your projects. Perfect to create headlines, posters, DIY hand-lettered artwork, books, holiday cards, wrapping paper, invitations, T-shirts, labels, packaging, fashion supplies, food products, artisanal goods, and an endless array of options.

Prego is small family with a lot of charm packed in 3 weights – Light, Regular and Bold. High contrasting design combined with simple and elegant shapes equipped with OpenType features (Swashes, Stylistic and Contextual Alternates, Fractions). Supports extended Latin character set and Cyrillic as well.

Vinetters has letters on the alternating leaves of a vine. It is monospaced and uses the OpenType contextual alternatives (calt) feature to alternate leaves as the vine snakes its way across the page, putting leaves with the base down between leaves with the base up. The family has two styles, one with transparent leaves and the other with solid leaves, and these two styles can be used in layers to add color. The family has a large set of accented characters but omits some symbols that are used primarily in technical text. Spaces between words can be left blank or filled with connecting vine using the brackets, trademark-infinity, doubledagger-summation, radical-approximatelyequal, or fi-fl characters. The characters on the leaves are derived from the typeface IngrianaCasual.

Topics for which using Vinetters may be appropriate include trees, plants, leaves, nature, changing seasons, and outdoor life.

“Calagio” is a casual and modern font, which can be categorized as expressive lettering style. This font contain 565 glyphs carefully designed, with OpenType features. A lot of alternative glyphs in upper and lower case letters, ligatures and ornaments, so you can combine and make your design more real at your convenience.

Farquharson is a handwritten script design from Roy Preston. Based on the handwriting of an friend, Roy has expanded this friendly, semi-connecting script to include three weights, Light, Regular and Bold, opening up even more design possibilities. The fonts support an extended character set, as well as some ligatures, inferior and superior numbers, and unlimited fractions. There are some really nice letterforms in these fonts, particularly that uppercase W! Peruse the posters to see. I’m kind of partial to the Light weight, which is really quite elegant in use, but that Bold can really make a strong statement! Check it out for yourself.

Check out these Lazy Dance moves - fits perfect to any dancefloor! :)
A tall and thin font made with a brush - it has slightly rugged lines, and a kind of jumpy x-line. All in all it is a font that deserves a design with a handmade look. There is 4 different versions of each letter, and thanks to Contextual Alternates, these automatically cycle as you type. Making your text look really authentic and handmade!
There is also multilingual support!

Following from the continued popularity of the original MB Deco. Here is its new and improved big brother. Nuovo Deco comes in three weights, Light, Regular and Bold. A full character set of Caps and lower case letters, alternate characters plus, some very nice Ligatures to give some added art deco style and a much wider scope.

I don’t know what is it with me and bad copy machines these days…my previous font also had that look, like it was made using a poor copy machine! :)
Basic Choice comes in a regular, solid and distressed version - use these versions as they are, or play around and use them as layers.
Each letter has 6 different versions, and they automatically cycle as you type. It makes the text look scrambled and random at the same time!

Alternates, ornaments, ligatures and two casual stylish faces.
This is Outside. Where we’d absolutely rather be.
* Released during the inside times of 2020 *