Irene Holt

A long time ago, I lived and worked in the English Lake District. When I first arrived there, I camped out not far from a neolithic monument called Castlerigg Stone Circle. Castlerigg Stone Circle is one of the most beautiful stone circles in the whole of Britain; the views are great and it makes for a nice walk from Keswick.

This rather grungy font was made with a Sharpie pen I initially wanted to throw away, because it was dry, but then decided I could at least get one more font out of it. The result is Castlerigg - a rather neolithic looking all caps font.

Castlerigg comes with double letter ligatures for the lower case.

Monospaceland is a round monospaced typeface in 7 weights with rich language support (Cyrillic included), small capitals, and some double-width alternatives for added fun.

It includes obliques and reverse obliques, making a total of 21 fonts. Plus, the family pack comes with a two-axis variable font to allow setting arbitrary weight and slant angle.

For decades, Samuel Welo’s “Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers” was a source of inspiration for sign painters, graphic artists and designers.  In later years, many digital revivals of Welo’s hand lettered typography have been made available.

Western Trail JNL is the latest member of such digital fonts, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Around 2018 or 2019, the State of Florida introduced new letter and number characters on its auto plates. 

Inspired by this change, Jeff Levine Fonts offers up a digital version of this lettering named New Car Tag JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions (for those who want a more sporty look).

Some people prefer a rounded ‘zero’ to differentiate between the regular zero and the letter ‘O’.  You can find this alternate character located on both the solid bar and broken bar glyphs.

The hand lettered opening titles from the 1944 Laurel and Hardy comedy “The Big Noise” served as the inspiration for Movie Screen JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Marilka is the little treasure in your typeface collection.

Designed by Anita Jürgeleit, Marilka appears in 4 styles with a broad latin language support, including Vietnamese language. Its eye-catching character is especially suitable for text settings. The beautiful letter shapes also suit headline typography in an outstanding way.

Marilka supports simple open-type features such like sub- and superscript, de- and nominator, ordinal numbers and standard ligatures.

Try Marilka with its free trial version and let yourself be enchanted.

Samuel Welo’s “Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers” was a popular book of inspiration for sign painters, graphic artists and designers from the 1920s through the 1960s.  Many digital revivals of Welo’s hand lettered typography have been made available.

Formal Notice JNL is one such revival, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.