Introducing Sancoale Slab Soft

The Sancoale superfamily takes a softer turn with a rounded slab serif. 90% off for a limited time!

Ready for the designs of today, the Sancoale superfamily takes a softer turn with a rounded slab serif.

Crafted from Sancoale’s simple geometry, new softened slab serifs provide a lively typeface that conveniently enhances its cousins: Sancoale Softened--a sans with blunted terminals; Sancoale Slab; and, certainly, the first Sancoale. The weights of each and every member are balanced diligently to be compatible with one another. When used alongside one another, the combination makes for robust and tight design.

With weights starting with the slender thin ranging to the juicy black, Slab Soft opens the doorway to the vary of uses. Its design is legible and neutral enough for bodies of copy--both in print and on your website. The web font also stands out perfectly as a headline or a display face. Slab Soft carefully places a foot ahead, and doesn't overpower like many slabs. This font’s the choice to seize the day and get the job done.

All insigne™ fonts are absolutely loaded with OpenType options. Sancoale Slab is geared up for pro typography, together with alternates with stems, compact caps and lots of alts, together with “normalized” capitals and lowercase letters. The font features many numeral sets, with fractions, old-style and lining figures with superiors and inferiors. OpenType-capable programs like Quark or the Adobe suite allow you to quickly change ligatures and alternates. You can see these options shown in the .pdf brochure. Bundled are compact caps, fractions, old-style and lining quantities, scientific superior/inferior figures, entire ordinal and inferior alphabet.

The Sancoale superfamily also features the glyphs to aid a variety of languages, together with Central, Eastern and Western European languages. In all, Sancoale Slab supports around forty languages that utilize the Latin script, earning Sancoale the pick for for multi-lingual publications and packaging.

Just $30 for the full family. Normally $300.

New from insigne: Quarca

 Quarca’s masculine power runs strong across the page with bold self-assurance and a raw energy that courses through its thick veins.

 Don’t think the continuous, smooth geometry of this semi-modular face is captively chained to the grid, though. Quarca has been cautiously optimized to engage the reader’s eye. Achieving an attractive balance to its sturdy design, the open forms of this “rounded square” geometric sans--together with a tall x-height--make the font legible even when using the compact widths. This high-impact typeface definitely doesn't sacrifice versatility for style.

These compact widths, with their raw heart and strength, are perfect for callouts, while the extended widths provide you with the platform for a punchy and extremely efficient headline. The font has a thinner weight and transcends to an intense bold. The face’s geometric or technological construction also tends to make it right at home on the web.

The family consists of 36 fonts--six weights plus italics. Where Quarca truly stands out, though, is its wide number of OpenType typographic choices and optional glyphs, allowing you to design your piece with a personal, one-of-a-kind variant touch. These variations consist of Experimental Capitals, Angled Capital Terminals, and “Future Stencil.” In all, you can find more than one hundred of these alternate glyphs.

80% off for a limited time.

Introducing Aviano Sans Layers, a layered type system.

With this charismatic new type system, the possibilities are as large as your vision behind them. Achieve the impact you’re looking for by layering the different fonts and colorations for a custom, hand-drawn look that likes to be noticed.

Play around with the potential. Create effects by adding centerlines, dotted centerlines, and shadow variations. Inspired by the affable look of vintage handmade signage, the Aviano Sans Layers spacing accommodates these shadows and other features well with its generous width and helps you hit your message home.

Try mixing it with the other members of the Aviano Hyperfamily, too. There are lots of funky options for you to explore. See what you can create with Aviano Sans Layers!

85% off for a limited time!

Grenale, a haute couture sans-serif.

The elegant Grenale brings a new look to the classic didone. This shimmering sans-serif family with its mild deco shades alters the typical serifs and terminals of the classic style to form a gracefully eye-catching, high-contrast font.

While high-contrast, sans serif forms tend to disappear in the copy, Grenale’s meticulously designed features exhibit proper balance in the spacing and in the thorough improvements of its contours. The rigorous consideration given these details leaves a delicate typeface that doesn’t get washed out in certain applications. Its pure, polished, geometric structure has a glamorous sensitivity, drawing heavily from the inspiration of the haute couture influence.

Grenale’s thin weights are simple but vibrant--elegant forms that naturally lend themselves to high fashion journals, high-end branding, and other five star applications. With added energy and power, the thicker weights with their ink traps and optical compensation intensify the gravitas for a statelier look to the graceful forms. Grenale’s upright versions are also matched by optically adjusted italics, intentionally tailored to maintain their counterparts’ sharp edge, causing the font’s fierce characteristics to shine through the refined face.

The typeface also includes a wide variety of alternates that can be accessed in any OpenType-enabled application. The stylish features include a large group of alternates, swashes, and meticulously precise details with teardrop terminals and alternate titling caps to accessorize the font. Also included are capital swash alternates, old style figures, and small caps. Take a look at the informative PDF brochure to see these features in action. OpenType enabled applications such as the Adobe suite or Quark can take full advantage of the automatic replacing ligatures and alternates. This family also offers the glyphs to support a wide range of languages.

It’s time to think high-class. Graceful and confident, Grenale’s carefully crafted features transfer pleasantly to each page with elegant charm. With its variety of alternate glyphs and its high, classy contrast, this five star font is a great option for bringing a more refined look to your work.

Production assistance for Grenale provided from Lucas Azevedo and iKern.

80% off for a limited time!

Introducing Blue Goblet Drawn

Blue Goblet Drawn provides the fun, whimsical experience your project has been looking for. Based on the best-selling series Blue Goblet by artist Cory Godbey and designer Jeremy Dooley, the new, hand-drawn fonts and ornaments dance freely and effortlessly across the baseline and x-height to create a charming and exuberant display.

The new font family member offers great flexibility to your work, especially when used with the original Blue Goblet fonts and the wide range of ornaments in the supplemental ornament sets. These include doodley frames, lovely florals, and other text ornaments that can be inserted into your text and resized as desired--over 370 illustrations total! The Blue Goblet Series’ artsy versatility gives you the freedom to develop a type system for a very independent yet consistent look that seems to shun convention.

Blue Goblet Drawn comes in three weights and three widths in each weight. These along with the complementary italics for maximum impact provide a total of eighteen pro fonts. The compact, thin weights are delicate and tall, while the Regular has just enough heft for those situations where subtlety won’t work. If you don't need the professional features, there are three stripped down fonts that include only the basic character set--each for a steep discount!

Blue Goblet Drawn includes auto-replacing ligatures, adding an organic touch that lends even more of Godbey’s artistic hand to your work. The font face also includes a wide variety of alternates that can be accessed in any OpenType enabled application. Blue Goblet Drawn contains more than 190 additional OpenType glyphs and is loaded with features such as its unique alternate alphabet. Also encompassed in the family’s wide variety are swash alternates, style sets, old style figures, and small caps. Please see the informative PDF brochure to see these features in action. OpenType enabled applications such as the Adobe suite or Quark can take full advantage of the automatic replacing ligatures and alternates. This family also offers the glyphs to support a wide range of languages.

Blue Goblet Drawn’s hipster aesthetic is a great choice for friendly display type in children's books, on packaging, for organic packaging, or with any number of other unique applications. And as the Blue Goblet series continues to expand, these family members will certainly prove a valuable investment for the future. Use Blue Goblet Drawn and the rest of the Blue Goblet Series wherever you want to inject a handmade sense of fun and whimsy into your designs. Don’t miss out on the fun. Give it a whirl today!

Blue Goblet Drawn is 60% off!

The rest of the Blue Goblet series is 30% off.

Introducing Steagal, an American Vernacular Sans.

I love geometric sans serifs, their crispness and rationality. Le Havre taps into this style, but for a while, I've wanted to create a font recalling the printed Futura of the 1940s, which seems to have an elusive quality all its own. After seeing an old manual on a World War II ship, I developed a plan for "Le Havre Metal" but chose to shelve the project due to Le Havre's small x-height. That's where Steagal comes in.

When Robbie de Villiers and I began the Chatype project in early 2012 (a project which led one publication to label me the Edward Johnston of Chattanooga!), we started closely studying the vernacular lettering of Chattanooga. During that time, I also visited Switzerland, where I saw how designers were using a new, handmade aesthetic with a geometric base. I was motivated to make a new face combining some of these same influences. The primary inspiration for the new design came from the hand-lettering of sign painters in the United States, circa 1930s through 1950s. My Chatype research turned up a poster from the Tennessee Valley Authority in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which exhibited a number of quirks from the unique hand and style of one of these sign artists.

Completing the first draft of Steagal, however, I found that the face appeared somewhat European in character. I turned then to the work of Morris Fuller Benton for a distinctly American take and discovered a number of features that would help define Steagal as a "1930s American" vernacular typeface--features I later learned also inspired Morris Fuller Benton's Eagle. The overall development of Steagal was surprisingly difficult, knowing when to deliberately distort optical artifacts and when to keep them in place. Part of type design is correcting optical illusions, and I found myself absentmindedly adjusting the optical effects. In the end, though, I was able to draw inspiration from period signs, inscriptions, period posters, and architecture while retaining just enough of the naive sensibility.

The final sans face of Steagal has softened edges, which simulate brush strokes and retain the feeling of the human hand. The standard version has unique quirks that are not too intrusive. Overshoots have almost been eliminated, and joins have minimal corrections. The rounded forms are mathematically perfect, geometric figures without optical corrections. As a variation to the standard, the “Rough” version stands as the "bad signpainter" version with plenty of character.

Steagal Regular comes in five weights and is packed with OpenType features. Steagal includes three Art Deco Alternate sets, optically compensated rounded forms, a monospaced variant, and numerous other features. In all, there are over 200 alternate characters. To see these features in action, please see the informative .pdf brochure. OpenType capable applications such as Quark or the Adobe Creative suite can take full advantage of the automatically replacing ligatures and alternates. Steagal also includes support for all Western European languages.

Steagal is a great way to subtly draw attention to your work. Its unique quirks grab the eye with a authority that few typefaces possess. Embrace its vernacular, hand-brushed look, and see what this geometric sans serif can do for you.

Introductory offer: 90% off. Full family just $12!