Swash Letter Alphabets

Swash Letter Alphabets
Author: Dan X. Solo
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0486293327

Add a touch of panache and style to a wide variety of graphic projects with the decorative letters in this unusual and practical collection. Typographer Dan X. Solo has compiled 100 different swash letter fonts -- typefaces characterized by ornate letters with long tails and flourishes. Included here are: Cantini Casual; Cranston; El Greco; Goudy Cursive; Italian Slab Fancy; Mardi Gras Regular; Raffia Initials; Rousseau Fancy; Allegro Swash; Artcraft and dozens more. All fonts include uppercase alphabets; most also contain lowercase letters and numerals. Inexpensive and royalty-free, these alphabets are ideal for use in display ads, on posters, signs, menus -- almost any printed communications.

100 Ornamental Alphabets

100 Ornamental Alphabets
Author: Dan X. Solo
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486286967

Treasury of royalty-free fonts with eye-catching appeal includes Carnival Open, Ecclesiastic, Garland, Laurel, Daisy Delight, scores more. All fonts include uppercase alphabets; some contain punctuation marks and lowercase letters. Most have numerals. Graphic artists and illustrators will find these distinctive alphabets ideal for use in display ads, on posters, signs, menus, more.

Script and Cursive Alphabets

Script and Cursive Alphabets
Author: Dan X. Solo
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 111
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486253066

This treasury of script and cursive fonts offers artists and designers a broad range of type styles that richly convey the elegant intricacies of hand lettering. Includes the flowing elegance of Liberty; the sturdy formality of Piranesi Bold Italic; the airy Art Deco flair of Hannover; and more. Many include upper- and lower-case alphabets, plus numerals.

Gothic and Old English Alphabets

Gothic and Old English Alphabets
Author: Dan X. Solo
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 111
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486246957

100 royalty-free alphabets: Blackstone, Dolbey, Germania, 97 more — with many lowercases, numerals, punctuation marks.

100 Calligraphic Alphabets

100 Calligraphic Alphabets
Author: Dan X. Solo
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486297985

An ideal resource for artists, illustrators, and anyone in need of distinctive graphics for an unlimited number of print projects. These elegant calligraphic alphabets are royalty-free and ready to use. Classic and modern styles ? uppercase letters and the numerals 0 through 9 are included in each alphabet.

Script Fonts

Script Fonts
Author: Geum-Hee Hong
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781780677583

Fonts based on handwritten scripts are some of the bestselling typefaces of the font foundries. They bring personality and authenticity to graphic design – whether on business cards and flyers, or in packaging and advertising. Script Fonts is a visual encyclopedia of over 300 fonts that includes complete alphabets and numerals for each font and a piece of sample text that shows how each typeface works in the context of a paragraph. It is richly illustrated with over 100 examples of the typefaces as used in manuscripts, on posters, in advertising and other graphic design. The book includes elegant Italian and French cursive scripts, English script fonts, expressive marker fonts, brush and swash fonts, deko and freestyle fonts – all illustrated with historical and contemporary examples. The accompanying CD includes 122 free fonts.

Operina

Operina
Author: Ludovico degli Arrighi
Publisher: Operina LLC
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2001
Genre: Calligraphy
ISBN: 1934227188

The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces

The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces
Author: Dan X. Solo
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486144062

The author of many books on typography, Dan X. Solo was also the proprietor of his own typography shop in Oakland, California — an establishment dedicated to unusual typography and special effects. This comprehensive catalog offers graphic designers a dazzling selection of over 4,000 typefaces and optical effects available from Solotype Typographers. Here, in Solo's words, is "a great cast of characters" — the alphabet — abetted by a cornucopia of typographical ideas and an endless resource of letters, words, phrases, slogans, logos, humorous comments, headlines, and graphic symbols. Individual sections of the book display a rich variety of typefaces in categories such as Condensed, Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Rustic, Thick-and-tin, Calligraphic, Uncials, Latins, and Blackletter. Samples are imaginatively presented. "Stagecoach," for example, is printed in Fargo typeface, evoking dusty trails, rawhide, and ten-gallon hats, while "Sizzling summer savings" appears appropriately in the flamboyant Firebug typeface. All typefaces are indexed for quick and easy reference. As entertaining as it is practical and useful, this impressive treasury of versatile typefaces and optical effects will be indispensable to busy commercial artists as an inexhaustible source of typographic ideas and a "swipe file" of words, phrases, and letters for use in graphic art projects.

Hand Lettering A to Z

Hand Lettering A to Z
Author: Abbey Sy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2017-04-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1631592823

Learn to draw your own alphabet as Abbey Sy and other artists teach you the art of hand lettering!