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Adorn, a warm and welcoming script font, takes a modern and sometimes quirky twist on the staid, corporate look of formal invitations. This font family of hand-lettered typefaces arms designers with a breathtakingly large number of fonts that work harmoniously, despite the distinctiveness of each. Adorn offers seven display fonts, four script designs, monograms, ornaments, illustrations, banners, frames, and catchwords.

Ed’s Market delivers the warm, inviting vibe of classic 20th-century grocery posters and showcard lettering right from your type menu. Mimicking a professional sign painter, this hand-lettered font family offers a solid repertoire of styles; each distinctive but clearly done by the same hand. Each display face features three variations of each letter, to ensure a natural hand-painted look when characters repeat. Ed’s Market includes three script styles, each with more than 100 alternate characters and swash forms. Design elements offer expandable arrows, rules and ribbons; along with badges, swashes, scribbles, clouds and snipes.

The Beloved collection combines a lively script, a versatile and elegant sans, and 80 decorative elements to create a romantic aura. Beloved Script embodies a casual and natural state of handwriting, the semi-connected script, using monoline strokes that evoke classic 20th-century penmanship achieved with a ballpoint or rounded nib. Beloved Sans, a simple sans that likes to get swashy, is an all-capitals face with corresponding small capitals scaled to about 85% of the original letters — just enough differentiation to be distinctive in display settings. The titling variant adds a hint of the Art Deco style, while the swashed capitals add calligraphic flair. Both offer a plethora of swashes and alternates, ideal for wordmarks and distinctive headlines.

Fairwater’s aesthetic derives from the cursive handwriting styles popularized in the early to mid-1900s, the simplified, forgiving letterforms of tattoo lettering, and the pictorial themes that informed early-to-mid 20th-century naval tattoos. The Fairwater family includes a script and sans face in three weights, four decorative serif faces and a highly decorative font that echoes the nautical theme, DIY Lines. DIY Lines consists of 250 ornamental characters of ships, anchors, oars, knots, rope, botanicals, diamonds, arrows and more. The Fairwater family also includes a large selection of swashes and alternates.

Charcuterie is a collection of ten distinct yet related typefaces, including options for engraved, cursive, deco, block, and more, as well as three ornamental typefaces. Used individually or blended with other fonts from this large family, elements of Charcuterie are well suited for headlines, titling, logos, display, packaging, signage, or advertising. The entire collection lends itself to experimentation, acting as a complete and complex toolbox for maximum versatility.

Samantha is a bright and cheerful script font based on pointed-pen lettering and featuring slightly condensed characters and a measured rhythm. Samantha is available in upright or italic variants, each with regular and bold weights and features over 1,100 alternates and swash characters that vary in size and complexity. Samantha includes 60 ornaments and 45 catchwords, lining numerals and oldstyle and swash numerals.

GrindelGrove is a spooky display face that suggests deep dark woods, long-lost treasure maps, and cautionary fables. Its bark-like texture and v-shaped letterforms lend an air of eerie mystery, a perfect complement to scary novels, haunted houses, and strange happenings. The font’s dramatic, edgy character is best suited to headlines and short punchy statements. While at first glance, GrindelGrove appears to be only for Halloween and similar scary purposes, the typeface is actually quite adaptable; in fact, the designer originally created the letterforms for a native plant garden brochure.

The Boucherie script typeface captures the lively essence of 19th-century French advertising typography with a collection of original designs. Designers can use this font to create typographic compositions that are at once fresh and familiar. Boucherie provides four distinct display fonts – plus ornaments, catchwords, and frames – that complement each other beautifully.

Evocative of paint on weathered wood, Nelson’s engraved capital letters are as rustic and confident as the Old West. Designers can combine the engraved face with bold and rough versions to create handsome wordmarks, or use the display font for food packaging, restaurant menus, and roadside attractions. You’ll likely want to pair it with a quieter sans or serif, like Mundo Sans or Sabon Next.

A variation from Laura Worthington’s typical calligraphy-driven fonts, Congenial is a sans-serif that provides an understated, highly legible complement to her more decorative display typefaces. However, Congenial still incorporates some calligraphic influence, such as hand-drawn elements in the heavier weights. The typeface is a friendly and inviting font with a generous x-height and highly differentiated characters.

Elaina Script is a tidy, precisely penned script face. In its standard form, with its sober x-height and restrained ascenders and descenders, it is easy to read at smaller display sizes and in short blocks of text. It is accompanied by an unconnected version of the lowercase characters, its stylistic alternates, and, like most of this designer’s typefaces, it includes hundreds of swashes, alternates, and ligatures, for attention-getting effects at large sizes and in brand identities. Its companion font, Elaina Semi Serif, has modulated strokes and subtly flared terminals that give it a humanist feel that adds warmth and positivity to any setting. The Semi Serif is useful for body text and complementary contexts.