Has it been a while since you expanded your design options with a new font? Well, that’s what Fontscafe aims to provide – an ever expanding collection of fonts that can fulfill pretty much every design need, especially when you mix and match from different fonts!

This time we bring to you the ‘Egregio’ font, a fancy script font that oozes of finesse, elegance and distinguish. This could be of particular interest to those of you who often work with an elite clientele that insist on the element of a gentlemanly charm reminiscent of the days of well-mannered chivalry and the attire to match!

Egregio is an excellent font for photographers, artists, and other creative that are looking for a script font but also want to stand out. This font is as elegant as it is bold.

Use the ‘Egregio’ font where you need to send across a message that tell your audience that what you are talking about is all about the best that the world has to offer. Use it to send across that special distinguished feeling for those special distinguished events and presentations! 

We’d love to hear back on what you feel about this brand new script from Fontscafe.

Happy designing, until next time!

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We’ve been thinking about what a designer needs when the requirement of the design is unlike anything that seems factory-made and to something of very special for all of you owner of a shop (be it online or offline).

…we’ve been looking back at the times when nothing WAS very factory made, even when it was factory made!

If that sounds like it’s a little hard to follow, just compare a product such as a shop banner or sign board of the current times with one from the 1940s!

During the time when every product needed some kind of finishing by human hands, the end result was a beautifully crafted piece of work with an extremely personal touch to it. It may sound like a paradox, but what gave those products that special feel was the affect of miniscule imperfections that only the human touch could produce!

Fonts are no exception by the way…

And this is why we decided to put together an all new range of Vintage fonts, something very exclusive, for those special designs that need to connect with your viewers on a highly personal level.

We're glad to introduce you the "Hand Shop EXTENDED Pack", which is a comprehensive pack containing a total of 14 fonts from the "Hand Shop Banners & Elements Pack" (3 fonts) , the "Hand Shop Typography Pack 01" (8 fonts)  and the "Hand Shop Typography Pack 02" (3 fonts) which are also available individually;

Click on the image below to discover the whole package!

or the "Hand Shop BASIC Pack", which contains all the fonts included in the "Hand Shop Banners & Elements Pack" but with a simplified or ‘basic’ selection of the "Hand Shop Typography" packages (this could give you a variety of our HAND SHOP fonts at the best possible price)

Well, you may be agree with us, the added "WOW factor" is in particular in the form of the "Banners & Elements", unique elements that can add a very special feeling to your creations while keeping in line with the font styles. The BANNERS & CREATIONS can work especially well for vintage shop sign-board elements that shout out things like ‘SALE!’, ‘OFFER!’ o ‘SPECIAL DEAL!’….you get the point! 

You could also chose either the "Hand Shop Typography Pack 01" or "Hand Shop Typography Pack 02" if you don't need the specific "shop" elements but simply the Vintage look to your typography.

We really hope you are as excited as us to experiment with these all-new fonts with their unique and individualistic approach.

Do let us know how and where you find them most usable!

Updating February 28th, 2013:

The last chance to download the free pack will end today! Be sure to have it right now!

Ok OK... so it turns out only giving a few days notice about the gift in our December Newsletter meant a lot of people missed out, not only that but it proved much more popular than we expected!

As you know from our previous post, starting with Christmas but extending through the rest of the year we'll be giving away free gifts in some of our Newsletters. These Gifts would normally only be available through the newsletter, however, since it's Christmas time yet and we left it so late we've decided to find a way to let those people who missed the Christmas Newsletter get a FREE copy of the "Making Lettering" Fonts Pack that we gave away. BUT only this once! 

So subscribe to our Newsletter right now, you'll be guaranteed to receive the freebies we give away over the coming year and you'll *also* receive instructions within the hour on how to download the "Making Lettering" Fonts Pack we gave away in the Christmas Newsletter.

If you have already subscribed just after the newsletter was sent you're going to receive an e-mail shortly.

Updating December 27th, 2012:

If you're reading NOW this post you missed the Christmas newsletter with the free pack, check the new post for further info.

YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT IS READY!

But it's not quite Christmas yet, right? ;)

We needed to grab a few minutes of your attention to give you an IMPORTANT update about our FREEBIES.

In addition to giving away free fonts and other free stuff in the subscribers section of our website (free) we're planning on including some extra special gifts with some of our newsletters over the coming year. We hope you'll enjoy these gifts and find them useful so keep an eye out for our newsletters, you never know what you might find in one. :)

But, because it's Christmas we thought we needed to do more, in our Christmas Newsletter this year we'll be giving away something extra special...

A Complete Family of FOUR FONTS! All for free!

So keep your eyes open for our Christmas Newsletter!

Have you ever wished to create designs that are similar to those bold yet charming posters and layouts of the 1950s? If you enjoy such designs, our ‘retroactive’ font is sure to give you weeks and months of pleasure. Based around the 50s lettering, this font is bold, beautiful and simple at the same time – just like the decade it has taken its inspiration from!

The font type takes you back in time to visuals of old time juke boxes, long play records, Ford Thunderbolts and classic Cadillacs, gelled hair, flying jackets on classic motorcycles, pin-up posters, simplistic diners and motels, and a time when the world was gearing itself for enormous change in the decade following the end of World War 2…

The ‘Retroactive’ font will remind your viewers of all that we mention above and more. Don’t forget to check out the ‘light’ variation of this font, which is similar in its identity but so much more elegant and less bold in appeal. We also have a special bonus element in the ‘pack’ version of both fonts-a collection of badge-like designs (which we give you in PSD and PNG formats) which you can simply place on to your creations, very much like how you could pin a badge to a fabric. Use these to highlight special words such as ‘sale’, ‘free’, ‘until stocks last’ and such!

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As designers, we take inspiration from so many different features in life – from music, from photographs, from life-events, from stories that we read and hear of, and sometimes from other fonts. And maybe sometimes by people’s handwriting? It does make perfect sense, after all to base a font typography after its ‘manual’ counter-part and big brother – the human handwriting!

To anyone who has enjoyed Enid Blyton’s books for children, the author’s signature was something that stood out for its unique typography. You could spot an Enid Blyton book from 20 feet away in a book store, just by that special and unforgettable signature!

We hate to say this, but hand-writing in itself is probably on its way out, as most of you would agree. When was the last time any of us wrote a letter to a loved one on a special paper with a special pen? Those days are probably gone for good, while emails have pretty much taken over the world as far as messaging goes. Luckily for us designers, there are still ways to incorporate the personality of handwriting by altering the font types that we use on our designs (and our emails sometimes!). 

We don’t claim to ever be able to replace hand-written typography with a digital counterpart, but we sure can get close enough with our exciting new ‘Voluptate’ package! Take a look at this charming font which is sure to remind you of the friendliness of a hand-written note. Don’t forget to check out the variation ‘Classic’ version and as usual we have an ‘Elements’ set to give those finishing touches to your creations…

We’d love to hear back from you on what you thought of this new font pack, and we have an early bird pricing for those of you who get your selves this pack within the week – 20% off!

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It’s been more than a few years since any of us wrote on a slate using chalk. As old fashioned and tiresome as this process was, it worked wonders to build an individual’s handwriting, simply because it was so much harder to write with chalk on slate than it was to write on paper with a fountain pen! Or let us say, it was difficult to write with chalk on slate and make it look pretty, much easier so with a fountain pen.  Today that is obviously had to imagine, when fountain pens themselves are out of fashion!

From this era of painstaking writings on slate and blackboards arose a typography art form in its own right – the art of making beautiful hand-written fonts on slate and cement, using nothing more than different colored chalks, mostly chalk. 

Fontscafe has put together a collection of three fonts to give you just the feel we speak of above – chalk! Our Chalk Hand Lettering font will work really well wherever you wish to add that chalk-on-slate feel to your design fonts, be it a banner, a paperback cover or an invite! As usual, we have font variations included in the pack to help you put together unique combinations and give your own design a special identity. Our ‘shaded’ variation of the chalk hand lettering is reminiscent of that extra special effort someone had to make to make a chalk-on-board font more special by adding shading to one side of the lettering (its on the right side on our version). Add to that our ‘elements’ variation, which enables you to add unique banner backdrops and design elements, and you have the tools to truly give a black-board slate like presentation to your designs! 

We see this fonts package assisting you in all kinds of designs that require a chalk-on-slate typography effect....and of course, much more!

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Marmellata, or Italian for ‘Jam’ brings to mind images of freshly baked breads, breakfast tables and generally a homely disposition, sending across a motherly, comforting feeling. This is exactly why you could choose to use the Marmellata fonts on suitable designs. The most obvious applications of such fonts could be on food items, but why limit your creativity to the obvious?!?! Use these fonts anywhere that you want to convey feelings of warm and positive energy. Some of what we could suggest are – children’s books and websites, kiddie party invitations, nature cures, home remedies, brunch advertisements, cooking classes; maybe even photo restoration services (which of course are more often than not memorable images that speak of happy times gone by). These are but a few fleeting ideas off the top of our heads, and we believe you could find many more uses for these wonderfully happy fonts. 

As you can well imagine, the nature of these fonts makes them extremely flexible and usable, on a variety of different media.

We now present you with two variations of the Marmellata fonts pack – the Jar 1 and the Jar 2! And what’s more, look out for the Alternates freebie which we give with the pack. It gives an aesthetic and symmetric appeal to initial and final characters of your lettering. You could use a combination of the Alternates with the Jar 1 or jar 2 font sets, to make absolutely unique fonts! 

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Don't forget to enjoy of the Desktop FULL version of our "Sign handwriting" font.

Now completely FREE for our facebook fans! :)