Alexis Giles

Download Now Server 1 Download Now Server 2 Download Now Server 3 The Rocaie fonts are base on an antique Rococo letters from an gilding workshop. I was very lucky to acquire this set of metal letters in early 2018. Each of the letters has ornaments engraved by hand into its cast brass shapes. When drawing the digital outlines, I tried to preserve the handmade look of the original leaf engravings. Each of the letters uses a slightly different ornament pattern: no pattern is repeated identically. I expanded the very limited character set of the original, adding all the missing characters that todays commercial fonts are expected to contain. More I made additional font styles to easily add colour layers, outlines, and 3D shadows to the typeface. Its up to you to decide how to build your colour font! You can combine the predefined font styles Regular, Pearl, Solid, Outline, ...

Download Now Server 1 Download Now Server 2 Download Now Server 3 The Vtg Stencil fonts from astype are based on real world stencils from several countries. The Italian stencils that I chose as a model for this font are roughly based on classic French stencil letters – please compare the figures (numbers) with their French counterparts. However, the Italian stencils are made with a different production technique. The design of the letters is clearly not punch-cut into the plates – maybe they are drilled, milled or etched. Details such as the serifs look bold and clumsy, and when using the stencils as they are meant, with viscous sign paint, smaller details easily fade away. More So I took my freedom to design a font close to the original design but adding several typographic tweaks to let it shine, hoping to get closer to the intended design idea of these Italian stencils...