Mary Bacon

Enough talk. Metcon is not here to talk. Its simply here to PUMP... YOU UP.

Spring has Sprung! The Fling has Flung and all that will be left after the inevitable Split is a fluttering in your heart, a blushful remembrance of lost love, an aching heart full of excitement and a strange sense of regret.

As you read and re-read Shakespeares sonnets to make sense of the swirling waters of your affectations, consider this font as the perfect headline for the Summer Blockbuster Romance youre sure to pen in the warm, wine-soaked evenings ahead of you.

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, and Magnum with each other, or with the Fill font styles.

But you don't need to use all font styles to compose something nice! Have as much fun as I did with this Baroque beauty and enjoy the vintage.

Ana is a chromatic typeface consisting of 26 uppercase Latin characters, inspired by arabesque patterns from the nineteenth century.

Programmed to enable users to easily create multicolored drop caps and initials, this decorative display typeface features a different ornament for every letterform, which fits perfectly with its glyph shape.

This ornament is usually more luxurious on the left side of the letter, while on the right it is scarce, so that the body text can be placed close to the initial.

These initials are valuable for use in large sizes, like posters, magazines, packaging design, fairy tales, and so on.

The final forms of the initials consist of 5 parts which can be individually colored.

There are 5 font files named Ana Layer A, Ana Layer B, and so on. A font user can manually create a multicolored initial with these font files, if there is no possibility to use the Contextual Alternates option.

To do that, it is necessary to make 5 layers in the page layout software.

Then, the corresponding character should be placed on each layer, so that Ana Layer A is on the lowest layer and Ana Layer E is on the highest one.

Note that the glyph shapes are contained in the lower case positions. In contrast, the font file named Ana is programmed, so it is possible to create a multicolored initial with the Contextual Alternates command.

There is no need for additional layers, everything happens on a single layer.

First, the Contextual Alternates command (usually under OpenType menu) should be disabled.

Then, using lower case key, type the desired character 5 times and apply color to them.

Select them all and turn on the Contextual Alternates. Also, the font file Ana comes with a set of black initials that can be used just like any other non-color typeface.

The ornamental versions are contained in the uppercase positions, while the letters without the ornaments are in the lower case.

With the font file Ana Monochrome one can only get the monochrome initials.

Ornamental letters are contained in the upper case positions, while the letterforms without the ornaments are in the lower case.

Plaquette is a collection of retro typefaces ranging from victorian to bauhaus to the sixties.

They are all equipped with a load of OpenType features such as alternates, catchwords, stylistics sets and others.

Plaquette 3D A chromatic set of fonts including gradient and outline layers. Crisp and precise. Plaquette Lovecraft More A vintage typeface with some sweet discretionary ligatures to make your typography exciting.

Take a look at the many alternates. Plaquette Sittl A clean geometric style with many alternative letters, some inspired by Paul Renners original Futura.

Plaquette Labels This set provides you with 220 different shapes ideal for logos, plates and labels.

Punto Poly is the layered type system of Punto for cromatic typesetting. Endless effects can be created by 11 stackable layers and different colors. The dots of Punto Poly are not made up of grid-based dots, they are optical corrected and there is always the same distance between the dots, with the aim to create more harmonic letterforms.

The dots also vary gradually in size to reflect the thickening and thinning of strokes, giving the letterforms a sophisticated overall look.

Punto Poly comes up with 11 layer system and is perfectly suited for logos, posters, brands and magazines.

The language support includes Western, Central and Eastern European character sets, as well as Baltic and Turkish languages.

Stack brings the spirit of industrial chimney lettering from the early twentieth century to the digital age.

The typeface is designed to work both horizontally and vertically. Additionally, the fonts can work together in myriad chromatic expressionsproviding limitless design possibilities.

The family is true to the spirit of masonry lettering without being a direct lift of any specific lettering style from the industrial age.

Like some of its masonry predecessors Stack is built as a typeface of 15 courses (horizontal rows) of bricks.

More Based on several years of research a collection of 150+ photographs and roughly two dozen archival engineering drawings were amassed.

The value of the historical references is a type family that is a legitimate reflection of masonry lettering styles of the period.

In updating Stack for the digital age, the proportions of the base-unit bricks and the thickness of mortar joints have been optically adjusted to work in both screen-based and print media.

Stack would not have been possible without the research and design input from Craig Welsh and Jenna Flickinger of GoWelsh.

The 52 characters assembled by this Gothic font, Prince of Darkness, were once interred in coffins onboard the Russian cargo ship Demeter, when it set sail for the sleepy shores of Whitby, Northern England ages ago.

Hunted down by Vampire Hunters for century after century, this noble Transylvanian set has hidden for years in England and Eastern Europe.

Now, Prince of Darkness is available as a font with more Layers than Dracula has Lairs.