ITC Snap Alternatives

The branding agency's client wanted an "ultra modern" typeface that was "futuristic without being gimmicky or ephemeral," according to... Read More

With two styles and twelve weights, the ITC Chino family is distinctive, versatile - and available as OpenType Pro fonts. The display designs are friendly and inviting while the text faces are no-nonsense communicators - albeit with a certain sparkle. This new family from Hannes von Döhren and Livius Dietzel is poised to become an important design tool. A study in contrasts The ITC Chino... Read More

The Mayberry™ Pro Light Font is a part of an extensive family of 14 OpenType fonts from Ascender Corp. Mayberry was initially designed by Steve Matteson to emulate the technical behavior of a font family called Tiresias™ for use in set top TV devices and user interfaces. Mayberry Pro Light Font is a significant improvement in aesthetics and functionality over Tiresias. Mayberry Pro Light Font... Read More

HK series fonts are in Unicode encoding and consists of BIG 5 character set and HKSCS characters. The character glyphs are based on the regular Traditional Chinese writing form and style. It is generally used in Taiwan ROC, Hong Kong and Macau.

FF Signa is a characteristically Danish design, rooted in architectural lettering rather than book typography. Originally created for signage—hence the name—FF Signa is now a typographic family with three widths. All weights include italics, small caps, and several styles of figures. Because of the quality of this “vernacular-lettering-turned-typeface” conversion, FF Signa received a Danish... Read More

HK series fonts are in Unicode encoding and consists of BIG 5 character set and HKSCS characters. The character glyphs are based on the regular Traditional Chinese writing form and style. It is generally used in Taiwan ROC, Hong Kong and Macau.

Koala was designed in 2003 by Eric de Berranger with an individual, independent character. A distinguishing characteristic of this sans serif font is its marked stroke contrast, typical of Modern Face fonts. The open, airy forms are reminiscent of ancient Roman capitals. The lower case letters display traits similar to those often seen on posters and in advertisements of the 1930s and 1940s.... Read More

ITC Bolt comes in one robust weight and was designed by Ronne Boner and Tom Carnase in 1970. Its figures are consistently based on a rectangular shape although some details break up the otherwise conscious monotony. The cross strokes of the a, e and s are markedly thin and many figures have rounded beginning and end strokes, giving them a more reserved look in relation to their neighboring... Read More

Becka Script was designed by David Harris in 1985 and is a wide running typeface with varying stroke contrasts. This font looks as though written with a broad tipped pen and its slight slant to the right makes clear its similarity to callipgraphy fonts. Becka Script is reminiscent of the 1950s and its strong strokes make it best for headlines or shorter texts.

Linotype Mineru is an inky display family, whose forms appear to come from drops of ink, or letters cut out of rough black paper. German designer Ronny Edelstein created this family 1997; since then it has been part of Linotype's TakeType Library. The Linotype Mineru family contains three weights: Linotype Mineru regular, Linotype Mineru bold, and Linotype Mineru outline.

Éric de Berranger likes to multitask, and often works on two typeface families at once. Such was the case with Mosquito, a jaunty sans that was developed at the same time he was creating the more traditional Maxime. "Mosquito represented a sort of recreation," says de Berranger. "When I grew tired of working on one design I could work on the other and then come back to the first, full of... Read More