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Venera

Venera is a versatile sans serif family in 36 styles. Legible and readable, it's perfect for a wide variety of applications. COMING SOON.

Manning Moderne

Manning Moderne celebrates cursive lettering styles from the '30s and '40s. COMING SOON.

Budinger Oldstyle Display

A beautiful, high-contrast versionof this humanist serif familyin 15 styles, roman & italic. COMING SOON.

Featured Type Families

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Bebigel

A strong take on the wood type tradition: bouncy and fun, but with a lot of strength.

Budinger Modern

Budinger Modern is part of the Didone tradition — the great Modern serif type families: Didot, Bodoni, Walbaum.

Finocchio

A bold script with Italian flavor and lots of great features for signs, branding, and fun!

Kalliope

A stately, feature-rich, five-weight flare serif in Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic,inspired by classical letterforms.

Locusta

Locusta is a dangerous and deadly serif display face that celebrates sharpness and contrast.

Mimolette

Every designer has a favorite geometric sans serif. For a century, they've been a staple for text that needs to be clear, strong, architectural, and objective. This will be yours.

Mrs Keppel

One of The Ampersand Forest's best-selling type families, Mrs Keppel is a slim serif with Edwardian leanings. She's approachable, she's refined, and she works anywhere.

Pawl

Pawl is an affordable 48-font, geometric squarish Gothic sans family.

Pygmalion

Pygmalion is a modern/didone text family in the great tradition of squarish text families like Walbaum, Ibis, and Georgia. It has a high x-height and a great balance of legibility and readability.