The Carolyna typeface family by Emily Conners is a whimsical calligraphic script with a handmade feel, making it the perfect choice for fresh, summery designs. While dreamy pastel colors, rustic scenes and natural textures all work quite well with this script, try darker backgrounds and crisp monochrome photography for a sophisticated urban tone. Carolyna is available in regular and black weights, as well as two additional styles – Carolyna Cute and Carolyna Curvy – which offer stylistic alternates as well as extended character sets.

The Roma typeface, designed by Thomas Lincoln for Canada Type, is an attempt to improve and expand upon the lettering of Trajan’s Column in Rome. As part of a long tradition of typefaces based on the monument’s inscriptions, Roma seems at first quite familiar, but closer inspection reveals beautiful refinement and detail. The vertices of the A, M, N, V and Z letterforms are pointed, and the strokes are slightly flared – a hint of vestigial serifs. The typeface’s lowercase is spare and clean with the same flared strokes, open counters and generous spacing.

The Berimbau typeface is another design with a distinct hand-drawn influence. At first possessing a compressed, regular demeanor, once OpenType features are employed the typeface explodes with twisting, mad exuberance. Berimbau Regular has at least four variants for each letter, with left and right swashes, as well as stylistic and contextual alternates. The regular and bold weights carry a full set of ornaments – a set of jovial curves and twists that can be combined into fun frames or dividers.

Created by Durotype’s Ben Blom, the Simplo typeface is an update of the Semplicità design created by Alessandro Butti in the 1930s. Simplo is a crisp, geometric sans serif imbued with a strong sense of Butti’s original, especially in the spurless forms of several lowercase characters. Described by Ben Blom as “The Italian Futura,” it has all the modernity and clarity of Art Deco typography, offering pleasant twists, such as the extended lowercase f descenders. The Simplo family is available in 16 styles and has extensive OpenType support, including eight figure styles.

Originally designed by Friedrich Kleukens for the Stempel Foundry in 1923, the Ratio Modern typeface family combines a modern Didone aesthetic while retaining Old style and Transitional nuances. Ratio Modern is a typeface that shines when set at large sizes – the elegant italic letterforms, as well as the unique serif shapes, provide excellent opportunities for display applications. Ratio Modern is available in three different weights, with italic and small caps variants for the typeface's regular weight.

Based on mid-20th Century hand-drawn advertising scripts, the P22 Casual Script typeface is evocative of vintage product advertisements and packaging lettering. Thin brush strokes give the script a lighter, more angular aesthetic, creating a sense of speed and urgency in the typeface. Unusual for a script face, Casual Script is available with a full set of small caps – these additional characters work well as an authentic variation of traditional brush script lettering used in advertising.

The Plume typeface, designed by Ron Carpenter for Dalton Maag, possesses quirky, yet beautiful, letterforms. The uppercase glyphs are largely geometric, with slab serifs, while the lowercase characters are softly rounded and humanist in style. With curved serifs and beautifully flowing ligatures, the typeface family creates quite a strong aesthetic when its different weights are paired together. Plume is available in two weights, with a complementary italic, and the typeface provides a wide range of language support. A companion face, Plume Advertising, is also available for large, powerful settings.

In designing the Camphor typeface, Nick Job wanted to avoid all calligraphic associations. He says, “I wanted to draw a modern, uncluttered sans serif family with classical proportions, unashamedly English but with fewer idiosyncrasies than its influential forerunners.” The typeface is recognizably in the tradition of the oft-called “English national” Gill Sans typeface, but has considerably less attitude, and aims for a simpler, streamlined appearance.

The complete Camphor family is available in 12 different styles – each of the six weights, ranging from thin to heavy, have a companion italic design. The Pro version of the Camphor family has alternates, small caps and ligatures available through OpenType features. The typefaces also provide extended character sets covering most western and central European languages.