“Over the highways and byways the pilgrim goes aflame with the name of my small black rose.” Hey, I think I went to an Irish Pub called the Black Rose in Boston once or twice .. Well, this font has nothing to do with that, but it is a nice face with some interesting flair. A sort of swashy hand drawn cursive flow, maybe sort of pirate-like I would say. (that bar was down by the water) I could see this carved into the name plaque of a pirate ship. Black Rose TTF is from prolific freeware font creator Bright Ideas. Download Black Rose!

Twenty Dee Bee .. 20DB .. a nice retro-flavored OTF type face from Russian designer  Jovanny Lemonad (Ivan Gladkikh). Sort of Art Deco, 20DB is legible and ideal for headlines, titles, display use (i can see it working nicely on posters). It feels a little like Monotypes Broadway typeface, but a little less frilly and deco-ish, a bit more angled and “russian” feeling to me! (does that make sense?) Download 20db OTF and give it a whirl.

Horst Roman Gothic from Cincinnati, Ohio based logo and type designer Christopher Horst “Horst is a world renowned logo designer, known best in the heavy metal community. He is most versed in, but by no means limited to metal, and he is eager to help you with all your text-based needs.” This one has a nice metal-edge with a gothic feel. Not a full upper lower case setup, but enough letters to set a headline or band name, etc. Check it out! Download Horst Roman Gothic TTF.

A Cyber Techy Circuit Techno face .. I dig this stuff. From Illustrator/Designer Galdin Ooten in Brazil. Looking for a cool computer circuit board looking font for a logo or headline? Park Tech is a great one to keep in mind – check out some of his great illustrations on his website! Download Park Tech TTF.

Antique typefaces can be fun, they are the origin of most of what we know today – the history of all our letterforms, but sometimes they are so hard to read and rough and dirty it makes you wonder how we got to where we are today. For a taste of some old time letter flavor, Powell Antique from prolific German shareware type designer Dieter Steffmann is a good one to choose. Download Powell Antique TTF.

Konstata is a cool one from fresh new german foundry fontomtype, and I can’t really explain it as well as it’s creator can, so here is that .. “Kon­stata is really a niche font for spe­cial use. Cre­ated for sten­cil use, Kon­stata fea­tures a set of only 10 dif­fer­ent ele­ments (aka your tem­plates) out of which you can com­pose the com­plete type­face. There­fore it bor­ders between being some­what grungy, mod­u­lar and clas­sic and greatly saves space in your back­pack when stenciling. Kon­stata is sup­posed to be sten­ciled with closed coun­ters — which is pos­sible due to the mod­u­lar sys­tem. In fact there are no bridges in it at all. It con­sists of a com­plete set of uni­case let­ters — numer­als are ment to be done als roman num­bers, ger­man umlaute are included as ue (ä), oe (ö), ae (ä) and ss (ß). Any medium will do the job but I sug­gest using fast dry­ing paint like Placka, Edding or Mon­tana 94 spray-paint to speed up the pro­cess of com­pos­ing all elements. On the key­board you will find all 10 ele­ments on the pos­i­tion of numer­als (0−9); a set of fully com­posed char­ac­ters on the pos­i­tion of lower­case let­ters (a-z incl. ü, ö, ä, ß); and every let­ter com­posed into the low­est pos­sible num­ber of parts (max­imal two, often only one) at the pos­i­tion of cap­ital letters.” Download Konstata TTF.

Peabrain is a super-techy experimental cutting edge type deal from Nick Jones in the UK. Maybe not the most legible of typefaces, but I guess in the future that won’t matter. Download the peabrain truetype font.