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.

Cardo from Fonts for Scholars in Rye, New York is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists.  Since it may be used to prepare materials for publication, it also contains features that are required for high-quality typography, such as ligatures, text figures (also known as old style numerals), true small capitals and a variety of punctuation and space characters.  It may also be used to document and discuss the features of Unicode that are applicable to the these disciplines, as we work to help colleagues understand the value (and limitations) of Unicode.

This font is my version of a typeface cut for the Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius and first used to print Pietro Bembo’s book De Aetna.  This font has been revived in modern times under several names (Bembo, Aetna, Aldine 401).  I chose it mainly because it is a classic book face, suitable for scholarship, and also because it is easier to get various diacritics sized and positioned for legibility with this design than with some others.  I added a set of Greek characters designed to harmonize well on the page with the Roman letters as well as many other characters useful to scholars.  The Hebrew characters are designed to match those used in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia as closely as possible and so have no claim to originality.  Download Cardo 99 TTF.