Art Deco Font Collection
Our new Art Deco font collection includes a remarkable selectiion of fonts from the design movements of the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on the kinds of fonts which were generally associated with the decorative arts movement which developed out of the Arts and Crafts movement. More...Wild West Fonts
Our Wild West font collection features 14 fonts based on designs from the classic days of the American West (1870-1890). They are typical of the type and lettering styles used in signs, circulars, posters and newspapers during that era. The selection includes both decorative, display and text fonts. All the fonts are historically accurate and they are not available from any other source. While they are basically fonts of the Victorian era, they represent a subset of the typefaces popular in that period particularly slanted to the environmnet of the wild west, frontier newspapers and wild west shows.More...Pre-Raphaelite Collection
The art of the Pre-Raphaelites recreated classical and legendary themes, fascination with architectural elements and realistic drapery, and the use of models who fit a particular style and appearance, usually with thick, curly hair and voluptuous figures. Our Pre-Raphaelite collection features select images from the most prominent artists of the movement in high-resolution suitable for use in print.More...The Baby’s Opera Collection
Or latest collection based on one of Walter Crane's childrens book is our comprehensive presentation of The Baby’s Opera, Crane's compilation of childrens songs (including music and lyrics) with detailed illustrations, hand lettering and clever decorations on every page. Many of the designs and motifs can easily be extracted for use in your own designs. More...Text Fonts Collection
You've got to have text fonts, so wny not make them interesting and unique rather than the same old boring set that come with every computer. Our Text Fonts Collection has more variety and more style than you'll find anywhere else. More...Howard Pyle Fonts and Art
Howard Pyle was one of the most renowned illustrators of the 19th century. His work was widely published in adventure novels, magazines and romances. He was the founder of the Brandywine school and artists colony in Chadd's Ford Pennsylvania, where he taught artists like N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover and Thornton Oakley their craft. Our Pyle collection includes a large selection of Pyle's art and designs plus original fonts based on his hand lettering. More...Medieval Fonts and Art
In the Middle Ages the demand for written documents required new and better forms of writing, styles which were readable, consistent, efficient to produce, and sometimes decorative as well. This package features a selection of fonts and art based on designs from the Middle Ages, emphasizing the years from 1100 to 1400. The 25 fonts include versions of the major popular lettering styles of this period and the art includes beautiful borders, frames and other decorative elements based on medieval designs. DETAILSThe Lady of Shalott
Howard Pyle’s illustrated edition of Tennyson’s Lady of Shalott is probably the single greatest expression of book design in the American arts and crafts movement of the late 19th century. This early Pyle work combines his vivid illustrative style with exceptional decoration and lettering into a modern illuminated masterpiece. Our Lady of Shalott CD package has every page from the book in high resolution format, including the decorated verses, the full-page illustrations and the embellished titles and flyleaves. It also includes extracted and instantly usable versions of the initials, illustrations background patterns, borders and frames from the book. DETAILSArt Nouveau Collection
This collection brings together all of our best fonts based on Art Nouveau period designs into an extensive collection, with over 30 unique fonts, including text, title faces and even decorative initials. This includes new fonts created just for this package plus classics in the Art Nouveau tradition. It also features a bonus collection of frames and borders based on designs from magazines and books of the period. Altogether it makes the ultimate resource for Art Nouveau style design. DETAILS2009 Sampler
About once a year we release a special sampler package with a collection of selected fonts and art from our most recent and forthcoming packages, including some unique items not available anywhere else, all brought together as an overview of what we've been up to at the Scriptorium during the past year at a special, extremely low price. This latest sampler has four complete new fonts, 15 demo fonts and a special selection of art and graphics which includes a special set of illustrations of Celtic mythology by Katherine Cameron. DETAILSViking Fonts and Art
This collection presents calligraphy and art based on the traditions of historic Germanic cultures. It draws on the broad scope of early Germanic design, from the pre-Christian era through the early middle ages, including not just Scandinavia, but other elements of Germanic culture from the Franks to the Saxons to the Normans and beyond. The main component is a collection of historic fonts which is complemented by a unique set of historic borders and motifs, plus art based on Viking myth and legend. DETAILS.Gothic Fonts
A collection of our best fonts based on gothic type and late medieval calligraphy. It covers the range from the historical styles in which gothic printing had its inspiration to the ornate heights of complex gothic fonts from 19th century Germany. This includes fonts in the style sometimes called 'Old English', as well as what calligraphers sometimes call 'Black Letter'. If you like your fonts dark, angular and complex, this is your dream collection. DETAILS
Scurlock on the Game Shelf
Scurlock has always been one of our most popular fonts for designers working in the board and roleplaying game industries and it has recently shown up in a couple of new games in your local game specialty store.
A couple of years ago Scurlock was used for the box cover and interior titles of a lavishly produced Arthurian-themed game called Shadows Over Camelot, published by Days of Wonder, which has also made good use of our fonts in some of their other games like Pirates Cove. Apparently it was popular enough – despite rather static game play – that it deserved an expansion, and so it was recently joined by Shadows Over Camelot: Merlin’s Company which adds more players, more characters (including Merlin himself) and new dimensions to the play of the game. The expansion has the same graphically appealing look as the original game, with great art and high quality components and continues the use of Scurlock all over the place.
Scurlock has also shown up recently on a new game from leading German game publisher Kosmos. It’s used for the main titles and cover of Blue Moon City which is available here in the US from Fantasy Flight Games. Blue Moon City is designed by the legendary Reiner Knizia who created Amun Ra, Medici and Tigris and Euphrates. The game is set in a fantasy city where you are trying to rebuild and restore order after a chaotic period. The components and design are impressive and the overall look is rich, but the game play is dismayingly abstract and seems almost abstract, a problem with Knizia’s games which often seem more formulaic than creative. It does showcase Scurlock nicely, though.
Classic Font: St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas is based on the title lettering from the early 20th century childrens magazine St. Nicholas, published by the Warne company, which is perhaps best known for publishing the works of Beatrix Potter. The magazine featured several different title styles over the years, but this particular design stood out so we designed a complete font based on it. It’s a full featured text font with a complete set of alternate and international characters. Stylistically it is distinguished by the embellished loop serifs on the upper case characters, which really set it apart when used for titles. We’ve brought St. Nicholas back and updated it as an early Christmas present.
You can try the demo version of St. Nicholas for free, or order the full version of St. Nicholas online with the complete expanded character set.
Monospaced Font Collection
We’ve spent a lot of time designing elegant and decorative fonts, but along the way we’ve also paid some attention to the less than fancy, specialized needs of computer users. One of the results of this is our selection of monospaced fonts, which includes something for just about every need.
Monospaced fonts are different from most fonts used in day to day word processing because they are designed with every character, both upper and lower case having exactly the same width. Most fonts are proportionally spaced, where each character takes up an amount of space appropriate to its shape. Monospaced fonts are non-proportional, with special adjustments to letter forms to make them more readable, but still uniform in spacing.
Our collection currently includes 7 different monospaced fonts. If you need a font for tables, screen displays, printing spreadsheets or any other job that requires the qualities of a monospaced font, you’re likely to find soemthing here that does the job for you.
Onuava is one of our most recent monospaced fonts, designed to be part of our Web Fonts package. It is specifically customized for screen display, with strong lines and character forms which are more open and easier to read. It is available as a single font for $24 and includes a full international character set.
Cincinnatus is one of our most successful monospaced font designs. It is unique in being a monospaced font with serifs which actually looks like a real font. Unlike most monospaced fonts Cincinnatus has a certain amount of elegance, while still being evenly spaced. It’s an excellent alternative to crude looking fonts like Courier. Cincinnatus is in our Master Fonts series and is available as a single font for $24. It includes a full international character set.
Vidilex is our simplest and cleanest monospaced font. It is completely without serifs and very regular in shape. It doesn’t look as refined as some of the other designs, but it is perfect if you want something minimalistic. Vidilex has been extraordinarily popular and as a result of customer requests we’ve developed many variant versions of the font, all of which are now included in this package. Vidilex is in our Master Fonts series and is also available singly for $24. It includes a full international character set.
Midilex is specifically designed for the needs of those who are printing spreadsheets or other text in a condensed form and need to be able to fit 132 characters in a line. Its basic design is derived from Onuava and Vidilex, but it is set at a width which maximizes the use of page space. Midilex is available as a single font for $24.
Regula is a compromise between Onuava and Midilex. It is denser, darker and narrower than either, with many of the same characteristics designed to enhance readability. It works very well on screen when you want somewhat denser text. Regula is available as a single font for $24.
Angelus is a more fanciful approach to a monospaced font. It was designed specifically for monospaced titles and has a futuristic, artificial look, very different from most monospaced fonts. Angelus is part of our Master Fonts series and is also available singly for $24. It has a full international character set.
People kept asking us if we had Courier or something very much like it, and while we tried to steer them towards Cincinnatus, apparently the typeset look of it scared them, or they needed a font much closer to Courier for technical papers or movie scripts, so we finally relented. Noticing that newer versions of Courier tended to be so thin as to be almost unreadable, and often had bizarrely diminutive serifs which reduced readability we decided to develop an entirely new font in the Courier tradition with clearer serifs and a heavier weight to increase readability. The result is Fontcraft Courier, which has become one of our most popular fonts. It’s still Courier, it’s still ugly, but it tries hard.
We did Gotegrim on a lark when we noticed that our Ranegund font was almost perfectly regularly spaced just because of the constraints of the Merovingian courthand style of calligraphy. Gotegrim isn’t going to work for most practical applications, and it’s not the most readable font at small sizes, but it does space out evenly, is extremely narrow, and looks sort of neat. Perhaps better suited to entertainment than practicality. Gotegrim is available singly for $24.
You can order each of these fonts individually by phone, mail or online (several of the newer fonts are not yet available online), or you can order Angelus, Vidilex and Cincinnatus together in a special Master Fonts package for $39. As a special offer, you can get all of the fonts on this page together plus a number of variations of the most popular fonts for $79, which is probably the best monospaced fonts deal you’ll see this year and a savings of almost $50 compared to buying the fonts individually..
To order by phone call 1-800-797-8973. The special discounted package is only available by phone. To order by mail click on the ordering info button to the left. To order online go to: ONLINE ORDERING
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New Font: BigBlok
A great many years ago when working in game publishing I had a real fascination with doing titles in a strong, super-bold font called Bolt Bold. The truth is I rather overused it. In doing some research I find it on more than a dozen different game books I wrote in the early 80s, all quite collectable and out of print today.
