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
New Font: Alcuin
| We’re working on a number of projects based on designs by legendary 19th century codicologist Owen Jones, who is most famous for his Grammar of Ornament. One of those projects is his book One Thousand and One Initial Letters from 1864. We have a lovely copy which was originally in the library of a Catholic monastery in England, which adds a touch of romance and history. The project involves preserving the color lettering and borders in high resolution digital format and also creating selected fonts based on those alphabets which have the necessary characteristics for adaptation as fonts.
The first of these is Alcuin, which is based on a set of 13th century illuminated initials. The letters in Alcuin are typical of early illuminated manuscripts with Irish-influenced uncial lettering, but with the addition of unusual abstract decorations which make each letter unique but are not overly complex, making them perfect for adaptation to font format. Alcuin includes a full upper case of decorated characters, a lower case of the plain characters and several extra variant versions of some of the characters. You can try the DEMO version of Alcuin for free, but it includes only one version of each character. Or you can ORDER the full version online and download it right away. |
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2010 Font and Art Sampler
At the end of every year we put together a special discounted package with samples of what we produced during that year, and now it’s time to release a sampler with some of our best items from 2010, including selected art and featured fonts. 2010 saw the release of some extraordinary fonts and art and this is a chance to try out a great selection of those releases at a unbeatably low price.
The art in this demo collection includes the full set of illustrations from Charles Folkard’s edition of Ring of the Nibelungs, all of the illustrations from Walter Crane’s The Hind in the Woods and our collection of Texas Sky backgrounds. It also includes selected images from some of our new art packages, including Walter Crane’s Queen Summer, our collection of Jugend Tarot card art and Eleanor Brickdale’s Carols.
The package also includes the full release versions of four of our popular fonts form 2010: Antrobus, Bergling, Vambrace and Vyones. In aaddition it includes demo versions of all 18 of the new fonts released in 2010.
Best of all, the whole package is only $9.95 and you can order it online and download it FROM OUR STORE.
Featured Font: Bridgeport
| Bridgeport was first released in 2003 and is one of several fonts based on lettering by legendary artist and calligrapher Eric Sloane, including Queensland and Guilford. Bridgeport has the look of hand lettered capitals, with strong vertical forms and a large selection of special characters and unique ligatures. It’s remarkably attractive and versatile, particularly excellent for signs and posters.
You can try the DEMO version of Bridgeport for free, but it includes only one version of each character. Or you can ORDER the full version online and download it right away.
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Bridgeport in Bridgeport
It’s so appropriate that we had to make a note of it. At the Harborview Market in Bridgeport, Connecticut, owner Rick Torres has prominently featured our Bridgeport font in his signage for the popular local coffee shop. We stumbled on the image of the sign when Torres ran for Congress last year. He didn’t win, but he’s a big star with us for making sure that Bridgeport has a presence in the town from which it takes its name.
Try the Scriptorium Mobile App
It seems sort of counterintuitive to view fonts and graphics on a smartphone, but if we’re doing this site right, there’s a lot more to the content than just the fonts and images you download. It ought to be a good read and a useful reference source as well. Plus smartphone apps are all the rage and I like the idea of having one for reference for myself.
So, using the system available from WidgetBox, I created a simple App based on the primary content of this site, linked to the RSS feed so that it gets updated as the site changes, and exported it as an App. They provide convenient links to various methods to get it onto peoples phones, and it comes in both iPhone and Android versions. Developing the App required the creation of three simple custom images — an icon, an entry screen and a header — and the whole job took about an hour. Right now this is just a starting points. There are a lot of shortcomings to making an App this way. Links inside the articles don’t work right and not all graphics come through the way they should. But it’s a start and down the road we’ll work on replacing it with a more substantive and full-featured alternative.
If you want to try the App out, use the link below. I’m not convinced that the web based option works. The most effective way to get it is by SMS.
Text Fonts Collection
 Text fonts are fundamental for virtually any project. For a lot of computer users and desktop publishers text fonts are all there is. They tend to use the same basic fonts for a wide variety of uses, and they are almost all text fonts. Times and Helvetica are fine fonts, but they do get a little boring after a while.
Our single fonts and text font samplers can be ordered online, by mail or by phone for delivery online or by mail. You can find single text fonts on our text fonts ordering page or get the whole collection. To get an idea of what our text fonts are like, try out the shareware version of Cochin Archaic. It doesn’t have all of the punctuation and special characters, but should give you a good idea of what our text fonts can look like on your computer. You can download it in an archive which will work on Mac or PC.
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Fonts in this collection. Click on name to see sample.
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Our text fonts break down into three general types. We have traditional text fonts like Marquis and Savoyard, specialized text fonts including monospaced fonts like Angelus and Cincinnatus, and antique text fonts based on historical typefaces and in many cases including special antique characteristics.
Our traditional text fonts include both serif and sans serif faces and styles which have similar characteristics to the most popular fonts like Times, Palatino, Arial and Helvetica. We’ve all seen too much of these fonts, but there are times when conformity is expected, so our collection covers these basics.
What we really specialize in is providing text fonts which fit the needs of standard text uses, but add a bit of style or some unusual, special characteristics. Good examples of this are our monospaced fonts like Cincinnatus or Angelus which are easy to read at small sizes and have uniform spacing, but are more stylish and more attractive than traditional monospaced fonts like Courier or Monaco.
Our other specialty in text fonts is recreation of antique styles which have unusual merit or special character, such as our True Golden font based on William Morris’ Golden, Cochin Archaic based on a 18th century design by Nicholas Cochin, or fonts like Boswell and Buccaneer which preserve the rough characteristics of old wood type. Many of these antique type fonts also include special characters like the long-s and alternate character forms to add to their authenticity.
New Font: Moncrief
In working on graphic design projects I’ve been repeatedly frustrated by the lack of interesting medium-weight script fonts which are simple enough to be readable, but not too plain to be interesting. So with the latest project which needed a font like that – a relatively simple t-shirt design – I decided it was time to fill that need once an for all. I started with some samples of early 20th century calligraphy by J. M. Bergling and developed a full character set and customized the weighting and some of the character forms to make it work as a font and the end result is really very satisfactory. The Moncrief font looks somewhat calligraphic, but it’s not too flourished and has a heavy enough weight to stand out among bold title fonts. There are some fun quirks like an extended “s” and a very neat swashed “Q” to give it unique character, but it’s as functional as it is stylish.
You can download and try the demo version of Moncrief, in TrueType format for Mac or PC. You can also order the full version of San Lorenzo online for immediate download: BUY IT NOW.
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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.
