Category Archives: Featured
Winter Single Font Sale
It almost snowed here in Austin, and with the pandemic everyone is trapped working indoors, so they need new fonts – at a discount! So that’s what we have here, an unprecedented sale with up to 60% off on single fonts of your choice out of hundreds in our collection, new or old. No fonts are excepted. They’re all on …
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Thanksgiving Week Special – 40% Off Everything!
In the era of COVID-19 things are just a little desperate everywhere, so we thought we should give everyone a break and offer a really good, universal discount. In recognition of Thanksgiving/BlackFriday/CyberMonday/SmallBusinessSaturday and in particular of everyone being stuck at home with nothing to do but shop online, we’re offering a sale for the for a whole week, starting on …
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Holiday Fonts and Art
hatever holiday you celebrate, it’s probably a time of cards and presents and decorations and parties — that means you’re going to need great fonts and art to add elegance and unique flare to your seasonal projects. The Scriptorium Holiday Fonts and Art collection has the resources you need, including free samples and shareware demos, as well as a selection …
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Renaissance Fonts and Art Collection
Click any font to see a larger sample. The Renaissance saw the movement of literature into vernacular languages, the beginnings of printing and mass book production and the popularization of fiction and writing of all sorts aimed at a wider, commercial audience. In accord with the humanist philosophy of the Renaissance there was a demand for more practical, accessible …
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MapMaker Collection
Making functional and attractive maps is a very specialized skill, prized by game designers, roleplayers and artists. To make exceptional maps, you need to have the right tools. Our MapMaker font and art package provide the fonts, textures and emblems which make drawing floorplans and developing stylish world and regional maps a breeze. Our map resources are based on the …
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Horror Fonts and Art for Halloween
For years here a the Scriptorium we’ve been developing fonts and collecting unique art which is perfect for Halloween and putting it together into packages which we promote through our Boneyard Fonts site. After 9 years we’ve put together a gruesomely provocative collection of fonts and art, adding new items every year around Halloween. We’re now up to almost 40 fonts, plus art from great masters of the macabre like J. G. Posada, Edmund Dulac, Willy Pogany and Harry Clarke. You’ll find everything you need for any Halloween or other horrific design project.
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Silent Film Font Collection
In our article on the fonts in the modern silent film The Artist we identified a number of our fonts which were similar in style to the period fonts in the film and historic films of that era. It seemed logical that we collect these fonts from the 1920s into a coherent package, especially since few of them are included …
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Medieval Fonts and Art
Click any font to see a larger sample. he Middle Ages saw calligraphy and book decoration emerge as significant art forms. The demands of church and government administration as well as the birth of popular literature created a huge demand for written documents. Decorative manuscripts began to become popular with a wider audience, courts …
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Graffiti Tag Fonts Collection
The cutting edge of contemporary calligraphy is on the back alleys, traincars and abandoned buildings of the cities of the world in the form of graffiti. Graffiti has evolved beyond crude drawings and “Kilroy is here” to become a serious art form, both as images and as lettering. There are numerous distinctive calligraphic styles, elaborative decorative letterijng and often associated …
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Louis Rhead Floral Borders
At the start of the previous century the Louis Rhead and his brothers (George and Frederick) were leading figures in the American Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movement, particularly Louis. He was heavily influenced by William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites and is best known for his unique book design in large folio works like his Pilgrim’s Progress and Idylls …
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Covid-19: A Viral Font
BUY NOW Covid-19 is the font of the hour. Any really trendy disease needs a stylish font to embody its essence and help it build a following. Who could forget the classic gothic branding of the Black Death font or the unique skeletal style of the Rickets font? Like those classics we feel confident …
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Fonts for eBooks
More and more literature – newspapers to magazines to novels and even comic books – is being consumed primarily in digital format. People are using iPads and Kindles and even smartphones to read what they used to read on paper. There have even been studies that suggest that people are actually reading more than they used to because of …
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Romantic Fonts and Art for Valentines Day
We’ve got a font package for just about every other holiday, so it seemed impossible to resist putting together a collection of fonts specifically for the romantic themes of Valentines Day. Once we’d settled on the idea it was inevitable that we also include a selection of romantic art by Eleanor Brickdale which is just perfect for making decorative Valentines …
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The Fonts of 2019
Every year we release a number of new fonts, and at the start of the next year we collect them all together and release them as a collection at a great discount price. That time has come again. 2019 was not our most productive year, but we did release 15 new fonts and some of them are very interesting. These …
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Walter Crane Initials and Ornaments
It has taken a lot of hours of development, but we finally have our promised Walter Crane Initials font. Or should I say FOUR fonts, because in the process of developing the font it turned out that we ended up with more than we bargained for. One reason that there are four fonts is that there was so much material …
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Holiday Feature Guide
Over the years we have produced many special packages and unique fonts specifically for the holiday season. Many of these were collected into our Holiday Font and Art Collection and others are stand-alone items such as packages of art for Christmas cards or special fonts for holiday designs.
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