Featured Font: Chaillot

Chaillot is based on 12th century gothic calligraphy which has some characteristics of early black letter calligraphy and stylistic holdovers from late Carolingian lettering. It is a very bold and distinctive calligraphic style with unusual decorations and flourishes. Chaillot is one of our oldest fonts and was originally released in 1994. This updated version has additional characters and replaces the smallcaps in the original design with a customized true lowercase character set in the style of the capital letters of the original font. The demo version includes only the original uppercase and smallcaps. The new lowercase is only available in this new edition of the font.You can try the DEMO version of Chaillot for free. Or you can ORDER the full version for only $24 online and download it right away.

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New Font: Langdon

Langdon is our first new font of 2012. It’s based on samples of hand-rendered poster lettering from the early 1900s by J. M. Bergling. It has a strong, distinctive look with demi-serifs and an art nouveau or art deco look. It’s very much the kind of font which we might include in a new release of our Steampunk collection. It has some interesting features, including some alternative characters and a meticulously designed custom small-caps character set.

You can try the DEMO version of Langdon for free. Or you can ORDER the full version for only $24 online and download it right away.

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Classic Font: True Golden

True Golden is one of the cornerstone fonts in our William Morris collection. It is a unique rendering of Morris’ Golden type, which he based on samples of early Jensen typefaces. Our rendering of the style has a special, authentic look because unlike most versions of the font which are based directly on the metal type, it is based on printed samples so it preserves some of the heavier weight and softer outlines which the font had when printed on the thick, high quality papers used by Morris for his Kelmscott Press books. It is the only version of Golden designed to preserve the look of the font as it was intended to be printed. True Golden is part of our Master Font series and includes an expanded character set plus custom bold and italic weights of the font.

You can try the DEMO version of True Golden for free. Or you can ORDER the full version for only $29 online and download it right away.

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2011 Font and Art Sampler

At the end of every year we put together a special sampler package of releases from that year. This year our 2011 Font and Art Sampler has a particularly excellent collection selected from the many releases we’ve had during the year. It’s the best of the year in one compact package.

It starts with a special set of five fonts, including two of our regular new releases, Areobrush and Elsense plus three additional fonts which were only released in special packages and were not even available as demos, Guilford Crude, Ribbon Borders and Decobits.  All five of these fonts are included in complete fully registered versions.

The package also includes the demo versions of all 22 of the new fonts we released in 2011, from San Lorenzo to Nostromo . All of the demo fonts are in TrueType format for MacOS and Windows and the full fonts also include the files for PostScript users.  It’s a remarkably varied assortment of original font designs.

The package also includes a selection of rare illustrations.  It includes the complete sets of illustrations from Olive Allen’s Tanglewood Tales and Arthur Rackham’s Greek Heroes, which were released as mini-packages earlier in the year.  It also includes an assorted collection of 24 high-resolution images from the hundreds included in the larger packages released during the year, including several Walter Crane and Owen Jones collections released in 2011.

Best of all, because this is a sampler package it’s available at the uniquely low promotional price of just $11.95 and you can order and download it online from our ONLINE STORE.

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New Font: Nostromo

Nostromo is based on a sample of early 1900s period advertising lettering with a particularly dramatic personality and a look which really grabs the eye. The font includes all uppercase characters, with some variants, plus the unique feature that if you use the underline key it puts top and bottom rails connecting the characters before and after, creating a very striking effect. The font is playful but at the same time seems almost menacing. Ultimately it might find a place in our Steampunk collection. The name of the font is taken from the title of Joseph Conrad’s novel of the same name. The style of the font resonates with the name and it would have looked very appropriate on the cover of an early edition of the novel, had we made it 120 years earlier.

You can try the DEMO version of Nostromo for free with a limited character set. Or you can ORDER the full version for only $24 online and download it right away. The full version features Postscript, TrueType and OpenType files.

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Fonts in Arthur Christmas

Took the kiddies to see Arthur Christmas today. The film was pretty good as animated Christmas fare goes. Light and full of action with some very good animation from Aardman, which has branched out from their long history of doing excellent stop motion work into 3D digital animation.

But for me a surprise bonus at the end of the film was a brief epilogue telling about the future experiences of the main characters, done in the form of Christmas chards, all of them done with our fonts, including Ganelon, Rossetti, Gaiseric and of course St. Nicholas. It looks like they just grabbed our Holiday Fonts and Art package and put it straight to work.




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Top Eleven Fonts of 2011

At the end of the year it’s always popular to try to track trends. So a bit of number crunching with our sales record yields some interesting data, starting with a look at what individual fonts sold particularly well during the past year. There’s some value to looking at what other font users have found appealing. You might find their choices instructive.

Traditionally we’d do this as a top ten list, but because it’s 2011, here are our eleven top selling fonts of the past year. They’re mostly reliable classics, but a few popular new fonts snuck onto the list as well.

#1: WINDLASS

#2: ALBEMARLE

#3: ALLEGHENY

#4: CAPTAIN KIDD

#5: GUILFORD

#6: BRANDYWINE

#7: ST. NICHOLAS

#8: SUSPICION

#9: MONCRIEF

#10: BERGLING

#11: CHANGELING

Each of the links takes you direct to the font’s store listing. If you place an order for any of these fonts before the end of the year you can get a 20% discount on your total order with the coupon code ELEVEN on checkout.

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Classic Font: Swithin

Swithin was designed to be our featured holiday font for 2003. It is based on samples of advertising lettering from posters produced during the 1920s. The whimsical nature of the characters and the decorative elements make it an excellent font for holiday cards. It features a full uppercase character set and offset small caps for the lowercase. It looks great on Christmas cards. Swithin is available singly or in our Holiday Fonts and Art package.

You can try the DEMO version of Swithin for free. Or you can ORDER the full version for only $24 online and download it right away.

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Better Font Choices for the Holidays

You’re not going to use Helvetica or Times Roman for your holiday cards are you? What could be more generic or empty? The holidays need style, panache and a personal touch. You need fonts for cards and family newsletters which weren’t picked by a committee at Microsoft. So here are some fun and stylish suggestions.

First off, any holiday card envelope or even a return address label can really be enhanced with the addition of an appropriate emblem or border. For that we recommend a font like our Rackham Holiday Ornaments, featuring silhouette images from Dickens’ Christmas Carol.
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New Font: Barnabas

Our new Barnabas font is the result of our Dark Shadows font design project. It’s an original font inspired by the original titles for the Dark Shadows television show, but updated for a more contemporary audience with the upcoming release of Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows movie in mind. It combines gothic capital letters with  Latin small caps reminiscent of the original titles, but distressed and roughened to create a darker and more degenerate effect.

The name of the font was picked by voters on this page who preferred Barnabas (the first name of main character Barnabas Collins) to several alternatives. The sample graphic features a picture of the Corey Mansion which is the model for Collinwood in the TV series.  It’s also the first new font to include the OpenType version as one of the standard formats at no additional charge, which will be our practice from here out. You can try the DEMO version of Barnabas for free with a limited character set. Or you can ORDER the full version for only $24 online and download it right away.

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