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.
Facial Topiary: A Silly Font for a Silly Day
As some of you may have noticed, we had some technical issues with the site in the last days of the month. That didn’t leave a lot of time for the usual brilliant April Fools joke. So instead of something brilliant and witty, we offer something remarkably stupid – Facial Topiary, the first font where every character represents a different facial hair style which you can artfully arrange to create any facial display from a trim and diabolic Lenin to a full blown Tennyson. Pick you favorite beard, mustache, hair and sideburns and go wild. It’s a must for every stylish hipster. To download Facial Topiary for free just click on the image to the right and enjoy April Fool’s Day.
Art & Symbol Fonts Collection
Art fonts (sometimes called “dingbats”) have their origins in early printers ornaments used to fill space on a printed page. Traditionally these ornaments took the form of floral or geometric designs, and were inserted when the page was set, just like type.
Traditionally most art fonts are fairly primitive, drawing on mostly functional
themes, such as international sign symbols or recreating antique printers ornaments. But the medium of digital type is capable of much more, and we try to explore some of those possibilities with our art fonts. They go beyond the primitive concept of the “dingbat” and provide a more sophisticated range of small, versatile illustrations which will enhance documents very effectively.
We also have many of historically based art fonts, drawn from ancient images and
decorative arts, including Roman tiles, Native American pottery painting and medeival
heraldry, plus a selection of humorous and whimsical silhouettes.
All of our art fonts are available in both True Type and Postscript format for Macintosh and PC computers. They can be purchased individually for prices ranging from $9 to $12, or in a special CD collection with more than 25 of our art fonts for $69.00.
Our single fonts and art font packages can be ordered online, by mail or by
phone for delivery online or by mail. The special collection of all of the initials includes dozens of unique art fonts suitable to a wide variety of uses.
We’ve also got a free sample art font for you to try out. It features selected characters from some of our most popular art fonts and you can download it for free.
This font includes characters from Sigil (A-D), Decoration (E-H), Sangrael (I-K), Zapatec (L-N), Spirals (O-P), Florissant (Q-R), Mesoglyphs (S-T), Emblem (U-V), Hexstar (W-X) and Celtic Borders (Y-Z) – all upper case letter positions. Click here to download it for either WINDOWS or MacOS
Featured Font: Turkey Day
Thanksgiving is a great time to celebrate family and the harvest and remember some history, and part of that history is told in the form of unique fonts, including many which were created for special occasions to add decoration to holiday cards or invitations. Printers have been ornamenting for the holidays for centuries, and many of the images are just as useful today as they were when our country was much younger.
The Turkey Day font is a selection of printers ornaments from the early 1900s featuring turkeys, pilgrims and harvest images perfect for the holiday.
You can purchase Turkey Dayonline and get a special discount of $5 off the cost by using the coupon code PLYMOUTHROCK when you order.
