Category Archives: Classic Fonts
Illuminata Psychedelic Era Font
Illuminata was inspired by lettering from a poster from the Fillmore in the 1960s. It was originally released in 2001 as part of the Psychedelic Fonts package and then later further developed for the Oroboros game project. This latest revision features additional characters and rather than having just one version of the unique, super tall and narrow character set it …
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St. Nicholas: The Christmas Font
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 …
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Esperanza: Classic Font
Esperanza is one of our earliest fonts and it was due for an upgrade, so we have gone through it, fixed some problem outlines, added new spacing and kerning and adjusted the weight of some of the characters. It’s a great, stylish scrip font with origins in the 19th century. You can get this new improved version of Esperanza online …
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Bucephalus – Classic Font
Bucephalus is a classic Art Nouveau style font, one of the first that we ever released back in the early 1990s. It has gone through several revisions since then, the latest featuring improved character outlines and kerning, plus an expanded foreign language character set. Bucephalus takes it’s name from Alexander the Great’s horse, because the curved form of the characters …
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Ekberg Modern Font
Ekberg is a stylish modern font with curved character forms, for which it was named after Anita Ekberg, the well-rounded actress in Fellini’s classic La Dolce Vita. Anita Ekberg passed away last year, but she is immortalized in the font which bears her name. It is based on lettering samples by Samuel Welo from poster designs of the 1920s. It …
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Courtrai Medieval Font
Courtrai is one of our early fonts, released back in 1996, and more than due for an update. It is based on samples of medieval calligraphy from France in teh late 13th century in a distinctive and unusual style. It is named after a town on the Flemish border where famous as the location of the Battle of the Golden …
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Momento Mori Font
While working on a graphic design project we needed a font similar to the hand carved letter style used on tombstones in the 17th century. After doing a little research we realized that we already had a font which was quite similar, so we made some basic modifications and added some important characters and soon we had transformed the Primer …
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Abelarde: Featured Font
Abelarde is a classic medieval gothic style font which combines traditional blackletter style lower case characters with more ornate and decorative capital letters with some nice swash features.
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Tyrfing – Featured Font
Tyrfing is an unusual squared gothic font based on late 19th century type from Germnany. The lowercase letters are a nice, heavy version of gothic uncial calligraphy and the uppercase characters are more elaborate variations on those characters with decorative elements. Tyrfing is available singly but it is also in our Gothic Fonts Collection. It takes its name from a …
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Joyeuse: A Christmas Font
Joyeuse is one of our earlier fonts, based on a 1920s design derived from William Morris’ Troy Type. It was one of the first fonts we included in our Holiday Fonts and Art package and one of our first Master Fonts and has been a staple of Christmas Card design for years. This new version of Joyeuse includes some revisions …
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Black Cow Font for Halloween
Black Cow is a unique original font designed for our Horror Fonts and Art collection several years ago. It’s one of the most interesting fonts in the large selection of fonts in that package, but it hasn’t had the huge level of popularity which some of the other fonts have enjoyed.
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Pullman Font
Pullman is a classic font based on commercial lettering from the 1930s. We originally adapted the font to a digital version in 1999 and it’s been languishing neglected until now. So we’ve dusted it off and made some standard improvements and here it is, ready for the new millenium.
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