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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
Featured Font: Guilford
| Guilford is one of several fonts we’ve released based on the hand lettering of classic American artist Eric Sloane. It fits in with the colonial theme of many of his book designs, with an antique, rustic look. It is one of several Sloane fonts included in our Colonial Fonts Collection, along with Bridgeport and QueenslandGuilford features a special custom demo with a unique set of small caps. The font itself includes a full lowercase character set. You can try the DEMO version of Guilford for free. Or you can ORDER the full version for only $24 online and download it right away. | 
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Featured Font: Melcheburn
| Melcheburn is a really handsome calligraphic font which we first released in 2000 and which has been revised twice since then. It has character forms which are more decorative than classic black letter fonts, with embellished capitals and some decorative variants of selected lowercase characters as well. It stands out with a distinct style which is different from other fonts of its period of origin in the late 14th and early 15th century. The font is named in memory of the Melcheburn brothers who gained fame in the late 14th century for stealing back the English crown jewels from the Hanseatic bankers to whom Edward III had pawned them.
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Featured Font: Mephisto
| Mephisto is one of our more popular classic fonts. It was designed in the mid-90s and has gone through a couple of updates, but it was past due for being revisited and thoroughly revised. This new version includes more unique arcane alternate characters and improved outlines and tweaked proportions on some of the characters. It’s cleaner and better looking than earlier versions.
Mephisto is a very striking bold font with spiked ascenders and descenders and an overall look which is somewhat ominous. It has been popular for use in fantasy and horror publications and designs and inevitably in association with heavy metal bands and album designs. In addition to the basic character set it includes mystical special characters like the triskelion and eight-armed star of chaos. Mephisto is featured in our Horror Fonts and Art collection. You can try the DEMO version of |
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Featured Font: Rosalinde
| Rosalinde was first released in 1999 and it was one of our first attempts at an informal handwriting-style font. It is a bit more than just a regular handwriting font. It has some stylized characteristics and unusual character forms which give it a really unique overall appearance. I’ve always thought of it as a great font for doing a page of handwritten text or a poem, enhanced by the high ascenders and descenders. If you like the look and want a companion font which is more structured and more calligraphic looking it has a very similar weight and size to our Gaiseric font. This version of Rosalinde is updated with some improved characters and the addition of an international character set.
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Featured Font: Gloriana
| Gloriana was originally released in 1999 based on samples of hand lettering in an illustated childrens book from the early 1900s. It was one of several conceptually similar fonts we did during that period, including Gaiseric, Rosalinde, Scurlock and Folkard. For some reason Folkard was the big hit of the various fantasy themed fonts we did as part of that project and although Gloriana was the one which was most similar to Folkard and also one of the most interesting of those designs, it just didn’t take off in the same way. Now it’s time to give it another chance. We think its combination of hand-drawn personality, lots of alternate characters and decorative elements makes it special and deserving of more attention. You can try the DEMO version of Gloriana for free by registering. Or you can ORDER the full version for only $24 online and download it right away. |
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Featured Font: Vafthrudnir
| With the upcoming release of Marvel’s Thor movie, things viking are all trendy right now. The movie features a rather uninspiring font choice for its title design, so I looked through our Viking Fonts and Art collection for what I thought would be the best choice for titles on a movie about the hammer-wielding thunder god, and the obvious choice seemed to be Vafthrudnir.
Vafthrudnir has a rough, bold, quasi-runic look, with strongly vertical character forms which make it excellent for a lot of uses. In fact, we used it for the menu bar links in our online store and people keep noticing it there and asking about it. It features two different versions of the uppercase character, with a standard variation and a more runic-looking alternative. It’s a strong font, plus it has a cool name. How can you go wrong? You can try the DEMO version of Vafthrudnir 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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St. Patrick’s Day Bonus Font: Coverack
| Some years ago, while traveling in Cornwall I saw some unique hand lettering on a signboard outside of a pub and later I reconstructed the fanciful Celtic lettering style from memory to produce what became the Coverack font. Coverack is in the tradition of Celtic uncial lettering, but is extra bold and has some fantastical embellishments and special symbol characters.. The name comes from a lovely little town on the Cornish coast where we stayed during the trip.
This updated version of Coverack has some additional special characters and improved kerning and character positioning. It features different versions of each character in the upper and lower case positions as well. It’s really a remarkable font with a lot of unique Celtic character. You can try the DEMO version of Coverack for free (limited character set), or you can ORDER the full version online and download it right away. |
 
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Classic Font: Ulalume
| Ulalume was one of our earliest text fonts. It was originally designed in 1993 and then substantially modified in 1996, but since that time it was kind of allowed to languish in our back catalog with little attention, which was a shame because there is always a need for stylish text fonts with strongly contrasting weights, and the ultra thin and very bold elements of Ulalume really make it stand out, especially for titles and poster uses where you need something more dramatic than a standard text font.
For this new release of Ulalume we’ve expanded the character set, adding more foreign language characters and more special characterts. We’ve also cleaned up and sharpened the outlines and addressed problems with several characters which were slightly out of position or had an off look to them. The result is a really outstanding new version of an older font which we think people will find very useful. You can try the DEMO version of Ulalume 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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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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Classic Font: Semiramis
Semiramis was originally released in 1997. It’s an arts and crafts style font based on samples of lettering from books published by the Roycrofters in the early 1900s. It has a truly unique look, the most extreme example of the decorative, “architectural” style designs of that period. It also has a heavier weight and broader character form than other similar fonts. Most interestingly, it has lots of variant forms of the character forms. There are at least two and as many as four different versions of each character, a feature which is ideal if you want to customize the look of words or have nesting characters in the design of a logo. It’s a striking and versatile font which looks like nothing else you’ve seen.
You can try the DEMO version of Semiramis 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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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.
