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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
New Font: Romark
| It’s the time of year when we do a lot of design for political posters and some of those projects need special fonts. On this kind of work we already get a lot of mileage out of fonts like Aventine and Atinson Egyptian, but we needed more diversity and something with a different look. Fonts for campaign posters can’t be terribly subtle. They have to be bold and visible from a moving car. So when we needed a heavy weight serif font, we came up with something unique to meet the need. The result is Romark, a font which looks a bit like a typewriter on way too many steroids or an attempt to draw Courier with a really large and not very sharp crayon. It was hand lettered and then the outlines were tuned up, but it still has a bit of a rough character. It’s very readable and highly visible and perfect for use on posters where you need a bold statement and don’t want something too generic looking.
You can try the DEMO version of Romark for free. Or you can ORDER the full version for only $24online and download it right away. |
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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: 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.
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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.
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.
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.
#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.
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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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.
