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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
Flood Sale!
After months of drought here in Central Texas the rain decided to come to visit with a vengeance early Tuesday morning. We got 6 inches of rain in a little more than an hour, and because there had been so little rain for so long, none of the fall leaves around the legendary Scriptorium World Headquarters had washed away since the fall and Tuesday’s deluge washed them all down into the storm drains at once, clogging them up. With the drains clogged water backed up behind the building and rose up quickly, coming over the slab and flooding the ground floor several inches deep.
Fortunately the scope of the damage was fairly limited. All of the rare books are kept in the second-floor library and the rarest ones are in archival containers of one kind or another, safe from the damp. The archival folders containing our collection of Ivan Bilibin books from the early 1900s had been taken down for a project and were inches from the rising water, but they made it through okay. The most significant damage was to some electronic equipment. We lost a scanner, some phone equipment and two computer power adapters which were on the floor. So a little damage, but inconveniently under the yearly deductible for our insurance.
The flood was a pain in the neck, but not a full-scale disaster. It is, however, a great excuse for holding our first sale of the new year. If you place an order with a value of $60 or more during the next week, not only will you get a 25% discount on your total order, but you’ll also receive a free copy of the Cascade font (shown to the left) with your order – it seemed appropriate since it’s our most watery looking font. All you have to do is use the coupon code DELUGE when you check out.
Holiday Special
In this holiday season it seems appropriate to give something back to everyone who has supported us during the course of the year. It’s a time for presents and around here Santa brings fonts and unique art to good little boys and girls who inhabit this digital realm.
This takes the form of a special 20% discount coupon for any purchase of $50 or more through our ONLINE STORE. Just use the coupon code YULELOG before the 28th.
Join Us on Social Media – Get Special Deals!
A few months ago we launched a push to get as many followers on Facebook and Twitter as we could. It was pretty successful and we increased our social media reach substantially, but we can’t stop there. It’s an ongoing effort. To keep getting more people involved we’re using those two avenues of outreach to provide special discounts to participants.
So if you use the links to the right to “like” us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter, you’ll find that there are rewards, including periodic special offers and discounts which are exclusive to our social media networks.
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Captain Kidd Font Featured in NBC’s Grimm
Tonight, while I was watching NBC’s new show Grimm with the kids, I was pleasantly surprised by the appearance of our Captain Kidd font at the opening of the first commercial break, spelling out the word “Grimm” in the middle of the screen. It’s the first time the name of the show appears on screen during the broadcast, but it’s a pretty brief appearance. The sad part is that it’s also the last time the font appears in the show.
I suspect that as often happens, although the original production company had the good taste to pick Captain Kidd as the title font for the show, the network or someone higher up the chain of command decided to make a change before it finally made it on the air. Instead of Captain Kidd the website and promotional screens feature a more modern looking font. It’s not bad looking, but sure doesn’t have as much character as Captain Kidd does.
As for the show itself, it’s not bad. It’s darker and more original than ABC’s Once Upon a Time which also premiered this week. Think of it as a traditional cop show with monsters thrown in. The first episode was a bit sketchy as it had to get some backstory out, but it was still pretty enjoyable.
An Excellent Source for Vintage Poster Art
In my periodic random wanderings of the internet I stumbled on a rather excellent source for examples of vintage poster and book cover art and lettering at MovePosterShop.com. While their business seems to focus primarily on selling posters from contemporary movies, they have all sorts of interesting material in their catalog, from posters of pulp novel covers to vintage movie posters. Most appear to be reproductions, but the color and image quality seem to be excellent. And for someone primarily looking for visual inspiration and examples of cool lettering for future fonts, the fact that they have high-quality relatively large size preview images is a great thing.
A couple of things particularly caught my eye as I looked around. For one thing they have a poster of a cover from G8 and His Battle Aces which was my father’s favorite pulp series back in the 1930s. They also have a great selection of Weird Tales and Startling Stories covers. They also have an outstanding selection of foreign language versions of famous posters. There’s lots of obsura, like their surprisingly large selection of hard to find lesbian bondage novel covers – interesting to see though they certainly may not be to every taste.
Independence Day Special
The United States is 236 years old this week, so we’re offering everyone a birthday present on our two most patriotic font packages, our Colonial Fonts and Political Fonts packages.
The Colonial Fonts collection features historic type and calligraphy from the period of the Revolutionary War and the Political Fonts package has fonts specifically designed for making political posters and logos – something which could be very useful in the upcoming election year.
Through the end of the week (the 10th) you can order either or both of them online with $15 off by using the coupon code LIBERTY when you check out in our ONLINE STORE.
New Font: Bosphoros
| We don’t normally like to follow the same theme too much with our new font releases, but because we wanted to put together a special package of fonts by J. M. Bergling we’re following the release of Beaumains with Bosphoros, another font based on Bergling’s series of art nouveau themed lettering styles. Bosphoros fits the same general style but has a unique form and a lot of alternate characters. Of our various Bergling fonts it is one of the ones which is closest to the style of the psychedelic poster lettering which Bergling’s designs influenced and which you can find many eamples of in our Psychedelic Fonts collection.
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The Art of Eleanor Brickdale
Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale was one of the great illustrators of the later Victorian era, even though she is not as well known as some of her male contemporaries. She was strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites like Waterhouse and Millais, and studied with Lord Leighton. Her work also shows the influence of the Art Nouveau period and even the Impressionists, but it remains unique in its combination of modern and classical elements and its extraordinary technical excellence.
Brickdale’s illustrations have many portrait-like qualities, and while they have some similarity in the formal poses and rich color to the work of Sir William Russell Flint, her subjects personalities shine through in a way which Flint’s work never achieved. She also gave many of her images a faux-medieval look with elaborate stylized backgrounds and even painted text frames and decorations. She was particularly adept with images of winged angels and spirits which appear in many of her works.
This new, expanded version of our Brickdale collection draws on all of her major works and includes illustrations for Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, Browning’s Dramatis Personae, Palgrave’s Golden Treasury and a number of other works. Her interpretations of these classic poems of the Victorian and Romantic eras bring to life characters like Sir Lancelot and the Pied Piper in a style which is unique and entrancing. Her work is particularly characterized by the brilliant, lively colors, realistic faces and depictions of angelic figures amid everyday life.
Our Eleanore Brickdale package is available for only $59 and includes a over 100 full-color illustrations in high resolution suitable for use in print, as well as bonus content, including a large selection of black and white borders, marginalia and decorations. As with all of our art packages the images are licensed for you to use in your designs and projects. If you have the older release of the package you can upgrade to the current version for just $25.
The easiest way to get this package is to order it online. To order online, just CLICK HERE . It’s also easy to order with our toll-free number at 1-800-797-8973.
If you like the Eleanor Brickdale colleciton, you might also like the art of the Pre-Raphaelites and Sir William Russell Flint, who come from the same time period and are similar in style. Just click here to check out the FLINT page or take a look at PRE-RAPHAELITE page instead.
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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.
