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New Font: Startling Stories

Featured Font: Slava

New Font: Escargot

Featured Font: Orphiel

New Font: Shayne

Classic Font: Zothique

Walter Crane Initials and Ornaments

Featured Font: Malagua

New Font: Original Django

Featured Font: Potsdam

New Font – Eisenstein

Featured Font: Locksley

New Font – St. Ives

Featured Font: Froissart

New Font: Treadway

Featured Font: Munich

New Font: Drakulon

Special Font Release: Posada Spur

Classic Font: Black Cow

New Font: Fougasse

Classic Font: Lachesis

New Font: Diomedes

Classic Font: Engrossing

New Font: Death Ray

Classic Font: Alecto

New Font: Rodchenko

Classic Font: Padstow

New Font: Monstrous

Featured Font: Abdiel

New Font: Romark

Featured Font: Chaillot

New Font: Langdon

Classic Font: True Golden

New Font: Nostromo

Classic Font: Swithin

New Font: Barnabas

Featured Font: Illuminata

New Font: Leodegar

Classic Font: Dromon

New Font: Serenissima

Classic Font: Paleos

New Font: Elsene

Special Font: Guilford Crude

Featured Font: Guilford

New Font: Gelderland

Featured Font: Circuit

New Font: Scrapple

Featured Font: Melcheburn

Featured Font: Vergennes

New Font: Bosphoros

Featured Font: Mephisto

New Font: Beaumains

Featured Font: Rosalinde

New Font: Aerobrush

Featured Font: Gloriana

New Font: Rodrigo Initials

New Font: Suspicion

St. Patrick’s Day Bonus Font: Coverack

Classic Font: Ulalume

New Font: Alcuin

Featured Font: Bridgeport

New Font: Moncrief

Classic Font: Semiramis

New Font: San Lorenzo

Featured Font: Schoolhand

New Font: Holly Initials

Classic Font: Goodfellow

New Font: Vyones

New Font: Big Show

Classic Font: Gjallarhorn

New Font: Hadrianus Swash

Classic Font: Black Cow

New Font: Plymouth

Classic Font: Hadrianus

Classic Font: St. Nicholas

New Font: Caelian

Classic Font: Buccaneer

New Font: Vambrace

Classic Font: Scurlock Updated

New Font: Montgisard

Classic Font: Orlock

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.

Classic Font: Albemarle

New Font: Letterpress Gothic

Classic Font: Linthicum

New Font: Bergling

Classic Font: Stonecross

New Font: Ormandine

Classic Font: Rheingold

New Font: Aylward

Classic Font: Stuttgart Gothic

New Font: Andrano

Classic Font: Gaiseric

New Font: Antrobus

Classic Font: Brandywine

New Font: Airship

New Font: Borealis

New Font: Alexandrine

New Font: Madding

Classic Font: Moravia

Creating the Glastonbury Font

Font Revision: Pontifica New

New Font: Changeling

Classic Font: Delaguerra

New Font: Krasny Mir

Classic Font: Joyeuse

New Font: Rockne

Classic Font: Structura

New Font: Rasael

Classic Font: Tuscarora

New Font: Foundry Ornament

Classic Font: Melusine

New Font: Agravain

Classic Font: Evadare Enhanced

New Font: Pencraft Initials

Classic Font: Windlass Enhanced

New Font: Amphitryon

Classic Font: Boswell

New Font: Walter Crane

St. Patrick’s Day Font Special: Spiral Initials

New Font: Art Deco Stencil

Classic Font: Acadian

New Font: Burd Ellen

Classic Font: Brigidis

New Font: Atkinson Boomtown

Classic Font: Jugendstil Kunsthand

New Font: Verne

New Font: Goldwork

New Font – Crane Gothic

Classic Font: Valdemar

New Font – Waldeck

Classic Font – Orpheus

New Font – Stampwork

New Font – Woburn Initials

New Font – Malvern

New Font: Valentin

Orford Font

New Font: Broadley

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New Font: Serenissima...

Serenissima takes its name from a nickname for the city of Venice which means "The Serene One." It's a particularly inappropriate name considering what a huge and absolutely unserene effort went into the creation of this digital versi[...]

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 f[...]

New Font: Monstrous...

It's time for something new and strange, our new and original Monstrous font. Monstrous is a titling font which offers a striking look and special features which make it truly unique. The characters are stylized and super-bold, but[...]

Featured Font: Schoolhand...

Schoolhand was originally commissioned by the Education Department at a major Christian university, which will remain nameless. It was developed to their specifications in order to teach cursive handwriting to children, sharing some charac[...]

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 [...]

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[...]

Classic Font: Black Cow...

Black Cow was originally developed back in 1998 as an addition to our Horror Fonts and Art collection. It has since been through several revisions with the addition of lots of alternate character forms. It's a super quirky font with very [...]

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 u[...]

Classic Font: Dromon...

Dromon has been one of our most popular and most successful display fonts. It's a modern, super-bold headline style with some clear ancestry in German gothic type design, but a unique and contemporary look. This new release of Dromo[...]

New Font: Barnabas...

Our new Barnabas font is the result of our Dark Shadows font design project. It's an original font inspired by the original titles for the Dark Shadows television show, but updated for a more contemporary audience with the upcoming re[...]

Classic Font: Goodfellow...

Goodfellow was first released in the spring of 1993. It was based on Art Nouveau period metal type designed for titles and logos. It became a surprise hit when Tim Burton used it as the title font for his hit animated film A Nightmare Bef[...]

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 Slo[...]

Special Font: Guilford Crude...

When we were developing the Guilford font there was a whole set of early versions of the characters which ended up being discarded as the font was developed towards a more regular and consistent design. These older and quirkier varian[...]

Featured Font: Abdiel...

Abdiel originated in 2005 as a custom design for a company logo. All they wanted was a few of the letters done in a flourished Renaissance style, but we decided to expand the effort for our own purposes to create a complete font with[...]

New Font: Scrapple...

Scrapple is a new font based on the idea of constructing characters from a limited selection of wood blocks featuring round and rectangular shapes. Scrapple has a cool, crude and industrial look. It's all uppercase, but the lowercase[...]

New Font: Escargot...

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Escargot is based on lettering from the cover of an early pulp novel I came across a couple of months ago. It's a strong example of a distinctive style of sign and poster lettering fro[...]

New Font - St. Ives...

In honor of Cyber Monday, which some people are now expanding to be a whole Cyber Week, we're releasing St. Ives, a new modernistic font with unique riser and descender characters which give it an unusual linear look. It will [...]

New Font: Suspicion...

I recently wrote a brief article on pulp novel book cover art and lettering as a source of inspiration. Inevitably this led me to actually work on developing some fonts based on the lettering styles featured on the covers of some of [...]

Classic Font: Paleos...

We originally released Paleos back in 2002. It was inspired by kinds of titles used for B grade movies in the cavegirl/junglegirl genre. Movies so bad that they're good in a way that appeals to cult movie fans. The concept is that the[...]

New Font: Holly Initials...

It wouldn't be the holidays without a special font designed to capture the mood of the season. As a source for something special I went to our library of rare books on type and calligraphy and found a rare book on calligraphy called Real P[...]

Featured Font: Locksley...

BUY NOW TRY DEMO We have done a number of fonts based on unique, historic movie titles. The most well known and widely circulated is our Captain Kidd font, but we have another historic movie font based on an even more f[...]

Featured Font: Munich...

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Our Munich font was first released in 1998 and has been revised several times since then. This latest version includes substantial improvements in the outlines of the characters and a new set of simple upper [...]

Classic Font: Alecto...

Alecto was originally released in 2002 and was one of the fonts developed for our Futuristic Fonts package. It has a unique science fictional look, combining some of the look of an OCR font with pure fantasy elements. It's just the k[...]

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 lo[...]

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Futuristic Fonts - Updated and E...

Click to see larger sample. It's not easy to define what the future of font design will be, but we can certainly identify fonts which look like something from what we imagine the future to be[more]

Holiday Feature Guide...

Holiday Fonts and Art Collection Classic Font: St. Nicholas New Font: Holly Initials Classic Font: Swithin Classic Font: Offenbach Chancery Design Your Own Holiday Cards Better Holiday Font Choices Holiday Bonus: Pr[more]

E. J. Detmold Arabian Nights Ill...

E. J. Detmold was an early 20th century illustrator most known for his nature illustrations, particularly of insects, in books like Fabre's Book of Insects and The Life of the Bee. He also illustrated some fairy tale books, the most notabl[more]

The Fonts of 2012...

In 2012 we released 18 new fonts. 14 of these were released as new, "featured" fonts and 4 were special releases as part of packages or promotions. The featured fonts also went out to our Font Club, while s[more]

Louis Rhead Floral Borders...

At the start of the previous century the Rhead brothers (Louis, George and Frederick) were leading figures in the California Arts and Crafts movement. They were heavily influenced by William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites and are best know[more]

W. Heath Robinson Chaucer Illos...

W. Heath Robinson was one of the most popular and successful illustrators of the late 19th and early 20th century, known for his ability to draw and paint in distinctly different styles and for his unique drawings of complex fantastical mac[more]

Labor Day Special - Owen Jones C...

In honor of Labor Day we're offering a special for all the hard working designers and art fans out there. We're offering a special bonus of $20 off of any purchase from our collection of Owen Jones packages. It can be applied to any one i[more]

Viking Fonts and Art Collection...

For a PDF of art samples click HERE Click any font to see a larger sample. Vafthrudnir is a new, original font design which draws on the tradition of Germanic uncial and early gothic calligraphy. It is desi[more]

More Pulp Art at Pulpcovers.com...

Last year we featured an overview article on pulp novel cover design, and since then we've continued to look for other resources on mass market book and magazine cover design from the 30s, 40s and 50s. In a recent search I stumbled on pulpc[more]

Holiday Fonts and Art...

hatever holiday you celebrate, it's probably a time of cards and presents and decorations and parties -- that means you're going to need great fonts and art to add elegance and unique flare to your seasonal projects. The Scriptorium Holiday[more]

Edmund Dulac Collection...

Edmund Dulac was one of the most prolific and most impressive illustrators of the early 20th century. His work covers a wide range of themes and styles, and is characterized by the strongly defined personality of the people he depicts and t[more]

Wayland, Wayland, Shoe Me My Mar...

Some while ago we added to our library an early 20th century book called Singing Games for Children which contains a dozen sets of detailed instructions for classic singing and dancing games for children - not the ones we're familiar with t[more]

2012 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 2012 Font and Art Sampler has a large and outstanding collection selected from the many releases we've had during the year. It's th[more]

Cicely Mary Barker Fairies Mini-...

Along with Arthur Rackham and Kate Greenaway, Cicely Mary Barker was one of the three great fairy illustrators of the early 20th century. Her Flower Fairies books were enormously popular and influential on illustrators of the period. willy [more]

Holiday Bonus: Present Labels...

As a special holiday gift to our customers we've put together a special selection of Christmas present labels using traditional art from our collection. There are 13 labels in PDF format, perfect for printing out and using to label your pre[more]

Introducing Halloween Fonts...

For many years one of our most popular collections has been our three package set of Horror Fonts and Art. Although that collection contains a lot of unique art, its real backbone is the extraordinary collection of 36 original fonts with ho[more]
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