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New Font: Scrapple...
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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[...]
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In an article last week we explored the origins of the font used in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and a bit of the history of the Django genre of films. That was part of the process of the development of an original font bas[...]
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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[...]
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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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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July 26, 2011 | Filed Under Calligraphy Fonts, Classic Fonts, Featured Fonts, Fonts, Gallery, Medieval Fonts
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