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  • Goodfellow Font in Django Unchai...

    Goodfellow Font in Django Unchained

    I notice from our keyword tracking that we are getting a lot of hits from people looking for fonts from the movie Django Unchained. Not surprising give the striking retro-graphics which are common in Tarantino films. I suspect that most o[more]


    English Fairy Tale Illustrations...

    English Fairy Tale Illustrations by Herbert Cole

    In the late 19th and early 20th century there was a boom in the popularity of English folklore, particularly in the form of meticulously researched books collecting old stories and preserving them for a modern audience. This included stori[more]


    More Pulp Art at Pulpcovers.com...

    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]


    Austin Poster Scene...

    Austin Poster Scene

    I didn't get to go to the Flatstock Poster Show this Spring because I was out of town, but Austin is always a great town for show posters and I regularly come across interesting examples of local design, as happened today when I was out sho[more]


    Fun With Typeshow...

    Fun With Typeshow

    One of the amusing things about Typeshow, our new font preview tool, is that it logs what people type in as their sample text. This provides an interesting insight into how it is being used and the personalities of the users. The number[more]


    Making Maps with the MapMaker Pa...

    Making Maps with the MapMaker Package

    This is a step by step guide to designing a small map using the elements and fonts of the MapMaker package. This tutorial was done using Adobe Photoshop, but the same tools and commands are available in every good graphics program, includin[more]


    Wayland, Wayland, Shoe Me My Mar...

    Wayland, Wayland, Shoe Me My Mare!

    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]


    Labor Day Special - Owen Jones C...

    Labor Day Special – Owen Jones Combo

    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]


    Ornamental Borders by George Wha...

    Ornamental Borders by George Wharton Edwards

    The Victorian tradition of coupling bad literature with great art and decoration has been a rich source of material for us. We found another resource in this tradition in the book A Checked Love Affair written (badly) by Paul Leicester Ford[more]


    Abaddon in War of the Fallen...

    Abaddon in War of the Fallen

    I run into our fonts in the strangest places, but it was an unexpected surprise the other day when I was playing SongPop on my iPhone with my daughters and I got a pop-up ad for a iPhone game called War of the Fallen with the title done in [more]


    Memorial Day Sale...

    Memorial Day Sale

    Memorial Day is a great American tradition, recognizing the sacrifices made by those who have served our country in war and in peace. The tradition began during the Civil War as a day when flowers, flags and wreaths were placed on the grave[more]


    Holiday Feature Guide...

    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]


    The Art of Eleanor Brickdale...

    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 Mi[more]


    Cicely Mary Barker Fairies Mini-...

    Cicely Mary Barker Fairies Mini-Package

    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]


    A Special Offer on Our Font Club...

    A Special Offer on Our Font Club

    As a special offer to round out the fall, we're offering a one-time discount on new and renewal memberships in our Font Club. The Font Club is a unique subscription service where you get the complete versions of each of our featured new fon[more]


    American Beauties by Harrison Fi...

    American Beauties by Harrison Fisher

    This is something very different from our usual offerings, but it caught my eye at a rare book store and I just couldn't resist it. American Beauties was published in 1909 and takes its theme from the popular show rose of the same name. I[more]


    Byam Shaw Illustrations for Lege...

    Byam Shaw Illustrations for Legendary Ballads

    Byam Shaw was one of the outstanding artist illustrators of the Victorian period in England. Stylistically he inherited many of the characteristics of the Pre-Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts artists of the earlier 19th century, putting him [more]


    In Development: Crane Initials F...

    In Development: Crane Initials Font

    One of our upcoming fonts is the result of an interesting project, developing original initials based on designs by Walter Crane. We recently acquired an obscure edition of French tales of Reynard the Fox illustrated by Crane with a series [more]


    Edmund Dulac Collection...

    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]


    Who Killed Cock Robin?...

    Who Killed Cock Robin?

    Silhouettes by Charles Folkard from Land of Nursery Rnyme Who killed Cock Robin? I, said the Sparrow, With my bow and arrow I killed Cock Robin. Chorus: All the birds in the air Fell a'sighing and a'sobbin[more]


    Katherine Cameron King Arthur's ...

    Katherine Cameron King Arthur’s Knights

    We've released several mini-packages of art by early 20th century illustrator Katherine Cameron, including her illustrated Ballads and Tanglewood Tales. Cameron is not terribly well known, but her illustrations have a romantic quality whic[more]


    New Font: Ripley...

    New Font: Ripley

    BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Ripley is a new titling font with a bold character weight and a somewhat randomly distressed and unbalanced, tall and narrow sans serif look.  It includes capital letters and custom sma[more]


    Featured Font: Bilitis...

    Featured Font: Bilitis

      BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Bilitis is an original "brush script" style font we designed for a project back in 1998 and released then with some success.  It has a strong visual appeal with rough hewn c[more]


    The Fonts of 2012...

    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]


    E. J. Detmold Arabian Nights Ill...

    E. J. Detmold Arabian Nights Illustrations

    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]


    Windlass Font Takes to the Road...

    Windlass Font Takes to the Road

    I stopped into our local barbeque parlor for dinner this evening, and parked out front I found a stylishly decorated Mini Cooper wrapped with art promoting DragonsLair, Austin's preeminent comic book and game emporium. Even better, the stor[more]


    Holiday Fonts and Art...

    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]


    April Fools Highlights...

    April Fools Highlights

    Every year we try to amuse with some sort of April Fools prank.  This year visitors to the site were first greeted by what looked like a hacker takeover, a modest joke, but we've done some even bigger and sillier things in previous years. H[more]


    W. Heath Robinson Chaucer Illos...

    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]


    Futuristic Fonts - Updated and E...

    Futuristic Fonts – Updated and Expanded

    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]


    Retro Design in Django Unchained...

    Retro Design in Django Unchained

    We've started seeing previews for Quentin Tarrantino's new film Django Unchained in the theatres. The film looks like a high-octane take on the western genre done with a Tarrantino twist, and as has been the case with other recent films fro[more]


    Recreating the Django Font...

    Recreating the Django Font

    Since there seemed to be some real interest in seeing a fully developed font similar to the one used for the titles for the new Tarantino movie Django Unchained, I decided to take it on as a project. This kind of project always involves a l[more]


    Valdemar Appearing on New Chadbo...

    Valdemar Appearing on New Chadbourn Novels

    There's nothing better for a font foundry than when one of your fonts gets picked up as the signature font for a brand or a product or a franchise. Sadly sometimes those big customers are fickle. Case in point being our Windlass font which [more]


    Walter Crane Christmas Bonus...

    Walter Crane Christmas Bonus

    As a special treat for customers working on holiday card designs, we're making available a special mini-package of Christmas-themed images designed by Walter Crane at a tiny, almost minuscule price. The images are based on Walter Crane's[more]


    Special Font: Demosthenes...

    Special Font: Demosthenes

    Back in the 1970s my IBM Selectric Typewriter had a great font specifically designed for high readability when typing scripts and speeches called Orator. It has gone the way of most typewriter fonts, but we recently had a client who wanted [more]


    Owen Jones "The Preacher" Packag...

    Owen Jones “The Preacher” Package

    One of Owen Jones most interesting illuminated books is his 1849 edition of the biblical book of Ecclesiastes published under the title The Preacher, consisting of 35 hand-colored, fully illuminated pages. It is on[more]


    Holiday Bonus: Present Labels...

    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]


    Celtic Font and Art Collections...

    Celtic Font and Art Collections

    he Celts have been acclaimed for their remarkable artistic legacy - far more substantial than that of other ancient societies of Western Europe. They left behind a fascinating tradition of visual and literary art,and can be credited wi[more]


    2012 Font and Art Sampler...

    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]


    Viking Fonts and Art Collection...

    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]


    Medieval Fonts and Art...

    Medieval Fonts and Art

    Click any font to see a larger sample. // he Middle Ages saw calligraphy and book decoration emerge as significant art forms. The[more]


    Children of the Damned...

    Children of the Damned

    With Halloween looming, thoughts naturally turn to issues of horror and to classic horror films, particularly the creative title design and unique lettering which some of these classics feature in their titles, but even more especially in t[more]


    Dora Curtis Arthurian Art...

    Dora Curtis Arthurian Art

    With the release of our Arthurian Fonts and Art Collection finally looming at the end of this year, we've been putting out some mini-packages of Arthurian art by artists like Herbert Cole and Katherine Cameron. This mini-p[more]


    Introducing Halloween Fonts...

    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]


    The Colonial Fonts Collection...

    The Colonial Fonts Collection

    Click any font to see a larger sample. In our imaginations we associate the colonial period with images of idealism, revolution and adventure. It was a time of great men and ideas and of rogues and vi[more]


    Arthur Rackham's Peter Pan in Ke...

    Arthur Rackham’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

    In 1906 legendary illustrator Arthur Rackham was commissioned to illustrate J. M. Barrie's prequel to his play Peter Pan. The standard edition features 10 original illustrations, but there was also a very limited edition with 40 additional[more]


    Christmas Gift Font: Candlemass...

    Protected: Christmas Gift Font: Candlemass

    As a special gift for our newsletter subscribers and social media followers we're making the very Christamssy Candlemass font available as a free download through midnight on the 25th. To download Candlemass just CLICK HERE And don't for[more]


    Louis Rhead Floral Borders...

    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]


    Alphons Mucha Fonts and Art...

    Alphons Mucha Fonts and Art

    Alphonse Mucha was born in what is now the Czech Republic in 1860 and moved to Paris in 1890 where he became the star of the poster-art movement under the patronage of the Sarah Bernhardt, socializing with the greatest of the impressionists[more]


    May Day Sale...

    May Day Sale

    May Day comes but once a year to fill our hearts with joy and cheer... In honor of May Day and the coming of summer, through the end of May 1st you can get 25% off of any order with NO minimum by using the coupon code MAYDAY on checkout.[more]


    Constructivist Fonts Package...

    Constructivist Fonts Package

    Our first new release for 2013 is our collection of Constructivist Fonts based on poster lettering from the early post-revolutionary period in Russia, including designs based on the styles of famous designers of the period like Alexander Ro[more]


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