Cafe Corso, A New Jugendstil Art Nouveau Font
BUY NOW It’s been a while since we did any new Art Nouveau or Jugendstil fonts, but we recently hit on a trove of old posters from the 1890s and early 1900s in Germany, including ones with lots of lettering from Munich and Berlin. Munich Jugendstil is pretty well known, but …
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Windlass Font Featured in Disney’s “Onward”
We get awfully excited when our fonts appear in popular movies, and it happened again. Our Windlass font appears in the trailers for the new Disney kids move “Onward” as the primary title font. Some examples are provided to the right. Windlass has been one of our most popular fonts for all sorts of uses, from Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson” …
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Locksley Font
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 famous movie, our Locksley font which comes from the titles of the Adventures of Robin Hood the black and …
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Epigramatic: A Roycroft Design Font
BUY NOW Epigramatic is a new font based on lettering by Dard Hunter for the Roycroft Press in the early 1900s. It gets its name from the various epigrams from Elbert Hubbard which it was used for in their books. He was the king of useful epigrams. Epigramatic has a full character set plus numbers and punctuation and has …
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Holiday Feature Guide
Over the years we have produced many special packages and unique fonts specifically for the holiday season. Many of these were collected into our Holiday Font and Art Collection and others are stand-alone items such as packages of art for Christmas cards or special fonts for holiday designs.
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The Colonial Fonts Collection
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 villainy. Colonial history has been immortalized tales of pirates, highwaymen, heroes and great statesmen. It was also one of the most fertile periods in the development of type and printed arts. The publishing industry in the American Colonies was energetic and ambitious, publishing all sorts of books, maps and periodicals for a growing literate population.
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Featured : Rockne
Rockne is based on samples of mid-20th century wood type in a style which was clearly an influence on the poster lettering of the 1960s as demonstrated in our Butterfield, Harbinger and Pantagruel. It clearly comes out of the Art Nouveau tradition, and with wood type already obsolete at the time the font was made, it presents a chronological anomaly …
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Cryptos – A New Graffiti Font
BUY NOW We’ve done a lot of graffiti fonts recently, building up towards the release of a graffiti fonts package, and this is the jewel in the crown of that package, a font based on the most popular style of tag lettering which is in use by taggers all over the country. We hope …
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Pumpkin Patch: Halloween Initials Font
BUY NOW For Halloween download Pumpkin Patch for free! Just CLICK HERE. Pumpkin Patch is a special font for the holiday season. It is a set of decorative initials with a halloween, jack-o-lantern theme. It is based on 1950s lettering for a children’s magazine. Pumpkin Patch just has a 26 character set because that is …
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Montressor Font
My hip collegian daughter is always pushing me to make fonts which she thinks will fit the design trends of the day, which seems to come down to fonts which would look good in the monogram on the side of the Adams Family’s hearse, on an Ed Hardy t-shirt or tattooed on the back of a contestant on Tool Academy. …
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Classic Comix – A New Font
BUY NOW Tired of Comic Sans (who isn’t?) but need another font to do captions and clear, informal text? What would be better than a true comic font based on authentic lettering from classic horror comics. Our Classic Comix font is exactly that. Clasic Comix has two full upper case character sets and full punctuation and it comes with …
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Arakne, a Classic Font
Arakne is an unusual font derived from samples of Spencerian Script, which pre-dated italic and cursive as an academic handwriting style taught in schools. The style was popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. The style is tall and spidery and often thought of as the handwriting of elderly ladies. The Arakne font can create powerful decorative text …
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Titania Font
Titania is an attractive font based on very regular samples of fantasy artist lettering. It was one of several conceptually similar fonts we did during the early 2000s, including Gloriana,Gaiseric, Rosalinde, Scurlock and Folkard. For some reason Folkard was the big hit of the various fantasy themed fonts we did as part of that project, but others were very interesting …
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What’s Going on Here at the Scriptorium
You may have noticed a lack of new fonts and new packages here over the last few weeks. The reason for this is that we have been involved in a massive site upgrade, particularly focusing on our ordering and delivery section. This has consumed a lot of our resources and has made it impractical to put new material online. That …
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Russian Constructivist Fonts
One of our most stylish packages 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 Rodchenko, Mikhail Vrubel and Sergei Eisenstein. These are typical of the movement which led to Soviet Realism and which influenced design around the …
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