Imperial Stencil – A New Font
BUY NOW TRY DEMO Imperial Stencil is a new font based on stencil lettering from the 1930s. It has some unusual features and very tall characters, including an interesting lower case character set. It also has characteristically rough outlines to create more of a hand stenciled look. It stands out on a sign or poster and while it looks like …
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Art Nouveau Font Collection
Our venerable Art Nouveau Font Collection is going to be going through some changes in the near future, with some of the content being split out and added to other collections to make our new French Art Nouveau, Victorian Fonts and Art and Secessionist Fonts and Art packages. This is your last chance to order the full package in this format before it is phased out.
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Goblin Market by Margaret Tarrant
Margaret Tarrant was a notable English children’s book illustrator of the early 20th century. She is best known for her fairy illustrations, published in books like The Forest Fairies, The Pond Fairies, and The Twilight Fairies from the publishing wing of the Medici Society. Although it had already been illustrated by several popular illustrators, like Arthur Rackham, Tarrant was called …
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Altenburg: Featured Font
<Altenburg was one of our early font releases, back in 1997. It has been revised several times since then with characters added and various improvements. Our attention was drawn to it by a customer so we decided it was due for a re-release with a few more revisions. It is based on samples of early medieval hand lettering from carved …
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Illuminated Initials from Early Manuscripts
In the mid-19th century Owen Jones undertook to catalog historic design and decoration in phenomenal detail and with exacting thoroughness in a series of beautifully illustrated books. The most famous of these is his Grammar of Ornament, which provides an overview of design and ornament from ancient times to the Renaissance. His next most notable work on historic design is …
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Nopalito – New Font
BUY NOW TRY DEMO Nopalito is an unusual font based on left-handed calligraphy with a backwards slant. Someone suggested that it would be perfect for Mexican restaurant menus, so we named it Nopalito after the popular food made from the stems of the Prickly Pear cactus. Nopalito would definitely make a great restaurant menu or signage font and it does …
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Join the Font Club!
As a special offer to for the season, 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 font releases as they are released, including both the True Type and Postscript Versions for Windows and MacOS. …
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The 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.
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Fonts for Frankenstein
So you’re all broken up about the recent death of classic horror comic artist Bernie Wrightson and you want to make a tribute web page to his memory. Of course, since Wrightson is best known for his Frankenstein! Alive! series (and Swamp Thing, of course) you want it to have a Frankenstein theme. Or maybe you like the classic James …
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Steampunk Fonts and Textures
Click on any font below to view a larger sample. One of our most interesting recent releases is our Steampunk Fonts and Texture collection. It’s a new set of fonts, many of which are new or in no previous collection, plus more than 20 original high-resolution metallic textures. It’s everything you need to create unique …
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Wildhand Graffiti Font
< BUY NOW TRY DEMO Wildhand is a font based on samples of calligraphic grafitti taken from urban locations. It is typical of some of the more legible lettering styles used by taggers in the 1990s. Wildhand is a good starter graffiti font. It features a full A-Z character set plus a lowercase set of characters with variant shapes and …
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Eastlake Design Sampler
When we were renovating our house I discovered ornamental brass fixtures for the doors designed by Charles Eastlake. So I went shopping and found antique Eastlake hinges and knobs for all the doors. Charles Locke Eastlake (1836–1906) was the greatest British Arts and Crafts designer in the period after William Morris. Like Morris he combined principles of art and decoration …
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