April Fools Recap
In most years (except this one) we try to amuse with some sort of April Fools prank. This year Easter seems to have intervened and we have no prank to play, but here are some past examples preserved as best we could. 1998 April Fools Page 1999 April Fools Page. 2000 April Fools Page. 2001 April Fools Page. 2002 April …
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Kharkov – A Ukrainian Constructivist Font
BUY NOW The Constructivist Movement in Russia spilled over to other areas an was an important branch of what we now consider Art Deco. It had a particular flowering in the Ukraine in the early 1930s before the region was brutally oppressed by Stalin in 1935. Evidence of the movement survives in photographs of constructivist …
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Classic Font: Valdemar
Valdemar has been very popular for book designs, movies and merchandising. It was selected as the official title font for merchandised products for the Harry Potter movies, but the similarity between the name Valdemar and the character Lord Voldemort is coincidental. The name Valdemar actually comes from a story by Edgar Allan Poe and the font was released before the …
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Russian Folk Art and Fonts Collection
In the early 20th century, before the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Art Nouveau movement crept into the failing empire by way of Alphons Mucha and the Slavic Folk Art movement in Czechoslovakia. Russian artists picked up on the ideas of these movements and began producing new styles of art for a growing commercial marketplace, combining elements of traditional …
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Gwionbach, a Font for St. Patrick’s Day
Gwionbach was inspired by a highly decorated page from an antique Celtic manuscript where a combination of Latin and Celtic letter styles produced an attractive hybrid form with lots of interesting character variations. Imagine the letters in the font outlined, gold filled and with decorative highlights. It also includes some special feature characters like special heavy weight over and underlines. …
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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 with the preservation of culture and literacy in Western Europe after the fall of Rome. Their imprint is strongest in the British Isles …
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Patriarch Font
BUY NOW Patriarch was one of our earliest calligraphic fonts, based on Russian Church Slavonic lettering, such as you would see in Russian Icons, but with the character forms adapted to the Latin alphabet instead of having true Cyrillic characters. So it is somewhat readable but still has the crazy look of the medieval slavonic characters. Patriarch has …
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Schiller Schrift Font – New
BUY NOW Schiller Schrift is just the kind of font we made our name on when we were starting out. It is an incredibly detailed rendering of an antique calligraphic style with lots of decorative detail and swashes, taken from a German source. Schiller includes a full character set with numbers and punctuation plus lots of alternative …
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Letterpress Font Collection
Click any font to see more. Letterpress printing is one of the oldest and simplest forms of printing, using letters carved into wooden blocks or cut from a rubbery material and attached to the blocks and then printed as a whole page composed of multiple elements. Today it is used primarily for poster printing by presses like Hatch Show Prints …
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Monstrous Font
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 what really sets the font apart is that there are two complete character sets which are complimentary. The upper-case set tapers towards …
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Wanax Font
BUY NOW Once upon a time when he was a graduate student Dave Nalle fooled around with tagging and came up with an original graffiti lettering style. Inevitably he made it into a font and the result is Wanax, which we released but didn’t give much promotion. So now we’re releasing it for real on our website …
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Retrofuturist Fonts
Our work on fonts from the 1920s and 1930s has focused a lot on Arts and Crafts and Art Deco fonts, but in parallel with those movements, there was a lot of innovation in more mass market design, much of it found in pulp magazines, especially pulp science fiction magazines which had a real renaissance in that period. These pulp …
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Imprimato – Classic Font
BUY NOW Imprimato is a near font we released a couple of years ago, which somehow never made it onto our website. It is an original design and may have coincided with the designer having a minor stroke, accounting for the lack of promotion. Nonetheless, Imprimato is an interesting font, with upper and lowecase characters of uniform height, designed to …
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Tiki Party Font
BUY NOW Tiki Party is a new font made for the intriguing tiki subculture. It is based on masks of Polynesian deities and spirits. They occupy the upper case postions and the lower case of the font is a full set of normal characters in a rough-cut style. It includes numbers and punctuation. It’s decorative and very appropriate for party …
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Ariosto Font – Featured
BUY NOW Ariosto is the very first Art Nouveau font we developed. It has gone through several versions, because like many of our early fonts there were elements that needed improvement. Now that it’s a mature font it is much refined and an excellent example of Art Nouveau type design. Ariosto features a full upper and lower case character set, …
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Eastside Round Graffiti Font
BUY NOW Eastside Round is based on unique graffiti tagging samples from Washington, DC – found mostly on trashcans and electrical equipment boxes. They have been regularized and regimented enough to be readable without losing the hand painted character of the letters. It has some charming and unusual features while looking very natural and kind of …
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