Scrawlies 2.0 – A Sloppy Handwritten Font Revised
Scrawlies was originally released in 2000 based on our lead designer’s wretched natural handwriting from when he was teaching college. His handwriting may have gotten worse since then, but we preserved it in all its glory as it was then. This new 2.0 version of Scrawlies features and advanced and expanded character set with foreign language characters, plus a bold …
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New Font: Cafe Society
BUY NOW Cafe Society is a font based on hand lettering from the early 20th century we found in an old book on lettering. The lettering style shows clear Art Nouveau influences, drawing on the styles of Alphonse Mucha and George Auriol but with it’s own complex and unique character. Cafe Society has a full normal character set with upper …
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Twenty-Two New Fonts of 2017
Every year we release a number of new fonts, and at the start of the next year we collect them all together and release them as a collection at a great discount price. 2017 was an very productive year, with a total of 22 new fonts released, including some really memorable original designs and unique revivals. These fonts represent a …
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Walter Crane’s A Flower Wedding
One of the most interesting items in our extensive collection of Walter Crane illustrated books is Crane’s 1905 work A Flower Wedding, an original poem illustrated with 39 decorative full-page plates. The concept of the work is that each of the wedding guests represents a flower and is depicted with that flower incorporated in the illustration. The illustrations are detailed …
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Bikini Atoll – A Fun Font with Palm Trees!
“ BUY NOW Our fourth and final end of year bonus, clean-up font is Bikini Atoll, a fun but very specialized font where each character is made up of palm trees in an informal sketchy style. Bikini Atoll is based on some mid-century lettering samples. It takes its name from the island chain where the hydrogen bomb was tested. …
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Kinderlieder – A Secessionist Font
BUY NOW In the leftover fonts box we found this beautiful font based on title lettering from an Austrian children’s book from the Secessionist period. It’s actually a Christmas font but we didn’t have it ready quite in time, so we’re releasing it belatedly now. Kinderlieder has characteristics of Art Nouveau and early Art Deco typography. Although it originates in …
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Nightmare – A Pulp Novel Cover Font
BUY NOW Another of our final fonts to wrap up 2017 is the Nightmare font, based on the cover lettering for the pulp paperback version of the 1946 novel Methinks the Lady by Guy Endore (Samuel Goldstein) which was published under the title Nightmare and later made into the movie Whirlpool by Otto Preminger in 1950. Endore specialized in …
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Buzzmill – a Roughcut Wood Font
BUY NOW It’s the end of the year and at the end of the year we always have some fonts we’ve been working on for months and we push them through to completion to meet our quota of new fonts for the year. This means you can look forward to some interesting fonts released very quickly over …
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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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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 presents. To download the labels click on the image of a sample label above and to the right and then …
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Zothique and Posada Fonts in Pixar’s Coco
The latest release from Disney’s Pixar division is a charming little film about family and the Day of the Dead called Coco. The visuals of the film are great and the storyline is quite uplifting, but for us the best part of the film came with the ending credits which featured our Zothique and Posada fonts. These two fonts are …
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