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Juarez: New Font
Grand Concours is based on lettering designed for a poster for the equestrian competition which was held at the Paris Hippodrome starting in the 1920s. The Grand Concours itself started in the 1860s, and is basically the French answer to an American rodeo.
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Walter Crane Arthurian Art Package
The release of our long-awaited Arthurian Fonts and Art Package is just around the corner and we’re adding new content all the time. The fonts are holding it up, but the phenomenal assortment of art is well developed, and as we work, we’re releasing some mini-packages of Arthurian art by artists like Herbert Cole and Katherine Cameron and Dora Curtis. …
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Start Your Collection With the Basic Fonts
Click any font to see a larger sample. You have to start building your font library somewhere, and where better to start than with our Basic Fonts Collection. It’s a great introduction to our wide variety of fonts at a very reasonable price. It lets you get a great set of versatile fonts which represents every aspect of our collection …
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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 and moving in the highest circles of the salons of the intellectual elite of Paris. After World War …
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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 our Abaddon font. Abaddon is hideously overexposed, but nonetheless it’s nice …
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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 small caps weighted to match the capitals. It is based on the title lettering from the original 1955 pulp paperback printing of Patricia Highsmith’s …
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New Font: Escargot
BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Escargot is based on lettering from the cover of an early pulp novel I came across a couple of months ago. It’s a strong example of a distinctive style of sign and poster lettering from the 1930, characterized by super high contrast between the weighting on the left and right sides of the character. …
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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 store logo featured on the car (one of two in a matched set) features our Windlass Font. Because of the popularity of pirate …
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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 pulpcovers.com, a site which features hundreds of covers, tending towards the more risque and unusual, including vintage …
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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-package of Arthurian art by Dora Curtis is another in that series, a collection of 7 color images, 6 beautiful color borders and 16 …
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PayPal Financing and Bonus
PayPal would really like you to buy more of our font and art products and use their service to do it. They’ll make it worth your while with interest free credit for 6 months and even a $5 kickback on your first purchase. PayPal is available as one of our standard checkout payment options. It’s worth a look.
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Celtic Design in Pixar’s Brave
The latest film from Disney’s Pixar division is the lavishly designed Brave which sets a new standard in detail, color and beauty for a digitally animated film. The quality of the motion of the characters, the details of the textures and the vibrance of the colors is extraordinary. The setting is also unusual, drawing on Celtic design themes extensively to …
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TeeFury – Cool Shirts and a Smart Gimmick
My daughter recently turned me on to TeeFury a website that sells original, limited edition t-shirts with a very clever marketing gimmick. It’s worth looking at here because good art and clever marketing are our bread and butter. The concept of TeeFury is very simple. Artists submit t-shirt designs which they produce and sell at a reasonable price with a …
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Rodchenko Font
Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956) was one of the premier artists of the constructivist movement in Russia. Although he was a sculptor, painter and photographer, he is most remembered for his graphic design style in book and poster design. His unique and dramatic style defined Russian popular art of the early Revolutionary period. There is a special link between Rodchenko’s photographic work …
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Hesperides at True Blue Tattoo
One of the trendy local tattoo parlors here in Austin is True Blue Tattoo. They have a large staff of tattoo artists who do some very nice body art, including several who specialize in cool designs with calavera themes. But what I found most exciting on a recent visit to their website was their decision to feature some of our …
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