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Winter Single Font Sale

It almost snowed here in Austin, and with the pandemic …

Thanksgiving Week …

In the era of COVID-19 things are just a little desperate …

Holiday Fonts and Art

hatever holiday you celebrate, it's probably a time of …

Renaissance Fonts and …

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MapMaker Collection

Making functional and attractive maps is a very specialized …

Horror Fonts and Art …

For years here a the Scriptorium we've been developing …

Silent Film Font …

In our article on the fonts in the modern silent film The …

Medieval Fonts and Art

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Graffiti Tag Fonts …

The cutting edge of contemporary calligraphy is on the back …

Louis Rhead Floral …

At the start of the previous century the Louis Rhead and …

Covid-19: A Viral Font

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Fonts for eBooks

More and more literature - newspapers to magazines …

Romantic Fonts and Art …

We've got a font package for just about every other …

The Fonts of 2019

Every year we release a number of new fonts, and at the …

Walter Crane Initials …

It has taken a lot of hours of development, but we finally …

Holiday Feature Guide

Over the years we have produced many special packages and …

The Colonial Fonts …

In our imaginations we associate the colonial period with …

Arts & Crafts …

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What’s Going on …

You may have noticed a lack of new fonts and new packages …

Russian Constructivist …

One of our most stylish packages is our collection of …

Modern Poster Fonts

Because the modern era of design draws on so many past …

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If you are not following us on Instagram you are missing …

Spring Single Fonts Sale

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of …

Walter Crane’s …

One of our most interesting packages is based on The Three …

Join the Font Club!

As a Spring special, we're offering a one-time discount on …

April Fools Recap

In most years (except this one) we try to amuse with some …

Russian Folk Art and …

In the early 20th century, before the outbreak of the …

Celtic Font and Art …

he Celts have been acclaimed for their remarkable artistic …

Letterpress Font …

Click any font to see more. Letterpress printing is …

Retrofuturist Fonts

Our work on fonts from the 1920s and 1930s has focused a …

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Walter Crane …

Walter Crane was the outstanding artist and designer of the …

A New Sideline: Fashion …

With all the fonts and art we have collected, there are all …

Howard Pyle Fonts and …

Howard Pyle was one of the most renowned illustrators of …

J. M. Bergling Art …

Over the last few years we've developed a number of fonts …

The Poster Art of Mig …

A few years ago I came across some really interesting …

Meme Font Collection

We've put together a very special collection of fonts just …

John Speed Font …

To our great shame we have neglected and overlooked the …

Pulp Fonts

In the 1930s there was an explosion of popular literature …

Updated: Arabian Nights …

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San Lorenzo Font

This week we're featuring an overlooked classic, our San Lorenzo font. It's an …

St. Nicholas: The Christmas Font

St. Nicholas is based on the title lettering from the early 20th century …

Geometricks Font

BUY NOW This font is a special treat. It's based …

Classic Font: Goodfellow

Goodfellow was first released in the spring of 1993. It was based on Art …

Cursed – A Hammer Horror Film …

BUY NOW We have been working for a while on fonts based on …

Tangle Font

BUY NOW Tangle is a fun font drawn by hand to have the look of twining …

Trollhjem – A New Font

BUY NOW I recently acquired some …

Lenore: A New Art Nouveau Font

BUY NOW Lenore is based on samples of lettering from an …

Featured Font: Andrano

Once again I have fallen under the influence of my fashion conscious teenage …

Covid-19: A Viral Font

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Dorothy Q – A Howard Pyle …

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Falmouth Font

This Falmouth font is named after a seaport in romantic Cornwall. Falmouth is …

Hotel Gassner – German Art …

BUY NOW Hotel Gassner is a font based on the lettering on …

Sketchy – A New Graffiti Font

BUY NOW As you can see from the …

Chanson Deco – A New Font

BUY NOW There are other …

Koller Corners, a Forgotten Font

Koller Corners is a set of printers ornaments and borders based on late 19th …

Cafe Corso, A New Jugendstil Art …

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Windlass Font Featured in …

We get awfully excited when our fonts appear in popular movies, and it happened …

Locksley Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO We have done a number of fonts based on unique, …

Epigramatic: A Roycroft Design Font

BUY NOW Epigramatic is a new font based on lettering by …

Featured : Rockne

Rockne is based on samples of mid-20th century wood type in a style which was …

Cryptos – A New Graffiti Font

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Pumpkin Patch: Halloween Initials …

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Montressor Font

My hip collegian daughter is always pushing me to make fonts which she thinks …

Classic Comix – A New Font

BUY NOW Tired of Comic Sans (who isn't?) but need …

Arakne, a Classic Font

Arakne is an unusual font derived from samples of Spencerian Script, which …

Titania Font

Titania is an attractive font based on very regular samples of fantasy artist …

Gloriana Font

Gloriana was originally released in 1999 based on samples of hand lettering in …

Nostromo Font

Nostromo is based on a sample of early 1900s period advertising lettering with …

Munchner Carneval – …

BUY NOW Munchner Carneval is exactly what its …

Adramalech – Featured Classic …

BUY NOW Adramalech is one of our classic font …

Grammophon – Brutalist German …

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Elysian Art Nouveau Font

Elysian is an one of our older font designs, based on an Art Nouveau period …

Kharkov – A Ukrainian …

BUY NOW The …

Classic Font: Valdemar

Valdemar has been very popular for book designs, movies and merchandising. It …

Gwionbach, a Font for St. …

Gwionbach was inspired by a highly decorated page from an antique Celtic …

Patriarch Font

BUY NOW Patriarch was one of our earliest …

Schiller Schrift Font – New

BUY NOW Schiller Schrift is just the kind of font we …

Monstrous Font

It's time for something new and strange, our new and original Monstrous font. …

Wanax Font

BUY NOW Once upon a time when he was a graduate …

Imprimato – Classic Font

BUY NOW Imprimato is a near font we released a couple of years ago, which …

Tiki Party Font

BUY NOW Tiki Party is a new font made for the intriguing tiki subculture. …

Ariosto Font – Featured

BUY NOW Ariosto is the very first Art Nouveau font we developed. It …

Eastside Round Graffiti Font

BUY NOW Eastside Round is based on unique …

Allencon Font

BUY NOW Allencon is a …

Imperatore – A New Font

BUY NOW Imperatore is an Art Deco typeface based on a hand …

Adresack Font Revised

Adresack is an original font in an arts and crafts style. It is one of the …

Ardenwood – Embellished …

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Burd Ellen Font

Burd Ellen is a decorative hand-lettered font based on early 20th century …

Classic Font: Brandywine

Brandywine is one of our favorite older fonts. It's based on a hand lettering …

Backsplash – A New Font

BUY NOW Backsplash is a unique original …

Acadian Font

Acadian is based on a classic Victorian-era metal typeface designed by H. H. …

Worlds Fair Gothic: A New Font

BUY NOW Walter …

Montgisard Font

There are certain design concepts which deserve more than one exploration. One …

Katisha Font

Katisha is an unusual font based on hand-drawn calligraphy. It's basically an …

Marionettas: A New Font

BUY NOW Marionettas is a unique font based on lettering from a …

Finchley Font

Finchley is a curious font from the transitional period between Art Nouveau and …

Giallo: Italian Pulp Novel Font

BUY NOW Giallo is an unusual font based on the title lettering used …

Fascination – A New Original …

BUY NOW Fascination is based on graffiti calligraphy samples which …

Goddard Font

Goddard is a striking Art Nouveau font based on French advertising lettering. …

Architextura – A New Font

BUY NOW Architextura is a stylish and practical font based on hand …

Rossetti – A Classic Font …

BUY NOW We first released the Rossetti font in …

Speakeasy – New Font

BUY NOW Speakeasy is a font based on 1930s style poster …

Santa Sangre – A New Font

BUY NOW Santa Sangre is a …

Hendrix Psychedelic Font

Hendrix is one of our most classic and most quintessential psychedelic poster …

Classic Font: Scurlock Updated

Scurlock was originally developed back in 2001 and has been one of our most …

Lemos Marquee – A New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Lemos Marquee is a new font which fits well with our Art …

John Speed Font Collection

To our great shame we have neglected and overlooked the collection of John …

Roumonde Magasin: New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Roumonde Magasin is a new font in the vein of our …

Alecto Font: Featured

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Alecto was originally released in 2002 and was one of …

Gates of the West – A New Font

BUY NOW Gates of the West is based on …

Abaddon: A Classic Best Seller

Abaddon is one of our most best-selling fonts, made popular by the bands Bullet …

Glyphos Mid-Century Advertising Font

BUY NOW Glyphos is based on samples of mid-century advertising …

Estoril Font

Estoril is a bold display font with a unique look somewhere between the Art …

Gebrauschgraphik, a German Art Deco …

BUY NOW Gebrauschgraphik was the German …

Wormwood, A New Font

BUY NOW Wormwood is a new font based on fanciful lettering …

New Font: Peacock Pie based on …

BUY NOW Peacock Pie is a new font based on the original …

Scrawlies 2.0 – A Sloppy …

Scrawlies was originally released in 2000 based on our lead designer's wretched …

New Font: Cafe Society

BUY NOW Cafe Society is a font based on hand lettering from the …

Bikini Atoll – A Fun Font …

" BUY NOW Our fourth and final end of year bonus, …

Kinderlieder – A Secessionist …

BUY NOW In the leftover fonts box we found this beautiful font …

Nightmare – A Pulp Novel …

BUY NOW Another of our final fonts to wrap up 2017 is the …

Buzzmill – a Roughcut Wood …

BUY NOW It's the end of the year and …

Zothique and Posada Fonts in …

The latest release from Disney's Pixar division is a charming little film about …

Holiday Font: Weihnacht

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Weihnacht is an Art Deco era font …

Eric Sloane Fonts at Homestead Fair

This weekend I got to visit Homestead Fair and discovered that they have made …

St. Nicholas: Our Favorite Holday …

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Mosaiek: A De Stijl Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Mosaiek is based on a sample of magazine title …

Classic Font: Windlass

Windlass has been one of our most popular and widely used fonts ever since we …

Cataphract: 1950s Advertising Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Cataphract is based on a sample o 1950s era …

Scurlock Font at Blue Dragon …

We love it when we spot our fonts being used in logos and marketing, especially …

Flambard Font

Flambard is based on samples of extremely fanciful sign lettering from the Art …

Asrafel in the Movies

I was idly browsing through the movie offerings on Amazon when I discovered an …

Talinn: A New Art Deco Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Talinn is a new font based on a sample of Art …

Reliquary: A New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO We recently held a contest on Facebook to pick the …

Special Font: Demitrius Silhouettes

These silhouettes really bring Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" to …

Furbelow Font

What on earth is a 'furbelow'? You may have heard the word in the phrase …

Shadowland: American Art Deco Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Now this is something special. We've designed a …

Illuminata Psychedelic Era Font

Illuminata was inspired by lettering from a poster from the Fillmore in the …

Hadraniel: A Distressed Script Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Hadraniel is a new font based on samples of type …

Abelarde Font

Abelarde is a classic medieval gothic style font which combines traditional …

Imperial Stencil – A New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Imperial Stencil is a new font based on stencil …

Altenburg: Featured Font

<Altenburg was one of our early font releases, back in 1997. It has been …

Nopalito – New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Nopalito is an unusual font based on left-handed …

Fonts for Frankenstein

So you're all broken up about the recent death of classic horror comic artist …

Wildhand Graffiti Font

< BUY NOW TRY DEMO Wildhand is a font based on samples of …

Bathysphere – An Subaqueous …

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Bathysphere is based on a sample of hand drawn …

Altaira – A New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Altaira is a new font which combines elements of Art …

Orford Font: Featured Font

Orford is based on samples of hand lettering from a 1693 manuscript collected …

Winterland – New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Back to classic poster lettering. This time our …

Scattershot: New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO In the 1960s posters with inspirational quotes on …

Gadriel: First New Font of 2017

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Gadriel has the honor of being our first font of 2017 …

Knuckleduster: The Last Official …

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Knuckleduster is a rough, bold and highly stylized …

Tzaphkiel: New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Tzaphkiel is an italic style font with bold capitals …

Dormart – A New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Dormart is based on a 19th century fantasy alphabet …

Primrose Initials – New Font

< BUY NOW TRY DEMO Promrose Initials is based on a fully …

Ver Sacrum Colographs Font

BUY NOW This is the time of the year when we bring out the neat little …

New Font – Huyot Art Nouveau …

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Huyot is based on the lettering of George Auriol, …

Soiree – Elegant Art Deco Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Soiree is an elegant font in the Art Deco tradition. …

An Overview of Our Russian Fonts

In honor of the October Revolution (which was actually in November) I thought …

Rude Beast – A New Font for …

BUY NOW TRY DEMO For Halloween we're offering a special font inspired …

Live Free – A Free Font

As a general rule we don't like to mix business with politics, but in this …

Marfield Font

Marfield is a fancy art nouveau era title font with relatively heavy character …

Figurative Initials Font – …

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Figurative Initials are letters which take the form …

Wildflower Initials: New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Wildflower Initials is based on a fully developed …

Esperanza: Classic Font

Esperanza is one of our earliest fonts and it was due for an upgrade, so we …

Almanac – New Font from Eric …

BUY NOW TRY DEMO We seem to be having a week focused on Eric Sloane, …

Two New Initials Fonts by Delamotte

Freeman Delamotte (not to be confused with the late 19th century footballer of …

Happy Birthday to CFA Voysey

Last week was the 159th anniversary of Arts and Crafts pioneer CFA Voysey. …

Bucephalus – Classic Font

Bucephalus is a classic Art Nouveau style font, one of the first that we ever …

Elizabethan Script Font Set

BUY NOW TRY DEMO A major design project has finally come to fruition, …

Saxon Initials: New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Well here's a cool new font. But though the font is …

Ekberg Modern Font

Ekberg is a stylish modern font with curved character forms, for which it was …

Zadkiel: Humanist Script Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Humanistic script fonts are always popular, …

Courtrai Medieval Font

Courtrai is one of our early fonts, released back in 1996, and more than due …

Zeitschrift: a Font from Ver Sacrum

We will be developing a Secessionist font collection and the first entry for …

Party Fonts for Easter

We have such a large selection of fonts that you can find some for any …

Secessionist Origins of Butterfield

In the course of our ongoing research on old type and creative lettering, we …

Wendingen: New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Wendingen was an architecture and design magazine …

Momento Mori Font

While working on a graphic design project we needed a font similar to the hand …

Belsize: New Font

There are never enough stylish, bold, script fonts. Now there is one more with …

Slither: Featured Font

Slither is a font we designed about ten years ago for a science fiction …

Rounders: New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO The great new fonts continue with our new Rounders …

Baraquiel: Featured Font

Baraquiel is based on an interesting style of calligraphic script we found in a …

Cosmopolis – First New Font …

Our first font for 2016 is a stylist super-bold display and title font called …

Abelarde: Featured Font

Abelarde is a classic medieval gothic style font which combines traditional …

New Fonts of 2015

Every year we release a number of new fonts, and at the end of the year we …

Gods of Mars – Last Font of …

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Our last font of 2015 is a special pulp Science …

Roy Lichtenstein Gothic – A …

BUY NOW TRY DEMO As you may have noticed we've been putting out new …

Classic Font: Asrafel

We originally released Asrafel in 1999 after we developed it for a book cover …

Rykov – A New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Rykov is a Ukrainian constructivist font from the …

Tyrfing – Featured Font

Tyrfing is an unusual squared gothic font based on late 19th century type from …

Rocksteady – A New Font

Rocksteady is an original font design for pretty specialized applications. …

Joyeuse: A Christmas Font

Joyeuse is one of our earlier fonts, based on a 1920s design derived from …

Fooks Grotesque – New Font

Fooks Grotesque is based on a hand lettered alphabet by Edwin Fooks from his …

St. Nicholas Font Featured in …

Our St. Nicholas font really gets around. In 2011 it was on The Daily Show …

Holly Initials: A Christmas Font

It wouldn't be the holidays without a special font designed to capture the mood …

Carte du Jour – A Cafe …

Carte du Jour is a font designed to look like the fancy lettering used on the …

Updated Font: Septimus

We've recently made some revisions to our Septimus font, cleaning up the …

Special Font: Turkey Day

Thanksgiving is almost upon us and it isa great time to celebrate family and …

Albemarle Web Optimized

Albemarle has been one of our most popular fonts. It's attractive and highly …

Newgrange: A Lost Font

Newgrange is a Celtic style font which takes its name from the Newgrange …

Starliner: New Font

Starliner envisions what the logo lettering for an interstellar passenger liner …

Gloriana on H2Ocean Packaging

My teenaged daughter got a piercing for her birthday and she absolutely …

Bulwark Font

Bulwark is a more unusual selection from our collection of recently acquired …

Mannerheim Font

Among our recent acquisitions of source material, we discovered some great …

Paris 1925 Font

We developed this lettering into the Paris 1925 font, which will be the …

New Font: Vie Moderne

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Vie Moderne is a new font based on Art Deco …

Gloriana Font Used by Austin Band …

I was in Amy's Ice Cream with my kids when I noticed a very large man wearing a …

Creating the Glastonbury Font

Too many years ago to count, I was lucky enough to attend St. Albans School in …

Tilbury: New Font

Tilbury is based on advertising lettering from the 1930s. It has a unique and …

Power Tie: New Font

Power tie is based on a design for hand lettering from the 1930s. It was …

Sarandiel: New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Sarandiel is a new script font based on vintage hand …

Tantalus: New Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Tantalus is a display font for titles with a basic …

Classic Font: Pyle Gothic

Pyle Gothic is based on lettering designed by Howard Pyle, from his Adventures …

New Font: Cavegirl Gothic

Cavegirl is inspired by the genre of prehistoric epic films, the most memorable …

New Font: Dahlgren

Dahlgren is a heavyweight, square shaped font which works well for titles and …

New Font: Undertaker

Every year around Halloween we come out with a new font that fits the spirit of …

Classic Font: Boneyard

I don't know what came over me one Halloween, but I couldn't get the idea of …

New Font: Highball

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Highball is a bold font in every …

Classic Font: Butterfield

Butterfield is based on letting from a poster for the Paul Butterfield Blues …

New Font: Carillon

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview You may recall a couple of months …

Abaddon in Maleficent

At the very beginning of the summer Disney released Maleficent the first in a …

New Font: Mannering

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Mannering is a new font design …

Featured Font: Sanhedrin

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Sanhedrin is a decorative futuristic …

New Font: Lyceum

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Lyceum has the stylized shape and …

Featured Font: Roughwork

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Roghwork is a unique font which …

Folkard Font on Dublin Black Cherry …

I was shopping in my local HEB grocery store this weekend and found myself in …

New Font: Yancey

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Yancey is a new font based on a …

Save Ink with the InkSaver Font

While I still think it may be some sort of obscure and premature April Fool's …

Valdemar and Abaddon on Brian …

Since specialty publisher Subterranean Press has taken over design and …

Flatstock 43 in Austin

It's South by Southwest time in Austin and for me that means it's time for my …

Featured Font: Iphegenia

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Iphegenia was one of our early …

New Font: Edifice

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Edifice is a decorative titling font …

Featured Font: Cosmic Dude

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Cosmic Dude was designed as one of …

New Font: Doge

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Doge is a new font based on …

Classic Font: Reynard

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Reynard is a classic font based on …

Hesperides Font on TV in Sleepy …

In Monday night's episode of the new TV show Sleepy Hollow Ichabod Crane and …

Featured Font: Sepultura

It's Halloween season so it seems essential to feature a horror font and …

Albemarle Font Featured on Southern …

While shopping at the local Dillards I noticed stacks of copies of the Southern …

New Font: Folkard Caption

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Our original Folkard font has …

Juarez: New Font

Grand Concours is based on lettering designed for a poster for the equestrian …

Featured Font: Quicksilver

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Quicksilver was designed as one of …

New Font: Startling Stories

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Startling Stories was a pulp-era …

Valdemar Appearing on New Chadbourn …

There's nothing better for a font foundry than when one of your fonts gets …

Featured Font: Slava

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Slava is based on lettering by …

Abaddon in War of the Fallen

I run into our fonts in the strangest places, but it was an unexpected surprise …

New Font: Ripley

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Ripley is a new titling font with a …

Featured Font: Bilitis

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Bilitis is an original …

New Font: Escargot

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Escargot is based on lettering from …

Windlass Font Takes to the Road

I stopped into our local barbeque parlor for dinner this evening, and parked …

Featured Font: Orphiel

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Script fonts can be a real challenge …

New Font: Shayne

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview We've featured some articles on the …

Classic Font: Zothique

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Zothique is one of our most unusual decorative …

Numi Tea Featuring Rackham Font

We often feature products which use our fonts in their packaging or content, …

Abaddon – Bullet for My …

This may take on something of the character of a true confession when I have to …

Captain Kidd Font in The Last Battle

I was walking through the local comic store today when my eye was caught by a …

Featured Font: Malagua

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Malagua was originally released in 1999 and has …

Interlude Font on Lucini Pasta …

While wandering through the gourmet section of the local grocery store I …

New Font: Original Django

In an article last week we explored the origins of the font used in Quentin …

Gehenna Font in Terran Games …

Our fonts show up in some interesting places and unusual media. One of the …

Featured Font: Potsdam

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Potsdam was one of our earliest font releases, …

And I Hesitate to Mention…

While trapped in a hospital recovery room with a very limited selection of …

Goodfellow Font in Django Unchained

I notice from our keyword tracking that we are getting a lot of hits from …

Eisenstein Font

Film director Sergei Eisenstein was a major influence on the …

St. Ives Font

In honor of Cyber Monday, which some people are now expanding to …

Froissart Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Our Froissart font was first released in 2000 as …

Treadway Font

Treadway is a new, original design in the tradition of futuristic advertising …

Munich Font

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Our Munich font was first released in 1998 and has …

Drakulon Font

When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to buy comic books, so when I began to earn …

Special Font Release: Posada Spur

I was watching the television show Sons of Anarchy and on looking at the logo …

Fougasse Font

Fougasse is a bold title font which has a unique combination of elements, …

Cantoria Initials

After quite a few new fonts in a row with a modern look and two based on …

Folkard Font featured in …

Bard's Tale is a venerable computer game which has gone through many versions …

Engrossing Font

Engrossing is one of our earliest fonts, originally released in the early …

Death Ray Font

When we did a font (and a feature article) recently based on a design by …

Rodchenko Font

Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956) was one of the premier artists of the …

Hesperides at True Blue Tattoo

One of the trendy local tattoo parlors here in Austin is True Blue Tattoo. …

Vintage Fonts in The Artist

After seeing it win all sorts of Oscars I had to sneak out for a matinee of The …

Romark Font

It's the time of year when we do a lot of design for political posters and some …

Folkard Appearing in The Woman in …

My daughters persuaded me to join them for a trip to see Daniel Radcliffe in …

Langdon Font

Langdon is our first new font of 2012. It's based on samples of hand-rendered …

True Golden Font

True Golden is one of the cornerstone fonts in our William Morris collection. …

Fonts in Arthur Christmas

Took the kiddies to see Arthur Christmas today. The film was pretty good as …

St. Nicholas Font on The Daily Show

Our St. Nicholas font has become so closely associated with the Christmas …

Swithin Font

Swithin was designed to be our featured holiday font for 2003. It is based on …

Barnabas Font

Our new Barnabas font is the result of our Dark Shadows font design project. …

Rosemont Font in Upcoming Borrowers …

Hayao Miyazaki who brought us great animated fantasy films like Ponyo, Princess …

New Font: Leodegar

Leodegar is based on samples of 7th century Frankish hand lettering. The …

Dromon Font

Dromon has been one of our most popular and most successful display fonts. …

Serenissima Font

Serenissima takes its name from a nickname for the city of Venice which means …

Paleos Font

We originally released Paleos back in 2002. It was inspired by kinds of titles …

Elsene Font

Elsene is a new font based on lettering by early 20th century illustrator Clara …

Featured Font: Guilford

Guilford is one of several fonts we've released based on the hand lettering of …

New Font: Gelderland

Gelderland is a new font based on some very old typography, taken from samples …

Scurlock Featured in New Cthulhu …

While looking for something good to watch on Netflix I stumbled on a movie …

Scrapple Font

Scrapple is a new font based on the idea of constructing characters from a …

Featured Font: Melcheburn

Melcheburn is a really handsome calligraphic font which we first released in …

Criterion: New Font

Criterion is a classic Art Deco style font designed based on poster lettering …

Valdemar Font on Harry Potter Wands

With the dramatic opening of the last film in the Harry Potter series opening …

Featured Font: Vergennes

Vergennes was originally released in 2001 and is a stylish font which combines …

New Font: Bosphoros

We don't normally like to follow the same theme too much with our new font …

New Font: Beaumains

We've done a number of fonts based on lettering by vintage calligrapher and …

Featured Font: Rosalinde

Rosalinde was first released in 1999 and it was one of our first attempts at an …

New Font: Aerobrush

I was playing around with some paint at our chicken coop and realized I had an …

Captain Kidd at the Book Fair

Amazon.com WidgetsLast week was the Scholastic Book Fair at my youngest …

Rodrigo Initials

Rodrigo is a new font based on a set of 16th century woodcut initials with …

Featured Font: Vafthrudnir

With the upcoming release of Marvel's Thor movie, things viking are all trendy …

New Font: Suspicion

I recently wrote a brief article on pulp novel book cover art and lettering as …

Flatstock 29: A Plethora of Posters …

For the second year in a row I braved the crowds and the chaos which is the …

Ulalume Font

Ulalume was one of our earliest text fonts. It was originally designed in 1993 …

Alcuin Font

We're working on a number of projects based on designs by legendary 19th …

2010 Font and Art Sampler

At the end of every year we put together a special discounted package with …

Featured Font: Bridgeport

Bridgeport was first released in 2003 and is one of several fonts based on …

Bridgeport in Bridgeport

It's so appropriate that we had to make a note of it. At the Harborview Market …

New Font: Moncrief

In working on graphic design projects I've been repeatedly frustrated by the …

Classic Font: Semiramis

Semiramis was originally released in 1997. It's an arts and crafts style font …

Cochin Archaic in True Grit

After enjoying a couple of hours watching the recent remake of the classic …

Featured Font: Schoolhand

Schoolhand was originally commissioned by the Education Department at a major …

2010: A Year in Fonts

In 2010 we released 18 new fonts, a tad short of our ideal goal of 24, but a …

St. Nicholas Font on SNL

Sometimes our fonts show up in pretty cool locations. Last night, as a child …

New Font: Vyones

On a recent journey to an obscure and near-forgotten French province, I found …

Fonts With Style

At the Scriptorium we're celebrating our 25th year designing original fonts and …

New Font: Big Show

We've been working hard on developing a new package of fonts based on classic …

Folkard: The World of Warcraft Font

For several years World of Warcraft has been the dominant multiplayer online …

The St. Nicholas Font Put to Good …

Recently, one of our customers who goes by the nom de net of Ghostfire, …

Classic Font: Gjallarhorn

Gjallarhorn is based on uncial-style lettering by artist Willy Pogany from his …

New Font: Hadrianus Swash

Hadrianus has been one of our most popular text fonts for a while and it was …

Black Cow Font

Black Cow was originally developed back in 1998 as an addition to our Horror …

New Font: Plymouth

As you may have noticed we've been doing fonts off and on for several years …

Scurlock on the Game Shelf

Scurlock has always been one of our most popular fonts for designers working in …

Caelian Font

The fascination with letterpress fonts continues, and one of the key element of …

Classic Font: Buccaneer

Buccaneer was one of our early font designs, originating way back in 1994 as …

Vambrace Font

Back in March we held a poll to see which of five fonts we should put at the …

Russian Folkard Sees Print

We originally designed the Russian and Eastern European versions of our Folkard …

New Font: BigBlok

A great many years ago when working in game publishing I had a real fascination …

Classic Font: Albemarle

Since it was first released in 2001, Albemarle has become one of our most …

Valdemar Font Featured in Dragon Age

While browsing the shelves at my local bookstore I came across a series of …

New Font: Letterpress Gothic

With all the coverage we did of the Hatch Show Print exhibit it seemed only …

Classic Font: Linthicum

Since I first designed it for a book cover project back in In 2003, Linthicum …

Classic Font: Stonecross

Stonecross has been one of our most popular celtic fonts since it was released …

Classic Font: Rheingold

We picked Rheingold as our new font re-release because I saw so much of it at …

New Font: Aylward

I seem to still be operating in the mode of fonts based on Victorian era …

Classic Font: Stuttgart Gothic

Stuttgart Gothic is a super-bold gothic calligraphy font which we first …

Classic Font: Gaiseric

We first released Gaiseric back in 1998. It was developed from samples of …

Percy Jackson: The Lighning …

A few months ago we noted that our Windlass font was being used for the titles …

New Font: Antrobus

Antrobus is a new font based on hand lettering in a style which draws on horror …

On the Shelves: New Boardgames

Browsing the shelves at our local game store, Great Hall Games in Austin, I ran …

New Font: Airship

In a slightly different reality where the Hindenberg never crashed, we were …

On the Shelves

Given the historical and often fanciful character of so many of our fonts I've …

New Font: Borealis

Borealis is based on samples of advertising lettering from the 1930s with a …

New Font: Alexandrine

// I keep trying to come up with the perfect title font and while I'm not sure …

On the Shelves: Captain Kidd and …

It seems like it's always the young adult section of the bookstore where I find …

New Font: Madding

We're in an ongoing quest to make the perfect poster font — something bold …

Sighting: Wild West Fonts at …

I was in the checkout line at Randall's today (the thinkly disguised version of …

Classic Font: Moravia

Our Alphons Mucha package was originally released in 1997. One of the most …

Font Club Exclusive – Art …

Once a year members of the Font Club get a bonus font which is an exclusive …

Font Revision: Pontifica New

Pontifica New is an entirely new version of Michael Scarpitti's Pontifica font …

New Font: Changeling

As we mentioned in a recent article on Projects in Development, we've been …

Classic Font: Delaguerra

Back in 2001 we were approached by the Santa Barbara Historical Society to …

New Font: Krasny Mir

Working on revisions to Structura a few weeks ago brought the whole topic of …

Joyeuse Font

Joyeuse is one of our earliest developments of a really high-end font. It is …

Classic Font: Structura

In these hard times it seemed appropriate to harken back to even harder times, …

New Font: Rasael

We started work on the Rasael script font early last year, but because of the …

Classic Font: Tuscarora

We first released Tuscarora in the early 90s based on samples of rough …

New Font: Foundry Ornament

It's been a dog's age since we featured an art font, so here we go. Foundry …

Melusine Font

Melusine is based on an ornate style of gothic calligraphy used primarily in …

New Font: Agravain

Agravain is a very attractive speedball-style hand lettering font with …

Sighting: Valdemar Font in Age of …

While browsing through our local bookstore over the holiday weekend my eye was …

Classic Font: Evadare Enhanced

Evadare is a stylish text font which we originally released in 2002. It is …

New Font: Pencraft Initials

Pencraft Initials is an early 20th century sign-letteirng initials set …

Classic Font: Windlass Enhanced

Since it's original release in 1996 Windlass has been one of our most …

Amphitryon Font

The ancient Greek legend of Amphitryon is little known today but is one of the …

Discount Packages on Ebay

Our offerings of selected packages through ebay have had a lot of value as a …

Classic Font: Boswell

We've brought back a lot of classic fonts for a second look, but few of them …

Walter Crane Font

// We've been working on developing a whole collection of fonts and graphics …

Spiral Initials Font

It's St. Patrick's day and with all our Celtic Fonts, when it came time to dig …

Art Deco Stencil Font

Art Deco Stencil is based on samples of Art Deco stencil lettering by Pedro …

Brigidis Font

Brigidis is a classic Celtic font with a unique look which is actually somewhat …

New Font: Atkinson Boomtown

Boomtown is based on hand lettering by early 20th century sign artist Frank …

Jugendstil Kunsthand

Jugendstil Kunsthand is based on a sample of late 19th century lettering in a …

Sighting: Rackham Fonts in …

Roleplaying game publishers often use our fonts and one of the regulars is …

Verne: Steampunk Font

Verne is an original design developed specially for our new collection of …

Goldwork Font

Goldwork is a new font based on lettering designed for metalworking …

New Font: Atkinson Egyptian

We've done several fonts based on lettering from early 20th century sign …

New Font – Crane Gothic

One of the artists whose works we've been acquiring actively in the last couple …

Sighting: Platthand in Dr. Parnassus

It probably doesn't mean that it will play a role in the film itself, but it …

Waldeck Font

Waldeck is a gothic font based on 17th century German calligraphy. It has …

New Font – Woburn Initials

It's been quite a while since we did an initials font, so here is Woburn, a …

Malvern Font

Malvern is a new Celtic-style font with upper case letters which are an …

The Fonts of Spiderwick

Spiderwick Chronicles movie opening this weekend a lot of people are out …

Fonts Playing Pirate

The designers at Disney know good fonts when they see them, and they've …

New Font: Valentin

Valentin is an Art Nouveau font with an eccentric, stylized look. It has the …

Credit Where Due

One of my perennial complaints about the font business is how little …

New Font: Broadley

Yorkshire-born architect and designer C. F. A. Voysey was one of the …

New Font: Posada

José Guadalupe Posada was a Mexican printer, engraver, cartoonist and …

Sighting – Abaddon

As I've written before, Abaddon is our most overused font. Everyone seems to …

New Font: Aventine

It's a very political year so we're releasing a political poster font, …

New Font: Groningen

Groningen is a modern looking font inspired by the Bauhaus design period and …

Berenicia Font

I've been working on a number of new fonts at the same time, and the first one …

Freebooter Font

For a recent design project I needed something bold, but with a different kind …

Burnham Font

The Burnham font was designed for a special project, as a logo font for a line …

Chatellaine Font

Chatellaine is a decorative script font with elaborately flourished capital …

Holiday Fonts and Art

hatever holiday you celebrate, it's probably a time of cards and presents and decorations …

Renaissance Fonts and Art …

Click any font to see a larger …

MapMaker Collection

Making functional and attractive maps is a very specialized skill, prized by game …

Horror Fonts and Art for …

For years here a the Scriptorium we've been developing fonts and collecting unique art …

Silent Film Font Collection

In our article on the fonts in the modern silent film The Artist we identified a number …

Medieval Fonts and Art

Click any font to see a larger …

Louis Rhead Borders …

This is a special collection of borders (and three illustrations) drawn by Louis Rhead …

Louis Rhead Floral Borders

At the start of the previous century the Louis Rhead and his brothers (George and …

Fonts for eBooks

More and more literature - newspapers to magazines to novels and even comic books …

Ornamental Borders by George …

The Victorian tradition of coupling bad literature with great art and decoration has been …

Romantic Fonts and Art for …

We've got a font package for just about every other holiday, so it seemed impossible to …

The Fonts of 2019

Every year we release a number of new fonts, and at the start of the next year we collect …

Holiday Feature Guide

Over the years we have produced many special packages and unique fonts specifically for …

The Colonial Fonts Collection

In our imaginations we associate the colonial period with images of idealism, revolution …

Arts & Crafts Collection

Click any font to see a larger sample. The new second …

Russian Constructivist Fonts

One of our most stylish packages is our collection of Constructivist Fonts based on …

Modern Poster Fonts

Because the modern era of design draws on so many past traditions, it's hard to nail down …

Walter Crane’s …

One of our most interesting packages is based on The Three Sirens, a classic illustrated …

April Fools Recap

In most years (except this one) we try to amuse with some sort of April Fools prank. …

Russian Folk Art and Fonts …

In the early 20th century, before the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Art Nouveau …

Celtic Font and Art …

he Celts have been acclaimed for their remarkable artistic legacy - far more substantial …

Letterpress Font Collection

Click any font to see more. Letterpress printing is one of the oldest and simplest …

Retrofuturist Fonts

Our work on fonts from the 1920s and 1930s has focused a lot on Arts and Crafts and Art …

A New Sideline: Fashion Pins

With all the fonts and art we have collected, there are all sorts of opportunities to …

Howard Pyle Fonts and Art …

Howard Pyle was one of the most renowned illustrators of the 19th century. His work was …

The Poster Art of Mig Kokinda

A few years ago I came across some really interesting poster art by Mig Kokinda at …

Meme Font Collection

We've put together a very special collection of fonts just for making internet memes and …

Futuristic Fonts – …

It's not easy to define what the future of font design will be, but we can certainly …

Pulp Fonts

In the 1930s there was an explosion of popular literature in the form of pulp novels and …

Updated: Arabian Nights Fonts …

Click any font to see a larger sample: The culture of the …

Art & Symbol Fonts …

Art fonts (sometimes called "dingbats") have their origins in early printers ornaments …

Fantasy Fonts and Art Package

Our classic Fantasy Fonts & Art collection is a great resource for artists, …

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 …

Walter Crane’s A Flower …

One of the most interesting items in our extensive collection of Walter Crane illustrated …

Design Your Own Holiday Cards

With the right fonts and the right art, most computer users should be able to make their …

E. J. Detmold Arabian Nights …

E. J. Detmold was an early 20th century illustrator most known for his nature …

Willy Pogany Borders and …

Willy Pogany was a highly regarded early 20th century illustrator. He was born in Hungary …

Owen Jones “The …

One of Owen Jones most interesting illuminated books is his 1849 edition of the biblical …

Historic Borders Collection

One if the best inclusions in our phenomenal collection of images is a set of historic …

Walter Crane’s …

The Rosebud and Other Stories by Arthur Kelly is one of the rarer and more unusual books …

Arthur Rackham’s Peter …

In 1906 legendary illustrator Arthur Rackham was commissioned to illustrate J. M. …

Art Fonts

Art fonts (sometimes called "dingbats") have their origins in early printers ornaments or …

Art Deco Font Collection

Our Art Deco font collection includes a remarkable selectiion of fonts from the design …

Walter Crane Decorations …

Even when writing essays on socialism and the philosophy of art, Walter Crane was …

Odyssey – Illustrated …

W. Heath Robinson was an artist of the first half of the 20th century who started his …

2016 Font and Art Sampler

Every year we …

Art Nouveau Font Collection

Our venerable Art Nouveau Font Collection is going to be going through some changes in …

Goblin Market by Margaret …

Margaret Tarrant was a notable English children's book illustrator of the early 20th …

Illuminated Initials from …

In the mid-19th century Owen Jones undertook to catalog historic design and decoration in …

The Lady of Shalott

Howard Pyle's illustrated edition of Tennyson's Lady of Shalott is probably the single …

Steampunk Fonts and Textures

Click on any font below to view a larger …

Eastlake Design Sampler

When we were renovating our house I discovered ornamental brass fixtures for the doors …

Walter Crane’s The …

Another of Walter Crane's interesting decorated books is his edition of Edmund Spenser's …

The Illiad – …

W. Heath Robinson was one of the most popular and successful illustrators of the late …

Jugendstil Art Nouveau …

In the late 19th century there was an artistic Renaissance in southern Germany, led by …

Twenty-Four New Fonts of 2016

Every year we release a number of new fonts, and at the start of the next year we collect …

Charles Robinson – …

We're always acquiring classic books illustrated by great artists. One who we've recently …

Paul Woodroffe – Songs …

In the early 20th century there was a real boom in the market for high end books with a …

The Art of Eleanor Brickdale

Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale was one of the great illustrators of the later Victorian era, …

New Celtic Legacy Package

Our first two Celtic themed packages were so popular that we kept producing new Celtic …

Barataria and Mannerheim …

A new local company is using our fonts in their advertising designs. Quillinan's Estate …

Eric Sloane Font Collection

With the release of Almanac we have enough Eric Sloane fonts to make them worth offering …

Eric Sloane on Weather

The magnificent skies we've had here in Austin for the last week remind me of the works …

The World of Eric Sloane

This is an update of an article we originally published in 2005. Additional links have …

Display Fonts Collection

Starting in the 19th century with the explosion of popular entertainment and …

Calligraphy Fonts Collection

When scribes first put pen to page they began the long struggle to control the written …

American Beauties by Harrison …

This is something very different from our usual offerings, but it caught my eye at a rare …

Oriental Fonts Collection

Over the years we've designed fonts on just about every theme, and one which we've come …

McMurtrie Historic Borders

If you liked our Elizabethan Fonts you need some historic borders to go with them and we …

Old French Nursery Songs …

Our latest mini-package is a collection of illustrations by early 20th century …

The Grammar of Ornament

The Grammar of Ornament is an extraordinary compendium of design resources created by …

Party Fonts for Easter

We have such a large selection of fonts that you can find some for any purpose. We've …

Textures and Patterns

One of the first areas we branched out into after starting out exclusively with fonts, …

Aesop’s Fables by …

Our latest mini-package is a collection of beautiful art by Charles Folkard from his …

Owen Jones’ Illuminated …

homas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is probably one of the greatest poems …

Water Sprites by Charles …

One of the most interesting and often overlooked sources of art in the early part of the …

2015 Sampler of Fonts and Art

At the start of every year we put out a special sampler package of the fonts and art …

Text Fonts Collection

Text fonts are fundamental for virtually any project. For a lot of computer users and …

Gothic Fonts Collection

Our gothic font collection is a compilation of our most interesting fonts based on gothic …

Ring of the Nibelungs – …

We've recently added some really great illustrated books to our collection with …

Nosegrind Font in Street Art

I found a book in a recent visit to the used book store called Street Art, published …

The Art of William Russell …

Sir William Russell Flint was the Artist Laureate to Queen Victoria at the end of her …

Viking Fonts and Art …

For a PDF of art samples click HERE Click any font to see a larger …

“Old King Cole’s …

Byam Shaw was an outstanding English illustrator of the Victorian period who specialized …

Eleanore Brickdale’s …

Eleanore Fortescue Brickdale was a remarkable illustrator who was part of the generation …

The First Nantucket Tea Party …

As a special seasonal bonus, for Thanksgivin we've making available a collection of …

Walter Crane’s The …

Illustrated books teaching young children how to read were a staple of 19th century …

Faerie Fonts and Art

Way back in the 1990s we put together a guide page called "Fairy Lands Forlorn" which …

Tales from Shakespeare …

Charles Folkard was an outstanding illustrator of the early 20th century, best known for …

English Fairy Tale …

In the late 19th and early 20th century there was a boom in the popularity of English …

Columbia’s Courtship by …

As part of Great Britain's participation in the 1906 World's Fair in Chicago, legendary …

A Special Offer on Our Font …

As a special offer to round out the fall, we're offering a one-time discount on new and …

Site Redesign Update Part 2

Earlier this week we began exploring the new site features. Let's continue with a …

Site Redesign News

As I'm sure you've probably noticed we've been going through some serious redesign work …

Script Fonts Package

Of all the different types of font, the one style which seems to be in constant demand is …

Walter Crane’s Calendar

In January of 1891 Little Folks Magazine published a special feature of a calendar …

Byam Shaw’s Decameron

Byam Shaw was a great English illustrator of the Victorian period. Stylistically he …

Pre-Raphaelite Art Collection

The Pre-Raphaelite movement emerged in the mid-1800s as an attempt to return art to its …

Political Fonts Package

It's time for politics, with primaries coming up this Spring and the big mid-term …

William Morris Font and Art …

William Morris was one of the founders of the Arts and Crafts Movement and closely …

Get the Scriptorium News- …

We're constantly putting new articles, new fonts, new reviews and new links to great …

Walter Crane’s Pan Pipes

For years we've been adding to what has become an outstanding library of illustrated …

Paul Woodroffe Illustrations …

At the dawn of the 20th century there was a real boom in the market for high end books. …

Review: ‘Use Any …

Everyone wants to use live fonts on their website. This is a plugin for WordPress which …

Decorative Intials Collection

decorative Initials font consists of characters which combine basic letter forms with …

Illustrated Fairy Tales from …

In our endless acquisition of graphic arts resources we come across oddities from time to …

Floral Borders by Margaret …

Margaret Armstrong was an artist of the early 20th century particularly known for her …

New Fonts of 2014

Every year we release a number of new fonts, and at the end of the year we collect them …

Holiday Feature: Walter …

This Christmas we're making available an unusual collection of Christmas images by …

Psychedelic Font Collection

The 1960s was a time when creativity flourished, in music, in literature and in the …

Austin Poster Scene

Austin is a great center for the arts, not only music and film and other performing arts, …

Understanding Font and Image …

I've noticed recently that a lot of people seem not to entirely understand the idea of …

Charles Folkard Grimm …

It's been a while since we released any new art from our collection of fairytale books …

Facebook Acquires 2 New …

Citing the boring sameness of their web presentation, the management of social media …

Walter Crane: Aladdin’s …

Walter Crane produced a series of small pamphlets in the 1890s based on popular fairy …

Grunge Was Never About …

I'm writing in response to an article published a while ago in The Awl which looks at the …

Wild West Fonts

Our Wild West font collection features 14 fonts based on designs from the classic days of …

Border and Ornament Fonts

You can try out a sample border font for free. Click here to download the working trial …

Walter Crane Arthurian Art …

The release of our long-awaited Arthurian Fonts and Art Package is just around the corner …

Start Your Collection With …

Click any font to see a larger sample. …

Alphons Mucha Fonts and Art

Alphonse Mucha was born in what is now the Czech Republic in 1860 and moved to Paris in …

Byam Shaw Illustrations for …

Byam Shaw was one of the outstanding artist illustrators of the Victorian period in …

In Development: Crane …

One of our upcoming fonts is the result of an interesting project, developing original …

Recreating the Django Font

Since there seemed to be some real interest in seeing a fully developed font similar to …

The Fonts of 2012

In 2012 we released 18 new fonts. 14 of these were released as new, "featured" fonts and …

Making Maps with the MapMaker …

This is a step by step guide to designing a small map using the elements and fonts of the …

W. Heath Robinson Chaucer …

W. Heath Robinson was one of the most popular and successful illustrators of the late …

Walter Crane Christmas Bonus

As a special treat for customers working on holiday card designs, we're making available …

Dora Curtis Arthurian Art

With the release of our Arthurian Fonts and Art Collection finally looming at the end of …

Children of the Damned

With Halloween looming, thoughts naturally turn to issues of horror and to classic horror …

Edmund Dulac Collection

Edmund Dulac was one of the most prolific and most impressive illustrators of the early …

Desktop Publishing on a Budget

Our customers include a lot of novices in the area of graphic design who may not be well …

Fun With Typeshow

One of the amusing things about Typeshow, our new font preview tool, is that it logs what …

Katherine Cameron King …

We've released several mini-packages of art by early 20th century illustrator Katherine …

Walter Crane’s The …

We've done a lot of work with books designed and illustrated by Walter Crane. Two of the …

Winning Votes with the Right …

It's election season again and as some of you may remember, I'm a student of political …

Vintage Postcards at Voices …

While working on a design project for a local group here in Texas I ran across an …

WWI Propaganda Posters

I hope readers don't find it tedious, but my mind tends to run in certain courses and …

Review: Hide Me Among the …

Capitalizing on newfound popularity resulting from the use of his novel On Stranger Tides …

Vintage Fonts in The Artist

After seeing it win all sorts of Oscars I had to sneak out for a matinee of The Artist …

Walter Crane: The …

We've been collecting illustrated books by Arts and Crafts era designer Walter Crane for …

Arts and Crafts Borders from …

The Calendar of Golden Thoughts was published by Barse and Hopkins printing company in …

How Captain Kidd Was Designed

This article originally appeared on our site as a seven-part series of featured articles …

New Holiday Clip-Art Mini …

This year, as a special holiday offering we're releasing a mini-package of seasonal …

Better Font Choices for the …

You're not going to use Helvetica or Times Roman for your holiday cards are you? What …

Clara Peck Lettering in The …

I recently picked up a copy of the novel The Prince of Mercuria by Atkinson Kimball with …

Font Over-Exposure: Too Much …

Have you ever noticed that there are some fonts that get used over and over and over …

Special Arthur Rackham Mini …

We've been doing an awful lot with Walter Crane recently, but sort of neglecting one of …

Mining Horror Comics for Font …

I'm always mining the great graphic legacy of past eras for cool resources to use as the …

Walter Crane on Decorative …

People recognize Walter Crane as a famous book illustrator, but far fewer are aware that …

Dark Shadows Project: Looking …

In developing an updated font for Dark Shadows one interesting challenge is that there …

Scurlock Featured in New …

While looking for something good to watch on Netflix I stumbled on a movie recently …

The Dark Shadows Font Project …

The Dark Shadows font project is back on track... When I first heard that there was a …

The Hot Retro Design of the …

When I go browsing in our local vintage shops I always check out the racks of flyers and …

Ancient and Arcane Fonts

While developing more traditional fonts based on historical material, …

Olive Allen’s …

Our ongoing acquisition of cool little illustrated books has included a lot of small …

In Development: Owen …

We've done several previous packages based on designs by Victorian design historian Owen …

Constructing Art Deco Emblems

Pedro Lemos was one of the outstanding artists of the California Arts and Crafts movement …

Monks™ Available for Home …

Through an arrangement with Abbot Gregor of the Monastery of St. Ioan in Suceava Rumania …

Old Films on Printing

There are all sorts of peculiar things on YouTube, and recently my daughter directed me …

2010 Font and Art Sampler

At the end of every year we put together a special discounted package with samples of …

Try the Scriptorium Mobile App

It seems sort of counterintuitive to view fonts and graphics on a smartphone, but if …

Rudolph Koch Floral Initials

f you wonder where all of our fonts and art come from, we spend a lot of time researching …

Cochin Archaic in True Grit

After enjoying a couple of hours watching the recent remake of the classic western True …

2010: A Year in Fonts

In 2010 we released 18 new fonts, a tad short of our ideal goal of 24, but a pretty …

Custom Font Design

If you visit this site, the first thing you see is a great many fonts. That makes sense …

Happy Holidays!

Fonts featured in this card (in order) Crane Gothic, St. Nicholas and Vambrace. The …

Blue Genie Art Bazaar in …

Walter Crane: The Hind in the …

As we continue development on our collection of material by Arts and Crafts master Walter …

The Jugend Tarot Deck

I recently came upon a rare and unexpected discovery in one of my favorite rare book …

Political Signs: the Bold and …

In the next few weeks we're all going to see an awful lot of political signs. Every …

Halloween T-Shirt Designs

Over a period of five years, from 2002 to 2006 I contributed to the Halloween festival at …

Daniel Martin Diaz and the …

I started out researching some posters I've collected from shows at various Austin …

Our Recent Run-In with Google

As some of you may have noticed, this site was shut down for 2 days last week, along with …

Licensing Fonts for Embedding

While most of our business remains selling fonts for use in publication and graphic …

Ken Featherston Posters from …

This past weekend I attended an auction here in our little town just outside Austin. I …

Robin Hood and the Fallacy of …

There's a strange tradition in book publishing which compels editors to decide …

Letterpress Printing I: …

I have a commission to do an event poster for a festival coming up this fall. Rather …

Arthur Rackham Fonts and Art

Arthur Rackham may be the single best-known book illustrator of the late 19th and early …

Roman Inscriptory Fonts

Exploring his favorite historical period, Michael Scarpitti has developed a special …

Hatch Show Print Exhibit in …

Austin Museum of Art for a month to see the Hatch Show Print exhibit. It's a collection …

Pick Our Next New Font Release

Decisions, decisions... We always have a number of fonts in development and the next …

Yes, You CAN Have It All!

Complete Fonts Release 23 is Here! In the littany of amazing bargains there are few to …

Review: Flatstock 24 at SXSW

As an Austinite, no amount of effort can keep me from being aware of the South by …

Hamilton Wood Type Museum at …

My daughter recently directed my attention to a fascinating site called Atlas Obscura …

Katherine Cameron Ballads

We've got all these nice little books by late 19th century childrens book illustrator …

James Blaylock – The …

James Blaylock has not been a prolific author in recent years, but with the release of …

Using Flash Fonts on the Web

I wrote recently about the set of Web Fonts we had designed a few years ago. As noted in …

Projects In Development

Here at the Scriptorium we're constantly working on new projects, drawing on material in …

Free Fonts for the Web

After a while using the web you get tired of seeing everything in the same old fonts. …

The Gargoyles of Penn

On our recent college tour one of the most interesting places we stopped was the …

The Art of Howard David …

Some years ago I had the pleasure of working on some publishing projects with Howard …

Giving Your Page a Favicon

You may have noticed that on many pages you visit there is a little icon to the left of …

2009 Font and Art Sampler

About once a year we release a special sampler package with a collection of selected …

Discount Packages on Ebay

Our offerings of selected packages through ebay have had a lot of value as a method of …

Color Harmony Guide

Before we had fancy programs like Photoshop with dozens of color palettes and millions of …

A Little Guide to Bookbinding

In our ongoing acquisition of antique graphic arts resources we've recently been looking …

The Dark Shadows Font Project

My name is Victoria Winters... For almost five years those were the words which …

Our Top Fonts of 2008

MyFonts has made a dramatic announcement of their Top 10 Fonts of 2008 with the results …

The World of Steampunk

Steampunk is an increasingly popular literary genre which explores science fiction themes …

Review: New Books from James …

Sometimes it may seem like what I write here comes a bit out of left field, but rest …

Designing with Decorative …

Decorative Initials font consists of characters which combine basic letter forms with …

Textures and Patterns in Web …

One of the best ways to give a website color and character is through the effective use …

John Stossel on Graphic Desgn

Not necessarily profound, but amusing and I can't argue with his first point. This aired …

Digital Coloring Books

The Scriptorium's Digital Coloring Books are collections of classic illustrations idealy …

Welcome to the Scriptorium …

Welcome to the beta version of the new Scriptorium/Fontcraft site. Almost everything is …

Credit Where Due

One of my perennial complaints about the font business is how little recognition fonts …

Psychedelic Artist Alton …

Last week legendary psychedelic poster artist Alton Kelley passed away. Kelley was best …

New Font and Art Sampler

Our previous font and art sampler has been a pretty popular item for people wanting to …

Desktop Publishing …

I can't even begin to count the number of times distressed customers have called me …

Featured Font: Squiffy

August 17, 2013 Display Fonts, Fonts, Gallery 0 comments

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Squiffy is a fun font. It has a background in arts and crafts style font design, but rather than the regular, architectural character forms and arrangements, the characters are wild and irregular and highly varied. There are two distinct versions of every character, with variations in form and size. The overall resulting look is …

Featured Font: Quicksilver

July 20, 2013 Classic Fonts, Featured Fonts, Fonts, Gallery, Poster Fonts 58 comments

BUY NOW TRY DEMO Custom Preview Quicksilver was designed as one of the original featured fonts included in our Psychedelic Fonts Package. It was developed into a full font from a sample of lettering from Quicksilver Messenger Service’s live album Summer of ’68 and posters for shows associated with it at the Fillmore and other clubs. The original lettering was …