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Our Master Fonts are the cream of our font collection. These fonts were specially selected for their popularity, visual appeal and general utility and put through additional development to make them state of the art expert fonts suitable for any professional publishing use. Added features of Master Fonts include: expanded character sets with foreign language characters for most European languages, including Old and Middle English, hundreds of additional kerning pairs for a more coherent appearance and customized bold and italic styles.
Our first Master Fonts package features three type styles
based on late 19th century designs which were influenced by Gothic
calligraphy filtered through the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements. Kelmscott is
based on William Morris' classic Troy type design. Joyeuse is based on an
English font of the same period which was clearly influenced by Morris.
Rousseau is derived from a slightly later French design which shows many of
the same influences.
This package features a selection of our best formal gothic
calligraphy fonts, based on historical lettering from the later Middle Ages.
This is the kind of lettering sometimes called 'Black Letter' from which
traditional German type of the 19th century is descended. While the styles
are related, they are distinctly different, especially the capital letters.
Theodoric is the most formal and traditional, while Franconian and Burgundian
are more idiosyncratic.
This package features a selection of our best uncial
calligraphy fonts, based on historical calligraphy from the early Middle Ages.
Durrow is a classic Irish uncial style, while Constance and Gallia are more
characteristic of continental styles. Uncial calligraphy did not
differentiate between capital and small letter forms, so these fonts feature
large and small capitals, although Constance instead has signficantly
different letter forms for each character.
This package includes a selection of unusual Art Nouveau period fonts,
ideal for titling and decorative uses. Eglantine is a very bold, jaunty style.
Bruges is an angular style suitable to some text uses as well as titles. Goodfellow
is one of our most popular fonts, based on the same 19th century design from
which the titles in the popular movie Nightmare Before Christmas were
also derived. These fonts are great for decorative uses and designing titles
and cards.
We've always had a lot of demand for our antique text fonts,
so we've put three of the best into the Master Fonts series. These styles
are based on samples of 18th and early 19th century type, and preserve many
of the quirks of wood-cut and early metal text fonts. Boswell is the most
unusual, featuring a whole range of alternate character forms including many
broken and degenerated characters. Ruffian and Octavian are more typical of
how antique type was intended to look, but they retain a lot of the character
and irregularity which makes them unique.
To complement the rough hewn fonts of our
first antique text fonts package, we've added a special collection of more refined,
more elegant Classic Text Fonts, based on some of the most noble fonts of the
18th and 19th century, including Nicholas Cochin's Antiqua and William Morris'
Golden type. These fonts are among the most attractive and versatile we've
produced and will make any publication look more elegant. Like all our Master
Fonts they include expanded character sets for many languages.
The standard type styles which we use for text
today originated in the calligraphic and inscriptory styles of ancient Rome.
These three type styles are based on later Roman calligraphy styles and
preserve the characteristics which we find in many modern text fonts. Benevento
is based on Lombardic calligraphy and is excellent for titles or text. Publius
is a Roman proto-uncial style which is the ancestor of modern sans-serif fonts,
and Cicero is a version of the classic rustic style of calligraphy which is
the ancestor of modern serif faces.
Monospaced fonts are a key requirement for any
computer user, as well as essential for a variety of business and scientific
uses. We got bored with traditional monospaced fonts like Courier so we
decided to offer some alternatives. Angelus is a stylish sans-serif font for
monospaced titling. Vidilex is a high-legibility sans-serif monospaced
text font. Cincinnatus is a monospaced serif font, but it has the weighting
of a true text font for better eye appeal than most monospaced fonts.
This is the first of three packages of fonts designed
for use in invitations, formal stationary, menus, programs and other uses which
require a stylish and ornate calligraphic look. These particular fonts are based
on early script type, and preserve some of the unique
characteristics of type from that period, along with calligraphic elements which
make them quite stylish. Castiglione originates in late humanist calligraphy
and is great for wedding invitations. Iphegenia and Engrossing are based on early
type and have an unexpected flowing style.
These script fonts are more formal and are
perfect for wedding invitations and similar uses. They are based on late
19th century source material, and have ornate embellishments and decoration which
really catch the eye when printed on a first class paper. Talleyrand has a
very calligraphic look, but Vivat and Engrossing are more flowing and more
traditional in style. These fonts work particularly well for menus and for
invitations. Like all our Master Fonts they include an extended character set
for many languages.
Our Flowing Script Fonts collection is a special
collection of particularly elegant, flowing script fonts ideal for use on wedding
invitations, formal programs and menus. Belphebe is a particularly useful font,
based on a classic 19th century engravers design. Belphebe has been very popular
for wedding invitations and other uses where an engraver-style font is needed. Like
our other Master Fonts these include an extended character set, as well as special
variant characters for some of the upper case letters.
All Master Fonts are available for Macintosh and
PC-compatible computers. Fonts are available for $18 each - all three weights
included with both Postscript and TrueType. Alternatively they can be bought
in the packages shown above at $39 for each set of 3. We are also offering a
new complete Master Fonts CD package for only $249 (a $200 savings). It
includes all of our Master Fonts, including the very latest releases. The CD
can only be ordered by phone or by mail.
They can also be ordered by phone and delivered by
mail or email. To order by phone call 1-800-797-8973.
For information on other methods of ordering click on the button above and to the left.
All of our Master Fonts are available for direct purchase
online with delivery through email. To order online and download fonts CLICK HERE
Periodically we will put a new demo version of one of our Master Fonts
here so you can download it and test it out. The current demo is Stuttgart Gothic from our new Gothic Calligraphy Fonts
MasterFonts package.
The demos are in PKZip and StuffIt archives
and do not include all of the special and extended characters. When you actually buy the font you get all the different versions
including Postscript files.
Download Stuttgart shareware for Windows in PKZip archive.
Download Stuttgart shareware for MacOS in Stuffit archive.