BUY NOW Tired of Comic Sans (who isn’t?) but need another font to do captions and clear, informal text? What would be better than a true comic font based on authentic lettering from classic horror comics. Our Classic Comix font is exactly that. Clasic Comix has two full upper case character sets and full punctuation and it …
Arakne is an unusual font derived from samples of Spencerian Script, which pre-dated italic and cursive as an academic handwriting style taught in schools. The style was popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. The style is tall and spidery and often thought of as the handwriting of elderly ladies. The Arakne font can create powerful decorative text …
BUY NOW Adramalech is one of our classic font designs, based on a very bold early 20th century sign lettering style and then regularized and developed into a full typeface. This new release version of Adramalech has new secondary characters and custom spacing and kerning as well as foreign language characters for major European languages. Adramalech is excellent for …
BUY NOW Adramalech is one of our classic font designs, based on a very bold early 20th century sign lettering style and then regularized and developed into a full typeface. This new release version of Adramalech has new secondary characters and custom spacing and kerning as well as foreign language characters for major European languages. Adramalech is excellent …
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 …
Patriarch was one of our earliest calligraphic fonts. It is 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 i…
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, …
Adresack is an original font in an arts and crafts style. It is one of the first fonts we did – back in 1996 – entirely by construction directly in Fontographer. It was inspired by the lettering styles of designers like Charles Rennie MacKintosh and Jessie M. King. The accompanying graphic features an Arts and Crafts style fireplace because that’s …
Brandywine is one of our favorite older fonts. It’s based on a hand lettering style used by legendary American artist Howard Pyle for a number of his books, including Pepper and Salt and The Lady of Shalott. It’s a uniquely readable style in the Arts and Crafts tradition, with open characters and variations in letter positioning which make it interesting. …
Acadian is based on a classic Victorian-era metal typeface designed by H. H. Thorp in 1883. It is one of our earliest historic typeface digitizations, taken directly from new printed samples made for us from a complete set of the metal type in 1994. The look of Acadian is unique and classically Victorian with a bit of an art nouveau …
There are certain design concepts which deserve more than one exploration. One of those is the combination of gothic elements with more more traditional Roman-style lettering. Classic font designer and calligrapher Rudolph Koch liked the idea as demonstrated in our Koch Gothic font. The idea of combining Roman capitals with a gothic lowercase is the basis of our new Montgisard …
BUY NOW We first released the Rossetti font in 1994. It was originally developed from samples of 19th century type for a book cover design. Since then we’ve seen it in all sorts of uses from packaging for tea to signage at the local farmers market. The original shareware version has been widely disseminated and has always annoyed …
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