BUY NOW Patriarch was one of our earliest calligraphic fonts, 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 it is somewhat readable but still has the crazy look of the medieval slavonic characters. Patriarch has …
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 Schiller Schrift is just the kind of font we made our name on when we were starting out. It is an incredibly detailed rendering of an antique calligraphic style with lots of decorative detail and swashes, taken from a German source. Schiller includes a full character set with numbers and punctuation plus lots of alternative …
Click any font to see more. Letterpress printing is one of the oldest and simplest forms of printing, using letters carved into wooden blocks or cut from a rubbery material and attached to the blocks and then printed as a whole page composed of multiple elements. Today it is used primarily for poster printing by presses like Hatch Show Prints …
It’s time for something new and strange, our new and original Monstrous font. Monstrous is a titling font which offers a striking look and special features which make it truly unique. The characters are stylized and super-bold, but what really sets the font apart is that there are two complete character sets which are complimentary. The upper-case set tapers towards …
BUY NOW Once upon a time when he was a graduate student Dave Nalle fooled around with tagging and came up with an original graffiti lettering style. Inevitably he made it into a font and the result is Wanax, which we released but didn’t give much promotion. So now we’re releasing it for real on our website …
Our work on fonts from the 1920s and 1930s has focused a lot on Arts and Crafts and Art Deco fonts, but in parallel with those movements, there was a lot of innovation in more mass market design, much of it found in pulp magazines, especially pulp science fiction magazines which had a real renaissance in that period. These pulp …
BUY NOW Imprimato is a near font we released a couple of years ago, which somehow never made it onto our website. It is an original design and may have coincided with the designer having a minor stroke, accounting for the lack of promotion. Nonetheless, Imprimato is an interesting font, with upper and lowecase characters of uniform height, designed to …
BUY NOW Tiki Party is a new font made for the intriguing tiki subculture. It is based on masks of Polynesian deities and spirits. They occupy the upper case postions and the lower case of the font is a full set of normal characters in a rough-cut style. It includes numbers and punctuation. It’s decorative and very appropriate for party …
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, …
BUY NOW Eastside Round is based on unique graffiti tagging samples from Washington, DC – found mostly on trashcans and electrical equipment boxes. They have been regularized and regimented enough to be readable without losing the hand painted character of the letters. It has some charming and unusual features while looking very natural and kind of …
BUY NOW Allencon is a calligraphic font based on an interpretation of 6th century Ostrogothic Italian calligraphy. It make a great, bold alternative to all of the too-popular swashy calligraphy fonts. Very readable and visually appealing. Allencon has a full set of upper and lower case characters, numbers and punctuation and some special characters and swashes. …
