Luminari
Philip Bouwsma returns with yet another great manifestation of historical calligraphy. Luminari is an amalgam of High Middle Ages writing, a blend that combines the ornate Church hands with the simple Carolingian from the...
font_category: blackletter
Ye Olde Block NF
Lewis F. Day, in his book Alphabets Old and New, offered this typeface as an example from sixteenth-century England of lettering incised in wood. The font is essentially monocase, but there several lowercase letters...
Kynges X NF
This luscious, loopy Lombardic face was inspired by an offering in the 1938 classic, Letters and Lettering by Paul Carlyle and Gus Oring. Suitable for formal or informal occasions. Both versions of this font...
Albo
Albo is part of a new set of typefaces inspired in ancient documents from Portuguese 15th and 16th century books. Based on a document from Afonso d’Alboquerque (Goa, July, 1514), Albo was designed to...
Edda Morgana NF
In the 1921 work Letters and Lettering by Frank Chouteau Brown, these letterforms were offered as examples of typical medieval English fare. The font is all caps, but there are variant letterforms in all...
1742 Civilite
In the late medieval period appeared a “semi-cursive” writing, the French “écriture de civilité”. Quickly, it is carved and melted down in lead for printing. It is a very elegant running font, with numerous...
Muscovite Manuscript
Muscovite Manuscript is another result of many fruitless years of looking for a satisfactory font based on Old Russian Prayer books suitable for use with the Latin alphabet.
1456 Gutenberg
Font designed from that used by Gutenberg in Mayence to print the 42-line bible in 1456. The original font has too many characters for a true type font. Many of them have – in...