font_category: decorative

Shelley Script

Shelley Script font

Matthew Carter’s revival of the hand of the early eighteenth century English writing master, George Shelley; the face is traditional, and is made in three degrees of flourish.

Sassafras

Sassafras font

Arthur Baker’s display script Sassafras, designed in 1995, is based on the natural inline effect created when writing with a split-metal nibbed pen. Black and white are nicely balanced, giving this calligraphic face a...

Norwich Aldine ML

Norwich Aldine ML font

Norwich Aldine ML is a all-cap typeface with enlarged serifs, designed and produced in wood by William Hamilton Page of Norwich, Connecticut in 1872. Norwich Aldine ML is a fine example of the strength...

Kigali

Kigali font

1925 My Toy Print Deluxe Pro

1925 My Toy Print Deluxe Pro font

This family was created inspired from two French (one so common and a very rare large one) “toy print” boxes, named Le petit imprimeur, with rubber stamp characters from the 1920’s. The big difference...

Gothic 13

Gothic 13 font

Allatuq

Allatuq font

In 1997 the first designs of Allatuq were made while Michael Everson was doing some work with the Baffin Divisional Board of Education in what is now Nunavut (but was still Northwest Territories then)....

Bodoni Poster

Bodoni Poster font

Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) was called the King of Printers and the Bodoni font owes its creation in 1767 to his masterful cutting techniques. Predecessors in a similar style were the typefaces of Pierre Simon...

Zebrawood

Zebrawood font

Zebrawood font is a joint work of the typeface designers K.B. Chansler, C. Crossgrove and C. Twombly, who also designed Rosewood, Ponderose and Pepperwood together. Like its relatives, Zebrawood also displays a kind of...

Zipty Do

Zipty Do font

Zipty Do is based on the handwriting of lettering artist and type designer Robert Alonso. Its letterforms were originally created as rough marker drawings, which were then digitally scanned and refined on the computer....