font_category: decorative

Classical

Classical font

Classical has the look and feel of a simplified old English Swash font, but it’s much more legible. It was created for use as drop caps and has a limited character set.

Wagner Silhouette NF

Wagner Silhouette NF font

This roly-poly, rollicking display font is based on a design from the 1946 book Blue print text book of sign and show card lettering by Charles Louis Henry Wagner, who seems to have had...

Boller

Boller font

Boller is based on handwriting found on the blueprints for the Jayhawk Theater in Kansas. Thomas Williams & Boller Bros. Architects are the only names found on the blueprints. The character set is extremely...

Erehwon Roman NF

Erehwon Roman NF font

This charming font, with its hints of the exotic, originally carried the rather prosaic name of Show Card Roman. It appeared in the book “Art Alphabets and Lettering: an encyclopedia of lettering including the...

Heberling Casual NF

Heberling Casual NF font

This delightfully playful font is based on a single-stroke pen font from the 1922 tome Heberling’s Basic Lettering, and elements of composition, color harmony, gilding, embossing-processes, etc. by Walter A. Heberling. Swoopy, loopy, but...

Marrakesh Express NF

Marrakesh Express NF font

This unusual headline font is based on lettering found on a travel poster, advertising passage to Morocco on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée line, designer unknown, circa 1930. Both versions of this font include the complete Unicode...

Slam Bang Theater NF

Slam Bang Theater NF font

This ultrabold headline font is basically patterned after the font Nubian Black, designed by Willard T. Sniffin for American Type Founders in the 1920s, but includes an unusual inline treatment of the caps. Named...

Theo Ballmer

Theo Ballmer font

The Theo Ballmer font family is based on Theo’s design ideas which were completed by his son Theo Ballmer (Thierry’s father), and digitized by Thierry, with the help of URW++ and their Ikarus technology....

Rene Font

Rene Font font

ReneFont is strong, heavy design which looks quite technical. Originally planned as a caps-only, Breil changed his mind and also drew the lower case alphabet.

Rene Lemon

Rene Lemon font

RenéLemon is a design where the basic design idea is part of its name – Lemon. Every glyph is derived from the form of a lemon, splashing and dashing – a typographic vitamin pill!