font_category: decorative

Compur

Compur font

Compur is the name of the most famous photographic shutter of all time. This is a reconstruction of a type face which served for describing various devices, using the technique of monolinear engraving. With...

Art Nouveaux MF

Art Nouveaux MF font

Tractor

Tractor font

Aichel

Aichel font

Every type face which was originally designed for use in architecture (in this particular case for a UNESCO memorial plaque for a church built by Jan Santini-Aichel on Zelená Hora) is surprisingly well usable...

Bahnhof

Bahnhof font

Poster type faces from the twenties and thirties are enjoying a new wave of popularity. The summary, even rather hard principle of the sign is required for a view from a distance. The information appearing...

Blakely

Blakely font

Blakely is an all-caps Art Deco design. It is based on the logotype of the Signals mail order gift catalog designed by Mark Simonson in 1993.

Nuevo Litho

Nuevo Litho font

NuevoLitho is my first successful font design. It was designed for use in the heads and subheads of my first book, “Printing in a Digital World” back in 1994. It’s a very loosened play...

Abiquiu

Abiquiu font

Abiquiu (pronounced A-beh-cue) is the home town of Georgia O’Keefe and as such seems appropriate for a deconstructed “salsa” font. This heavy, black dish of salsa is a free tracing of Bilbo, another of...

Abwyn

Abwyn font

Abwyn is a sparkly Art Deco construction. The little diamonds in the vertical strokes add a lightness that is very pleasing to the eye in display sizes: Lower case numbers, Euro, ballot box in...

Antiquettes

Antiquettes font

With my dingbats and your favorite software, you can create elegant web graphics in minutes! All these fonts were created with the web designer in mind. Each font consists on 26 original shapes with...