font_category: decorative

Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast font

In one of our yearly type hunts, we came across the ancestor of this font, much wider and more decorative, with fine outside shading. Condition was poor so we did the obvious, cutting out...

Circlet

Circlet font

Like many of the Victorian decorative fonts, this one had caps only when Barnhart Bros. and Spindler brought it out. In 1990, we decided to draw a lowercase for it, making it more versatile....

Concave Extended

Concave Extended font

Many foundries had versions of Concave ‹ wide, narrow, extra condensed, some with lowercase, some without. A good general utility style for Victorian typography.

Minimal

Minimal font

Minimal is a distinguished sans serif display family with minimalistic modern edges, designed by Khalid Al-Mazrouei and published by Kmaz. Minimal packs a complete set of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and punctuation and...

Mercurius

Mercurius font

Angel

Angel font

Victorian fonts are a delight to use, but many don¹t have a lowercase. Today, that doesn¹t cut it, so where practicable, we design a harmonizing lowercase to extend the usefulness of the font.

Banquet

Banquet font

In our early days of type hunting, we considered this to be the prize of our collection. Fonts of this late Victorian period seem to have less ruffles and flourishes than the earlier ones,...

Quoral

Quoral font

Quoral was developed from an idea in 2003, and drawn in Illustrator. It has an extended character set in greek an cyrillic, but not all the characters for these languages.

Tattersall

Tattersall font

Also available as part of the Zoot Suite collection.

Woollcott

Woollcott font