font_category: decorative

Batchelder Ruff

Batchelder Ruff font

Batchelder Ruff is a “battered” version of the typeface used for titling in the catalogs and advertising of the Batchelder Tile Company in Pasadena, California in the 1920s. The original source characters were smoother,...

Craftsman

Craftsman font

The Craftsman font is a faithful reproduction of the logo, or Title typeface used for Gustav Stickley’s “Craftsman” Magazine, the foremost journal of the American Arts & Crafts Movement during its publication years of...

Alaska

Alaska font

This interesting type was introduced by the Chicago firm of Marder, Luse & Company in 1890, about the time designers were beginning to lose some of the excessive ruffles and flourishes that characterized the...

Arcade

Arcade font

A neat face with pronounced spur serifs which several foundries have already digitized. We like ours better though, because we have drawn a lowercase which was lacking in the original. Barnhart Bros. & Spindler...

Bareback

Bareback font

The devil does indeed find work for idle hands. This was designed by Dan X. Solo about with no excuse whatsoever. The name comes from the fact that a circus that we regularly did...

Behrens Antiqua

Behrens Antiqua font

Designed by Peter Behrens, well known graphic artist and architect in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th century. This “Antiqua” was done for Rudhard’s Typefoundry in Offenbach A. M. around 1902, and...

Blairesque JF

Blairesque JF font

The Blairesque family from JAW Fonts consists of three typefaces and one dingbat font designed to be used both separately and as a family. The dingbat font contains an extra set of alternate numerals...