font_category: decorative

Tintern Abbey NF

Tintern Abbey NF font

A 1905 poster for the Austrian National Highway by artist Gustav Jahn inspired the letterforms for this typeface. In the spirit of comity, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler’s Publicity Gothic Initial Caps inspired the uppercase...

Asrafel

Asrafel font

Asrafel is an original font by Dave Nalle. It is a strong, stylish titling font based on hand lettering influenced by Celtic uncial styles and Art Nouveau titling fonts. It includes a variety of...

Odette

Odette font

The Morris Benton 1918 American classic, Announcement Roman, comes to digital life with more pizzazz than it ever had. Named after the Swan Lake princess, Odette is the ideal choice for titling, poetry, advertising,...

Altenburg

Altenburg font

Angelus III

Angelus III font

Angelus is a rather different monospaced font. Unlike an earlier version this one has full upper and lowercase characters.

Allencon

Allencon font

Allencon is a lovely font based on freehand calligraphy. It has a bold, decisive look, with various aspects of the characters regularized to give a consistent appearance in print while preserving the personality of...

Rosa Love

Rosa Love font

Rosa Love is a laid back and legible handwritten font. Dedicated with love to my daughter, Rosa!

Alcibiades

Alcibiades font

Academy

Academy font

A classic example of a narrow 19th century ‘egyptian’ style font. Excellent for old-fashioned posters where space is limited.

Acadian

Acadian font

A lovely decorative Victorian period font taken directly from samples printed on an old press right from the metal type in the collection of typophile Steve Saxe.