Garabato
A script-display typeface
font_category: decorative
Hacienda
A childlike freehand font amongst many others but with a more legible whimsical feel.
Trapeze
We took a distressed-looking Victorian type called Cabinet and redesigned it with clean lines to make it more suitable for today’s decorative work. Quite readable in all sizes.
Unique Wood
Wood type maker W. H. Page designed this in 1870. Caps, figures and points only. A great decorative for old-timey poster work.
Opera House
This is a fake and a fraud and not a bad-looking type. We did this to imitate the look of an old wood poster font, but it is completely new. Don’t tell anyone. Please...
Palmetto
Originally issued as Palm from the A. D. Farmer Foundry in New York, about 1887. This is a good early example of the transition from the ruffles and fluorishes of Victorian fonts to the...
Standing Stones
Redrawn from a strange type originally made about 1850, and sold by the Connors Foundry, New York. We cannot guarantee that Connors originated it, since they were among the first to have facilities for...
Nadall
This stylish lightface was designed by Bernd Nadall for Barnhart Bros. & Spindler as a caps-only font in 1895. The lowercase was added at Solotype a hundred years later, resulting in a font quite...
Old Vic
This is Solotype’s version of a popular mid-nineteenth century style explored by several early foundries. It reads surprisingly well in paragraphs, and is a handy font for work with a Victorian theme.