font_category: decorative

Tourist

Tourist font

MacKeller, Smiths and Jordan had a font called Giraffe Wide which we liked, but like many Victorian display fonts it had no lowercase. We fixed that!

Tuscan Gothic

Tuscan Gothic font

This is a Vanderburgh and Wells wood type cap font from 1877. We don’t know if the originators made a lowercase for it, but we did. Most effective in larger sizes.

Futura Black

Futura Black font

Josef Albers drew a stencil sanserif form at the Bauhaus in 1923 (published in 1926); Paul Renner and the Bauer design office made a similar design into a typeface in 1929, and rather confusingly...

Formal 436

Formal 436 font

Gretchen

Gretchen font

Apparently original with the Lindsay brothers type foundry in New York shortly before they were merged into the American Type Founders Company. A few characters of the original font have been modified slightly to...

Huron

Huron font

A Barnhart Bros. & Spindler type from the late victorian period. We have been faithful to the spirit of the original buy “calmed down” a few of the lowercase letters to make the lines...

Illyrian

Illyrian font

Our font of the original was only ten point, so we had to use our imagination to a great extent. As specialists in Victorian typography, we have found that many people do not like...

Cheval

Cheval font

Formalized from some hand lettering by the multifaceted Jugendstil designer Bruno Mauder, perhaps better known for his work in glass and ceramics.

Empire

Empire font

Stencil Antiqua

Stencil Antiqua font