font_category: decorative

Della Robbia

Della Robbia font

Thomas Maitland Cleland’s careful and scholarly creation of a typeface from 15th Century Florentine inscriptional capitals; designed for the Bruce division of ATF.

Commercial Script

Commercial Script font

Cooper

Cooper font

Cooper Black is a very heavy version of Cooper Oldstyle (also known simply as Cooper), an innovative typeface with rounded serifs and long ascenders designed in 1919. The Cooper family was the work of...

Davida

Davida font

A highly decorative set of capitals suggesting nineteenth century forms, designed by Louis Minott for VGC in 1965.

Geometric Stencil

Geometric Stencil font

Broadway

Broadway font

In 1928, the application of pure geometric form to sanserifs and slabserifs was in full swing. Morris Fuller Benton applied geometry to the Modern letterform to arrive at Parisian and Broadway for ATF.

OL Egmont

OL Egmont font

Eveningnews

Eveningnews font

Since many years I live in Munich and read the daily newspaper Abendzeitung. One morning they had redesigned the paper, using Eric Gill’s Joanna for the body copy and a tweaked version of Franklin...

Bremen

Bremen font

Bremen was designed at Bitstream by Richard Lipton and released in 1992. It is based on German poster art from the period between the World Wars.