font_category: decorative

CA Aires Pro

CA Aires Pro font

This font was inspired by a postcard from the 30s. On the one side near the stamp were the words ‘BUENOS AIRES’. It looked so simple yet strange, that we started to make a...

Handel Gothic

Handel Gothic font

Tecon

Tecon font

In the days when typesetting was still a craft, typesetters had to learn how to construct the letters of the alphabet. They had to be able to draw by hand. Every young typesetter had...

Hasta La Pasta NF

Hasta La Pasta NF font

This loopy offering is patterned after a typeface from the 1888 specimen book from the Central Type Foundry of St. Louis, called simply “Spiral”. The ragged contours on the original face have been smoothed...

Antiform

Antiform font

Geometric 885

Geometric 885 font

With Ink

With Ink font

Moritz

Moritz font

Loosely based on an early 20th century type from the Brussels foundry of Van Loey-Nouri. Many European foundries had fonts of this general design. Schelter & Gieseke of Germany had several.

Riviera

Riviera font

This is derived from the Marder, Luce foundry’s face called Rivet. A nip and a tuck here and there plus the addition of a lowercase make this into a potentially useful font.