font_category: decorative

Webster

Webster font

An ideal face for blocks of copy when you want them to look old. Very readable. Another faithful rendition of the original from the Keystone foundry. Actually several foundries worldwide offered this font.

Westmore

Westmore font

Based on one of the earliest Tuscans, from Thorowgood’s foundry. The original was very poorly rendered in 1822, but keep in mind that decorative types were still quite new in the early 1800s. We...

Newsanse

Newsanse font

Newsanse has an open, rounded style and a quite generous x-height – both of which give extra legibility especially at smaller sizes. The six weights give an appropriate choice for just about any conventional...

Rysse

Rysse font

Rysse is a primitive art-college grunge font, completely legible but quite unsophisticated. Unashamedly. The typeface comes in two main styles: one a standard hi-case lo-case version & the other an all caps version. There’s...

Rounded Teen

Rounded Teen font

Lady Cleo

Lady Cleo font

This started out to be a font with an Egyptian hieroglyphic look, but took a detour just beyond the first pyramid. A young lady we know said many of the letters reminded her of...

Sentry

Sentry font

Here’s a good old Victorian job printing font. Faithful to the original issued by Barnhart Bros. & Spindler about 1880. Nothing wildly decorative about it, yet it clearly looks old.

Eureka Antique

Eureka Antique font

You may be familiar with a caps and small caps type called Cruickshank. In Germany the same face was called Eureka. We took the small caps, which are not so overblown as the caps,...

Fantan

Fantan font

From an early 20th century sign painter’s copy book. We gave it a softer treatment than many of the faux-Asian faces have. We also added a lowercase, as is our wont.

Pincel

Pincel font