font_category: decorative

This began life as a European font that was copied in the United States by Bruce’s Type Foundry in 1885. It was caps only and had a fine line “three-D” shadow. We scrapped the...

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!

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.

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...

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...

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...

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