Tecon
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...
font_category: decorative
Hasta La Pasta NF
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...
Riviera
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.
Seminary
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...
Tourist
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
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.