font_category: decorative

MVB Hotsy Totsy

MVB Hotsy Totsy font

MVB Hotsy Totsy is Akemi Aoki’s first typeface design. Aoki created the letters in cut paper. Once digitized, the design was expanded to offer several weights and styles. Exaggerating the triangular serifs and tapering...

Meal Ticket JNL

Meal Ticket JNL font

Meal Ticket JNL follows the same basic letter shapes as Jeff Levine’s Flatbush Beanery JNL, but with a much lighter look and feel. This is another perfect typeface for recreating the sign lettering and...

Spur Handlettered JNL

Spur Handlettered JNL font

The spurred serif style of Roman lettering has long been a favorite of sign painters and show card writers. Spur Handlettered JNL from Jeff Levine gives this classic design an ultra-casual look, complete with...

Squarity JNL

Squarity JNL font

Squarity JNL is an ultra-bold font derived from Jeff Levine’s Yorso Square JNL. Use the font at large point sizes to emphasize messages with power, punch, strength or toughness.

MVB Gryphius

MVB Gryphius font

MVB Gryphius is a digitization of uncommon type from an era normally associated with the work of Nicolas Jenson. Produced by Otto Trace, the fonts come from types used by Sebastian Gryphius in Lyon...

MVB Chanson d’Amour

MVB Chanson d’Amour font

An old book found at a Paris bouquiniste contained samples of the typeface “Caractère de finance,” a bâtarde design by 18th century typefounder Pierre Simon Fournier. Rather than revive the type, Kanna Aoki decided...

Isara

Isara font

Isara is a rough script written with a flat-nibbed marker, scanned and then carefully digitized to keep that spontaneous feeling.

Paula

Paula font

Paula is a non-joining rough brush script with traces of the brush’s backstroke that give it that typical look. Paula is an open script with very good readability.

Boat Decals JNL

Boat Decals JNL font

The simple, square-shaped font that is Boat Decals JNL was loosely based on water-applied decals made by the Duro Decal Company (now Duro Art Industries) of Chicago, Illinois.

Farragut JNL

Farragut JNL font

An unusual take on Art Deco “streamlined” alphabets is found in Farragut JNL from Jeff Levine. Over-extended serifs on some letters and elongated horizontal strokes on others make for a new approach to a...