font_category: decorative

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...

Hollenbeck JNL

Hollenbeck JNL font

Hollenbeck JNL is the Art Deco, all-caps cousin of Jeff Levine’s Hallandale JNL typeface. This version utilizes the thick-and-thin stroke weights so popular during the Art Deco era, while retaining the look of hand-lettered...

MVB Cafe Mimi

MVB Cafe Mimi font

Kanna Aoki was designing fabrics and dishware for several major manufacturers when she designed MVB Cafe Mimi. The design came from a few words Aoki painted as decoration for a set of cappuccino cups....

MVB Calliope

MVB Calliope font

Gayle Sato, longtime friend of MVB Fonts, has amazing handwriting. It’s a natural, simple hand, with perfect rhythm. Devoid of flourishes, it doesn’t try to be beautiful. It’s just genuine, quick, and clean —...

MVB Aunt Mildred

MVB Aunt Mildred font

MVB Aunt Mildred has a vintage charm that evokes hand-lettered postcards or advertising. Akemi Aoki drew the letterforms with a fine-tip felt pen and named it after her great aunt. Since its release in...

MVB Bovine

MVB Bovine font

A hand-rendered advertisement for a leather tanner, appearing in a French book from the ’40s, served as inspiration for MVB Bovine. Using its comic sway and slightly exaggerated forms, the typeface delivers bold headlines...

Helenia

Helenia font

Helenia is a classic broad-nib script with joining letters. Written with a pen on rough paper, scanned and then carefully digitized to keep that rough touch.

Windpower

Windpower font

Please fasten your seatbelts. Windpower is about to take off, sending your ad straight to its destination. This heavy display font has plenty of lift to get off the runway. Riding in First Class,...

Jellygest

Jellygest font

Jellygesh was initially drawn by hand, then digitized using straight lines only – making the letters look like they were carved out. Although the roughness, Jellygesh can be found useful for several cases… that...