font_category: decorative

Margie

Margie font

Originally issued as Marggraff Bold Script by the Dresden foundry of A.G. Vorm Brüder Butter. Minor variations were given to a few letters to even the color.

Tally Text

Tally Text font

Tally Text Light is an early photolettering type, sometime in the 1940s, when words were hand assembled from individual film positives of the letters, then re-photographed. We made the bold face version of Tally...

Palma

Palma font

Handwriting fonts have a great disadvantage when it comes to double letters: they look fake. With Palma come loads of ligatures for double letters to make your design look authentic (as shown on the...

Fancy Dan

Fancy Dan font

We had a dozen or so letters of this of this, picked up at the flea market in Vienna. The rest came from our imagination.

Fat Face No. 20

Fat Face No. 20 font

This is almost a necessity if you are doing reproductions of mid-19th century posters and playbills.

French Ionic

French Ionic font

This would be a Clarendon if it weren’t for the cute serifs, which set it apart. Reads well in copy blocks.

Bamberg

Bamberg font

A compressed wood poster type from the mid-1800s. Certainly handy for excessive copy on a single line.

Tokoloshe

Tokoloshe font

“Tokoloshe” is a name in African mythology for a mischievous leprechaun-like figure that loves practical jokes and tricking people. There are many books of such African stories, for example Tales of the Tokoloshe by...

OL Sinead

OL Sinead font

Greek

Greek font

The Greek font started from an experiment with designing fonts based on a geometric grid. I joined the points on the grid with straight lines to form the various characters and found that this...