font_category: decorative

Interrupt Display Pro

Interrupt Display Pro font

Torbjörn Olsson’s Interrupt is a salty dog of a sanserif, harboring memories of freighters unloading their cargo in a run-down port. Interrupt works great for signs, and looks just fine painted on the side...

1920 French Script Pro

1920 French Script Pro font

This font was inspired by one of a standard French manual styles in use from the beginning of 1900s to the end of World War II, when people were writing most often with pen...

Ornamental Deco 2D

Ornamental Deco 2D font

This font was inspired by Lviv ArtDeco architecture dominating in 1920s-30s. This collection of ornaments is a graphic representation of building decorative elements, mostly of metal tracery elements and wall bas-relief. This font can...

Luzaine

Luzaine font

Luzaine is a slightly rounded sans-serif face; and to give a more even distribution of emphasis the difference between thick and thin strokes in this font is minimised to a certain extent. We think...

Overlapper

Overlapper font

Winner of the “no prizes for guessing” category, Overlapper’s main feature is that the letters overlap slightly. I thought it best to just come straight out with it. In case there’s someone just recovering...

Satron

Satron font

A reminder of the days of flower power, Satron is quite a bit different, slightly hippy and slightly grungy. Although it is not in any way an attempt to emulate the fonts used in...

Pompeian Cursive

Pompeian Cursive font

Pompeian Cursive is a calligraphically-inspired display typeface featuring a limited number of alternate characters and a handful of graceful ligatures. A lively set of non-lining numerals accompanies, as well as a few calligraphically-inspired…

Keepon Truckin NF

Keepon Truckin NF font

Baby Fat, designed by Milton Glaser in 1964, saw a lot of action during the psychedelic poster phase. This little dumpling is based on that workhorse, and takes its name from a phrase that...

Tutti Paffuti NF

Tutti Paffuti NF font

The specimen book Alphabete: ein Schriftatlas von A bis Z identified the pattern for this typeface as Stymie Black Flair. Although neither the designer nor the original foundry is identified, it bears a strong...

Weedy Beasties NF

Weedy Beasties NF font

In Issue Number 84 of Push Pin Graphic, Seymour Chwast offered up this rather odd variant of his own extrablack, superbold in-your-(type)face, Blimp. Not recommended for body copy, but makes interesting and unusual headlines....