font_category: engraving

Museum Initials

Museum Initials font

Museum is the Wundes foundry’s first font revival. These letter forms are scanned from the engravings of Freeman Delamotte who in 1879 published a spectacular set of ancient and mediaeval ornamental alphabets. The original...

Artegio

Artegio font

Artegio is an elegant, joining, classical script with impressive horizontal swirls. I designed a complementary set with simpler capitals, lower-case ending letters and medieval ciphers. Your swirly designer Gert Wiescher

LTC Record Title

LTC Record Title font

Record Title was designed by Frederic Goudy in 1927 as a proprietary commission for the Architectural Record magazine. Based on classic Roman letter proportions, Goudy considered this one of his most successful commissions ever....

Siren Script

Siren Script font

Siren Script takes its cue from BB&S’s Stationers Semiscript (metal, 1899) and its countless imitations/inspirations from throughout the 20th century, particularly a variety of uncredited film faces from the 1960s. What makes this kind...

Haut Relief NF

Haut Relief NF font

Based on the typeface Sculpture, designed by Charles Allen in the 1960s for Photolettering, this font is an intriguing exercise in implicit letterforms, using cast shadows to suggest, rather than delineate. Both sublime and...

Bodoni Classic Bold Ornate

Bodoni Classic Bold Ornate font

Bodoni Classic Bold Ornate is another puzzlestone in my ever growing Bodoni Classic family. This time the letters are ornated within the limits of the letter, this keeps the classic form of the typeface...

Pointino

Pointino font

Pointino is a very pointed script. It comes in three versions: Pointino-A has good looking curves, Pointino-B has more of those good looking curves and Pointino-C has fewer, but still sensational curves. Pointino is...

Ambassador Script

Ambassador Script font

When Aldo Novarese designed his “tipo inglese” Juliet typeface, he had a simple objective in mind: Reduce the inclination angle of the traditional 18th and 19th centuries English script in order to make the...

Biondi Sans

Biondi Sans font

Biondi Sans is an evocative sans-serif typeface inspired by engraved nameplates of the early twentieth century. The character proportions and letterforms are similar to Morris Fuller Benton’s Copperplate. Biondi Sans is a small caps...

Fleurons Initials

Fleurons Initials font

Fleurons Initials is a set of elegantly decorated blocked initials, reminiscent of old Jazz and Circus Posters. I have added one set of flat underlays and one of blocked underlays, so you can easily...