font_designer: Jim Lyles

MFC Aldercott Monogram

MFC Aldercott Monogram font

The source of inspiration for Aldercott Monogram is a decorative alphabet designed in 1901 by Marcus Goldsmith, an inventor of elegant accessories of personal nature. Originally developed to be used as individual letters or...

Minotte

Minotte font

Originally conceived while sketching outline typefaces for a client, Minotte Pro has blossomed into a font one thousand glyphs strong and is chock full of alternates and contextual swashes! By enabling swashes, style sets,...

MFC Billow Monogram

MFC Billow Monogram font

The inspiration source for MFC Billow Monogram is a beautiful letterset from the “Manuel de Broderies No. 179” by N. Alexandre & Cie. from the late 1800’s. We’ve drawn out some flourishes and ornamental...

MFC Klaver Monogram

MFC Klaver Monogram font

The source of inspiration for Klaver Monogram is a delightfully elegant initial letterset adorned with clover tipped flourishes from a vintage embroidery publication. Originally intended to adorn handkerchiefs and other linens, this digital revival…

MFC Medieval Monogram

MFC Medieval Monogram font

The source of inspiration for MFC Medieval Monogram is the 1934 “Book of American Types” by American Type Founders. Found in that specimen book was a set of Lombardic initials known as “Missal Initials”...

MFC Chaplet Monogram

MFC Chaplet Monogram font

The inspiration source for MFC Chaplet Monogram is a beautiful letterset from the “Dessins de Broderies – Album No. 486” by Sajou from the late 1800’s. This family includes four fonts, the original MFC...

MFC Capulet Monogram

MFC Capulet Monogram font

The source of inspiration for MFC Capulet Monogram is an alphabet set from the book, “Monograms and Alphabets for Combination” by Dollfus Mieg & Cie, first published in the 1890’s. MFC Capulet Monogram utilizes...

Purple Purse Pro

Purple Purse Pro font

Our Purple Purse Pro draws its inspiration from a vintage Ivory Soap ad from the 1950’s. Somewhat of a cross between Bodoni and Pixie, this font finds that it never truly takes itself seriously....

MFC Gilchrist Monogram

MFC Gilchrist Monogram font

The inspiration source for MFC Gilchrist Monogram is an extremely ornamented letterset from a vintage embroidery publication from the early 1900’s. We’ve digitally recreated the ornamental glyphs from the original design, and created a...

MFC Gilchrist Initials

MFC Gilchrist Initials font

Our MFC Gilchrist Monogram served as the springboard for these highly ornamented initial fonts in MFC Gilchrist Initials. Taking the already detailed letterforms within our monogram version, these initials have been cameo-boxed in and...