Davids Roundhand
A very harmonic rendering of the classic late-mediaeval round hand, provided here with a choice of two kind of capitals, Lombardic and Round. Usable in all kinds of contexts, both historic and modern.
font_foundry: New Renaissance Fonts
Ricks Relaxed Hand
Relaxed italic calligraphy from Richard Bradley, a complement to his more formal Fine Hand and Bible Script. Very usable for greetings card, invitations, notices, and whatever you like.
Ashbourne 1241
Rick Bradley – known for his Fine Hand, Bible Script, Bradley Hand and Calligraphic Ornaments – drew this font from a gravestone in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, dated 1241. The irregularity lends a special charm to...
Chiswick Illuminated Caps
A delightful latter-day reworking of the Lombardic ideal, provided here with the main letter and the background illumination separated so that they can be given different colors on different layers, and given different effects...
Alice Scrolltip
Drawn with a scroll-tip pen, that’s the one which gives both a thin and a thick line for every stroke, featuring a slightly folklorish and hand-produced feel, named for Rick’s granddaughter.
Karins Lombardy Caps
Karin’s free reinterpretation of the early Renaissance Lombardic tradition, in two different versions. In the upper case the fill is blacker and has a straight pattern with diamond elements; in the lower case the...
Sevillia
During a visit to Seville, Rick was very struck by the local tradition of street names made from tiles: from sketches and doodles made in 36°C, he and David produced a font with tiles...
Soest St Mary
Unusual decorative capitals from embroidery work in a German church. Upper case has a diamond-shaped frame around each letter; lower case is just the letters without the diamond frame; and the ampersand gives just...
Albrecht Fraktur
In his 1538 book on measurement, Albrecht Dürer gave clear descriptions and drawings about the proportions of the letters in both Roman and ‘fraktur’ alphabets (from Latin ‘fractura’, meaning that it’s broken up with...
Bradley Chancery
A new font in the Humanistic tradition, for letters, poetry, display graphics – and just to make the everyday more elegant. This family of fonts has four members: the basic plain font has regular...