font_foundry: Scriptorium

Barataria

Barataria font

When designing a font, I often imagine how I think it should be used or where I’d be likely to see it out in the real world. With Barataria I envisioned it on decorative,...

Beynkales

Beynkales font

Now here’s a font with an unusual backstory. You may recall that a while ago we discovered that Tim Burton was using an outdated version of one of our fonts for the interior titles...

Blackthorn

Blackthorn font

Blackthorn draws on the tradition of Art Nouveau font design with some elements of western or circus style fonts, but an overall effect which may have more in common with the psychedelic era than...

Newgrange

Newgrange font

Newgrange is a distinctive Celtic-style font designed as a companion to our Stonecross font. It has the same size and weight as Stonecross and the same carved/chipped style, but rather than being based on...

Nomarch

Nomarch font

Nomarch is a charming new Art Nouveau font based on samples of poster lettering from the beginning of the twentieth century. The relatively bold weighting of the characters makes Nomarch particularly good for use...

Abdiel

Abdiel font

Swithin

Swithin font

Swithin is based on hand lettering from the titles in a Victorian fairy tale collection. It has a playful look which seems just right for the holiday season, with some rough, hand-drawn variations which...

Nosegrind

Nosegrind font

Nosegrind is a bit of a departure from our usual more traditional font offerings. It’s based on skate-culture graffiti gleaned from various samples of similar style found on walls in Austin and online. The...

Mariner

Mariner font

Mariner is based on hand lettering originally done by Willy Pogany for his illustrated edition of Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It’s a variation of classic medieval lettering with decorative elements and alternative...

Nevins Hand

Nevins Hand font

Nevins Hand is our first release of a new collection of fonts based on the designs of Peter Nevins, a San Francisco poster artist who does hand-lettered fonts in the Art Nouveau tradition.