Penelope
This was originally brought out as a caps-only font, but later the foundry scrounged up a lowercase that wasn’t our idea of a very good match. So we cleaned up the caps and made...
font_foundry: Solotype
Kitcat
This was a favorite of the old time job printers; decorative but readable. The MacKellar foundry was the largest and most creative of the old foundries, and decorative fonts like this one came out...
Gilbey
Although wood types are found throughout the world, most of the decorative one originated in the United States. This one would work well on theatrical playbills, and advertising for tourist railroads, wild west shows...
Hullabaloo
We saw a few letters of this in a catalog, and liked it so well we drew it up and made it as a film font for photolettering. Due to a surplus of interesting...
Eastlake
Eastlake was a popular furniture style of the period when the MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan foundry brought out this font. As with many types, we find it difficult to see the connection between the...
Five Star Final
Introduced by the American Type Founders Co. at the time of the Spanish American War and advertised as suitable for “War Scare Headlines”! Used by many papers for years after because the narrow type...
Ghost Show
Back in the days when we earned our living with a travelling magic show, we took the shaded font Lithotint, filled it in, modified some characters, and here is the result. In those days,...
Barbary Coast
In one of our yearly type hunts, we came across the ancestor of this font, much wider and more decorative, with fine outside shading. Condition was poor so we did the obvious, cutting out...
Buddha
There are many Oriental-themed fonts, most without lowercase. This one originated in the German foundry of Schelter & Giesecke shortly before 1900. Use this font and an hour later you’ll want to use it...
Circlet
Like many of the Victorian decorative fonts, this one had caps only when Barnhart Bros. and Spindler brought it out. In 1990, we decided to draw a lowercase for it, making it more versatile....