Free Fonts
A WPA poster announcing the latest production by—guess who?—the Big Tent Players inspired this eye-catching, if somewhat unconventional, typeface. Both versions of the font include the 1252 Latin and 1250 CE character sets (with...
Originally presented as an alphabet suitable for movie title cards, this font is based on a 1920 work by showcard artist E. C. Matthews, and named after the eponymous 1940s radio show about a...
A font with a strong architectural feel, inspired by those great commercial emporiums of a bygone era. To cap the crossbars, use [brackets] to enclose uppercase letters, {braces} to enclose lowercase letters, and the...
Lettering on a menu from a Pennsylvania hotel, circa 1930, provided the inspiration for this happy-go-lucky take on the alphabet. Lowercase letters are variants of the uppercase and kerning has been applied to every...
A diverse assortment of woodtype adornments, including bishop’s fingers, vignettes, border elements, flourishes and other what-nots, all thoughtfully redrawn from authentic historical sources, and ready to grace your next project with their vintage…
Linotype Sinah is part of the Take Type Library, selected from the contestants of Linotype’s International Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. Designed by the German artist Peter Huschka, Linotype Sinah is a...
KgStuttgart1930 — Kunstgewerbeschule Stuttgart 1930 — is based on a printed sample of a font designed in 1930 at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts. Found in the book ABZ, more alphabets and other...
Remember when a coyote was a light-boned rangy member of the canine family and not the name (spelled C-A-O-T-I) of your neighbor’s four year old daughter? When a cricket was a leaping, chirping insect...
These charming little cartoon figures, known in the trade as “midgets”, added a little extra oomph to everything from business cards to matchbook covers from the 1920s to the 1950s. Each font contains 52...
“Hiya, kids! Hiya, hiya, hiya!” was the customary greeting of Froggy (a rather cheap rubber toy), who played second banana to otherwise-perennial sidekick Andy Devine on the 1950s TV show, Andy’s Gang. The Magic...