Mardi Gras Improved
George Bruce’s New York foundry had a remarkable number of decorative types, most of which were lost or destroyed when the firm was taken over by the American Type Founders Co. and closed down...
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Manifesto Bold
In digitizing this old font, we took great liberties with the design, removing some jarring elements. The result reads much more smoothly than the original, retaining the overall character of the original. Hope you...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...