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Gladiate

Gladiate font

This was a favorite of job printers in late Victorian times. They used it on cards and stationery, as well as small handbills. It was made in a range of sizes from 10 point...

Square Dance

Square Dance font

Animated types like this one have been around for fifty or more years. They certainly add a sense of liveliness to a headline. This one trades upon the “wrong way weights” of the old...

Nadianne

Nadianne font

Musketeer

Musketeer font

Monotype Sorts

Monotype Sorts font

Penelope

Penelope font

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...

Paper Lanterns

Paper Lanterns font

At the very least, you’ll need this for the Chinese New Year celebration. This was designed in the year of the monkey, and includes all the usual accents for Western European languages. Caps have...

Mardi Gras Improved

Mardi Gras Improved font

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...

Manifesto Bold

Manifesto Bold font

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

Kitcat font

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...