Presidio
Presidio is a stylized version of the hand-lettered calligraphy typical of the Mission era of early California. This lettering was often unique to an individual hand, but the characters shared a common style, and...
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Mission Art
Mission Art contains 26 design elements from many of the California missions. From a dove about to alight on a mission wall, to floral accents of all kinds, to a mission cross, there’s a...
Greene Designs
This font consists of 26 design elements derived and adapated from various architectural works of Charles and Henry Greene who created hundreds of designs for houses, furniture and decorative arts in their own unique...
G&G
G&G is the only authorized digitized version of the original handlettering of early 20th Century architects Charles and Henry Greene. This font is both accurate and authentic — it was adapted directly from the...
Estienne
Many fonts have carried this name. Ours goes back to just before 1900 in France. This general style had considerable popularity among job printers all over Europe. We have even seen it used for...
Cigar Label
This font was inspired by the embossed lettering on cigar boxes. The letters, or entire words, are often surrounded by raised dots, and that was our idea here. We drew this about 1997, and...
Craftsman
The Craftsman font is a faithful reproduction of the logo, or Title typeface used for Gustav Stickley’s “Craftsman” Magazine, the foremost journal of the American Arts & Crafts Movement during its publication years of...
Batchelder Elements
Batchelder Elements contains 26 images from legendary Pasadena tilemaker Ernest Batchelder’s design books of the 1920s. From cats to ducks to flowers — even a bear and a couple of rabbits — there’s a...
Batchelder Ruff
Batchelder Ruff is a “battered” version of the typeface used for titling in the catalogs and advertising of the Batchelder Tile Company in Pasadena, California in the 1920s. The original source characters were smoother,...