Majestic Mishmash is inspired by old times, patterns, ornaments and Eduardo Recife's work. Majestic Mishmash is totally hand drawn and every letter is unique. There’s even double version of A-Z and a-z to prevent identical characters being side by side.

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As a unique example of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Victorian type, Zinc Italian emits a strikingly beautiful and twinkling luminescence. Oversized initial caps, each containing intricate swirls and curlycues, vibrate stunningly alongside a variety of amusing lowercase letters. Also known as Zinco, this typeface is generously equipped with a charming set of alternate characters including capital figures and some easier-to-decipher lowercase letters.

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Brogue was designed to be a display typeface, but it can be used for a small body of text. At its core it is an uncial influenced typeface that has been allowed to stray from its roots. Embracing other alphabets, Brogue mixes in some unexpected letterforms that really give it a quirky and unusual look. Because Brogue is unicase it allows the designer to mix and match the roman, italic, upper and lowercase letters together for a truly unique design.

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In Brazil, young people sign their gang names on the top of São Paulo City buildings. Their letters are tall and structured just like the buildings that they have to scale. For them, typography has become an extreme sport.

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Those who know anything medical will recognize the terms “embolus” and “thrombosis”, as relating to blood clots. It’s big, wide and very distinct.

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A versatile block title font designed for comic book copy. Regular and Extended.

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Malibu successfully combines a bold weight with authoritative calligraphic letterforms. For best results, the lowercase should be closely letter spaced or overlapped. A versatile set of capitals can be used with the lowercase or by themselves in word settings. Created by talented British designer Alan Meeks.

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WrenchedLetters is a novelty font in which characters are composed of wrenches and bolts.

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Philadelphia is all stars, stripes and Fourth of July fun. It is based on the text font Aldersgate, which compliments it well.

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Dynamo Shadow is one of many versions produced by Letraset based on the old Ludwig & Mayer originals. Close letter spacing, even overlapping where serifs occur, will help to create a strong sense of power and size. An excellent choice for large display settings. Designed by well-known British artist Alan Meeks.

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This freeform exercise in typographic design echoes the looseness of early 1960’s advertising. Brian breaks almost every typographic rule we can think of — but so what? The bold letterforms of Big Limbo are anything but stuck!

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Carta Marina is based on the titling found on the famous map drawn by Olaus Magnus in 1539. The map of northern Europe took 12 years to complete, and the total size is a huge 1.7 meters tall by 1.25 meters wide. More information about the map, as well as the high resolution reference document used to create the typeface and illustration set can be found at the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota.

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Inspired by the logotype from the movie Staying Alive, comes this digital broadway lights style font family known as Digital Disco, (ok, so it was really Saturday Night Fever, the Prequel that was Disco). My favorite scene is when John Travolta bumps into Sylvester Stallone in the beginning of the film. Just look at this typeface and think...“You could be dancing, YEAH!”.

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NewYorkerType was one of the first typefaces I tried my hand at in 1985.

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"When you push the stage props of the life aside, there will remain
the truth..." Ambient is a deconstructed sans-serif font, which captures the essence of basic Roman letterforms.

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Numbskull contains an expanded character set including: Central, Eastern and Western European languages, The Baltic, Cyrillic, Esperanto, Greek and Turkish.

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Cabaret is the ideal choice where a fun or lighthearted appearance is desired. Everything about it, from its unique letterforms to its highly individual internal decoration guarantees an appealing, eye-catching effect. Designed by the prolific British designer Alan Meeks.

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Kigara was Elena’s first attempt at designing a text typeface. The result is not exactly a conventional book face.

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Quirina is a very elegant joining Script that has – because of its high and open lowercase letters – excellent readability.

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A very thin light line gothic, great headline face.

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Assembly line efficiency tempered with softly rounded curves makes Kleptocracy purr where other factory-made fonts rattle and buzz. The cursive elements weld the warmth of soft curves to the utilitarian lines to create playful elements like g, y and l keeping it from appearing stark and cold.

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This charming font, with its hints of the exotic, originally carried the rather prosaic name of Show Card Roman. It appeared in the book "Art Alphabets and Lettering: an encyclopedia of lettering including the most important standard alphabets and such classics as are in most demand for the use of engravers, designers, and all lovers of art" by the evidently rather verbose J. M. Bergling (1866-1933). As a nod to its exotic overtones, the font is named after the 1872 utopian novel of the same name by Samuel Butler.

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Aardvark: Africaans, “earthpork” or “groundpig,” anteater.

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A very cute cursive font!

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A beautiful face that really works well for any application a distinguished clean look. Headlines, subheads and text anything goes.

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A freely drawn heading face prepared in 1912 by Lucian Bernhard for Bauer. The typeface enjoys a vogue in Europe.

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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 name imprints on medical school diplomas, which seems a bit grotesk.

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A very rare metal face made a brief appearance in Lanston Specimen books and has all but vanished from use. In fact no examples of the font in use seem to exist.

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This is one of the Victorian standards for job printing issued by the Barnhart Brothers and Spindler Foundry about 1891. It looks old without being decorative, a good counterpoint to fancier types in today¹s old fashioned typography.

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Mono-weight extra condensed display face. Lowercase sits on a floating baseline. Downtown was designed for all media and works best at 24 point and above. Downtown requires subjective display kerning and compensation.

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Cheedo is a bold funky font with a white internal stripe, with two variations - one having occasional outline stars, the other without.

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This jaunty display face was discovered in one of the many books on sign writing produced by Eric Matthews. The work was signed “King Cole,” hence the font’s name.

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A product of the Inland Type Foundry, some say stolen from a hand lettering job done by Goudy. (Goudy was one of those who said it!)

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Semiramis is based on lettering from the Roycroft movement, but has a Science Fiction/Fantasy feel to it, drawing on elements from antique scripts and the Art Nouveau period to produce a result which is modern and ancient at the same time.

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With its elegant twists, romantic curves and bulge lines, this handwritten font presents one thing: love!

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This baby’s got a fancy look to it. I personally used it for the nameplate at my frontdoor. You oughta do the same for your frontdoor too!

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Carlisle is a small caps display font with a rough, antique feel. The font includes both upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation.

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“More is better” may have been the motto of Richard Austin of Austin and Son’s Imperial Letter-Foundry on Worship Street at Finsbury Square in London when he designed and cut his Antique typeface. The year it was created is uncertain, but it is known to have appeared in a specimen book produced in 1827.

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PRINTF is a sans-serif font, monospaced typewriter font with alternates and autoligs: custom letter pair variations for a more realistic typewriter effect.

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Inspired by Sol Hess’s 1938 typeface of the same name.

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Handbag Jack is all you need!

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Jokerman is a wildly original and energetic typeface in every way. Fanciful internal and external elements support a spirited troupe of casual letterforms that exude excitement and vitality. Jokerman is effective both in all capital or upper and lowercase settings. Many alternate letters and funky devices are included. From the imaginative hand of British designer Andrew Smith.

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BillieBob was made by cramping straight shapes into squares. Somewhat reminds me of pre cold-war Russian type.

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The Carol family are decorated faces and can be used in any application calling for a 19th century engraved style. The ‘extra’ face allows decorated frames to be made and includes some titles such as Dr. Mrs. Mr etc. It is also possible to create 2 colured texts in most drawing packages by using the regular weight plus a cut weight and the packages cloning tool.

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A great new logo / headline font. Think 1976, school spirit, metalflake bicycles, custom t-top cars, metal mouth braces, orange popsicles and lemonade, Marsha Brady hairstyles! Sign my yearbook?!

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An original design.

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The Morgan Project can be considered a big type family with ‘many styles’ or a set of different types that match with each other. For me it’s one typeface with different versions with deliberate and visible differences according to the propose to which each version was created. The design started in 2000 as a display type with the design of the Morgan Tower, to which more two display versions were added; Morgan Poster and Morgan Big — all together the make our: FTF Morgan Display Kit 1. All three versions consist only in uppercase with alternate letters in the lowercase and a set of special ligatures. Morgan Tower has four variants that differ in width/weight, Morgan Poster has six variants (often called styles), three weights in upright and oblique and Morgan Big has twelve, six weights in upright and oblique. Lately, the FTF Morgan Tex Kit 1 was added. Apropriate versions to use in text setting. Both versions, FTF Morgan Sans and FTF Morgan Sans Condensed share the same structure and character mapping. Four variants each; regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique with a large character set including: small caps, lining and old style figures (here called Office figures) — both tabular —, small caps lining figures, mathematical symbols and fraction figures, and, a set of foreign characters expanding the possibilities of use for a wider range of languages. Characters are distributed in six different font layouts: Lining, Office, Expert, Caps, Figures & Pi.

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Blackoak is an Adobe Originals typeface designed in 1990 by Joy Redick. Blackoak, adapted from proofs of wood type from the collection at the Smithsonian Institution, has slab serifs and extremely wide letterforms.

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P22 Curwen was originally designed by an unknown designer. This version was created by Colin Kahn.

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Howdy pardner! Giddy-up and lasso yerself these renegade typefaces. Created by renowned illustrator David Lyttleton , this set presents an Englishman’s unique vision of the American West. Perfect for your next hoe-down, barn raising or Western-themed cricket match.

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Jugendstil Kunsthand is based on a sample of late 19th century lettering in a style often associated with artists of the Jugendstil Art Nouveau movement in Germany.

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A 1926 travel brochure for a steamship line provided the basis for this darkly sparkly spritely font. Smooth curves and an off-center inline treatment gives this typeface a strong architectural feel.

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Influenced heavily by the work of Erik Spiekerman, Axiom came out of a desire to capture Spiekerman’s simplicity and elegant style. Axiom seems to work well when extended.

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A comfortable tuxedo, a bright boutonniere, and a spring in your step. With Magnolia, Mark van Bronkhorst’s aim was to convey a sense of formality without stiffness.

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The spurred serif style of Roman lettering has long been a favorite of sign painters and show card writers.

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This delightfully playful font is based on a single-stroke pen font from the 1922 tome Heberling’s Basic Lettering, and elements of composition, color harmony, gilding, embossing-processes, etc. by Walter A. Heberling.

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Jilly Bean is what happens when art deco meets pizzadude...

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HippityDippity has squiggly serifs and no straight lines or smooth circles. It comes in two weights and an inline variation.

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This font started life in 1893 at the Boston Type Foundry, but was also cast at the Central Type Foundry. Both were members of the ATF combine formed in 1892.

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Hesperides is based on samples of Colonial period calligraphy.

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This light-hearted, sans serif typeface evokes the style of the movie industry during the 1920’s and 30’s. Although some of the letterforms are mildly abstract, Enviro is legible and can be used for headlines where a different look is desired. Created by noted American graphic designer F. Scott Garland.

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