LeKing comes with an EPS Set with 24 vector ornaments.

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The source of inspiration for Manoir Monogram is a distinguishingly narrow Victorian initial letterset adorned with flourishes from a vintage embroidery publication. This digital revival splits the letterset from its flourished background to give you more design flexibility. Manoir is a highly ornate typestyle with a lot of elegance and flair.

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You might call this a Bodoni Ornate font that Bodoni never made, close examination of this old 1800s font and it’s plain to see that the top half of the letters is very Bodoni in appearance.

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Hickory is the revival of an old unnamed font dating back to 1852 and was sold through a few different type foundries including Bruce, MacKellar Smiths & Jordan and James Conner’s Sons.

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Arrus was designed at Bitstream by Richard Lipton and first released in 1991. Arrus is based on Lipton’s own hand-lettered calligraphic alphabets that draw their influence from classic inscriptional forms. Arrus has small cap and extension typographer sets available as well.

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The inspiration source for Noir Monogram is the “Pearl” letterset from the 1854 Becker’s Ornamental Penmanship and Draughtsman’s Letter Book by George J. Becker. The original design was a highly ornate steelplate engraving which was simplified to a solid letterstyle with minimal detailings.

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The 1907 Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type specimen catalog called this unique typeface simply “Umbra”. Since that name is already taken, it now has another.

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Inspired by handpainted letterforms on the Sumatran island of Samosir, this typeface was awarded a TDC Certificate of Excellence in Typographic Design.

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Railhead is a revival of an 1870s type style that was originally available from both the Bruce foundry in New York and James Conner’s Sons type foundry.

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The agressive moves, the lateral spurs and the heavy leaf endings of Trochera resemble the silvan plants behavior giving it a very expressive and festive personality.

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Here is a decorative condensed antique design that is sure to fit a variety of contemporary situations.

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Buffalo Bill is a revival of an old favorite font that’s been around since 1888, the James Conner’s Sons foundry book of that same year is the oldest source I've seen for this old classic.

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Ecstrat is not a ‘serious’ typeface, but a contemporary version of ornamented ‘flowered’ letters of the eighteenth century, like those of Pierre-Simon Fournier le Jeune and Jacques-François Rosart.

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Abigail is a font designed by Ethan Dunham that looks like it is made of ribbons. It comes in two versions, plain and dots.

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The earliest version of this font was released as shareware in about 1990. It has been used extensively by the television series The Appraisal Fair on HGTV. It may look like an old typeface, but it actually is not.

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A classic “wild west” or circus type font - perfect for oldstyle posters and anything needing an antiquated look. I have switched a few letters around, and made the uppercase M narrower - and then kerned it and expanded the character set. “Howdy pardiner!”

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Marisco is Portuguese for shellfish. The font arose from the forms of classic tattoo types, especially those of mid-twentieth-century sailors, but it also has something of a nineteenth-century poster type flavor to it.

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Goudy Ornate (also known as Ornate Title) was designed in 1931 by Frederic Goudy.

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One in the series of fonts called Whiz-Bang Wood Type, intended to be set large and tight. Gullywasher is distinguished by its unusual letterforms and “pineapple” serifs. The font takes its name from a Texas term for a heavy rain.

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WyomingMacroni is the split-serif (or Tuscan) version of the Wyoming series. The Pegged version adds a horizontal spike through the middle of the stems, which has been a popular variation of this style. Included are two shadowed versions.

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A thorn-laden split flare serif typestyle inspired by the lettering of Ben Shahn on the cover of the novel, Rendezvous with Destiny.

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This unusual take on a typical woodtype typeface is based on a 1950s Stenso lettering template and, appropriately, takes its name from a small town in Texas not far from Dallas, locally noted for its grand Victorian homes.

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An elegant and feminine stencil inspired in the Colombian colonial times.

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CourtGesture and friends are zany, absurd, whimsical typefaces that were inspired by nineteenth century faces that have one style on the top and another on the bottom. They are rather crudely drawn

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A single line of type, identified as Ornamented No. 5 and spelling out ROPE ONIONS, from the 1888 MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan specimen book provided the pattern for this whimsical face.

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A spooky 19th century Toscanienne typeface, Planchette has two ‘period’ hand ornaments accessible by the < and > keys.

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Relive the spirit of 19th century America in whimsical upbeat style with De Louisville tuscan. Echoing the Victorian craze for lavish decoration, De Louisville captures the antique flavor of a music parlor with refreshing cartoon ambiance. Cute, bubbly curves evoke strawberries & cream, a frothy head of beer, or the lace trimmings of a fine young lady’s skirt, in a light-hearted display face designed for contemporary use.

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Cowboy Rhumbahut is an old-timey script the drips with a twang and tradition that you can practically hear. If you've been wandering the range, searching for the perfect cowboy alphabet for you, you might wanna wrangle up this old-time original. My goodness that’s one kooky cowboy font.

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This Font is made for a Capture Function on an Web template. For Security.

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The inspiration source for Tagliato Monogram is a decorative letterset (capitals only) from the 1899-1900 Treatise on Embroidery, Crochet and Knitting booklet by M. Hemingway & Sons Silk Co. The letterforms mimic clipped branches, “Tagliato” meaning “Clipped” in Italian.

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Circus stars is Vladislav Ivanov font with a retro touch, inspired by the look of old circus and movie posters.

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Birdcage was designed from a very short lettering sample in Rob Roy Kelly’s American Wood Type book, from the image I created a complete font plus a regular version with lowercase.

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An early 20th-Century French lettering book displayed at an online image sharing site stood out with a hand-lettered version of a classic Victorian font. The lettering - a spur serif top and a split serif (or "Western-style") bottom is the basis for Jeff Levine’s Les Folies JNL.

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I must have enjoyed designing tuscan fonts, because I did quite a few. This one is very different from the others I did.

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This is a fake and a fraud and not a bad-looking type.

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Twigglee was inspired by the hand lettering on the plates in a 19th century book on ornaments by Owen Jones. The upper-case letters are simply repeated on the lower-case keys.

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This was put together by Dan X. Solo to provide a quick way to set headings for a circus brochure.

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This is Solotype’s version of a popular mid-nineteenth century style explored by several early foundries.

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A typical set of American Tuscan capitals cast by ATF in the middle of the nineteenth century.

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CircusKS is a new, original typeface based on carnival and circus posters from the late 1800s.

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A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, a very useful design for display, lowercase missing, very narrow, unusual splayed serifs at top and bottom of strokes.

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A pile of mouldy potatoes? Let’s make a font! The OpenType format of Augustine features autoligs to help break up noticeably repeating letters and numerals. If you use application such as Adobe CS products which supports OpenType ligatures, the autolig magic magically happens. For the rest of us, there are alternate letters you can access by alternating caps and lowercase.

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Bacchante is a hand-written font with retro touch, perfect for collages or simple text.

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Cottonwood is an Adobe Originals typeface designed in 1991 by Kim Buker Chansler, Barbara Lind, and Joy Redick.

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There is something fun about western type. And there is something fun about hand drawn type.

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Circus Poster Shadow was created by Tom Rickner as a tribute to the classic Tuscan Egyptian forms used in many wood types of the 1890s.

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Antique Tuscan No.9 was one of the earlier wood-type designs by William Hamilton Page. It was first shown among the specimens produced in 1859, shortly after Page entered into a new partnership with Samuel Mowry, owner of the Mowry Axle Company. The new company was named Page and Company and was located at the Mowry facility in the Greenville section of Norwich, Connecticut.

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MuskitoCaps is a Tuscan (split-serif) font that is rather narrow and a bit awkward. Included is a shadowed version.

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Originally, this 1870s wood type font was called Armenian. We came across a showing of alphabet at the South Street Seaport in New York, bought it and immediately drew the additional characters needed to make the font.

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A revival of one of the popular wooden type fonts of the 19th century, a very useful design for display.

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The letters of ShirlyUJest have serifs which have gone wild, crossing over themselves, giving them the look of overgrown vegetation. The name says it all.

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We know very little about this font. A printer in Lisbon had it, but said it came from England. Nicolette Gray shows it in her Nineteenth Century Ornamented Type Faces as Lord Mayor from the British Typefoundry. We never got the complete font, but drawing the missing letters was not difficult.

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Valenteena is in the spirit of the 19th century, but there are no other typefaces quite like it. It is geometric, using distorted hearts to form the letters. The lower-case letters are smaller versions of the upper-case letters.

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Lost Hills JNL is a split-serif Western font based on Jeff Levine’s Brogado JNL.

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Grist Mill JNL was modeled from an old wood type design and has all of the wonderful quirks that made wood type so appealing for many projects. There is minimal kerning because of the unique letter shapes, so you may wish to adjust your layout to fit your needs.

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Jeff Levine first designed Sennetarium JNL back in 2004; based on the large drop caps found on intertitle cards from an old Charlie Chaplin film. The font’s name is a nod to Mack Sennett, king of the screwball comedies of the silent film era.

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A 1970s Photolettering catalog indentified the pattern for this typeface as Exotique...from France, no less.

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AccruedInterest is a hollow font, the letters of which were roughly drawn with a calligraphic pen. The serif are big and round and there is no separate lower case.

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This stylish swashbuckling typeface had a very limited character set, but with the CheapProFonts treatment this buried treasure is ready to be rediscovered. Character map included. “Arrr! Shiver me timbers!”

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A popular hobby in the 1950s and 1960s was creating your own wallets, belts and other items from leather do-it-yourself kits. Stamped or carved initials, names or phrases were often added to the leather with special tools and templates - many featuring a Western-styled alphabet with a hand-lettered look.

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Homemade Text was designed to correspond with Grandes Vacances.

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