font_category: decorative

Here’s another mosaic marvel from the New York subway system, to complement Midtown Tessie. This style is based on signage at the 34th Street station, with connections to Brooklyn. A full tile background is...

Something about the swoopy loops in the uppercase characters of this typeface, originally called “Ronde”, reminds one of the signature ‘do of a certain real-estate-mogul-turned-TV-celebrity, and so this font was named. Delightfully different, this…

The letterforms are based on Inserat Cursive, a bold script popular in the late nineteenth century; the treatment was suggested by cover artwork for Graphic Styles from Victorian to Post-Modern, written by Stephen Heller...

A random scan from a late nineteenth-century German type specimen book, encountered on the internet, provided the pattern for this surprisingly contemporary face. Although all of the characters are parallel to the baseline, the...

Avast, me hearties! Here be a serious pirate font, based loosely on several of Victor Hammer’s uncial typefaces, designed between 1925 and 1953, and liberally weathered and corroded for that authentic barnacle-encrusted look. The...

The inspiration for this font made its first appearance in the 1897 American Type Founders specimen book, under the name “Lithotint”. As the name suggests, the original was tinted gray (diagonal lines formed the...

This rugged rascal is based on at old ATF “original” design called “Hearst” (although Frederic Goudy claimed it was a pirated version of one of his designs). Its commanding, rough-hewn character makes it suitable...

This typeface bears a superficial resemblance to Belwe Extrabold, but is based on a work called Thor, issued by Frederic Wesselhoeft Ltd of London in the 1930s. The characters in this font are loosely...

Introducing a series of decorative initials with a twist: each font contains two complete alphabets, A-Z, and numerous border elements in the numeral and shift-numeral positions. Classic, ornate, quaint and exotic, these fonts are...