font_category: decorative

Kleukens Antiqua NF

Kleukens Antiqua NF font

In 1910, Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens designed the namesake for this typeface, which combines medieval letterforms with Art Nouveau sensibilites, for Bauersche Gießerei. Strikingly handsome and unique, its large x-height makes it suitable for both…

Pudgy Puss NF

Pudgy Puss NF font

Here’s a new take on an old favorite, the Lubalin-Carnase classic Fat Face. This version, intended for large headlines, cranks the original’s very high contrast up another notch. Both versions of this font contain...

Peanut Gallery NF

Peanut Gallery NF font

Every type library needs a generic, comicbook-style “POW!” font, and this one is ours. Breezy, bouncy and bold, it’s the perfect choice for rock-em, sock-em headlines. Both versions of the font include 1252 Latin,...

Rowan Oak NF

Rowan Oak NF font

This “very elegant and British alphabet” was originally released in the 1920s as “Richmond Oldstyle” by the Blackfriars Type Foundry of London. Touted as highly artistic and graceful, it is exceptionally “at home” wherever...

Lateral Incised NF

Lateral Incised NF font

Gravure was designed by Morris F. Benton in 1927 for American Type Founders and was also released in 1929 by the London foundry of C. W. Shortt. This luminous face has a slightly naïve...

Cleveland Litho NF

Cleveland Litho NF font

This quirky charmer appeared in the 1898 specimen book of the Cleveland Type Foundry, under the name of “Litho”, so it’s no mystery where it got its name. It’s a perfect choice for engaging...

Hip Pop NF

Hip Pop NF font

Type designer Friedrich Poppl is perhaps best known for his classic text faces and elegant scripts, but it seems he had a playful side as well. This frisky face is based on Dynamische Antiqua,...

Boxcar Willie NF

Boxcar Willie NF font

Based on a typeface originally called “Seven Flare”, this offering has a warm, slightly naive grace and a casual nostalgic charm. In addition, kerning has been applied to all possible letter combinations, so that...

FranTique NF

FranTique NF font

The 1905 Barnhart Brothers & Spindler catalog featured an ultrawide face called “French Antique Extended”. The letterforms have been faithfully rendered here, but this font’s kerning calls for a lot of overlapping and interlocking...

Lily Hilo NF

Lily Hilo  NF font

This sometimes-top-heavy, sometime-bottom-heavy, sometimes-centered typecase is based on an old Photolettering face designed by the irrepressible Dave West, originally called “Nickelodeon”. That name was already taken, so I chose another with a nod…