font_category: engraving

Leaf

Leaf font

This “Leaf” font has been swirling in my head for years – I remember my sister and I making letter formations like these when I was young. It was exciting to see the lettering...

Copperplate SH

Copperplate SH font

Since the release of these fonts most typefaces in the Scangraphic Type Collection appear in two versions. One is designed specifically for headline typesetting (SH: Scangraphic Headline Types) and one specifically for text typesetting...

Copperplate SB

Copperplate SB font

Since the release of these fonts most typefaces in the Scangraphic Type Collection appear in two versions. One is designed specifically for headline typesetting (SH: Scangraphic Headline Types) and one specifically for text typesetting...

Inferno Dingbats

Inferno Dingbats font

Nobody knows what God looks like but we know that the Devil has a thousand different faces. Samuel Casal sees the demon everywhere. In the streets, the movies, rock music, books, gambling, other things...

Sterling Script

Sterling Script font

Sterling Script was initially meant to a be digitization/reinterpretation of a copperplate script widely used during what effectively became the last decade of metal type: Stephenson Blake’s Youthline, from 1952. The years from 1945...

Chalice

Chalice font

Chalice is a new original Canada Type family inspired by two different engraving eras and locations: Medieval England and 19th century Russia. Chalice’s construct is geometric at heart, though the wedge serifs and their...

Centennial Script

Centennial Script font

Centennial Script was designed and cut by Hermann Ihlenburg in 1876 (the centennial of American independence, hence the typeface’s name) for the MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan foundry in Philadelphia. Ihlenburg was then only 33...

Ambassador Script

Ambassador Script font

When Aldo Novarese designed his “tipo inglese” Juliet typeface, he had a simple objective in mind: Reduce the inclination angle of the traditional 18th and 19th centuries English script in order to make the...

Siren Script

Siren Script font

Siren Script takes its cue from BB&S’s Stationers Semiscript (metal, 1899) and its countless imitations/inspirations from throughout the 20th century, particularly a variety of uncredited film faces from the 1960s. What makes this kind...