Font Con Fonts
Another gem from the Blandford Press Pen and Brush Lettering and Practical Alphabets, this in-your-face typeface features strong geometric elements, delineated in blueprint fashion. A surefire attention-getter. Both versions of the font include the…
This little charmer combines an uppercase designed by American lettering artist J. M. Bergling with a lowercase designed by English architect Roland W. Paul. The result has a wiggle in its walk and a...
The inspiration for this proto-Art Nouveau typeface showed up in the 1887 type specimen book of Farmer, Little & Co. under the name Vassar. Its bold, sinuous curves, which take unexpected turns now and...
The 1888 edtion of James Conner’s Sons United States Type Foundry specimen book listed this little gem simply as “Antique Light”. Its original, rather anemic outlines have been beefed up and its serifs have...
Lewis F. Day, in his 1910 classic Alphabets Old and New, filed this work by Laurence Schall under the category of Celtic-inspired, and surely it is both. This font included a few special extras,...
This lively script is based on a handlettered offering from The Hunt Brothers, which they called simply “Ornamental Italic”. Ornamental, yes, but there’s also a lot of action and attitude in this typeface. Please...
In Lewis F. Day’s 1910 classic, Alphabets Old and New, the author presented the inspiration for this typeface as an example of German monumental lettering, most likely to suggest not that the typeface was...
A collision between some stylin’ caps from legendary lettering artist Samuel Welo and a lowercase loosely based on ATF’s Romany Script yields this curious little wonder. Named after a 70s song which averred that...
This whimsical wonder is based on the lettering of Laurence Schall, as presented in Lewis F. Day’s 1910 classic, Alphabets Old and New. The typeface radiates a charm reminiscent of the works of many...
This rough-and-ready display face is based on El Greco Antique, released by the Fundición Richard Gans of Madrid in the 1930s. Distressed but not distressing, rough yet charming, ragged around the edges but curiously...