font_foundry: New Renaissance Fonts

Sevillia

Sevillia font

During a visit to Seville, Rick was very struck by the local tradition of street names made from tiles: from sketches and doodles made in 36°C, he and David produced a font with tiles...

Soest St Mary

Soest St Mary font

Unusual decorative capitals from embroidery work in a German church. Upper case has a diamond-shaped frame around each letter; lower case is just the letters without the diamond frame; and the ampersand gives just...

Karins Lombardy Caps

Karins Lombardy Caps font

Karin’s free reinterpretation of the early Renaissance Lombardic tradition, in two different versions. In the upper case the fill is blacker and has a straight pattern with diamond elements; in the lower case the...

Alice Scrolltip

Alice Scrolltip font

Drawn with a scroll-tip pen, that’s the one which gives both a thin and a thick line for every stroke, featuring a slightly folklorish and hand-produced feel, named for Rick’s granddaughter.

Davids Roundhand

Davids Roundhand font

A very harmonic rendering of the classic late-mediaeval round hand, provided here with a choice of two kind of capitals, Lombardic and Round. Usable in all kinds of contexts, both historic and modern.

Ricks Relaxed Hand

Ricks Relaxed Hand font

Relaxed italic calligraphy from Richard Bradley, a complement to his more formal Fine Hand and Bible Script. Very usable for greetings card, invitations, notices, and whatever you like.

Chiswick Illuminated Caps

Chiswick Illuminated Caps font

A delightful latter-day reworking of the Lombardic ideal, provided here with the main letter and the background illumination separated so that they can be given different colors on different layers, and given different effects...

Sonnet Script

Sonnet Script font

Richard J. Bradley – known for his Fine Hand, Bible Script, Bradley Hand and Calligraphic Ornaments – drew this font inspired by the calligraphy of the Welsh artist and poet David Jones (1895-1974), who...

Ashbourne 1241

Ashbourne 1241 font

Rick Bradley – known for his Fine Hand, Bible Script, Bradley Hand and Calligraphic Ornaments – drew this font from a gravestone in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, dated 1241. The irregularity lends a special charm to...

Edward’s Uncial 1904

Edward’s Uncial 1904 font

It’s 100 years since Edward Johnston proposed the two mediaeval styles uncial and half-uncial to reintroduce handwriting as an enjoyable experience of beauty – calligraphy. Here his hand-written forms are adapted for print and...