Tag: medieval

Cherubina Font

Cherubina means ‘Blessed’. It is a name derived from the Akkadian “karabu / kuribu”, meaning “blessing, blessed”. A cherub is a type of spiritual being mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, often depicted as a baby with wings. This font was

Flipflop Font

This font makes the impression to be a blackletter font (Fraktur) but it really only is little squares and triangles stuck together in a flip or flop way to form the glyphs. Only a few times did I have to

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 contribution to the overall idiosyncrasies of

Cruller Font

Cruller is a display typeface that is based on a rare bit of lettering from a 1910 German lettering book. What was the inspiration for designing the font? I found the base lettering years ago in a specimen and scanned

Heraldry Font

Heraldry is a dingbat font that pays hommage to the coats of arms worn by families throughout Europe. Thanks to this font, you will be able to rapidly compose your own coat of arms by choosing your symbols, your shield

Mr Darcy Font

The elegant and very graceful Mr. Darcy is sufficiently compete with its additional characters–to be stated more precisely, over 136 defining alternates. These optional features are carefully displayed within the supplied brochure. The employ of the Mr. Darcy family moreover

Blackmoor Font

Based on an old English letter style, Blackmoor richly evokes all the character of medieval times. It’s rough, distressed features make it an excellent choice for a variety of applications from serious historical publications to horror movies and comics. Designed

Taurunum Font

Taurunum is made with intention to be used for display design (logos, posters, etc.), and combining the weights should give best results. Published by Kostic Type FoundryDownload Taurunum

Sepian Font

Sepian is an original hand lettered font based primarily on Textualis, or Textura in the Blackletter family – the style most commonly associated with Gothic scripts. The addition of barbs to the terminals add to its modern and sharp look

YWFT Herzog Font

Originally drawn in 2008 by YouWorkForThem, we revisited the Herzog drawings in 2011 and developed them into a fully functional opentype font release. YWFT Herzog comes with two style options (regular and alternate), with each style containing opentype stylistic alternates

Old English Font

Old English is related to Black Letter styles from early printed books and have a distinguished, historic look. The Old English font is used in advertising, invitations, greeting cards, and wherever a formal hand-lettered or engraved look is desired. Published

P22 Koch Signs Set Font

This set reproduces over 350 of the signs contained in German typographer Rudolf Koch’s “The Book of Signs,” the symbols include Astrological, Christian, Medieval and Runic iconography. Published by P22 Type FoundryDownload P22 Koch Signs Set

Grindel Grove Font

Several years ago, I was asked to design a brochure for a native plant habitat garden. I drew some scenic backgrounds with charcoal, used pen and ink to stipple detailed scientific drawings of the plants to be showcased in the

Kardanal DT Font

Kardanal DT is a decorative font design, published by DTP Types Limited. Published by DTP Types LimitedDownload Kardanal DT

Tristan Font

A headline font with medieval feel, Tristan borders between traditional /classic styled serif and modern calligraphic styled serifs. Finding any reason to use the lowercase g in any project is a must! Published by Suomi Type FoundryDownload Tristan