Alaskaya

Alaskaya is another result of many fruitless years of looking for satisfactory fonts based on Old Russian Iconography suitable for use with the Latin alphabet. The origins of the Alaskaya…

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Alexandria font Colonial Press font

Colonial Press

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Colonial Press is a font based on serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I (1692-1766) and various revivals thereof. Caslon is cited to be the first original typeface of English…

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Muscovite Manuscript font Pravoslavnie font

Pravoslavnie

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This is the first of several Eastern fonts I have created and is the prize of the collection. The Pravoslavnie font is highly decorative, with a more complicated letter ‘a’…

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Pseudo-Hellenic font

Pseudo-Hellenic

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Pseudo-Hellenic is a font based the Greek typeface of Firmin Didot. The original Greek typeface became standard during the Victorian era and remained popular until the last part of the…

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Radonezh font

Radonezh

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The Radonezh font is a Latin alphabet layout based on Russian Lettering I have seen. The font is designed to give a classic Medieval Eastern European feel with a hand-lettered…

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Suzdal font

Suzdal

Suzdal is a font based on a hand-lettered souvenir that I brought back from the Vladimir/Suzdal region in 2001. Suzdal includes a character set for Modern Greek, and most of…

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Svati Sava font Thebes font

Thebes

Thebes is a font based on an ancient Coptic script. The Copts are Egyptian Christians, and theirspoken language is a dialect of ancient Egyptian. Their letters, however, are Hellenized andresemble…

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