Fette Gotisch font Frakto font

Frakto

Frakto is a two-weight family of calligraphic Fraktur-style typefaces designed by Julius de Goede. One of the main categories of Blackletter typefaces, Fraktur was developed around 1517, and was used…

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Linotext font

Linotext

Linotext was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1901 and first appeared with the name Wedding Text with American Type Founders in Jersey City, where its metal forms were cut…

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Linotype Sangue font Linotype Textur font Mariage font

Mariage

Morris Fuller Benton, the principal designer of the American Type Founders, designed Mariage in 1901. Mariage, which has been sold under a plethora of different names during the last century,…

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Mistral font

Mistral

Named for the strong, cold winds of southern France, Mistral was designed by Roger Excoffon for the Olive foundry in 1953. This unique brush script is based on the designer’s…

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Notre Dame font

Notre Dame

Designed in 1992 by Karlgeorg Hoefer, Notre Dame is part of the Linotype Type Before Gutenberg series. Notre Dame is a textura blackletter, a common bookhand style from the fourteenth…

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Pompeijana font

Pompeijana

Pompeijana is part of Linotype’s Type Before Gutenberg series. Adrian Frutiger designed Pompeijana in 1992 modeling it on the “scriptura actuari” (scriptura=writing; actuari=fast) used by the Romans for handwriting and…

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