Decorative Fonts

Novelty Script

Post author:HiHstaff
Post published:1893
Post category:decorative

Novelty Script is a bold dynamic script, sharply delineated, yet fluid. Most of the lower case letters and many of the upper case letters have joins. The typeface was designed…

Pekin

Post author:HiHstaff
Post published:1888
Post category:decorative

Pekin is an unusual design with an oriental flavor. It was originally designed by Ernst Lauschke and released by The Great Western Type Foundry of Chicago as “Dormer,” which is…

Publicity Headline

Post author:HiHstaff
Post published:1916
Post category:decorative

Publicity Headline is an allcaps advertising font. Its heavy weight and robust strength allows it to be used against complex backgrounds or reversed out on dark backgrounds without getting lost.…

Regina Cursiv

Post author:HiHstaff
Post published:2007
Post category:decorative

Regina-Cursiv is a warm, bold, casual typeface. Its friendly, rounded curves remind me of the line from a gospel song by the Canton Spirituals, about "smoothin' up the roughway." Jointly…

Roller Poster

Post author:HiHstaff
Post published:April 15, 2020
Post category:decorative

Roller Poster is named after Alfred Roller. In 1902, Roller created a poster to advertise the 16th exhibit of Austrian Artists and Sculptures Association, representing the Vienna Secession movement. The…

Schnorr Gestreckt

Post author:HiHstaff
Post published:1898
Post category:decorative

Peter Schnorr was a German artist/illustrator of Art Nouveau period (called Jugendstil in Germany and Austria). He was quite adept at calligraphy and did a variety of commercial work, including…

Seuchter Experimental

Post author:HiHstaff
Post published:April 15, 2020
Post category:decorative

Seuchter Experimental is a product of the fertile Jugendstil period in Austria. Drawn by Bruno Seuchter, about whom little biographical information is available, the design first appeared in Seuchter’s publication,…

Sunshine Group

Post author:HiHstaff
Post published:April 15, 2020
Post category:decorative

The Sunshine Group is a series of four closely related fonts that combine a visual rendition of a bright noonday sun with Page No. 508, a wood type designed by…

Yes Dear

Post author:HiHstaff
Post published:April 15, 2020
Post category:decorative

Yes Dear is a hopefully humorous acknowledgement that men and women communicate differently — one of those Mars-Venus things. Women tend to talk about their feelings. Men hide in the…

Citrine

Post author:XO Type Costaff
Post published:2020
Post category:decorative

Citrine is a study in curves, based upon word-processing and in-game text. A tall lowercase makes for easy reading, curved joints give it friendliness, and broad spacing delivers distinctive all-caps…