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Chelsea Font - Image 1

Chelsea  Font

Designed by Les Usherwood, Chelsea is a serif design digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Published by Red RoosterDownload Chelsea

P22 Tuscan Expanded Font - Image 2

P22 Tuscan Expanded  Font

P22 Tuscan Expanded is a digitization of the mid 19th century wood type font “Antique Tuscan Expanded – Wells & Webb 1854”. Specimens of this font are rarely, if ever, seen with a lower case. It is noted in  the

Old Depot Font - Image 3

Old Depot  Font

Old Depot is a newly reworked idea for the Depot Trapharet 2D font. It supports more languages and is available in more lettering. Old Depot stands out with its industrial nature of archaic spirit. It is a wonderful choice  for

Cabrito Inverto Font - Image 4

Cabrito Inverto  Font

And so now, here it is. Cabrito Inverto, which features the reversed stress of the strokes from a font’s “normal” traits. Inverted stress fonts are most often associated with cowboys and the Old West. The inverted stress gives it  a

Leipziger Antiqua Font - Image 5

Leipziger Antiqua  Font

The original typeface was designed by Albert Kapr between 1971 and 1973 for Typoart in Dresden. Kapr was the font designer and teacher as well as book author on type design of former East Germany. He also was an  expert

Madrid Font - Image 8

Madrid  Font

Designed by Steve Jackaman, Madrid is based on the typeface Nacional by Carlos Winkow from the Spanish foundry, Nacional (1941). Published by Red RoosterDownload  Madrid

Copacabana Font - Image 9

Copacabana  Font

Copacabana is heavily based on one of my favourite typefaces Goudy Old Style Italic. It is sharper and more clearly defined than Goudy yet still retains it old style characteristics. The face is slightly angled so is basically upright  whilst

Coliseum Font - Image 10

Coliseum  Font

Coliseum was designed by A. Pat Hickson/Julie Hopwood. An original design and release by Red Rooster. Published by Red RoosterDownload Coliseum

Brigade Font - Image 12

Brigade  Font

In searching for a Roman to use there were bits of Bembo,Times,Garamond etc., that I liked and bits that I did not. So I set out to take the best bits of all my favourite Romans and tried to  create

Poor Richard Font - Image 13

Poor Richard  Font

Designed by Paul Hickson. Based on the Keystone Type Foundry design, circa 1919. The l/c ‘g’ appears as an alternate character in our font. Published by Red RoosterDownload Poor Richard

Cloister Initials Font - Image 14

Cloister Initials  Font

Cloister Initials™ have become FontHaus’s most popular decorative initials font since we began selling it in 1993. First released in 1919 for ATF, Goudy’s “Cloister Initials”, sometimes called Goudy Initials is recognized as “one of the most beautifully designed  set

Libra Font - Image 15

Libra  Font

Libra is a font design released for the Mecanorma Type Collection. Copyright 2004 Trip Productions BV. Published by MecanormaDownload  Libra

P22 Mexican Relics Font - Image 16

P22 Mexican Relics  Font

Mexican Relics is a collection of over 100 dingbats in font format based on images found on a variety of clay stamps primarily from pre-Columbian Mexico. This font brings ancient artwork featuring fantastic animals and geometric shapes into the computer

Lily Wang Font - Image 17

Lily Wang  Font

Based on Hong Kong ladies f script from the 19th century. The inky texture in this design gives it a realistic handwriting appearance. Published by Dharma TypeDownload Lily  Wang

P22 Acropolis Extras Font - Image 18

P22 Acropolis Extras  Font

Acropolis Now is P22’s tribute to the enduring contribution of Classical Greece to world culture. This set features two typefaces in the style of ancient Greek stone carvings (one modern, one of authentic Greek characters) and 52 graphic extras  drawn