Tag: antique

Old Man Eloquent Font

Old Man Eloquent simulates the handwriting of John Quincy Adams, the second President of The United States, in pages of his famous diary, circa 1810. Adams kept his diary from 1779, when he was a boy, until 1848, the year

Military Scribe Font

The 10th Regiment of Foot is a British military unit raised more than three centuries ago—and perhaps most famous in the U.S. for seeing action on American soil during the Revolutionary War in the Battles of Lexington and Concord and

Terra Ignota Font

The idea for Terra Ignota came years before I actually designed it, as I was admiring a reproduction of “Amerique Septentrionale,” a 1650 map by French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, given me by my parents. The hand-lettering has a sort of

Douglass Pen Font

Douglass Pen was inspired by the handwriting of Frederick Douglass, who was born an American slave but died a distinguished 19th century statesman, orator, and abolitionist leader. He also had fine penmanship. Douglass Pen is modeled chiefly after Douglass’s handwritten

Bonnycastle Font

Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1791–1847) was an English officer and military engineer who served in the War of 1812 and ultimately settled in Canada. I stumbled upon copies of some of his charts and maps and became so infatuated with

Castine Font

Castine gets its name from a small coastal Maine town with a seagoing heritage and long history. The town has an old cemetery with a few 200-plus-year-old headstones whose distinctive carved lettering inspired the typeface that shares its name. Castine’s

Attic Antique Font

Attic Antique replicates the warn, weathered text in a friend’s old copy of John Burroughs nature essays. It shares the wide spacing and ample serifs of the Century faces. Use it to represent age, to suggest photocopied archives, or to

Abigail Adams Font

“My Dearest Friend” is how she began nearly all her letters to her husband, John. I refer, of course, to Abigail Smith Adams, first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States. Her famous correspondence with John Adams

My Dear Script Font

My Dear Script is a calligraphic style typeface designed and published by Panji Nugraha. Published by Panji NugrahaDownload My Dear Script

Bonsai Font

The name “Bonsai” seems appropriate for this font for two reasons: its source of inspiration—some top-heavy text type I found in an old handbook on bonsai from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden—and its glyphs’ resemblance, however vague, to the ancient miniature

Antiquarian Font

Antiquarian was inspired by the hand-lettered headlines and captions that appear on an original page of “Atlas Historique, ou Nouvelle Introduction a L’Histoire’—a world atlas published by Henri Abraham Chatelain between 1705 and 1732 in Amsterdam—that I picked up at

Marema Font

Marema is a retro styled font designed and published by Adam Fathony. This download includes bonus design files such as 2 bicycle vector drawings, 3 graphic styles and an ornament file, all saved in Adobe CS6 format. Published by Adam

Kinghorn 205 Font

Kinghorn 205 is an Egyptian style slab-serif. The strokes are all of a roughly equal weight for an even, geometric look. Although original Egyptian slabs date from the early 19th century, the even look gives the font a balanced, contemporary

Kenwyn Font

Kenwyn is a bold, geometric, Egyptian style slab-serif display font. It comes in two variations — Single Dot and Double Dot — each with an accompanying Stencil variation. Essentially a blend of circles and squares, Single Dot features a circular

De Arloy Font

De Arloy is a typeface design inspired by art nouveau styles that works great for packaging, labeling, logos, signage and much more. Published by Panji NugrahaDownload De Arloy

Kinghorn 105 Font

Kinghorn 105 is an Egyptian style slab-serif. The strokes are all of a roughly equal weight for an even, geometric look. Although original Egyptian slabs date from the early 19th century, the even look gives the font a balanced, contemporary