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Dante Alighieri Font - Image 1

Dante Alighieri  Font

From the great Schelter & Giesecke collection, Dante Alighieri is a splendid companion to Aldo Manuzio or any other Art Nouveau display font. With its rather condensed characters makes an ideal body text font even for narrow columns. Dante Alighieri

Carlsbad Font - Image 2

Carlsbad  Font

The Carlsbad font family is a bringing together of Regina Cursiv and Hansa Cursiv which bothhad been released by H. Berthold Messinglinienfabrik und Schriftgiesserei around 1895.Both these beautiful Art Nouveau italic fonts come with the following swash alternatives: D,  E,

Hoelderlin Fraktur Font - Image 4

Hoelderlin Fraktur  Font

In 1938 the Frankfurt-based foundry Ludwig & Mayer released Eugen Weiss’ beautiful fraktur ‚Hoelderlin‘. Carefully redrawn and redesigned, this digitized version is intended to add another gem to the enthusiasts’ treasure drove of blackletter types. The font contains the historical

Gmuender Kanzlei Font - Image 5

Gmuender Kanzlei  Font

Inspired by some handwritten letter forms, the drawings and designs finally became an entire font. It is an ideal companion to create diplomas, certificates and any other vintage projects. Take advantage of the long s which can be reached  when

AP pro Font - Image 6

AP pro  Font

AP pro is Old-Style typeface that has 6 weights and italics. Fit for usage in branding, editorial, title in small or large sizes. Designed for text, this typeface has features small caps, case sensitive, final/terminal form (a, e, m,  n,

Marseille Font - Image 7

Marseille  Font

Marseille is an Art Deco-inspired typeface which is based on Louise Fili’s iconic cover design for the hauntingly beautiful Marguerite Duras novel, The Lover. The font is available in six irresistible weights: thin, light, regular, medium, semibold, and bold.  Each

Montecatini Font - Image 8

Montecatini  Font

Montecatini Pro takes its cues from the elegant Stile Liberty travel posters of Italy in the early 1900s. In its successful first release by Louise Fili Ltd in 2017, the typeface introduced distinctive ligatures typical of the time when  Art

Deutschmeister Font - Image 9

Deutschmeister  Font

This crisp and constructed Ludwig Wagner, Leipzig, blackletter font in textura style had been originally designed by Berthold Wolpe. Freshly redrawn and redesigned, it adds now to the treasure trove of historic typefaces. This font contains a bunch of  useful

Geographica Hand Font - Image 10

Geographica Hand  Font

Geographica hand replicates the neat hand-lettering typical of engraved British maps of the 18th century, including the work of cartographers Emanuel Bowen (circa 1694–1767), geographer to king George ii, and Thomas Jefferys (circa 1719–1771) Geographica to King George iii.  a

Geographica Script Font - Image 11

Geographica Script  Font

Thank you for purchasing Geographica Script™, a member of the 3IP Type Library. We appreciate your business very much. Time-tested elegance is what you’ll get with Geographica Script, a handwritten typeface steeped in 18th century sophistication. Source materials include  the

Texas Hero Font - Image 12

Texas Hero  Font

The first font to simulate actual old penmanship, Texas Hero is modeled chiefly on the handwritten script of Thomas J. Rusk—who served as commander of the Texas Army, chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and one of the state’s

Emily Austin Font - Image 13

Emily Austin  Font

Emily Austin is modeled after the penmanship of Emily Margaret Austin (Bryan) Perry, an early Texas colonist along with her brother, Stephen F. Austin, for whom the state capital was named. Specimens were letters dating from 1837 until 1851,  the

American Scribe Font - Image 14

American Scribe  Font

American Scribe simulates the penmanship of Timothy Matlack, generally agreed to be the scribe of the famous, engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence (written, of course, by Thomas Jefferson). Matlack—whose clear, compact script is perhaps the most familiar handwriting

Schooner Script Font - Image 15

Schooner Script  Font

Schooner Script replicates the handwriting of Samuel Clarke, pastor of a church in Princeton, Massachusetts, in a letter to his congregation dated 18 September 1825—a plea for donations to help some families who lost their belongings in an accident  at

Houston Pen Font - Image 16

Houston Pen  Font

Houston Pen replicates the handwriting of Sam Houston, perhaps the most famous Texan, in letters dating from the 1830s to the late-1850s. Much like the man himself, Houston’s handwriting stood fairly large on the page and had a distinctive flourish

Remsen Script Font - Image 17

Remsen Script  Font

The 1765 Stamp Act ignited in American colonists a simmering distrust of the distant British Parliament, whose oppressive trade duties they deemed unfair assaults on their rights as English subjects. Before long, of course, this little dustup spawned The  Boston

Antiquarian Scribe Font - Image 18

Antiquarian Scribe  Font

Antiquarian Scribe is modeled after the neat, oblique hand-lettering displayed 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  an