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American Scribe Font - Image 2

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

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Naive Deco Sans Font

Naïve Deco Sans is a layered sans serif handwritten font designed by Fanny Coulez and Julien Saurin in Paris. Our goal was to draw a font with finely irregular lines that give a human and whimsical feeling. It is available

Rephone Font - Image 5

Rephone Font

Rephone is a script font designed and published by Majestype. Published by MajestypeDownload Rephone

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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

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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

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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 10

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

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Jedd Font

Jedd is an authentic western wood type font designed to give you that vintage letterpress look. Published by Kirby MatherneDownload Jedd

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Broadsheet Font

Broadsheet simulates old newspaper text from the 1700s, chiefly from two specimens: an original copy of The New-England Weekly Journal, published in Boston on April 8, 1728, and a commemorative reprint of the Massachusetts Sun, published in Worcester, Mass., on

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Lamar Pen Font

Lamar Pen gets its name from Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, whose penmanship it’s modeled after. Lamar, born in Georgia in 1798, migrated in 1835 to Texas, where he supported—and the following year fought for—the then-Mexican province’s independence. He stuck around, too,

Old Man Eloquent Font - Image 17

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 - Image 18

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