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Authentic 30s style art deco typeface.

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The vintage sheet music for "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" yielded another bit of Art Deco-era lettering perfect for developing into a digital font. This time it wasn't the song title, but rather the name of the show it was from serving as the type inspiration - the Cotton Club's 1931 revue "Rhythm-Mania". Harlem's Cotton Club was an "exclusive, whites only" club; both famous for its talent and shows, yet infamous for hiring black acts but not allowing black patronage. On the sheet music, the show title was hand lettered in a bold, slightly stylized fashion which became the basis for Rhythmic Revue JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.

Bandung is home to numerous examples of Dutch colonial architecture, most notably the tropical Art Deco architectural style. This typeface was adapted from the finest Art Deco landmarks and signage in Bandung, Indonesia and strongly added native elements of traditional Art Deco typefaces style. The main character is an example of a harmonious mixture between West and East architectural styles, repackaged into the Art Deco type design. With two different styles, it comes as regular and Deco styles, the regular style is constructed with all caps setting, with some different characters between uppercase and lowercase. The Deco style uses more stripes in the right shapes, it was naturally inspired with the most common art deco typefaces. The additional Opentype Features loaded in this typeface; some stylistic alternates, accessible catchwords in the discretionary ligatures, and the art deco ornaments, This typeface is highly usable with large scaling size and will fit with posters, movie titles, and signage designs.

Introducing our Art Deco Font: a classic yet modern and elegant typeface that adds a touch of sophistication to your logo designs. Inspired by the iconic Art Deco movement, this versatile font is perfect for creating sleek and stylish editorial layouts. It's clean lines and geometric shapes bring a sense of timeless beauty to any project. Whether you're designing a magazine, website, or branding materials, our Art Deco Font Editorial will elevate your work to new levels of elegance and professionalism. Embrace the allure of Art Deco and make a bold statement with our captivating font.

This narrow neoclassical font is based upon Schelter & Giesecke’s Schmale Mediäval which was originally released in 1840. By typing [alt] + [shift] + p respectively [alt] + p you have access to the framing elements as seen on the posters.

A great script typeface of Art Nouveau

a naive family of art deco inspiration

a naive art deco decorative caps font

a naive typeface from Art Deco ages

Shadowland was a magazine dedicated to the arts, and was published from 1919 through 1923. The lettering for its masthead was hand lettered in a then-contemporary Art Nouveau style. Although the photoplay (movies) was just an incremental part of the magazine’s overview of the arts, the digital version of the type design has been named Cinema Nouveau JNL, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The Federal Art Project of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) employed artists to create posters for various subjects including health, tourism, safety, patriotism, theater and the arts during the Great Depression years of the 1930s on through the early 1940s. One health-related poster had the word “against” in a thin Art Deco monoline which served as the basis for Wellness JNL, which is available in regular and oblique versions.

Based on a few examples of an Art Nouveau-inspired wood type, Nouveau Sans JNL has an interesting mix of angles, curves and general letter shapes that are reminiscent of the period preceding the Art Deco streamline movement.

Introducing a new graffiti Pylox Street Inspired from street art born Pylox Street Suitable for many design project, branding, packaging, logo, wall art, headline, template, banner, poster, and many more projects. These include all caps, punctuation, and numerals.

Beaumaris is a serif typeface named after a nice bay area in Australia which I would like to visit one day. A modern bold serif with an art deco touch, this font is great choice for fashion brands, jewellery and magazine headlines. It contains stylistic alternates, discretional and standard ligatures, small caps and fractions (see image gallery for details). The character set covers all Latin accented characters (including Schwa) and Russian cyrillic alphabet. For additional customization please message me at: contact@rolandhuse.com Thank you & I hope you like this font!

What has become a rite of passage at baseball games got its start in 1908 when lyricist Jack Norworth and music composer Albert Von Tilzer wrote "Take Me Out to the Ball-Game" (which was published by Von Tilzer's York Music Company). The Art Nouveau hand lettered title on the cover of the sheet music was eccentric and attractive enough to warrant being turned into a digital type face, and in honor of its namesake song is called Ball Game JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.

Bonsai Paufo are a collection of dingbats fonts inspired in the ancient art of Bonsai. A beautiful work with organic forms and sensibility with the taste of the vegetal world, by Chyrllene K, who brings you with an amazing extra gift: Buying the family pack (two fonts) you get a special free bonus: the Victorian Advertising EPS PACK 2 with ten beautiful artworks (in eps) inspired in the Victorian ages magazine advertisings (see the banners). See all the glyphs from BonsaiPaufo in the pdf brochures at the gallery section.

String Theory has been a 10+ year project in the making which originated from a type workshop in Graduate School at Otis College of Art & Design. The workshop was hosted by Dutch designer Hansje Van Halem, and we were tasked to play with string to create letterforms. Thus String Theory was born, and slowly migrated from yarn, to an illustrator file, to what it is today as a type family. Each glyph has it’s own custom string set up, along with each weight. Experimental in nature, edgy, with subliminal angst and grittiness.

A comprehensive set of initials (usually referred to as Uncials, Lombardic Initials, or Lombards) of the French variety, adapted from Bergling, J.M. (1918), Art Alphabets and Lettering (Second Edition), Chicago: Blakely-Oswald Printing Company. The font contains over one hundred glyphs, including character outlines for two-color layering. Suitable to accompany most Gothic (especially Textura and Rotunda) and many Roman typefaces, or to be displayed as drop caps or in full titles and headings. Specimen, detailed character map, OpenType features, and font samples available at Alter Littera’s The Initials “Bergling A” Font Page.

Classike is a high contrast squarish display typeface. Inspired by the Art Déco period from a modern perspective. Refined and elegant yet with a mechanical vibe, it is ideal for pairing with any functional font, it works especially well with Geogrotesque, from which it inherited its proportions and soul. Classike adds an exclusive touch and helps enrich your graphic voice. A Variable Font version is included with the family or as a separate style. Read some thoughts about the design process at the Emtype's blog. For more details see the PDF.

Wavelength is a unique sans serif family of five weights and italics. For all of it's unusual detailing and arc-shaped strokes, this typeface is a solid workhorse, and is highly legible at all sizes. It's an excellent starting point for a unique logotype or offbeat headline, and is able to cross genres and styles because of its essential letterform simplicity. Wavelength is contemporary, but with a nod to 1930s art deco, streamline, and even 1990s tech futurism. It's great all-arounder that works well with shadows, outlines, extrusions added within vector editing programs.

Too often, familiarity in type design can fool us into mislabeling similar styles of lettering. The Art Deco years provided many variations of the thick-and-thin alphabet, and we tend to lump all of them together as being "a version of Broadway", as this is the most popular of the genre. However, if one looks closely at each design, they will see variations of line thickness, angles and even individual character design. One such variation is Stagehand JNL, based on a set of wood type and now presented in digital form.

Dalglish is a serif family with clean curves that gives the typeface a refined touch that give any headline an elegant appearance, with both modern and vintage curves. Dalglish represents luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress. Dalglish is inspired by the art deco design style and poster design at France in the 19th Century. Dalglish has pretty alternatives glyphs choice in the pack as well. Beside those alternatives, the pack also includes three different stylistic alternatives which are Regular, Italic, Bold annd multilingual support.

Accolades C and C2 share the same main ornaments but differ in finishing. Accolades C uses pearls and diamonds, C2 does not. Accolades CX is an additional fitting set of borders. All fonts are available in two variations. A clean one and a distressed, grungy version (old). The layout samples from the PDF-specimen are included in the font packages and stored in InDesign CS3 format. Mostly all of the featured fonts of the specimen are available on MyFonts, too. Have a look at Secca Art Std, Secca Saloon Std, Gracia, Battista and Prillwitz.

Delaguerra is based on a lettering style originating in the California Arts & Crafts period commonly associated with 'Mission Style'. It is still in common usage in signage at historical sites in California. This version is a sort of idealized hybrid of several different variations on the style from samples we were sent by a customer who wanted to use the font in a set of invitations. It features a basic character set on the lower case and then relief initial versions of the same characters for the upper case.

While Bellas Artes, Koziupa and Paul's "other" look at intertwined classicism in calligraphy, can be compared to the repeated patterns of standardized dance steps, Tanguera is more like dancers engaged in a free form of the classic Argentine dance. Whether the embrace is open or closed, the walk parallel or crossed, it is still classical tango, with leader and follower blending together, sometimes in relaxed softness, sometimes in alert sharpness, yet never losing the clearest of communication. Tanguera provides essential rhythm to any packaging design that calls for clean and classical personalization.

Mountain is a digital revival and extension of Teutonia, an old metal typeface released by the Roos & Junge type foundry (Offenbach am Main, Germany) in 1902. Teutonia’s design was popular during both the Art Nouveau and the Constructivist eras, where similar letterforms could be seen as far away as the Soviet Union. Although it slipped under the radar during the 1930s and 40s, this style feels extremely contemporary today. Mountain’s underlying geometric feeling is reminiscent of pixels and grids, suiting it for application with music and art, as well as history. Yet this typeface is not as static as it seems at first glance; playful diagonals—like those seen on the capitals D, L, P, and W—enliven the otherwise stern horizontal and vertical motion. Teutonia was a simple upper and lowercase display type. Mountain adds upon these by adding small caps and obliqued italic companions, rounding out this typographic toolkit.

Das Riese, a type specimen by the most productive Brazilian type foundry, Intellecta Design, is a mix of victorian and art deco influences. A beautiful display type for tiling with uppercases only. It's shadows and volumes refer to pre-modern age whereas its surface to last century 20's. This heavy sans serif strokes characters have a particular appearance, a parallel line texture that reminds Bifur, typeface created in 1929 by A. M. Cassandre. The sideways absence of volume at some leaning letters right side in addition to the patchy darkness of shadows support its handmade design. A type full of historical references designed to small titles printed in big sizes. It's impossible not to think about posters when you look at Das Riese strong face. - (source Slanted Magazine #8)

Bougainville was inspired by many of my favorites and has been on the drawing board in excess of ten years. Only this year I decided to expand the original 1994 design to include other weight variants. The quirky Binner Gothic-inspired high axis and its funky g, rounded e, angled stroke endings together with the influence of contemporary designs such as Officina Sans, Din Mittelschrift and MetaPlus, Bougainville exhibits a similar flavor and compactness to Bodega Sans. This typeface family has been named in honor of the renowned eighteen-century French mathematician and explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville to whom we owe the naming of South Sea Islands and colorful tropical flora he discovered along his journey. Bougainville makes for effective headings at any size and is equally readable at semi-display sizes.

The font family Univers is one of the greatest typographic achievements of the second half of the 20th century. The family has the advantage of having a variety of weights and styles, which, even when combined, give an impression of steadiness and homogeneity. The clear, objective forms of Univers make this a legible font suitable for almost any typographic need. In 1954 the French type foundry Deberny & Peignot wanted to add a linear sans serif type in several weights to the range of the Lumitype fonts. Adrian Frutiger, the foundry’s art director, suggested refraining from adapting an existing alphabet. He wanted to instead make a new font that would, above all, be suitable for the typesetting of longer texts — quite an exciting challenge for a sans-serif font at that time. Starting with his old sketches from his student days at the School for the Applied Arts in Zurich, he created the Univers type family. In 1957, the family was released by Deberny & Peignot, and afterwards, it was produced by Linotype. The Deberny & Peignot type library was acquired in 1972 by Haas, and the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei (Haas Type Foundry) was folded into the D. Stempel AG/Linotype collection in 1985/1989.

“Human Syndicate” is a unique and elegant graffiti font. This font is equipped with uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuation, and multilingual support. Very suitable for wall art, urban street art, logos, banners, branding, posters, stickers, Christmas, Halloween, comics, and others.

digitization of a classic art nouveau era font

an Arts and Crafts Movement lettering style font

a round sans serif with optical art effects

Introducing Manye – Blackletter Font A Unique Display Typeface Manye stands out as a captivating Blackletter Font, adding a touch of distinctiveness to your display and design requirements. Distinctive Elegance Manye’s design exudes a distinctive elegance, making it the perfect choice for attention-grabbing displays. Versatile for Creative Projects Beyond its elegant design, Manye’s versatility shines, allowing it to seamlessly complement a wide range of creative endeavors. Captivating and Memorable Manye ensures that your content is not only captivating but also memorable, leaving a lasting and distinctive impression. In Conclusion To sum it up, Manye – Blackletter Font is the ideal choice for display and unique design needs in the world of typography. Its distinctive elegance and versatility make it a great fit for a variety of creative projects. Manye captivates your audience, leaving them with a memorable and distinctive experience, ensuring accessibility to a broad readership.

Introducing Desmo Reversed Contrast Slab Serif Font Unique Design Meet Desmo Reversed Contrast Slab Serif Font. Its reversed contrast sets it apart. Thick horizontal lines and thin verticals create a striking look. This design choice grabs attention, perfect for impactful displays Versatile Display Font Desmo shines in display settings. Whether for headlines, posters, or advertising, it stands out. Its bold features ensure readability from a distance. Moreover, its unique style makes every design engaging. Engaging Typography Desmo’s typography is designed to captivate. Its slab serifs add a touch of elegance. The font’s balanced spacing ensures clarity in every word. Therefore, it’s ideal for brands aiming to make a statement. Accessibility and Ease of Use This font is accessible to a wide range of users. Its simplicity avoids complex vocabulary. Easy to install and use, Desmo suits various design projects. Additionally, its compatibility with multiple software enhances its versatility.

Introducing BunChalk Typeface Here is new product, It's called Bun Chalk. BunChalk inspired by many lettering on menuboard chalk cafe and bistro, and it's specially designed for the resto who use chalk concept,menuboard Chalk up your brand with our one-of-a-kind chalk concept! Leave your mark and get noticed with custom branded chalk that makes a statement. Whether you're a hip cafe, a stylish boutique, or a savvy startup, our branding chalk is the perfect way to spread the word about your business. Write inspirational quotes, menu specials, sales announcements, or just your logo all over your windows and sidewalks. Made from handmade quality chalk texture that goes on clean and texture typeface, it's ideal for businesses who want to grab attention and stand out from the crowd. Let potential customers know you're there with playful, eye-catching branded chalk that gets your name seen.

Winner Sans™ and Winner™—Classic athletic aesthetics, finally as a versatile contemporary super family. Just when you thought there was nothing left to add to the classic sports design, we lifted it to a whole new level. Whatever you want to set in whatever space, with seven weights in seven widths both with or without serifs, you’ll definitely find the right proportions for it! Winner Sans supports not only most Latin-based languages but also Greek. Its extensive character set also contains currency signs, arrows, as well as a wide range of numerals from small figures to Roman numerals. Furthermore, its sophisticated OpenType layout features give you access to alternative letter shapes, fractions, tabular figures, and contextual alternates. With more than 24,000 glyphs in 49 fonts, Winner Sans leaves nothing to be desired. Grab Condensed Regular for free and give it a spin! (Stadium illustrations by Oskar Strauß)

STF Eclectic Medley is the budget-concious answer to your dingbat blues! This "best of" collection from the Eclectic One, Two and Three fonts is the ultimate grab-bag dingbat resource. Every slot in the font is filled (over 200 characters!), and includes the form-making glyphs from Eclectic Three. The Eclectic family is legendary, with a cult-like following among the inititated. You'll find yourself using Eclectic Medley almost daily to add spice to your otherwise san-serif typographic existence. This font is essentially a soap opera of typographic image elements, created for projects when I couldn't find the "thingbat" I needed. Almost more of a collection of illustrations, there are many characters which connect to form patterns, and of course it's like a "small neutral European country" army knife for the creative community. Available in Mac and PC formats. License it today!