Twenties nostalgic oldstyle revival supervised by F.H. Pierpont at Monotype with echoes of Jenson, Caslon, and Goudy.

Simple yet decorative serif stroked font . Use for titles, signage, captions etc. Highly legible at children books.

An ornate roundhand with looped ascenders and strongly flourished capitals prepared at Photon for their phototypesetters about 1960.

A practical font family for all your needs: headlines, body text, signage etc. High legibility at small sizes.

A rough hand drawn playful serif that would be good at larger than normal text use, or headlines.

Sets of Art Deco capitals shot full of holes for display effect by by J. Looney at VGC.

Based on chalk board handwriting at one of my favourite drinking establishments, Charley Style is funky, and clean.

A stencil font you won't find anywhere else of limited glyph characters at the rock bottom price. Enjoy!

Barricade JNL is Jeff Levine's take on an old favorite that's been around since at least the 1940s.

PragmataFlash is the version of Pragmata to use in Macromedia Flash at 9, 11 and 12 point size.

A set of chessmen and related symbols. Another version from Linotype can be found at Linotype Game Pi. "

Patented in 1867, this face adds peaks and shadows to the Egyptian form so popular at the time.

Mousedings contains numerous fine web symbols and is best used at 8 pt size. Check out Mouse, too!

Dem Bones is a bit of fun-display alphabet (capitals), numbers and punctuation assembled out of the sort of knobbly ended bones that dogs used to gnaw on in all the best childrens cartoons and comics. Thing Gnasher and Gnipper or Spike and Tyke. Dem Bones is particularly apt at Halloween, but can introduce some un at any time of the year...

William Caslon established the first major English typefoundry, re-creating earlier Dutch designs with excellent craftsmanship, color and rhythm. Caslon Old Face is one of many faithful revivals; the original matrices (from many hands; the lowercase of the 48 point is Moxon’s 1669 Great Canon) survive at Stephenson Blake. George Ostrochulski adapted this design for photocomposition at Mergenthaler with skill and understanding.

At text size, Brown is a classic grotesque, distinguished by its semi-condensed proportions—especially in the capitals, which harmonize well with the lining figures—and an exceptional clarity in certain high-resolution media, such as offset printing, achieved by micro-detailing. At display size, the detailing provides the otherwise austere forms of the neo-grotesque with a subtle wealth of visual interest.

Designed for an age of increased nuance and inclusivity, Pluot defies conventional classification. With an upper half inspired by sans-serif tendencies and a serif-influenced lower half, Pluot is a geometric semi-serif (or semi-sans). It is, at once, fresh and exciting, while also completely at home in any setting. Pluot is your elegant workhorse for a new era.

This font started life in 1893 at the Boston Type Foundry, but was also cast at the Central Type Foundry. Both were members of the ATF combine formed in 1892. Like so many interesting fonts of its day, it was issued without a lowercase, limiting its use to display headlines. Sometime in the early 1990s, we designed a lowercase to go with it.

The design of Concert Series JNL is based on hand-lettering for a 1930s-era WPA (Works Progress Administration) poster for the Federal Music Project of New York City’s symphony concerts. Held every Sunday at the Theater of Music [located at 254 West 54th Street], the admission in those Depression-era days was 25 cents and 60 cents, with all seats reserved.