Morris Fuller Benton, the principal designer of the American Type Founders, designed Mariage in 1901. Mariage, which has been sold under a plethora of different names during the last century, is a blackletter typeface belonging to the Old English category. The term blackletter refers to typefaces that stem out of the historical printing traditions of northern Europe. These letters, called gebrochene Schriften, or "broken type" in German, are normally elaborately bent and distorted. Their forms often print large amounts of ink upon the page, creating text that leaves a heavy, black impression. The Old English style is a subset of blackletter type that dates back to 1498, when Wynken de Worde introduced textura style printing to England. Continental printers had been printing with textura style letters since Gutenberg's invention of the printing press fifty years earlier. Italian printers stopped using them around 1470. For northern Europeans, texturas remained the most popular form of typeface design until the invention of the fraktur style in Nuremberg. Mariage is heavily classicized sort of Old English type. During the Victorian era, designers admired the Middle Ages for its chivalric, community-based values and its pre-industrial lifestyle. Yet they also found the basic medieval textura letterform too difficult to read by present standards. They desired to modernize this old style. Today, this sort of update is often referred to not as "modernization" but as classicism. Benton's design for ATF builds upon earlier Victorian classicist interpretations of Old English/textura letters. For an example of what these Victorian designs looked like, check out the popular 1990 revival of the genre, Old English . Old English style types often appear drastically different from other blackletters. For contrast, compare Mariage to a classical German fraktur design, Fette Fraktur , a schwabacher style face, or the popular early 20th Century calligraphic gothic from Linotype, Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch . Especially in the United States, classicist Old English typefaces are thought to espouse tradition and journalistic integrity. These features, together with the inherent, complex beauty of Mariage's forms, make this typeface a perfect choice for certificates, awards, and newsletter mastheads.

Towards the end of the 1400s, in Lyon (France), was living Barthélémy Buyer, descendant of a rich family of merchants. In the end of 1472, he engaged a typographist from Liège (Belgium): Guillaume Le Roy. The first book stemming from their print shop was the Compendium breve ( by Pope Innocent III.) using Blackletter “textura”. Many books followed, most often illustrated with wood carving. In 1483, to print a French translated “Eneide”, they used a venetian “Rotunda” blackletter. Our font was inspired by this “Rotunda” set, with historical forms and ligatures enriched with accented letters and other characters not existing in the original.

Helttox is a casual hand brush script so it has a nice texture and flow. Helttox has many alternatives to make it look like real handwriting; four sets of lowercase and two sets of uppercase. suitable for design projects; logos, branding, posters, quotes, beautiful wedding invitations, beautiful stationery art, eye-catching social media posts, and cute greeting cards and other designs. It is unique, very natural and attractive

Check out other members of the Pocket family: Pocket and Pocket Swash This hand drawn serif font is perfect for giving a fun touch to your projects. It combines a handmade look and rough texture with classic serif forms. It has support for most western and central European languages, and has alternates for most letterforms accessible through Opentype features, allowing for variations that make it look authentically hand-drawn.

Black Borough is brush font, hand-painted with extra attention to quick-strokes and dry textures. Very cool for logos, name tag, handwritten quotes, product packaging, merchandise, social media & greeting cards. And very easy to make design t-shirts and other products. Very save time in making the design of a product. It contains a full set of lower & uppercase letters, a large range of punctuation, numerals, and multilingual support.

Introducing a vintage label font named Junk Food. This strong typeface is perfect for lettering on vintage style posters, t-shirts, greeting cards, logo etc. This font family contains 6 fonts including effects fonts: Regular, Shadow, Shadow FX, Texture, Texture FX, Shadow And Texture.

Borders, embellishments, spot illustrations and a miscellany of other dingbats are gathered in Print Art JNL as another collective of nostalgic imagery for print and web projects.

Beauty Sabila Script are beautiful and modern fonts. Looks amazing on wedding invitations, thank you cards, mothers day card, quotes, greeting cards, logos, business cards and any other design. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all glyphs and swashes with ease! The font includes OpenType features with alternative styles, ligatures, and multiple language support.

Remnant Sorts JNL is an assortment of twenty-six various images. Pointing hands, price tags, vintage stencil designs and other miscellany comprise the choices gathered in this font.

Edil Script is a hand-drawn connected script with the use of a Medium Point Calligraphy Pen on a textured paper. This typeface has 380+ glyphs with great legibility and it is available in TrueType Font. Edil Script is a tribute to my father who taught me how to draw at a very young age and the person behind my passion to draw.

Get inspired by the world of painting with unique Daub Paint SVG raster font. This font is a real work of art, where each letter is created from strokes of paint, creating a bewitching color. Features: - Ability to adapt letters to other languages - Transparency & Texture - Kerning IMPORTANT: - Check the glyphs in the font before buying! - SVG fonts contain raster letters. - Check it www.colorfonts.wtf - Try a FREE DEMO version before buying. ld.luxfont@gmail.com

Lesthone is a display font that seamlessly merges vintage aesthetics with modern elegance. The rounded shapes of Lesthone contribute to its friendly looks. Each letter has its own personality, and this contributes to the font's handcrafted appeal. On the other hand, the most standout characteristic of Lesthone is its slightly rough texture that add a rustic charm. This font includes beautiful ornaments as a bonus. Lesthone fits in headlines, logos, branding materials, and many more.

Stepon is a versatile display font that offers a plethora of creative possibilities. This font is characterized by its bold, modern, and unique design, making it an excellent choice for a wide range of projects. The distinctive feature of Stepon is its versatility, with six different variations that include inline, outline, texture, and rough styles. Each variation stands strong on its own and can be easily combined with others, allowing you to unleash your creativity in various ways. Whether you're working on a logo, branding materials, invitations, packaging, posters, headlines, business collateral, greeting cards, magazines, films, or any other design project, Stepon has got you covered.

Hello! Presenting a vintage dark font "Chimera Tail". It's a wide textured typeface with automatically replaceable initial and final extended characters. Also a clean version without texture is included.

Hollow textured font.

Wedding Regular was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for ATF and released as Wedding Text in 1901. It is a lighter version of his ENGRAVER'S OLD ENGLISH of the same period. Wedding Regular is based on the Textura style of blackletter that continued in popularity in England into the 16th century, long after the Dutch, French and Italians had moved to a Roman model that expressed the Renaissance humanism of the period. Wedding Headline is a still lighter version of the regular text face, suitable for setting larger sizes while still preserving the delicacy of the decorative hairlines. Textura continues in use in England and the United States for newspaper mastheads, gift shop signs, wedding invitations and programs and other applications where a feeling of tradition is desired. I recently saw an 1980ish photo of a “Tubby Isaac” sign in London using textura. I believe Benton’s design captures that feeling without being heavy-handed and still remaining quite readable for eyes accustomed to Roman lettering. Both Wedding Regular and Wedding Headline convey a comfortable familiarity. These two fonts may be purchased together at an attractive discount or they may be purchased separately. The full character set may be found in the pdf file that you can download from the gallery section. The two monks (alt-0172 and alt-0177) are from a set of sixteenth century decorative initial letters by Gering and Renbolt. Please note that there are two different eszetts, the blackletter style at alt-0126 and the antiqua style at the alt-0223.

Bellis is a hand painted brush font. Painted on absorbent paper with a chinese brush to make the ink spreading texture. The original texture was a little bit messy but we translated into a more clean textured font. Bellis is a very easy to read brush font and it can be used for posters, magazines or graphic artworks.

Burford Rustic is the weathered and textured alternative to the Burford Family. It works the same way as Burford as a layer-based font family, but with some style variations and new layering options. It includes 20 font files, starting with four texture variations from Black, Bold, Light to Ultralight. It also includes and Outline and two Inline Weights. Additionally it offers three line weights (light, medium and bold) for top layering options. There are two extruded fonts and two drop shadow fonts, all either in a solo version and set with Burford Rustic Black for users not using Opentype programs. For users that have Opentype programs, such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft Publisher and Quark, each font also comes with a set of Stylistic Alternatives for letters A C E F G H P Q R. There are two versions of each letter, and by using contextual alternatives, no two letters next to each other will be the same. Burford Rustic Basic package is created for users who don’t have access to programs with Opentype capabilities and are unable to use the layering effect. Burford Rustic can still be a powerful tool as each font can also be used on it’s own. It includes every font file not needed for the layering effect. The Burford Rustic Ornaments uses all basic keyboard characters - around 100 total elements per set. They are designed to go specifically with Burford Rustic and use the same textured edge. The set includes: banners, borders, corners, arrows, line breaks, catchwords, anchors and many more!

Pure and natural hand drawn typeface, it's Holistic font! Comes with two casual yet delicate style (script and sans), then wrap in three different look (solid, textured and rough). Holistic Script includes alternative characters, you can play with it to get a bit messy but still pretty. Have fun with these fonts and make a lovely combination for logos, displays, posters and other project that needs natural handwritten work. All in one package to get an organic feeling.

Unique family of color realistic fonts Frudis. Trick is to have two fonts - bold and thin. Each one can serve individually, but the real magic begins when you stack them in different colors, creating unique play of textures and colors. Features: - Duo Font - Ability to adapt letters to other languages - Kerning IMPORTANT: - Check the glyphs in the font before buying! - SVG fonts contain raster letters. - Check it www.colorfonts.wtf - Try a FREE DEMO version before buying. ld.luxfont@gmail.com