In researching historic decorative material offered by Lanston Monotype as well as other metal foundries such as Barnhart Brothers and Spindler, there were occasionally ornaments that defied description. Perhaps it was a Victorian sense of humor or someone really thought these were a good idea or perhaps popular taste has just changed so much over the last hundred years, or our forbearers were completely insane. In any case, LTC is somewhat proud to present a collection of the most bizarre, disturbing and baffling printers ornaments we could find. Along with mutant fowl-children and frolicsome amphibians, there are also Masonic and other secret fraternal symbols that may not be creepy to everyone, but just enough to be moderately disturbing.

19th Century American Initials is a collection of beautiful Art Deco letters surrounded by swelling, sinuous, stylized natural forms of flowers, scrolls, spirals, rosettes, waves, and rain drops. This curvy artistic font Includes one set of A-Z ornamental initials conveniently assigned to both the upper and lower case alphabet characters. Perfect for starting off the beginning of paragraphs in artistic publications, storybooks, fairy tales, and texts conveying the feel of the Art Deco period.

Nevaeh Scratch is a stylized version of the font Nevaeh. The design has been inspired by the paper cut effect. Nevaeh Scratch has a unique design with rough and irregular linings yet, a perfect font. The font has a simple and minimalist factor with all main characters, the font is specially made for those who are in the printing and branding fields. Carefully engraved and stenciled to deliver clean cuts and design.

Each iteration of Horizona is carefully designed to maintain consistency and the aesthetic integrity of this font. Users can be sure that any symbol they use, and in whatever language, the typeface's whimsical nature will shine through to provide a polished and stylized finish to their product. From branding to signage, editorial to advertising, or even for personal use, Horizona makes a statement in a huge variety of languages, letters, symbols, and numbers. www.typethis.studio

Beehive is an Art Deco inspired display typeface with a unique slant, each word fits below one another neatly, which is perfect for creating stylised titling and logos. Beehive is made to look like a vintage, art deco styled typeface, the font is ideal for branding, posters, band artwork or album covers and endless other uses. Great for titling or medium sized text, made to be as big as possible because of the thin lines.

This is a stylized sans serif font family that is very high-waisted and sleek. The stroke is only slightly modulated. The letterforms are higher, with a more open aperture, and sprinkled with breaks to add light and sparkle. This an attempt at a readable sans serif for text. It has many OpenType features and 465 characters per font: Caps, lower case, small caps, old style figures, numerators, denominators, accents characters and so on.

Stylized as a virus, this hand crafted label typeface is named Roots. This font contains capital and small characters. All capital characters have alternates for ending of words. Roots has two styles: Original and Simple. The simple style looks clean and bold and is a perfect support of your design and combines will with the eccentric Original style. Both styles have numbers, punctuation and multilingual characters. You can see all available characters on the preview.

Branch font with Cyrillic support is perfect for branding, Slavic motives, Russian menu design and many more Font includes a full set of gorgeous uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, a large selection of punctuation. You can use this font for design logos, quotes prints on t-shirts and other. Ethnic serif font. Authentic slavic stylized alphabet bold symbols. Creative minimal latin character set. Please NOTE - Mock ups and photo are NOT included.

A classic font design remastered by the type foundry Intellecta Design, from the extra-rare Bruce's New York typefoundry from 1882. Distressed and antique, use this font in display purposes for a stylized type design. Great display face for headers and antique-like projects. Contains a limited amount of letter designs. Using the "0" and "2" keys you get two different fleurons to start words. Use "1" or "3" keys to close words with fleurons.

Leronine is an elegant, modern and contrast sans-serif font. It includes upright and Oblique style. This is perfect for any project, it is contrasted, modern and easy to read. With it, you can create logos, use in advertising, packaging, book covers and magazines, headings, descriptions and much more. Leronine includes stylistic alternates and ligature. with them, you can change the style of your project and add personality to it and make it more stylized.

Extatica is an eclectic geometric display sans-serif typeface with narrow capitals. It comes in 8 weights with corresponding italics, enriched with several stylistic alternates and OpenType features. The glyph set includes all European Latin-based languages, as well as major languages that use Cyrillic script. Despite being created as a display font family, Extatica also works well in small text sizes, which makes it perfect for stylized captions and subhead paragraphs.

Noah’s Ark was designed to combine it with the bestiary animal series I designed. A simple font, well harmonized with the highly synthesized designs of animals and insects. So, it seemed natural to use them for posters. Noah's Ark is a stylized font with a constant stroke, which stands between writing and the typeface. Its design is inspired by the fonts used in the 1940s. It is made up of linked letters, excluding numbers and other signs.

Antikka draws some inspiration from the style of the Art Deco movement of the 1920s and 30s. The vision behind making Antikka was to revitalize the style of this bygone era -- making it funky and relevant to our 21st century times. Antikka is a minimal font, clear and geometric, yet highly stylized. Comfortable in a business setting - or just about anywhere. Antikka arrives as the business casual of fonts - giving it a wide range of use.

BRIGNELL BIG is a two font family designed by Ian Brignell. Bold and honest, it approaches like a dare: Go Big no regrets. A bold, personable sans serif headline font characterized by a stylized and geometric structure. Creatively, Brignell Big was born in 2011 and was inspired by lettering designs Ian was working on for CO Bigelow packaging that harkened back to early 20th century modern sans serifs. Recommended for headline use especially on packaging. Extended Latin set.

Calisso is meant to set a new standard. Calisso is a complete redevelopment of the Latin alphabet, where every stroke in each letter was given a new geometry - a complete reformulation of these most atomic components. The challenge of designing such a highly stylized font is to maintain legibility. The Calisso Standard steps up to that challenge and surpasses it. The Calisso Standard is classy, contemporary, and cosmopolitian. For a unique, fresh look - use the Calisso Standard.

Coin Ding Dong pixel Font inspired from 8 bit game with beautiful stylized pixelized, game machine really reminds me of my childhood, with coins you can play it, in my country machine games are called "dingdong", inspired me to create this pixel font name. Really Beautiful font to covering your Project, like For Game Names, Poster art, Magazine, Branding, Logos, and more your project design. - Unique glyphs - Multilingual Characters - UPPERCASE - Lowercase - Numeric - Symbol - Punctuation Character - PUA encoded inumoccatype

“Sandigan" is an rustic, organic, sturdy and expressive display typeface that is inspired by the characteristic and vibes of male filipinos. Sandigan also means foundation in english. This typeface is developed with the intention to be used in display medias to maximize the stylized shapes of each character. This typeface is best used when you want to express elegance, class and sophistication in your designs. *This font includes letters, numbers, multi-language, and all essential marks needed.

Kumo Sans is a clear and comprehensible font stylized to mimic marker pen handwriting. The idea was to interpret swift and negligent hand movement in a distinct and easy to read familiar glyph silhouette. Family comes in three weights and italic slant option. Shadow version with outline and shadow effect is perfect for short catchy phrases, brand names and headlines use. Font contains Latin diacritics, Hebrew cursive writing, Bitcoin, Indian Rupee, New Israeli Shekel symbols, fractions etc.

Stonecrop is a font unified by bold, imposing lines as well as its use of rounded rectangles as the central stylistic shape. Stonecrop loosely conforms to the monospaced font style, with near-equal widths for all letters and numbers (but not all symbols/punctuation), however it does incorporate kerning for all types of glyphs where appropriate to aid in legibility. A perfect font for usages that demand consistency and precision, while still maintaining a quirky and stylized handwritten effect.

Mandarin font first appeared with the Type Founders of Chicago and is an interpretation of artistically drawn Asian brush calligraphy. The stylized Asian atmosphere is not created only by the forms of the figures but also by the very name of the typeface. A mandarin was a high official of the ancient Chinese empire. Alphabets like Mandarin font are often used for the menus, signs and advertisements of Asian restaurants as well as for businesses with Asian products.

Periodical JNL is based on one the many stylized titles from the cover of the 1920s Spanish magazine "Nuevo Mundo" (New World). Each cover displayed a beautiful piece of period artwork along with the magazine's name in different lettering styles of the time (Art Nouveau and early Art Deco). The original design features an "engraved" look and now has an oblique counterpart. Also available are solid versions (without the inside lines) in both regular and oblique styles.

MUGUET is a reinvention of the Skin typeface designed by Max Prive in 2016. MUGUET features reimagined capital letters and improved kerning. It’s ultra clean, ultra minimalist with a hint of retro aesthetics.

Freckle Face Pro draws its inspiration from Pillbury's “Funny Face” drink mix packages. I loved these drink mixes when I was a kid, not only because of the great flavors, but also the fun packaging. Who knew the love affair would renew itself later by finding myself loving the lettering too! An rough-hewn appearance, frolicking baseline, and fun but legible letterforms makes this font a real crown pleaser. The SmallCaps and extensive figure sets give Freckle Face Pro a more diverse design voice, ranging from lightly comic to borderline insane. Opentype features include: - SmallCaps. - Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions. - Tabular, Proportional, and Oldstyle figure sets (along with SmallCaps versions of the figures). - Stylistic Alternates for Caps to SmallCaps conversion.

Speedy Space Goat Oddity is the font with really interesting mood. My purpose was to transfer freedom, immediacy, and a bit of insanity with it. I've painted it with self-made paint and brush in a trippy environment. You can use Speedy Space Goat Oddity almost everywhere (not for body text). It's great for posters, clothes design, package design, music album covers. Also, with the right approach, you can use it as horror font. Speedy Space Goat Oddity Features: Pant texture 2 ligatures for tt and ff 14 contextual alternates for most common double letters Carefully tuned kerning (preview above doesn't show it for some reason) If you have some issues or questions, please let me know: lhfonts@gmail.com Hope you'll enjoy using Speedy Space Goat Oddity!