A tessellation is a shape that can be used to completely fill the plane—simple examples are isosceles triangles, squares, and hexagons. Tessellation patterns are eye-catching and visually appealing, which is the reason that they have long been popular in a variety of decorative situations. These Tessie fonts have two family members, a solid style that must have different colors when used and an outline style. They can be used separately or they can be used in layers with the outline style on top of the solid style. For rows to align properly, leading must be the same as point size. Shapes that tessellate and also resemble real-world objects are often called Escher-like tessellations. This typeface contains Escher-like tessellations of birds. A number of years ago I decided to see how many of the 28 Heesch types of tessellations I could use to make birds standing on the backs of other birds. I found standing bird patterns for all 17 of the types that had either translated or glided edges. The TessieStandingBirds typefaces contain the standing-bird shapes that I discovered. At first glance they seem to be quite similar, but small differences matter in how they fit together. Most of the patterns require more than one character. The sample file here shows how pieces fit together to give tessellating patterns. (Earlier tessellation fonts from IngrimayneType, the TessieDingies fonts, lack a black or filled version so cannot do colored patterns.)

Ornaments family with four different sets plus a decorative capitals font from the rare, valuable and amazing Allerlei Zierat book from Schelter & Gieseck (1902). A research and free interpretation by Intellecta Design. This encyclopedic specimen book of the Leipzig, Germany type foundry and printing supply house J.G. Schelter & Giesecke features, as the title indicates, all kinds of decoration for supplying printing of every type. On the title page, the firm boasts winning grand prize in 1900 in Paris (presumably at the Exposition Universelle). It is hard to do justice in a short description to the variety of styles (traditional, Jugenstil, etc.) and categories (certificates, letterheads, borders, ornaments, exotic motifs, flowers, animals, silhouettes, menus, greeting cards, vignettes humorous and otherwise, images of bicyclists, occupational symbols, portraits, Classical figures, religious art, heraldry, ships, trains, athletes, etc., etc.) offered in this volume. Some of the examples are printed in color, most are in black-and-white. The Jugenstil cover of this copy shows minor wear and soiling. The plate of “Gust. Carlsson & Co., Stockholm” is attached to the front pastedown. A small fraction of pages show minor soiling, a pencil notation or a short closed tear. Two of the fold-outs at the back have a little more damage-one is missing a 1x2 inch piece along the margin, the other has a 3-inch closed tear and an edge which is crumpled. A rare specimen from the Intellecta rare books library.

Evidence JNL is a serif stencil font in Jeff Levine's large collection of stencil designs from vintage and unusual sources.

Sidewinder JNL is based on ultra-compressed serif wood type and is perfect for fitting long copy into limited space.

A condensed serif that’s been through the ravages of reproduction but has now been digitized for modern use. Elegantly wasted.

Sophisticated modern, our fluid Modern Sans Serif font family enhances your designs. Elevate with captivating headlines and branding. Experience elegance.

Questa Slab is a slab serif font family. This typeface has ten styles and was published by The Questa Project.

Margaret Fragile is a unique display serif typeface. The typeface has a beautiful two-piece design and elegant weight contrasts.

Tanker Stencil JNL is a sans serif design based on a vintage hand-punched brass marking stencil for oil barrels.

Follow The Light is a lovely, handcrafted serif font family. I made this for my cousin who passed away recently.

A square san serif font family for short texts and headlines. Inspired by old hand-painted signs in Tel Aviv.

Warka typeface is based on sans serif. This display family includes 5 font styles. Combinations may give you impressive effects.

Qilgabe is a modern and stylish serif font. Add it confidently to your projects and you will love the results!

A Slab Serif font family of five weights for headline and text use, with old style numerals and small caps.