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Geographica Script

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Military Scribe

Old Man Eloquent

Remsen Script

Schooner Script

Texas Hero

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Cedar Street

Marydale

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Professor

Pumpkinseed

Viktorie

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Diorite

Eleonora

Geographica

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New Millennium Sans

Pressroom

Sarabande

TWT Pavane

TWT Prospero

 Old Map Fonts »

Antiquarian

Antiquarian Scribe

Bonnycastle

Geographica

Geographica Hand

Geographica Script

Terra Ignota

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Attic Antique

Bonsai

Broadsheet

Castine

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Bonnycastle

Bucintoro

Corsiva Italica

Midnight

Paestum

Sekhmet

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Rococo Titling

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Chromosome

Speed Bump

Treefrog

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October Special!
This month we’re giving away a free copy of our Castine™ font with any order. No discount code required—simply buy any other font (or fonts) before November 01, 2026, and you’ll also get a free download link to this spooky Halloween graveyard font modeled after actual 1700s headstone carvings (a $49 value). Has nearly 600 glyphs, including numerous ligatures, a series of winged skull ornaments, and full Latin support.

Sarabande, inspired by the work of Jean Jannon

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3IP Book Texts Collection font


Random Discounted Bundle…

Our ten family Book Texts Collection™ has all you’ll need for publishing just about any sort of book-length project—all but one designed by masterful text-type designer Lars Bergquist. Serif faces ranging from fine to bold, headline-worthy fonts of several styles, a lovely sans, blacks, obliques, italics. Choose this bundle and save more than 60% off licensing each typeface separately. View Details »


Emily Austin font


Random Historical Pen…

Our Emily Austin™ font replicates the hand of the indominable Emily Austin (Bryan) Perry, one of the children of Moses Austin, of Austinville, Virginia. Like her famous brother, Stephen F. Austin, she settled in Texas as one of that region’s earliest colonists. In her travels, she wrote many a letter home to her husband—each showing her distinctively compact, legible, cursive hand. Try it out here »


Diorite font


Random Book Text…

Course, chunky, rugged Diorite™ reminded its designer of the eponymous igneous rock, a rare, hard mix of rough-textured minerals. The look of this typeface is forthright and declarative, and it will surely stand up under adverse printing conditions. Designed for hard use in the real world, this family consists of Regular, Cursive, Bold, and Cursive Bold styles. Try it out here »


Antiquarian font


Random Old Map Font…

Antiquarian™ evokes the rugged hand-lettered legends on 300-year old maps—specifically the illustrations in Henri Abraham Chatelain’s Atlas Historique, published in Amsterdam in the early 1700s. The font features true small capitals, alternate uppercases, scores of ligatures, a series of period cartographic ornaments, and support for Greek and Latin alphabets—more than 1,000 glyphs in all. Try it out here »


Midnight font


Random Display Face…

Midnight™ is an ornamental typeface with a simple raison d’être: to simulate the look of the lettering on neon signs. Naturally, its two styles—Light and Bright—work best when knocked out of a dark background, but the font’s look is such that its usefulness is not limited to illustrations of a downtoan city street at night. An ideal addition to any designer’s display-font toolbox. Try it out here »


Marydale font


Random Modern Handwritten Font…

Marydale™ has three weights, Regular, Bold, and Black. It also has a particularly personable nature, rather like a chatty best friend. Better yet, it has a set of powerful OpenType features—true small capitals, dozens of ligatures, a less quirky stylistic set, and support for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic languages. Among our most popular typefaces, and a member of our Modern Handwritten Fonts Collection. Try it out here »


Castine font


Random Antique Text Font…

Castine™ is named for a small, lovely coastal town in Maine, whose old cemetery has headstones dating back to the late-1700s. The font replicates the work of the tradesman who carved the epitaphs on these old stones, right down to their long, sharp serifs and hand-done unevenness. Comes with roman and italic styles, dozens of ligatures, a series of winged-skull ornaments, and full Latin support. Try it out here »


Speed Bump font


Random Offbeat Font…

Speed Bump™ does have upper- and lowercase Latin alphabets, but its chief appeal might be its vast array of wacky pictures (accessible via OpenType features or a character map utility). Need an apple, book, car, duck, eagle, or fish? They’re all there—plus a couple hundred more. Speed Bump has more than 500 glyphs and full Latin support. A member of our Offbeat Grab Bag bundle. Try it out here »

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