Victorian Display Alphabets
Title | Victorian Display Alphabets PDF eBook |
Author | Dan X. Solo |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 109 |
Release | 1976-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0486233022 |
Artists, crafters, and designers will rejoice in 100 unusual and authentic Victorian type fonts. Plain and decorative alphabets include Calliope, Buffalo Bill, Shaded Barnum, Fargo, Jackpot, and Burlesque. Styles range from bold Bohemia and Broadside to delicate Aeolian Open and Arboret. Many include lowercase letters and numbers, plus Victorian printer's ornaments.
24 Victorian Display Fonts
Title | 24 Victorian Display Fonts PDF eBook |
Author | Dan X. Solo |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1998-10-01 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0486999564 |
Ideal for bringing an old-timey charm to newsletters, posters, display ads, and other graphic projects, this spectacular sampling of 24 Victorian typefaces includes such distinctive fonts as Stereopticon, Chorus Girl, Glorietta, Hogarth Antique, Jagged, Romanesque, Rubens, and Wedlock. All of these black-and-white typefaces include complete uppercase alphabets, numerals, and punctuation; most feature lowercase characters.
Outline Alphabets
Title | Outline Alphabets PDF eBook |
Author | Dan X. Solo |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780486258249 |
Versatile, royalty-free alphabets offer scores of design possibilities with 100 complete fonts. Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Victorian, and contemporary styles include Albertus Outline, Gill Floriated, Washington Outline, Ben Franklin Open, Pluto Outline, Normandie Open, and many others. Most fonts feature both uppercase and lowercase characters; many also include numbers and punctuation.
Moderne Alphabets
Title | Moderne Alphabets PDF eBook |
Author | Dan X. Solo |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780486407104 |
Add contemporary flair with Glow Worm, Futurama Italic, Double Vision, Cubist, Convoy, and 95 other typefaces. All contain uppercase letters; many display lowercase initials, punctuation and numerals. Royalty-free.
Celtic and Medieval Alphabets
Title | Celtic and Medieval Alphabets PDF eBook |
Author | Dan X. Solo |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780486400334 |
Inspired by the calligraphy of the Middle Ages, this treasury of unusual fonts features Gothic typefaces such as Lowenbrau, Kaiser, and Hansa along with the lighter styles of Leipzig, Tory, and Hamburg. 53 fonts.
Stencil Alphabets
Title | Stencil Alphabets PDF eBook |
Author | Dan X. Solo |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780486256863 |
This attractive collection of royalty-free lettering for commercial artists features 100 complete upper-case stencil alphabets — many with lower-cases, numerals, and punctuation marks. Includes such classics as Ancient, Courtland, and Cleft Gothic; the whimsical Ragtime and Spooks Alive; bold Braggadocio; exotic Limbo, Beijing, and Samoa; the old-fashioned Victorian; and more.
Ready-to-use Victorian Alphabets
Title | Ready-to-use Victorian Alphabets PDF eBook |
Author | Dan X. Solo |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 67 |
Release | 1986-01-01 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0486250539 |
Combining strength with intricacy, the typography of the 19th century is at once functional and fanciful, as displayed in this wonderful sampling of Victorian styles: the exaggerated thicks-and-thins of Express and Barnum typefaces; the unusually detailed serifs of Lafayette characters; the extravagant flourishes of Renaissant, Houghton, and Campanile; the swashes and eye-catching dot motifs of Hogarth and Gutenberg. Typographer and printing historian Dan X. Solo offers this outstanding collection of appealing, highly usable Victorian typefaces that will add a distinctive, old-fashioned flair to design solutions. These attractive letterforms will show their whimsical old-time personality in articles and newsletters, posters and packaging, display ads, signage, and innumerable other graphic projects. And every style is royalty-free. Presented in 24-, 36-, and 48-point fonts, each of the eight exquisite faces includes complete uppercase alphabet, numerals, and punctuations; all but one are designed with lowercase characters, too. Crisp printing on one side only on glossy, repro-quality stock means you can cut and combine characters directly from the book.