If you are interested in reading books on decorative alphabets I have included a list of resources at the bottom of this page. I hope you enjoy the fonts.
"Japanese Zen Sampler 1"center>
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"Thorns" was my first attempt at generating a font. The characters were all hand drawn on a napkin. It comes with lower case letters A thru Z ( no upper case or punctuation) and numbers 0 thru 9.
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"Hours in the Rain" Is inspired from a Gothic manuscript based on unicals, the manuscript dates from 1480. I did the lettering on a heavy water color paper.
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"The Tomb (winter and spring)" is much like everything else in life..unstable. Try playing with both the upper and lower case. Some letters are missing. The real treat with this font is the little goblin that lives in the period character. I made "The Tomb" to reflect raised and incised letters from tombstones. This font is heavily inspired from the incised letters from the tomb of Henry III, Westminster Abbey, about 1272.The original drawing was done on typing paper (lower case), and was then taken into Adobe PhotoShop with the dry brush filter used (upper case).
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"Vampyres Garden" was inspired from a copy of the Romant de la Rose from the beginning of the 16th century. There are depictions of Dragons, the Belladonna and Atropine blossoms in the lettering. The [ ] keys will produce the goblins featured from "The Tomb" font, but in this set there are two goblins. The period character will produce a cameo. For your typing ease all the characters are in lower case. It is a rather large file, but worth the download.
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download "Seven Waves Sighs Salome"
Some resources. . .
ALPHABET ALBUM, Collection de soixante feuilles d'alphbets histories et fleuronnes, by J.B.Silvestre, Paris 1843-1844.
THE BOOK OF KELLS, published with the authority of the Board of Trinity College, Dublin and with the cooperation of the Swiss National Library by Urs Graf Verlag, Berne 1950. Facsimile.
CATALOGUE OF SPECIMENS OF PRINTING TYPES, by English and Scottish Printers and Founders, 1665-1830, compiled by W.Turner Berry & A.F. Johnson, with an introduction by Stanley Morison, Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, London 1935.
EARLY WOODCUT INITIALS containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, selected and annotated by Oscar Jennings, M.D., Methuen and Co., London 1908.
THE HANDBOOK OF MEDIAEVAL ALPHABETS AND DEVICES, by Henry Shaw, published by Bernard Quaritch, London 1853.