Foundry portfolio · Decorative · Serif · Display
Eko Kurniawan works ornamented serifs with a medieval edge. Avenford is stately and pointed, Crownspire pushes the decorative serif further, and the 17 releases behind them favour symmetry, high contrast and a storybook mood.
Before you buy from this studio
Storybook serifs often need a plainer companion. Pair them with a quiet roman rather than a second ornamental face, or the page fights itself.
Smooth vintage Victorian blackletter
Avenford softens traditional gothic blackletter with smooth Victorian curves and open counters, presented for heritage labels, coffee roasters and book covers, where rounded arch transitions and a graceful sweeping crossbar on the A replace the spiked angles of a stricter gothic.
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Pointed blackletter with a split ornate C and descending p
Crownspire is an old English display face with long entry and exit flourishes, sharp spurs and a heavy lower stem weight, framed here by a symmetrical ornament of curls and diamonds.
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Slim blackletter with curled capital terminals and tall ascenders
Gravenhurst sets a condensed blackletter in white against a moonlit churchyard, its capitals hooked, its ascenders drawn to fine points and its counters kept narrow enough to feel carved.
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High contrast Victorian display
Victoriana is a high contrast display serif in cream over a Victorian parlour: wide capitals with heavy stems, hairline joins, a curled V and an oversized final A, set across the mantel above a rose arrangement, with a small blackletter label at the lower left and dated notes at both shoulders.
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Soft chunky mixed-case letters with looping tails and a rounded skeleton
Bloopsy is soft chunky mixed-case lettering in which the letters keep a rounded skeleton, the descenders loop back up and the weight stays heavy and even across a phrase.
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Heavy blackletter display
Oldink is a heavy blackletter in oxblood on aged parchment: mixed case with a divided O, uneven pointed terminals, dense stems and sharp spurs, set in two lines above and below a small serif line, all framed by drawn marginalia — a castle, comets and star charts — with a paragraph of description along the foot.
Condensed tapered serif display with wide letterspaced caps
Ironvale is a condensed display serif in which the stems taper toward the middle, the serifs flare and the caps sit wide apart, so a title reads as a printed heritage poster from the plains rather than as a modern serif.
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Narrow ornamental inline serifs
Old Vintage Victorian III is a narrow ornamental display serif in cream on near-black: condensed capitals with hooked serifs, a fine white inline through every stem, and small drawn fleurons above and below the block.
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Period display serif
Old Vintage Victorian is a period display serif in cream on an aged sepia ground: capitals with a curled O, a tall sweeping V, fine hairlines and bracketed serifs, set in three stacked lines with small rules and a date at each side, over a photograph of a motorcycle among roses.
Display
Whimsink is a whimsical display script with uneven heights, looping crossbars and a hand-inked wobble; its ascenders curl into hooks, small hearts hang off the crossbars and the tails sweep out under the word.
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Rounded blackletter display
Ragnar Gothic is a rounded blackletter in cream over a monochrome medieval cityscape: mixed case with broad round bowls, a split capital G, curled spurs and softened corners, set in two lines between a small line above and a tracked caption beneath, with dated notes at the shoulders.
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Chunky organic handwriting display
Scribbley is a chunky organic handwriting display in dark brown on cream: thick rounded letters with a wobbling outline, uneven heights, an open e and a looped y, set as one word with two small supporting lines beneath and a paragraph of tracked copy at the foot.
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Soft heavy blackletter with curled capitals and uneven rounded bowls
Dreadmoor is a bold medieval display face with rounded blackletter bones, a small set of capitals that behave like initials, and a heavy base line under the word that reads as a shelf.
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Retro Western swash-capped flared slab display
Eastwood is a bold retro-Western display font pairing chunky block proportions with sweeping horizontal swash bars and notched spurs.
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Bouncy rounded pastel-floral kawaii display sans
Kahuyung (Aaksaraan Kahuyung) is a sweet, bouncy mixed-case display font with rounded marker terminals and gentle descending 'y/g' loops.
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Distressed Victorian serif
Victorink is a narrow ornamental serif printed on aged parchment: uneven spurs, curled ends, chipped edges and a heavy printing texture, set in two stacked lines with a small descriptor beneath and a paragraph of description at the foot, framed by engraved acanthus leaves.
Ornate royal manuscript blackletter (Uppercase + Lowercase)
Kingching ('Aaksaraan KINGCHING') is a regal Old-English blackletter pairing lushly flourished uppercase capitals with tall cathedral lowercase!
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