Foundry portfolio · Decorative
Nongyao works decorative holiday and family lettering. Holiday Lights is festive without being ornate, Family Heart goes personal, and the 17 releases keep returning to warm, hand-drawn display shapes for cards, tags and keepsakes.
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Small tags are the hardest test. Cut one piece at final size before producing a batch, since detail that looks fine on screen often vanishes at two inches.
Loose line-art dingbats of hanging lights, baubles and tangled strings
Holiday Lights is a dingbat font that draws Christmas light garlands in one even line: bulb strings, loops of wire, rows of candles, hanging stars and sprigs of pine, all ready to be dropped between two pieces of type.
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Serif capitals individually held inside overlapping fine heart outlines
Family Heart sets each capital inside its own outlined heart and overlaps the hearts in a row, so a short word reads as a garland of hearts with one letter in each.
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Jagged irregular capitals combining webs, hats, skull-like faces and sharp branch-like edges
Halloween stretches an uneven dark word across an ivory field, where tall pointed stems lean at different angles, a witch hat sits on the left, webs span several openings and sharp branch-like edges break the outer contours of the letters.
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Star-inlaid celestial serif capitals
Celestial Tattoo adorns classic roman capitals with four-point star sparkles and crescent curls, built for tarot decks, astrology brands and apothecary labels, where each uppercase character carries tiny celestial cutouts and curled finials while the underlying letter stays a clean roman capital.
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Solid black kitten silhouettes with white eyes and peeking paws
Black Cute Cat is a dingbat set of small solid black cats in many poses — a fluffy ball, a face over a ledge, paws gripping an edge, a cat with a curled tail — each with two pale round eyes.
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Tall patterned gnome hats above bearded figures carrying small serif initials
Christmas Gnomes draws each letter as a gnome: a striped or spotted hat becomes the stem, the beard becomes the bowl and a letter sits on the belly, so a word reads as a row of small figures.
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Wedding ornament dingbat set
Wedding Ornaments is an ornament and dingbat set in dusty blue and pink on a soft blush ground: hand-drawn wreaths of leaves and berries, ribbon banners, bouquets, doves, love hearts, arrows and floral sprays arranged as a specimen sheet.
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Slab capitals decorated with antlers, deer silhouettes, stars and dotted openings
Christmas Deer sets gold-toned capitals on pale textured paper. Antlers rise from several upper stems, deer silhouettes cross parts of the broad strokes, small star and dot openings puncture the bodies, and separate standing deer flank the second row as decoration distinct from the letters.
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Star-crossed contrast display
Mystic is a high contrast display in white on black: wide capitals crossed by thin extensions that run past the strokes, with four-point stars placed inside and around the letters, set as one word with a small tracked line above and a plain line beneath.
Celestial decorative serif
Tarot is a decorative serif in white on black: contrasted caps with pointed mid-stem accents, a star set inside the O, a drawn crescent inside the A, and sharp serifs, set as one word between dotted rules with constellation lines, crystals and a ringed planet drawn around the plate.
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Bear-figure initial display
Love Bear is a display set on a white ground: four outlined teddy bears in black and red, each holding a dark heart with a single pale capital inside, with a plain header above and a descriptor beneath, and pale hearts scattered across the sheet.
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Cat-eared, paw-printed & heartbeat-lined pet-lover serif
Cat Mom is a charming pet-lover decorative serif embellished with pointy cat ears, curled tails, paw prints, and heart-shaped EKG lines.
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Mystical celestial serif adorned with stars, moons & gems
Charm is a refined mystical display serif embellished with dainty four-point stars, crescent dots, and diamond gems tucked around flared stems.
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Decorative Easter capitals built as panels with cut-out motifs
Easter 2 is a decorative capital alphabet in which each letter is a solid rectangular panel with bunnies, eggs and daisies cut through it, so a word reads as a row of decorated blocks rather than as lettering.
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Celestial moth, butterfly & moon-phase bohemian serif
Boho Moon is an enchanting decorative display serif nesting illustrated luna moths/butterflies inside every 'O' and celestial runes across stems!
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Floral ornament serif display
Rose Valentine is a decorative serif in deep red on white: heavy bracketed serifs with rose blooms and leaves carved into the counters and along the stems, a pointed apex on the A and a flared foot, with a tracked caption beneath and rose petals scattered around, so the plate reads as a romantic ornament rather than an alphabet.
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Mortarboard-cap & confetti-inlaid graduation Roman display!
Graduation (by Nongyao) crowns classical Roman capitals with perched graduation mortarboard caps and carves tossed-cap confetti silhouettes inside every stem!
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