New Blazing Star Press

New Blazing Star Press Fonts from the American Revolution to the Civil War are reborn!

Thousands of pages of original books, broadsides, and advertisements from the Library of Congress and personal collections were searched and scanned to rebuild over 100 historic typefaces!

Get ready to make things from this stylized italicized roman from the 1812-dated specimen book of the Philadelphia print...
05/27/2020

Get ready to make things from this stylized italicized roman from the 1812-dated specimen book of the Philadelphia printing foundry of Binney and Ronaldson!

OFFICIALLY MADE THE PAGE WHICH MEANS I ACTUALLY HAVE TO FINISH SOMETHING
05/26/2020

OFFICIALLY MADE THE PAGE WHICH MEANS I ACTUALLY HAVE TO FINISH SOMETHING

Did I hear someone asking for some 1800-1820 fonts?
03/04/2020

Did I hear someone asking for some 1800-1820 fonts?

1860s sign painting fonts, now in the works!
02/28/2020

1860s sign painting fonts, now in the works!

HAPPENING NOW: Having a glass of Zinfandel, some Trader Joe's turkey meatloaf, and thinking about how to sensibly OpenTy...
03/07/2019

HAPPENING NOW: Having a glass of Zinfandel, some Trader Joe's turkey meatloaf, and thinking about how to sensibly OpenType code all the 18th century ligatures...

This is an actual illustration in a book from the Civil War by the New York Sanitary Fair and I swear to you that no, I ...
03/06/2019

This is an actual illustration in a book from the Civil War by the New York Sanitary Fair and I swear to you that no, I didn't draw it.

Some minor kerning corrections, but I'd say I nailed it.
03/06/2019

Some minor kerning corrections, but I'd say I nailed it.

18th century umlauts are so weird.
03/05/2019

18th century umlauts are so weird.

I mean, while I'm at it... some 1900-1920 display fonts.Not specifically World War One, but of the era, and perfect for ...
03/05/2019

I mean, while I'm at it... some 1900-1920 display fonts.

Not specifically World War One, but of the era, and perfect for all sorts of displays and trench signs.

And there is Revolutionary War fontage in the works, too - including a standard American/British book Roman, French disp...
03/04/2019

And there is Revolutionary War fontage in the works, too - including a standard American/British book Roman, French display and book Romans, and German for all of your various allied forces printed thingies.

You ready to mark up some crates and paint some signs? Because a volume of Marking Brush and Sign Painting fonts is hap...
03/02/2019

You ready to mark up some crates and paint some signs? Because a volume of Marking Brush and Sign Painting fonts is happening right now.

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