The Old Times American Family is derived from several letterpress books from the 1880s in the midwest. The fonts were painstakingly compiled from over 100 pages of text and optically balanced for optimum results. Old Times American is part of the Grit History Series A font set. The set encompasses serif and sans-serif fonts in varying weights to meet the needs of designers. The less-than-perfect letterforms evoke a sense of the non-digital.

Here's a handy collection of 72 type adornments gleaned from American Type Foundry catalogs from 1913 to 1934, featuring little treasures from some of the early twentieth century's most respected designers, including Will Bradley, Frederic Goudy and George Trenholm. Among the goodies are fleurons, pilcrows, guidons, bishops fingers, mortised initial frames and several other useful elements to dress up your documents.

19th Century American Initials is a collection of beautiful Art Deco letters surrounded by swelling, sinuous, stylized natural forms of flowers, scrolls, spirals, rosettes, waves, and rain drops. This curvy artistic font Includes one set of A-Z ornamental initials conveniently assigned to both the upper and lower case alphabet characters. Perfect for starting off the beginning of paragraphs in artistic publications, storybooks, fairy tales, and texts conveying the feel of the Art Deco period.

See also other font families related: American Advertise 013, American Advertise 014, American Advertise 015, American Advertise 016, American Advertise 017, and American Advertise 019.

Santiago is a gorgeous handmade typeface. Each letter was decorated by hand. It took weeks to get everything right and looking beautiful. You can use Santiago for Mexican themed logos, restaurants, menus, business cards, posters, flyers, invitations, greeting card, advertising, apparel, magazines, etc. The possibilities are endless. If you're in need of a decorative Mexican culture typeface, then Santiago is for you!

The design of VLNL Mais started out as a thought experiment – "How would it look if you dressed up FuturaBlack in LatinWide serifs?” DBXL drew up the first sketches on graph paper in 2014. Although the concept looked promising enough, it ended up dormant in a desktop folder. To be resurfaced recently when covid-19 started spreading and we were asked to all stay home. The final design ended up with a distinct latino flavour due to the long spikey serifs. They look like tortilla chips. And as maize is the main ingredient in many South-American and specifically Mexican dishes – tortillas, burritos, nachos, tamales, tacos – a name was quickly found. VLNL Mais was designed by DBXL, and can be used for logos, headlines, flyers or posters (and not just for Mexican restaurants). It can be found in the VetteLetters vegetable section.

Vitrina is a script based on letterforms painted on a window for a restaurant called "Latin American Cafeteria". Its quirky script forms are meant to evoke a sense of hand painted signage. Vitrina means "store front window" in Spanish.

Venetian 301 is the Bitstream version of the Centaur type family. Centaur was designed by the American book designer Bruce Rogers on the basis of Venetian typefaces of 1470 of Nicolas Jenson. Beautiful Italic based on a face by Ludovico degli Arrighi was developed by Frederic Warde who was an American calligrapher and typography researcher was added as Italic to Centaur. Adapted for mechanical composition by English Monotype in 1929. Its lettershapes owe much to pen-drawn letters of Italian humanist minuscule and cursive. This elegant humanist face is useful for the finest typography both for book text and display matter. Cyrillic version included small caps was developed for ParaType in 2003 by Dmitry Kirsanov.

The inspiration for Cuba comes from a sign for the restaurant "La Flor de Cuba" on Bergenline Avenue in Union City, New Jersey. Its blocky, dimensional forms are reminiscent of letterforms seen in signs throughout Latin America from, Colombia, to Mexico, to Spain, to Union City. Its quirky forms are meant to evoke a sense of hand painted signage.

Delichia Font is a pairing of a bold connected script that moves in clean, sweeping dramatic gestures and rounded sans typeface. Inspired by the smell of a bakery, this font is a perfect ingredient to make your design look tasteful. Delichia Font is great to use for your logotype, restaurant menu, product labels, printable, branding, social media post and text overlay to any background picture.

Hylata is a typeface inspired by the Mexican colonial style of the 50s, especially from the state of Puebla. Its design is very characteristic of the local talavera crafts. The typography presents "blacksmith" type styles, which is ideal to represent the characteristic provincial style of Mexico.

Empresario Stephen F. Austin (1793-1836) is considered by many the “Father of Texas” for leading the first Anglo-American colony into the then-Mexican territory back in the 1820s. A few years later, while on a diplomatic mission to Mexico City, Austin was arrested on suspicion of plotting Texas independence and imprisoned for virtually all of 1834. During this time he kept a secret diary of his thoughts and musings—much of it written in Spanish. Austin Pen is my interpretation of Austin’s scribblings in this miniature prison journal (now in the collection of the wonderful Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, in the Texas city that bears his name). The little leather-bound book is filled with notes in ink and pencil—some of the faded penciled pages traced in ink years later by Austin’s nephew Moses Bryan. A genuine replication of 19th century cursive, Austin Pen has two styles: a fine regular weight, along with a bold style that replicates passages written with an over-inked pen. Each is legible and evocative of commonplace American penmanship of two centuries ago.

ITC Kristen is the work of American designer George Ryan. He describes it as not your average text or display font." The inspiration for the design came from the handwritten menu at a neighborhood restaurant. With time, the forms moved away from the originals and towards something more like a child's scrawl. The result is singularly unique. ITC Kristen remains legible without losing any charm.

Introducing Laguna Font Collection. Inspired from American motor inn signs and vintage restaurant signs in 50s-70s. Laguna comes with open type features such stylistic alternates, stylistic sets, contextual alternates & ligatures. Also available in variable font format. Laguna Font Collection is best uses for headings, Logo type, quotes, apparel design, invitations, flyer, poster, greeting cards, product packaging, book cover, printed quotes, cover album, movie, etc

OTF color font “Mexifont” Mexican National flag color creative letters and spanish national language symbols. Alphabet Mexico with capital letters, numbers, punctuation mark. You can use this font for design quotes prints on t-shirts, sport souvenirs, mexican food menu and other. OpenType-SVG Font was designed with Fontself Maker in Illustrator CC. Contains only uppercase letters and digits. WARNING Color fonts are pretty new technology - they currently show up in Photoshop CC 2017+, Illustrator CC 2018 and some Mac apps. Learn more about color font support on third-party apps here: https://www.colorfonts.wtf/

Papyrus is a roman calligraphic typeface with distinctive human touches like rough edges, irregular curves, and high horizontal strokes in the caps. It imparts a warm and friendly ambience to everything from restaurant menus to book covers. American Chris Costello created the popular font Papyrus in 1983 and counts it as one of his proudest accomplishments. In addition to designing type, Costello is a prolific graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer.

Ensenada is a typeface designed based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico. - What was the inspiration for designing the font? Looking at the hand-cut lettering in Ensenada, Mexico. Variations on this type of lettering are often used by Mexican pop-techno acts. - What are its main characteristics and features? It is a geometric display face that works in both retro and futuristic settings. - Usage recommendations: Display type

LiebeMenu is a comprehensive set of hand-drawn restaurant and menu essentials: Restaurant signs and menu labels, dishes with vegetables, meat, fish and cheese, and of course drinks and desserts. Whether you design professional menus for a gourmet restaurant or for your friend’s dinner party, LiebeMenu instantly adds a warm personal touch. Over 110 carefully crafted drawings are included in this single font and can be used in any text or graphics application. If you like this font, you may also like our cooking ingredients font LiebeCook and our decorative restaurant phrases font LiebeMenuLettering.

GoGipsy is a script font based on Coto Mendoza's modern calligraphy works created with the technical assistance of Luciano Vergara. GoGipsy is inspired by a magical journey—full of love, art and nature—through the Mexican Caribbean. GoGipsy tries to capture such incredible blend through gestures and calligraphy strokes, conveying freedom, expressiveness, strength and spontaneity. The family consists of four versions: regular, italic, drop and italic drop plus a set of ornaments based on the visual appealing Mexican textile art and embroidery full of colour and beauty. GoGipsy's baseline emphasises movement and rhythm. Have fun with OpenType features, swashes, ligatures and a wide array of initials. Go Gipsy! Each journey, new inspiration...

Gothic fraktur inspired design, I wanted to resemble old german calligraphy but making it very geometric, so I used an isometric reticle during sketching. This is a display font, created for BIG sizes, non textual. I recommend it for branding, poster, logos or titles. Its very experimental -- it exists within the limits of legible and illegible reading. I choose the name “Garbancera” because gothic calligraphy has issues that are linked with dark, gloomy, lugubrious things or fear feelings, culturally in Mexico. I related this with death and for mexicans, death is something we celebrate and give us joy and happiness, annoying, the most representative Mexican characters, one of those is “La Calavera Garbancera” or better known as “La Catrina”, a clothes skeleton with only a hat. It was drawn this way to make a critic to all Mexicans at that time, that were poor but they wanted to represent a high lifestyle, “those that where to the bones, but with a French hat with ostrich feathers”. La Catrina was created by José Guadalupe Posada, a Mexican lithographer but also a newspaper illustrator. I think this is a beautiful font that can lead to great results, just use it wisely.

On October 12th 1976 a new basilica was inaugurated in honor and in gratitude to the Patron Saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe, loved by the Mexican people. This basilica was designed by the Mexican architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez (died on April 16th 2012). It stands out by its hug spacious interior, generously decorated with bronze elements. The aesthetic value of these items even includes many signs and text inscriptions in a particular typeface and style, of which this font is a reinterpretation. The purpose of this project is to revival this eclesiastical written letter forms in bronze and taking them to digital format. I was inspired to this on my last trip to Mexico in September of 2012.

A monospaced font designed for a small Italian pub & restaurant. Very eye-catching font.

Tortilla is a flat sided version of our Saloon Girl and Tex Mex font families. When you want a smooth classic western font without spurs in the letters Tortilla is just right. Whether you're making a new Mexican restaurant menu or a new logo for your cowboy boot and hat company Tortilla is the font you're looking for. If you're a pioneer in the culinary scene Tortilla is perfect for your next cookbook cover, chili cook off or barbecue competition. Just like our Saloon Girl and Tex Mex fonts Tortilla also has the option to work in layers using the fill fonts, to make a layered font image you'll need an application that works in layers such as Illustrator or Photoshop.

The hand lettering which inspired Matchbook JNL was used on an old matchbook from the Carrousel Restaurant in Miami Beach.

Introducing the brand new typeface Jardin. Warm, organic, playful uppercase hand drawn font. Jardin is a handcrafted typeface inspired by landscapes of the American Southwest and Mexico. Great for stand-out quotes, logo design and branding, book covers, packaging and label design, greeting cards and so much more!

Article to appear on the font family page: According to the Catholic faith, a well known náhuatl story called "Nican Mopohua" (translated as "Here it's narrate") about the Marianas apparitions on the Tepeyac's hill, to the north of the actual Mexico City. After four apparitions, La Virgen de Guadalupe (LVG) told Juan Diego (JD) that he must introduce himself to the first Bishop of Mexico. JD took in his "ayate" some roses (that aren't natives to Mexico's barren territories) and when he dropped them in front of the bishop, the image of LVG appeared in front of him with indigenous features. I’ve worked a lot in this font that appears to came out of nowhere, just like the image of LVG itself, the fact is that I started first sketching some flowers, because I wanted to do something related to this mexican story, so, taking some features from this flowers I started sketching some letters, for example “r” and “i” and the counter forms for some letters like “a” and “o” (that I didn’t use by the way) and the punctuation marks, all inspired by this leaf forms. Lighter weight coming soon! Hope you like it. Any comments: rodrigonabo@gmail.com

Hi there! Hydric Design proudly present the Sunchilla Script font, inspired by The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico, in particular the Central and South regions, and by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere called "Dia De Muertos" design with a touch of Sweet, Unique and Fun style. Sunnchilla Script font is made in a handwriting style so it is suitable for use in product design and display titles. Sunchilla Script font are included in the display font category so can be used for any designs that have a cheerful, elegant and sweet impression. and also will be very suitable when used on titles, logos, product posters, websites, menu books, books, and many designs that can be explored using document fonts. it will looks very beautiful because it will easy to remember and very easy to use.

Kids Csrattch is a font made with children's handwriting.great for cafe websites, restaurant menus, children's books, art exhibition posters and anything else you fancy.

A handwriting font with a decidedly sexy, Mediterranean flair. Perfect for restaurant signage, menus, party invitations and more. Sangre includes a plethora of European characters.

Sometimes you need things organised in a neat way. Organic Tuesday has that, but also a will to break free at the same time. Years ago I was at a restaurant where the menu was handwritten with a clumsy, but characteristic and charming, monospaced font. I must have focused so much on these letters that I can’t recall what I actually ate. But what I do remember is that it was a Tuesday, and the restaurant was organic!

LiebeMenuLettering is a collection of commonly used words and phrases found in restaurant signage and menus. Every phrase has been hand-lettered to give your menus or dinner invitations the handmade but professional look they deserve. The most frequently used restaurant terms from four different languages (English, Italian, French, and German) are included in this single font and can be used in any text or graphics application. Combine LiebeMenuLettering with our popular LiebeMenu and LiebeCook fonts.

FLAMOUSE is a beautiful, retro-style script font, characterized by a fat font and has a halftone texture at the bottom. This font is of course very suitable for supporting retro designs on food or beverage brands, classic American style restaurants, promos at supermarkets and can also be used as a sign for hotels. A font that is quite unique and different from other scripts, as display text on a t-shirt design will also be very good, with the Baseball style I think it will be more suitable. To enable the OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7. Cheers!