Florid and Unusual Alphabets

Unusual alphabets are normally hard to come by, but this book contains 109 complete alphabets that are standouts in any context.

Selected from four famous typographic albums of the nineteenth century, these letter designs represent great alphabets of earlier centuries and striking alphabets new in the last century.

All are extravagant and wildly inventive.

Created by medieval scribes, Renaissance calligraphers, and reckless Romantics, the 76 upper-case and 33 lower-case alphabets comprise animal and tree alphabets, human-figure and devils alphabets, pictorial and architectural-sculptural alpha-bets, “musical” alphabets, outré Romans and Gothics, shadowed, outline, foliated, ribbon script, lapidary, and many other alphabets. 28 of the lower-case alphabets correspond to upper-class alphabets included on the same plates, allowing for greater flexibility of use.

Commercial artists looking for extremely original alphabets will find all that they need in this impressive book. These alphabets can be very effectively used in advertising, book or record design, letterheads, package design, and many other forms of graphic design.