Draw inspiration from this stunning collection of abstract shapes and flowing structures of the Art Nouveau era. We have compiled the best selection of glamorous Art Nouveau inspired fonts and ornamental designs to add a decorative element to all your projects.
The elements in this article will give you the chance to create unique frames, labels, signage, packaging and more for a variety of purposes, with the choice of fabulous fonts to beautiful borders and pretty patterns to idyllic illustrations.
In this article you will find the best Art Nouveau Fonts and Design Collections:
1. Hand Drawn Flourish Design Kit
2. Luxurious Flourishes Pack
3. Art Nouveau Backgrounds
4. Decorative Alathena Font Display
5. The Wallington Pro
6. Art Nouveau Ornaments
7. 100 Vintage Decorative Papers
8. Art Nouveau Frames
9. Printers Paradise Pack
10. Glacior – Display Serif Font
1. Hand Drawn Flourish Design Kit
Introducing a versatile and giant collection of hand-drawn flourish design elements.
This gigantic kit of 400+ flourish design elements was drawn by hand and inspired by vintage lettering, Art Nouveau art, and florals. They are perfect for both modern and vintage design styles. Great for logos, packaging, cards, web and many other design purposes.
Hand Drawn Flourish Design Kit
Included in this set:
- 50 Illustrator Pattern Brushes (.AI and .EPS)
- 25 Corner Shapes (.PSD and .PNG)
- 24 End Shapes (..PSD and .PNG)
- 50 Divider Shapes (.PSD and .PNG)
- 10 Angle Shapes (..PSD, .PNG, .AI and .EPS)
- 12 Premade Ornate Frames (.psd, .png. .ai and .eps)
- 50 Square Frame Shapes (.PSD and .PNG)
- 50 Circle Frame Shapes (.PSD and .PNG)
- 50 Rectangle Frame Shapes (.PSD and .PNG)
- 50 Oval Frame Shapes (.PSD and .PNG)
2. Luxurious Flourishes Pack
Authentic French penmanship, straight from the late 19th century! The design of the flourishes and borders takes inspiration from the beautiful Art Nouveau era.
This sumptuous vector pack is perfect for wedding invitations, elegant stationery and certificates. Its 543 ornaments and 179 frames are taken from Specimen Album catalog, by the Charles Derriey French type foundry (1862).
Included in this set:
- 11 .AI vector brushes
- 22 .EPS of the individual ornaments grouped by themes
- 3 .EPS files of vector compositions
- .RTF file with links to the best free vintage and Art Nouveau fonts
3. Art Nouveau Backgrounds
Introducing a set of Art Nouveau backgrounds, featuring eight beautiful designs (plus bonus extras). These fully customisable templates take their inspiration from the classical architecture and shop fronts of Paris, the decorative artwork of Alphonse Mucha, and hint at the Art Deco style that followed Nouveau’s reign.
A celebration of nature and graphic design through floral details and grand decorative statements that add to Art Nouveau’s timeless appeal. Fully editable templates in a vintage Parisian style. Perfect for posters, menus and invitations.
Included in this set:
- 8 beautiful Art Nouveau design templates
- Bonus cover design in landscape and portrait layouts
- Raw artwork files saved individually (vector .AI and transparent .PNG)
- Help file with links all fonts used (freely available from sources such as Google Fonts)
4. Decorative Alathena Font Display
Alathena Font Family was inspired by the French art decade between Art Nouveau to Art Deco.
This Art Nouveau decorative font set includes two styles, with alternative swashes and a modern deco, as well as modified ligatures. It is available in six weights: Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Bold, and Extra Bold. Additionally, it supports over 75 languages in the Latin Pro character set.
Explore more glyphs, swashes, ligatures, alternates with Alathena, the perfect addition to your invitations and wedding stationary, posters and prints for your home.
Decorative Alathena Font Display
Included in this set:
- Alternates Glyphs
- 6 Fonts Weights
- Complexity Ligatures
- 3 Different Vibes, Art Nouveau to Art Deco
- Small Capitals
- Over 400+ Swash Characters
5. The Wallington Pro
Wallington Pro is a decorative-serif font embodying vintage and elegant curves with functional structure. Its style comes from Old English cultures with their descendants around the mid-12th century and Art Nouveau in the 19th century, and it was inspired by natural forms, structures and curved lines.
Wallington Pro consists of 721 glyphs including 268 unique ligatures, 30+ catchwords and 10 stylistic sets. All glyphs are divided into several OpenType features such as Ligatures, Contextual alternates, Old Style Numeric and some astonishing special characters that allow you to mix and match pairs of letters to fit your design. This variety encourages unusual and extroverted creation in lettering design.
Wallington is an experimental and versatile font. Suitable for digital lettering, prints, logo, poster, T-shirt, packaging and applicable for some type of graphic design.
Included in this set:
- The Wallington Pro
6. Art Nouveau Ornaments
A unique collection of the most beautiful Art Nouveau Ornaments. Add a wonderful, elegant style to any project using these decorative Art Nouveau borders, flourishes and more. Pair with the free vintage fonts to create striking designs on plaques or signage.
Hundreds of sumptuous organically-inspired motifs, suggestive of mystery, sensuous luxury, and feminine elegance.
Included in this set:
- 23 .EPS files with all vector elements grouped by themes
- .RTF file with links to the best free vintage and Art Nouveau fonts
7. 100 Vintage Decorative Papers
100 Vintage Decorative Papers is a stunning collection of real paper textures – patterns, manuscripts, borders, maps, and more. These are 100% authentic, vintage designs inspired by the Art Nouveau era. They’ve been scanned at a very high resolution and isolated on transparent backgrounds, making them ready for you to use in your print and digital designs.
Each sheet is unique, complete with visible paper fibers, yellowing edges, spots, stains, creases, and other beautiful signs of age. The high resolution and impeccable detail make them perfect for scrapbooking, junk journaling, wedding invitations, stationery, DIY craft projects, menus, greeting cards, social media graphics, and more! They also make unique backgrounds for vintage-inspired designs.
Included in this set:
You get a total of 100 high-resolution paper ephemera with transparent backgrounds:
- 16 Bold Patterns
- 12 Delicate Patterns
- 22 Borders
- 12 Manuscripts
- 14 Marbled Papers
- 14 Drawings & Maps
- 10 Textured Papers & Fabrics
8. Art Nouveau Frames
A unique collection of the most beautiful Art Nouveau frames & labels ever published. Stylish borders with beautiful floral or swishy features, which will make great signs for packaging, posters and advertising for many purposes.
With these vector elements, you can easily create your own unique frames or labels. The possibilities are limitless! Our hand-vectorized elements were sourced from the best European and American type foundry catalogs from the early 1900s.
Included in this set:
- 35 .EPS files with all vector elements grouped by themes
- .RTF file with links to the best free vintage and Art Nouveau fonts
9. Printers Paradise Pack
Featuring the style of the Art Nouveau era, these patterns make striking borders for signage or labels, and allow you to achieve the same authentic designs as you would have using a 19th century letterpress printer.
This authentic Victorian letterpress pack contains 430 frames and 179 seamless patterns, all taken directly from George Bruce’s Son & Co Type Catalog (1882). Great for retro packaging, posters and flyers.
Included in this set:
- 16 Illustrator brushes for all the frames
- 3 Illustrator .AI files with corners
- 5 Illustrator files with all the patterns
- .RTF file with links to the best free vintage and Art Nouveau fonts
10. Glacior – Display Serif Font
Glacior is a modern display serif font inspired by the Art Nouveau design era. This minimalist and classic typeface is great for logos, quotes, branding or editorial design.
Glacior has a unique character by combining geometric shapes with organic curvy details, resulting in a unique character. With its Art Nouveau-inspired design, it’s ideal for fashion magazines and clean, modern layouts.
Included in this set:
- 1 .OTF format
- 2 Web Font formats
- Uppercase, numbers, symbols and punctuation
- Discretionary Ligatures
- Help File
11. 20 Decorative Book Covers
This set of images contains 20 authentic, high-resolution book covers from 1880-1910, and features some of the greatest French bindings of that period.
These beautiful, highly detailed images are inspired by the decorative style of Art Nouveau of the 19th century and will be perfect for creating a unique and upscale look in a variety of projects.
Included in this set:
- 20 individual .JPG files (RGB format, 300 PPI, 3300 x 5500 pixels).
12. Victorian Vector Ornaments Vol. II
Introducing the Victoria Vector Ornaments Volume 2. This ornament pack is inspired by art nouveau and a Victorian style.
The decorative and elegant ornaments are carefully crafted from manual sketch to digital vectors. The set includes badges, corners and dividers which paired with a vintage style font, you could make fabulous retro signage and packaging for various projects.
Victorian Vector Ornaments Vol. II
Included in this set:
- 22 High-resolution Victorian Ornament files of badges and labels (.PNG Format)
- 14 High-resolution in 2 files Divider Ornament (.PNG Format)
- 10 High-resolution in 2 files Corner Ornament (.PNG Format)
- 300ppi/Average width 3000px
- Victorian Vector Ornaments (.EPS, .AI, .SVG, .PDF Format)
13. Boho Nouveau Seamless Pattern Collection
Boho Nouveau is a collection of hand drawn and intricate seamless patterns. Inspired by Art Nouveau and Folk art with a splash of whimsy. The color scheme is a lovely pink, coral, beige, brown, and aqua. Some elements included are flowers, butterflies, bees, dragonflies, flourishes, leaves, and swooshes.
All patterns are also provided in layered .psd format, so you can easily recolor with the color overlay option in Photoshop. This will make it so easy to customize for your project.
The 25 patterns are provided in the color scheme mentioned above with a transparent background. They are also provided in flattened versions in multi-colored, as well as 3 monochrome versions: peach, ocher, and aqua.
Boho Nouveau Seamless Pattern Collection
Included in this set:
- 25 Multi-Colored | Transparent Background | PNG, PAT, & PSD Formats
- 25 Multi-Colored | Flattened | PNG Format
- 25 Peach Versions | Flattened | PNG Format
- 25 Ocher Versions | Flattened | PNG Format
- 25 Aqua Versions | Flattened | PNG Format
14. Absinth of Romance – Art Deco Scrap & Design Kit
Introducing Absinth of Romance, a huge Scrapbook design kit developed for the whimsical, passionate, creator with over 200 elements to work with. This decadent pack is influenced by Alphonse Mucha who was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period.
Though inspired by the 1920s, this kit has an edgy modern, and trendy vibe to it with added rich emeralds and gold. Absinth of Romance was also inspired by Absinth – a green drink which was rumored back in the day to have hallucinogenic effects
This great collection has a beautifully balanced selection of assets that complement each other, with maximum versatility, giving the user endless design possibilities: journals, fabric, stationery, stickers, scrapbooks and so much more.
Get ready to have a roaring good time and get your whimsy on with the huge variety of elements included: papers, Art Deco borders, ephemera elements, a hand-drawn Stutz Bearcat car, overlays – just to name a few.
Absinth of Romance – Art Deco Scrap & Design Kit
Included in this set:
- 126 plus High Quality – .PNG 300 DPI elements; ephemera, borders, hand-drawn elements, icons, overlays, paint swashes and more.
- Twenty-Four 300 DPI .JPG 12X12 Papers
- Ten 8.5×11 300 DPI .JPG Matching Papers
- Bonus File of 55 Golden 300 DPI Elements
15. Viscamontha
Viscamontha is a classic serif font with an Art Nouveau style, with feminine and unique characteristics. The elegant ligatures add a touch of glamour, alongside beautiful ornaments or illustrations you could make vibrant and vintage designs.
It is suitable for women’s beauty products or for the title of a fashion show, or any other design you would like to add a feminine style to or recreate the vintage theme.
Included in this set:
- Viscamontha.otf
- Viscamontha.ttf
- Viscamontha.woff
- Viscamontha.woff2
- Extras.ai
- Extras.eps
- Extras.svg
16. Peskia – Modern Typeface
Peskia is a modern typeface with lots of elegance and originality, with a creative take on the bold old-style serifs, commonly known as soft-serve. The tall and slim nature of the Peskia typeface gives it a sophisticated yet contemporary nostalgic look. The font has unique and interesting characters which gives it a hint of the Art Nouveau style.
Peskia comes in three weights, regular, semi bold and bold. Each weight has an oblique version.
The Peskia typeface has a unique and chic design, which allows the typeface to cover a wide range of projects such as: branding, mastheads, magazines, feminine logos, facebook banners, wedding invitations, Instagram posts, websites, blog posts, pull quotes, editorials, product packaging, trendy social media posts, advertisements and much more.
Included in this set:
- Peskia – Regular
- Peskia – Oblique
- Peskia – Semi bold
- Peskia – Semi bold Oblique
- Peskia – Bold
- Peskia – Bold Oblique
17. Vintage Swans Seamless Pattern
Introducing an elegant set of Art Nouveau swan patterns presented as seamless pattern sheets, invitation borders, and Photoshop pattern swatches.
These stunning swan motifs are real vintage pattern swatches from the 1920s, that we carefully restored and color-corrected, then turned from swatches into seamless, digitized patterns. They can be used as borders or pattern fills, and scaled to fit your taste.
These are perfect for wedding invitations, baby announcements, wrapping paper, fabric, stationery, envelope liners, and more. If you’re the DIY sort, print these graphics and use them in craft projects and scrapbooking!
Vintage Swans Seamless Pattern
Included in this set:
- 8 pre-made swan pattern sheets printable up to 18×14 inches at 300 DPI
- 2 Photoshop pattern swatches
- Instructional PDF showing you how to use Photoshop pattern swatches
- 1 invitation border template in a 5×7 ratio printable up to 10×14 inches (.PSD and .JPG)
- 2 notebook cover templates fully customizable (.PSD and .JPG)
18. Art Nouveau Illustrations Pack
A unique collection of the most beautiful Art Nouveau Illustrations ever published. These unique and traditional illustrations add a vintage feel to any design, they can be paired together or with an elegant font to make stylish packaging, posters or creative logo design.
The set includes hundreds of sumptuous organically-inspired motifs, suggestive of mystery, luxury, and feminine elegance, inspired by European & American type foundry catalogs (of early 1900’s).
Art Nouveau Illustrations Pack
Included in this set:
- 11 .EPS files with all vector elements grouped by themes
- .RTF file with links to the best free vintage and Art Nouveau fonts
19. Barlon Display
Barlon is a typefaces with a strong characteristic. The ideas are inspired by the Art Nouveau era, with exploration of some other art eras and combining them into strong characteristics to create Barlon.
The final font is classic yet modern and you will see from the previews below how the fonts can “stand out” within your designs. A great choice for headlines, website design, social media posts as well as branding, logo design or art posters.
Included in this set:
- Barlon OTF
- Display
20. Enoway – Modern Elegant Typeface
Enoway is a modern elegant typeface, which leans towards the Neue Nouveau style. The Enoway typeface was inspired by the early the Art Nouveau typographic designs, which was characterized by decorative designs and embellished stroke endings. The Enoway typeface has a high-contrast and a thin hairline, this gives the typeface a modern but nostalgic look. The Enoway typeface comes in two styles, Regular and Oblique.
The Enoway typeface can be paired with a minimal sans serif or light script font, this combination will give your next project a modern and unique look.
The Enoway typeface is very versatile and can cover a wide range of project such as: fashion branding, mastheads, magazines, feminine logos, facebook banners, wedding invitations, Instagram posts, websites, blog posts, pull quotes, editorials, product packaging, trendy social media posts, advertisements and much more.
If you a looking for something modern and nostalgic for you next project, Enoway is the font for you.
Enoway – Modern Elegant Typeface
Included in this set:
- Enoway Regular
- Enoway Oblique
21. Terra Cotta – Bohemian Display Font
Terra Cotta is a modern display font with mystical and Art Nouveau motives. The font is created in Bohemian style and decorated with flourishes and peaks. Terra Cotta is suitable for the design on the theme of tarot, mysticism, spirituality, fortune-telling, handcrafts (ceramics, creating candles, soap making ect).
Terra Cotta – Bohemian Display Font
Included in this set:
- TerraCotta.otf
- TerraCotta.ttf
22. Collage Creator Art Nouveau Art Deco
Contemporary Autumn Collage Collection. This set is ideal for creative souls. Autumn Editions. Create your crazy surreal picture with ink likes, abstract shapes, pencil drawings, Unusual backgrounds, collage elements, landscapes and ready quirky compositions Use all these elements to create unique art work Sizes can be manipulated in editing software such as Photoshop or an online editor.
Collage Creator Art Nouveau Art Deco
Included in this set:
- 165 PNG Collage Elements
- 50 PNG with abstract Shapes
- 20 Original Backgrounds size: 5400px x 7200px 28 PNG with landscape elements
- 10 PNG with Distortion Lines
- 40 PNG with ink Floral
- 50 PNG with Ink Lines
- 75 PNG with Pencil Drawings
- 20 PNG with ready surreal compositions Images are 300 dpi, colored and ready to use.
23. Vickenta Noistre
VICKENTA NOISTRE is a display/decorative font based on a vintage serif font with modified ornaments that make it look prettier. This font that can be categorized as a Victorian font is classified as creating a vintage and elegant impression, this font is an all caps font so it looks beautiful but strong, suitable for elegant and classic designs such as on liquor labels or designs that are in the direction of art nouveau. This font is also very suitable for making badges or logos with badge layouts, adding some floral or tribal ornaments will be more interesting.
Included in this set:
- Vickenta Noistre.otf
- Vickenta Noistre.ttf
- Vickenta Noistre.woff
- Vickenta Noistre.woff2
24. Hornbuckle
A vintage font with a victorian style and is very suitable to be combined with the Art Nouveau style. Hornbuckle will also be suitable for making vintage logos, liquor label designs, badge designs, packaging designs and poster designs.
Included in this set:
- Hornbuckle.otf
- Hornbuckle.ttf
- Extra 1.ai
- Extra 1.eps
- Extra 2.ai
- Extra 2.eps
25. Art Nouveau Photoshop Brushes & Clipart Images Vol 2
Curated from multiple historic, out-of-print books, this collection of Photoshop brushes and PNG images will add an elegant touch to your projects. The collection features intricately-detailed floral frames, borders, ornaments and decorative accents. Mix and match them to create your own stunning vintage designs!
Art Nouveau Photoshop Brushes & Clipart Images Vol 2
Included in this set:
- (40) PNG images
- (1) Photoshop ABR file
Best Art Nouveau Fonts and Design Collections
We hope this selection has given you some inspiration and ideas to create modern designs with a vintage but timeless look. Adding a touch of glamour and elegance with these Art Nouveau inspired fonts and designs will ensure unique artwork every time. To find some more inspiration, check out the related articles below.
More Related Articles
Best Monogram Letter Makers for Memorable Designs
Best Romantic Fonts to Fall in Love
Best Decorative Fonts for Unique Designs
Best Abstract Shapes for 2023 Design Trends
Best Fantasy Fonts for Unbelievable Designs
Best Luxury Fonts for Stylish Designs
Best Colorful Retro Designs for 2023
25 Best Art Deco Fonts For All Of Your Stylish Designs
