We've had a look through our archives and are happy to share with you the greatest selection of old English fonts, to remind you of the era of old handwritten scripts. This collection includes everything you need for your design projects: vintage script fonts, blackletter fonts, gothic calligraphy fonts and so much more. If you are ready to start working on your script, blackbook or vintage treasure map, join us on our journey to the past and select the best suited Old English font for your project!
In this article you will find 10 best old English fonts such as:
1. WT Kingsbury Font Family & Design Bundle
2. The Wallington Pro
3. Rumble Brave Vintage Fonts
4. Caslon Pro OTF
5. Bogus Jack – Vintage Font
6. Candlebright Blackletter Font
7. 1695 Captain Flint RU
8. Victorian Fonts Collection
9. Controwell Victorian Typeface
10. The Far Kingdoms Vintage Font
and more.
1. WT Kingsbury Font Family & Design Bundle
WT Kingsbury is an exclusive collection of type family that inspired from the Old English era that evolved in Western Europe from the middle of the twelfth century. The main font, WT Kingsbury Gothic, is harmonised by Lombardic and Blackletter styles.
This fancy old English font works best on headings, logos, posters, certificates, labels and signs.
2. The Wallington Pro
Wallington Pro is a decorative-serif font embodying vintage and elegant curves with functional structure. Style is adopted from Old English cultures with their descendants around mid-12th century and Art Nouveau in 19th century, it was inspired by natural forms and structures and the curved lines. Crafted with love and easy-to-read letter design.
The 721 glyphs including 268 unique ligatures, 30+ catchwords and 10 stylistic sets make this old English fonts suitable for a variety of projects from digital lettering and prints, to logo and packaging design.
3. Rumble Brave Vintage Fonts
Rumble Brave Typeface is perfect for branding, logos, badges, wedding invitations and so much more! In this collection, you will get 3 font variations: serif, script, and dingbat. The 3 font combinations created encompass the Victorian classic design concept.
4. Caslon Pro OTF
This family was inspired by the well-known Caslon typeface created by William Caslon, the English font designer, who was, with John Baskerville, the progenitor of English Transitional typeface classification in the mid-18th century.
It might have started as an old English font, but this font now covers Western, Eastern and Central European languages (including Celtic diacritics) and the Turkish alphabet with a complete small-caps set in each of the two styles, with a complete small-caps set in each of the two styles.
5. Bogus Jack – Vintage Font
Bogus Jack is an amazingly unique blackletter font with a strong and classic vibe. Get inspired by its original feel and use it for tattoo designs, logos, posters, book covers, albums and more!
Get inspired by the feel of this old English font and use it for tattoo designs, logos, posters, book covers, albums and more!
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6. Candlebright Blackletter Font
Candlebright is a gothic calligraphy font, with 345 glyphs, with swashes, ligatures, and a set of matching ornaments.
Candlebright’s smooth lines and round corners make it warmer than the average blackletter font, and it can be used for both vintage-inspired and modern designs.
7. 1695 Captain Flint RU
This rough old English font, was created with inspiration from a lot of various European documents dated from the end of 1600’s. We were in search of a hand to accompany with “The treasure Island” novel by R.L. Stevenson, and this seems to be the good one.
8. Victorian Fonts Collection
Have you ever imagined being able to make a layered Victorian logo as fast as you can blink your eyes?! Or even the ability to make your design project or websites with Victorian classical vibes? Abracadabra! Introducing Victorian Fonts Collection, perfect for creating old English tattoo lettering.
9. Controwell Victorian Typeface
Controwell Serif Regular has 2 layers that give a cool metal effect. Besides that, there are many alternative character choices that suit your taste. This font is very suitable for logotype design, packaging design, beer design, vodka, whiskey label, poster design, Victorian book cover, and more designs.
10. The Far Kingdoms Vintage Font
Presenting the Far Kingdoms vintage font. It comes with lots of bonus graphics, including a castle illustration, decorative frame and vector graphic style for Illustrator. Also, this font has OpenType features, such as stylistic alternates.
11. NS Blackbooks Victorian Font
Introducing NS Blckbooks Vintage Font - reminiscing the old era of historical books (seriously, that old), circa 19th century.
Blackbooks are born with a dark and robust personality. Feel the European historical mood right away, even just typing it with your keyboard. We crafted these old English letters by connecting the dots from the past with research for every flow, ornaments, look, and feel, to precisely aim for that perfect shape.
12. Mythshire, Vintage Handscript Font
Mythshire is a handscript font inspired by the cursive and personality-rich handwriting styles of the past. Loaded with a full set of alternate characters (both upper and lowercase) as well as 40+ ligatures there are plenty of options for creating authentically flowing type.
This elegant old English lands itself perfectly to a variety of projects: From wedding invites and stationery, vintage inspired branding and logos, book jackets and covers, through to scrap-booking, journals, product packaging and more
13. Historia
Life is a journey and every journey has it's own special moments filled with deep and personal feelings; creating memories to look back on, and Historia captures this perfectly.
14. Carllosta – Layered Font
Carllosta is a layered typeface which is inspired by vintage lettering sign and art. While this font has a Victorian touch, it still looks bold and solid. Very suitable for headline, logotype, apparel, invitation, branding, packaging, advertising and anything where you'd might like to add some old English lettering.
15. Soft Notes SVG Blackletter Font
Soft Notes is a feminine blackletter calligraphy font, which includes three versions: textured .SVG font; textured solid font, and a solid smooth font.
This lovely blackletter font works perfectly on designs such as postcards and notes, logotypes, social media posts, branding and packaging and more.
We hope you've enjoyed this article and you found the perfect old English font for your design projects. If you are still on the lookout for a font, we do have a selection of articles you might be interested in, so have a look and discover our best and retro and fonts:
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The Best Typewriter Fonts for an Old Timey Effect
Whether it's a ground-breaking newspaper article from the past or a love letter that you have found in your grandparents' attic - typewritten documents always have a strong allure to them that is still sought in the digital age. We have pulled together some of the best typewriter fonts for an old-timey effect that we think you will love using on your future designs!
Do you offer these fonts in a package deal?
Hey Martin,
Thanks for getting in touch and it is great to hear that you are interested in picking these fonts up as a bundle. This list was created to offer a selection of some of our designer’s favourite classical fonts and so we are not offering these fonts as a bundle. All is not lost however Martin, as we do offer a multibuy discount of up to 50% you can create your own bundle with the fonts of your choice :).
Hey Martin, these fonts are not currently available in a bundle deal altogether, however you can certainly create your own bundle of items from our Marketplace and receive up to 50% off with our multi-buy discounts :).