40 from the Civil War Era FONT Download

The second volume in the Printer’s Type Case series is the culmination of three years of research into the typography of the Civil War era, and features 40 of the most common fonts, ornaments, and borders used between the years 1850 and 1865.

Every character has been scanned from the pages of original books and documents printed between 1848 and 1867 gathered from museums, private collections, and the Library of Congress.

These fonts are ideal for museums, historical reenactors and living historians, graphic designers and all lovers of historical type.

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What you get:

• 40 Display Fonts.
• 8 Borders, including 6 ornamented borders and 4 line borders.
• 13 vector carte de visite backmark frames from 13 Civil War photographers
• A 28-page specimen book (PDF)
• Instructions on how to create the borders (PDF)
• Installation instructions (PDF)

File Types: OTF, EPS, PNG, JPG, PDF
File Size: 76.81 MB

Release date: April 18, 2016

You can use this font for:
- Design projects: create images or vector artwork, including logos
- Website publishing: create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
- PDFs: embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
- Video and broadcast: use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content and more
- The fonts are designed to work on MacOS (Apple) and Windows (Microsoft)