Font Library: Fantasy Maps

[pyrandon]

Here is the first of what I hope is a large community-compiled library of favorite fonts for use on fantasy maps.

When you post your favorites, please limit to a reasonable number (say 3 -4 or so); thereby this literally will both be a truly "favorite font" thread and the user won't be overwhelmed with too many choices.

Anglo-Saxon Caps http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/1982

Aniron http://www.thehutt.de/tolkien/fonts.html

Caeldera http://www.blambot.com/fonts.shtml (scroll down in the left window to "Title Fonts")

[Joshua_101]

What a great idea!

I really like that "Aniron" font and I think I might steal it.

So I think I got all of mine at www.fontfreak.com because they have a large selection of both Mac and PC fonts available.

BtW: Does anybody know of a dingbat font for map icons? Like a font that has castles, towers, cities, boats, sea monster, compass rose, etc, etc... I think that would be really useful because of a font's vector scalebility.

[NeonKnight]

What a great idea!

I really like that "Aniron" font and I think I might steal it.

So I think I got all of mine at www.fontfreak.com because they have a large selection of both Mac and PC fonts available.

BtW: Does anybody know of a dingbat font for map icons? Like a font that has castles, towers, cities, boats, sea monster, compass rose, etc, etc... I think that would be really useful because of a font's vector scalebility.

Closest I found was this:


And this one of Floorplans of all things:

http://fonts.lordkyl.net/archives/scpt/flrp.zip


http://www.speakeasy.org/~ecf/midages.htm

[RobA]

BtW: Does anybody know of a dingbat font for map icons? Like a font that has castles, towers, cities, boats, sea monster, compass rose, etc, etc... I think that would be really useful because of a font's vector scalebility.

For more symbolic things, a nice font is Bullet Balls AOE on this page (plus a lot of other interesting symbols there.

Attached is a sample...

And some of the other dingbat/wingding fonts have basic symbols, like a plain compass rose....

-Rob A>

[Paul]

You can't go wrong with the Crazy Diamond font line (don't worry, it's short). They're all historical fonts. You've probably seen them before, actually, since the creators also created many of the paper props from the Harry Potter films (Italic Hand is Dumbledore's penmanship).

http://www.crazydiamond.co.uk/fonts/fontlist.html

17th Century Print is excellent for map notes on a legend.

The Paul Llyod collection is also worth browsing:
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/lloyd/

I especially like Graphis and Hominis (I can't direct link, but you can get to them easily from the above link).

[ravells]

The crazy diamond font set is fantastic! Great find, Paul!

[FlatEarth]

You can't go wrong with the Crazy Diamond font line (don't worry, it's short). They're all historical fonts. You've probably seen them before, actually, since the creators also created many of the paper props from the Harry Potter films (Italic Hand is Dumbledore's penmanship).

http://www.crazydiamond.co.uk/fonts/fontlist.html

17th Century Print is excellent for map notes on a legend.

The Paul Llyod collection is also worth browsing:
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/lloyd/

I especially like Graphis and Hominis (I can't direct link, but you can get to them easily from the above link).

The Crazy Diamond fonts are beautiful, but a little too expensive for me. You get what you pay for, I guess.
The Paul Lloyd font site is great, I will have to dig around a little bit in that one.

One of my favorite sites for fonts is Scriptorium
http://www.fontcraft.com/csa/fontcraft.php
They also sell their fonts, but you can often find a freeby to try out.

[töff]

BtW: Does anybody know of a dingbat font for map icons? Like a font that has castles, towers, cities, boats, sea monster, compass rose, etc, etc... I think that would be really useful because of a font's vector scalebility.

The Autorealm font has map symbols. And I don't have a copy of the font now (used to). I think it comes bundled with the freeware.

[Naryt]

The Autorealm font has map symbols. And I don't have a copy of the font now (used to). I think it comes bundled with the freeware.

Yes, it comes as part of the package.

[töff]

There's one called Carta, too, but it's like modern highway map icons.