While the name inspires mental pictures of depressed upper class teenagers in Siouxsie and the Banshees t-shirts and combat boots, the font itself is pretty well-constructed. Such an unfortunate name for a font: Gothic Ultra Trendy, by Blue Vinyl. It stands out for having some intriguing touches on the capital letters, such as broad serif strokes. Stoertebeker, by CybaPee Creations, is another parchment-like font with ragged edges. Sketch Bones, created in 2005 by Character, has letterforms made up of-what else?-weathered bones. It’s still a tremendously era-evoking display font to use as headlines or in other places of emphasis. So close to being readable in blocks of text, but falls short once laid out longer than a sentence.
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It contains a full set of accented characters as well.Ĭlerica, created in 2004 by Paul Lloyd, is another “almost-text” pirate font. Primitive, by Rick Mueller, stands out especially for its distinctive double-stroked capital letters.
Oddly, it’s missing a dollar and Euro symbol, though. It looks like 16th–18th century handwriting, and comes with a complete set of accented characters. Aquiline Two could work in short blocks of text to get across a full pirate feel. Rapscallion, by Ryan Splint, is a classic blackletter font perfect for treasure maps, matey.Īquiline Two, by Manfred Klein, is a flowing, slightly italic face. It’s got quite a few accented characters, and includes several dingbat-like swash characters. Instead, Treasure Map Deadhand maintains the shapes of the distressed letterforms, making them more readable in longer phrases and blocks of text.ĭlitsch Antiqua, by Manfred Klein, is a squared-off, legible pirate font. Treasure Map Deadhand, by GemFonts, is less distressed than many of our other “treasure map” style pirate fonts, lacking all the jagged strokes. Pieces of Eight, another great treasure map font, was used in the title workups for Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Great for setting out blocks of pirate text. UglyQua, by Manfred Klein, comes in both a roman and italic face, with a complete set of accented characters. Be careful: many of these fonts look best when used sparingly! I’ve tried to note the faces that would work in larger blocks of text to make things easier for you.īlack Sam’s Gold, created in 2001 by Redruth’s Basement Software, is an italic, bold weight pirate font that comes in three flavors: regular (seen above), Mapbats (map-based dingbats), and Whydah Heck Poker. Use these pirate fonts for headlines and in some cases, even body copy. Use QuaNauticale for initial caps to help any pirate-themed design stand out.ĭelitsch Initialen, created in 2004 by Manfred Klein, is a caps-only initials font. It only contains the capital letters A–Z, but that’s all it’s there for. It comes in three flavors: a light-bordered box, a dark-bordered box, and a box without borders. QuaNauticale, by Paul Lloyd, is an initials font based on UglyQua’s letterforms.
These fonts are all decorated initial capital letters with a pirate flair. Pirates 3, created in 2004 by Manfred Klein, is a dingbat font with many silhouettes of pirates in sword combat, along with skeletons, skulls and crossbones, and ships.Īrmada Pirata, by Manfred Klein, is a pirate ship dingbat font, with over 60 different images of sailing ships.įantasy clipart 2, by GemFonts, contains several pirate-themed images, from a saber to a bloody dagger to scrolls and of course a skull and crossbones.
The images are either created by the font designer or, more commonly, are public domain images. These fonts are all dingbats sets, which are fonts comprised of pictures instead of letters.
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