Moreover, Royal Grande will work with different background colors. Compared to Cambridge, it’s a little more playful and you’ll find better versatility if you want to change the colors. Take a look through our Old English Fonts collection and discover our amazing, easy to use digital design products. Data © of The Monotype Corporation plc/Type Solutions Inc. Royal Grande is another classic in our selection of the best Old English fonts. Download Free for commercial use Add to favorites Share old english blackletter regular text small text history medieval A Canterbury Regular TTF Waterfall 211 characters About Copyright © Typographer Mediengestaltung, 2001. Typeface © of The Monotype Corporation plc.
It looks remarkably like the famous Cloister Black designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1904. Little is known about the history of Old English Text, provided here by Monotype Typography, but it has been beautifully made. The Frakturs have an x that looks like an r with a mysterious disease, and the Blackletters have fiddly bits in the middle like those you see in this Old English Text. What is an Old English font Despite the name, theres nothing specifically English about Old English fonts. There are two main kinds of what people tend to call Gothic letters: the German Frakturs and the English Blackletter.