Crazy Diamond Design Historical Fonts

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Authentic historical typefaces and designs • beautifully packaged or quick downloads • full range of historical characters in every font

Welcome to the home of the Daily Prophet!

Harry Potter fans may have noticed the unmistakable medieval-style typeface used by the Daily Prophet for its regular editions in the current and previous films. In the muggle world, the same typeface can be yours along with a number of other typefaces used in the films, to allow you to recreate headline-grabbing stories in your own Daily Prophet edition! Black Cat Letter is part of the Wizardings activity pack for budding witches and wizards.

New! Uncial OT typeface

A new OpenType font, in use from the 2nd century AD onwards. Uncial comes complete with illuminated capitals to use as initial or drop capitals.

[Uncial example]

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New! 17th Century Print OT - Expanded

Redesigned as a fully-featured OpenType font, our popular 17th Century Print and Italic fonts now come complete with over 850 glyphs each, including separate styles for titles, footnotes, drop caps, small caps , runes, Caxton text and others. They also come complete with our usual array of additional historical characters and abbreviations.

[17C Print Example]

Download now for £35 new, or existing 17C owners can upgrade for £10

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Widest range of historical characters

Our typefaces are unique in the range and authenticity of historical characters included - from the long-s, thorn, yogh and wynne, through a wide range of ligatures and alternative character forms, through to abbreviation marks. Don't know how to use them or where to put them? The hard-bound manual in our New Newe Booke of Copies explains all you need to know.

Our OpenType fonts all conform to MUFI (Medieval Unicode Font Initiative) specifications: details.

Latest news:

New! Uncial OT typeface now available for download or purchase on CD. Contains Uncial and an illuminated capital set.

New! 17th Century Print expands our most popular typeface has now grown dramatically in a new OpenType format. Now available for download, and upgrades for existing owners.

Free UK Postage! and low fixed rates for Europe and International orders.

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