Art Deco Font and Alphabet Books
"Where can I find an Art Deco typeface?" That's one of our most frequently asked questions.
The books listed below contain specimen sheets for dozens of Art Deco typefaces. Most are copyright free and can be used in your own graphic designs. A few books include CD-ROMs for computer use.
Also visit commercial font designers. Many are listed on our Graphics Design web site list.
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24 Art Deco Display Fonts CD-ROM and Book $16.95 Order from Amazon.com Evoke the bold, elegant streamlined Art Deco style with this collection of dynamic fonts. Lampoon, Chic, Parisian, Publicity Gothic, many more. Most alphabets include both upper- and lower-case letters, numerals and punctuation. |
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24 Moderne Display Fonts CD-ROM and Book $14.95 Order from Amazon.com Among the eye-catching, copyright free, modern fonts are such bold and very "now" faces as Futurama Italic, Cubist, Double Vision, Neo Prisma, Stupendous, Twinkle Toes, and Mitzi Deco. |
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Art Deco Display Alphabets By Dan Solo $9.95 Order from Amazon.com Comprehensive, practical treasury of Art Deco typography selected by noted typographer Dan Solo. Includes Broadway Engraved, Lampoon, Modernique, Plaza Suite, Neon, over 90 more. |
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Authentic Art Deco Alphabets By Les Éditions Guérinet $4.95 Order from Amazon.com 42 plates of authentic Art Deco alphabets, numbers, vignettes, monograms, frames and attention-getters—all copyright-free. |
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Deco Type: Stylish Alphabets of the '20s & '30s By Steven Heller and Louise Fili $17.95 Order from Amazon.com Heller and Fili have brought together a breathtaking collection of wonderful typefaces garnered from vintage specimen sheets and type books as well as commercial design artifacts from all over the world. These alphabets illustrate how the artistic sensibility of the '20s and '30s extended to every facet of graphic design, including the typographer's art. |
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Moderne Alphabets By Dan Solo $14.95 Order from Amazon.com Copyright free, modern, eye-catching typefaces such as Glow Worm, Futurama Italic, Double Vision, Cubist, Convoy, Chickadee Open, and 94 other fonts. All alphabets include uppercase letters; many also display lowercase initials, punctuation and numerals. |
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New Art Deco Alphabets By Marcia Loeb $8.95 Order from Amazon.com 38 complete, uppercase, Art Deco alphabets, five with numbers, created especially for this book. Saxony, Julep, Boogie, more! |
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Ready-to-Use Art Deco Alphabets By Dan Solo $5.95 Order from Amazon.com Eight complete alphabets (most in both upper and lower case plus numerals and punctuation marks) in three convenient sizes—24, 36 and 48 point—instantly usable without statting. |
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Ready-to-Use Art Deco Initials By Carol Grafton $5.95 Order from Amazon.com Treasury of 1,734 Art Deco letters—in a wide variety of styles and sizes—selected from rare periodicals (mostly European), type catalogs and printed ephemera of the 20s and 30s. Add elegant period flair to advertisements, catalogs, book and magazine pages, menus, logos, many other graphic projects. Copyright-free. |
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Created Thursday, December 30, 2004; Modified Wednesday, November 15, 2006.
