Victorian (Tag) | FontStruct

23 2781 Published: 30th January, 2013
Last edited: 1st February, 2013
Created: 24th January, 2013

149 187633 Published: 24th December, 2011
Last edited: 4th January, 2012
Created: 22nd December, 2011
Typeface based on the work of Victorian Designer and Architect E. W. Godwin (1833-1886) born in Stokes Croft, Bristol. He was influential in the Aesthetic movement that created "the look" of Victorian Britain. He began his career working in the strongly polychromatic "Ruskinian Gothic" style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by The Stones of Venice, then moved on to provide designs in the "Anglo-Japanese taste" of the Aesthetic Movement and Whistler's circle in the 1870s. A friend of Oscar Wilde, James Whistler and William Burges he was also the father of revered actress Dame Ellen Terrys illegitimate child. Godwin's influence can be detected in the Arts and Crafts Movement. To judge from his sketchbooks at the Victoria and Albert Museum, one might have expected an eclectic historicist, but Godwin, by no means a tame reproducer of antiquarian Gothic designs, was among the first to extend the European design repertory to include the arts of Japan, which had been opened to the Western world in 1853. His work is undergoing a revival since he was jokingly adopted as the patron saint of Stokes Croft by community action group the Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft. The group aim to to put some of his finest architectural achievements in the city back to good use as many of them despite being buildings of some historical significance lie empty and unused. His design work is being reincorporated into the urban landscape through the community organisation's programme of public art and his style has recently been adopted by a number of Street Artists including Dones and Felix Braun so his work is undergoing some kind of a revival.The glyphs are all based on the patterns from his sketchbooks.

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469 142643 Published: 8th September, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 8th September, 2008

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7 0941 Published: 8th June, 2019
Last edited: 8th June, 2019
Created: 7th June, 2019

Based off of the old British street signs made of cast iron. Created on 07.06.2019.

UPDATE (08.06.2019): Added more characters! Glyph count is now set to 94.

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146 5688 Published: 12th July, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 8th July, 2008

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192 28410 Published: 30th October, 2008
Last edited: 4th December, 2008
Created: 30th October, 2008
This is a font based on the Numbers on my Victorian tube station clock. Caps and Lower case are the same. Edit if you want.

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7 0921 Published: 24th July, 2010
Last edited: 16th May, 2010
Created: 15th May, 2010
This font is not my own. I must give credit to Jean Farish Needleworks Third Collection Abecedary for the primary source of these letters. Sure I changed a few things here and there, but mostly this is from that book.

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