What is the 19th Century Retro font?

19th Century Retro is a re-design of an official German font style (called ‘Fraktur’) which was used in official documents in the 19th and early 20th century. There is an alternative small letter ‘s’ which you generate by typing the @ sign. This alternative letter was the original small letter s which was printed in the middle and at the beginning of a word originally (for example in the words ‘slightly’ and ‘best’). However, if the s was at the end, the normal small letter s was used (for example in the words ‘it’s’ and ‘columns’). For readability reasons I decided to put the normal small letter s onto the s-key on your keyboard.

19th Century Retro Font families

The 19th Century Retro includes the following font families:

• 19th Century Retro
• 19th Century Retro Italic
• 19th Century Retro Bold
• 19th Century Retro Bold Italic

19th Century Retro Preview

Here is a preview of how 19th Century Retro will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.