About American Authors Font Family
American Authors is a unique collection of signatures of 75 famous American authors, poets, writers, and novelists. A must-have for autograph collectors, desktop publishers, history buffs, fans, or anyone who has ever dreamed of sending a letter, card, or e-mail "signed" as if by one of these famous literary figures.
This font includes signatures from the following literary figures: Joel Barlow, Charles Brockden Brown, J. Fenimore Cooper, Stephen Crane, Richard H. Dana Jr., Theodore Dreiser, W.C. Bryan, Timothy Dwight, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, Eugene Field, Philip Freneau, Robert Frost, Hamlin Garland, Alexander Hamilton, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lafcadio Hearn, Ernest Hemingway, W.D. Howells, Henry James, John P. Kennedy, Washington Irving, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Francis Scott Key, Sidney Lanier, James Russell Lowell, Edgar Lee Masters, Cotton Mather, Herman Melville, George John Nathan, Henry W. Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eugene O'Neill, Thomas Paine, Edgar Allan Poe, J.K. Paulding, Sydney Porter (aka O. Henry), Carl Sandburg, Samuel Sewall, John Howard Payne, W.H. Prescott, W. Gilmore Simms, Captain John Smith, Gertrude Stein, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Trumbull, Daniel Webster, Noah Webster, Samuel L. Clemens (aka Mark Twain), John G. Whittier, Thomas Wolfe, Henry D. Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Jacqueline Susann, Louisa May Alcott, Wystan Hugh Auden, Pearl Buck, Edgar Rice Burroughs, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Erle Stanley Gardner, Horace Greeley, Zane Grey, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Norman Mailer, Ogden Nash, Beatrix Potter, Ezra Pound, John Steinbeck, Leon Uris, Thornton Wilder.
This font behaves exactly like any other font. Each signature is mapped to a regular character on your keyboard. Open any Windows application, select the installed font, and type a letter, and the signature will appear at that point on the page. Painstaking craftsmanship and an incredible collection of hard-to-find signatures go into this one-of-a-kind font. Comes with a character map.
Article abstract: American Authors is a unique collection of signatures of 75 famous American authors, poets, writers, and novelists in a high-quality font.
American Authors™
is a trademark of Celebrity Fontz.
About Celebrity Fontz
Celebrity Fontz is the trailblazer in the font world, putting the signatures and handwriting of famous celebrities and historical figures at your fingertips, reviving historical woodcut initials, and expressing a multitude of personalities through fonts that accurately mimic a broad range of people's writing styles. Our font foundry can proudly claim to have created a new concept in fonts, taking philography (the love of collecting autographs) to the medium of high-quality fonts. Years of research and investigation have gone into obtaining the collections of famous signatures and long-lost woodcut designs that appear in our fonts. Behind our fonts is a team of skilled type designers and collectors who take autographs and signatures of the most fascinating personalities in the world and and some of the most elaborate and beautiful historical woodcut letter designs and craft them into high-quality, easy-to-use opentype and truetype fonts.
Our fonts are carefully crafted to serve a wide spectrum of users and enthusiasts, from professional designers and publishers to people at home or work who have dreamed about being able to recreate those elaborate type designs that decorated the beginning of some old text or having a digital facsimile of the signature of their favorite historical figure, movie star, author, musician, or politician. We make all this available in an easily accessible font that can be used with your favorite word processing and publishing software.
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