Charlot Decorative Font & Ornaments

 

Introducing Charlot, a decorative display font with dozens of beautiful ligatures and ornaments. The vast selection of ligatures and stylistic alternates makes this font extremely customizable.

 
 
 
 

Charlot is perfect for unique branding and title treatments, personal monograms, and vintage-inspired layouts.

Charlot has 400 glyphs in Latin and Greek consisting of:

  • the complete Latin alphabet (with all accent marks),

  • the complete Modern Greek alphabet,

  • 60 ligatures,

  • 33 stylistic alternates,

  • 15 decorative ornaments, borders, and frames,

  • numerals and math symbols,

  • extensive punctuation and diacritical markings.

 
 
 

Foreign Language Support

Charlot includes the Latin and Greek alphabets with all accent markings. The most common languages it supports are: English, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

The OpenType ligatures are the fun part.

To get the most out of Charlot, use software that supports Open Type fonts (Adobe programs, Corel Draw, Affinity Designer, etc). This type family has tons of built-in OpenType ligatures and alternates, which are what make it so customizable and decorative. You can always access the ligatures, alternates, and dingbats through your software's glyphs panel. For a complete preview of all the ligatures, please look at the 4th image in this product listing.

 
 
 

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Molly Suber Thorpe

A calligrapher, teacher, and author, Molly’s work spans both modern lettering and historical script. She writes about calligraphy and handwriting as creative disciplines—shaped by tools, technique, habit, and attention—and considers what it means to write by hand in a digital age. In addition to designing custom lettering for clients, she creates books, free resources, and online classes for people who want to develop their calligraphy and handwriting, whether as a creative outlet, a professional skill, or both.

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