Old London Font

Old London is listed under Dieter Steffmann in the Gothic/Medieval category. The catalog records a July 2006 first-seen date. That identifies its listing history and should not be presented as the date of an original medieval type design.

Read the publisher’s family page for the source account and the edition currently offered. Keep a family name distinct from its particular release, width or optical branch.

Inspect decorated capitals and dense lowercase combinations in the original specimen. A medieval category is a broad catalog label, not evidence that every letter reproduces a specific historical manuscript.

Use the original publisher specimen to inspect those features. An alternative can share a broad role without having the same letter shapes, metrics or character coverage.

Compare a short certificate title and an ordinary name. UnifrakturCook and UnifrakturMaguntia offer independently documented blackletter comparisons. Keep long supporting text in a more open text family so the decorative title retains its role.

For independent comparisons, try UnifrakturCook and UnifrakturMaguntia. Use the same wording and approximate output size. The related style guide provides broader design context.

Use Dieter Steffmann on DaFont to try the original and investigate the files, styles and terms for your intended workflow. This site does not distribute or serve Old London font software.

The editable alternatives here have their own source profiles and included licenses. For the difference between a font file and copied characters, read Unicode text versus fonts.