Author's note

Ancient Heads font by Listemageren is a free human dingbats typeface. Each glyph is a finely inked portrait, echoing carved stone friezes and weathered coins-curly hair, laurel wreaths, and expressive faces packed with tiny lines and texture. Set large, these heads feel like hand-drawn illustrations you dropped straight into your layout, giving any project an instant mythic, old-world mood without needing custom artwork.

Using Ancient Heads, you can add character to book covers, chapter openers, wine or olive oil labels, museum posters, boutique branding, stickers, and themed event invitations. Because the drawings are so intricate, this free font shines at bigger sizes and pairs naturally with a clean, understated serif or sans that lets the portraits do the storytelling.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Listemageren 1997 - bibliste@post2.tele.dk - postcardware.
Font family
Ancient Heads
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Ancient Heads
Full font name
Ancient Heads
Name table version
1.0 - 13-09-97
Postscript font name
AncientHeads
Trademark notice
Listemageren.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1997-12-07
Revision1
Glyph count32
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI