Fanjofey AH font by Fontgrube Andreas Höfeld is a free retro display typeface with a wonderfully strange, inky energy. Its crooked stems, flared strokes, and playful, uneven curves feel like they’ve been brushed onto parchment for a fairy tale or fantasy map. Letters seem to wobble and dance, giving headlines a handmade, storybook charm that’s hard to fake with cleaner digital faces.
Using Fanjofey AH, you can bring character to fantasy book covers, RPG titles, themed party invitations, posters, game logos, and YouTube thumbnails. This free font shines at large sizes where its quirky silhouettes can breathe; pair it with a simple geometric sans for body text to keep everything readable and balanced.
(c) 2002 2013 Fontgrube Andreas Höfeld. Free for non-commercial use
Font family
Fanjofey AH
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Fontgrube: Fanjofey
Full font name
Fanjofey AH Regular
Name table version
1.20
Postscript font name
FanjofeyAH
Trademark notice
Fontgrube Media Design
Manufacturer name
Fontgrube AH
Designer
Andreas Höfeld
Description
This typeface is for all fans of "Lord of the Rings", the literary classic by R.R. Tolkien, recently popular through the LOTR and Hobbit trilogies. For his fictional world "Middle Earth" Tolkien designed the "Tengwar" alphabet. Supposedly the writing of the Elves, Tolkien also used it to write the languages (invented by himself) of other races in Middle Earth.
Fanjofey is a latin alphabet - using many traits of the Tengwar letters, thus giving your texts a "Lord-of-the-Rings" look and feel. Some of the vowel signs above and below the letters are added in the companion typeface "Fanjofey Leoda", enhancing the "Elvish" feeling.
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2013-03-12
Revision1
Glyph count233
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classNo classification
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthSemi-expanded
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
Complete pack contains 2 font weights listed below: