Crystal Deco Italic Font

Crystal Deco Italic, designed by Neale Davidson, is a free Art Deco-inspired retro display font with a steep forward slant. Its broad black strokes are sliced by needle-thin joins and sharpened into sweeping curves, producing a taut, hand-cut showcard texture.

A cocktail bar or boutique fashion label could use its streamlined glamour for logos, menus, and packaging. Music posters and theatrical programs suit it too. The compressed letterforms and racing slant make it especially convincing for Jazz Age themes, cabaret imagery, and stories set amid 1920s nightlife or sleek machine-age illustration.

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This typeface is based on the logo used for much of the merchandising for “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull.” It includes bold and italic versions.

Version 1.5:

- Changed to OTF format
- Added œ and per-thousand glyphs
- Cleaned up spacing