Arnold Böcklin

Art Nouveau lettering at full swell, named after the Swiss Symbolist painter. It came back on 1960s psychedelic posters and head-shop signs.

Designer
Otto Weisert
Year
1904
Where
Stuttgart
Free stand-in
Lobster
In the library
1 style
Download Lobster, freeGoogle FontsArnold Böcklin itself is licensed. Lobster is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.

01Set it yourself

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02Put it to work

Your words from the specimen, set in Lobster in the formats a project actually needs, in the colours you picked above.

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Arnold Böcklin

We design identities, websites and campaigns for people who care how things feel. This is the paragraph your headline sits on, set in Libre Baskerville.

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Tip. Headline in Lobster, standing in for Arnold Böcklin, body copy in Libre Baskerville. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.

03Every character

AU+0041 · Lobster 400
72pxArnold Böcklin
48pxArnold Böcklin
32pxArnold Böcklin
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.

04The free stand-in: Lobster

Why Lobster. Art Nouveau display with organic, flowing swells: Lobster is the closest free face with that curvilinear energy. Arnold Böcklin itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in Lobster, which is free to use on the web and in print.

Lobster, on its own. A bold connected script with heavy brush weight. Nostalgic signage, used sparingly.

If Arnold Böcklin is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.

Download Lobster, freeGoogle Fonts

05The styles built on Arnold Böcklin

Art NouveauOpen the style →

06What it pairs with

Ornate HistoricalLobsterSet in Libre Baskerville underneath: the body copy a headline in Lobster needs to sit on.Try it in the type lab →

07More display faces

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