FontDiscovery 🖼️ 183: Posies, a Classic Serif with Confident Small Caps
Hey Everyone 👋
Hope you are having a wonderful week! Welcome to another week of FontDiscovery! This week, we are talking about Posies, a highly decorative display typeface. Read more below. 👇
About Posies
Posies is a decorative font inspired by the ornate initial caps of illuminated manuscripts. It’s playful and enchanting, made for designers who love illustrative details.
Posies is more than just a font — it’s a design system for vibrant drop caps and ornamental initials. With four stackable layers, you can create lush, multicolored decorative letters, or use the ready-made Posies Initial font for quick single-color elegance. The Solid style offers clean Roman capitals to pair perfectly with your decorated initials, making Posies an ideal pick for editorial openers, fairy-tale packaging, or wedding invites that need a little magic.
Want to use Posies for your project? We are giving it for free inside Typogram Studio!
Type Details
Display typeface with gorgeous graphic details
Buildable layers let you customize and craft your ideal display style
Perfect for illustrative drop caps, bold titles, and expressive headlines
Meticulously and beautifully illustrated, Posies offers Flower, Stem, Initial, Solid, Contour, and Letter font styles—each crafted to layer seamlessly within a system. This modular design makes it effortless to tailor every element to your unique creative vision.
What I love most about Posies is the ability to use shape select to isolate and edit individual illustrative elements. This empowers you to make precise vector adjustments or effortlessly apply colors, giving you complete creative control over every detail.
Behind the Typeface
Created by P22, Posies channels the charm and intricacy of historical illuminated manuscripts into a modern typographic toolkit. Each layer adds flourishes of shadow, fill, and outline — letting you mix, match, and colorize with ease. Whether you want to nod to medieval artistry or just add a dash of decorative delight, Posies gives you everything you need to bring your typography into full bloom.
Want to use Posies for your project? We are giving it for free inside Typogram Studio!
Using Posies for Typography & Design
Posies is perfect for adding visual richness to your typography design. Use it to create striking drop caps, romantic packaging, or whimsical editorial features—anywhere you want ornate, storybook flair. Its layered system makes it easy to build multicolored decorative design treatments, while the Posies Initial and Solid offer quick options for simpler styling.