Next wave of banners, and new pages

Because I had banners for it, I created a permanent "page" on the blog for Cult of Undeath, the original campaign brief. I'll do one for each of the campaigns that I've thought of eventually, but first let me noodle with potential banners to include. I want to update the Darkness in the Hill Country banner, so here's some alternatives to that, with the fonts included. The decorative runes or script is the R'lyehian font, and the initial main font is 1492 Quadrata lim, one of my favorited "alternative ShadowDark" fonts. (ShadowDark and before that Labyrinth Lord use JSL Blackletter. While I like that well enough, I want to have something similar but not identical, so I tend to avoid it.)

I'll probably keep the same decorative script along the bottom and just mess with some alternatives for the main text. This next one uses the Backbone font. Slightly less decorative, and one that I've been using for the Old Night and Shadow of Old Night labels already.

This next one is simply called Blackletter. I also have a similar Blackletter HPLHS, made by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, but I think I'll just run an option with this one for now. I with it were just a little bit "messier" looking, instead of having clean lines. I like the letters better than the Quadrata lim, but I like how Quadrata lim looks... eroded, for lack of a better descriptor.

I'm on the fence about this one. The font is called MonksWriting. It's similar, but a little less decorative, and yet.. somehow maybe even harder to read.

It helps to know more or less what I want so I can trial similar fonts and see what I like. This one is called Older Dictator. It's pretty "fat" looking, but I otherwise kind of like it. I doubt it's my favorite, but it looked better than I expected, so I'll let it sit and stew for a while and see what I think of it later.

This one is Dioszeghiensis Regular, which is a mouthful of a font name. I like it a lot, and it is messier looking, but maybe almost too messy looking for the color and shadow effects that I'm putting on it. If these banners were just black on white, some of these fonts would work better, I have to admit. The color scheme works well for this blog, though, which is what I need these pages to do. I can always adapt them later to cleaner black on white with no drop shadow, or more muted drop shadow, if I want to.

Another attempt at a messy Medieval blackletter font, this time Fran Sancisco Hilton. Same commentary applies here as above.

For the final one, I'm going to try Sovereign, or Sovereign Regular, as it seems to be labeled differently depending on how you look at it.

UPDATE: The more I look at these, the more convinced I am that actually, I think I do want simpler without the effects, i.e., if I do a gradiant font, it will just be dark gray to black and fairly subtle, and I'll get rid of the drop shadow effect which is cool looking, but which doesnt' help readability in complex blackletter decorative fonts, I don't think.

Here's three options for Terror In Timischburg. All of them are B&W (or grayscale, at least). Lovecraft's Diary is the name of the runic font. The first one is Guerra_Santa for the main title, which is one where I often can't resist using the underscores, which look like those shields. The second one is the Blackletter HPLHS, which is nearly identical but a little bigger and broader than Blackletter, another font that I got somewhere. The last one is Sovereign, which I'm determined to find a place to use, because I quite like it. This might be the one where it comes in first.