Old English fonts, evidently, are those fonts that are stylistically rendered to look like the fonts that were being used in the time of Merry Old England – before the dawn of the movable type, when the art of illumination (that is, copying text in an artful manner, not lighting up things) and lettering as well as wood block printing were the norms. Old English fonts are also referred to by some as historical English fonts, and they are, in style at least, known to be very distinct in their look. Evidently, Old English fonts cannot be used for any text that would, say, need to be used as a business document, but they are of course very much in demand for any text that requires a certain medieval feel to them. More often than not, Old English fonts are used for advertisements that promote Old English themed events, particularly those that celebrate the Medieval periods. English Gothic, a font associated with seventeenth century England, may be the only Old English font that is approached differently: it is often associated with a kind of dignity that could be applied to respected and established newspapers. And while this font style is not used on ALL of the text in the newspaper, it is most definitely used to express the NAME of the newspaper itself. That being said, old English fonts are typically not for long blocks of texts – they are for titles, names, and short declaration s.