What is the Ayres Royal font?
I designed Ayres Royal to honour London’s famous calligrapher John Ayres (about 1700). He designed calligraphy examples called The Accomplished Clerk, that were meant to be for the office clerk.
I doubt if there were many clerks in those times that were able to write such beautiful letters.
In order for the font to be of any use, I adjusted my Royal Bavarian Script to go together with the initials of John Ayres. The two fonts have to be used together, that’s why I am not selling them as singles. More…
It would be bad style to use the font with the initials only. In some languages, such as German, there are too many capital words and the many heavily-decorated initials would make longer texts very hard to read.
Your historical designer Gert Wiescher
Ayres Royal Font families
The Ayres Royal includes the following font families:
- Ayres Royal
- Ayres Royal Plus
Ayres Royal Preview
Here is a preview of how Ayres Royal will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.

You're probably thinking - Is Ayres Royal available to Download for free?
The short answer is no. Ayres Royal is definitely not available as a free download font. This is a premium font which mean that you will have to pay to download and use it in your project. We showcase fonts on SharedFonts that are almost all premium fonts. Feel free to waste valuable hours of your time searching for a free download of Ayres Royal, but take it from me, you will not be successful in your quest. Just think how much time and effort you will save if you just pay for Ayres Royal and be done with it.
It is always best to pay for a premium font rather than trying to find an illegal download. The benefits of paying for Ayres Royal is that you get the license to use it leagally. If you're using an illegal version of Ayres Royal and you get caught, you or your client could get into some trouble legally with the publisher of Ayres Royal.
Also it is highly unlikely that you'll be able to find Ayres Royal for free. Doing various searches on Google such as "Free Ayres Royal Download" you will see a lot of websites that will say "Free Download" but these are just attempts to get you to click on a link which will either take you to an ad landing page or you risk getting viruses on your computer. In the rare occasion that you do find a free download for Ayres Royal remember that it's illegal to use a font if you didn't pay for it!
If you really want Ayres Royal and you want to truly own it the legal and safe way, then click here to visit the download and purchase page on MyFonts.com. Here you will be able to obtain the proper license. The designer and publisher deserves to be paid for their work, as they have put in the hours and the creativity to produce such an amazing font. Good luck with your purchase and future use of this font. :)