you may like Seagull

great suggestion, thanks!

It's a custom typeface for Emirates:
http://www.typophile.com/node/7191
http://www.typophile.com/node/2089

Other brush-influenced Roman faces:
Fertigo
Feijoa
Fontin
Elysa
Beorcana
Byngve

For more inspired by Asian brush calligraphy have a look at Hiroshige and Hiroshige Sans, created for a book featuring the work of Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige. Also check out the rest of Arthur Baker’s calligraphic fonts.

Thanks a lot! Most helpful!

I notice that someone has taken the liberty of editing my header, changing "Oriental" to "Asian." I'm sure this was well-intentioned (though heavy-handed), and I probably should have provided more context, but "Asian" here would be incorrect and anachronistic (political correctness notwithstanding).

This is for a poster on travel to the "Orient" in the 18th century. I wanted a font that would suggest or retain an aura, or even a hint, of this "Orient" that exercised such a strong hold on the public discourse and imagination of the period -- an "Orient" which, by the way, comprised the Middle East and the far reaches of Eastern Europe at least as much as Asia -- and which to be sure has since been exploded and delegitimized as a cultural referent. I was looking to evoke the more Middle Eastern "Orient."

Hope this bit of historical context helps.

That's spooky.

hhp

Yes and no. It's history.

In my previous post, I should have added Ottoman to the "Orient"-inflected theme I'm working with. It's a major component.

I meant their changing it is spooky.

hhp

Sorry, didn't meant to be spooky. Thought I was being sensitive. Your reasoning makes sense, though, and I've retitled the thread. Were my typeface suggestions helpful at all?