Railhead is a revival of an 1870s type style that was originally available from both the Bruce foundry in New York and James Conner’s Sons type foundry. The Redux version is the original design...
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The distinguishing characteristics of this typeface were suggested by cover artwork for the May 1930 issue of Inland Printer: a combination of caps based on Breda Gotisch, released by H. Berthold AG in 1928,...
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The 1927 Klingspor Foundry specimen book debuted one of Rudolf Koch’s greatest achievements, the original Wilhelm-Klingspor-Schrift, the source for the patinaed Wilhelmschrift. Companion Wilhelmschrift Ornaments features 36 flowers and other…
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Black Pearl is a revival of an ornate calligraphic font possibly created between 1850 and 1870. I spent two years looking for all the letters of this font; once I found them all, I...
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Based on a fifteenth century Textura Blackletter typeface, Octoberfest has a companion with Lombardic style capitals, Octoberfest Alternate. Both Octoberfest and Octoberfest Alternate use the OpenType ligature feature to automatically substitute a…
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Haylurker combines blackletter elements at the bottom of the characters with a unique serif forming a solid line at the x-height. Haylurker was originally designed, as Shark, for the masthead of The Fish Rap...